Murder Without Borders

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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 and sharing his research. Connor does incredible work documenting underreported cases from countries all over the world, and publishes those write-ups on Reddit under the username ⁠u/moondog151⁠. If you enjoy discovering cases you won’t hear anywhere else, his work is definitely worth checking out.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠[email protected]

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 on Reddit under the username u/moondog151. If you enjoy discovering cases you won’t hear anywhere else, his work is definitely worth checking out.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! [email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

In the peaceful waters of Neiafu Harbor, Tonga, 56-year-old Patricia Kearney meets a violent end. When her husband faces charges, he makes a brazen bid for freedom that humiliates an entire nation.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Hours before she was supposed to sing at Sunday church service, 17-year-old Emilie Meng steps off the last train and into the early morning darkness. She waves goodbye to her friends and is never seen alive again. Seven years later, another young girl's brutal abduction will finally crack the case wide open.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

A Sunday morning discovery on Jamaica's Prospect Beach reveals the bodies of two mothers and four children. -----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

When 28-year-old Florent Grégoire disappeared without a trace from an Andorran hostel, his family began receiving messages from a strange woman claiming to be his travel companion.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

When young women begin disappearing from bus stations across Zambia's capital, a city unused to violent crime descends into terror as bodies accumulate at an alarming pace.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Real estate success brought Teodora Bahlova home to Burgas, Bulgaria. Then one night, she disappeared. A year later, her daughter was still searching, until a second disappearance revealed hidden links.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Barefoot and covered in blood, 17-year-old Agnese Paci emerges from the darkness with a tale of horror. Her two friends are somewhere in the dunes, buried.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Norwegian yoga instructor Nerid Høiness falls for a charming Japanese traveler on a Thai island. But when she crosses into Laos with her new boyfriend then disappears, her mother's worst fears become reality.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠[email protected]

In the peaceful port city of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, young women begin disappearing in broad daylight. As ransom demands arrive and families plead for help, investigators race to stop a predator before another daughter vanishes.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠[email protected]

When 35-year-old Laleh Saharkhizan was found brutally stabbed in her Tehran home, whispers spread quickly: her husband was none other than Iranian football legend Nasser Mohammadkhani.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! [email protected]

Bright architecture student Juanny “Lohara” Tavárez Rosario vanishes on a Thursday night in the Dominican Republic, and is found the next morning in a discarded tarp, brutally tortured. Theories of drug traffickers, ex-lovers, and debts pile up... but the truth is even more shocking.--------------Have an underreported case idea from your country? Get in touch, we'd love to hear from you! [email protected]

He was polite, ordinary, forgettable. Until the police opened his front door and revealed the unimaginable.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠[email protected]

On a rainy Bangkok night, powerful billionaire Chuwong Sae Tang is found lifeless beside his longtime friend, Banyin Tangpakorn, who walked away with barely a scratch. -----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠[email protected]

Police walk into a nightmarish scene on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador. Two children are found dead in their beds, a mother lies close to her last breath, and a man’s body is discovered stuffed beneath the kitchen sink. This is the story of Lissa Caiza, Ecuador’s first known female serial killer.-----Have a suggestion, comment, or a case idea from across the globe? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! ⁠⁠[email protected]

When Laura Knight reported masked intruders storming her home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, police rushed to help. Hours later, the story she told began to unravel.----------Get in [email protected]

In an upscale enclave outside Guatemala City, 33-year-old Cristina Siekavizza leaves home one July morning and never returns, prompting a national search that soon turns inward.

When seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Jr. doesn’t return from guarding his family’s garden, a village rally turns to horror at dawn, and whispers of ritual sacrifice ripple through Nyamutumbu.

In a quiet Croatian borderland village, 23-year-old Jasmina Dominić vanished as her family insisted she’d gone to France, until she's discovered five years later, far closer to home than anyone imagined.

When gambling debts consumed police sergeant Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, she found a sinister solution: murder her own relatives for insurance money. Over six years, this South African serial killer eliminated family members one by one, using poison, strangulation, and hired assassins to fund her addiction and lifestyle.

Mauricio Leal was the most sought-after hairstylist in Colombia, adored by TV stars and beauty queens. When he and his mother were found dead in their luxury home, the glamorous façade began to crack.

A canceled hotel reservation. Deleted text messages. Security footage that tells a different story. When Namgay Dolkar goes missing in Bhutan, investigators must piece together a web of lies to find the truth.

Security cameras capture a veiled figure entering an apartment building, but appearances can be deceiving. The death of 21-year-old Iman Adel reveals a conspiracy orchestrated by those closest to her.

When 24-year-old bank manager Élodie Kulik calls for help after her car crashes on a foggy January night, the terrifying 26-second recording captures something far more sinister than an accident.

When 17-year-old Leanna Napoleon disappears after her first exam, a desperate search reveals the darkest family secret imaginable.

When Eglė Venskutonytė's body appeared tied to a tree, authorities realized her death was only the beginning.

After an anxious wait at her bus stop in the dead of night, Ana-Maria Guja felt relief when a car driven by a man she assumed was sent by her boyfriend arrived. The pregnant 19-year-old had no idea she was stepping into a nightmare.

When a young woman’s body is found at the bottom of a ravine, investigators unravel a tangled web that would reveal a man driven by desperation and greed, a “black widower” who turned his own household into an 18-year insurance scheme of horrifying proportions.

When 12-year-old Melissa Chávez is found dead in a suspicious fire, investigators soon realize the flames only obscured a darker truth lurking inside the family home.------------📧 Get in TouchWe'd love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, case suggestions, or just say hi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐️ Rate UsIf you're enjoying the show, we'd absolutely love it if you rated it — it really helps us out! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠| ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pocket Casts⁠

Killers stage a narco-style execution of an entire family, but the survivor’s story reveals an even darker truth.

When taxi drivers and passengers keep turning up dead across the Beirut suburbs, fear grips a city desperate for answers. Who will be next?------------📧 Get in TouchWe'd love to hear from you! Share your thoughts, case suggestions, or just say hi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐️ Rate UsIf you're enjoying the show, we'd absolutely love it if you rated it — it really helps us out! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠| ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pocket Casts⁠