mass murder

49 Pulses is a 2017 documentary film by Charlie Minn about the Pulse nightclub terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people on June 12, 2016.

Amityville Horror House is an HBO Max documentary series about the 1974 DeFeo family massacre at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY — the real crime behind the horror mythos.

The Lori Vallow Daybell case is a solved multi-state murder conspiracy in which an Idaho mother and her husband killed her two children and his first wife, driven by apocalyptic religious beliefs.

The Karl Hass case is an Italian war crimes prosecution of SS officer Karl Hass for his role in the murder of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome on March 24, 1944.

The 2017 Barcelona and Cambrils attacks are a coordinated Islamist terror case in which a 12-member cell killed 16 people and injured over 100 across two Spanish cities on August 17–18, 2017.

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle is a 2018 four-part documentary series about Jim Jones and the 1978 Peoples Temple massacre in Guyana, killing more than 900 people.

Three-part docuseries on Disney+/Hulu covering the Peoples Temple massacre led by Jim Jones, in which 918 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, on 18 November 1978.

Geoff Plunkett reconstructs the March 1973 firebombing of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub, in which fifteen people died in one of the worst mass murders in Australian history. The book examines the arson attack, the deeply contested convictions of two men, the compelling questions about criminal conspiracy and the decades of lingering doubt about full responsibility.

J. Reuben Appelman reports on the shocking November 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus house and the nationwide manhunt that eventually led to the arrest of PhD student Bryan Kohberger. The book chronicles the early investigation, the community's prolonged fear and the forensic DNA evidence and cellphone data that cracked the case.

Dave Cullen's definitive account systematically dismantles the myths and media distortions surrounding the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre, closely examining the psychology of the two killers and the failed police response. Drawing on a decade of research, the book stands as the most rigorous, evidence-based study of mass school shootings and their cultural aftermath.

LeBaron, Muerte en la Tierra Prometida is a ViX documentary series about the brutal 2019 massacre of three women and six children from the LeBaron, Langford, and Miller families in Sonora, Mexico.

The Lockerbie bombing destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground in history's deadliest act of aviation terrorism against the U.S.

A mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed children's dance workshop in Southport that killed three young girls and injured ten others, perpetrated by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana.

The Jonestown Massacre was a mass murder–suicide on November 18, 1978, in which 909 Peoples Temple members, including 304 children, died by cyanide poisoning in Guyana under Jim Jones.

On December 1, 2020, 51-year-old Bernd W. drove a stolen Jeep into the packed pedestrian zone of Trier, Germany, killing five people and injuring 18. Investigators quickly concluded it was suicide by mass murder, not terrorism.

On 29 May 1993, four young men from Germany's far-right extremist scene set fire to the home of the Turkish-German Genç family in Solingen, Germany. Five people — women and girls — were killed and several others were injured. The four perpetrators were convicted of arson and murder.

This curated selection by the truecrime.news editorial team brings together ten of history's most notorious mass murder cases — events that shocked entire nations, redefined law enforcement, and left permanent marks on the cultural memory of crime.

On the night of 6–7 August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead at White House Farm near Tolleshunt D'Arcy in Essex, England. Jeremy Bamber was convicted of the murders in 1986, but his case remains mired in controversy, with claims of police misconduct and disputed evidence keeping the case in the public eye.

On March 24-25, 1944, 76 Allied airmen escaped through a tunnel from Stalag Luft III near Sagan, Poland. Only three reached freedom. The other 73 were recaptured, and 50 were murdered on Adolf Hitler's orders in one of WWII's lesser-known war crimes.

Mørkeland is a Danish true crime podcast that has been investigating Denmark's darkest criminal cases since at least 2018. The show won Best Danish True Crime Podcast at the 2022 Mørkeawards, establishing itself as a leading voice in Scandinavian crime journalism.