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I oktober 2020 dræbte Taylor Parker en højgravid kvinde i Reagan County, Texas, skar fosteret ud af hendes livmoder og flygtede til Alabama med barnet, som om det var hendes eget. Sagen rystede hele USA.

The Night Stalker case is an American serial murder, rape and burglary spree committed by Richard Ramirez in California between June 1984 and August 1985, leaving at least 13 dead.

The Chol Soo Lee case is a landmark American wrongful-conviction story in which a young Korean immigrant was convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder he did not commit, later acquitted in 1982.

The Franklin Floyd case is a US cluster of crimes by serial offender Franklin Delano Floyd, including the 1989 murder of Cheryl Commesso and the 1994 kidnapping of Michael Hughes.

Selected by the truecrime.news editorial team as the cases that most powerfully exposed the systemic failures behind wrongful convictions, this list spans two nations and decades of injustice — from fabricated evidence and coerced confessions to tunnel-vision investigations and prosecutorial misconduct.