Global True Crime

In July 2008, tragedy struck in a parking lot when a well-liked teacher and mother of three, Genai Coleman, was shot and killed during a carjacking. The attack was cold, calculated, and completely senseless. Police immediately launched an intensive search for the person responsible. Before long, the evidence seemed to point clearly in one direction, towards a man who perfectly matched the descript...

In April 2007, two German police officers were found shot in their patrol car in the city of Heilbronn. When forensic investigators examined the crime scene, they were surprised to discover a female DNA profile that also matched traces found at a number of other unsolved crimes. The same genetic evidence had been identified at burglaries, thefts and several murders, in total around forty different...

The MacDonald family seemed to have it all: young, beautiful, and successful. Colette and Jeffrey, with their two little daughters. Jeffrey was thriving in his career, and they had big plans for the future. But all of that ended on the night of February 17, 1970, when three members of the family were brutally murdered. The question people asked then, and still ask today, is this: Was the fourth me...

Shortly after Christmas in 1992, 23-year-old Steven Clark went out for a walk with his mother, Doris, near Saltburn, along the coastline of North Yorkshire in England. At one point, they stopped at a public restroom. Steven went into the men’s, while Doris slipped into the ladies’. From that very moment, Steven vanished without a trace, and he has never returned home since. Almost 28 years later,...

During most of the nineties, Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse at a veterans’ hospital in Massachusetts. She was young, intelligent, skilled, and well-liked by her colleagues. Later on however, she would earn the chilling nickname “The Angel of Death,” because an alarming number of her patients died during her shifts. At first, it seemed like an unfortunate coincidence. But over time, a much...

Real stories and criminal cases from across the globe. From murders and disappearances to unsolved mysteries, we explore both well-known and more overlooked cases that reveal how crime impacts people, societies, and justice systems worldwide. Coming soon. Global True Crime is an English adaptation of the Swedish podcast "Rysarpodden: True Crime". Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/globaltruecri...