Global True Crime

It was June 2006. Germany seemed to stand still during the World Cup. Streets filled with flags, cheering crowds, and a sense of collective celebration. In Paderborn, a small university town caught up in the festivities, 21-year-old Frauke Liebs left a pub on a warm summer evening and began walking home. She was seen leaving just after 11 p.m. A few hours later, a text message was sent from her ph...

Violence against young women is, tragically, not uncommon. Crimes like these have taken place throughout history. But the murders of Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest have drawn particular attention because the circumstances surrounding their deaths were eerily similar, even though the second murder occurred 157 years later. Both Mary and Barbara were 20 years old. Both were found dead in the same...

In May 1968, the body of a young woman was discovered in a ditch outside Georgetown, Kentucky. She was naked and wrapped in a green canvas tent bag. No one knew who she was. Despite extensive police efforts, the years passed without answers. The woman became known only as “Tent Girl”, and her identity remained a mystery for three decades. Then a teenager named Todd Matthews began digging into the...

Monday, 21 June 2004 began like any other day. 43-year-old Jim Donnelly drove to work at the Glenbrook Steel Mill, just outside Auckland, New Zealand. He said goodbye to his wife, Tracey, and the couple’s two children. Once he arrived, he clocked in, changed into his work uniform, and then vanished without a trace. More than twenty years have now passed, and Jim has never clocked out. To this day,...

Denise Amber Lee was just 21 years old. She was married, the mother of two young boys, and lived with her family in a quiet neighbourhood in Florida. Her life revolved around her children, her home, and everyday routines, until everything changed in a matter of minutes. One afternoon in January 2008, Denise vanished from her home. It soon became clear that she had been kidnapped in broad daylight,...

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Hawaii is often associated with golden beaches, vacations, and tranquillity. A place long regarded as unusually safe, far removed from the violence that so often dominates headlines in other parts of the United States. By the late 1990s, Honolulu was often described as one of America’s safest major cities. But on the morning of Tuesday, 2 November 1999, that sense of security was suddenly shattere...

24 January 1984 began like any other Tuesday. Nineteen-year-old Tim Molnar left his family home in Daytona Beach, Florida, and dropped his younger brother off at school. He was then supposed to continue on to university, but Tim would never arrive that day. Instead, he vanished, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions. Some years later, Tim’s remains were discovered in a remote wooded area...

On December 16th, 2000, 31-year-old Mike Williams left home at dawn to go duck hunting. It was one of his greatest passions in life, something he did often and something he truly loved. But this day would not be like all the others. Mike never returned home after that trip. He disappeared without a trace, and what followed would become a mystery that lasted seventeen years. It wasn’t until 2017 th...

On the morning of December 16th, 2000, 31-year-old Mike Williams left his home in Tallahassee before sunrise. He was heading out to do something he’d done hundreds of times before, go duck hunting on Lake Seminole. But sometime after Mike launched his boat, something went wrong. Very wrong. When he didn’t come home, a massive search was launched. His boat was found. His gear was found. But Mike hi...

They say that true friendship can overcome anything. But what happens when love, obsession, and imagination become so intertwined that reality begins to fade away? On the 22nd of June, 1954, the world received its answer in Christchurch, New Zealand, when two teenage girls made a decision that would change their lives forever. A decision that turned friendship into tragedy, and that, even now, mor...

In the fall of 1958, a teenager named William Leslie Arnold made the shocking decision to shoot and kill both of his parents after an argument. He later managed to escape from prison in the state of Nebraska in the United States, and from that moment on, he seemed to have vanished without a trace. William remained on the run for decades, and eventually, investigators began to lose hope of ever fin...

"What have I done to deserve being locked away? I do not deserve this horrible torture. God cannot exist if He allows His creatures to suffer like this. And there is no one coming to my rescue.” These were some of the words Blanche Monnier scratched onto the walls of the dark room where she was imprisoned, punished for loving the wrong man. A man her mother simply could not accept. Blanche was in...

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...