Texas

Filmmaker Errol Morris proved Randall Dale Adams was innocent of murdering a police officer with his 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line. Adams was on death row in Texas. The film led to his release after 12 years of imprisonment and changed the true crime world forever.

Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was kidnapped in Arlington, Texas, on January 13, 1996, in broad daylight. Her murder remains unsolved, but her name became synonymous with one of the world's most effective child safety systems, saving over 1,100 lives.

A Texas mother's brutal dismemberment of her cousin and a wife's calculated murder-for-hire plot have shocked audiences through Netflix's 'I Am A Killer' and true crime podcasts. These cases expose the hidden violence lurking behind closed doors in Texas communities.

Warren Jeffs, president and self-declared prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), is serving a life sentence for sexual assault of children. Despite being imprisoned in Texas since 2011, investigators say he continues directing the polygamist sect's operations from his cell.

In May 2015, Leah Martin, a 22-year-old mother and receptionist, vanished from Graham, Texas. Her body was discovered months later in a shallow grave in a coworker's backyard, sparking a murder investigation that would expose a conspiracy among three men and become the subject of an Oxygen network true crime series.

AMC+ has launched "True Crime Story: It Couldn't Happen Here," a documentary series examining serious crimes committed in American towns. The series covers multiple cases, including a couple murdered in Royse City, Texas, and a sleeping couple killed in Cookeville, Tennessee.

Four teenagers were shot and killed inside an Austin, Texas yogurt shop in 1991, with the crime scene set ablaze. More than three decades later, HBO's new documentary miniseries explores the unsolved case, the families' trauma, and the investigation that led to a breakthrough identification.

National Geographic launches a six-part investigative docuseries following the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization using DNA sequencing and genealogical research to identify unidentified bodies across the United States. The series premieres August 2–3, 2025, on National Geographic, Disney+, and Hulu.

HBO's new documentary miniseries The Yogurt Shop Murders examines the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in Austin, Texas, a case that resulted in arrests and convictions despite remaining officially unsolved. Directed by Margaret Brown and produced by A24, the series premiered at SXSW in March 2025 and aired on HBO from August through September 2025.

Netflix's three-part docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse premiered on March 22, 2023, offering an unprecedented look at the 51-day siege at the Mount Carmel Center compound near Waco, Texas. Directed by Tiller Russell, the series draws on exclusive FBI wiretap recordings, unearthed videotapes, and firsthand accounts to chronicle how a confrontation between federal agents and an apocalyptic religious cult ended in catastrophic fire and mass death.

Directors Yemi Bamiro and Hannah Poulter investigate the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott's 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston through survivor accounts, emergency recordings, and expert analysis. The Netflix documentary, which premiered June 10, 2025, reveals systemic failures in crowd control and event planning that led to 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Sarah Hartsfield, an Army veteran and mother of four, was found guilty on October 8, 2025, of murdering her fifth husband, Joseph Hartsfield, 46, by poisoning him with insulin in their Beach City, Texas home in January 2023. The rapid conviction followed a one-week trial in Chambers County and has reopened questions about other deaths linked to the defendant.

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.

A state-sponsored Chinese threat actor known as HAFNIUM launched a sophisticated cyberattack against Microsoft Exchange servers beginning January 6, 2021, remaining undetected for two months before Microsoft's March disclosure revealed the breach had compromised thousands of organizations worldwide.

Robinhood, the popular investment app, suffered a significant data breach on November 3, 2021, exposing personal information belonging to approximately 7 million users. The unauthorized access occurred through social engineering of a customer support employee.

On August 9, 1969, Sharon Tate, a 26-year-old American actress and model who was more than eight months pregnant, was murdered at her rented home in Los Angeles's Benedict Canyon estate. She and four others were killed by members of Charles Manson's cult following, in what would become one of the most shocking crimes in U.S. history.

Between June 1984 and August 1985, Richard Ramirez—known as the Night Stalker—murdered at least 13 people across California, breaking into homes under cover of darkness to kill, rape, and rob his victims. His reign of terror ended when residents recognized him from media sketches and held him for police.

On December 13, 2000, seven inmates escaped from John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security prison near Kenedy, Texas, after overpowering guards and stealing weapons. The two-week manhunt ended with the murder of Irving Police Officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins and the conviction of six survivors on capital murder charges.

Holly Marie Clouse was found alive in June 2022 at age 42, more than four decades after her parents were murdered and she was left at a church in Yuma, Arizona. The discovery solved one of the most perplexing cold cases in American true crime: the identity of 'Baby Holly,' whose parents' killers remain unknown.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a €290 million fine to Uber Technologies and Uber B.V. on August 26, 2024, for transferring personal data of European drivers to the United States without implementing mandatory legal safeguards required under GDPR.