Casefile True Crime

Remy Ma, the rapper and former prison inmate, hosts My True Crime Story—a VH1 docuseries that premiered in 2021 and returns for Season 3 on Monday, August 4, 2025. The unscripted show features first-person accounts from individuals involved in major crimes, exploring their rise, fall, and paths to redemption across multiple continents.

Despite circulating reports, there is no verified Netflix documentary titled 'Grenfell: Uncovered' about the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in North Kensington, London on 14 June 2017.

A brutal home invasion that claimed the life of an Australian woman has become the subject of a new documentary series airing on Nine Network. The case against those accused of the attack on Gregor and Irma Pelazic now faces renewed scrutiny through forensic analysis and legal defense arguments.

Despite references to a case known as 'Marina Erte-mordet' in Swedish-language podcasts and documentaries, verified English-language sources containing factual details about this matter remain unavailable through major international crime databases and news outlets.

Rex Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty on April 8, 2026, to seven murders connected to the Gilgo Beach serial killings that terrorized Long Island between 1993 and 2010. Peacock's new documentary *The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets* examines Heuermann's confession and the fractured family left in its wake.

Rex Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty on April 8, 2026, to seven counts of murder in Suffolk County Court, New York, and admitted to an eighth uncharged killing. The former architect's confession resolves eight of the eleven Gilgo Beach serial murders that terrorized Long Island from 1993 to 2011.

HBO's The Jinx premiered in February 2015 as a six-part documentary investigation into New York real estate heir Robert Durst, exploring his connections to three unsolved or controversial deaths spanning decades. The series became a watershed moment in true crime television when Durst was arrested on the eve of the finale, with evidence gathered by filmmakers playing a crucial role in his eventual conviction.

Sarah Boone, 47, was sentenced to life in prison on December 2, 2024, for the second-degree murder of her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., who suffocated to death after Boone zipped him into a suitcase at their Winter Park, Florida home in February 2020.

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.

In August 2017, 35-year-old Nada Huranieh was found dead on the patio outside her Farmington Hills, Michigan mansion. What initially appeared to be a tragic accident—a fall from a second-story window—was actually a carefully staged murder committed by her own 16-year-old son, Muhammad Altantawi.

On August 13, 1996, in Moss Point, Mississippi, a debt collection visit turned into a horrific crime when grocery store butcher Gary Carl Simmons Jr. and accomplice Timothy Milano killed 21-year-old Jeffrey Wolfe, tortured and raped his girlfriend Charlene Brooks, and dismembered the body using butcher's knives.

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.

HBO's The Mortician, a three-part documentary series premiering June 1, 2025, exposes the criminal operations at Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California during the early 1980s, when family member David Sconce orchestrated mass cremations, organ harvesting, and alleged murder conspiracies.

When HBO's The Jinx premiered on February 8, 2015, few expected the documentary series about New York real estate heir Robert Durst would culminate in his arrest just hours before the finale aired. The six-part investigation, directed by Andrew Jarecki and produced by Marc Smerling, would ultimately help solve a two-decade-old murder and reshape how true crime documentaries intersect with active criminal investigations.

A mysterious death involving a photographer was the subject of investigation on 48 Hours, CBS's long-running documentary series that examines complex criminal cases.

The Danish podcast Mørkeland has released Episode 307, focusing on two separate cases involving death and severe neglect. The episode examines circumstances where individuals were subject to dangerous living conditions and inadequate care.