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Forbes True Crime will delve into the multi-billion dollar business of true crime media--podcasts, TV shows, docs, and books!--going one-on-one with industry leaders, authors, crime-solvers, and more, as well as hitting on the buzziest cases, trials, and mysteries, and ones that will never stop riveting the nation.
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June 30, 2026 • 33 mins
There are new details regarding a second ransom note allegedly sent to some media outlets just days after Nancy Guthrie went missing. The 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Tucson-area home on February 1. The following day, a ransom note sent to some news organizations demanded millions in cryptocurrency in exchange for her return, but just days later, another message sent from t...
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On the morning of May 25th, 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz was allowed to walk to the bus stop alone for the first time. It was only about a two-block jaunt from his family’s apartment in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. But he never made it to school that Friday — Etan vanished without a trace before ever stepping foot on the bus. He was one of the first missing children to be featured on a milk carton, and on the ...
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June 10, 2026 • 21 mins
What happened at 34 Fairview Road in the early morning hours of January 29th, 2022, is a question that starkly divided a community. John O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, was found dead in the snow in front of a fellow Boston police officer’s house. Soon, two competing stories emerged. Prosecutors alleged that O’Keefe’s then-girlfriend, Karen Read, hit John with her vehicle while sh...
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On the evening of April 4, Lynette and Brian Hooker were aboard a dinghy in the Bahamas making their way to the sailboat they lived on, “Soulmate.” According to authorities, Brian said that just before sundown, rough conditions caused Lynette to fall overboard, and a strong current separated her from the boat. Before he lost sight of her, Brian claimed he saw his wife swimming to shore. According to Brian, Lynette had t...
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A video of a Queens woman’s 2024 arrest sparked national outrage after going viral— she was attempting to protect her home, a place that was in her family for years, from a squatter who had changed the locks and was illegally leasing out the rooms to make a profit. Stories like this one, where squatters found ways to game the system, exploit the law, and live in someone else’s home for free, are featured in the ne...
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On a chilly Saturday morning in February 2008, a gunman who police said was masquerading as a delivery man entered a Lane Bryant in Tinley Park, Illinois. About 40 minutes later, six women, a mix of customers and store employees, were shot execution style. Five died and one survived. By the time law enforcement arrived on the scene, the gunman slipped out of the store. Despite police releasing a sketch of the suspect just days afte...
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In 2004, a man who appeared to be in his mid-50s was found laying near a Burger King’s dumpster in Richmond Hill, Georgia. He said he suffered from amnesia— he could not remember who he was or how he got there, and claimed to only possess a handful of memories total from his life. He called himself Benjaman Kyle, and in the following years, this story of a man with seemingly no identity was featured on the news, a stude...
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In a big win for Alex Murdaugh, South Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned his convictions for the murders of his wife and son, and granted him a retrial. The ruling found that Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill’s conduct denied “Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.” The opinion also argued that during the original double murder trial, the state went “far too long and far to...
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In 2023, years into an extremely contentious custody battle, two Utah siblings barricaded themselves in a bedroom— and livestreamed the experience on TikTok. Ty and Brynlee Larson were protesting a court order that would mandate they attend a “reunification camp” with their father— a man they both claim had abused them, which are allegations he strongly denied. A new docuseries, “The Nightmare Upstairs...
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Two Miami police officers are suing Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production company, Artists Equity, over the 2026 movie ‘The Rip,’ an action thriller the actors also starred in. The lawsuit argues that the movie, which bills itself as being “inspired by true events,” uses “distinctive elements of a real law enforcement investigation” involving the two officers and ultimately portrays &ldqu...
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South Carolina’s Supreme Court unanimously overturned Alex Murdaugh’s double murder convictions and consecutive life sentences, meaning the disgraced attorney will stand for a new trial in the 2021 killings of his wife Maggie and son Paul. The ruling said that the court clerk “placed her fingers on the scales of justice, thereby denying Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.” In December 20...
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Whitey Bulger, the ruthless leader of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, had a criminal career spanning decades. Cold-blooded murders, extortion and drug-dealing were all associated with the gangster who ruled South Boston’s underworld from the ‘70s to mid 90s. What was less known was the fact he was an informant, and was being protected by his FBI handler, agent John Connolly. In December of 1994, then-retired Connolly t...
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A U.S. special forces soldier who was involved in Operation Absolute Resolve, the attack that ultimately resulted in the capture of Venezuela's sitting leader Nicolas Maduro, was charged on Thursday with using confidential government information about the raid to make more than $400,000 in online bets. Federal prosecutors allege Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, was involved in planning and carry...
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Libby Henry thought she was walking into a picture-perfect life after she married her college sweetheart who was from a prominent and politically connected family. What she could have never imagined was that her husband would eventually be involved in an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme that would ultimately leave her in financial ruin. Her story is featured in the new docuseries, “Betrayal: Secrets & Lies,” which is...
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In 2008, six years after Sarah Pender was sentenced to 110 years in prison for the double murder of her roommates Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman, she mounted a dramatic escape from the Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana. Pender, who was previously dubbed the “female Charles Manson” by the prosecutor on her case, dyed her hair, changed her appearance and evaded law enforcement for over 130 days. The new docus...
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August 10th, 2018, started out like any normal day at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, until air traffic control noticed a plane rolling down the runway that shouldn’t have been. 28-year-old Richard “Beebo” Russell, a ground service agent with Horizon Air who never flew a plane before, showed up to work and did what he described as a bad thing – stole an empty commercial passenger plane to take a fa...
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By all metrics, it seemed Tom Hardin was a success story — he grew up in a middle class family, worked hard to get into the University of Pennsylvania, and after graduating, worked his way up to becoming a successful hedge fund analyst. As he felt more and more pressure in the finance world, especially while watching others seemingly cut moral corners to get ahead, he decided to cross a line — Tom made four trades with ...
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April 11, 2026 • 29 mins
Kate Crane had what she described as a normal childhood growing up in Baltimore with her parents and sister — but that changed in an instant the day her father vanished. Eddy Crane, who owned a trucking business with his former best friend, always called home to say he was leaving work, and then he would show shortly after, like clockwork — until he never walked through the door again. Her father went missing when Kate ...
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The man charged with murdering seven women and discarding their remains in Gilgo Beach and other Long Island sites between 1993 and 2010 pleaded guilty on Wednesday, putting to rest a case that has haunted the New York suburb for decades. 62-year-old Rex Heuermann, who worked as an architect in midtown Manhattan, pleaded guilty to killing Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Br...
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April 8, 2026 • 22 mins
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The search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has stretched into its second month. The mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie went missing from her Tucson home over 60 days ago. Authorities know that her doorbell camera was disconnected in the early hours of February 1st, and 41 minutes later, her pacemaker app was disconnected from her phone. Ten days into her disappearance, authorities...
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