insurance fraud

On February 16, 2003, Italian master thief Leonardo Notarbartolo and his associates broke into the Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium and stole over $100 million in loose diamonds, gold, and jewelry. Five days later, a half-eaten sandwich would help police solve the crime.

Born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth in Selbu, Norway, in 1859, Belle Gunness immigrated to Chicago in 1881 and became one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Operating from her La Porte, Indiana farm, she systematically murdered between 14 and 40 victims over nearly three decades—a dark chapter in Norwegian-American history that remains unsolved in crucial details.

On October 16, 2012, thieves entered Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum through an unlocked door and made off with seven priceless paintings worth $24.4 million, including a Picasso, Monet works, and a Gauguin. The stolen artworks have never been recovered.

Judy Buenoano, known as Florida's Black Widow, was executed on March 30, 1998, for a calculated series of murders spanning decades. The 54-year-old had poisoned her first husband, her son, and a boyfriend with arsenic while collecting approximately $240,000 in life insurance—crimes that made her the first woman executed in Florida since 1848.

Marcel Petiot, a French physician operating from a Paris townhouse, murdered an estimated 60 to 200 people during World War II by posing as a savior who could smuggle victims to safety in South America. Between 1940 and 1944, the doctor injected victims with cyanide, stole their valuables, and disposed of their bodies in his home before French police discovered nearly 30 corpses in March 1944.

Award-winning investigative reporter Laura Beil's 2019 podcast series 'Bad Batch' uncovers how Liveyon, a South Texas stem cell company, distributed contaminated products with no therapeutic benefit—revealing the darker side of a multibillion-dollar industry operating largely without oversight.

On the night of April 7, 1990, fire swept through the MS Scandinavian Star as it sailed between Norway and Denmark, killing 159 people in one of Scandinavia's worst maritime disasters. Three decades later, a documentary series is challenging the official narrative.