1970s

This episode of Morning Cup of Murder looks at the 1970 disappearance of Margo Freshwater and the conflicting accounts surrounding her case.

The Son of Sam case was a serial shooting spree by David Berkowitz that killed six and wounded seven in New York City between July 1976 and July 1977.

Joseph Naso, a former photographer from Reno, Nevada, was convicted in 2013 of murdering four women in California between 1977 and 1994 and sentenced to death.

The Jan Broberg case is a 1970s American child-abduction and sexual-abuse case in which 12-year-old Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice from Pocatello, Idaho by family friend Robert Berchtold.

The Houston Mass Murders are a Texas serial killing case in which Dean Corll and two teenage accomplices abducted, tortured, and killed at least 28 boys between 1970 and 1973.

Norbert Pöhlke terrorized the Ludwigsburg area in Baden-Württemberg during the 1970s with a series of brutal armed robberies committed while wearing masks and costumes. The case became one of Germany's most notorious crimes as the perpetrator remained unidentified for years. Pöhlke's systematic violence and ability to disguise himself made him one of the country's most feared criminals of the decade.

Fritz Honka was a German serial killer who murdered at least four women between 1970 and 1975 in Hamburg's notorious St. Pauli district. He dismembered his victims and hid body parts in the attic of his apartment on Zeißstraße. His crimes were discovered in 1975 when a fire broke out at the building.

In 1975, British police launched one of the most ambitious drug investigations ever undertaken, targeting two LSD manufacturing operations run from rural Wales and London. By 1977, over 800 officers from 11 police forces had dismantled what amounted to one of the world's largest acid production networks.

Host Janne Aagaard explores a series of brutal axe attacks targeting young women in the Estonian city of Bytom in the 1970s. The Baltic true crime podcast 'Murder by the Baltic Sea' covers the case in the episode 'Death on Line 6', published on March 15, 2024.