Agent Crime

On July 8, 2022, Ole Miss student and gay activist Jimmie 'Jay' Lee disappeared from Oxford, Mississippi. Nearly three years later, Timothy Herrington pleaded guilty to his murder, even though the body wasn't found until February 2025. Private messages would prove crucial to cracking the case.

Danske Drabssager, a popular Danish true crime podcast, has released a Q&A episode dedicated to forensic medicine. The episode answers listener questions about criminal investigation techniques and forensic examination methods used in real murder cases.

On September 18, 1965, four Danish police officers were shot dead during a routine traffic stop in Copenhagen. Nearly 60 years later, a new podcast documentary examines this turning point in Scandinavian police history through interviews with leading historians.

Danish true crime podcast Mørkeland has released episode 296, in which hosts Camilla and Kristine dig into a case involving a heavily pregnant woman in Copenhagen and a Danish hammer murder committed in Portugal.

The Genovese Crime Family, one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime in the United States, traces its power back to Lucky Luciano's ruthless consolidation of mob authority in 1931. From Luciano's prison cell to Vincent Gigante's reign of silence and Liborio Bellomo's modern leadership, the family has maintained its grip on New York, New Jersey, and beyond for nearly a century.

James Riddle Hoffa, the powerful president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on July 30, 1975, from a restaurant parking lot in Michigan. His case has become one of America's most enduring unsolved mysteries, with the FBI pointing to organized crime involvement but no body ever recovered.

On Christmas morning 1945, fire broke out at the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children vanished without a trace, their remains never found — and despite an official ruling of accident, the family always suspected arson.

The Bonanno crime family emerged from the violent Castellammarese War of the early 1930s to become one of New York City's most powerful Mafia organizations. Led for three decades by Joseph Bonanno, the family expanded from Brooklyn across North America until internal corruption and federal investigation fractured its ranks.

In the early morning of April 11, 1934, a priceless panel from the famed Ghent Altarpiece disappeared from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Belgium. The theft of 'The Just Judges' has never been solved, and the masterpiece has never been recovered.

Since 2004, Danish broadcaster TV2's Operation X has built a reputation for aggressive investigative journalism, using undercover methods to expose corruption, animal cruelty, and institutional abuse. The series represents a distinctive Nordic approach to accountability journalism—operating in one of the world's least corrupt countries, yet still finding systemic abuses worth exposing.