About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "Casefile Presents: Ada" introduces a seven-part investigative series about a woman found dead in a California vineyard in 2011. The scene was described as disturbing yet eerily clean, unlike anything investigators had previously encountered. The killer appeared to have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent identification, yet still left the body somewhere she was certain to be found.
For more than a decade she was known only as Jane Doe, until detectives finally identified her as Ada. But a name did not solve the case — it opened a new one entirely. Years of reporting, along with the discovery of unusual newspaper columns and deeply personal writings Ada left behind, reveal a portrait of a brilliant, complicated woman. The more her life comes into focus, the stranger her murder becomes. The series sets out to explore who Ada was, why she was killed, and why someone seemingly tried to erase her identity.
Hosts and release
The host remains anonymous, in keeping with the format used throughout Casefile, the Australian true crime podcast that has covered solved and unsolved cases from Australia, the UK and the US in a sober, script-based style since 2016. This short introductory episode, running 4 minutes, sets up the full series released under the Casefile Presents banner, which has become known among the most listened-to productions in the genre for its meticulous, long-form case investigations.
