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The Marie Trintignant case is a solved French femicide in which actress Marie Trintignant, 41, died on August 1, 2003, after being beaten by her partner, rock singer Bertrand Cantat, in a Vilnius hotel room.

Colonia Dignidad is a Chilean human rights mega-case involving child sexual abuse, forced disappearance, and political torture carried out inside a fortified German enclave in Parral from 1961 onward.

The Air Cocaine case is a 2013 international drug-trafficking operation in which ~700 kg of cocaine in 26 suitcases was seized aboard a private jet at Punta Cana Airport, bound for France.

The Beast of Bangalore case involves Umesh Reddy, a former police officer who confessed to raping and murdering 18 women across Karnataka between 1996 and 2002, convicted in 9 cases.

The Eric Hanson case is an Illinois quadruple murder in which 31-year-old Eric Hanson shot his parents and bludgeoned his sister and brother-in-law in Aurora in September 2005.

The Jonathan Meijer case is a Dutch fertility fraud case in which a single donor fathered at least 550 children by deceiving clinics and recipients over 16 years.

The Raëlian Movement cases are a series of French and European legal disputes involving the UFO-based religious group founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, testing the boundaries of religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom of expression.

The 2015 Paris Attacks are a coordinated ISIS terrorist operation in which nine jihadists killed 130 people across six sites in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015.

The Nora Dalmasso case is an Argentine murder investigation in which a woman was strangled in her Río Cuarto home on November 26, 2006, and no one was ever convicted.

The García Belsunce case is an Argentine homicide in which sociologist María Marta García Belsunce, 50, was shot six times in the head at her home in the Carmel gated community, Pilar, on October 27, 2002.

The ARA San Juan case is an Argentine naval disaster in which a submarine carrying 44 crew members vanished in the South Atlantic on November 15, 2017, later found imploded at 907 meters depth.

The El Chapo case is a landmark U.S. federal prosecution of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, convicted in 2019 of drug trafficking, racketeering, and murder conspiracy spanning three decades.

The Vallarta–Cassez case is a Mexican kidnapping prosecution made infamous by a staged televised arrest, a diplomatic crisis between Mexico and France, and nearly two decades of contested justice.

The Zona Divas femicides are a cluster of five murders of women advertised on the Mexican escort website ZonaDivas.com, carried out between 2017 and 2018 in Mexico City, Nuevo León, and the State of Mexico.

The Florence Cassez affair is a Mexican kidnapping case in which French national Florence Cassez and her partner Israel Vallarta were accused of running a kidnapping ring — but their arrest was staged for live television, tainting the prosecution.

The Colosio assassination is a Mexican political homicide case from 1994, in which presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Tijuana by Mario Aburto Martínez.

The Paddy Moriarty case is an unsolved suspected homicide from Larrimah, NT, Australia, where 70-year-old Irish-born pensioner Patrick Moriarty vanished without trace on December 16, 2017.

Matthew Hardy is a British cyberstalking case in which an unemployed man from Cheshire terrorised at least 62 women over 11 years using fake social-media accounts before being jailed for 8 years.

The Senzo Meyiwa murder case is a South African homicide in which Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead on October 26, 2014, at a home in Vosloorus, Gauteng.

The Thabo Bester case is a South African prison-escape scandal in which a convicted rapist and murderer faked his own death with a burned corpse and fled custody in May 2022.

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a landmark American homicide case in which Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, alongside Doc Holliday, killed three Cowboys in 30 seconds on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

The assassination of Malcolm X is a 1965 American political murder case in which civil rights leader Malcolm X was shot dead on stage in Manhattan at age 39.

The Manti Te'o catfishing case is a 2012 American online hoax in which Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was deceived into believing he had a real girlfriend — a fabricated person named Lennay Kekua — created by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.

The Sean Ellis case is a landmark wrongful-conviction case in which a 19-year-old Black man spent over 20 years in prison for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan before being fully exonerated.

The CEDU Running Springs case is an unsolved missing-person investigation involving 16-year-old Daniel Yuen, who vanished from a controversial California teen program in 2004 and has never been found.

The Linda Napolitano case is a famous alleged alien abduction claim from November 30, 1989, in which a Manhattan woman said she was levitated from her 12th-floor apartment into a hovering craft above the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Huguette Clark Estate Case is a landmark U.S. elder-abuse and contested-will dispute in which a reclusive copper heiress's $300M fortune was fought over after her death at 104 in 2011.

The Lori Vallow Daybell case is a solved multi-state murder conspiracy in which an Idaho mother and her husband killed her two children and his first wife, driven by apocalyptic religious beliefs.

Leonard v. PepsiCo is a landmark US civil contract case in which John D.R. Leonard sued PepsiCo claiming a TV commercial obligated the company to hand over a military Harrier jet for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points.

Garret Rodriguez was a 29-year-old San Diego man found buried in a shallow grave in Humboldt County, CA in 2013 after traveling to work on a marijuana ranch. No one has been charged.

The Philadelphia Mob War is a series of murders, shootings, and racketeering acts in which John Stanfa's faction battled Joseph 'Skinny Joey' Merlino's younger crew for control of the Philadelphia crime family.

The Three Mile Island accident is the most serious nuclear reactor disaster in U.S. history, a partial core meltdown at a Pennsylvania plant on March 28, 1979, that triggered a corporate cover-up prosecution.

The Madoff investment scandal is the largest Ponzi scheme in history, in which financier Bernie Madoff defrauded tens of thousands of investors worldwide out of an estimated $64.8 billion.

Twin Flames Universe is a Michigan-based online spiritual organization whose founders, Jeff and Shaleia Divine, are under active criminal investigation for alleged coercive control, financial exploitation, and manipulation of members across the United States.

The GameStop short squeeze is a 2021 U.S. financial controversy in which retail investors, organized on Reddit, drove GME stock to historic highs, triggering billions in losses for hedge funds and spawning years of litigation.

Depp v. Heard is a landmark U.S. civil defamation case in which actor Johnny Depp sued ex-wife Amber Heard over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed, resulting in a $10.35M jury verdict for Depp.

Richard Cottingham is an American serial killer who murdered at least several women across New York and New Jersey, dismembering some victims — earning him the nickname 'The Torso Killer.'

The Falcon–Magluta case is a landmark U.S. federal drug prosecution of Cuban-American traffickers Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, who smuggled an estimated 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. and earned $2.1 billion.

The Octopus Murders is a disputed-death case centered on journalist Danny Casolaro, 41, found dead with slashed wrists in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel bathtub on August 10, 1991.

The Eirik Jensen case is a Norwegian corruption and drug-trafficking case in which a senior Oslo police officer was convicted of leaking intelligence to a hashish smuggler over nearly a decade.

The Saguto case is an Italian corruption scandal in which Palermo anti-mafia judge Silvana Saguto exploited her power over seized Mafia assets to run a kickback network from 2010 onward.

The Alberto Genovese case is an Italian sexual violence case in which tech entrepreneur Alberto Genovese drugged and raped women at his luxury Milan penthouse and in Ibiza in 2020.

The San Patrignano case is an Italian homicide in which Roberto Maranzano, a drug-dependent man from Palermo, was beaten to death inside a rehabilitation community in 1989 by seven fellow residents.

The Karl Hass case is an Italian war crimes prosecution of SS officer Karl Hass for his role in the murder of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome on March 24, 1944.

The Wanna Marchi case is an Italian mass-fraud scheme in which tele-saleswoman Wanna Marchi and her daughter Stefania Nobile defrauded an estimated 250,000–300,000 victims through television-based curse and lottery scams between 1996 and 2001.

The Wallace Souza case is a Brazilian media-crime scandal in which TV host and state deputy Wallace Souza allegedly ordered murders to boost ratings for his crime show Canal Livre in Manaus.

The Elize Matsunaga case is a Brazilian homicide in which Elize Matsunaga shot and dismembered her husband, Yoki executive Marcos Matsunaga, in their São Paulo apartment in May 2012.

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 is a Brazilian aviation disaster in which an Airbus A320 overran the runway at São Paulo's Congonhas Airport on July 17, 2007, killing all 199 people on board and on the ground.

Manuel Blanco Vela, a Seville-based tour guide, was convicted of sexually assaulting American students during organized trips through Morocco and Portugal between 2013 and 2017.

The César Román case is a Spanish homicide in which businessman César Román murdered and dismembered his 25-year-old partner Heidi Paz Bulnes in Madrid in August 2018.