“I did.” That was William Farwell’s answer when a prosecutor at the Sandra Birchmore trial asked if he’d ever been intimate with Sandra while on duty as a Stoughton officer. He testified under immunity, so Read more…
On the evening of November 13, 1974, Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. ran into his regular bar on Merrick Road in Amityville and told the men at the counter that his parents had been shot. By Read more…
Had the Anna Kepner case stayed in juvenile court, her stepbrother Timothy Hudson would have been released by 21 with no criminal record. Instead, he’s in federal court as an adult, charged with first-degree murder. Read more…
In March 2026, Gypsy Rose Blanchard appeared in a TikTok joking about murder. In August, leaked prison recordings surfaced — calls from 2020 and 2021 where she told a friend she hoped Ken Urker would Read more…
Bryan Kohberger initialed nine pages of plea paperwork when he pleaded guilty to the University of Idaho murders in July 2025. One question on the plea form asked whether he’d been coerced, and he checked Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s twin brother William promised Sandra Birchmore in October 2020 that he wouldn’t say a word about her and Matthew, and on October 27th he told a federal jury what else he kept to Read more…
The Norfolk District Attorney’s office declined to charge anyone in the Sandra Birchmore case after medical examiner Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez ruled the death a suicide. At Matthew Farwell’s federal trial, she testified the Read more…
Former Stoughton, Massachusetts police officer William Farwell testified under immunity at the Farwell trial, where his twin brother Matthew is accused of killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. Matthew pleaded not guilty. William’s immunity Read more…
Robin Dreeke and I cover three stories built on claims about what people knew. Ken Urker was found dead on his 34th birthday with a holstered gun, two shot glasses and a syringe on his Read more…
The DeFeos bought 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, in June 1965, with Louise’s father’s money. They put a sign in the yard that said High Hopes. Nine years later, on November 13, 1974, Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense spent October 23rd arguing Sandra Birchmore took her own life, using her own words against her. Robin Dreeke and I go through what they used and what they left out. Farwell’s lawyer Read more…
Nicholas Godejohn met Gypsy Rose Blanchard on a Christian dating site around 2012. She used an alter ego. He had his own. Over the next three years, their messages moved from romance to logistics — Read more…
Gypsy Rose’s account of Ken Urker’s death has moved, and the evidence hasn’t. Soon after he was found dead on October 1st, she told People he likely overdosed and she didn’t know if it was Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense leans on Sandra Birchmore’s 2021 suicide ruling, and on October 26, 2026, the doctor who made it answered both sides at his federal trial in Boston. Defense attorney Kimberly Stevens took her Read more…
Melani Pawlowski says she knew nothing about the plan to kill Brandon Boudreaux. Robin Dreeke and I test that against her own words and the people around her. The day after the shot, she told Read more…
Melani Pawlowski has never been charged in the October 2019 shooting at Brandon Boudreaux, even though Lori Vallow Daybell’s prosecutor told a jury she was in on it. Robin Dreeke and I lay out what Read more…
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…