elder abuse

Netflix docuseries covering the Bettencourt affair — the explosive French scandal around L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, her alleged financial exploitation, and a political crisis that shook France.

The Huguette Clark Estate Case is a landmark U.S. elder-abuse and contested-will dispute in which a reclusive copper heiress's $300M fortune was fought over after her death at 104 in 2011.

A popular true crime podcast has featured the case of Nancy Metayer Bowen, a 38-year-old Florida vice mayor found dead in her home in April 2026. The episode, which aired internationally, examines her death as a domestic violence homicide and the subsequent arrest of her husband.

The Danish podcast Mørkeland has released Episode 307, focusing on two separate cases involving death and severe neglect. The episode examines circumstances where individuals were subject to dangerous living conditions and inadequate care.

A nurse at Yale's fertility clinic stole fentanyl over an extended period and replaced it with saline solution. The case was discovered in 2020 when the cap of a fentanyl container was found loose. An unknown number of women received only saline injections during painful egg retrieval procedures.

Between 1926 and 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency that trafficked an estimated 5,000 children to wealthy out-of-state families. Her black market operation involved kidnapping, coercion, forgery, and systematic abuse—generating over $1 million in illegal profits before state investigators closed her operation.

In April 2008, Austrian police discovered that Josef Fritzl had imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a concealed basement chamber for 24 years, subjecting her to repeated rape and forcing her to bear seven children in captivity. The case shocked Austria and revealed systematic failures in a family home in Amstetten.

Wondery's six-part investigative series Liberty Lost, hosted by T.J. Raphael, examines allegations that the Liberty Godparent Home in Lynchburg, Virginia pressured pregnant teenagers into adoption throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The podcast features interviews with former residents who say they were isolated from family and boyfriends while being steered toward placing their babies with Christian couples.