triple murder

Keeper of the Ashes is a 4-episode Hulu docuseries about the 1977 rape and murder of three Girl Scouts at Camp Scott, Oklahoma — one of the state's most notorious cold cases.

Gåten Orderud is a 2018 NRK documentary series about the 1999 triple murder at the Orderud family estate in Norway, where four were convicted but no shooter was ever identified.

The Rettendon murders are a 1995 triple homicide in which three Essex drug dealers were shot execution-style in a Range Rover on a farm track near Rettendon, England.

The Alcàsser Girls case is the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of three teenage girls from Alcàsser, Valencia, on November 13, 1992; one man was convicted, but his alleged accomplice remains missing.

Miki Mistrati og Robert Zola Christensen undersøger trippelmordet på Bornholm i 1995, hvor læge Peter Lundin myrdede sin mor og to andre mennesker.

Podcast-episoden gennemgår Peter Lundin-sagen, hvor den dansk-amerikanske morder i 2000 dræbte og parterede sin kæreste Marianne Pedersen og hendes to sønner i Rødovre.

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.

Karl Denke, a seemingly pious church organist in Münsterberg, Germany, murdered at least 30 people between 1903 and 1924. His crimes included cannibalism and selling human flesh as pork at local markets.

Between 1940 and 1941, Paul Ogorzow terrorized wartime Berlin by attacking women on the city's S-Bahn railway system. The Nazi Party member killed at least eight women before his capture and execution.

Rudolf Pleil confessed to murdering at least nine women in the chaos of post-war Germany between 1946 and 1947. Operating along the border zones between East and West Germany, he preyed on refugees fleeing Soviet occupation.

For sixteen years, German police hunted a prolific female serial killer whose DNA appeared at over 40 crime scenes across Europe. In 2009, investigators discovered the Phantom of Heilbronn never existed — the DNA belonged to a factory worker who packaged cotton swabs.

Between 1962 and 1966, German teenager Jürgen Bartsch abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered four young boys in abandoned mine shafts near Langenberg, West Germany. His case shocked the nation and transformed understanding of juvenile offenders.

Joachim Kroll terrorized Germany's Ruhr Valley from 1955 to 1976, murdering at least 14 people. His arrest came only after a neighbor discovered human remains clogging the building's shared toilet.

Brendan Banfield, a former IRS special agent from Virginia, was convicted on February 3, 2026, of murdering his wife Christine and a stranger named Joseph Ryan in a scheme allegedly motivated by his affair with the family's live-in au pair.

Brian Walshe was charged with the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, who disappeared around New Year 2022–2023. Analysis of Google searches on his son's iPad revealed queries about body disposal and forensic evidence.

Host Stine Bolther investigates a case in Djursland near Randers, Denmark, that involves a meticulously planned murder, a pregnant woman, and audio evidence so damning that the victim reportedly warned relatives it might happen. The 43-minute episode premiered February 3, 2026, on the true crime podcast Danske Drabssager.

An 81-year-old widow was murdered in her Herlev home during the 2011 Christmas holidays in Denmark. The case mobilized homicide investigators, forensic technicians, and medical examiners who immediately suspended their vacation to pursue the investigation into what was described as a heartless act.

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.

Two teenagers were convicted of planning and carrying out the brutal murders of two boys their own age inside a housing complex in the Danish city of Aarhus. The victims were strangled, killed with a hammer, and left naked at the scene.

Five Danish fishermen walked free in June 2024 after spending 17 months in pretrial detention for a murder they did not commit. A court found the evidence insufficient, highlighting systemic risks in how Nordic justice systems handle prolonged custody without proven charges.