The Murder of Christine Jessop
DNA exonerated Guy Paul Morin and, decades later, genetic genealogy led Toronto police to identify Calvin Hoover as Christine Jessop's killer after his death.
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Wrongful Convictions
Explore 6 documented Crime by Region case files grouped under wrongful convictions.
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The Highway of Tears
The disappearances and murders associated with northern British Columbia's Highway 16 reveal both unresolved cases and a wider crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls.
Read case file →The Hwaseong Serial Murders
A series of murders that terrorized South Korea in the late 1980s went unsolved for over three decades, until DNA technology identified the killer in 2019.
Read case file →The Murder of Meredith Kercher
British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, in a case that drew international attention through the trials of her roommate, Amanda Knox.
Read case file →The False Confessions of Thomas Quick
A Swedish psychiatric patient confessed to over 30 murders in the 1990s and 2000s and was convicted of eight, before all the confessions were revealed to be false.
Read case file →The Evandro Case
A child’s 1992 murder led to convictions later overturned after courts recognized that key confessions had been obtained through torture.
Read case file →The Wanninkhof–Carabantes Murders
DNA evidence linked the murders of Rocío Wanninkhof and Sonia Carabantes to Tony Alexander King and exposed the wrongful conviction of Dolores Vázquez.
Read case file →The Putten Murder Case
The 1994 murder of Christel Ambrosius led to two wrongful convictions in the Netherlands. DNA later identified Ronald P., who was convicted of the killing.
Read case file →The Catrine da Costa Case
Catrine da Costa’s remains were found in the Stockholm area in 1984. Two doctors were acquitted of murder, and no one has been convicted of causing her death.
Read case file →The Harvey and Jeannette Crewe Murders
New Zealand · Unsolved · Double Homicide / Wrongful Conviction
The “Monster of Armendáriz” Case
Peru · Unsolved · Child Homicide / Wrongful Conviction
The Grangegorman Murders
Ireland · Solved · Double Homicide / Wrongful Suspicion
The Kerry Babies Case
Ireland · Solved · Infant Death / Miscarriage of Justice
The Baneheia Murders and Wrongful Conviction
Norway · Solved · Double Homicide / Miscarriage of Justice
The Murder of Birgitte Tengs
Norway · Unsolved · Homicide / Wrongful Accusation
The Fritz Moen Wrongful Convictions
Norway · Solved · Wrongful Conviction / Unsolved Murders
The Ulvila Murder
Finland · Unsolved · Homicide / Contested Prosecution