Wisconsin

An episode of Dark Matter Moms covering Sagal Hussein and the tragic death of her son, and the questions the case raises.

Dark Matter Moms continues its coverage of Julie Jensen's death, tracing the case against her husband through trial, appeals, and retrial.

This episode covers the death of Traci Lynn Rataczak, found hanging in her Wisconsin home in 2013, and the trial that ended in acquittal.

Dark Matter Moms is an English-language true crime podcast hosted by Sam and Sarah, two mothers who examine court documents and police reports in real criminal cases. The series focuses on crimes in Wisconsin and runs to 17 episodes.

A Dark Matter Moms episode covering the 1992 double murder of Geraldine Knipfer and Michael Walker in Pardeeville, Wisconsin, and the case against James Knipfer.

The Steven Avery case is a Wisconsin homicide in which Avery was convicted in 2007 for murdering photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005, just two years after his exoneration for a wrongful conviction.

The Slender Man Stabbing is a 2014 attempted murder case in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to become proxies of a fictional internet character.

The Jeffrey Dahmer case is an American serial-murder case in which Dahmer killed 17 men and boys across Ohio and Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991, involving sexual assault, dismemberment and cannibalism.

In December 2015, a Netflix documentary triggered a global movement. Making a Murderer demonstrated how streaming services could become platforms for legal activism—and set the template for every true crime series since.

The podcast 'Hunting 4 Answers' investigates the unsolved death of Janie Pendleton, who was found dead in her Milwaukee home. No suspects have ever been identified in the case.

Edward Theodore Gein, known as the "Butcher of Plainfield," murdered at least two women in 1950s Wisconsin while secretly exhuming dozens of corpses to fashion grotesque artifacts from human remains. His 1957 arrest exposed one of America's most disturbing crime scenes and inspired some of cinema's most iconic villains.

Between 2013 and 2015, a British political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica systematically harvested personal data from 87 million Facebook users without consent. When exposed in March 2018, the scandal triggered a global reckoning over tech platform accountability that continues today.

On May 11, 2011, six-year-old Timmothy James Pitzen was withdrawn from his Illinois school by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who claimed a family emergency. Three days later, Amy was found dead from suicide with a note stating the boy was safe but would never be found. More than a decade on, Timmothy remains missing.