Tennessee’s 2025 lethal injection protocol describes the people who have to find Christa Pike’s vein in one sentence, and the list ends with “other certified or licensed personnel.” The Commissioner picks them, and their training Read more…
In December 2020, Sandra Birchmore found out she was pregnant and told Matthew Farwell the baby was his. Prosecutors say that conversation is why she died on February 1, 2021, strangled in her Canton apartment Read more…
Two letters asked Judge Jeannine Pratt to go easy on Caleb Flynn, and this episode takes them apart sentence by sentence. Mike and Kim Flynn spent twenty-two years pastoring a Church of God congregation in Read more…
Christa Pike received two doses of pentobarbital on September 30 and walked out of that execution alive, and Tennessee’s position is that its people did everything by the book. Look at what the book requires Read more…
Christa Pike filed suit against Tennessee in January over the way the state planned to kill her. The filing named a blood condition, thrombocytosis, and small veins that would make establishing an IV line difficult, Read more…
Full sentencing breakdown with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Flynn spent four minutes speaking only to his own family and never said Ashley’s name. He apologized for the affair, then told the court he didn’t kill his Read more…
On January 7, 2026, Alan Jackson told a Los Angeles courtroom his team had no choice but to leave Nick Reiner’s defense. Then he walked outside, found the cameras, and said to take it to Read more…
Before Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life without parole, his parents filed letters asking the judge for mercy. His mother listed his accomplishments as too numerous to mention and wrote that he has repented to Read more…
Jim Griffin emailed lead prosecutor Creighton Waters on January 19, 2023. The double murder trial was days away. Griffin called the State’s handling of cell phone discovery “very accommodating and cooperative.” He blamed the defense’s Read more…
At Caleb Flynn’s sentencing for the murder of his wife, one of his daughters had a statement read to the court. Prosecutors allege Flynn told his daughters their statements could mean life or death for Read more…
Caleb Flynn, the former worship leader at Christian Life Center in Tipp City, Ohio, was convicted on all nine counts in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors alleged he shot Ashley twice in Read more…
Before a judge sentenced him to life without parole, Caleb Flynn addressed Ashley Flynn’s family. He said he takes accountability for his words and his decisions. He apologized for the affair. Then he told the Read more…
Before a judge sentenced Caleb Flynn to life without parole for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, Flynn addressed the courtroom. He spoke to his daughters, then his parents, then his brother. He told Read more…
The full panel breakdown of the Caleb Flynn case. A jury convicted Flynn on all nine counts for the murder of his wife Ashley. Prosecutors argued he shot her in her sleep and staged a Read more…
At Thanksgiving 2018, Rob Reiner lifted a turkey leg at the head of a table for twenty and asked everyone what they were grateful for. One of the guests later told a newspaper what that Read more…
The digital evidence in the Caleb Flynn case told a story the defendant allegedly tried to erase. ChatGPT was uninstalled from Flynn’s phone on February 15. GroupMe and Instagram were deleted after 1 a.m. on Read more…
Judge Jeannine Pratt addressed Caleb Flynn directly before sentencing him in a Miami County courtroom. She told him his actions were abhorrent. She said the layers of deceit and cruelty were impossible to fathom and Read more…
The Caleb Flynn jury deliberated roughly two hours before convicting on all nine counts. No weapon was found. No residue on the defendant. No fingerprints. The defense said the state had nothing but an affair. Read more…
Ken Urker watched an HBO documentary about Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 and made a decision that would define the next nine years of his life. He wrote her a letter at Chillicothe Correctional Center, Read more…
Caleb Flynn was convicted on nine counts including aggravated murder for the shooting death of his wife Ashley. Prosecutors argued he killed her while she slept and staged the scene as a burglary. Divorce was Read more…
Alleigha Botner was the prosecution’s star witness in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. She helped put Caleb away for shooting his wife Ashley in her sleep. But the 107,000 messages she read aloud from the Read more…
Ken Urker was found dead in bed on his birthday in Raceland, Louisiana. A handgun, syringe, shot glasses, and powdery substance surrounded him. Before the autopsy was done, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was giving exclusives and Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner sat in a circle of chairs at a Malibu treatment center in 2009 for every family session their 15-year-old son was given, and the boy across the circle remembers them for Read more…
Christa Pike cooperated with her own execution. According to her attorneys, she tried to help the IV team locate a vein in her arm. They still could not carry out the procedure. Two doses of Read more…
Caleb Flynn stood before Judge Jeannine Pratt and told the court he did not kill his wife. Then his own daughters’ statements were read. One told him he’d caused too much pain, that Ashley was Read more…
After the May execution of Tony Carruthers was halted — after over an hour of failed IV attempts and an alleged stroke — Tennessee sent the same physician into Christa Pike’s execution chamber on September Read more…
On September 30, Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike — its first attempt to execute a woman in over two hundred years. The doctor running the procedure had already failed at another execution four months Read more…
The public story is cyberbullying. The Lafourche Parish police report describes something else. Ken Urker was found unresponsive in bed on October 1 — his birthday — surrounded by a handgun, a syringe, shot glasses, Read more…
Ken Urker was found dead in bed at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1 — his thirty-fourth birthday. Lafourche Parish deputies confirmed his death after family members climbed through a bedroom window for a Read more…
The sign was homemade and sprinkled with glitter, and Sandra Birchmore made it for a Stoughton police officer. Federal prosecutors say that officer, Matthew Farwell, walked into her building masked on the night of February Read more…