A newsroom that keeps case files.

CS Blackwoods reports true crime the slow way — documents over drama, sources on the record, corrections made in public. No spooky affect, no sensationalism. Just the file, opened carefully and kept honestly.

We publish one long-form case at a time, and we keep them open until the record says otherwise.

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Cases filed

62K

Subscribers

Cases reopened

100%

Sourced on record

The work behind the byline

CS Blackwoods began with a filing cabinet and a simple rule: nothing runs unless it traces to a record, a recording, or a named source. What started as a single reopened cold case is now an archive of long-form investigations, each reported like the case file it's named for.

We don't chase virality. We chase the blank line on the page — the detail that doesn't resolve, the witness who was never re-interviewed, the document that was filed and forgotten. When we get something wrong, we correct it as loudly as we ran it.

How we work · The Casefile Standard

Documents over drama

Every claim traces to a record, a recording, or a named source. If we can't source it, we don't run it.

Victims are people

We follow family wishes on names and images. The dignity of the people in the file comes before the story.

We show our work

Where the law allows, we publish the underlying documents so readers can check us against the record.

We correct in public