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Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia is a Netflix docuseries about the violent 1990s Philadelphia mob war between John Stanfa and Joey Merlino that left the city in chaos.

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.

This podcast episode examines Den Store Rockerkrig between 1994 and 1997, focusing on the conflict's final murder victim.

This podcast episode delves into Den Store Rockerkrig (1994-97), focusing on the dramatic killing at Copenhagen Airport that marked a bloody escalation in the conflict between Hells Angels and Bandidos.

This episode of Danske Drabssager dives into the macabre case known as Den Parterede Rocker, in which a dismembered body was discovered scattered across multiple locations.

Between 1970 and the early 1980s, three members of a Danish motorcycle club were murdered in what appeared to be random nightlife confrontations. But the unsolved killings sparked something far darker: a spiral of street violence, arson, and vigilante attacks on innocent bystanders mistaken for suspects.

In 2024, a young man named Max was lured from the Philippines to a remote scam camp in Myanmar with promises of a high-paying casino job. Instead, he found himself trapped in a modern slavery operation run by international criminal syndicates. The Scam Factory podcast, hosted by Denise Chan, documents his ordeal and his sister Charlie's desperate efforts to secure his release.

On June 25, 2003, two Swedish men were shot dead on a residential street in Herlev, Denmark, in a killing that exposed the spread of Scandinavian gang violence across national borders. Five Swedish defendants were convicted, with three receiving life sentences and two minors handed the maximum 20-year terms ever imposed on juveniles in Danish legal history.

Wondery's "Scam Factory" podcast, hosted by Denise Chan, investigates Southeast Asia's hidden fraud compounds where victims are trafficked, imprisoned, and forced to perpetrate global online scams under threat of violence.