• Luigi Mangione was charged last week over the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
• The race is on to be the first to make a true crime show about him.
• Two documentaries and two TV specials have been announced so far.

True Crime has a new protagonist: Luigi Mangione.

Since Mangione was arrested and charged with murder last week over the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media and public have been mining information about his past, including by scouring his social media accounts, to learn every detail about his life.

This week, news outlets reported that four documentaries about the 26-year-old and the shooting were in the works.

Thompson was shot and killed by a masked person outside a Manhattan hotel on December 4. Mangione was arrested on December 9 after being found in a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and later faced local gun and forgery charges alongside the murder charge.

The shooting has had a huge cultural impact, sparking conversations about what is seen as the normalization of violence in the US and the state of the healthcare system. It seemed inevitable that true crime shows would follow at a time when the genre's popularity is at its height.

After pictures of Mangione emerged following the shooting, some X users joked that Ryan Murphy, who is behind true crime dramas including "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story," would make a show about him. Others speculated which actors should portray Mangione.

Here's what we know about the upcoming projects.

An ABC special on Mangione includes a minute-by-minute breakdown of the shooting

ABC's "Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder – A Special Edition of 20/20" will be the first show about him to air.

The hourlong special was announced on Tuesday and will air at 10 pm EST on Thursday, and will land on Hulu the next day.

According to ABC, the film will present a minute-by-minute investigation of the shooting, feature an exclusive audio recording of Mangione talking about his travels through Asia, and provide new details about the hunt to find him.

The special will also include an interview with his friend.

An Oscar-winning director's production company is making a documentary about Thompson's death

On Monday, Variety reported that entertainment production companies Anonymous Content and Jigsaw Productions were teaming up on a documentary about the shooting.

Variety reported the documentary will explore how people become killers and American citizens' frustration with the healthcare industry.

Jigsaw Productions is led by Alex Gibney, who in 2008 won an Oscar for best feature documentary for "Taxi to the Dark Side." Gibney is also working on a documentary about Elon Musk.

Emmy nominee Stephen Robert Morse's documentary will explore different perspectives on the shooting

Hours later, Variety reported that filmmaker Stephen Robert Morse, an Emmy-nominated producer, was making a separate documentary about Mangione.

Morse will work with Matt Cianfrani, a cinematographer, Hannah Ghorashi, an investigative journalist, and Eli Eisenstein, a filmmaker who went to Mangione's college, the University of Pennsylvania.

Morse told Variety that the doc will explore various perspectives surrounding the killing "while respecting the profound loss of life and its impact on everyone involved."

Morse told Deadline Monday that the film would be "memed" but encourage a deeper understanding of the case.

Last week, Morse Code Group, Morse's production company, set up an Instagram page and invited Thompson and Mangione's family, friends, and co-workers to share their stories.

In the caption of their first post, the company wrote: "If you have a story to share about your experience with Luigi Mangione, Brian Thompson, United Healthcare, or US health insurance generally, please get in touch with us!"

Warner Bros. Discovery's true crime network is working on 'Who Is Luigi Mangione?'

On Monday, Variety also reported that Investigation Discovery, Warner Bros. Discovery's true crime network, will release an hourlong special about the Mangione case in February 2025.

Variety said the project's working title is "Who Is Luigi Mangione?"

A representative for Investigation Discovery told Variety that the special will feature the TV host Dan Abrams, experts, industry insiders, and people close to Mangione to explore "his mental state" and "investigate the theories" surrounding his arrest.

• Netflix's "The Kings of Tupelo" is about an Elvis impersonator called Paul Kevin Curtis.
• He went down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories after he said he discovered a fridge full of body parts.
• In 2013, he was accused of using ricin to try to assassinate Barack Obama.

Netflix is continuing its trend of telling true crime stories that seem almost too wild to be true with "The Kings of Tupelo."

The three-part docuseries follows Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator from Tupelo, Mississippi, who was accused of using the poison ricin to try to assassinate Barack Obama in 2013.

As shown in the series, Curtis was a self-employed janitor in 1999 when he said he discovered a fridge full of body parts while cleaning the morgue at the North Mississippi Medical Center. After raising the issue with management, Curtis claims he was ejected from the building by security guards and was told he was banned from the hospital. North Mississippi Medical Center did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

He attempted to publicize his unfounded theories that the body parts were being used for an illegal operation. But when the media ignored him, Curtis approached James Everett Dutschke, a Wayne Newton impersonator, who also lived in Tupelo.

In 2013, GQ reported that Dutschke owned an independent newspaper and promised to publish any story that the mainstream media wouldn't. However, the pair's relationship soured when he refused to publish Curtis' story, fearing it could harm his chances of starting a political career.

This led to a feud between the two men, and Dutschke framed Curtis for attempting to assassinate Obama.

Dutschke sent letters containing ricin, signed with Curtis' name, to Obama in April 2013, as well as US Senator Roger Wicker and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.

The authorities arrested Curtis on April 17, 2013, but quickly established that Dutschke was the culprit when they found his DNA on a dust mask that he wore while making the ricin. Curtis was released without charge.

Paul Kevin Curtis avoided prison and still performs in Tupelo

Dutschke pleaded guilty in 2014 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending the ricin letters.

Curtis posts pictures and videos on Instagram of him singing, but doesn't share much about his personal life.

He has made a few promotional posts about "The Kings of Tupelo," which he appears in throughout.

In one post, he wrote, "Watch my life story on Netflix on December 13, 2024. I am the first Elvis Presley impersonator ever framed in a presidential assassination plot and lived to tell the story."

• Only one person has ever been arrested on suspicion of JonBenét Ramsey's murder: John Mark Karr.
• In 2006, the former teacher (under the name "Daxis") said he was with the 6-year-old when she died.
• But DNA evidence cleared him of involvement, and he's been laying low in recent years.

The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen, has transfixed the public since 1996.

In the decades since the crime, there have been many theories about who killed JonBenét and even several false confessions. The suspect covered most widely in the media was John Mark Karr, who was arrested and later cleared of involvement in the murder in 2006.

The former teacher claimed to have had a "relationship" with JonBenét and killed her accidentally. Netflix's new docuseries, "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey," touches on Karr's later debunked confession. Here's what we know about his whereabouts today.

John Mark Karr used the name "Daxis" to send emails to a JonBenét Ramsey documentarian

In 2002, Michael Tracey, a media professor who has produced several documentaries on the JonBenét Ramsey case, was contacted via email by a man using the name "Daxis." He told Tracey he was a "passionate lover of little girls," and suggested he was with Ramsey when she died but that her death had been accidental.

They communicated via email for four years. Tracey eventually shared his communications with then-Boulder DA Mary Lacy, after Daxis appeared to know details about the murder case that hadn't been made public, including the nickname JonBenét used for her grandmother.

Daxis tried to arrange to speak with Patsy Ramsey, JonBenét's mother, to ask for her forgiveness before she died of ovarian cancer in June 2006. Investigators hoped to track Daxis down by setting up a phone tap, but he never called. Finally, authorities were able to trace Daxis to Thailand after Tracey offered to send him the last printed photo of JonBenét.

John Mark Karr, a former substitute teacher who'd fled the US after being arrested on child pornography charges in California in 2001, was revealed to be Daxis and was arrested after picking up Tracey's package. After his capture, he reiterated to reporters that he was with JonBenét when she died and that her death was an accident.

Karr was brought back to Colorado but the case against him was quickly dropped in August 2006 when DNA test results showed that he wasn't the source of DNA found on Ramsey's underwear. His family had also said he was home with them at the time Ramsey was killed.

Where is John Mark Karr now? He's leading a 'covert life'

After the case against Karr was dropped, he was extradited back to California, where he'd originally faced child pornography charges in 2001. Those charges were also dropped in October 2006 after investigators admitted they'd lost computer evidence against Karr.

In 2017, the Monroe Journal spoke to Karr, who said he had traveled abroad, undergone sex reassignment surgery, and was living as a woman under the name Alex Reich. Business Insider was unable to verify this report.

As "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey" notes, Karr said on his website that he was living "a very covert life outside the US" as of May 2024.

According to statements on that website, which appears to be run by Karr but was not able to be verified by Business Insider, Karr lived in the US from 2017 to 2020 before leaving the US once again in the summer of 2020. He called his brief stint back in America one of his "deepest regrets" and said that to stay safe and private he intended to remain on the move and never return to the US.

In the most recent statement posted to the website on Friday, Karr refuted John Ramsey's claim (initially made in 2006 after Karr's arrest but resurfaced by Ramsey in recent interviews and the Netflix docuseries) that there was evidence Karr had stalked the family's Charlevoix, Michigan, vacation home prior to JonBenét's death. Karr said there would have been no way he knew the Ramseys had a home there.

Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker behind "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey," told BI that he attempted to contact the one-time suspect for the documentary but that Karr had gone off the grid since being cleared of JonBenét's murder.

As for whether he thinks the former teacher really did kill the 6-year-old, given renewed questions over whether the DNA evidence that cleared him is valuable, Berlinger said he didn't want to speculate and do what was done to the Ramseys. However, he said that when new DNA testing has been completed "everyone needs to be put back on the table as a suspect."

• Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey's unsolved 1996 murder is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries.
• Director Joe Berlinger explained why he thinks the public and the media got the case all wrong.
• Berlinger told BI that he wants the project to push the Boulder police department to reinvestigate.

The widespread cultural fascination with true crime isn't a mystery to Joe Berlinger, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentarian behind Netflix's new docuseries "Cold Case: Who killed JonBenét Ramsey."

"People like to be armchair detectives and solve crimes," he told Business Insider. "People like to stare into the abyss of evil to make them feel better about their own lives."

People also like a good story. And the unsolved murder of a 6-year-old pageant queen has all the trappings of one.

The daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey, a wealthy couple in Boulder, Colorado, was found dead the day after Christmas in 1996, her skull fractured and a garrote used to strangle her still embedded in her neck. Despite several false confessions over the years, no one was ever charged in her death.

Berlinger was the father of a 2-year-old daughter himself when he first heard about the case. Back then, he "believed in all that media hype" that suggested a member of JonBenét's own family (John, Patsy, or her then 9-year-old brother Burke) had killed her and staged the scene to look like a kidnapping.

Though these theories still persist over 15 years after a previous Boulder DA administration formally cleared the Ramseys of suspicion, Berlinger now says he knows better — and he wants his Netflix series to help push the Boulder PD to reinvestigate the case.

JonBenét Ramsey's unsolved murder has transfixed Americans for almost three decades

The JonBenét case has been covered ad nauseam in made-for-TV movies, podcasts, and documentaries in the almost three decades since her death incited a media frenzy in 1996. (Paramount+ even has an upcoming scripted series about it in the works, starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen as Patsy and John.)

But once Berlinger did a deep dive into the case, he knew his documentary would have something different to say.

"People have gotten it so wrong," Berlinger said. "I can't think of another family that's been so brutalized so unfairly by the media."

At the time, coverage of the initial investigation focused heavily on the Ramsey family as prime suspects. The police stated that John and Patsy Ramsey were under "an umbrella of suspicion," and Thomas G. Koby, the Boulder Police Chief at the time, initially told the Boulder community that his team believed it was "a one-time occurrence" and not the work of a serial killer — which many interpreted to mean the police thought the parents did it.

Steve Thomas, another prominent investigator, later wrote (and eventually settled a lawsuit over) a book theorizing that Patsy Ramsey had flown into a rage and killed JonBenét after a bed-wetting incident. Before that, he'd accused Patsy of being the murderer to her face during a 2000 "Larry King Live" interview.

Members of the media also contributed to the widely held view that the Ramseys were guilty. Some, like journalist Charlie Brennan, who participated in the Netflix docuseries, reported on information from investigative sources that painted the family in an unfavorable or suspicious light. Some of those stories ended up being wholly false, like one debunked report that John Ramsey flew a private jet to his daughter's funeral in Atlanta.

Berlinger said he has "a lot of respect" for Brennan agreeing to participate in the docuseries, and noted that other journalists who were more firmly in the "Ramseys Did It" camp opted not to speak to him. So, too, did the case's original investigators. "We had a long talk with Steve Thomas and he ultimately decided it wasn't in his interest," Berlinger told BI.

The docuseries focuses more on debunking than revealing to make the case that the family wasn't involved in JonBenét's death.

It recounts how the initial investigation into the case was faulty — the responding Boulder police officers didn't lock down the scene, potential evidence was compromised, certain items were never DNA tested — something the current Boulder police chief acknowledges.

It also prominently features the perspective of Lou Smit, a famous Colorado police detective called out of retirement to work on the case, who resigned after concluding that an intruder killed JonBenét and the investigation had wrongly focused on the Ramseys.

Berlinger hopes his documentary can help police finally solve the JonBenét case

Berlinger has experience working on stories about wrongful convictions, and even contributing to some of those being overturned (like the West Memphis Three, a trio of teenagers convicted of child murders depicted in his "Paradise Lost" films).

The Ramseys were never technically convicted of anything. (It was revealed in 2013 that a grand jury had voted to indict John and Patsy on counts of child abuse, but the then-DA refused to sign the documents.) But the documentarian is still astounded at how virulently people insist they're guilty.

"When I dare to look at Reddit message boards to see what people are thinking, it just boggles my mind," he told BI.

Berlinger is adamant that the family can still be vindicated, and that the real perpetrator can be identified through DNA analysis.

"A year ago, recommendations were made by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on what steps to take and they haven't taken those steps as far as we know," Berlinger told BI. "Maybe they're doing it but they're being awfully mum, and they're not very communicative with the Ramsey family either."

Berlinger said the goal of his documentary is to raise questions so that professionals can investigate. For instance, he said that his choice in the documentary to highlight all of the pedophiles who were at one point suspected of killing JonBenét was meant to prompt questions about whether the killer could have been one of them.

"There is a large universe, sadly, of sick people who do this kind of thing," he said. "And it makes the Ramsey story even more implausible."

The docuseries also makes a point to question the validity of the existing DNA evidence and push the Boulder PD to test previously untested items found at the crime scene. With new DNA testing, the doc suggests, there's a chance the perpetrator could finally be identified, either through the existing criminal database or by finding a close family match thanks to the recent boom in commercialized genealogical testing.

This "start from scratch" DNA testing approach would mean that every suspect previously ruled out based on that potentially faulty original DNA evidence would need to be reconsidered. That, more than anything, feels to the director like proof of John Ramsey's innocence: Why would he push for new testing, knowing that it could expose him if he were the culprit?

"John Ramsey, who's 80, is still pounding the table for an answer and wants to move this case forward, and wants, before he dies, to solve the crime. That is not the action of a guilty person," Berlinger said. "John would be the first to tell you that everyone, including the Ramseys, needs to be put back on the table when new DNA testing has been executed."

"There are concrete things that can be done. There's an opportunity to right a wrong here and to solve this crime through DNA technology," he added.

Soon after the release of Berlinger's docuseries in November, the Boulder PD released its annual update about their investigation slightly earlier than usual, citing the "increased attention" as the reason for the early drop.

"The killing of JonBenét was an unspeakable crime and this tragedy has never left our hearts," Boulder police chief Steve Redfearn said. "We are committed to following up on every lead and we are continuing to work with DNA experts and our law enforcement partners around the country until this tragic case is solved. This investigation will always be a priority for the Boulder Police Department."

The statement continued, "The assertion that there is viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing — to include DNA testing — is completely false."

In response, Berlinger and the filmmaking team told The Hollywood Reporter that nothing would make them happier than to learn the Boulder PD was pursuing all the recommendations made by the Cold Case review team, and urged the investigators to share their progress with the Ramsey family.

"We wish the BPD great success in finding the killer of JonBenét Ramsey and urge them to collaborate with all outside entities, including private forensic labs, who have offered to assist them in solving this horrific crime," Berlinger and his team's statement reads.

"Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey" is now streaming on Netflix.

• Throughout the '90s, there were crime stories that shocked the world. 
• In 1996, 6-year-old pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her own home.
• Twenty-eight years later, the case remains unsolved, though there are theories about what happened.

Although the '70s and '80s were known for infamous serial killers, the 1990s also saw some horrific crimes that shocked the nation.

Among those cases was the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado. She was reported missing by her parents on the morning of December 26, and she was found dead in the basement of her home later that same day.

Twenty-eight years later, it remains unclear exactly what happened to JonBenét, but her mysterious death captivated the nation for years, leading to podcasts, TV movies, an upcoming limited series on Paramount+, and multiple true-crime series, including the most recent Netflix series "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey," which premiered in November.

From mass shootings to heartbreaking celebrity deaths, here are some of the most unforgettable crimes of the '90s. 

Infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer murdered his last victim and was caught in 1991.

On May 27, 1991, an injured 14-year-old boy was seen running through the streets, reported The New York Times.

When police responded, Jeffrey Dahmer told the officers the boy was his lover and that they had a flight. After the officers returned the boy to Dahmer and escorted them both home, Dahmer killed him. Dahmer went on to kill four more men, bringing his total number of murder victims to 17, per the Times.

In July of that year, Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old Black man, was seen walking the streets with his hands handcuffed. He brought police officers to Dahmer's house, which is where he said he was cuffed. When the officers entered the house, they saw photographs of body parts lying around. Dahmer was arrested on the spot.

Dahmer was found guilty and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. He was killed in prison by a fellow inmate in 1994.

Dahmer remains one of the nation's most disturbing serial killers. The chilling case became the subject of a 2017 movie, "My Friend Dahmer," based on a graphic novel, and the 2022 Netflix miniseries "Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story."

Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord, was shot in 1993 when he was on the run from authorities.

Pablo Escobar became one of the richest people in the world in the late '80s and early '90s thanks to the cocaine trade that he controlled out of Colombia.

His Medellín Cartel was responsible for 80% of the cocaine sent to the US, leaving thousands dead, per The Wall Street Journal. He became a target for the US and authorities in Colombia, so he went on the run. 

On December 2, 1993, Escobar attempted to escape the authorities by running across rooftops in Medellin, but he was killed in a shoot-out. His death marked the end of the country's reign on cocaine.

When Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found dead in 1994, OJ Simpson was arrested, sparking the trial of the century.

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson was stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home with her friend Ron Goldman.

Her ex-husband, NFL star OJ Simpson, quickly became a prime suspect. He was arrested and charged with the two murders after leading police on a televised 60-mile car chase through Los Angeles. When he finally surrendered in his home, Simpson pleaded "absolutely, 100 percent not guilty."

The trial itself became a media frenzy, as Simpson famously tried on the gloves that were left at the murder scene.

On October 3 the following year, Time wrote that over 150 million people (57% of the US population at the time) tuned in to hear the verdict. After just two hours of deliberations, Simpson was found not guilty.

The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are still unsolved. OJ Simpson died in April 2024.

In 1994, Gary Ray Bowles went on an eight-month killing spree and became known as the I-95 Killer.

Gary Ray Bowles killed his first victim, John Hardy Roberts, in Daytona Beach in 1994. From there, he murdered five more gay men along Interstate 95 in Maryland, Georgia, Atlanta, and Florida.

At one of his crime scenes, Bowles left a probation document, and he was caught on surveillance camera taking money out of the victim's account. When he was finally caught, he was convicted of three out of the six murders. He was executed by lethal injection in 2019.

While at the height of her career, Latin singer Selena was killed in March 1995.

The month before her murder, Selena Quintanilla (known mononymously as Selena) was at the height of her career, performing for 60,000 people at the Houston Astrodome.

Her album "Amor Prohibido" was nominated at the Grammys for best Mexican-American performance. She was also working on an English album that she hoped would transform her into a crossover hit. By all accounts, she was poised to become the next Gloria Estefan. 

But everything changed in March 1995.

The year prior, she made Yolanda Saldívar the manager of the Selena fan club and put her in charge of the singer's boutiques.

Selena quickly noticed that there were money discrepancies and missing documents with both those businesses. Over the course of a couple of months, Selena confronted Saldívar about the missing documents. Ultimately, those conversations ended with Saldívar shooting Selena after they met at a hotel room, The New York Times reported. She was 23 years old. 

Saldívar was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 30 years. She is currently in a Texas prison and will be eligible for parole in March 2025.

Meanwhile, Selena's song "Dreaming of You" debuted after her death and reached the No. 1 spot on the US Billboard 200 charts. 

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck filled with explosives in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh rented a Ryder truck with agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals inside.

He parked the truck outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and walked to a getaway car. When the bomb went off, it destroyed the building and killed 168 people. Among them, 19 were children, CNN reported.

When the FBI found a rear axle from the truck in the rubble, they quickly traced the piece back to McVeigh, a former US Army. From there, the evidence continued to build against McVeigh: He had traces of chemicals on his clothing, and he even jotted down notes about the bombing beforehand. The FBI also found that two other men knew about the bombing plot and helped him devise the plan.

McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and was sentenced to death. He was executed in 2001.

A bomb went off at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, leading to the deaths of two people.

On July 27, 1996, police received an anonymous phone call telling them a bomb would go off in 30 minutes at the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta.

As the location was being evacuated, the bomb went off early. A woman was killed, and a cameraman who was rushing to the scene also suffered a fatal heart attack, CNN reported. More than 100 more were injured.

At first, security guard Richard Jewell, who found the backpack that held the bomb, was identified as a suspect. Eventually, Jewell was cleared of any wrongdoing. This series of events was covered in the 2019 film "Richard Jewell."

The crime went unsolved until 1998 when a series of bombings in the South linked Eric Robert Rudolph to the Olympic bombings.

He eluded police for several more years and was eventually arrested in 2003. Rudolph was convicted and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences.

On September 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. His rival, the Notorious BIG, was murdered in a similar way six months later.

Tupac Shakur made a name for himself as an acclaimed rapper whose music fought against injustice toward Black Americans. Shakur made hit after hit, creating four platinum albums throughout his career. 

But on September 7, 1996, he was seen leaving the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas after getting into a fight. Shakur was in the passenger seat of a car when another car pulled up beside him at a red light, and 13 shots were fired.

He died at the hospital on September 13. 

Since Shakur's death, seven albums have been released under his name, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Some believed his biggest rival, rapper Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie, Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious BIG), was behind his murder, but he denied any involvement.

On March 9, 1997, Biggie was killed, also while waiting at a red light.

Over the years, there have been many theories about what happened to the men.

In September 2023, Duane Davis (also known as Keffe D) was arrested in connection with Shakur's murder, 27 years after Shakur's death. Davis pleaded not guilty in November 2023, NPR reported. His trial was originally scheduled to start in June 2024 but was postponed to November, and then delayed again to March 2025, per Rolling Stone.

JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty queen, was murdered in 1996, and the case remains open today.

On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called the police saying her daughter, JonBenét, was missing and that a three-page ransom note was left on the staircase from a kidnapper who demanded $118,000.

JonBenét's body was found in the basement of the Ramsey home later that day.

From the start, the murder investigation was problematic.

John Ramsey had picked up and moved JonBenét's body out of the basement after she was found. John and Patsy were also interviewed together by investigators, which is not typical police procedure. Since the parents gave inconsistent accounts of what happened that night, the public pointed fingers at them. 

In 2006, the Ramseys were cleared of any wrongdoing because of advancements in DNA evidence. To this day, no one has been charged with the death of JonBenét, though the latest Netflix series puts forth some theories.

Famous designer Gianni Versace was assassinated by a serial killer in 1997.

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace arrived at his mansion in Miami and was shot by Andrew Cunanan on the front steps.

Before the murder, as reported by Harper's Bazaar, Cunanan was already on the FBI's Most Wanted List after a killing spree where he murdered four men: Jeffrey Trail, David Madson, Lee Miglin, and William Reese.

Once Versace's murder made headlines, a nationwide manhunt ensued.

It all came to a head at a houseboat that Cunanan broke into. As police closed in on him, Cunanan killed himself using the same gun he had used on three of his victims.

To this day, it's unclear what his motives were, though an attempt to explore his headspace was shown in "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" in 2018.

The famous comedian Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife in 1998.

Phil Hartman was famous for the eight seasons he spent as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live." While on the show, he was known for his impression of President Bill Clinton. He also went on to play a news anchor in the sitcom "NewsRadio." 

But the comedian may be best known for his tragic death. On May 28, 1999, Hartman's wife, Brynn, shot the comedian as he lay in bed. As the police arrived at the Los Angeles home, they heard a gunshot as Brynn killed herself.

On April 20, 1999, two students opened fire on their classmates at Columbine High School, killing 13 people and wounding 20 others.

Around 11 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine High School in Colorado wearing trench coats and placed a bomb in the school cafeteria.

They walked back outside to their cars and waited. When the bombs didn't go off, they went back into the school armed with guns and shot their classmates. They killed 12 students and one teacher during their rampage. A little after noon, the pair killed themselves. 

Although the motive of the shooters is still unknown, the incident became the most deadly school shooting in history at the time. It also sparked the national conversation around gun control and gun violence, which is still raging to this day.

• A new Netflix docuseries explores the JonBenét Ramsey murder case.
• Some surviving members of JonBenét's family participated, but her brother Burke didn't.
• Burke Ramsey has had a difficult relationship with the media and was previously cleared as a suspect.

Burke Ramsey was 9 years old when his family was thrust into the spotlight after his younger sister, JonBenét Ramsey, was found dead in their Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996.

The shocking and brutal nature of the killing (the 6-year-old was found with a strangulation device called a garrote embedded in her neck; an autopsy later revealed that her skull had been fractured) incited a media frenzy. The strange details of the still-unsolved murder — like the ransom note left behind that claimed JonBenét had been kidnapped and demanded $118,000 for her return, when her body had been in the home all along — have led true-crime fans to spend the ensuing decades poring over the case and forming their own theories about what really happened.

Many came to believe that someone in the Ramsey family was responsible for JonBenét's death; they weren't formally cleared as suspects until 2008. A new Netflix docuseries, "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?" explores how the initial investigation was faulty and accuses the original Boulder investigators, along with the media, of unfairly pointing suspicion toward the family.

"I can't think of another family that's been so brutalized so unfairly by the media," director Joe Berlinger told Business Insider in an interview ahead of the docuseries' premiere.

Burke Ramsey became (and remains) a particular target of suspicion among JonBenét theorists, but he didn't participate in the new Netflix docuseries. Here's what we know about Burke's life since his sister's murder and where he is today.

Theories that Burke Ramsey killed his sister JonBenét led to legal action

Burke, along with his parents, moved back to Atlanta, where the family had lived before Boulder, in the aftermath of JonBenét's death. While Patsy and John Ramsey continued to do interviews in an attempt to combat the suspicion against them and encouraged authorities to keep investigating the case, Burke, then still a child, kept out of the spotlight.

In 2008, the Boulder District Attorney's Office officially cleared the Ramsey family (including Burke and Patsy, who'd died two years earlier) of JonBenét's murder after confirming with new testing that male DNA found on the child's underwear didn't match anyone in the family. Then-DA Mary Lacy also apologized in a letter to John Ramsey for the possibility that her office had contributed to "public perception that you might have been involved in this crime."

The decision to clear the Ramsey family publicly has been controversial, and in the event of new DNA testing, as the Ramsey family and the Netflix docuseries are pushing for, all previously cleared suspects should be reconsidered.

According to the Daily Camera, a Boulder newspaper, Burke had been interviewed by investigators at least three times and reportedly appeared before the grand jury that investigated the case in 1999. At the time, the Boulder District Attorney's office said Burke had never been under suspicion. (As the Netflix doc recounts, court documents unsealed in 2013 later revealed that the grand jury had voted to indict John and Patsy Ramsey on two counts each of child abuse resulting in JonBenét's death, though then-DA Alex Hunter chose not to move forward with the indictment because he said the evidence wasn't sufficient to prosecute them.)

In September 2016, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the crime, CBS aired the docuseries "The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey." In it, a group that included former FBI agents, a forensic scientist, and a forensic pathologist reevaluated the evidence and theorized that Burke had killed JonBenét, likely accidentally, by striking her over the head after she took a piece of pineapple from his bowl and that their parents had written the ransom note to cover up how JonBenét died.

Burke's attorneys filed defamation lawsuits against the network, producers, and the series' hosts for $750 million later that year; he'd separately filed another lawsuit against one of the individual investigators from the special in October. Both parties confirmed in January 2019 that the CBS lawsuit had been settled for an undisclosed amount.

Burke, then 29, also gave his first and only public interview to date to Phil McGraw on the "Dr. Phil" show in 2016, days before the CBS special aired. He acknowledged knowing that his family had been suspected of killing JonBenét and once again denied that any of them were involved. He offered his own theory on the murder: that his sister had been killed by an intruder, likely someone who attended JonBenét's beauty pageants.

When asked why he'd finally chosen to speak out, Burke said he wanted to honor his sister's memory.

"I don't want anyone to forget," he told McGraw.

Where is Burke Ramsey now?

Since the 2016 "Dr. Phil" interview, Burke, now 37, has resumed living a private life. Public records show he currently appears to live in Michigan, where the Ramseys moved after leaving Atlanta.

John Ramsey told People in a 2012 interview that Burke was working as a software engineer. Speaking to ET after his interview with Burke, McGraw said Burke had graduated from Purdue University in 2010 and was working in the computer industry. At that time, Burke had a girlfriend, according to McGraw, though it's unclear whether he's currently in a relationship, married, or has kids.

"He's a very private individual, but he has a great career and has a good relationship with his father," McGraw told ET in 2016.

During the portion of the docuseries that recounts theories that Burke killed JonBenét, an on-screen text card explains that Burke declined to participate, "citing his treatments by the media and online websleuths."

Berlinger, the director of the new Netflix docuseries on the case, told TODAY that Burke is "doing fine."

He said that the docuseries team tried to reach Burke through John Ramsey and John Andrew Ramsey, who is John's son and Burke's half-brother. But according to Berlinger, Burke said he didn't want to speak to them and they didn't want to pressure him.

Both John and John Andrew participated extensively in the docuseries. In one interview in it, John Andrew called allegations that his brother had killed their sister "absolutely absurd."

When speaking to BI, Berlinger named Burke as the one person whose perspective he'd have loved to have.

"I think he also has been so brutalized," he said. "The theories against him are so incredulous."

• Anabel Segura, a Spanish student, was 22 when she was kidnapped in Madrid in 1993.
• Her case is the focus of Netflix's new docuseries "900 Days Without Anabel."
• Here's what happened to her kidnappers, Emilio Muñoz Guadix and Candido Ortiz Aon.

"900 Days Without Anabel" is about the kidnapping of Anabel Segura, a 22-year-old Spanish student abducted from Madrid in 1993.

The three-part Netflix docuseries is the streamer's latest international true-crime offering after projects like "The Asunta Case" and "The Man with 1000 Kids."

Segura was kidnapped by Emilio Muñoz Guadix and Candido Ortiz Aon on the morning of April 12, 1993, on a run in her north Madrid neighborhood, La Moraleja.

The pair forced Segura into a white van before driving her to an old factory in Toledo, an hour away from Madrid.

In 2013, Muñoz Guadix told news outlet laSexta that they killed Segura six hours later as she tried to escape.

Muñoz Guadix and Ortiz Aon pretended Segura was alive for over two years in an attempt to extort money from her wealthy family.

The pair of kidnappers called the family 14 times between April 1993 and September 1995 to demand up to $950,000 in ransom money. The Netflix docuseries includes the recordings of these phone calls.

Muñoz Guadix and Ortiz Aon were arrested on September 28, 1995, after recordings of the calls were televised. Spanish newspaper El País reported at the time that the authorities were called by someone from the Escalona region of Toledo, who identified Ortiz Aon's voice from the recording.

Muñoz Guadix and Ortiz Aon told the authorities where they buried Segura, enabling her family to hold a funeral.

Candido Ortiz Aon died in prison in 2009 and Emilio Muñoz Guadix was released in 2013

Spanish outlet La Vanguardia reported that the pair were both convicted of kidnapping and murder. They were sentenced to 39 years in prison in 1999, which Spain's supreme court then increased to 43 years.

Ortiz Aon served the first 10 years of his sentence in the Ocaña prison in Toledo, but he died from a heart attack in 2009, at age 48.

Muñoz Guadix was incarcerated in the Herrera de La Mancha prison in the Ciudad Real province south of Toledo. The news site Heraldo reported he was released in 2013 after serving 18 years.

The outlet reported that on leaving prison Muñoz Guadix told the press that he was not a danger to the public, and he regretted his actions.

"I made a serious mistake, which I accepted from the first moment, unlike others, and that's it," he said.

Muñoz Guadix said his motive was "purely economic."

He said: "I am sorry, I am very sorry for what happened, I already said it in court, I would give ten years of my life so that this would not have happened."

It's unknown where Muñoz Guadix lives now, or what he does for a living.

• Zoe Hines is a director and producer for the Netflix docuseries "I Am A Killer."
• She has interviewed over 100 prisoners during her career.
• Hines said the "world shrinks down" when she speaks to inmates.

True crime has exploded in popularity in the past decade, and it's the people behind the scenes, like Zoe Hines, who find the stories that get audiences talking.

As a director and producer on the team at Transistor Films that makes the Netflix docuseries "I Am A Killer," Hines has interviewed 13 killers, from those convicted of murder to manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter, in multiple maximum-security prisons across the United States.

Over the course of her 12-year career, she has also spoken to over 100 inmates for other shows, including "I Am A Stalker" and Discovery ID's "Women in Prison."

In each episode of "I Am A Killer," which has been running for five seasons, an inmate discusses their motive, how they feel about their crime, and whether prison has changed them. Hines and her team interview each inmate twice, for one hour.

"We want to tell both the inmate's version of events and the perspectives of law enforcement and the families and those impacted by the crime," Hines told Business Insider.

The interviewees featured on the show include Gary Black, who was given a life sentence in 1998 after stabbing Jason Johnson, a stranger, in the neck at a convenience store in Missouri.

Another, Jamel Hatcher, was given a 20-year sentence in 2005 after shooting Danielle Boone, his girlfriend, at his home in Ohio.

The "I Am A Killer" team doesn't interview mass murderers or sexual abusers.

Finding the right subjects for the interviews is "incredibly labor intensive," Hines said, as the team must navigate each state's prison system, from finding inmates on databases to being granted access.

Once the team finds an inmate with an interesting story who is not involved in legal proceedings (avoiding mass killers and sexual abusers to prevent copycats and glorifying such crimes), they exchange written letters with them for several months. Next, they arrange an interview through the relevant state's Department of Corrections.

"You are looking for a point of interest, whether that's the inmate themselves and their journey and whether they have grappled with what they've done and the remorse associated with it, or whether it's the judicial process that they've been through, the legal process, that can often be a subject in and of itself. So it never fails to surprise us, the breadth of human stories," Hines said.

I'm sat opposite this person who has done this horrendous thing, who admits they've done this horrendous thing.

In Texas, for instance, a person can be convicted of murder if they are a bystander.

Hines said: "The title of the show is 'I Am a Killer.' So the most important thing for story selection is that the incarcerated person accepts some responsibility for taking that person's life."

She said she is often asked what it's like to speak to murderers and stalkers, and who was the scariest. But she said the team is usually preoccupied with the mundane when they arrive at a prison, like following regulations and making sure they have the right equipment to capture the conversation. That's if the interview hasn't been canceled at the last minute because of the inmate's behavior.

"The process of getting in front of them is so intense in itself that you go into this procedural headspace," she said.

"Once you're actually in the visiting area with the inmate, that world shrinks down to the two of you," she added. "And then there's a really equally intense, but very different set of feelings because then it's the case of, 'okay, I'm sat opposite this person who has done this horrendous thing, who admits they've done this horrendous thing, who has subsequently been through the judicial process of being judged for that.'"

The interviews on "I Am A Killer" can lead to prisoners reevaluating their crimes.

Hines said it's a "privilege" to speak to someone you have never met and "instantly be talking about the worst thing that person's ever done and the lowest point of their lives is, and knowing you've only got an hour."

The next challenge is steering the conversation so the team gets the right information for the episode while respecting the person and their story. This involves spending the first few minutes gaining their trust.

"I think the longest I got in was 50 minutes of the hour before the chap I was speaking to had spoken about the crime he committed. So that was quite sweaty," Hines said.

The second interview can be "confronting and complicated," she said, as the team presents what they have learned about the crime from their research.

"We really, really pride ourselves on not being 'gotcha' journalism. We're not trying to catch people out," she said. "And it's not always 'You've been lying to us' because I don't think it's that simple. A lot of the time the inmates genuinely believe their story."

I think the general idea that everybody who takes another person's life is a monster is flawed.

Higinio Gonzalez, who appears in season five, received a life sentence for killing a Montana store clerk, Eric Anthony Pavilionis, in 1996. He has been in prison for 27 years.

In the show, he initially claims that he didn't know the gun was loaded. However, after his second interview with the team, he reevaluates his position later in the program.

In the episode, Gonzalez says: "I think I did know, and I just didn't want to come to terms with it. I won't ever be able to heal properly unless I face it."

Hines said: "A lot of us really felt that he believed what he'd told us in his first interview and when we raised the details that we'd found out over the course of filming with him in the second, you can see the moment in him where he's thinking, 'oh my God, did I?'"

She added: "It's a privilege to speak to people about this stuff, and the victims, and the victims' families. Everything we do is with their welfare at the forefront of our concerns."

Filming "I Am A Killer" has taken Hines to places where there's "a lot of social, economic deprivation," which can led to "complicating factors" in the crimes she has covered, and the reasons behind them are often not straightforward.

She said: "I think the general idea that everybody who takes another person's life is a monster is flawed. I think humans, we're all flawed to a certain degree."