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137 Shots is a Netflix documentary film about the 2012 Cleveland police shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, in which 13 officers fired 137 rounds at an unarmed vehicle.

Shawn Michael Grate myrdede mindst fem kvinder i det nordlige Ohio over et årti og blev afsløret i 2016, da et offer undslap og ringede 911.

Pushkin Industries' new investigative podcast Valley of Shadows spans 8 episodes in which journalists Hayley Fox and Betsy Shepherd examine classified police archives and exclusive wiretap recordings to uncover what happened to a missing deputy sheriff.

The D.C. Sniper Attacks were a serial shooting spree in October 2002 that killed 10 people across the Washington D.C. area, committed by John Allen Muhammad and 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo.

The Russell and Williams case is a 2012 US police shooting in which 13 Cleveland officers fired 137 rounds at an unarmed couple in a car after a 22-minute chase.

The Charlottesville Unite the Right car attack is a 2017 US domestic terrorism case in which white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.

The Charles Stuart case is a 1989 Boston murder in which Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife Carol and falsely blamed a Black gunman, triggering a citywide racial panic.

Gangs, Bombs and Kingpins is a 2017 true crime book by veteran crime journalists Mogens Lauridsen and Preben Lund. It examines the most significant gang cases that have shaken Denmark over the years.

"The Golden Bird: At War With AK81" is a 2019 true crime book by Marie Louise Toksvig about the conflict between Danish police and the biker gang AK81, which for years served as a support group for Hells Angels in Denmark. The book traces AK81's formation, its criminal activities and the police effort to dismantle it.

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.

On May 31, 2024, a knife attack occurred at Marktplatz in Mannheim, Germany, during a demonstration by the right-wing extremist group Die Basis and pro-Palestinian activists. A 25-year-old man of Afghan origin wounded six people, including five police officers present to maintain order at the demonstration.

On 1 October 2020, a 51-year-old man drove his Range Rover through the pedestrian zone of Trier, Germany's oldest city, killing six people and injuring 14 others. The attacker, identified as Bernd W., was arrested without resistance at the scene. The case raised urgent questions about mental illness, alcohol abuse, and the prevention of mass violence in public spaces.

Werner Pinzner was a German contract killer convicted in 1986 of committing at least three murders in Hamburg. His case exposed the hidden criminal networks behind contract killings in 1980s West Germany, making it one of the most significant organised crime prosecutions of the era.

Werner Pinzner lived a double life unlike few others. By day he worked as a welder and carpenter. By night he became one of Hamburg's most feared contract killers. On April 1, 1986, he entered Hamburg's main police station disguised as a police officer and killed three people before turning his weapon on himself.

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.

On June 25, 2021, Somali-born Abdirahman Muse killed three people and wounded five others in a knife attack in Würzburg, Germany. The 24-year-old attacker, motivated by Islamist extremism and struggling with severe mental illness, was overpowered by bystanders and arrested. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in December 2022.

Norbert Pöhlke, a German police officer and dog handler in Baden-Württemberg, killed eight people in the Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg region and carried out a series of bank robberies before taking his own life during the investigation.

On the night of June 16–17, 2000, Peter Lundin murdered his girlfriend Marianne Pedersen and her two sons in Rødovre, Denmark. He was sentenced to life in prison for the triple killing, and the bodies have never been found.

John Dillinger, the mastermind behind the Dillinger Gang's string of bank robberies across America, was shot and killed by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. His death marked the dramatic end to one of the most intense manhunts of the Depression era.

Pablo Escobar, born December 1, 1949, in Rionegro, Colombia, built a $30 billion cocaine empire as head of the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s. His narcoterrorism campaign—enforced through his infamous "plata o plomo" (money or lead) policy—left over 5,000 dead before Colombian authorities killed him on a Medellín rooftop on December 2, 1993.