Canada

Between 1980 and 1981, Clifford Robert Olson murdered 11 children across British Columbia, earning him the grim nickname 'The Beast from British Columbia.' His arrest in August 1981 exposed one of Canada's darkest chapters in criminal history.

The Fifth Estate, a CBC Television investigative documentary series now in its 51st season, has spent over five decades uncovering Canada's most serious crimes—from mass shootings to serial disappearances—while challenging law enforcement accountability.

Between November 1980 and July 1981, Clifford Robert Olson Jr. murdered 11 children and teenagers across British Columbia's Lower Mainland. His arrest, confession, and a controversial plea deal would shock Canada and ignite public outrage.

In the early 1980s, Canadian serial killer Clifford Olson murdered at least eleven children in the Vancouver area. Now, a new podcast series featuring years of recorded jailhouse calls with Olson is reopening the case and raising questions about whether his confirmed crimes represent the full extent of his violence.

A groundbreaking CBC True Crime podcast has revealed hundreds of hours of secret phone calls made by Canadian serial killer Clifford Olson from his prison cell starting in 1990, featuring confessions he had never disclosed to anyone else.

A Danish court has ordered the dissolution of Bandidos Motorcycle Club Denmark, marking a significant enforcement action against organized crime in Scandinavia. The ruling found the organization operated as a unified criminal enterprise engaged in murder, assault, and drug trafficking across the country.

Richard Lee McNair, a former U.S. Air Force sergeant convicted of murder, escaped from custody three times between 1988 and 2006 using increasingly sophisticated methods—from lip balm to an ingeniously constructed escape pod—evading recapture for months each time.

Between Prince George and Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia, a 719-kilometre stretch of Yellowhead Highway 16 has become synonymous with tragedy. Since 1969, at least 18 women have been officially documented as missing or murdered along this route—though Indigenous organizations estimate the true number may exceed 40—with most cases remaining unsolved.

The Bonanno crime family emerged from the violent Castellammarese War of the early 1930s to become one of New York City's most powerful Mafia organizations. Led for three decades by Joseph Bonanno, the family expanded from Brooklyn across North America until internal corruption and federal investigation fractured its ranks.

The Minds of Madness, hosted by Tyler Chamberlain in Toronto, Ontario, is an award-winning true crime podcast that investigates violent crimes and their impact on survivors. Distributed across major platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, the show features first-hand accounts from homicide survivors and professionals in forensics and psychology.

In November 2018, federal prosecutors secured convictions against four men who operated some of the darkest corners of the dark web, running multiple child abuse sites with tens of thousands of users. The case exposed a sprawling criminal enterprise that had evaded detection for years—until journalists and investigators began pulling at the threads.

The English podcast 'Unheard: The Fred & Rose West Tapes' has resurfaced journalist Howard Sounes' original interviews to shed new light on the crimes committed by Fred and Rose West at their Gloucester home. The 12-episode series examines how the discovery of their daughter Heather's remains in the backyard of 25 Cromwell Street triggered one of the UK's most significant criminal investigations.

Small Town Dicks is an English-language podcast hosted by actress Yeardley Smith and identical-twin detectives Dan and Dave, featuring forensic expert Paul Holes as they investigate crime cases across small-town USA using original source material including jailhouse calls, suspect interviews, and 911 recordings.

In 2013, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were arrested on Canada Day for allegedly plotting to bomb the British Columbia Legislature with homemade pressure cooker devices. A new CBC podcast investigation exposes how the RCMP didn't just catch the couple—they may have created the threat they claimed to stop.

Crime Beat, produced by Global News, has spent years documenting Canada's most high-profile criminal cases through investigative journalism and survivor interviews. The series combines archival footage, forensic details, and detective insights to reveal the full story behind murders, serial killings, and gang violence that captivated the country.

In December 2019, Netflix released Don't F*** with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, a three-part docuseries that chronicles how crowdsourced internet investigations unmasked Luka Magnotta, a Canadian pornographic actor, following his posting of animal abuse videos and the 2012 murder of Jun Lin in Montreal.