death sentence commuted

Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator is a Netflix docuseries about Umesh Reddy, a former police officer who raped and murdered at least 18 women across Karnataka in the 1990s–2000s.

The Beast of Bangalore case involves Umesh Reddy, a former police officer who confessed to raping and murdering 18 women across Karnataka between 1996 and 2002, convicted in 9 cases.

In 1851, a gang led by Hans Jacob Mortensen—a glovemaker by trade—murdered a Danish farming couple and burned their homestead to cover the crime. The case exposed the violent underbelly of rural 19th-century Denmark and remains a landmark in Scandinavian criminal history.