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Netflix docuseries about Richard Cottingham, the 'Torso Killer' who murdered women across New York and New Jersey from 1967 to 1980, directed by Joe Berlinger.

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 Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer is a 1992 HBO documentary special in which convicted murderer and alleged Mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski confesses to multiple contract killings on camera.

HBO documentary in which convicted Mafia hitman Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski confesses to murders including a NYC detective, while serving four life terms.

The Iceman and the Psychiatrist is an HBO documentary special about Richard Kuklinski, the New Jersey mob hitman and serial killer, interviewed by Dr. Park Dietz in Trenton State Prison.

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is a Netflix documentary about Caleb 'Kai' McGillvary, the viral internet hero who was convicted of murdering New Jersey attorney Joseph Galfy in 2013.

Tell Them You Love Me is a Sky Original documentary about ethics professor Anna Stubblefield, convicted of sexually assaulting non-verbal cerebral palsy sufferer Derrick Johnson in New Jersey.

NJ.com's true crime podcast 'Someone's Hunting Us' — an investigation into the 2016 disappearance of 15-year-old Mawa Doumbia from Newark — climbed to #3 on Apple Podcasts' global Top Series chart in April 2026, proving that local journalism can reach a worldwide audience.

I august–november 2016 dræbte Khalil Wheeler-Weaver tre kvinder i Essex County, New Jersey, og overlevede et fjerde offer et seksuelt overfald og forsøg på mord.

ABC 20/20 has released the six-part investigative series 'Bridge of Lies: The Sarah Stern Case,' covering the disappearance and murder of 19-year-old Sarah Stern in a New Jersey coastal town in December 2016. The series combines 911 calls, interviews, and chronological storytelling.

The Iceman Murders are a series of contract killings committed by Richard Kuklinski, a New Jersey hit man convicted of five murders between 1980 and 1984.

Anna Stubblefield, a Rutgers philosophy professor, was convicted of sexually assaulting a severely disabled man she claimed consented through facilitated communication.

The Caleb McGillvary case is a New Jersey murder in which viral internet figure 'Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker' beat 73-year-old attorney Joseph Galfy Jr. to death in May 2013.

The Last Call Killer case is an American serial murder investigation in which nurse Richard Rogers Jr. lured gay men from Manhattan piano bars, killed and dismembered them, and dumped remains along East Coast highways between 1991 and 1993.

Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was murdered by her neighbor Jesse Timmendequas on July 29, 1994, in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. He was a twice-convicted sex offender. The Kanka family didn't know. Their campaign created sex offender registries across America.

The DeCavalcante crime family, operating across New Jersey and New York as part of La Cosa Nostra, inspired HBO's The Sopranos. Between 1998 and 2015, the FBI launched major operations that would ultimately dismantle the family's leadership through informants, undercover agents, and the unprecedented cooperation of made members.

On May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz disappeared in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Pedro Hernandez was convicted of the murder and kidnapping in 2017 following two trials.

Dorothy Arnold, a 25-year-old New York heiress, vanished in December 1910 from Manhattan. More than a century later, her disappearance remains unsolved, with no trace of what became of her ever discovered.

James Riddle Hoffa, the powerful president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on July 30, 1975, from a restaurant parking lot in Michigan. His case has become one of America's most enduring unsolved mysteries, with the FBI pointing to organized crime involvement but no body ever recovered.

On June 10, 2016, Christina Grimmie, a 22-year-old singer and former contestant on 'The Voice,' was shot and killed by Kevin James Loibl during a meet-and-greet at Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida. The attack, carried out by an obsessed fan who had traveled from St. Petersburg with intent to harm her, shocked the music world and raised urgent questions about fan obsession and venue security.