DA Tim Cruz has not said whether Lindsay Clancy faces a second trial. Eleven of twelve jurors sided with the defense, and the one who didn’t had a restraining order against him during the trial. Read more…
On the first Homicide Happy Hour, former thirty-year pastor Timmy Gibson traced the line between Caleb Flynn and JP Miller. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts in Ashley Flynn’s murder and sentenced to life Read more…
Timothy Hudson’s defense team told a federal judge that one unresolved issue is preventing them from deciding whether their client pleads guilty or goes to trial for the murder of his stepsister Anna Kepner. They Read more…
Marc Flasterstein wrote “Munchausen by proxy” in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s chart after a muscle biopsy at Tulane came back negative. The biopsy confirmed Gypsy’s muscles were healthy. The chart said Dee Dee Blanchard was fabricating Read more…
Sandra Birchmore entered a police explorer program as a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl. The officers who allegedly targeted her had unchecked access to vulnerable minors through that program. No meaningful background checks. No oversight. Multiple Read more…
Two women who knew Sandra Birchmore best took the stand in the Matthew Farwell murder trial on October 23rd, and both described a woman getting ready to be a mother. Lindsey Crean, her friend since Read more…
A fractured hyoid bone. A severe chest imprint. Glasses placed neatly on the bed. A locked door. Sandra Birchmore’s autopsy tells a story that has no parallel in documented cases involving the position the defense Read more…
Eleven of twelve jurors wanted to acquit Lindsay Clancy. One man held out. Then it came out that Michael Desronvil had a dropped domestic violence charge from 2021 and an active restraining order against him Read more…
Alan Bono was 40 years old. He managed a kennel in Brookfield, Connecticut. He was stabbed on his own lawn on February 16, 1981 — the town’s first homicide in 193 years. Three films, a Read more…
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell’s DNA was found on a duffel bag strap recovered around Sandra Birchmore’s neck. The defense disputes the government’s account of her death. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis unpack Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s investigators chose an interview that left no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, made the tactical call to question Matthew Farwell in a Read more…
Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails are back at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s murder case. At the October 16 hearing, defense lawyers said additional testing found unidentified male DNA beneath both hands, and they argued that a Read more…
A January 2021 complaint about Matthew Farwell reached Stoughton police. According to federal prosecutors, an employee then alerted Farwell himself. The indictment leaves that employee unnamed. Sandra Birchmore’s friend had tried to tell the department Read more…
Nicholas Guarino found a password containing Matthew Farwell’s name on Sandra Birchmore’s phone. He used it to access her MacBook. Then he searched Farwell’s iPhone for messages with Sandra, found none, and returned the phone Read more…
Arne Johnson has never said the devil made him do it. Not in any interview, not in any documentary, not in any recorded statement over more than four decades. What he told police the night Read more…
Matthew Farwell was questioned about Sandra Birchmore in a school parking lot. State Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury the conversation was neither recorded nor documented in notes. Dunne said the approach was intended Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney described Sandra Birchmore’s death as an impulsive act of despair. Federal prosecutors say DNA recovered from a strap at the scene ties the former Stoughton police officer to her death. The Read more…
Eight days after Sandra Birchmore’s death, an iPhone linked to Matthew Farwell was used to search whether consent could be revoked in Massachusetts. A second search asked whether Cellebrite could recover deleted messages. Prosecutors showed Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s reported prison words about Ken Urker have resurfaced after his death, while a separate online campaign is challenging the accepted story of Dee Dee Blanchard’s treatment of her daughter. Recordings reported to Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s family was told her death was self-inflicted. Years later, Matthew Farwell faced federal charges accusing him of killing her and staging the scene. A federal prosecution filing says a state lab found male Read more…
Leo Hengstler drove the ambulance that responded to the Brookfield Boarding Kennels on February 16, 1981. He testified to something that appears in no book, no movie, and no dramatization of this case. He heard Read more…
Two of the biggest cases on the docket share a question about the police, and Eric Faddis joins me to work through both Sandra Birchmore and Alex Murdaugh. The FBI says a Stoughton police employee Read more…
Every year the Assemblies of God sends licensed ministers a form asking whether they’ve upheld the moral code. Timmy Gibson says not one pastor he personally knew answered honestly. On Homicide Happy Hour, Gibson explained Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers asked for one thing the state didn’t want to give them, and on October 16 Judge Debra McCaslin gave it to them anyway. Eric Faddis joins me to weigh the ruling. The Read more…
David Glatzel was 11 years old when he described visions of Arne Johnson killing someone. Months before anyone died. Before February 16, 1981, when Johnson stabbed Alan Bono on the lawn of a Brookfield, Connecticut Read more…
Donna McNamara ordered the 2021 investigation that found three Stoughton officers had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore. Now McNamara is the one on leave, and Eric Faddis joins me to ask how. Her lawsuit says Read more…
Sarah Sproul had an affair with Matthew Farwell while she was friends with his wife. She testified that at parties, with his wife in the room, he’d come around a corner to kiss her. He Read more…
For more than three years, the official word was that Sandra Birchmore took her own life. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to go through the five strongest signs, all from sworn testimony, that the Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s death was ruled a suicide for more than three years. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down why federal prosecutors now say it was murder, and the hurdles Matthew Farwell’s defense Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s case didn’t involve one officer — it involved three, connected through one youth program, allegedly targeting one girl for over a decade. And the coverup is still happening. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the Read more…