New Shocking True Crime Cases From Viaplay

24 June 2025

New Shocking True Crime Cases From Viaplay

If you are looking for must-see, new true crime cases and dramas inspired by real events with chilling real-life detail, look no further than streamer Viaplay - one of the European leaders in producing hundreds of true crime stories. These include the powerful, upcoming drama Mafia (Thursdays, June 19-July 24) inspired by real events, as well as the recent debuts of The Hunt, The Bunker, The Case of Iwona Wieczorek, and Under the Radar – Secrets of a Swedish Serial Killer, which make for great binges.

From unsolved murders to elaborate cons and disturbing disappearances, these series return with new developments, fresh perspectives, and access to never-before-heard testimonies.

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Mafia

Mafia is a gripping, high-stakes crime thriller, drawing inspiration from actual events. It chronicles the transformation of Sweden in the 1990s, evolving from a relatively tranquil nation untouched by organized crime into a land marked by intense gang conflicts and violent shootouts.

Premiering Thursdays, June 19 through July 24 in the U.S. on Viaplay and featuring top Swedish actors and directors, ‘Mafia’ is a powerful character-driven drama about two underdogs from completely different worlds who are forced to take a risky game to bypass their superiors: Radovan "Jakov" Jakovic (Peshang Rad, Gåsmamman, Bäckström), the criminal entrepreneur and cigarette smuggler, and Gunn Thörngren (Katia Winter, The Boys, Dexter), the police officer who sees what no one else sees, that the revenues from cigarette smuggling will create a proper mafia in Sweden. It doesn't take long before they develop a connection with each other. Both are convinced they are using the other to their own advantage, but for both of them, their contact will have devastating consequences.

Genre
Nordic Noir, Crime Drama

Format
6 x 45'

Language
Swedish w/English Subtitles

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The Hunt

Newly Available to Binge: Called "a milestone in Dutch television history," this award-winning, spine-chilling crime drama is inspired by the real-life murder of Marianne Vaatstra, a case that gripped the Netherlands for more than a decade before it was solved.

Genre
Crime Drama

Format
6 x 50'

Language
Dutch w/English Subtitles

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The Bunker

Newly Available to Binge: A chilling and shocking new true-crime docuseries following a woman who revisits her past trauma of being abducted, held captive in a bunker, and making a daring escape with getting her kidnapper to a police station lobby.

Genre
True Crime Documentary

Format
3 x 44'

Language
Swedish w/English Subtitles

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Under the Radar

Newly Available to Binge: An infamous Swedish serial killer is connected to unsolved Florida murders in this haunting, three-part true crime docuseries. While some serial killers offer clues in letters/manifests, racial terrorist Peter Mangs writes cryptic songs confessing to new murders, and doc director John Mork makes surprising connections to unsolved Florida murders, including a suspect sketch that looks identical to Mangs.

Genre
True Crime Documentary

Format
3 x 42'

Language
Swedish & English

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The Case of Iwona Wieczorek

Newly Available to Binge: This gripping Polish docuseries delves into one of the most well-known disappearances in recent Polish history, exploring varied clues, theories, and perspectives that have emerged.

In the summer of 2010, 19-year-old Iwona Wieczorek disappeared on her way home from a party. The last footsteps of Iwona end just a few minutes from her home. Since then, the case has puzzled and intrigued the whole of Poland.

Genre
True Crime Documentary

Format
3 x 45'

Language
Polish w/English Subs

Check out even more true crime docs on Viaplay, including Norwegian Crime Stories, Crime Scene Sweden (10 Seasons, 68 stories), Polish Murder Secrets, The Priest from Hell, In the Mind of a Criminal, Deadly Women, The Copenhagen Killer, In the Mind of a Murderer, The Prize of Silence, The Preacher’s Dark Side, A Murderer Goes Missing, Moments of Fear, and Natascha Kampusch - A Lifetime in Prison.

Get in touch with us at: chad.campbell@viaplaygroup.com and eddie@eddiewardPR.com

Contacts

Chad Campbell

Head of PR, Viaplay North America, Germany, Poland, and the UK

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