court scandals

Who Killed Malcolm X? is a Netflix documentary series investigating the 1965 murder of civil-rights leader Malcolm X at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom and whether the men convicted were truly guilty.

Pepsi, Where's My Jet? is a Netflix docuseries about Leonard v. PepsiCo, Inc., the real 1990s lawsuit in which a young man sued Pepsi for a fighter jet advertised in a TV commercial.

Mr. Good: Cop or Crook? is a Netflix documentary series about former Oslo police detective Eirik Jensen, convicted of drug trafficking and gross corruption.

Las mil muertes de Nora Dalmasso is a Netflix docuseries covering the 2006 sexual assault and murder of Nora Dalmasso in Río Cuarto, Argentina — a case still without a final conviction nearly two decades later.

Netflix docuseries covering the 2012 murder and dismemberment of São Paulo executive Marcos Matsunaga, allegedly committed by his wife Elize, featuring her first-ever on-camera interview.

Netflix docuseries about the murder of Heidi Paz Bulnes in Madrid and the conviction of Spanish chef César Román, known as 'the King of Cachopo,' sentenced to 15 years in 2021.

Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami is a Netflix documentary series about Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, two Cuban exiles who smuggled an estimated 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Netflix documentary series about the 2002 killing of Argentine sociologist María Marta García Belsunce in a gated community near Buenos Aires — a case that divided a nation for over two decades.

Netflix's ARA San Juan: The Submarine that Disappeared covers the 2017 loss of Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan and 44 crew members, and the criminal negligence investigation that followed.

Netflix documentary series about the Cassez-Vallarta kidnapping case in Mexico: a French woman convicted, a staged arrest, and a justice scandal that fractured Mexico-France relations.

I august–november 2016 dræbte Khalil Wheeler-Weaver tre kvinder i Essex County, New Jersey, og overlevede et fjerde offer et seksuelt overfald og forsøg på mord.

The Jesus Army case is a widespread institutional abuse scandal involving the Jesus Fellowship Church in the UK, where multiple leaders and members committed sexual and physical abuse over decades.

An attempted armed robbery of £350 million in diamonds from the Millennium Dome on 7 November 2000, foiled by police in a massive undercover operation that arrested the gang before they could escape.

Fred and Rose West were an English serial-killer couple who murdered at least 12 girls and young women in Gloucestershire, mainly at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.

The 1999 murder of 19-year-old Rocío Wanninkhof in Mijas, Spain, led to the wrongful conviction of Dolores Vázquez before DNA evidence identified British sex offender Tony Alexander King.

The Lucrecia Pérez murder was Spain's first officially recognized racist hate crime, in which a Dominican woman was shot dead by a Civil Guard with neo-Nazi links in Madrid in 1992.

Spanish cinema manager Lluís Gros Martín was sentenced to 24 years for child sexual abuse but remained at liberty for an extended period, sparking a 2024 documentary investigation.

Carmen Merino murdered and decapitated her partner Jesús María Baranda in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, in 2019, hiding his skull in a box she claimed contained sex toys.

Spanish chef Daniel Sancho Bronchalo murdered and dismembered Colombian plastic surgeon Dr. Edwin Arrieta on a Thai island in August 2023, receiving a life sentence in 2024.