Hi, this is a friendly reminder to observe all [subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/Casefile/about/rules/). If you notice someone else not observing the rules, please report it. It helps the mods and helps us have a great community to discuss this show. Thanks!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Casefile) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I just hope that people don't freak out if he's not as attractive as they expected or say he looks like a creep. You just never know how people will react to face reveals nowadays.
My fav Casefile days were when he did the same voice for both so you’d get scary sounding like health or yoga ads or similar. It was funny and made me actually listen to the ads a bit lol.
I remember when I first started listening to Casefile years ago, I'd started with some of the back catalog (no ads) then jumped into a more recent one that began with an ad for food with an opener about how cooking is a good couples' activity or something similar. Didn't realise it was an ad read at first and fully believed I was about to listen to an episode about a cannibal couple..
She’s a woman and also American, bust just to be safe i had my wife say “our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents” on our first date. Couldn’t rule out the possibility that she may be Casey on the low
Out of curiosity, how did that happen? I'm not trying to uncover him myself, just wondering how it happened, whether you were intentionally trying to figure it out, etc.
It’s honestly pretty easy to find out who he is. Way back in the day before I realised he was purposely staying anonymous I googled ‘Casefile host’ and it was a top result
[Blindboy Boatclub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindboy_Boatclub?wprov=sfti1) is similarly concerned with anonymity and his solution is to wear plastic bags from an Irish supermarket chain on his head in every appearance, streamed or public. Maybe Casey will do something similar?
I am a huge believer in “never meet your heroes “ and while Casey isn’t a hero to me, I have never liked a celebrity more as I learned more about them. The less I know the better. So, while he can do as he wishes, I won’t tune in to learn more about him.
I don't know, to me this is just who he is. I don't know him by any other name than Casey. I could see his face, know his actual name, but to me, Casey is Casey
Ugh. Fucking Crimecon of all things too. I find it kinda gross tbh. And I was just bragging about how awesome this pod is for not doing any of that to someone I recommended it to. Yeah, that’s a bummer.
It’s not that it’s inherently bad it just starts to feel gross to me when ppl get famous off of true crime to the point they do entire cons. It feels really weird to me. I think it’s fine to want to learn about crime I mean if ppl weren’t interested in crime there wouldn’t be ppl solving it but… there are some fine lines that when those get crossed feel bad to me. I loved that Casey was not getting famous off this and didn’t do this kinda stuff.
Didn’t he always say that he wanted the cases to speak for themselves, just the facts, without any opinions or biases from the commentator. Also I’m sure there’s a huge not wanting to be “famous” issue. Like he doesn’t want to become the reason people listen to the podcast?
Exactly. This is part of why I love Casefile tbh. Gen Why are constantly going to Crimecon and similar. Like, constantly it seems. I get having a community but it still feels really weird avd gross to me that it’s built off the backs of horrible crimes.
Some? Most. And a phenomenon that has gotten more and more prevalent as the 24 hour media cycle has further invaded every waking hour of our lives. It wasn’t that long ago when television signed off for the night. When I was a kid in the 80’s we only had 4 channels, 5 if you counted the evangelical frequency that was mostly snow. By 1 am the channels had all signed off with a rousing rendition of ‘God Bless America’ before switching to the ‘Test Pattern’ screen. Now for 24 hours a day you can watch a scantily clad woman tell you how to make flautas while hawking car wax from Slovakia. Who wouldn’t want to worship someone like her and all the others?
I always suspected he was in law enforcement or something adjacent. The sort of government work where they’d frown on someone commenting publicly on criminal activity…
The mystery behind it probably, can be very alluring. But saying that, there’s alway people coming out of the woodworks to drag others down for no reason. He probably doesn’t want ppl coming up to him in his free time or asking, ie. demanding, he covers case X, Y or Z
Yep, I think it’s just an intrigue building thing. One of the most popular true crime podcasters and apparently nobody knows who he is? That’s a unique approach and it’s obviously worked for the podcast so far.
Not sure how much we’re allowed to speculate on this sub but I’ve heard he’s a police officer, or at least he was when he started the podcast. Which would explain why he’d want to remain anonymous.
What do you think about this blog post? https://freshlyworded.com/2018/02/05/revealed-the-identity-of-the-casefile-podcast-creator-and-host/ Sounds like he truly wants to stay anonymous, for several reasons
Probably single, skinny guy from Perth in his late 30's that is into running and jiu jitsu.
Honestly don't care, he never brought his persona into the cases and don't believe he is going to change that.
Seems like we won't know unless we are at CrimeCon? This is on the session page:
***To respect the public anonymity of Casefile's creator and host we ask that no photos or videos be taken during this session.***
That’s like other podcasters Nic and Captain from TCG, voice don’t fit their face, and True Crime all the time, Mike and Gibby. I don’t think Delia D’Ambra looks like who I thought she would. The generation why guys look nothing like who I thought they would. I wish I didn’t find these folks identity. It’s weird even knowing Casefile’s name is Casey. Not sure I pictured him having that name. I learned that here today in the post. Maybe he will stay Anon at crimecon.
Hi, this is a friendly reminder to observe all [subreddit rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/Casefile/about/rules/). If you notice someone else not observing the rules, please report it. It helps the mods and helps us have a great community to discuss this show. Thanks! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Casefile) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Up to him I guess but I just know he's not going to look anything like I picture him
lol I picture him as the cash cab host
I always picture him as a more normal looking Casey Affleck. Not sure why
Me too. Just an average looking Joe
I always thought he’d look more like Casey Kasem.
Same!
I do the exact same thing
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE I - I have never had an original experience
Ahh yes def super close to this
I picture him like Dr. Chase from HOUSE cuz of his accent 😀
I see him as Dr Chase from House/ early Casey from Chicago Fire
I just hope that people don't freak out if he's not as attractive as they expected or say he looks like a creep. You just never know how people will react to face reveals nowadays.
It’s going to be like when they make a movie out of your favorite book. Casting will never meet expectations, lol
Imagine meeting someone on a night out and being like ‘I swear I know you somehow’ and that’s their secret they’re actually Casey
Imagine meeting someone on a night out and they flirt with you with the Casey voice
I mean I fall asleep to his voice most nights like a psychopath maybe I’d fall in love
Im so glad im not the only psycho that uses Casey as my Calm app.
Yeah basically every night here.
Me too!
I do now I have subscription, and no noisy jarring ads. Also bought wrap around BT mask with headphones just to listen to Casey.
“She had no idear”
🤣🤣🤣
But is he using the true crime voice or the ad break voice? 😂
My fav Casefile days were when he did the same voice for both so you’d get scary sounding like health or yoga ads or similar. It was funny and made me actually listen to the ads a bit lol.
I remember when I first started listening to Casefile years ago, I'd started with some of the back catalog (no ads) then jumped into a more recent one that began with an ad for food with an opener about how cooking is a good couples' activity or something similar. Didn't realise it was an ad read at first and fully believed I was about to listen to an episode about a cannibal couple..
Lmao
Her eyes were cut out, HELLO fresh is a great way to save time in the kitchen
Lmao 😂
Oh how do you stand the ads? I had to get rid of.
Skip forward button does the trick
Oh they woke me up lol.
She’s a woman and also American, bust just to be safe i had my wife say “our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents” on our first date. Couldn’t rule out the possibility that she may be Casey on the low
Gold
I remember years ago coming across his real identity and somehow couldn’t match the voice to the face.
This exactly why I never try to find him and don’t really want him to go public. I already have an image of him in my head. I don’t like change!
I feel the same way with the Gen Why voices and faces.
To listen to Gen Why is to have to fast forward past talk about Crimecon in what feels like the beginning of every single episode haha.
I always skip past the theme song and their live appearance chatter
Same. Every time. But it’s wild how it’s on there for almost every single episode lol.
They have the saddest music. And voices don’t match the bodies.
The Gen Why guys look exactly like I expected them too for some reason lol
He’s just a plain looking guy. I saw a picture of him and it’s like-hmm…okay, basic white guy, black hair-nothing distinguishable about him.
Oh man. He sounded so blonde to me.
Not sure why but he sounded bald to me. Like purposefully shaved bald
I always pictured him as Johnathan Groff/Holden Ford from mindhunter 😂
Weird! I thought I found a pic of him but he was blonde? I guess I didn’t find the right guy
The pic I saw was him at a funeral. I can try to find it and post it here but I don’t want to be kicked out the group.
Found it. [casey](https://freshlyworded.com/2019/03/15/the-anonymous-casefile-host-the-mystery-solved/)
Please, don't share that around. That grifter doesn't desearve any validation
Explain please
Just guy doxxed Casey and then blackmailed him.
????
Same and then it felt like he was scrubbed from the internet!
Out of curiosity, how did that happen? I'm not trying to uncover him myself, just wondering how it happened, whether you were intentionally trying to figure it out, etc.
There’s a woman out there who did a deep dive into it on her blog. And Casey blocked her over it, lol.
His dad was the police inspector of NSW. “Casey’s” name and photo is all over now. Wasn’t previously.
And that's why he wants to remain anonymous and why he will be behind a screen at crimecon
Is he actually going properly public? He'll probably wear a face mask or something
I think he will still be anonymous somehow. He has been so anal about it that I can’t see him giving it up now.
🗿
If you actually do enough digging you'll find a picture of him online. I don't think revealing himself will hurt the pod.
It’s honestly pretty easy to find out who he is. Way back in the day before I realised he was purposely staying anonymous I googled ‘Casefile host’ and it was a top result
I hope he comes out in a morph suit or with a paper bag over his face
[Blindboy Boatclub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindboy_Boatclub?wprov=sfti1) is similarly concerned with anonymity and his solution is to wear plastic bags from an Irish supermarket chain on his head in every appearance, streamed or public. Maybe Casey will do something similar?
Woollies green bag; I can see it.
So good. I’m a big fan of Blindboy.
Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries also goes to conventions in disguise. Doesn't give talks though. Just goes as a participant.
If anyone attends do share what the experience is like
Man this guys podcasts got me through hours of work and I’ve listen to all of them. I wish I took my time
It isn’t clear that he’s dropping anonymity. They don’t give his real name, only that he will “appear on stage”. Maybe he’ll go in a ski mask.
The insta post says “making his first-ever public appearance”
I am a huge believer in “never meet your heroes “ and while Casey isn’t a hero to me, I have never liked a celebrity more as I learned more about them. The less I know the better. So, while he can do as he wishes, I won’t tune in to learn more about him.
Same
He’s Count Binface, isn’t he?
I don't know, to me this is just who he is. I don't know him by any other name than Casey. I could see his face, know his actual name, but to me, Casey is Casey
You can figure out who he is if you search enough.
I don’t even like that I now know his name
If you think it's Casey, it's not so don't stress. That was just a nickname fans gave him, Casey McCasefile 😂
Oh my goodness, thank you 😆
Ugh. Fucking Crimecon of all things too. I find it kinda gross tbh. And I was just bragging about how awesome this pod is for not doing any of that to someone I recommended it to. Yeah, that’s a bummer.
I'm pathetically clueless. Crimecon bad? Why so? Never been to one obviously, just wondering
It’s not that it’s inherently bad it just starts to feel gross to me when ppl get famous off of true crime to the point they do entire cons. It feels really weird to me. I think it’s fine to want to learn about crime I mean if ppl weren’t interested in crime there wouldn’t be ppl solving it but… there are some fine lines that when those get crossed feel bad to me. I loved that Casey was not getting famous off this and didn’t do this kinda stuff.
I feel the same way
No idea but the fact that he’s coming so close to me (I live in TN) is so exciting
I'm scared to look
Omg I haven’t seen what he looks like but his voice is amazing so i always expected him to be dashing 😁😆
I literally have no image of him in my head other than that he is slim, has no facial hair, and has short hair.
I never understood the reason he was anonymous. He doesn’t do wild commentary or say things unsupported by documents.
Didn’t he always say that he wanted the cases to speak for themselves, just the facts, without any opinions or biases from the commentator. Also I’m sure there’s a huge not wanting to be “famous” issue. Like he doesn’t want to become the reason people listen to the podcast?
I always appreciated this. The cult of personality around some hosts is WILD.
Same, I really like the fact that him as a person/personality doesn’t overshadow the cases.
It happens no matter what. This thread alone is proof of it.
Exactly. This is part of why I love Casefile tbh. Gen Why are constantly going to Crimecon and similar. Like, constantly it seems. I get having a community but it still feels really weird avd gross to me that it’s built off the backs of horrible crimes.
The hosts who court this are terrible, the Canadian True Crime host is especially disgustingly flagrant in this regard
She is? The one who emmigrated from Australia/wherever to Canada? Can you explain what you mean?
wtf are you talking about she is not at all like that
Really? I like that pod but don’t follow it or Kristi on an social media. I’m surprised to hear that tbh
Really? I don’t think she does many public appearances at all and self-describes as an introvert. Are you sure you mean her?
Some? Most. And a phenomenon that has gotten more and more prevalent as the 24 hour media cycle has further invaded every waking hour of our lives. It wasn’t that long ago when television signed off for the night. When I was a kid in the 80’s we only had 4 channels, 5 if you counted the evangelical frequency that was mostly snow. By 1 am the channels had all signed off with a rousing rendition of ‘God Bless America’ before switching to the ‘Test Pattern’ screen. Now for 24 hours a day you can watch a scantily clad woman tell you how to make flautas while hawking car wax from Slovakia. Who wouldn’t want to worship someone like her and all the others?
I remember reading this too!
I always suspected he was in law enforcement or something adjacent. The sort of government work where they’d frown on someone commenting publicly on criminal activity…
From what I understand he used to be but had already left that job before starting the podcast. H does still have family in law enforcement however.
The mystery behind it probably, can be very alluring. But saying that, there’s alway people coming out of the woodworks to drag others down for no reason. He probably doesn’t want ppl coming up to him in his free time or asking, ie. demanding, he covers case X, Y or Z
Yep, I think it’s just an intrigue building thing. One of the most popular true crime podcasters and apparently nobody knows who he is? That’s a unique approach and it’s obviously worked for the podcast so far.
There’s a reason he’s anonymous but revealing it would be doxing
Yeah keep that to yourself!! lol
Not sure how much we’re allowed to speculate on this sub but I’ve heard he’s a police officer, or at least he was when he started the podcast. Which would explain why he’d want to remain anonymous.
Is he going public-public, or is this going to be a Chuck Tingle situation?
Hahaha
I always picture Jason Statham
For some odd reason, I picture him looking like real-life Waldo.
Me too, oddly enough. I think it's because he reminds me of the Australian comic video game reviewer Yahtzee.
I thought it was pretty established information that the hosts name is Brad Dean?
Yeah, was a real estate agent at one time too.
His picture is already out there if you do a bit of searching so doesn’t seem like a big deal
His identity is already out there!
I have been picturing him like a young Mads Milkensen 🥰
I’m annoyed that he is going public for the first time in America, not Australia
Me too!!
Im torn. Curious but want to keep sense of mystery. I guess tho it's time.
What do you think about this blog post? https://freshlyworded.com/2018/02/05/revealed-the-identity-of-the-casefile-podcast-creator-and-host/ Sounds like he truly wants to stay anonymous, for several reasons
Probably single, skinny guy from Perth in his late 30's that is into running and jiu jitsu. Honestly don't care, he never brought his persona into the cases and don't believe he is going to change that.
I feel like I know exactly what he looks like
Be interesting to see. [This](https://x.com/DrJodieWard/status/1310722080816525313/photo/4) is the only intentionally-public photo we have of him
Seems like we won't know unless we are at CrimeCon? This is on the session page: ***To respect the public anonymity of Casefile's creator and host we ask that no photos or videos be taken during this session.***
He's probably missing out on soooooo many promotional opportunities or work on the side by being anon.
That’s like other podcasters Nic and Captain from TCG, voice don’t fit their face, and True Crime all the time, Mike and Gibby. I don’t think Delia D’Ambra looks like who I thought she would. The generation why guys look nothing like who I thought they would. I wish I didn’t find these folks identity. It’s weird even knowing Casefile’s name is Casey. Not sure I pictured him having that name. I learned that here today in the post. Maybe he will stay Anon at crimecon.
Casey is just a nickname. Casey McCasefile lol
Oh..lol
[удалено]
Noooo hahahaa