Washington

On January 23, 1989, serial killer Ted Bundy gave his final interview to Reverend Dr. James Dobson, approximately 16 hours before his execution by electrocution in Florida. In a roughly one-hour conversation, Bundy discussed the antecedents to his violent behavior and made controversial claims about what drove his crimes.

Albert Fish, born in 1870, murdered at least three children between 1924 and 1928, including 11-year-old Grace Budd, whose dismembered remains he cannibalized. Arrested in 1930 and convicted in 1936, Fish claimed to have killed over 100 children across America before his execution.

On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, handed a note to a flight attendant claiming he had a bomb, and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. Hours later, he parachuted into the darkness near the Washington-Oregon border—and disappeared forever.

Gary Ridgway confessed to murdering 49 women between 1982 and 1998 in Washington State, but it was groundbreaking DNA analysis of evidence from the early 1980s that finally exposed America's prolific serial killer. Two decades after his crimes began, new forensic technology would prove decisive.

On March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, a 25-year-old man fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan. The assassination attempt wounded the president and three others, and set in motion events that would reshape U.S. law and national security policy.

Elena Busiakos was found strangled in the trunk of her car in a Woodinville, Washington parking lot on February 9, 2001. Her fiancé Sione Lui was convicted of her murder in 2008, but the case remains contentious, featured prominently in the true crime documentary series 'Murder She Solved.'

A Danish podcast launched in 2021 has climbed Apple's charts by doing what few crime series attempt: systematically dissecting how bias, flawed investigation, and racial profiling can trap innocent people in prison for decades. 'Suspect' examines a case that forced Scandinavia to reckon with its own blind spots.