Ted Bundy spent ten years on death row making absolutely sure of one thing: that the country would never get the why. The Chi Omega trial in Miami, summer 1979 — the first criminal trial Read more…
Eye rolls during victim impact statements. Smirks while therapists read her children’s words. Then tears — real tears — when her own family called her the glue of the family.Pain aimed at her: contempt. Praise Read more…
Natalie Shirilla called the Russo family “evil people” on a recorded prison line. Steve Shirilla’s teaching contract was not renewed after he appeared on a Netflix documentary defending a convicted killer — his daughter. Defense Read more…
Thirty-six conduct violations. Guilty on thirty-two. Recorded calls where she refuses rehabilitation, calls herself the third victim, and tells her mother she plans to become a life coach. Mackenzie Shirilla’s institutional file at the Ohio Read more…
A federal judge just found Josh Duggar’s sworn testimony not credible — for the second time. The first time, it was Jim Bob on the stand. Same judge. Same courtroom. Same word: not credible. Josh Read more…
The prosecution asked whether Mackenzie Shirilla intended to kill her boyfriend and his friend. A judge said yes. But a psychotherapist who has spent thirty years inside the minds of people who commit violence says Read more…
Blanca Simpson testified for three hours in 2023. The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in three hours. A court clerk’s misconduct erased all of it. And now Blanca is preparing to do something almost nobody in Read more…
Dominic Russo’s father says he needs the truth so he can grieve. But what if the truth he needs isn’t the truth the evidence supports? What if grief has so completely fused with certainty that Read more…
Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming. He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a Read more…
Guilty on all counts. Unanimous. Three hours of deliberation for a case that took three weeks to present. And the defendant showed almost no reaction. A juror called her “like a statue.”This episode examines the Read more…
The prosecution’s version of the Mackenzie Shirilla case depends on a simple dynamic — she was the aggressor, Dominic Russo was trying to leave, and the crash was her final act of control. Netflix’s The Read more…
The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough Read more…
Rebecca Haro maintained her innocence for months. She told investigators a stranger had taken her seven-month-old son from a parking lot in Yucaipa. She gave television interviews with a visible black eye. She begged on Read more…
Her defense attorney failed to call the one expert who might have changed the verdict. The prosecution charged murder when the evidence arguably supported a lesser charge. The post-conviction system shut the door on new Read more…
different things.Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys told national television they have new information about other potential suspects. They’re building a retrial strategy that points the finger away from Alex. Meanwhile, the woman who spent twenty years inside Read more…
The Netflix documentary was supposed to be Mackenzie Shirilla’s moment. The first time the public heard her voice since the conviction. A chance to tell her side. Instead, it may have been the worst decision Read more…
The State of Utah convicted Ted Bundy of kidnapping in March 1976. One count. Colorado charged him with one murder. That is what the system believed it was holding: a kidnapper and a single-count defendant. Read more…
Most people, when arrested for murder, let their attorneys handle the case. Kouri Richins wrote a six-page letter hidden in an LSAT prep book with scripted testimony for her brother. She read other inmates’ letters Read more…
The prosecution’s case against Mackenzie Shirilla sounds devastating in a headline — surveillance footage, black box data showing full throttle and no braking, threatening texts, a prior incident treated as a rehearsal. But a criminal Read more…
A medical condition that could explain loss of consciousness — raised at trial but never supported with expert testimony. A post-conviction petition containing a neurologist’s opinion — filed one day late. A key prosecution witness Read more…
On May 5, FBI Director Kash Patel went on a national podcast and said the Pima County Sheriff’s Department did not initially cooperate with the bureau in the Nancy Guthrie investigation in the way the Read more…
The distance between “Mackenzie Shirilla did something catastrophically reckless that killed two people” and “Mackenzie Shirilla executed a premeditated mission of death” is enormous. The verdict says it was murder. The evidence lives somewhere between Read more…
Twelve and a half hours. That’s how long prosecutors spent putting on financial crimes testimony in Alex Murdaugh’s first trial. The Supreme Court said it was too much. Way too much. They told the state Read more…
One of the fathers in Netflix’s The Crash says something that stays with you. He says he needs the truth so he can grieve properly. It’s a gut-level statement from a man who lost his Read more…
Ted Bundy crossed a state line in September 1974 and became a new person. Washington had his name. Washington had his composite. Washington had two hundred thousand tips. None of it followed him to Utah. Read more…
A children’s book called “Are You With Me?” with a father in angel wings on the cover. Published one year after Eric Richins’ death. Promoted on local television by the woman convicted of killing him.The Read more…
The case against Mackenzie Shirilla was prosecuted as murder. Not manslaughter. Not reckless homicide. Four counts of murder for a car crash. That charging decision carries enormous weight — it’s the difference between a reckless Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla’s text messages were ugly. “My way or the highway — watch your back, your house, your car, your life.” She was controlling, explosive, and by every account a difficult person to be in Read more…
For months, almost everything about the death of eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise was locked behind a sealed court file. Now that file is open — and what’s inside is chilling. On this Read more…
What does the evidence actually show in three of the most talked-about cases in the country right now? Tony Brueski brings in former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to go case by case through the Read more…