Sandra Birchmore’s family sat in a Boston federal courtroom and heard the word guilty for Matthew Farwell, and at the defense table Farwell’s attorney rubbed his back. This is the Farwell trial verdict, start to Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s prosecutors admit two of their lead agent’s grand jury claims were wrong, and they still want every murder indictment to stand. Their filing leans on State v. Thrift, a 1994 case that lets Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s front porch went three days without crime scene tape, according to The Wall Street Journal, while reporters, livestreamers and delivery drivers walked up to it. The blood on that porch turned out to Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s double jeopardy motion was denied on November 9, 2026, clearing prosecutors to try her again for the deaths of her three children. The defense argued that because the foreperson twice told Judge William Read more…
Kimberly Stevens stood before a federal jury on Nov. 6, 2026, and told them Matthew Farwell did not kill Sandra Birchmore. Her closing painted Sandra as a lonely young woman who had built a fantasy Read more…
Prosecutors told a federal jury that Matthew Farwell planned Sandra Birchmore’s death, and they pointed to something he said to a coworker to prove it. Stoughton detective Daniel Barber testified that around the end of Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI special agent, joins me across three cases: Sandra Birchmore, Alex Murdaugh and Nancy Guthrie. Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra in February 2021, and the state troopers who first looked at Read more…
In June 2025, a Phoenix jury took less than an hour to convict Lori Vallow Daybell of conspiring to murder Brandon Boudreaux, who was married to her niece when someone shot at him. The shot Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer, the retired FBI special agent who went to Tucson to work the Nancy Guthrie case herself, joins me on a new phone-data lead. A private analyst contacted her saying he’d flagged phones near Read more…
Chris Hansen spent twenty years catching grown men who drove to houses to meet children, and A24’s Primetime makes Hansen the villain. The studio made up a family for him and moved his real affair Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s family had the Moselle estate back before twelve hours had passed since Maggie and Paul were killed, and Mark Ball, Alex’s law partner, testified about what he found there the next morning. Retired Read more…
Matthew Farwell is accused of strangling Sandra Birchmore in her Canton apartment and staging it to look like she hanged herself, and his federal jury heard closing arguments November 6th. Farwell chose not to testify. Read more…
The FBI didn’t arrest Matthew Farwell until August 2024, more than three years after state troopers closed Sandra Birchmore’s death as a suicide. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins me on the investigation that Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s lawyers rested on Dr. Thomas Andrew, who couldn’t call Sandra Birchmore’s death a homicide and couldn’t rule out that she hanged herself. Prosecutors got an admission out of him anyway. Retired FBI Special Read more…
A convicted fraudster opens her home to a documentary crew, then heads to federal prison. The cameras keep rolling. And the person holding the microphone, metaphorically and sometimes almost literally, is the man she leaves Read more…
Lindsay Clancy left the first criminal trial without a verdict. Eleven jurors favored finding her not guilty by reason of insanity; a lone holdout disagreed, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. At the November Read more…
The first official story about Sandra Birchmore’s death was suicide. By the time Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez performed the autopsy in February 2021, the documentation she received from Canton police and Massachusetts State Police Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer went to Tucson looking for more than the public statements about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. She wanted to know what people were saying when cameras and microphones were not pointed at them. At El Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy jury did not agree. Eleven jurors leaned toward acquittal; the twelfth did not. That disagreement ended a trial about the deaths of her three children. But the defense says the court had Read more…
What does it take to convince yourself you have never lied? Elizabeth Holmes says exactly that in You Can See Everything, the new A24 documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The line lands Read more…
What if the decision Lori Vallow Daybell is challenging is not something the jury ever heard? Her November 2 appeal hearing centered on a December 2021 order removing her chosen lawyer, Mark Means, before the Read more…
Patrick Clancy is suing the people who treated his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, before the deaths of their children. Lindsay is suing some of those providers too. The two civil cases are different, but they Read more…
One officer allegedly tells a young woman to delete messages and protect his secret. A police department documents concerns about another officer, then hires him years later. The Sandra Birchmore story is not just a Read more…
The Nancy Guthrie case has two sets of unanswered questions: what happened on the road outside her Tucson home, and what investigators may have been able to recover from the porch. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers say a grand jury was deceived, and Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, is with me on the Alex Murdaugh retrial, Matthew Farwell and Lindsay Clancy. The lead SLED agent Read more…
We built this series to tell the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case the right way, from the beginning, in order, and on the record. Here it is in full. Part 1, Two Books, sets Read more…
December 10 is the day the State can go back to a grand jury if a judge throws out Alex Murdaugh’s murder indictments. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, walks through the Alex Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s motion to dismiss comes down to one question about SLED’s lead case agent, David Owen: lie, or honest mistake. Owen told the July 14, 2022 grand jury the spatter on Alex’s shirt held Read more…
Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital, and the murder charges are the only criminal case keeping her there. On November 2nd, 2026, her lawyers asked Judge William Sullivan to dismiss those charges Read more…
Matthew Farwell isn’t one bad apple, and I talk straight to the badges around him who prove it. Stoughton’s police chief was convicted in 2009 for helping cover up a sergeant’s shakedown, and a 12-year-old Read more…