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Case 310: Kalinka Bamberski

🕑 Added 2025-03-08 08:22:25 +0000 UTC

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Shannon Perez (shaslove1)

This case made me mad. It took way too long for a paltry amount of justice :(

Camilla Dyre Frank

Weird comment.

Patrick Gadoury

One of the most twisted and well told cases. Good job team!

Zac

Also - noteworthy, two cases on Casefile are about seedy doctors who rape women/teen girls, who use injections at their own leisure - and in both cases, women left their own husbands for these creeps!

Zac

I’ve listened to this episode twice since its release on Saturday last week. Wow. This is like old-school Casefile. Not only was the story telling phenomenal, the detail, the story it’s self and the true emotion this case made me feel was just next level. What an amazing father. I would’ve loved to of heard more how it may have impacted his relationship with his son.

Ashley Fadden

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-kalinka-affair/

Green Thumb

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Cat Warren

So rough, but this was exactly the story I needed today. I hope those men can live dignified, quiet lives with the satisfaction of knowing they fought incredible odds for what is right.

Marie Gough

Knew in the 1st 5 minutes it was the stepfather. How it took 30 years is astonishing. The mother only got worried when she found out she had been drugged herself. What an amazing father. May she Rest In Peace

Kate Coen

I teared up when I listened to the bit about the kidnapping, and the police officers giving him a standing ovation. Andre tried to do things the “right” way for 20 years. What else could he do but take the law into his own hands? A damn hero. I hope I can be half the mother to my son as he was father to his daughter.

Bluechurch77

What a father, what a man.

Renae Bartlett

Yeah, it was interesting to hear the German government complain about anti-German sentiment whilst they also defended the most abhorrent crimes of its citizens...

Renae Bartlett

Andre is an amazing dad, and I think Kalinka was murdered because she was about to go live with him, and would have exposed her stepfather's abuse. The mother is so frustrating, and to be honest, is almost a narcissist herself. She didn't even bother reading about the circumstances of her own daughter's death until she heard about her own SA. Only once she was a victim herself did she care. I know about coercive control, FDV etc, but she turned a blind eye because she liked the lifestyle.

Suicide Sauce

Another favorite was "Je suis tres farté" (I am very 'farty') to indicate I felt gassy. My mom, who was born in San Bernadino but often pretended she was French, absolutely hated it when I was vulgar. Every time I think about how she died in that dildo factory explosion I-- I'm sorry, I can't go on, it makes me fukken emotional

Ashley Batton

I’m using this phrase now for sure

Demi

I wish every child had a father as devoted as André Bamberski. I could feel his love for his daughter through his determination and, clearly, so did the Kosovans.

Green Thumb

Love you Casey. Always.

AR

Yeah it's hard to feel like justice was served at all here. The double jeopardy claim was ludicrous.

Sidney Davies

Great story and great story telling.

Suicide Sauce

When I was a tadpole my mom would impatiently snap at me "Depeche toi!" To which my sassy tween self would reply "I'm depeching!"

Rosie Overell

‘The latest’ is ‘la depeche’ in this context. And - yes - it is based!

AR

Great case, casefile! The similarities between this case and the one in canada (Dr. Schneeberger, that you guys already covered) are so disturbing. They're nearly identical in every respect, from the chosen careers of the perpetrators, to the sedatives administered as injections in the guise of medical care, to the gaslighting their wives while preying on their stepdaughters, to the serial sexual assaults of their own patients, down to trying to escape to South Africa. And including the same narrative of a victim being shut down at any turn refusing to give up until they've not only gotten justice but exposed a whole web of lies and serial predation along the way. Really the *only* difference is that at least in Canada, authorities were actually *trying* to investigate the perp. It's interesting to contemplate how Dieter Krombach might have tried to fake his way out of the evidence (like Schneeberger famously did) if the authorities had only been doing any iota of their job in this case.

AR

the "double jeopardy" claim was so infuriating. He was NEVER tried in Germany for her murder. Losing in a civil suit is absolutely not the same thing! The way his lawyers kept claiming that he'd already been "found not guilty" i felt like I was just going round the twist.

Vanessa Allen

Am I missing something here? How did they manage to classify his French prosecution as double jeopardy? Double jeopardy is the principle that a person cannot be tried or punished more than once for the same offense. He was never tried or punished in Germany. It's not double jeopardy at all. One country didn't find enough evidence to prosecute, so he did not go to trial and he was not acquitted or punished. Another country found enough evidence and prosecuted in absentia. It's a jurisdiction issue, similar to Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. As for the claims that France violated his human rights by proceeding without him or his defense counsel, that should be on him. He had over two years notice to attend and chose not to. This is a sad and incredibly frustrating case.

Bob Trenwith

And people try to complain about the "inconvenience" and "invasion of privacy" of a working with children check. As though it's all about them.

William Chui

When Andre said wanted to take matters into his own hands I immediately thought of Jean Marie Vilmein…. I thought the abduction was pretty wild and the theme of double jeapardy is interesting to think about

Suicide Sauce

First of all, Based. Second, "la depeche" means "the hurry/faster" and I thought that was a funny name for a newspaper. Edit: "anti-german sentiment"??? Piss OOOOFFFFFFF