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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 404: Unsolved in Tasmania: Victoria Cafasso and Nancy Grunwaldt

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Grunwaldt was a German tourist visiting Tasmania, Australia in March 1993 when she, and her red rental bike, seemingly vanished into thin air. After an inquest into her disappearance, it was presumed she was killed either due to foul play or as the result of a tragic accident, but she has never been found and her case remains unsolved. Two years later, in October 1995, Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso was her cousin in Tasmania when she was found stabbed to death on a beach in Beaumaris. Despite happening in broad daylight, her murder remains unsolved to this day. It is not likely that these cases are connected, but both remain unsolved and there are $500,000 rewards for information leading to convictions in both cases.  No tip is too small. Anyone with any information about Victoria Cafasso or Nancy Grunwaldt can contact Tasmania Police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers Tasmania at crimestopperstas.com.au or on 1800 333 000. This can also be done anonymously.  Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, you guys? I'm Haley, and this is Inhuman, a, happy day. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and mother figures out there.

0:34.8

I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday. If you are in the U.S.,

0:38.7

I know other countries celebrate Mother's Day on different days, but you know what? Mothers should be

0:43.9

celebrated every single day. So I hope that if you're a mother, a motherly figure, if you're

0:51.0

wanting to become a mother, if you have a mother, if you've lost a mother,

0:56.3

whatever situation you are in, I hope that you know that you are loved and appreciated and

1:02.6

I'm thinking of you. So obviously, this episode is just me today because of some travel and scheduling hiccups. This is, you guys got me

1:14.8

today. I'm sorry. I hope that you enjoy this episode. It's actually a very interesting one.

1:21.0

And when I first started researching this, I was kind of thinking it was like more or less

1:26.3

straightforward. I mean, it's an unsolved case,

1:28.3

which obviously is never going to be straightforward and like perfectly, you know, make sense.

1:34.6

But I didn't think there was that much out there about this case. But then I came across

1:41.1

another unsolved case from the same area.

1:47.5

And so we're going to be talking about both of those cases today.

1:51.2

The first one was originally suggested by one of our listeners.

1:52.7

So thank you for the suggestion.

1:56.3

But these are two unsolved Australian cases. And as of 2023, there are $500,000 rewards for information that help solve either of these

2:03.7

crimes. So with that, let's get right into it. Victoria Caffaso was born on June 8, 1975,

2:13.4

in Surrey, England, where her maternal grandparents lived. Now, the Cafaso family were from Italy,

2:19.3

but they would often visit England, and that's where Victoria was born. In Italy, her father worked

2:25.2

as a lawyer and her mother owned a travel agency, and Victoria was fluent in Italian, English, and French,

2:31.5

and she lived with her parents and younger sister Alexandra in

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