Nebraska

Casefile covers the 1978 Omaha deaths of baby Chad Shelton and 24-year-old Duane Johnson, when a baffling outbreak turned sinister.

Swipe Right on the Devil is a three-part Hulu/Disney+ documentary series about the 2017 murder of Sydney Loofe, killed by Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell after she met Boswell on Tinder.

Lover, Stalker, Killer is a 2024 Netflix documentary about the 2012 disappearance and murder of Cari Farver and the extraordinary stalking campaign carried out by Liz Golyar.

The Cari Farver case is a Nebraska murder in which victim Cari Farver was killed in 2012, then impersonated for years by her killer Shanna Golyar through tens of thousands of fake messages.

The Beatrice Six is a US wrongful-conviction case in which six people were convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska, then exonerated in 2009 by DNA evidence.

In November 2012, Cari Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska, after a brief relationship with Dave Kroupa. What followed was an unprecedented case of digital impersonation: thousands of harassing messages sent from Farver's phone over three years—not by her, but by her killer.

Cari Lea Farver, a 37-year-old computer programmer from Macedonia, Iowa, disappeared on November 13, 2012. What began as a missing persons case became a haunting tale of impersonation, harassment, and murder—solved not by traditional detective work, but by the digital footprint her killer left behind.

Esther Ludlow created Once Upon A Crime as a carefully researched true crime podcast that prioritizes psychology and social context over sensationalism. Available across major platforms since its launch, the show examines cases ranging from Ted Bundy to the Chowchilla kidnapping, each episode standing alone within thematic series.

In 1985, Helen Wilson, a 68-year-old grandmother, was raped and murdered in Beatrice, Nebraska. Four years later, six individuals were convicted for the crime — five after confessing to police. In 2022, HBO's six-part documentary Mind Over Murder exposed how those confessions were obtained through psychological coercion, and how DNA evidence eventually freed all six men in 2009.