Indiana

Shea Briar was found murdered in her home in Evansville, Indiana, in 2003. The case shocked the local community and remained unsolved for many years before investigators reopened it using new technology and DNA analysis.

An Indiana softball coach was convicted of planning and arranging the murder of his ex-fiancée Shea Briar. Together with a former player, he executed a crime rooted in deception and personal conflict.

A new documentary series premiering on Hulu in mid-January follows the DNA Doe Project as they work alongside law enforcement to solve cold cases through genetic investigation. The series focuses on a Texas murder victim who has remained unidentified for 38 years.

Herbert Baumeister was a seemingly ordinary Indianapolis businessman who, in the early-to-mid 1990s, murdered at least 11 confirmed victims on his 18-acre property. When police finally searched Fox Hollow Farm in June 1996, they uncovered remains of young men who had vanished after visiting gay bars—and investigators suspected his actual victim count may have reached 25 or more.

On February 13, 2017, best friends Abigail Williams and Liberty German vanished from the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. Their bodies were discovered the next day, and a haunting audio recording from Libby's phone—capturing a man's voice ordering them 'down the hill'—would become central to one of America's most scrutinized murder investigations.

Hulu has released two documentary series in 2024-2025 examining the high-profile murder trial of Richard Allen, charged with killing teenagers Abby Williams and Libby German on Indiana's Monon High Bridge in broad daylight. The series feature exclusive interviews with investigators, journalists, and the convicted killer's wife speaking publicly for the first time.

On February 13, 2017, teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German were murdered near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Nearly eight years later, Hulu has released multiple documentary series examining the case against Richard Allen, the local man accused of the crimes.

National Geographic's 'Naming the Dead' documents how the DNA Doe Project used cutting-edge forensic genealogy to identify John Brandenburg Jr., a victim of serial killer Larry Eyler who murdered at least 21 young men across Indiana and Illinois between 1982 and 1984.

James Riddle Hoffa, the powerful president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on July 30, 1975, from a restaurant parking lot in Michigan. His case has become one of America's most enduring unsolved mysteries, with the FBI pointing to organized crime involvement but no body ever recovered.

John Dillinger, the mastermind behind the Dillinger Gang's string of bank robberies across America, was shot and killed by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. His death marked the dramatic end to one of the most intense manhunts of the Depression era.

In April 1988, 8-year-old April Tinsley disappeared while walking to a neighbor's house in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Thirty years later, advances in DNA genealogy led to the arrest of John D. Miller, who confessed to raping and strangling the child.

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people—including 19 children—in what remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Six years later, he was executed by lethal injection.