serial murder

Netflix documentary series about Chandrakant Bachan Shetty, a Delhi taxi driver who beheaded at least 4 victims and left taunting notes outside Tihar Jail in 2006–2007.

Archivo Negro: Sombras del Crimen is a ViX anthology documentary series covering five real high-impact criminal cases from Mexico City and its metropolitan area, including serial femicide.

The New Detectives is a docudrama series (1996–2005) covering 118 real criminal cases solved through forensic science, streaming free on Tubi, Pluto TV, and The Roku Channel.

A new Netflix documentary series shines a light on the Long Island Serial Killer case and the investigation that led to the arrest of New York City architect Rex Heuermann.

Karl Denke, a seemingly pious church organist in Münsterberg, Germany, murdered at least 30 people between 1903 and 1924. His crimes included cannibalism and selling human flesh as pork at local markets.

Between 1940 and 1941, Paul Ogorzow terrorized wartime Berlin by attacking women on the city's S-Bahn railway system. The Nazi Party member killed at least eight women before his capture and execution.

Rudolf Pleil confessed to murdering at least nine women in the chaos of post-war Germany between 1946 and 1947. Operating along the border zones between East and West Germany, he preyed on refugees fleeing Soviet occupation.

For sixteen years, German police hunted a prolific female serial killer whose DNA appeared at over 40 crime scenes across Europe. In 2009, investigators discovered the Phantom of Heilbronn never existed — the DNA belonged to a factory worker who packaged cotton swabs.

Between 1962 and 1966, German teenager Jürgen Bartsch abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered four young boys in abandoned mine shafts near Langenberg, West Germany. His case shocked the nation and transformed understanding of juvenile offenders.

Joachim Kroll terrorized Germany's Ruhr Valley from 1955 to 1976, murdering at least 14 people. His arrest came only after a neighbor discovered human remains clogging the building's shared toilet.

Pamela Marie Hupp skød og dræbte Louis Gumpenberger i sit hjem i O'Fallon, Missouri, den 16. august 2016 – en sag der endte med livstid i fængsel.

Netflix releases the second season of Homicide: New York on March 25, 2026, featuring five hour-long episodes that chronicle some of the city's most challenging murder investigations through the eyes of the detectives and prosecutors who solved them.

More than 25 years after human remains were discovered at Fox Hollow Farm near Indianapolis, modern DNA technology is finally identifying victims of Herbert Baumeister, a businessman who killed at least 13 men in the early-to-mid 1990s. Two more victims were confirmed in 2024 using cutting-edge forensic genome sequencing.

Between 1980 and 1981, Clifford Robert Olson murdered 11 children across British Columbia, earning him the grim nickname 'The Beast from British Columbia.' His arrest in August 1981 exposed one of Canada's darkest chapters in criminal history.

On February 8, 1983, a routine plumbing job in North London uncovered human remains that would lead to one of Britain's most disturbing serial murder cases. The discovery of Dennis Nilsen — and his confessed 15 victims — revealed critical gaps in how European police tracked predatory killers operating within urban anonymity.

In September 2016, a kidnapped woman escaped from a house in Ashland, Ohio, and called 911 using her captor's phone. That call led to the arrest of Shawn Grate, a serial killer who murdered five women across northern Ohio between 2006 and 2016. Now, a six-part podcast series from 20/20 and ABC Audio is uncovering the full story of his crimes and capture.

When a woman's desperate 911 call led to the rescue of a kidnapping victim in rural Ohio in 2016, it triggered an investigation that would unravel a five-victim serial murder case. A detective's 33-hour interrogation became the pivotal moment that transformed a local crime into a regional manhunt.

A Danish true crime podcast has released a new episode examining a violent attack on a young nurse by a woman experiencing a severe psychotic episode. The July 2025 installment features forensic psychologist Tine Wøbbe and psychiatrist Mette Brandt-Christensen discussing the psychological factors behind female-perpetrated violent crime.

Mørkeland, a Danish true crime podcast, released Episode 284 around June 1, 2025, focusing on mysterious deaths. The episode joins the podcast's ongoing exploration of unsolved cases and cryptic crimes across Scandinavia.

In late August 1976, 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett vanished from Brittas Bay in County Wicklow, Ireland. Her body was discovered weeks later—raped, strangled, and bound to a lawnmower. Nearly 50 years later, her sisters are demanding justice for a crime that was never prosecuted.