Morbid: A True Crime Podcast

Abigail Gasca-Chavez, 19, was killed in her own home in what investigators classified as a homicide. The case was examined in the true crime series See No Evil, where neighborhood surveillance cameras and testimony from an unlikely witness—her young child—provided critical evidence.

Gabriel Perez believed he was meeting an acquaintance at a Miami McDonald's in the early morning hours. Instead, he walked into a deadly trap orchestrated by a couple. Investigation Discovery's 'See No Evil' examines how modern forensic techniques—surveillance video and digital communications—became the cornerstone of solving the case.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On February 8, 1983, a routine plumbing job in North London uncovered human remains that would lead to one of Britain's most disturbing serial murder cases. The discovery of Dennis Nilsen — and his confessed 15 victims — revealed critical gaps in how European police tracked predatory killers operating within urban anonymity.

Mørkeland, Denmark's longest-running true crime podcast, hosted its annual Mørkeawards ceremony on February 5, 2026, recognizing the most compelling, educational, and moving true crime content of 2025. The awards—decided by listener votes and host selections—celebrate excellence across the true crime genre.

In the early morning hours of March 3, 1993, a family was murdered in their Maryland home in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. But investigators would uncover a chilling scheme: a father willing to kill his own disabled child and ex-wife for access to a multi-million-dollar trust fund.