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Central Park Five: Five Innocent Teenagers Wrongfully Convicted
On the night of April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili was attacked and raped during a run in Central Park. Five innocent teenagers were wrongfully convicted — and exonerated 12 years later.
The NSU Terror Cell: Germany's Decade-Long Neo-Nazi Murder Spree
Beate Zschäpe was the sole surviving member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist cell responsible for murdering ten people across Germany between 2000 and 2007. Her trial became the longest and most significant far-right terrorism case in modern German history.
The Phantom of Heilbronn: A DNA Mystery That Never Existed
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.
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