Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is still unsolved after six months, but a separate case tied to it just wrapped up in court. A California man admitted to sending the Guthrie family fake bitcoin ransom demands during Read more…
D4vd case — the system failures behind Celeste Rivas Hernandez. When Riverside County deputies found David Burke’s number in the phone records of a missing thirteen-year-old, they called him. When LA County deputies knocked on Read more…
There’s a new wrinkle in the Nolan Wells case out of Jackson County, Mississippi, and it’s not about the water — it’s about who’s connected to who. One of the friends who left Nolan behind Read more…
Nolan Wells’ story starts the way too many of these do — a group of friends, an island, a holiday weekend, and one kid who never made it back to the boat. He was eighteen. Read more…
It does not start with a crisis. It starts with a compromise so small you don’t think to question it. Then another. Then a hundred more. And one day you realize you have no idea Read more…
Deputies conducted a welfare check and told David Anthony Burke directly that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old. According to the prosecution’s filing, he continued anyway. This look back examines what the People’s Brief Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s case doesn’t have one ransom note. It has a pile of them, and they don’t agree with each other. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old grandmother from her Tucson Read more…
A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn’t automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach Read more…
Have you ever sat with a serial killer before? Rex Heuermann asked that question to a therapist inside Suffolk County Correctional — and the way he asked it told her everything. It wasn’t vulnerability. It Read more…
Barry Morphew spent months living under names that weren’t his own while awaiting trial for his wife Suzanne’s murder. After the original case against him collapsed and the lead prosecutor was disbarred, Barry left Colorado Read more…
He allegedly released an album two days after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez was killed. He toured for months. He performed in Minneapolis the night after her remains were found in his Tesla across the Read more…
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…