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David Anthony Burke var en tidligere PSA-medarbejder, der om bord på Flight 1771 detonerede en dynamitladning, hvilket resulterede i at alle 43 personer på flyet døde. Sagen bliver betragtet som luftfartens første bekræftede sabotage.

Joseph James DeAngelo murdered at least 13 people and raped over 50 women in California between 1974 and 1986 under three different criminal identities. The retired police officer and mechanic was arrested in April 2018 at age 72, after evading capture for 40 years. His capture through forensic genealogy revolutionized cold case investigations worldwide.

Investigation Discovery's Death by Fame series explores the case of actress Maple Batalia, a talented performer whose promising career took a devastating turn. The episode 'Diary of a Madman' from Season 3 examines the circumstances surrounding her death.

In May 2025, CBS's 48 Hours aired 'Facing a Monster,' the story of C.C., a college student who survived a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend Shawn Doyle in 1996, only to face him in court years later after he murdered Lori Leonard, a single mother of two, in 2005.

Matt Gutman, ABC News chief national correspondent, hosts a new investigative podcast examining a California case involving two young men whose wealthy lifestyle unravels into a story of lies, mistrust, and violence.

In April 2016, true crime writer Michelle McNamara died at age 46 from an accidental prescription drug overdose, leaving her investigation into California's Golden State Killer incomplete. Two years later, the book she died pursuing — finished by collaborators — would be published just weeks before the killer's arrest.

On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. Sixty years later, no confirmed evidence has emerged to prove whether they drowned in the cold Pacific waters or survived to live free.

Chris Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault on June 22, 2009, following a February 8 altercation with then-girlfriend Rihanna in Los Angeles. The incident left Rihanna with visible facial injuries and resulted in Brown's arrest and subsequent prosecution.

In November 1985, a boy kicking over a barrel in Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire, uncovered the remains of two victims—beginning one of America's most haunting unsolved cases. Thirty-two years later, genetic genealogy identified the killer: Terry Peder Rasmussen, a man who had evaded justice under at least five aliases.

Dorothy Arnold, a 25-year-old New York heiress, vanished in December 1910 from Manhattan. More than a century later, her disappearance remains unsolved, with no trace of what became of her ever discovered.

Edmund Kemper murdered his grandparents at age 15 in 1964, then spent fewer than five years in detention before being released. A decade later, he would kill seven college students, his mother, and her friend in one of California's most disturbing serial killing sprees.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged four members of China's People's Liberation Army on February 10, 2020, with orchestrating one of the largest data breaches in history. The defendants allegedly exploited a vulnerability in Equifax's systems to steal sensitive information from approximately 145 million Americans over a two-month period in 2017.

Lonnie David Franklin Jr., a garbage collector known as the Grim Sleeper, murdered at least 10 young Black women across South Los Angeles between 1985 and 2007. His arrest in 2010 came after a familial DNA match finally connected him to crimes that had haunted the community for more than two decades.

Four U.S. citizens from South Carolina were ambushed and kidnapped by Gulf Cartel members in Matamoros, Mexico, on March 3, 2023, shortly after crossing the border. Two victims were killed and two rescued four days later, with authorities attributing the attack to mistaken identity.

On February 10, 2021, dog walker Ryan Fischer was shot during an armed robbery in Los Angeles that netted two French bulldogs belonging to pop icon Lady Gaga. The high-profile case exposed a lucrative international market for stolen designer dogs and raised questions about security vulnerabilities targeting celebrity pet handlers.

On July 18, 1989, actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed outside her West Hollywood apartment by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo. The 21-year-old's murder sparked a national conversation about stalking and resulted in groundbreaking legal protections that would reshape how law enforcement handles threats.

Michael Jackson was acquitted in 2005 after a high-profile trial in Santa Maria, California, where he faced charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy named Gavin Arvizo. The case centered on allegations that Jackson used his Neverland Ranch to groom children, but the jury found him not guilty on all counts.

The murder of Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997 became one of the decade's most infamous crimes. Nordic storytellers have long been fascinated by serial killer narratives—and the Versace case remains a fixture in Scandinavian true crime discourse, reflecting broader European interest in American criminal pathology.

Robinhood, the popular investment app, suffered a significant data breach on November 3, 2021, exposing personal information belonging to approximately 7 million users. The unauthorized access occurred through social engineering of a customer support employee.

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