Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore and staged her death as a suicide in February 2021. Prosecutor Cummings told the jury it started with a photo from the Explorers program, Sandra at 12 Read more…
On the first day of Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial, prosecutor Torey Cummings put Sandra Birchmore’s last text on the screen. She called it a message of welcome to the man who’d known Sandra since Read more…
Botner sent more texts than Caleb Flynn did. She wrote I want to kill her, researched how to erase their conversations, deleted her own texts the morning Ashley died, and lied to the FBI about Read more…
Patrick Mulligan filed Caleb Flynn’s notice of appeal two days after the life-without-parole sentence, then told reporters his firm would not touch it. He asked the court to appoint a public defender for the man Read more…
Who wrote the first version matters. In Louisiana, Gypsy Rose Blanchard told People magazine that Ken Urker overdosed before any official cause of death existed. The sheriff’s office there says no signs of foul play, Read more…
Prosecutors have a duty to tell the defense about anything that makes one of their own witnesses look dishonest. Prosecutors say two Utah sheriffs turned that duty into a weapon against the Kouri Richins prosecution, Read more…
Christa Pike’s lawyers went to Davidson County Chancery Court on October 2, 2026, asking a judge to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve the catheters, tubing, needles and logs from the execution room Read more…
For two years, every billboard in Indiana carried the Delphi investigation’s composite sketch of the man police said killed Abby Williams and Libby German. Millions studied the face. Tens of thousands called in tips. In Read more…
Two of the three Stoughton officers the department found had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore have paid with their badges and nothing more. Deputy Chief Robert Devine retired in 2022 while the internal investigation was Read more…
Both sides in the Matthew Farwell federal trial want the same witness: the Massachusetts medical examiner who ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in 2021, then withdrew it in April 2026. Prosecutors say she’ll testify Read more…
The strongest thing Matthew Farwell has going for him is five years of the state of Massachusetts agreeing with him. The medical examiner ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in May 2021. She changed it Read more…
Weeks before Ken Urker died, claims circulated online that he was done with Gypsy Rose Blanchard and about to fight for full custody of their daughter Aurora. On October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday, Gypsy’s Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s paternity evidence does not fit neatly into either side’s story. DNA testing excludes Matthew Farwell as the biological father of her unborn child, yet prosecutors say Birchmore told him the baby was his Read more…
Christa Pike’s failed execution now has one detail that is almost impossible to separate from the rest of the story: according to her attorneys, Pike tried to help the IV team find a usable vein Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s defense is asking a South Carolina judge for records tied to an explosive but disputed question: did local police ever handle the missing weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh? The September Read more…
Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Caleb Flynn to life without parole after a jury convicted him on all nine counts in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Before announcing that sentence, Pratt returned to a Read more…
Kevin Reddington’s renewed Rule 25 motion after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial sounded, at first glance, like the defense had abandoned everything it argued at trial. The same case that focused on postpartum psychosis and lack Read more…
Caleb Flynn is serving life without parole after a jury convicted him on all nine counts in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Before Judge Jeannine Pratt imposed that sentence, Flynn’s own daughters had Read more…
Ken Urker was found dead in his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1, 2026, the day he turned 34. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office opened a death investigation, and the coroner was still completing the Read more…
Christa Pike’s failed execution did not begin with the two doses of pentobarbital Tennessee administered on September 30. The warning signs were already sitting in the state’s own recent history. Pike survived the execution attempt, Read more…
Alleigha Botner’s testimony helped prosecutors put Caleb Flynn’s private words in front of the jury that convicted him of killing Ashley Flynn. The next question is whether any of those same messages could matter outside Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has produced legitimate evidence, credible-looking demands, and a growing pile of scams. The latest episode puts former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer at the center of that problem after she says an Read more…
Both of these cases turn on information that reached the right desk in time to matter. Christa Pike’s legal team told a Tennessee court in January that her blood condition and small veins would make Read more…
On December 13, 2025, Rob and Michele Reiner brought their 32-year-old son to Conan O’Brien’s holiday party because, as one source put it, they needed to keep an eye on him. By several accounts he Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense in the Sandra Birchmore trial comes down to a disagreement between doctors, and the doctor on his side is not a hired stranger with a thin résumé. Dr. Thomas Andrew spent twenty Read more…
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…