Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest Read more…
The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss. Spencer beat incumbent Sheriff John Staley by double digits in Read more…
Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal. Judge Ralph Wilson’s ruling in the Aaron Spencer case didn’t stop Read more…
The detective was fired. The prosecutor is retiring. The county clerk resigned months ago citing persecution. And at the center of it all is a nineteen-page judicial order that documents — in constitutional detail — Read more…
The evidence in the Elijah Vue case tells one story. The two people charged in his death allegedly tried to tell another. Three-year-old Elijah was reported missing from a Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment in February Read more…
Samuel Bateman wasn’t hiding. He was operating in the open, on a street where the local police knew his name, in a town where the sheriff drove past his house every day. The most disturbing Read more…
Jesse Vang faces harm to a child through repeated acts causing death — a charge that carries life in prison, filed with repeater enhancers because of his extensive criminal history. Katrina Baur faces chronic neglect Read more…
Christine Banfield’s sister looked Brendan Banfield in the eye at his sentencing and told him she never truly knew him. Nobody did. Joseph Ryan’s mother reminded a Fairfax County courtroom that her son had a Read more…
Bill Wegerle was a suspect in his own wife’s murder for eighteen years. From the day Vicki Wegerle was killed in their Wichita home in September of 1986 until the day in March of 2004 Read more…
Surveillance cameras in Two Rivers, Wisconsin captured Jesse Vang pulling up to the donation door of a St. Vincent de Paul store on February 19, 2024 and dropping off a dark-colored suitcase. He’d borrowed a Read more…
Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with human trafficking. He’d done federal time for a drug conspiracy. And when he was released in 2022, Read more…
Every case Michael Proctor ever investigated now carries a question mark — and that question mark just got a lot bigger. According to a lawsuit filed against the Town of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, Read more…
In Lonoke County, Arkansas, a judge found that investigators’ handling of evidence in Aaron Spencer’s murder case was “so egregious” the prosecution had to be dismissed. The dashcam SD card that could have told the Read more…
A man who trusted almost no outsiders sat down across from Christine Marie and handed her the access that would eventually put him in federal prison for fifty years. He didn’t know what she was. Read more…
The FBI built its case against Timothy Hudson on DNA evidence, surveillance footage, cellphone data, and a cabin timeline aboard the Carnival Horizon. DNA recovered from Anna Kepner’s body points to her stepbrother with a Read more…
When a judge uses the word “coverup” in a written order, he’s not guessing. Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. looked at how Lonoke County handled the Aaron Spencer murder prosecution and found a pattern — not Read more…
Dennis Rader was the BTK Killer. He was also the man who named himself the BTK Killer. He typed the name onto an envelope and mailed it to the Wichita Eagle in October of 1974, Read more…
The data recorder inside Mackenzie Shirilla’s Toyota Camry captured a story she never told anyone. The accelerator was at full capacity. There was no attempt to brake. The car was aimed in a straight line Read more…
A dashcam SD card that was most likely recording during the final moments of the Aaron Spencer case disappeared from police custody. Investigators handled it in violation of their own department’s procedures. A judge reviewed Read more…
Three machine timestamps anchor the Nancy Guthrie disappearance in facts that can’t be disputed. Her doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Twenty-five minutes later, the software detected a person at the door. At 2:28 a.m., Read more…
Deputies found a six-page letter inside an LSAT prep book in Kouri Richins’ jail cell while she was being treated for a medical episode. The letter scripted her brother’s testimony. When confronted, she didn’t deny Read more…
The prosecution built its case on a breakup — Dominic Russo was leaving, Mackenzie Shirilla couldn’t handle it, and she drove into a building at nearly a hundred miles per hour. Netflix’s The Crash reinforced Read more…
The prosecution called Mackenzie Shirilla cold and calculated. A judge called her “hell on wheels.” The public split into two camps after Netflix’s The Crash — she’s a monster or she’s innocent. But a psychotherapist Read more…
The South Carolina Supreme Court stripped away twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony. What fills that gap at retrial may depend on the kind of evidence that didn’t get its full day Read more…
The defense raised a medical condition that could have explained the Strongsville crash. Then they never called an expert to testify about it. No medical records entered. No testimony. The prosecution’s intent narrative went unchallenged Read more…
Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent twenty years inside the Murdaugh household. She fixed Alex’s collar the morning of June 7th, 2021. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She Read more…
The Valentine’s Day attempt failed. Eric Richins survived — gasping for air, reaching for his son’s EpiPen. He told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And for seventeen days, Kouri Read more…
Unsealed court records in the Anna Kepner case lay out what the FBI has assembled: security footage tracking the defendant’s movements aboard the Carnival Horizon the night Anna was killed, a phone that ended up Read more…
After Donna Adelson was convicted, the State Attorney told reporters that decisions regarding additional charges in the Dan Markel conspiracy were coming in the coming weeks. Months have passed. No charges. No grand jury announcement. Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident. The Read more…