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Gesche Margarethe Gottfried murdered 15 people with arsenic in early 19th century Bremen, Germany, earning the nickname 'The Angel of Bremen' for her caring demeanor while poisoning victims including her own parents and children.

Between 1940 and 1941, Paul Ogorzow terrorized wartime Berlin by attacking women on the city's S-Bahn railway system. The Nazi Party member killed at least eight women before his capture and execution.

German television star Walter Sedlmayr was brutally murdered in his Munich apartment in July 1990. The killing of Bavaria's most famous folk actor shocked Germany and remained unsolved for months until two half-brothers were convicted.

Joachim Kroll terrorized Germany's Ruhr Valley from 1955 to 1976, murdering at least 14 people. His arrest came only after a neighbor discovered human remains clogging the building's shared toilet.

In November 1957, high-class escort Rosemarie Nitribitt was found strangled in her luxury Frankfurt apartment. Her black book of wealthy clients sparked one of West Germany's most sensational unsolved murder cases.

Black Girl Gone launched approximately five years ago with a focused mission: to investigate and humanize cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls who have been overlooked by mainstream media. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the podcast has published nearly 300 episodes of in-depth true crime storytelling.

On June 17, 2010, police responded to a domestic disturbance call at a Louisville mansion in the Old Louisville neighborhood. What they discovered in the wine cellar would set in motion a high-stakes murder trial that pitted one man's testimony against another's—and ultimately sent one of the property owners to prison.

On December 26, 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing from her family home in Boulder, Colorado. Seven hours later, she was found dead in the basement. Nearly three decades on, her killer remains unknown.

More than 40,000 sets of human remains lie unidentified in evidence rooms across the United States, a crisis the Department of Justice has called a 'silent mass disaster.' Despite advanced forensic technology, most cases remain unsolved due to fragmented databases and jurisdictional gaps.

Former NBA star Lamar Odom was found unconscious at the Love Ranch brothel in Crystal, Nevada, on October 13, 2015. He had been at the property for approximately four days and, according to search warrants, had overdosed on cocaine and other substances.

On February 8, 1983, a routine plumbing job in North London uncovered human remains that would lead to one of Britain's most disturbing serial murder cases. The discovery of Dennis Nilsen — and his confessed 15 victims — revealed critical gaps in how European police tracked predatory killers operating within urban anonymity.

Hosts Camilla Bjerregaard Aurvig and Kristine Sofie Bugbee spotlighted the standout true crime releases of 2025 in a special awards edition of the Danish podcast Mørkeland, handing out physical Mørkeaward statuettes to selected titles.

In the early morning hours of March 3, 1993, a family was murdered in their Maryland home in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. But investigators would uncover a chilling scheme: a father willing to kill his own disabled child and ex-wife for access to a multi-million-dollar trust fund.

In late December 2019, Anthony Todt murdered his entire family in their Celebration, Florida home near Walt Disney World. The bodies of his wife Megan, sons Alek and Tyler, daughter Zoe, and their dog were discovered during a police raid linked to federal fraud charges.

Sharon Graham, a Queensland grandmother and ex-partner of Bruce Saunders, orchestrated his murder in 2017 on a rural property north of Brisbane. The podcast series 'Crime in Focus: Killer Charm' explores the case through forensic evidence, witness testimony and police interviews.

On the night before Halloween 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death outside her family home in Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her killer—Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family cousin who was also fifteen at the time—was convicted in a 2002 trial that captivated the nation and raised uncomfortable questions about wealth, privilege, and the American legal system.

An 81-year-old widow was murdered in her Herlev home during the 2011 Christmas holidays in Denmark. The case mobilized homicide investigators, forensic technicians, and medical examiners who immediately suspended their vacation to pursue the investigation into what was described as a heartless act.

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her neighbor Michael Skakel—a Kennedy cousin—was convicted of the crime. But the conviction didn't hold.

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.

Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, has broken his silence on the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut—a case that remained unsolved for five decades. Skakel, who was convicted and later exonerated, is now sharing his account in an NBC News podcast.