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Netflix docuseries covering the 2013 ricin-letters case in which Paul Kevin Curtis was wrongfully accused of mailing ricin to President Obama, a U.S. Senator, and a Mississippi judge.

I efteråret 2001 blev miltbrandssporer sendt med posten til amerikanske medier og senatorer. Fem mennesker døde. FBI konkluderede at Dr. Bruce Ivins stod bag.

A U.S. government program that detained and tortured 119 individuals at CIA black sites worldwide after 9/11, later condemned by Senate investigation as abuse.

The Mostly Harmless case is the death and two-year identification mystery of hiker Vance John Rodriguez, found deceased in Florida in July 2018.

The Sandy Hook defamation cases are civil lawsuits against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting was a hoax, resulting in $1.4 billion in damages.

The Ricin Letters Case refers to multiple incidents of poisoned letters mailed to U.S. presidents and officials, notably in 2013 and 2020, resulting in federal convictions for bioweapon use.

The Rajneeshee case is a 1984 bioterror attack in The Dalles, Oregon, where followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh poisoned restaurant salad bars with salmonella, sickening 751 people.

The Doc Antle case is a US wildlife-trafficking and money-laundering prosecution against Tiger King figure Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, ending in a 2025 federal prison sentence.

The Hunter Moore case is a US federal revenge-porn and computer-hacking case centered on the site IsAnyoneUp.com, which posted nude images without consent from 2010 to 2012.

The Matthew Perry death investigation is a US federal drug case in which five defendants were charged over the ketamine distribution network that supplied the Friends actor before his October 2023 overdose death.

The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders are a 1991 quadruple homicide in which four teenage girls were gagged, shot and burned inside a Texas yogurt shop; DNA identified the killer in 2025.

The Return to Nature Funeral Home case is a Colorado corpse-abuse scandal in which owners Jon and Carie Hallford stored about 190 decomposing bodies and gave families fake ashes.

Berit Freyheit's 2017 true crime book investigates a series of bombing attacks that terrorized Greater Copenhagen in 1977-78. It tells the story of the young man from Gladsaxe, a Copenhagen suburb, who was behind the attacks.

Christina Block, daughter of German billionaire Claus-Peter Block, was abducted from her property in Hamburg-Sasel on 14 December 2024 in a highly organised operation that shocked Germany. The case triggered a massive investigation spanning multiple countries, with arrests made in Poland and leads pursued in Denmark. It became one of the most high-profile criminal cases in northern Germany in recent memory.

Jens Söring was convicted in 1986 of murdering the parents of an American judge in Virginia. The validity of his conviction was subsequently called into serious doubt. After 33 years in an American prison, he was released and deported to Germany in 2019.

On May 31, 2024, a knife attack occurred at Marktplatz in Mannheim, Germany, during a demonstration by the right-wing extremist group Die Basis and pro-Palestinian activists. A 25-year-old man of Afghan origin wounded six people, including five police officers present to maintain order at the demonstration.

One of Germany's most shocking child abuse cases was uncovered at Campingplatz Emsland near Lügde in 2019, where two men systematically sexually abused at least 43 children over several years. Andreas V. and Mario S. exploited their positions to gain access to vulnerable children while authorities failed in their oversight. The case exposed massive systemic failures in child protection and local government oversight.

In October 1997, a Dutch couple was found shot dead in a German forest. A year later, the nightmare repeated itself. After 21 unsolved years, DNA screening finally led to an unremarkable village laborer.

The Lügde scandal was uncovered in 2019 when German police discovered an extensive child abuse network operating in the small west German town of Lügde. The case resulted in convictions of multiple perpetrators and triggered widespread criticism of how German authorities had handled warnings and tip-offs. It is now considered one of the worst child abuse cases in modern German history.

On September 10, 2020, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, one of the Rhineland's leading university hospitals, was hit by a massive ransomware attack attributed to the cybercriminal group Netwalker. The attack forced the hospital to turn away emergency patients and resulted in at least one death, marking one of Europe's most serious cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.