Episodes

Nearly 20 years after Madeleine McCann disappeared from Praia da Luz, Portugal, the main suspect in the German investigation has publicly described where he says he was that night. Christian Brueckner claims he was on a nearby beach selling cannabis on May 3, 2007, roughly 150 yards from the McCanns' holiday accommodation. He says Portuguese police stopped his drug-filled van three times as officers searched for Madeleine, but never discovered the drugs. Brueckner denies any involvement in Made...

The case against Kroy “KJ” Biermann Jr. has expanded dramatically since his August 2026 arrest. The 15-year-old has now been indicted on seven felony charges, while his attorneys are fighting to move the case from Georgia Superior Court into the juvenile system. During KJ’s bond hearing, prosecutors revealed an earlier juvenile case involving alleged sexual battery and claimed investigators discovered videos on his phone involving a younger family member. KJ was ultimately granted $200,000 bond...

Joanne “Jo” Sheen, a 44-year-old mother of three from Southampton, disappeared in December 2019. For nearly seven years, police pursued more than 4,000 lines of inquiry, searched homes, boats, waterways and woodland, but could not find her. Then, in August 2026, a wildfire burned through shrubland near Padstow Walk in Feltham, West London. Human remains discovered after the fire were eventually identified through DNA testing as Joanne. The discovery has transformed the investigation. Two 56-yea...

A hidden-camera investigation in Newark, Ohio, has expanded into a major criminal case involving Brianna and John Nethers of Heath. Police initially arrested the couple in June 2026 after searching their home and seizing multiple electronic devices. Investigators allege Brianna concealed a camera inside a purse to secretly record people in public restrooms, while John allegedly transferred and edited recordings found on his laptop. The investigation has since expanded dramatically. A grand jury...

On September 13, 2026, Australian father Damien John Shaw and his two young children were found dead inside their rented bungalow in Legian, Bali. Their mother was visiting family in Jakarta when she became concerned after losing contact with them and noticing something unusual with the home's CCTV camera. Neighbors eventually forced their way inside and discovered the three bodies. Police now believe Shaw killed his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter before taking his own life. Securi...

Former American Idol contestant and Ohio worship pastor Caleb Flynn is on trial for the February 2026 murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege Caleb shot Ashley while she slept inside their Tipp City home, then staged the scene to resemble a burglary. But the defense argues there is no murder weapon, eyewitness, surveillance footage, gunshot residue or forensic evidence directly proving Caleb fired the shots. They accuse investigators of focusing on him after discovering his affair....

On November 13, 1999, 32-year-old Namiko Takaba was murdered inside her Nagoya, Japan apartment while her two-year-old son Kohei was still inside. The attacker escaped but left behind something crucial: her own blood. For 26 years, Namiko's husband, Satoru Takaba, refused to give up. He continued renting the murder apartment, preserving the scene while hoping advances in forensic technology would eventually help identify his wife's killer. Then, in October 2025, DNA from the scene was matched t...

Barry Morphew is back behind bars while awaiting trial for the alleged murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew. After being released on a $3 million bond in 2025, Morphew was accused of violating his release conditions following an alleged August 2026 hit-and-run in Denver. The incident prompted Judge Amanda Hopkins to examine his GPS history, revealing trips to Denver International Airport, restaurants, hotels, stores and other locations prosecutors argued were outside his permitted tra vel. On Se...

Eight-year-old Fabian disappeared from Güstrow, Germany, on October 10, 2025. Four days later, his body was found near a pond outside Klein Upahl. Prosecutors accuse Gina H., the former partner of Fabian's father, of luring him from home, killing him and later setting his body on fire. But there is no confession and the murder weapon has never been found. Instead, prosecutors have built a complicated circumstantial case involving vehicle data, alleged blood traces, phone activity, unusual inter...

A routine June 2026 encounter near Philadelphia’s Independence Mall triggered an investigation that has grown increasingly disturbing. After 44-year-old Eugene Horsch was found with guns, drugs, fake federal credentials and a woman carrying identification belonging to missing Blair Tonzelli, authorities searched his Olney home at 417 Chew Avenue. Inside, investigators discovered chemicals, five urns containing cremated remains and an enormous collection of digital evidence linked largely to Euge...

In May 2017, CCTV captured a jogger apparently pushing a 33-year-old woman into the path of a London bus on Putney Bridge. Driver Oliver Salbris swerved just in time, and the mysterious attacker disappeared despite a huge police investigation. Nine years later, the case suddenly reopened when police arrested 44-year-old banker and former Army officer Nicholas Brandram on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm. But Brandram was never charged, and his family insists he was innocent, citing e...

On February 24, 2023, Brendan Banfield told police he had interrupted a violent home invasion at his Virginia home. His wife, Christine Banfield, was fatally wounded, while supposed intruder Joseph Ryan had been shot dead. But investigators eventually concluded there was no home invasion. Prosecutors said Banfield and the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were secretly having an affair and had created a fake FetLife account impersonating Christine. Ryan was lured to the home ...

In September 1998, 33-year-old mother of seven Patricia Lashley disappeared from Dudley, England. For nearly 28 years, police considered the possibility that Patricia, also known as Pat or Jade, had simply left the area and started another life. Then, in 2026, everything changed. When a police officer visited her former partner Trevor Dunkley, he suddenly confessed: he had killed Patricia inside their Hall Street home, hidden her body in the cellar and later disposed of her remains in household...

On January 30, 2022, 11-year-old Chaskah Davis Smith was found unresponsive at an Extended Stay America hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. His grandmother, Stephanie Davis, initially claimed his numerous injuries were self-inflicted. But investigators quickly became suspicious, and Davis and her husband, Thomas Desharnais, were arrested. Both now face first-degree murder and child-abuse charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty. But four years later, the case has expanded beyond what alleg...

The final Thirlwall Inquiry report into the Lucy Letby case has been released, revealing what happened inside the Countess of Chester Hospital as doctors became increasingly concerned about unexplained neonatal deaths. Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall concluded there was a “complete failure to protect babies” and that some deaths and attacks could have been prevented if hospital leaders had acted sooner. The report details ignored warnings, failures to use safeguarding procedures, delayed police ...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, New York City has released approximately 170,000 pages of records concerning toxic exposure, air quality and the government's response after the World Trade Center collapsed. The documents include records from 68 boxes that the city previously failed to locate, environmental testing from contaminated buildings and the so-called Harding Memo, showing that officials were already considering potential health-related legal claims within weeks of 9/11...

On June 20, 2003, the bodies of Shinjiro Matsumoto, his wife Chika, and their two young children were recovered from Hakata Bay in Fukuoka, Japan. Investigators soon uncovered a carefully planned robbery involving three Chinese students: Yang Ning, Wang Liang and Wei Wei. The men reportedly targeted the Matsumoto family after seeing their Mercedes and assuming they were wealthy. Prosecutors later said they planned from the beginning to eliminate every witness. Yet after destroying an entire fam...

Five-year-old Saylor Hayes disappeared on August 30, 2026, while her family was vacationing near Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Saylor was autistic, nonverbal and known to wander, which was why she had been enrolled in Project Lifesaver and assigned a tracking transmitter. But when Saylor vanished, rescuers couldn't detect its signal. Her body was recovered from nearby water the following morning. Both parents have been charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk or wilfully abandoning a c...

On May 6, 2016, Italian businesswoman Maria Chindamo disappeared outside her agricultural property in Calabria. Her car was left running, with blood and signs of a struggle inside. Her body has never been found. Maria disappeared exactly one year after her estranged husband's suicide. Investigators have examined possible motives involving family revenge, her new relationship and interests connected to Calabria's powerful 'Ndrangheta. Her story echoes another mysterious death from the same terri...

While millions followed the Lindsay Clancy trial and debated postpartum psychosis, motherhood and criminal responsibility, a series of horrific family killings was unfolding across America. Between July and August 2026, the cases of Joshua Deel, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, Ronald Williams Sr., Nathan Brown, and Alan Smith left entire families destroyed. Yet the Clancy case became something more than a criminal trial. Online, some commentators used her actions to attack women generally, and one pet...

On August 28, 2026, a member of the public made a disturbing discovery inside Stanley Park in Liverpool, England. Hidden in bushes within the park's walled garden was a black bin bag containing the body of an unidentified woman believed to be in her 70s. Police think she may have been there for weeks. Now a murder investigation is underway, but detectives face an unusual problem: they still don't know her name. A DNA profile has produced no match, dental records haven't identified her, and 73 p...

The Order of the Solar Temple was an apocalyptic esoteric movement led by Belgian doctor Luc Jouret and French occultist Joseph Di Mambro. Combining Knights Templar mythology, New Age spirituality and predictions of global catastrophe, the group attracted hundreds of followers across Switzerland, France and Canada. Di Mambro reinforced his authority through elaborate rituals and staged supernatural “miracles,” while members were taught that death could become a spiritual “transit” to another wor...

Jessica Rabe, 20, and her boyfriend Yudistan Pillay, 25, disappeared from Boksburg, South Africa, in July 2026. For six weeks, their families, private investigators and community groups searched Van Dyk Park and surrounding areas, circulating their photographs and hoping someone knew where they had gone. Then a tip led investigators to a residential property on Wildevy Crescent. On August 30, police, forensic investigators and a K9 search team discovered Jessica and Yudistan's bodies partially ...

At 9:32 p.m. on September 3, 2026, police in Hoover, Alabama, responded to a 911 call about an unresponsive woman inside a community swimming pool. The victim was 70-year-old Terry Lynn Walker-Zuniga, a resident of the apartment complex. What initially looked like a possible drowning quickly became something much darker. Investigators say evidence showed that a physical struggle had taken place shortly before Terry's death. Police then located 30-year-old Anastasia Tsefia Sudarsana nearby and d...