Murder on the beach in North Jutland and the Happy Face series

The "Mord ved Østersøen" podcast has documented the case of a Lithuanian high school student named Mindaugas whose parents and younger sister vanished after a routine market trip, leaving investigators puzzled by his seemingly indifferent response to their disappearance.

On August 28, 1976, 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett walked out of McDaniel's pub in Brittas Bay, County Wicklow, Ireland, and vanished. Her body was found a month later washed ashore in County Wexford. Two convicted serial killers confessed to her murder—yet no one was ever formally charged with her death.

Mørkeland, a Danish true crime podcast, released Episode 284 around June 1, 2025, focusing on mysterious deaths. The episode joins the podcast's ongoing exploration of unsolved cases and cryptic crimes across Scandinavia.

The Danish true crime podcast Mørkeland explored a murder case in Nordjylland where an unidentified man was shot and dumped from a car onto a beach. What made this case distinctive wasn't just the crime itself, but the reaction from locals—many of whom expressed relief or even satisfaction that this particular victim was dead.

When the United States opened Guantánamo Bay detention camp in 2002, it became the site of documented torture affecting approximately 780 men and boys from 48 countries. Over two decades later, verified interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and sexual assault remain central to understanding post-9/11 American detention practices.

Richard Kuklinski appeared to neighbors and relatives as a devoted husband and caring father in New Jersey during the 1970s and 1980s. Behind closed doors and in his secret life as a contract killer, he was a man of calculated violence—one of America's most prolific confessed murderers, responsible for at least five confirmed killings and allegedly over 100 others.

Bent Isager-Nielsen spent more than 40 years in Danish law enforcement, serving as murder chief and leader of Rejseholdet, the specialized mobile task force that handled Denmark's most violent and complex cases. Now retired, he's sharing those experiences through a touring lecture series.