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Netflix released a four-episode documentary miniseries on April 8, 2026, examining Samuel Bateman's emergence as a self-proclaimed prophet within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). The series, directed by Rachel Dretzin, documents how Bateman claimed succession to imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs while victimizing at least 10 children.

On January 23, 1989, serial killer Ted Bundy gave his final interview to Reverend Dr. James Dobson, approximately 16 hours before his execution by electrocution in Florida. In a roughly one-hour conversation, Bundy discussed the antecedents to his violent behavior and made controversial claims about what drove his crimes.

On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee. Netflix's documentary series 'Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart' traces the case through interviews with Smart's family, exploring the abduction, captivity, and the legal aftermath that saw one perpetrator sentenced to life imprisonment.

Gary Ridgway confessed to murdering 49 women between 1982 and 1998 in Washington State, but it was groundbreaking DNA analysis of evidence from the early 1980s that finally exposed America's prolific serial killer. Two decades after his crimes began, new forensic technology would prove decisive.

Cold, a narrative true crime podcast produced by KSL Podcasts, follows investigative journalist Dave Cawley as he reopens three haunting missing persons cases spanning decades—Susan Powell, Joyce Yost, and Sheree Warren—none of whose bodies have ever been found.