The Hand in the Window

ABC Audio and 20/20 have partnered to launch 'The Hand in the Window,' a six-part podcast series exploring the 2016 capture of serial killer Shawn Grate in rural Ashland, Ohio. Hosted by veteran journalist John Quiñones, the limited series premiered November 4, 2025, and traces how a desperate 911 call led investigators to uncover multiple homicides across the state.

Frederik Strand from Copenhagen Police Museum (Politimuseet i København) hosts a Danish-language podcast exploring the country's most significant criminal cases. The series, featuring journalist Thea, delves into Denmark's darkest crime stories through the lens of police history and investigation.

In episode 301 of the Danish true crime podcast Mørkeland, hosts Camilla and Kristine examine a double homicide that grew out of a banal dispute in a Danish residential neighbourhood. Two people were shot dead at a bus stop on a cold winter evening.

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.

The 2015 death of 13-month-old Noah Emil Debelbøs in Denmark sparked a legal battle that would expose weaknesses in Scandinavian child welfare investigations. A new podcast examines how ambiguous medical evidence and police procedure failures led to acquittals—and raised uncomfortable questions about how societies determine guilt in infant death cases.

Camilla Bjerregaard Aurvig and Kristine Sofie Bugbee launched the third season of their true crime podcast Du er ikke alene on November 12, 2025, on RadioPlay. The show is built around stories submitted by listeners themselves.

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.

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.

How did police figure out who "Dana" was? "The Hand in the Window" host John Quiñones sits down with "Start Here" host Brad Mielke to unpack the methods investigators used to discover her identity.