The Abduction

In the early hours of September 13, 2016, a kidnapped woman lying next to her captor used his own phone to call 911 and whisper her location to police. Her call exposed Shawn Grate, a rural Ohio man who had systematically abducted, tortured, and murdered at least five women over more than a decade.

The Mørkeland Podcast's October 2025 episode explores two separate criminal cases connected to Nykøbing Sjælland psychiatric hospital in Denmark, including an escape by a patient under mental observation and alleged nighttime cemetery disturbances.

A Danish true crime podcast has documented a case involving a young man accused of multiple sexual assaults who escaped from a psychiatric facility in Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark, prompting a manhunt by authorities.

Two teenagers were convicted of planning and carrying out the brutal murders of two boys their own age inside a housing complex in the Danish city of Aarhus. The victims were strangled, killed with a hammer, and left naked at the scene.

Five Danish fishermen walked free in June 2024 after spending 17 months in pretrial detention for a murder they did not commit. A court found the evidence insufficient, highlighting systemic risks in how Nordic justice systems handle prolonged custody without proven charges.

The Danish true crime podcast series Danske Drabssager revisits a shocking case in which a woman attacked her close friend with 17 stab wounds and then threw sulfuric acid on her — the brutal culmination of a years-long conflict.

On 7 December 2003, Daniel James Morcombe, a 13-year-old from Palmwoods on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, vanished while waiting at a bus stop. For eight years, his family and police pursued countless leads. Then, in August 2011, a confession changed everything.

On 7 December 2003, Daniel Morcombe, 13, vanished from an unofficial bus stop near Woombye on Queensland's Sunshine Coast while waiting for a ride to buy Christmas presents. Nearly eight years later, an undercover police operation would finally lead to his killer and answers for his devastated family.