Twenty-five minutes. That’s how long Sandra Birchmore spent on the phone with her best friend the evening of February 1, 2021. Lesley Davis testified the conversation was normal. Sandra never mentioned wanting to end her Read more…
Bryan Kohberger’s alibi before his guilty plea was that he was out driving alone, looking at the moon and the stars. No witness. No phone. Now he wants that plea thrown out and a chance Read more…
Judge Steven Hippler was supposed to hear arguments about whether he should be removed from Bryan Kohberger’s post-conviction case. He filed an order the night before vacating the hearing — along with every other court Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s documented record starts with a 2001 biopsy that came back negative for muscular dystrophy. Dee Dee found a new doctor. It runs through a neurologist who caught the harm in 2007 and Read more…
Six days after she wrapped a boot lace around another inmate’s neck, Christa Pike picked up a prison phone, called her mother, and explained the difference between that and what she’d done to Colleen Slemmer. Read more…
In September 2025, Gypsy Rose Blanchard called a friend in prison and the recording surfaced after Ken Urker died. She described finding a card he wrote to an ex, drinking until she couldn’t stand, carving Read more…
Every failure in the Delphi investigation moved in the same direction. Away from alternative suspects. Toward Richard Allen. The recording system erased every early interview. The only tip from a person who placed himself on Read more…
Aurora was born December 28, 2024, one year to the day after Gypsy Rose Blanchard walked out of Chillicothe. The pregnancy announcement in July said “not planned at all” and “I want to be everything Read more…
Bryan Kohberger filed a post-conviction petition accusing Anne Taylor of hiding exculpatory evidence, coercing his plea, and fabricating a story about touring a death row cell. That claim opened attorney-client privilege. Three years of protected Read more…
Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment on February 2, 2021. The lead state police investigator testified he didn’t inspect a duffel bag in the bedroom — the bag that held the strap she Read more…
Ken Urker wrote Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 after the HBO documentary. He proposed in prison in 2018 and ended it in 2019, saying she needed time to build her own identity. Ryan Anderson wrote Read more…
The surgeries in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical file are real: eye procedures, ear tubes, salivary glands removed because Dee Dee said she drooled, a feeding tube that kept her on PediaSure into her twenties. Her Read more…
Ken Urker’s cause of death is pending toxicology, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced it as an overdose within a day. Sandra Birchmore’s death was a suicide on paper for five years, until the state medical Read more…
“And, yes, I’m eating breakfast with it.” Christa Pike said that to her friend Kim Iloilo at breakfast on January 13, 1995, about a piece of Colleen Slemmer’s skull she was carrying in her pocket. Read more…
Bryan Kohberger’s reason for firing his judge is the judge’s own sentencing speech. At the July 2025 sentencing, Judge Steven Hippler called Kohberger a “faceless coward,” the “worst of the worst,” and said his acts Read more…
Richard Allen — the man convicted in the Delphi murders — arrived at Westville Correctional Facility in October 2022 weighing roughly a hundred and eighty pounds. He was a CVS pharmacy clerk with depression and Read more…
Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell walked out of his state police interview about Sandra Birchmore’s death with the conversation unrecorded and his home and phone never searched. Sandra, 23 and pregnant, was found dead in her Read more…
Sandra Birchmore wanted a baby “to have someone to love.” That’s what she told her boss at East Elementary in December 2020, two months before she was found dead in her Canton apartment. On the Read more…
A year before Ken Urker died, Gypsy Rose Blanchard says he told her he’d file for sole custody of their daughter. She said it herself, on a September 2025 call to a friend in prison Read more…
Ken Urker’s sister says he slept with a gun every night, and she says the fear came from the internet, not from Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Ken was found dead on October 1, 2026, his 34th Read more…
Caleb Flynn’s lawyer filed the appeal, asked for a public defender, and said his firm was finished. Alleigha Botner deleted her texts the morning Ashley died, lied to the FBI, and was not charged. Matthew Read more…
Christa Pike’s aunt remembered Christmas 1994 one way, and her mother remembered it another. To the aunt, Christa said she was scared of the Job Corps center in Knoxville: she wanted everybody to be proud Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney chose one word for the relationship with Sandra Birchmore: affair. Prosecutors say it started when Sandra was 15. Stevens told the jury Farwell made regrettable decisions and did not kill Sandra. Read more…
In September 2023, Richard Allen’s defense team filed a document that should have reshaped the Delphi case. The Franks memorandum ran a hundred and thirty-six pages. It names men the defense alleges were connected to Read more…
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore and staged her death as a suicide in February 2021. Prosecutor Cummings told the jury it started with a photo from the Explorers program, Sandra at 12 Read more…
On the first day of Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial, prosecutor Torey Cummings put Sandra Birchmore’s last text on the screen. She called it a message of welcome to the man who’d known Sandra since Read more…
Botner sent more texts than Caleb Flynn did. She wrote I want to kill her, researched how to erase their conversations, deleted her own texts the morning Ashley died, and lied to the FBI about Read more…
Patrick Mulligan filed Caleb Flynn’s notice of appeal two days after the life-without-parole sentence, then told reporters his firm would not touch it. He asked the court to appoint a public defender for the man Read more…
Who wrote the first version matters. In Louisiana, Gypsy Rose Blanchard told People magazine that Ken Urker overdosed before any official cause of death existed. The sheriff’s office there says no signs of foul play, Read more…
Prosecutors have a duty to tell the defense about anything that makes one of their own witnesses look dishonest. Prosecutors say two Utah sheriffs turned that duty into a weapon against the Kouri Richins prosecution, Read more…