1986

The Motive is a Netflix docuseries about a 14-year-old boy who shot and killed his parents and two sisters while they slept in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, in 1986.

Five-part AMC/Viaplay documentary revisiting the 1986 murder of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park by Robert Chambers, the so-called 'Preppy Killer.'

The Jennifer Levin case is a 1986 New York City homicide in which 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was strangled in Central Park by 19-year-old Robert Chambers, dubbed the 'Preppy Killer'.

Werner Pinzner lived a double life unlike few others. By day he worked as a welder and carpenter. By night he became one of Hamburg's most feared contract killers. On April 1, 1986, he entered Hamburg's main police station disguised as a police officer and killed three people before turning his weapon on himself.

On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in Soviet Ukraine exploded, releasing radioactive material across Europe and forcing the evacuation of 350,000 people. The disaster exposed systemic flaws in Soviet reactor design and safety culture that would reverberate for decades.