The prosecution called Mackenzie Shirilla cold and calculated. A judge called her “hell on wheels.” The public split into two camps after Netflix’s The Crash — she’s a monster or she’s innocent. But a psychotherapist Read more…
The South Carolina Supreme Court stripped away twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony. What fills that gap at retrial may depend on the kind of evidence that didn’t get its full day Read more…
The defense raised a medical condition that could have explained the Strongsville crash. Then they never called an expert to testify about it. No medical records entered. No testimony. The prosecution’s intent narrative went unchallenged Read more…
Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent twenty years inside the Murdaugh household. She fixed Alex’s collar the morning of June 7th, 2021. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She Read more…
The Valentine’s Day attempt failed. Eric Richins survived — gasping for air, reaching for his son’s EpiPen. He told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And for seventeen days, Kouri Read more…
Unsealed court records in the Anna Kepner case lay out what the FBI has assembled: security footage tracking the defendant’s movements aboard the Carnival Horizon the night Anna was killed, a phone that ended up Read more…
After Donna Adelson was convicted, the State Attorney told reporters that decisions regarding additional charges in the Dan Markel conspiracy were coming in the coming weeks. Months have passed. No charges. No grand jury announcement. Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident. The Read more…
Two cases. Two different kinds of evidence problems. Mackenzie Shirilla’s own family is building the record against her on monitored prison calls — while in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case, the DNA points one Read more…
Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with conspiracy to commit human trafficking — with the alleged victim being the same woman who later placed Read more…
The DNA odds are 120 sextillion to one pointing at Timothy Hudson. But an FBI agent admitted on the record that he is unaware of any DNA evidence directly connecting Hudson to Anna Kepner’s cause Read more…
Ted Bundy spent ten years on death row making absolutely sure of one thing: that the country would never get the why. The Chi Omega trial in Miami, summer 1979 — the first criminal trial Read more…
Eye rolls during victim impact statements. Smirks while therapists read her children’s words. Then tears — real tears — when her own family called her the glue of the family.Pain aimed at her: contempt. Praise Read more…
Natalie Shirilla called the Russo family “evil people” on a recorded prison line. Steve Shirilla’s teaching contract was not renewed after he appeared on a Netflix documentary defending a convicted killer — his daughter. Defense Read more…
Thirty-six conduct violations. Guilty on thirty-two. Recorded calls where she refuses rehabilitation, calls herself the third victim, and tells her mother she plans to become a life coach. Mackenzie Shirilla’s institutional file at the Ohio Read more…
A federal judge just found Josh Duggar’s sworn testimony not credible — for the second time. The first time, it was Jim Bob on the stand. Same judge. Same courtroom. Same word: not credible. Josh Read more…
The prosecution asked whether Mackenzie Shirilla intended to kill her boyfriend and his friend. A judge said yes. But a psychotherapist who has spent thirty years inside the minds of people who commit violence says Read more…
Blanca Simpson testified for three hours in 2023. The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in three hours. A court clerk’s misconduct erased all of it. And now Blanca is preparing to do something almost nobody in Read more…
Dominic Russo’s father says he needs the truth so he can grieve. But what if the truth he needs isn’t the truth the evidence supports? What if grief has so completely fused with certainty that Read more…
Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming. He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a Read more…
Guilty on all counts. Unanimous. Three hours of deliberation for a case that took three weeks to present. And the defendant showed almost no reaction. A juror called her “like a statue.”This episode examines the Read more…
The prosecution’s version of the Mackenzie Shirilla case depends on a simple dynamic — she was the aggressor, Dominic Russo was trying to leave, and the crash was her final act of control. Netflix’s The Read more…
The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough Read more…
Rebecca Haro maintained her innocence for months. She told investigators a stranger had taken her seven-month-old son from a parking lot in Yucaipa. She gave television interviews with a visible black eye. She begged on Read more…
Her defense attorney failed to call the one expert who might have changed the verdict. The prosecution charged murder when the evidence arguably supported a lesser charge. The post-conviction system shut the door on new Read more…
different things.Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys told national television they have new information about other potential suspects. They’re building a retrial strategy that points the finger away from Alex. Meanwhile, the woman who spent twenty years inside Read more…
The Netflix documentary was supposed to be Mackenzie Shirilla’s moment. The first time the public heard her voice since the conviction. A chance to tell her side. Instead, it may have been the worst decision Read more…
The State of Utah convicted Ted Bundy of kidnapping in March 1976. One count. Colorado charged him with one murder. That is what the system believed it was holding: a kidnapper and a single-count defendant. Read more…
Most people, when arrested for murder, let their attorneys handle the case. Kouri Richins wrote a six-page letter hidden in an LSAT prep book with scripted testimony for her brother. She read other inmates’ letters Read more…
The prosecution’s case against Mackenzie Shirilla sounds devastating in a headline — surveillance footage, black box data showing full throttle and no braking, threatening texts, a prior incident treated as a rehearsal. But a criminal Read more…