insanity defense

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in Houston on June 20, 2001, was convicted of capital murder in 2002, then found not guilty by reason of insanity at her 2006 retrial.

The Billy Milligan case is a 1977 Ohio criminal case in which William Stanley Milligan was charged with kidnapping, robbing and raping three OSU students and acquitted by reason of insanity.

Denmark has developed specialized resources to address stalking cases, including dedicated centers and documented accounts of obsessive behavior. Recent cases and podcasts have brought attention to the prevalence of stalking in the Nordic country.

A young man arrived at his mother's allotment house in Valby on a red motorcycle with his 7-year-old son, claiming his wife and daughter were hospitalized. When the boy vanished and a cryptic letter arrived, what followed was an investigation into a tragedy that shook the Danish community.

Journalist Keith Morrison examines the puzzling disappearance of Cari Farver, a single mother whose vanishing weeks into a new romance triggered a cascade of threatening messages, stalking, and violence. The case unfolds across Morrison's podcast 'Something About Cari,' available on major streaming platforms.

In 1989, Leo Schofield was convicted of murdering his 18-year-old wife Michelle, whose body was found in a Florida phosphate pit two years earlier. A new podcast investigation reveals the original police work was deeply flawed—and that the real killer had confessed decades later.

The Felon True Crime podcast examines some of Australia's most compelling criminal cases, including an ongoing manhunt for a dangerous suspect in the Lake Cargelligo triple shooting and the unresolved disappearance of a Belgian traveller in Tasmania.

Podcast 'Danske Drabssager' has released a new episode about a dark family tragedy from 1976, in which a father killed his entire family in a violent attack. Host Stine Bolther walks listeners through the case, which took place in a peaceful residential area of Denmark.

Mørkeland, a Danish true crime podcast, released Episode 284 around June 1, 2025, focusing on mysterious deaths. The episode joins the podcast's ongoing exploration of unsolved cases and cryptic crimes across Scandinavia.

Between 1869 and 1896, Amelia Dyer operated a deadly scheme across England, taking in unwanted babies from desperate mothers and systematically killing them. Her arrest in Reading in 1896 exposed one of history's most prolific serial murders—a case that would haunt Victorian Britain.

On May 11, 2011, six-year-old Timmothy James Pitzen was withdrawn from his Illinois school by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who claimed a family emergency. Three days later, Amy was found dead from suicide with a note stating the boy was safe but would never be found. More than a decade on, Timmothy remains missing.

On March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, a 25-year-old man fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan. The assassination attempt wounded the president and three others, and set in motion events that would reshape U.S. law and national security policy.

On May 27, 1933, Mary McElroy, 25-year-old daughter of Kansas City's powerful City Manager, was abducted by four armed men posing as delivery workers. After 34 hours in captivity and a $30,000 ransom, she was freed—but the case's aftermath would haunt her until her death by suicide seven years later.

Erik Solbakke Hansen spent nearly a decade in a Danish prison after confessing to 38 murders in 2011. A 2020 appeal court overturned his conviction entirely, exposing systemic failures in how police interrogate vulnerable suspects and how justice systems worldwide can fail their most at-risk defendants.