Murder Without Borders

In January 2019, a 21-year-old woman arrived at a hospital in Slovenia with her left hand severed cleanly above the wrist. She said it was a freak accident with a circular saw. But as investigators looked more closely at the bizarre incident, almost nothing about it seemed accidental. In fact, it had all been part of a scheme to turn a permanent injury into an insurance payout of more than a milli...

A schoolboy disappears on Christmas Eve. For a week, a working-class Tunisian town searches alleys and fields for any sign of him. When the search finally ends, the discovery is more terrible than his family feared. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com⁠⁠

A drowning in shallow water one summer. A brutal stabbing the next. Two deaths at the same Swedish cottage - and one person present for both. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com⁠

They never met in person, just two players on the same side in a multiplayer game. To her it was a casual friendship. To him it was the start of something she'd never agreed to. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

A 14-year-old boy wakes to a masked man in his bedroom. By the time the sun comes up, he will be the only member of his family left. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Behind the padlocked gates of a mansion called Gypsy Queen, a feud had been simmering for years. When an English teacher is murdered at his front door, detectives follow a trail of money, resentment, and hired hands back to its source. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Dawn was breaking on April 18, 2018 in the outskirts of Port Vila, the capital of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. In a small settlement called Etas, a young mother stirred awake in her parents’ home, only to discover that her six-year-old daughter was nowhere to be found.  ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

A mother and daughter vanish from their village home. When police find their bodies, they uncover something almost impossible to believe: this is the second double murder connected to this family. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Metin and Necla Büyüksen are shot dead in their modest farmhouse while their 20-year-old daughter watches in horror. A jammed shotgun saves her life, but three years of silence, suspicion, and family betrayal follow before the shocking truth emerges. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gm...

A 12-year-old girl is found in a shallow grave with dirt in her lungs, still wearing her school uniform. The investigation exposes a network of predators stretching from Bayamo to northern Italy. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Most serial killers hunt in a single city. This one crossed international borders after every murder, returning home as if nothing had happened. Two nations had no idea they were chasing the same man. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

No witnesses. No struggle. No body for three days. When 29-year-old Aradhana Nazir drowned in Suriname, her boyfriend had thought of everything. Almost. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Vyacheslav Tikhomirov and his girlfriend were found stabbed over 140 times in their Minsk apartment. The killers took cash, winter coats, and a box of chocolates — but this was no robbery. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Grandmothers. Widows. Women who lived alone. In a quiet Sri Lankan village, a serial killer hunted the vulnerable for seven years, while police arrested everyone but him. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

In a harbor once famous for Spanish treasure galleons and pirate raids, a modern predator stalked the marina docks. By the time divers pulled a body from the water, the killer had already claimed another victim. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Furious and humiliated after a fight, Alena Popova made a fateful choice to leave her best friend Anastasia Muzhenya alone in a tent on a desolate stretch of the Black Sea coast. By the time Alena reached home, Anastasia was dead, and police were convinced that the girl who walked away was actually a cold-blooded killer. ---- A special thank you to Connor for bringing this case to our attention an...

By the fall of 2019, one man had quietly left a trail of missing women across Toluca. It would take a single disappearance for authorities to realize they weren’t dealing with an isolated crime, but with something far larger and far more disturbing. ------ Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

When Éché Goukouni fled her abusive husband in Chad and escaped to France with her infant son, she thought she had finally found safety. Then her husband came looking for answers — and he brought a gun. ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

On an April evening in Tenerife, Beatriz Zimmermann handed her daughters to their father for a routine visit. Hours later, she sat in a police station listening to his voice on the phone: "You will never see your daughters again." ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Young mother, Evelyn Eberhardt, is murdered in front of her daughter in a Paraguay suburb. When investigators finally uncover who was responsible, the truth would be almost impossible to believe. ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

A 26-year-old mother vanishes from a 21-square-mile island during the strictest COVID lockdown. With no flights, no ferries, and police checkpoints on every road, where could Chavelle Dillon-Burgess have gone? ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

Eleven-year-old Bence Szita was beaten, stabbed, and thrown into a pit in the Hungarian forest. The truth about who killed him and why would shake the community to its core. ---- A special thank you to Connor for bringing this case to our attention and sharing his research. Connor does incredible work documenting underreported cases from countries all over the world, and publishes those write-ups...

From 1998 to 2004, a serial killer stalked the farmlands of eastern Ukraine. The weapons changed each time — pipes, hammers, shotguns, fire — whatever was at hand. Entire families were massacred. Grandparents in their beds. Children in their pajamas. No one was spared. ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murd...

When high-school student Evelyne Sincère is found stuffed in a discarded barrel at a trash dump, Port-au-Prince, Haiti erupts in grief and fury. Celebrities and students alike join the demand for accountability. ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com

When 19-year-old university student Roxana Vargas is found dead in a Caracas park, her personal blog exposes just the beginning of the decades long nightmare investigators would uncover. ----- Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murderwithoutborders@gmail.com