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The Good Spirit: Behind the Doors of Opus Dei is a Spanish HBO Max documentary series that exposes alleged psychological, spiritual and financial abuse within the Catholic organization Opus Dei. It is built on testimony from 14 former male members from 11 countries.

SanPa: Sins of the Savior is a Netflix docuseries about San Patrignano, a drug rehab commune in Italy, and the violence and murder allegations surrounding its founder Vincenzo Muccioli.

Netflix docuseries covering the 2012 murder and dismemberment of São Paulo executive Marcos Matsunaga, allegedly committed by his wife Elize, featuring her first-ever on-camera interview.

R. Kelly: The Verdict is a 2021 Apple TV documentary directed by Jordan Hill about R&B star R. Kelly's federal conviction on all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking in Brooklyn, New York.

Sins of Our Mother is a Netflix docuseries about the Vallow-Daybell murders — Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell, charged in the deaths of her two children and others.

Menendez Brothers: Misjudged? is an HBO Max documentary about Erik and Lyle Menendez, convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989.

Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed is a Discovery+ docuseries about the sprawling scandal inside Hillsong Church, centering on child sex abuse cover-ups, pastor misconduct, and the criminal prosecution of founder Brian Houston.

Journalistens dobbeltliv is a DRTV documentary series about the Danish case of a former Ekstra Bladet journalist convicted of sexual crimes against more than 40 children.

How to Create a Sex Scandal is an HBO Max docuseries about the 2005 Mineola, Texas child-abuse hoax, arguing that coerced testimony sent at least six people to prison for crimes that never happened.

Tro, håb og voldtægt is a 2024 Danish TV 2 Play documentary about Kiran Vesterholm, who says her husband Peter drugged and raped her up to 40 times — and the Mormon church buried it.

Bøgholts Misbrugte Børn is a TV 2 Play documentary series about systematic sexual abuse and violence against children at the Bøgholt institution near Aarhus, Denmark, spanning from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.

Netflix docuseries about the Academy at Ivy Ridge, a New York boarding school accused of abusing teenagers between 2001 and 2009, directed by survivor Katherine Kubler.

Britische Polizisten infiltrierten jahrzehntelang Aktivisten-Gruppen und täuschten Frauen in intimen Beziehungen. Mark Kennedy wurde 2010 als erster Agent enttarnt.

Der Jesus Army Case umfasst jahrzehntelangen sexuellen, körperlichen und psychischen Missbrauch in der Jesus Fellowship Church in Großbritannien, begangen von mehreren Mitgliedern und Führern.

Fred and Rose West were an English serial-killer couple who murdered at least 12 girls and young women in Gloucestershire, mainly at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

Lucy Letby ist eine britische Kinderkrankenschwester, die 2023 wegen Mordes an sieben Säuglingen und versuchten Mordes an weiteren sieben Babys zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt wurde.

Lluís Gros Martín, ehemaliger Kinobetreiber aus El Masnou bei Barcelona, wurde wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs von Minderjährigen zu 24 Jahren Haft verurteilt, blieb aber jahrelang auf freiem Fuß.

Im September 2014 wurden Hannah Witheridge und David Miller auf Koh Tao ermordet. Zwei Wanderarbeiter aus Myanmar wurden verurteilt, der Fall bleibt umstritten.

Das Indian Adoption Project war ein US-Regierungsprogramm, das zwischen 1958 und 1967 tausende indigene Kinder zwangsweise von ihren Familien trennte und an weiße Adoptiveltern vermittelte.

Ruby McCollum erschoss am 3. August 1952 den weißen Arzt Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams Jr. in dessen Praxis in Live Oak, Florida — ein Fall, der Rassismus und verbotene Beziehungen offenlegte.