Dan Markel

The 2015 death of 13-month-old Noah Emil Debelbøs in Denmark sparked a legal battle that would expose weaknesses in Scandinavian child welfare investigations. A new podcast examines how ambiguous medical evidence and police procedure failures led to acquittals—and raised uncomfortable questions about how societies determine guilt in infant death cases.

In 2015, Florida State University professor Dan Markel was found shot dead in his garage—a crime that would expose an elaborate murder-for-hire conspiracy orchestrated by his ex-wife's family. A Dateline NBC investigation brought the case into international focus, revealing how personal disputes escalated into premeditated violence.