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Video X: The Dwayne & Darla-Jean Story is a 2007 found-footage mockumentary directed by James D. Mortellaro, presenting invented "Kentucky killers" Dwayne Foote and Darla-Jean Stanton as real criminals — with no verified case behind it.

The podcast series Shrouded in Darkness has revisited the unsolved disappearance of Morgan Nick in season 2, episode 12 — a case that has never been solved since the six-year-old vanished from Alma, Arkansas in June 1995.

J. Campbell Bruce's true crime classic on Alcatraz prison and the famous 1962 escape, in which three inmates vanished without a trace from the seemingly inescapable island prison.

In 1888, Jack the Ripper terrorised the impoverished streets of Whitechapel in East London, killing at least five women in a series of brutal and unsolved murders. Today, guided tours trace his path through the neighbourhood's dark history. From as little as $13, visitors can follow the original crime scenes with expert guides.

Guided walking tours through London's Whitechapel district retrace the 1888 Ripper murders, with handheld projectors revealing Victorian streetscapes.

In 1892, H.H. Holmes constructed a three-story building in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood that would become synonymous with some of America's first confirmed serial murders. What locals called the 'Murder Castle' was actually a hotel marketed to World's Fair visitors—a place where at least six confirmed victims vanished.

Between August and November 1888, an unidentified killer murdered at least five women in London's Whitechapel district, leaving a trail of anatomically precise mutilations that would baffle Scotland Yard and captivate the world for over a century.

Between 1943 and 1953, John Reginald Halliday Christie strangled at least eight victims in his cramped flat at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London. His crimes went undetected for a decade, during which he served as a special constable and secured the wrongful execution of an innocent tenant.

In 1978, serial killer Rodney Alcala won a date on the American television show The Dating Game, presented to viewers as a successful photographer and skydiver. Unknown to producers and audiences alike, Alcala was a convicted rapist, registered sex offender, and active serial killer in the midst of a years-long murder spree that would claim an estimated 130 victims.