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Morning Cup of Murder looks at the 2019 conviction of Angel Bumpass, a suspect not found for almost a decade in a murder case.

On 31 January 2022, two police officers were killed during a routine check on a rural road near Kusel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The case triggered one of the largest police operations in the country's recent history. It ended with the conviction of two men.

Gesche Margarethe Gottfried murdered 15 people with arsenic in early 19th century Bremen, Germany, earning the nickname 'The Angel of Bremen' for her caring demeanor while poisoning victims including her own parents and children.

German politician Walter Lübcke was shot dead on his terrace in Wolfhagen-Istha on June 2, 2019. The murder, committed by neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst, marked Germany's first far-right political assassination since World War II.

Karl Denke, a seemingly pious church organist in Münsterberg, Germany, murdered at least 30 people between 1903 and 1924. His crimes included cannibalism and selling human flesh as pork at local markets.

Beate Zschäpe was the sole surviving member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist cell responsible for murdering ten people across Germany between 2000 and 2007. Her trial became the longest and most significant far-right terrorism case in modern German history.

Between 1940 and 1941, Paul Ogorzow terrorized wartime Berlin by attacking women on the city's S-Bahn railway system. The Nazi Party member killed at least eight women before his capture and execution.

Rudolf Pleil confessed to murdering at least nine women in the chaos of post-war Germany between 1946 and 1947. Operating along the border zones between East and West Germany, he preyed on refugees fleeing Soviet occupation.

German television star Walter Sedlmayr was brutally murdered in his Munich apartment in July 1990. The killing of Bavaria's most famous folk actor shocked Germany and remained unsolved for months until two half-brothers were convicted.

For sixteen years, German police hunted a prolific female serial killer whose DNA appeared at over 40 crime scenes across Europe. In 2009, investigators discovered the Phantom of Heilbronn never existed — the DNA belonged to a factory worker who packaged cotton swabs.

Between 1962 and 1966, German teenager Jürgen Bartsch abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered four young boys in abandoned mine shafts near Langenberg, West Germany. His case shocked the nation and transformed understanding of juvenile offenders.

Joachim Kroll terrorized Germany's Ruhr Valley from 1955 to 1976, murdering at least 14 people. His arrest came only after a neighbor discovered human remains clogging the building's shared toilet.

In November 1957, high-class escort Rosemarie Nitribitt was found strangled in her luxury Frankfurt apartment. Her black book of wealthy clients sparked one of West Germany's most sensational unsolved murder cases.

The podcast series True Crime Society has released an episode on the murder of Austin Kanuch, a Texas father of three who was killed in September 2023. The episode was originally released as exclusive Patreon content in January 2026.

Andreen McDonald, 29 år, forsvandt fra parrets hjem i San Antonio i marts 2019. Hendes mand, major Andre McDonald, blev dømt for manddrab og bevistilsværtelse.

The podcast series 'Bike Boy' spans six episodes and explores the mysterious cycling accident that struck Victoria's former premier Daniel Andrews, questioning the official explanation and how the case was handled.

Laura Connelly left a bar in Paisley near Glasgow after an evening with old school friends, but never made it home. Attacked and killed within sight of her doorstep, her case became the focus of a gripping podcast investigation into how a killer struck so close to safety.

Barry Morphew, 49, was indicted in June 2025 and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Suzanne, who disappeared on May 10, 2020, during a bike ride in Chaffee County, Colorado. After initial charges were dropped in 2022, prosecutors brought the case back following the discovery of Suzanne's remains in 2023.

This case concerns the killing of 64-year-old Thomas Merriman by his stepdaughter Jade Sasha Janks on New Year's Eve 2020 in Solana Beach, California. A California jury convicted Janks of first-degree murder, and she was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The UK True Crime Podcast marked a significant milestone with episode 499, released on April 9, 2026, examining the case of Laura Connelly, who was murdered in Paisley near Glasgow after a night out with friends.