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Amityville Horror House is an HBO Max documentary series about the 1974 DeFeo family massacre at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY — the real crime behind the horror mythos.

El caso Wanninkhof-Carabantes is a Netflix documentary about the wrongful conviction of Dolores Vázquez for the 1999 murder of Rocío Wanninkhof, and the later discovery that British ex-convict Tony Alexander King killed both her and Sonia Carabantes.

Menendez Brothers: Misjudged? is an HBO Max documentary about Erik and Lyle Menendez, convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989.

How to Create a Sex Scandal is an HBO Max docuseries about the 2005 Mineola, Texas child-abuse hoax, arguing that coerced testimony sent at least six people to prison for crimes that never happened.

Netflix docuseries covering the 2013 ricin-letters case in which Paul Kevin Curtis was wrongfully accused of mailing ricin to President Obama, a U.S. Senator, and a Mississippi judge.

A U.S. government program that detained and tortured 119 individuals at CIA black sites worldwide after 9/11, later condemned by Senate investigation as abuse.

Spencer Herron, a former Georgia Teacher of the Year, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student at Kell High School in Cobb County.

The Academy at Ivy Ridge case involves systematic abuse allegations at a for-profit boarding school for troubled teens in New York, operated by Robert Lichfield from 2001 to 2009.

The Doc Antle case is a US wildlife-trafficking and money-laundering prosecution against Tiger King figure Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, ending in a 2025 federal prison sentence.

The Hunter Moore case is a US federal revenge-porn and computer-hacking case centered on the site IsAnyoneUp.com, which posted nude images without consent from 2010 to 2012.

The Bling Ring was a California burglary crew of teenagers and young adults led by Rachel Lee and Nick Prugo who stole from celebrity homes across Los Angeles County between October 2008 and August 2009.

The Charlottesville Unite the Right car attack is a 2017 US domestic terrorism case in which white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.

The Charles Stuart case is a 1989 Boston murder in which Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife Carol and falsely blamed a Black gunman, triggering a citywide racial panic.

Jens Söring was convicted in 1986 of murdering the parents of an American judge in Virginia. The validity of his conviction was subsequently called into serious doubt. After 33 years in an American prison, he was released and deported to Germany in 2019.

On September 10, 2020, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, one of the Rhineland's leading university hospitals, was hit by a massive ransomware attack attributed to the cybercriminal group Netwalker. The attack forced the hospital to turn away emergency patients and resulted in at least one death, marking one of Europe's most serious cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.

Till Lindemann, frontman of German industrial rock band Rammstein, faced accusations of sexual abuse from multiple women in 2023, with allegations spanning over two decades. The case triggered extensive investigations across German states and divided the band's fanbase. As of 2024, the legal proceedings remain ongoing without a final verdict.

A mother and her partner were convicted in 2018 in one of Germany's most shocking cases of child sexual abuse, having systematically abused and rented out the woman's young son to pedophiles via the dark web. The case shocked Germany when it was uncovered in September 2017 in the small town of Staufen im Breisgau in southwestern Germany. Both perpetrators received lengthy prison sentences, and the case prompted national debate about how social services failed to detect warning signs.

Pamela Marie Hupp skød og dræbte Louis Gumpenberger i sit hjem i O'Fallon, Missouri, den 16. august 2016 – en sag der endte med livstid i fængsel.

Henry Lee Lucas confessed to around 600 murders between 1983 and 1985, but investigators later determined most were fabrications. The case exposed dangerous interrogation practices that allowed a convicted killer to manipulate law enforcement across multiple states.

Unknown hackers exploited a vulnerability in Binance's BSC Token Hub bridge on October 4, 2022, stealing approximately 2 million BNB tokens valued at $570 million. The attack, discovered two days later, marked one of crypto's largest bridge heists but left user funds untouched.