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A Body in the Snow is an HBO Max and ID docuseries covering the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe in Canton, MA, and the two trials of his girlfriend Karen Read.

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.

The Crystal Theobald case is a 2006 mistaken-identity gang shooting in Riverside, California, where a 24-year-old mother was killed in a drive-by attack later solved through her family's MySpace investigation.

The Kaitlyn Arquette case is a 1989 American murder in which 18-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette, daughter of author Lois Duncan, was shot in her car in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Boy Scouts of America abuse scandal is a decades-long nationwide pattern of child sexual abuse involving 92,700 claims, resolved through a $2.46 billion bankruptcy settlement in April 2023.

This 2020 true crime book examines the case of Emilie Meng, a 17-year-old who vanished without a trace in July 2016 and was later found dead. Authors Bo Norström Weile and Jesper Vestergaard Larsen review the case's mysteries and unanswered questions.

Award-winning Canadian podcast Uncover is launching a new series called The Expert Witness, in which host Sam Mullins investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming the justice system. The series examines what AI-generated evidence, algorithmic risk assessments and black-box decision-making mean for fairness, truth and human error in court. The Expert Witness is set to arrive in 2026 on Apple Podcasts and major podcast platforms.

Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan was shot and killed on a dark road in Jacksonville, Florida, in February 2022 — minutes after dropping off his two children at ex-wife Shanna Gardner's home. Gardner now faces trial in 2026, charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire. The case has drawn widespread media attention across the United States.

Christina Block, daughter of German billionaire Claus-Peter Block, was abducted from her property in Hamburg-Sasel on 14 December 2024 in a highly organised operation that shocked Germany. The case triggered a massive investigation spanning multiple countries, with arrests made in Poland and leads pursued in Denmark. It became one of the most high-profile criminal cases in northern Germany in recent memory.

Rebecca Reusch, a 12-year-old German-Danish girl, disappeared from her family home in Berlin's affluent Lichterfelde district on February 18, 2019. The disappearance triggered Germany's most high-profile missing person investigation in two decades, with police focusing on her 27-year-old cousin. The case remains unsolved to this day, with no body found and no charges filed.

Between June and October 2020, registered nurse Donna Monticone stole fentanyl intended for patients at Yale University's fertility clinic in Orange, Connecticut, and replaced it with saline. Approximately 75% of the painkiller given during this period had been tampered with, leaving at least 93 women in excruciating pain during invasive procedures.

Ruja Ignatova, a German woman accused of running a billion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud, boarded a Ryanair flight to Athens on October 25, 2017, and was never seen again. Once called the world's most wanted woman, her disappearance remains one of crime's most haunting mysteries.

On 22 June 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared from a bus stop in Rome after a flute lesson, sparking a mystery that has consumed investigators, Vatican officials, and true crime researchers for over four decades. The daughter of a Vatican clerk, her vanishing would trigger terrorism claims, alleged mob connections, and a case that remains officially unsolved.

On July 8, 2014, German tourist Lars Mittank fled Varna Airport in Bulgaria, abandoning his belongings and sprinting into nearby woods. The 28-year-old has never been seen since, leaving behind unanswered questions about what drove him to abandon his ticket home.

On July 28, 1986, Suzy Lamplugh, a 25-year-old real estate agent, left her office in London to meet a client. She never returned. Nearly four decades later, her disappearance remains one of Britain's most puzzling missing person cases.

Albert DeSalvo confessed in 1965 to being the Boston Strangler, responsible for at least 11 murders across the Boston area between June 1962 and January 1964. Yet he was never charged with any of those killings, and his confession never reached a courtroom—a legal peculiarity that would haunt the case for generations.

Italian-American Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi vanished on January 6, 1994, in New Orleans. The daughter of famous Italian singers was declared dead in 2014, but the mystery of her fate has never been solved.