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The Case of Iwona Wieczorek is a 2023 Polish true crime docuseries about the unsolved disappearance of 19-year-old Iwona Wieczorek, who vanished near Gdańsk in July 2010. Streams on Viaplay and Netflix Poland.

Pushkin Industries' new investigative podcast Valley of Shadows spans 8 episodes in which journalists Hayley Fox and Betsy Shepherd examine classified police archives and exclusive wiretap recordings to uncover what happened to a missing deputy sheriff.

One of Germany's most shocking child abuse cases was uncovered at Campingplatz Emsland near Lügde in 2019, where two men systematically sexually abused at least 43 children over several years. Andreas V. and Mario S. exploited their positions to gain access to vulnerable children while authorities failed in their oversight. The case exposed massive systemic failures in child protection and local government oversight.

The Lügde scandal was uncovered in 2019 when German police discovered an extensive child abuse network operating in the small west German town of Lügde. The case resulted in convictions of multiple perpetrators and triggered widespread criticism of how German authorities had handled warnings and tip-offs. It is now considered one of the worst child abuse cases in modern German history.

From 1980 to 1983, the FBI secretly infiltrated Chicago's Cook County court system and uncovered systematic bribery and racketeering involving judges, lawyers, and court officials.

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.