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Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story is a Netflix docuseries about Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, owner of Myrtle Beach Safari, facing wildlife trafficking, animal cruelty, and money laundering charges.

Ghislaine: Partner in Crime is a four-part documentary series about Ghislaine Maxwell's central role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation and her 2021 federal conviction in New York.

HBO Max documentary about the Bling Ring, a group of LA teens who burglarized celebrity homes in 2008–2009, stealing over $3 million in property.

Netflix docuseries about Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, the young Spanish con man who infiltrated political, royal, and intelligence circles — and was arrested in 2014.

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal is a Netflix documentary series about attorney Alex Murdaugh, convicted of murdering his wife and son in 2021 amid a sprawling fraud scandal in South Carolina.

HBO Max documentary series about the Barnett case: the 2010 Indiana adoption of Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace and the neglect prosecution of her adoptive parents.

Biggest Heist Ever is a Netflix documentary about the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, in which 120,000 bitcoin were stolen. It follows how Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan later attempted to launder the proceeds.

Bitconned is a Netflix documentary about the Centra Tech cryptocurrency fraud, a 2017–2018 Miami-based ICO scam that stole over $25 million from investors.

HBO Max docuseries about Thomas Randolph, a Nevada man convicted of arranging his sixth wife Sharon Causse's 2008 murder for $300,000 in life insurance — and killing the hitman.

CTRL+ALT+DESIRE is a three-part docuseries on SkyShowtime covering the 2019 triple murder of the Amato family in Florida, committed by son Grant Amato after a destructive obsession with a Bulgarian cam model.

Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam is a Netflix documentary series about music manager Lou Pearlman, who defrauded investors of roughly $500 million while building the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC.

The Bitfinex hack case involves the 2016 theft of 120,000 bitcoin from Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex by Ilya Lichtenstein, who with his wife Heather Morgan laundered billions in cryptocurrency.

Ken Chew Wen Long, wanted in connection with multi-million-kroner fraud schemes across Scandinavia, is alleged to have targeted his own cleaning employee, convincing her to invest her life savings in a non-existent luxury rental company. The case is now the subject of a major international podcast investigation.

William 'Billy' Hayes was arrested in 1970 at Istanbul Airport attempting to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. His subsequent imprisonment, daring escape, and the controversial film adaptation made his case one of the most infamous drug smuggling stories in history.

On 26 February 1995, Barings Bank—Britain's oldest merchant bank—collapsed after derivatives trader Nick Leeson accumulated losses exceeding £827 million through a secret error account and unauthorized trades. The 28-year-old fled Singapore days earlier, triggering one of history's most spectacular financial frauds.

In May 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a sweeping criminal indictment exposing over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks at FIFA. The probe implicated 14 defendants—nine FIFA officials and five sports marketing executives—in schemes stretching back at least 24 years.

On July 10, 1973, John Paul Getty III was dragged from a Rome street by members of the 'Ndrangheta and held captive in a Calabrian cave. What followed was a harrowing negotiation involving a severed ear, a multimillion-dollar ransom, and a billionaire grandfather's reluctance to pay.

A Danish court has sentenced a woman in her early 30s to two years and nine months in prison for orchestrating an elaborate fraud scheme that defrauded an elderly victim of millions of Danish kroner. The case highlights the growing threat of sophisticated financial crimes targeting vulnerable seniors across Nordic countries.

In 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company sold a 16-acre abandoned canal site in Niagara Falls, New York, to the local school board for $1—knowing it contained nearly 22,000 tons of toxic industrial waste. Over the next 25 years, the buried chemicals seeped into homes, poisoned residents, and sparked America's first major environmental justice crisis.

Samuel Bankman-Fried, the 32-year-old founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on March 28, 2024, after being convicted of orchestrating multiple fraudulent schemes that defrauded customers, investors, and lenders of billions of dollars.