Victoria

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.

Between 1980 and 1981, Clifford Robert Olson murdered 11 children across British Columbia, earning him the grim nickname 'The Beast from British Columbia.' His arrest in August 1981 exposed one of Canada's darkest chapters in criminal history.

On 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch vanished on her way to school in Vienna, Austria. She had been abducted by Wolfgang Přiklopil and imprisoned in a secret basement cell beneath his house. Eight years later, she escaped—and her captor took his own life the same day.

A Danish true crime podcast has documented a case involving a young man accused of multiple sexual assaults who escaped from a psychiatric facility in Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark, prompting a manhunt by authorities.

In late August 1976, 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett vanished from Brittas Bay in County Wicklow, Ireland. Her body was discovered weeks later—raped, strangled, and bound to a lawnmower. Nearly 50 years later, her sisters are demanding justice for a crime that was never prosecuted.

Virginia Giuffre, recruited as a minor into Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking ring by Ghislaine Maxwell, became the first victim to publicly expose the network in 2011. Over the following decade, she pursued multiple settlements and legal actions that unsealed court documents and implicated powerful figures—before her death by suicide in April 2025.

On May 25, 2011, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball sentenced Brian David Mitchell to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole for kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in June 2002. Mitchell, who had worked as a roofer for the Smart family, held the teenager captive for nine months before her rescue in March 2003.

Between 1972 and 1978, John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys in suburban Chicago while maintaining a public persona as a friendly clown performer. His arrest in December 1978 exposed one of the most disturbing double lives in criminal history.

On July 18, 1989, actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed outside her West Hollywood apartment by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo. The 21-year-old's murder sparked a national conversation about stalking and resulted in groundbreaking legal protections that would reshape how law enforcement handles threats.

Between 1987 and 1991, a masked intruder armed with a knife and gun invaded homes across Melbourne's northern and eastern suburbs, sexually assaulting children and vanishing without trace. Known only as 'Mr. Cruel,' he remains unidentified and uncharged—despite being Victoria's most wanted criminal.

In May 2018, The Australian newspaper launched The Teacher's Pet, a crime podcast investigating the 1982 disappearance of Lynette Dawson from Sydney. Hosted by journalist Hedley Thomas, the series uncovered new evidence that would ultimately lead to the conviction of Chris Dawson, Lyn's husband, for her murder in August 2022.