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The podcast series 'Bike Boy' spans six episodes and explores the mysterious cycling accident that struck Victoria's former premier Daniel Andrews, questioning the official explanation and how the case was handled.

ABC Audio and 20/20 have partnered to launch 'The Hand in the Window,' a six-part podcast series exploring the 2016 capture of serial killer Shawn Grate in rural Ashland, Ohio. Hosted by veteran journalist John Quiñones, the limited series premiered November 4, 2025, and traces how a desperate 911 call led investigators to uncover multiple homicides across the state.

On February 17, 1970, Captain Jeffrey MacDonald's wife and two young daughters were found murdered in their Fort Bragg home. MacDonald claimed four intruders were responsible. Nine years later, forensic evidence told a different story.

On February 8, 1983, a routine plumbing job in North London uncovered human remains that would lead to one of Britain's most disturbing serial murder cases. The discovery of Dennis Nilsen — and his confessed 15 victims — revealed critical gaps in how European police tracked predatory killers operating within urban anonymity.

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her neighbor Michael Skakel—a Kennedy cousin—was convicted of the crime. But the conviction didn't hold.

A Danish true crime podcast has brought renewed attention to two cases: the unsolved murders of young women traveling on Interrail passes across Europe, and the dramatic escape of a woman from a serial killer spotted by a passing truck driver—an encounter that ultimately led to his capture.

In August and September 1976, English serial killers Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw abducted, raped, and murdered two young Irish women in what became known as Ireland's first serial killing case. Despite confessing to both murders, neither man was ever convicted of the crimes.

Decades after young people vanished along Virginia's Colonial Parkway, advanced DNA analysis has posthumously identified a commercial fisherman as the perpetrator. Alan Wade Wilmer Sr., who died in 2017, is now linked to at least four murders that remained unsolved for nearly 40 years.

Judy Buenoano, known as Florida's Black Widow, was executed on March 30, 1998, for a calculated series of murders spanning decades. The 54-year-old had poisoned her first husband, her son, and a boyfriend with arsenic while collecting approximately $240,000 in life insurance—crimes that made her the first woman executed in Florida since 1848.

Between 1976 and 1978, Velma Barfield systematically poisoned at least four people with arsenic while working as an in-home caregiver in North Carolina. Her execution on November 2, 1984, made her the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

On December 15, 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her Los Angeles junior high school by a man claiming to be an employee of her father. Her subsequent murder—and the horrifying condition in which her body was discovered—would become one of the most infamous crimes of the 1920s.

On 22 January 1992, 25-year-old estate agent Stephanie Slater was abducted during a house viewing in Birmingham by Michael Sams, a predatory criminal who held her captive in a makeshift coffin while demanding £175,000 ransom. Her case would become one of Britain's most notorious kidnappings.

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.

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.

Between 1914 and 1921, Tillie Klimek, a Polish American woman living in Chicago's Little Poland neighborhood, poisoned at least 14 people with arsenic, including three of her husbands. Arrested in 1922 at age 45, she became known as 'Mrs. Bluebeard' for her deadly matrimonial history.