missing women

In the early hours of September 13, 2016, a kidnapped woman lying next to her captor used his own phone to call 911 and whisper her location to police. Her call exposed Shawn Grate, a rural Ohio man who had systematically abducted, tortured, and murdered at least five women over more than a decade.

Mørkeland host Susanne Sperling examines six criminal cases in episode 284, ranging from an unexplained death of a young Danish mother to referenced serial killers and a wedding fraud scheme that unraveled when a mysterious caller exposed the groom's true identity.

Highway of Tears is the name given to a cluster of disappearances and murders of women and girls along a 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous victims since 1969.