Alex Murdaugh’s legal team is betting the retrial on a piece of evidence SLED collected and then let sit for years: unknown male DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails the night she and her son Read more…
The Reiner siblings are bracing for years of courtrooms — hearings, testimony, their brother’s face across the room while lawyers argue over his mental state. This look back examines the position they’ve been forced into Read more…
Cindy Anthony called 911 and said the car smelled like a dead body. Then she spent three years walking it back. On the witness stand, she told the jury the words were just an expression. Read more…
Buster Murdaugh named his baby after Alex Murdaugh. That single fact contains everything you need to know about this episode. Alex was convicted of murdering Buster’s mother and brother. He pled guilty to decades of Read more…
The D4VD case just cleared another status conference, and a new Hulu documentary dropped right alongside it, putting new pressure on a story that had largely stayed under wraps until charges were filed. Legal analyst Read more…
Joan VanderMolen loved her sister Kitty. She also stood at a Los Angeles courthouse in 2024 and said Kitty’s sons — the men who killed Kitty — should be released from prison. More than twenty Read more…
Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea may hinge on a conversation that never should have happened the way it did. His ex-wife and daughter were in the room when he confessed to eight murders, in sessions facilitated Read more…
Allison Winter spent nearly three years inside the Suffolk County Jail, counseling Rex Heuermann and his family session after session. She was there for some of the most consequential conversations of his case. She just Read more…
Josh Duggar was convicted on federal charges involving illegal material depicting minors. Prosecutors described it as among the worst they had encountered. And his mother Michelle wrote the judge a letter calling Josh “tender-hearted” and Read more…
For more than twenty years, Janey Peterson has been saying her brother-in-law Scott did not kill Laci. She hasn’t wavered. She hasn’t changed the core argument. She’s pointed to the same uninvestigated burglary across the Read more…
Chris Watts pled guilty. He confessed in detail. His daughters’ bodies were recovered from crude oil tanks at his worksite. There is nothing left to dispute. And his parents responded by forgiving him at sentencing, Read more…
Barry Morphew posted a three-million-dollar bond and walked out of an Alamosa County jail in September 2025. He was fitted with an ankle monitor and ordered to remain in Colorado while awaiting trial for the Read more…
Unsealed court records lay it out: security footage tracking Timothy Hudson’s movements the night Anna Kepner died, a phone that ended up smashed in a trash bin, and DNA testing that points hard in one Read more…
During a confidential session before the plea, Rex Heuermann brought up Karen Vergata — a woman he was never charged with killing. Her case was folded into the agreement. No separate prosecution. No public presentation Read more…
The medical examiner’s office completed its findings on Celeste Rivas Hernandez months before the public ever saw them. Then LAPD sought a court order to seal the report — and the ME’s office publicly objected, Read more…
Eric Richins’ three sons didn’t walk to the podium at their mother’s sentencing. They were too young, and carrying too much. So they handed their written statements to therapists and asked them to read their Read more…
The night Eric Richins died comes down to a gap that prosecutors couldn’t stop pointing to. This look back walks through that night and the first seventy-two hours after — the window where, the state Read more…
Within weeks of Anna Kepner’s death, court filings show Timothy Hudson’s biological mother — Shauntel Hudson, married to Anna’s father Christopher Kepner — expelled Timothy from the household. Neither she nor her husband has seen Read more…
Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea ended the criminal case. It may have opened a new front entirely. A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack names Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Read more…
Prosecutors have reportedly said David Anthony Burke did not act alone in disposing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s remains. That statement, combined with the pattern of resistance from his inner circle, raises a question this look Read more…
Months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed in their own home, their son Nick’s case still hadn’t reached a preliminary hearing — and the reason is striking. The autopsy reports weren’t finished, terabytes Read more…
The most dangerous moment in a controlling relationship isn’t the worst fight — it’s the exit. According to prosecutors, Eric Richins had quietly begun consulting divorce attorneys and restructuring his finances before he died, and Read more…
The connection between David Anthony Burke and Celeste Rivas Hernandez wasn’t hidden. It was visible — on livestreams, in photos near her home, backstage at concerts, in matching tattoos. A thirteen-year-old girl who had been Read more…
For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy vanished, someone used her phone to call her fifteen-year-old sister Amanda. Always from crowded Manhattan locations. Always under three minutes. Always targeting the teenager, never the mother. The calls Read more…
The Kouri Richins jury didn’t want to convict her. The foreperson said the panel came in sympathetic, even hoping she was innocent. They returned a unanimous guilty verdict in about three hours anyway. This look Read more…
Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the stabbing deaths of his parents. He’s held without bail, the harshest penalty remains on the table — and his Read more…
Every door closed. The DNA challenge failed. The motion for separate trials was denied. The 178-page omnibus motion was rejected. And then Rex Heuermann, who had spent nearly three years insisting through tears that he Read more…
Burke’s defense team — led by one of the most high-profile criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles — drew a line before charges were even filed: he “did not cause her death.” That is not Read more…
Kouri Richins is convicted and headed to prison — and the questions people are asking only sharpened once the verdict came in. This look back is a post-verdict listener Q&A with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Read more…
When the news broke that Rob and Michele Reiner had been killed, people close to the family reportedly weren’t surprised at all. That detail sits at the center of this segment — not the shock Read more…