Georgia

Spencer Herron, a former Georgia Teacher of the Year, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student at Kell High School in Cobb County.

Carl Patton murdered multiple victims across three decades in Georgia, dumping bodies in the Flint River and evading justice until DNA evidence linked him to the crimes in the early 2000s.

American investigator and podcaster Sheryl 'Mac' McCollum publishes 'Swans Don't Swim in a Sewer' on May 12, 2026, documenting how she solved one of Georgia's most disturbing cold cases — a case involving a serial killer's daughter and a misidentified skull.

The 2015 death of 13-month-old Noah Emil Debelbøs in Denmark sparked a legal battle that would expose weaknesses in Scandinavian child welfare investigations. A new podcast examines how ambiguous medical evidence and police procedure failures led to acquittals—and raised uncomfortable questions about how societies determine guilt in infant death cases.

On Mother's Day 2019, Marianne Shockley, a respected entomology professor at the University of Georgia, died in a hot tub at a home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her boyfriend Marcus Lillard was charged with her murder—but a jury acquitted him in April 2022, a verdict the Blood Town podcast examines in detail.

Since August 2016, Up and Vanished has used investigative journalism and community involvement to examine unsolved disappearances across the United States. The podcast, hosted by filmmaker Payne Lindsey and produced by Tenderfoot TV, has grown to over 340 million downloads while generating real arrests and renewed attention to cases gone cold for years.

The podcast 'The Officer's Wife' explores the case of Jessica Boynton, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the early hours of April 15, 2016. The series investigates systemic weaknesses in the justice system and long-buried secrets.