2022

HBO Max documentary special examining the 2021 murder of Gabby Petito, killed by fiancé Brian Laundrie during a cross-country road trip that gripped the nation.

The Idaho Student Murders are a quadruple homicide case in which four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022.

Depp v. Heard is a 2022 U.S. civil defamation trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, in which actor Johnny Depp sued former wife Amber Heard over a 2018 op-ed.

In December 2022, Alexandra R., 39 years old and eight months pregnant, disappeared from the Katzwang district of Nuremberg, Germany. Her body was never recovered. Two men have since been convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Bryan Kohberger, a 30-year-old Ph.D. student in criminal justice, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole on July 23, 2025, for the murders of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022.