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HBO Max documentary special examining the 2021 murder of Gabby Petito, killed by fiancé Brian Laundrie during a cross-country road trip that gripped the nation.

Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty is an HBO Max docuseries about the 2021 double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the fraud-riddled downfall of attorney Alex Murdaugh.

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal is a Netflix documentary series about attorney Alex Murdaugh, convicted of murdering his wife and son in 2021 amid a sprawling fraud scandal in South Carolina.

Hestepigen fra Helvede is an HBO Max documentary series about the premeditated 2022 murder of 40-year-old Frank Dan Nørgaard Jørgensen by a four-person conspiracy in Denmark.

Diabolical: The Epstein Files is a 2026 documentary on DRTV investigating Jeffrey Epstein's federal sex-trafficking empire, Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction, and the public release of the Epstein files.

Lost Women of Alaska is an HBO Max documentary series about the 'memory card murders' — serial killer Brian Steven Smith's crimes against Alaska Native women in Anchorage.

Jennifer Evans, 21, was abducted from a Virginia Beach nightclub, raped and murdered by two men in June 1995, leading to contested convictions.

The Sandy Hook defamation cases are civil lawsuits against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting was a hoax, resulting in $1.4 billion in damages.

The Chol Soo Lee case is a landmark American wrongful-conviction story in which a young Korean immigrant was convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder he did not commit, later acquitted in 1982.

The Hunter Moore case is a US federal revenge-porn and computer-hacking case centered on the site IsAnyoneUp.com, which posted nude images without consent from 2010 to 2012.

The Menendez brothers case is a 1989 American double homicide in which Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home.

The Brian Winchester case is a Florida murder case from December 2000, in which Mike Williams was shot during a staged duck-hunting accident at Lake Seminole by his best friend Brian Winchester, who was having an affair with Williams's wife Denise.

The Moriah Wilson case is a solved 2022 Texas homicide in which professional cyclist Mo Wilson was shot dead in Austin by Kaitlin Armstrong, driven by romantic jealousy.

Between 2000 and 2007, the far-right terror group National Socialist Underground killed nine migrants and one police officer across Germany. Police suspected the victims' families instead of recognizing the obvious racist motive.

In December 2022, Alexandra R., 39 years old and eight months pregnant, disappeared from the Katzwang district of Nuremberg, Germany. Her body was never recovered. Two men have since been convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In January 2021, German and American law enforcement dismantled DarkMarket — an illegal darknet marketplace with more than 500,000 users and transactions worth billions. The operation ended with the arrest of the platform's administrator and the seizure of its servers. It was considered the largest darknet marketplace takedown in history at the time.

German and Danish authorities shut down DarkMarket, the world's largest illegal darknet marketplace. The platform had over 500,000 users and generated approximately 140 million euros in annual cryptocurrency transactions.

In 1967, NYPD detective Frank Serpico began reporting widespread, systemic corruption within the department. His decision to blow the whistle—and survive a suspicious shooting—transformed American policing and made him an icon of integrity.

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, orchestrated two dramatic prison escapes before his 2016 recapture and extradition to the United States. In 2019, a federal court in Brooklyn convicted him on all charges and sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years.

In the 1980s, senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, violating congressional bans and presidential public policy. The scandal, exposed in November 1986, triggered a constitutional confrontation over executive power and accountability.