the 1980s

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who abducted and murdered four young girls across the UK between 1981 and 1986 while working as a delivery driver.

The Night Stalker case is an American serial murder, rape and burglary spree committed by Richard Ramirez in California between June 1984 and August 1985, leaving at least 13 dead.

Werner Pinzner was a German contract killer convicted in 1986 of committing at least three murders in Hamburg. His case exposed the hidden criminal networks behind contract killings in 1980s West Germany, making it one of the most significant organised crime prosecutions of the era.

Christian Gerhartsreiter was a German con artist who lived under more than twenty false identities across the United States for three decades, most notably as Clark Rockefeller, a purported member of the famous Rockefeller family. In 2012, he was convicted of murdering John and Marlene Sohus in Los Altos Hills, California in 1985, crimes he had concealed through his elaborate web of fabricated identities.

Norbert Pöhlke, a German police officer and dog handler in Baden-Württemberg, killed eight people in the Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg region and carried out a series of bank robberies before taking his own life during the investigation.

Ursula Herrmann was abducted on her way home from school on September 15, 1981, in the Bavarian town of Eching near Munich. The 10-year-old girl was found dead in a wooden coffin buried in a forest after a failed ransom demand. The case remained unsolved for nearly 30 years until a married couple was arrested in 2010.

Host Payne Lindsey launched Atlanta Monster in 2016 to investigate the Atlanta Child Murders, a series of killings that claimed over 25 African American victims between 1979 and 1981. The podcast examines whether Wayne Williams, convicted in 1981 at age 23, was truly responsible for all the crimes—or became a convenient scapegoat in a racially divided city.