Deze Deense auteur en filmmaker duikt in de wereld van true crime, met de missie om slachtoffers en hun verhalen een stem te geven. Zijn werk onderzoekt nauwgezet complexe onderwerpen, waaronder onschuldige mensen aan de dodenmars, mensenhandel en de witte suprematistische beweging. Door middel van diepgaande interviews met ouders die op zoek zijn naar hun vermiste kinderen en analyses van Amerikaanse misdaadverhalen, probeert hij diepe menselijke tragedies te belichten. Zijn creaties, inclusief zijn podcast, zijn gericht op het versterken van de stemmen van degenen die het zwijgen is opgelegd en het verkennen van de donkerdere facetten van de menselijke ervaring.
Thousands of Americans are convicted of crimes they never committed. Many of them end up on death row where inmates have been executed despite their innocence. This book tells the dramatic stories of death row inmates and describes the murder cases that led to their wrongful convictions. The book is based on interviews with 10 Americans who have all been affected by wrongful convictions and the death penalty.
"Oh my God, we found a dead body." The man's voice, calling from a mountain trail in Cleveland National Forest, was frantic. "Please hurry. I'm so scared. It's a little kid." When police arrived, they were met by a horrific sight. The girl was naked and had been positioned in such a way that detectives believed the murderer had seen his kill as some kind of a trophy. As if he were showing off his "work". The little kid was Samantha Runnion, a five-year-old girl who had been abducted while playing in her parents' garden the day before. Samantha is just one of too many American kids who disappear. Almost half a million children are reported missing every year. And all across America parents are searching for their missing children or if the worst case scenario has come to pass the person who killed them. Moms of the Missing investigates ten abduction cases. Through personal and heartbreaking interviews with the victims, it describes how parents maintain their hopes of one day finding their children some of whom were taken by a stranger, a family member, or human traffickers. And two survivors tell what it is like to be held captive. Moms of the Missing explores the principal types of abductions, and not of least importance who's most likely to become a victim of the epidemic of missing children. Finally the book describes how abductions can be prevented.