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Andreen McDonald, 29 år, forsvandt fra parrets hjem i San Antonio i marts 2019. Hendes mand, major Andre McDonald, blev dømt for manddrab og bevistilsværtelse.

Laura Connelly left a bar in Paisley near Glasgow after an evening with old school friends, but never made it home. Attacked and killed within sight of her doorstep, her case became the focus of a gripping podcast investigation into how a killer struck so close to safety.

A popular true crime podcast has featured the case of Nancy Metayer Bowen, a 38-year-old Florida vice mayor found dead in her home in April 2026. The episode, which aired internationally, examines her death as a domestic violence homicide and the subsequent arrest of her husband.

Marius Borg Høiby, the adult son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been charged with 38 criminal offenses spanning rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and weapons violations. The case, which began with his arrest in August 2024, is now proceeding through Oslo courts in a seven-week trial that commenced in February 2026.

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.

Black Girl Gone launched approximately five years ago with a focused mission: to investigate and humanize cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls who have been overlooked by mainstream media. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the podcast has published nearly 300 episodes of in-depth true crime storytelling.

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.

The Danish true crime podcast series Danske Drabssager revisits a shocking case in which a woman attacked her close friend with 17 stab wounds and then threw sulfuric acid on her — the brutal culmination of a years-long conflict.

On the night of April 13, 2013, Daniel William Marsh—just 15 years old—broke into a Davis, California home and murdered married couple Claudia Maupin and Oliver Northup in their bed. The crime revealed a teenager with a documented obsession with torture and serial killing.

British stand-up comedian Edd Hedges premiered the limited series podcast Wisecrack on September 2, 2025, blending his comedy set with a true crime investigation into a double homicide in his English hometown. Emmy-nominated producer Jodi Tovay discovered Hedges' darkly comic routine at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and spent years uncovering the story behind it.

23-year-old Hanne With was killed in her Copenhagen apartment on New Year's Day 1990. After 34 years without a resolution, Henrik Krogh Rasmussen was arrested and convicted of her murder.

Host Janne Aagaard explores a series of brutal axe attacks targeting young women in the Estonian city of Bytom in the 1970s. The Baltic true crime podcast 'Murder by the Baltic Sea' covers the case in the episode 'Death on Line 6', published on March 15, 2024.

Author Hallberg explores a Swedish case in which two people were killed but only one murder led to a conviction. The book critically examines how the justice system failed — and argues the flaws run far deeper than a single case.

Albert Fish, born in 1870, murdered at least three children between 1924 and 1928, including 11-year-old Grace Budd, whose dismembered remains he cannibalized. Arrested in 1930 and convicted in 1936, Fish claimed to have killed over 100 children across America before his execution.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone rose from Brooklyn street gang member to boss of the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition, controlling bootlegging, gambling, and rackets across the city's South Side. By 1931, federal prosecutors brought him down not for his legendary crimes, but for tax evasion—landing him in Alcatraz and reshaping organized crime history.

The Camorra, a Neapolitan organized crime syndicate, has transformed from a regional Italian threat into a transnational criminal powerhouse with operations spanning Europe, North America, and Asia. Fueled by drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, and environmental crimes, the organization generates billions annually while leaving a trail of violence that claims innocent civilians.

Between 1982 and 1988, Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, where she systematically poisoned elderly and mentally disabled tenants, buried their bodies in the yard, and cashed their Social Security checks. Her arrest in 1988 uncovered one of California's most disturbing serial killing cases.

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.

In March 1997, 39 members of the UFO cult Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide at a luxury villa in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The cult believed they could reach a higher existence by leaving their bodies behind.

Between 1895 and 1901, Jane Toppan, a highly regarded private nurse in Massachusetts, poisoned at least 31 people—and possibly over 100. Known as 'Jolly Jane' for her warm bedside manner, she used her trusted position to administer lethal doses of opium and strychnine to elderly patients and their families.