155: The Killing of Birna Brjánsdóttir | Iceland

Amateur photographer Julie Ward travelled from her home in England to document wildlife migration in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve. When she disappeared, her father launched a search. Within a day, part...

28 Mar 202137min

A former nurse engaged in online conversations with people – and instructed them on how to take their own lives. Two online sleuths from the other side of the world tracked down the IP address, and no...

21 Mar 202138min

When three women from the same circle of friends died in short succession of each other, police wondered if their deaths were related. They looked at the one friend who was still alive, Buenos Aires s...

14 Mar 202138min

Colin Whelan planned his wife’s murder before they were even married. He doubled their life insurance and searched the internet using phrases like death by strangulation and ‘asphyxiation’. The calcul...

7 Mar 202134min

When a young honors student disappeared two weeks before her graduation, no one knew where she could be. Clea was last seen walking into the home-office of Dr. Larry Amos, where she worked part-time. ...

28 Feb 202131min

After hunting down Russia’s most prolific serial killer for a decade, police finally had Andrei Chikatilo in custody. What drove this man to commit such heinous murders? If they didn’t catch him, woul...

21 Feb 202142min

In the 1980s USSR’s Rostov Oblast was terrorized by a cold-blooded serial killer. Women and children disappeared from bus stops and train stations, and police were at a loss. They called the faceless ...

14 Feb 202134min

In 1843 rural NSW had its fair share of Bushranger violence, akin to the violent times in America’s wild west. But when a wife and her lover brutally murdered a man in his sleep, it sparked outrage. L...

7 Feb 202137min