A master manipulator orchestrates a deadly con

Case 289: Stephen & Carol Baxter
When Mersea Island couple Stephen and Carol Baxter were found dead in their favourite recliner chairs in April 2023, there were no visible injuries or an obvious cause of death. Their house was immaculate, and nothing appeared to be missing. The case was initially ruled “unexplained, but not suspicious” until a few unusual discoveries were made.
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[@reeva5735]

If Luke had not been caught, Ellie would have been dead before she turned 30 - the age at which the "will" said she should take ownership of the business they had "left" in Lukes hands.

[@Y0uTubeCommentPoster]

No doubt. The guy was a patient, calculated murderer, plotting things out years in advance. I wonder how much of his friendship to the Baxters was even real - were they always a target to this guy?

[@nikiwalkey8114]

My favourite narrator has arrived. 👍💖

[@RED-cy7ig]

This is an example of having a real life relationship and not online/phone relationships. This guy was pure evil.

[@karabranstrom9214]

5 minutes in: "Dr Bowden" and her "support group" have already raised a million red flags.

[@rashone2879]

And they keep consulting Bowden as if she is their family psychologist and good friend!

[@LeifEriccson43]

It was "Natural remedies" and "expert" for me

[@beth1979]

Keep listening, it gets weird.

[@cronstrubzo]

how come? is there significance to that name?

[@neconeconeco]

@@cronstrubzo no, but since we know the context that a crime has occurred, the mention of a mysterious overseas holistic doctor is definitely not a good sign.

[@rashone2879]

I’m only partway into this and I’m thinking, oh my God, how did Carol have trust in such angry, nasty, women calling her out, acting so coercive? One woman said she had her life back…didn’t Carol notice she, herself, was not doing well? I can understand people desperate for a cure, but at some point, one needs to realize it is what it is, and accept what life dishes out. How sad and how EVIL and CRUEL scammers can be.

[@ixizn]

The trust builds slowly, then comes the unhinged demands and behaviours, that’s how someone ends up listening to and taking advice from someone who’s manipulative and evil. Standard brainwashing tactics used by abusers and cults, sadly if one doesn’t know about it and can regonize it we’re all vulnerable to it.

[@belleslettres354]

Same. It was infuriating to listen to.

[@an-open-eye]

"i've got my life back" / "can't come and see you because of a medical emergency" i know ill people can be desperate but come on

[@sidbobby3233]

Morning Casefile family frm the strangely sunny uk 😎🙏👊👍✌🇬🇧

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Vote Reform and Save Britain

[@sidbobby3233]

@@pyrodiscoflash6115 none of the parties have anything that looks remotely like genuine reform mate...

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

@@sidbobby3233 then Vote Hooligan and bring Freedom crashing through the Gates into their Cynical Hearts and Enlighten Individual's Ability to Live Free from the State

[@inuchan74]

Omg I don't think I can make it through this one, it's making me far too angry.

[@richardcranium3579]

@@MiMiiViViyep. Especially when it comes to sentencing murderers.

[@timeforcoffee485]

The world is becoming increasingly hard to trust anyone these days. Great but incredibly sad video. Hats off to your deep dive research.❤

[@shadowpanther9857]

I really love your channel! Thanks for another great video.

[@candyrain09able]

Thank You Casefile!!!😊

[@rashone2879]

Why not comment on the story? 90% here don’t. How come?

[@MiMiiViVi]

Another twister! Thank you, Casefile. While waiting for new episodes to come out, I listen to the past ones. Every single one is great.

[@BurnItUpp2009]

When you said about all the phones it dawned on me that he was Bowden. Holy shit. What a psychopath. RIP to Carol and Steven. Truly horrific what happened to them.

[@suelous7411]

CHILLING 🥶

[@alaynecooke6677]

Candies???🇭🇲

[@an-open-eye]

i know, right?

[@rileytherandom]

he could do all that but not look up how to properly format a codicil

[@leslievasquez2645]

I’m sorry, did he say she had a nail in her colon?!

[@jerrymarshall2095]

Great upload

[@CC21200]

"Andrea Bowden" sounded like a criminal from the very start. Real doctors know that Hashimoto's is very easy to treat, and it's illegal to share patient details.

[@robyn7287]

Very true I’ve had Hasimoto’s 😊 for years and it is very easily treated with a single tablet a day plus yearly blood tests.

[@missysbloglife]

​@@robyn7287same!!

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

When it comes to free-standing medical practices, "Florida" can signal trouble. Lots of legal loopholes for profiteering practitioners, with or without an accredited M.D.

[@leslievasquez2645]

I take a thyroid pill once in the morning every day and it’s the right treatment, so easy and inexpensive

[@mlamb]

I've been following Casefile for a while now, and always appreciate the consistent quality. I notice this channel focuses on providing the best content they can, while keeping the production simple and straightforward which I really prefer. Thank you Casefile!!

[@profnkb]

Wowww, horrible person. Talk about playing the long game.

[@cathybassett6432]

I think Luke should have gotten an extra 20 years for torturing Carol. 37 years just isn't enough. I just googled Luke. He doesn't look at all like I thought he would.

[@Ian.G256]

I really dig the updated format presented in the last 20- something videos. I'm not entirely sure what the exact difference is, but please keep it up.

[@johnoneill7947]

Thank you. Don't forget to Like, Subscribe and Share.

[@documentariesbycategory1483]

In full agreement!

[@bekkismith5643]

I miss the original myself

[@CheetahCui]

Both are entertaining. The voice is cleaner. Either version is satisfying to me. 👍the cases themselves are spectacular in presentation.

[@rileytherandom]

lmao is it bc they removed the ads?

[@je7055]

Fent and promethazine? Good lord. Promethazine (probably better known in the States, at least, by its brand name Phenergan), despite being an antihistamine as mentioned, was an extremely common treatment for nausea (again, at least in the States) up until they started giving Zofran instead. Promethazine is a very common & effective "potentiator" of opioids, and many opioid addicts take promethazine with their opioids, often with other potentiators, to increase their high. But it also raises the risk of respiratory depression because of its sedating effects. Only 20 minutes in, so I suppose I still don't know where this is going, but it sure sounds like the perpetrator has more than a layman's knowledge of pharmacology. As if Shady Internet Doctor and her cabal of brainwashers weren't suspicious enough...

[@an-open-eye]

average saturday for me

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

G’day Okkas! 🤗 Careful who you trust with your family…especially the vulnerable! 💕

[@stee8345]

How in the world do you feed someone a giant nail without them knowing??? 😮

[@kimgregory2781]

I wondered about that too. Maybe the length was stated wrong, cause it wouldn’t have fit in a capsule.

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Totally did not foresee this ending. Part of it, yeah, but not the complexity. Well done.

[@LeifEriccson43]

"Natural remedies" and "expert" don't belong together 🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@an-open-eye]

someone's never tried kratom

[@themorgan1111]

wow what a story!!!...thanks for covering this xxx

[@Dikvej884iv4]

You're the best narrator! I can't sleep without you!

[@robyn7287]

😂😂not sure he’d like to hear that all his research and effort puts you to sleep..💤 however I know what you mean I listen to Hugh Fraser for my nightly sleep aid 😊

[@missysbloglife]

It's an AI voice. 😂

[@karencrumlish9913]

Listen to " This is Monsters" Narrator.. also amazing

[@s-c..]

I agree, just the right amount of interest mixed with soothing monotone. I also really recommend The French Whisperer.

[@s-c..]

@@missysbloglifeWhy are you obsessed with the thought that this is AI?

[@raradis]

Well well well .. hello to my favorite voice.

[@rhondamcewananderson3968]

Wow... this sounds like a movie...💔

[@danmac73]

Brilliant as always !!!

[@Shadmockk]

Fucking crazy how this guy didn't need to do anything morally heinous to have a good life set out. Such a pointless and convoluted amount of effort. Why?

[@justinmasters271]

Sick in the head that’s why

[@jasonrublaitus7144]

I’ve been listening to Casefile for quite some time now but it always gets me when the very professional and extremely well spoken narrator cusses when quoting somebody 😆😆

[@D-me-dream-smp]

This story just kept getting more and more crazy. It started off badly with Dr Bowden who instantly raised red flags but I would never have guessed that a single, psychopathic, Machiavellian person would be behind it all. If it was a movie you would say it’s unbelievable that a single person would be willing to go to such elaborate and extreme lengths with such a convoluted plot.

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Doctor of Manulipation, Luke is the Ultimate Politician, basically a Malignancy

[@rashone2879]

Also, sadly, a lot of naïveté in the family.

[@an-open-eye]

Why do you Randomly capitalise Certain words and not Others?

[@texastea5686]

I have Hashimoto's. It's not THAT big a deal: just take your meds and try to limit fast foods, and exercise if you are able. Maybe i dont have a severe case, tho. The hard part is when you DONT know you have it. What a tragic case.

[@sdafc888]

Press like before I hear it

[@timeforcoffee485]

Police are also looking into the deaths of his father and grandfather.

[@Andrew-ri5qo]

Great

[@Marigold502]

Great voice for narration

[@missysbloglife]

AI

[@fretzil]

@@missysbloglife its not AI, this guy has been the narrator for years, long before AI was remotely this good, and has done candid Q&A''s where he sounds more relaxed.

[@richardcranium3579]

That’ll show him judge….Concurrent sentences instead of Consecutive….make sure he gets that all important shot at parole. What A £U£•|NG Joke the “Justice system” is……

[@all4honor]

You should always be weary when you keep getting sick and your doc who is using you and your unsick hisband like a lab rat says OH..THATS NORMAL

[@HB-iq6bl]

I'm here , hello!

[@an-open-eye]

why a makeshift pestle and mortar? he could've just bought one from lakeland

[@char2win]

Loving this on a Saturday ❤

[@suemcdermott2947]

Im sure ive heard this one before

[@margaretwhittaker2291]

it has been featured by other You Tube crime channels.

[@girlnextdoor7012]

ditto ~but still great upload!

[@marieweiss1634]

From a psychologist of many years, don't believe it when someone says there's no psychological illness in someone like Luke D'Wit. And please, don't ever say he had a happy normal childhood. Someone like him is very disturbed emotionally, mentally, psychologically and the source of such serious disturbance is always in childhood, even if it doesn't seem obvious to the average person. The official definitions of "mental illness" are very narrow and linked with legal definitions, but they don't actually represent the truth.

[@an-open-eye]

cool, still a horrible person

[@TriggB44]

Watch out for those people that want to "help" others too much, communal narcissist/psychopath!!!

[@CynosureRam]

🐏☑️

[@roadwarrior528]

Best AI Narrator in the business!

[@an-open-eye]

it's not ai, he's just australian

[@Kcmmm]

Love this channel

[@kikibean2024]

Such a sad story, but, so well reported on. Such a devious and ruthless way to steal from people who worked so hard and then were taken advantage of in this way.

[@tbucfromsoundcloud]

Drake

[@blazefairchild465]

Luke had been playing doll house with real live humans for years! He played all the parts in the play,besides Carol ,Steven ,Ellie & her husband. What an egregious cruel sadist. I think Luke had been a sociopathic odd duck since he was young. Who knows if he had other scenarios with his school friends or former co/workers My siblings & I were talking one eve about stomach aches & various things of that nature When someone commented they hadn’t been vomiting or diarrhea since they visited our grandmas friend Mrs .G. We started thinking about it and yes for sure it was true anytime we went to visit with her or she visited our grandma all 4 of us got horrible food poisoning like illness. The last time we ate very little & thank goodness she had 2 restrooms because my sister & I were in one & both boys were in the other . We would rotate throwing up & sitting on the pot. Our mom & grand grandmother wouldn’t believe us ,but we noticed they didn’t eat around her only coffee . Then the dear old lady passed away she was very Old . We stopped getting the stomach ailment. We also didn’t eat anything unless out mom or one of us cooked it. We thought perhaps some ingredient had gotten into the food by accident because these old gals didn’t see well at all. Both grandma & her friend would bring the spice jar over & ask us what does this say before they added some to the sauce. Made me think how they cook a whole meal without anyone there to read the all they spice bottles.

[@robynw6307]

More like Luke D'NitWit. Surely he didn't think he could get away with it.

[@ViggoMJ]

Are you serious with nothing but a computer console on the screen? Pass.

[@an-open-eye]

hi, carol. it's jelly

[@Dan_Wall]

Has to be ai surly? Says dates so strangely and by the way carbon monoxide does not get used by anything, it's produced by burning something e.g. gas boiler / fireplace so on...

[@an-open-eye]

he's just australian

[@anthonysawyer9140]

I listened to this case during the week on another podcast, where they played the audio of the emergency call when the couple were found deceased. It's horrific

[@zofiazajdel]

This one sounds so much like the polish case from season 1 'Śledztwo Pisma'. Eary.

[@lccsd2392]

Great presentation, love the format and as an Australian I appreciate the Aussie bot (?) narrator.

[@jaccusefashion]

Sociopath much....

[@an-open-eye]

could they BE any more dead?

[@girlnextdoor7012]

this channel should have more subs!!! ❤🎉

[@Maligroot]

Thanks Matey 👍

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

I always suspected Stephen was a junkie

[@an-open-eye]

lol, what?

[@Purrlow]

Thank God you can speed up the video because Jesus Christ this AI voice talks extremely slow

[@blazefairchild465]

I have been listening to Mr. Case file since about 2017 or so on Stitcher his voice has always been the same ,this is his natural voice not AI. He speaks slow to keep it clear I gather. Often with any slight accent people tend to complain,so best to speak slow and clear. Yes ,it’s great to have a speed adjustment. The longer you listen the faster you can go.I do like to listen at the normal speed when I lay down to sleep listen. It’s so much more relaxing at the slower speed. 🌹