family tragedy

British true crime podcast They Walk Among Us has released an episode on a deeply disturbing family case, in which a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, the mother vanishes without a trace, and the father returns home to signs of a violent struggle and bloody evidence throughout the house.

Rebecca Reusch, a 12-year-old German-Danish girl, disappeared from her family home in Berlin's affluent Lichterfelde district on February 18, 2019. The disappearance triggered Germany's most high-profile missing person investigation in two decades, with police focusing on her 27-year-old cousin. The case remains unsolved to this day, with no body found and no charges filed.

The Danish podcast Mørkeland has released Episode 307, focusing on two separate cases involving death and severe neglect. The episode examines circumstances where individuals were subject to dangerous living conditions and inadequate care.

A young man arrived at his mother's allotment house in Valby on a red motorcycle with his 7-year-old son, claiming his wife and daughter were hospitalized. When the boy vanished and a cryptic letter arrived, what followed was an investigation into a tragedy that shook the Danish community.

Podcast 'Danske Drabssager' has released a new episode about a dark family tragedy from 1976, in which a father killed his entire family in a violent attack. Host Stine Bolther walks listeners through the case, which took place in a peaceful residential area of Denmark.