Police corruption

The Thabo Bester case is a South African prison-escape scandal in which a convicted rapist and murderer faked his own death with a burned corpse and fled custody in May 2022.

The Sean Ellis case is a landmark wrongful-conviction case in which a 19-year-old Black man spent over 20 years in prison for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan before being fully exonerated.

The Eirik Jensen case is a Norwegian corruption and drug-trafficking case in which a senior Oslo police officer was convicted of leaking intelligence to a hashish smuggler over nearly a decade.

Trial 4 is a Netflix documentary series about Sean K. Ellis, a Boston teenager convicted of murdering Det. John Mulligan in 1993 and jailed for 22 years before exoneration.

The Slow Hustle is an HBO Max documentary about the mysterious 2017 death of Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter, shot in the head one day before testifying before a federal grand jury.

Jill Leovy embeds with South Los Angeles detectives investigating the murder of Bryant Tennelle, a Black teenager, arguing that persistent under-investigation of Black homicide perpetuates cycles of violence and retribution. Centred on one case, the book presents a powerful structural critique of how justice denied in poor communities produces the very conditions it claims to address.

Gilbert King recounts the 1949 case of the Groveland Four, four young Black men in Lake County, Florida, falsely accused of raping a white woman and targeted by a violent, corrupt sheriff. The book details the racist terror campaign against the defendants, the landmark legal defence mounted by a young Thurgood Marshall and a pivotal civil-rights legal battle.

Journalist David Simon spent an entire year embedded with Baltimore's homicide division, capturing the relentless grind, gallows humour and moral complexity of investigating murder in a declining American city. The immersive, genre-defining account later served as the basis for the acclaimed television series Homicide: Life on the Street and permanently redefined the craft of police reportage.

Joseph Wambaugh recounts the March 1963 kidnapping and cold-blooded murder of LAPD officer Ian Campbell in a Bakersfield onion field, and the profound psychological destruction it caused to his surviving partner Jimmy Lee Smith. The book examines police trauma, institutional failure and a grotesquely prolonged justice process that dragged through the courts for more than a decade.

Lawyer Bryan Stevenson recounts founding the Equal Justice Initiative and his fight to free Walter McMillian, a Black man wrongly sentenced to death in Alabama. The memoir indicts racial bias, prosecutorial misconduct and the death penalty through the human stories of the condemned.

Australian true crime podcast Casefile True Crime is rereleasing its archive episode on the North Hollywood Shootout — the violent 1997 bank robbery shootout that permanently transformed American police equipment and tactics.

The popular true crime podcast Crime Junkie has shed light on the case of 15-year-old Tripp Brazeale, who was found hanging in a forest in Arkansas in November 2024 — a death that authorities quickly classified as suicide.

The John Mulligan murder case is a 1993 Boston homicide in which veteran police detective John J. Mulligan was shot dead outside a Roslindale Walgreens during an apparent robbery.

The second installment of the podcast series on Amagermanden follows police as they intensify their hunt for the serial killer who terrorized Copenhagen in the 1980s.

Podcast-episoden dykker ned i anden del af Edderkoppesagen, der afdækker et omfattende kriminelt netværk i Danmark.

This episode of Danske Drabssager dives into the macabre case known as Den Parterede Rocker, in which a dismembered body was discovered scattered across multiple locations.

Host Adam Lloyd explores the case of Elliot Castro — described as one of Britain's most notorious identity thieves — in episode 508 of UK True Crime Podcast, released on May 11, 2026. The episode runs 28 minutes.

On May 4, 2026, TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED released episode 545, titled 'True Crime Time' — an 83-minute dive into the story of controversial New York art dealer Andrew Crispo, featuring author Rachel Corbett as guest.

Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered on the night of October 30, 1975, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Nearly 50 years later, journalist Andrew Goldman revisits the case from the ground up in the podcast Dead Certain, bringing new investigative material and archive audio spanning five decades.

Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on February 26, 2021. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but subsequent revelations about decades of sexual abuse committed by law enforcement officers — including an FBI agent — have cast serious doubt on that conclusion.