2023

German pensioner Luise Freudenberg was found dead in her summer home near Tisvilde Strand in June 2023. Initially treated as a natural death, the case was later reclassified as a suspected death following investigation. Police in North Zealand conducted an extensive inquiry but the case remained unsolved by the end of 2023.

Sarah Hartsfield, an Army veteran and mother of four, was found guilty on October 8, 2025, of murdering her fifth husband, Joseph Hartsfield, 46, by poisoning him with insulin in their Beach City, Texas home in January 2023. The rapid conviction followed a one-week trial in Chambers County and has reopened questions about other deaths linked to the defendant.

The Mørkeland Podcast's October 2025 episode explores two separate criminal cases connected to Nykøbing Sjælland psychiatric hospital in Denmark, including an escape by a patient under mental observation and alleged nighttime cemetery disturbances.

Ken Chew Wen Long, wanted in connection with multi-million-kroner fraud schemes across Scandinavia, is alleged to have targeted his own cleaning employee, convincing her to invest her life savings in a non-existent luxury rental company. The case is now the subject of a major international podcast investigation.

A new episode of the Nordic podcast The Missing Matter brings listeners into the world of missing persons investigation, featuring an in-depth conversation with a key figure in the Marion Barter case — an Australian woman who vanished after selling her home to travel the world.

On December 14, 2023, Kristil Krug, 43, was found brutally murdered in her Broomfield, Colorado garage. Her husband, Daniel Bartholomew Krug, 44, had spent two months impersonating her ex-boyfriend online before executing a meticulously planned killing designed to frame an innocent man.