racial crime

Where Is Marta? is a Netflix documentary series about the disappearance and presumed murder of 17-year-old Marta del Castillo Casanueva in Seville, Spain, on 24 January 2009 — a case never fully resolved because her body has never been found.

911: Did The Killer Call? is an Investigation Discovery true-crime series streaming on HBO Max covering three separate murder cases where the person who dialed 911 was later suspected of being the killer.

A documentary about Ruby McCollum, a Black woman who shot and killed white physician and Florida senator-elect Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams in 1952 Jim Crow Florida. Available on Amazon Prime.

Long Shot is a Netflix documentary about Juan Catalan, a Los Angeles man wrongly arrested for murder in 2003 and exonerated by unaired Curb Your Enthusiasm footage.

Grand Knighthawk is a 2023 Hulu documentary about a 2015 northern Florida KKK murder-plot against a Black former inmate, stopped by an undercover Army veteran and the FBI.

Tell Them You Love Me is a Sky Original documentary about ethics professor Anna Stubblefield, convicted of sexually assaulting non-verbal cerebral palsy sufferer Derrick Johnson in New Jersey.

Carmen Merino murdered and decapitated her partner Jesús María Baranda in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, in 2019, hiding his skull in a box she claimed contained sex toys.

The Narsaq massacre is a Greenlandic mass murder case in which Abel Klemmensen shot and killed seven people on New Year's night 1990 in the town of Narsaq.

On 29 May 1993, four young men from Germany's far-right extremist scene set fire to the home of the Turkish-German Genç family in Solingen, Germany. Five people — women and girls — were killed and several others were injured. The four perpetrators were convicted of arson and murder.

On July 7, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne was kidnapped from a street near his home in Bondi, Sydney, just one month after his family won £100,000 in the Sydney Opera House Lottery. His murder would become Australia's first major kidnapping case and spark the country's largest manhunt.

Between August 1991 and January 1992, John Wolfgang Ausonius carried out a series of shooting attacks across Stockholm and Uppsala that left one dead and ten seriously injured. Known as Lasermannen—the Laser Man—the Swedish gunman deliberately targeted immigrants, sparking one of the country's largest manhunts since the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. After his conviction was vacated in 2022 based on new evidence, a series of legal reversals left him resentenced to time served in 2025, with his conviction reinstated—making this one of America's most contentious modern criminal cases.

20-year-old Maria Møller Christensen disappeared on New Year's Eve 2022 in Herning, Denmark. She was later found brutally raped and strangled. A 48-year-old man, Jan Erik Henriksen, was convicted of the murder based on DNA evidence.

On 20 December 2004, £26.5 million in cash disappeared from Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast after armed gang members took bank employees' families hostage. Despite decades of investigation and intelligence pointing to IRA involvement, no criminal conviction has ever been secured for the robbery itself.

Highway of Tears is the name given to a cluster of disappearances and murders of women and girls along a 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous victims since 1969.

Gary Ridgway, a truck painter in Washington state, murdered at least 49 women between 1982 and 1998, making him one of America's most prolific serial killers. Arrested in 2001 after DNA technology finally linked him to his victims, Ridgway confessed to preying on vulnerable women along Route 99 in King County, Washington.