Matthew Farwell’s jury wrote Judge Denise Casper two notes in a row. The first asked how much time was left in the day, and the second said jurors were deadlocked and not close to a Read more…
Maggie Murdaugh’s phone kept counting after she died. At 8:53 on June 7, 2021 it logged fifty-nine steps across Moselle, then stopped for good. The state’s cell-phone analyst told jurors a step count like that Read more…
What if Matthew Farwell’s jury hung instead of reaching a verdict? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says federal prosecutors would try him again, because U.S. attorneys take a loss personally. A not-guilty verdict would be Read more…
JonBenét Ramsey was six when Boulder police officer Rick French searched her family’s basement on December 26th, 1996, and walked away from a latched door. JonBenét was behind that door, and her family says some Read more…
What if Matthew Farwell’s jury believed he killed Sandra Birchmore but doubted why? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says the fact that her case reached federal investigators should settle that question. The federal charge requires Read more…
Michael Morrissey’s office says it couldn’t charge Matthew Farwell for killing Sandra Birchmore. I’m laying out exactly who it blamed, and what its own investigation actually did. The State Police unit that handled Sandra’s death Read more…
Sandra Birchmore had offered Matthew Farwell something months before she died, and Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says the day Farwell finally asked for it is what kept him off the witness stand. Motta says Read more…
Sandra Birchmore lived her life out loud, and that may be what convicts Matthew Farwell. Prosecutors spent the Matthew Farwell trial showing jurors how constantly Sandra talked and texted. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says Read more…
Prosecutors told the jury in the Matthew Farwell trial that State Police decided Sandra Birchmore killed herself, even after her coworkers told a trooper about Farwell. In Tucson, the first deputies at Nancy Guthrie’s home Read more…
Alex Murdaugh proved most of the case against his own character, and Part 1 is built on that record. His housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, fell on the steps at Moselle in 2018 and died twenty-four days Read more…
A note investigators believe came from Nancy Guthrie’s abductor closed with an apology to her family. Nine months later, the person who knows where she is still hasn’t said a word. Tony and retired FBI Read more…
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…