Lindsay Clancy’s judge took a juror at his word after getting two notes from his foreperson saying the man wouldn’t follow the law. Lori Vallow Daybell’s judge took her lawyer away while she sat in Read more…
Part 3 of our docu-series covers the nine months when Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow were gone and almost no one knew it. It opens at a fire pit in Salem, Idaho, on September 9, Read more…
Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal reached the Idaho Supreme Court on November 2nd. The case turns on whether Judge Steven Boyce violated her constitutional right to the lawyer of her choice when he removed Mark Means Read more…
Lindsay Clancy holdout juror news from the November 2nd double jeopardy hearing: the defense wants the phone of the one man who wouldn’t vote not guilty by reason of insanity. His spokesperson says he googled Read more…
Two lawsuits against Lindsay Clancy’s doctors are running at the same time, and they need opposite answers to the same question. Patrick Clancy’s lawyer told a judge Lindsay will take the stand and say she Read more…
The government had the FBI’s own examiner look at the bone in Sandra Birchmore’s neck, then rested its case against Matthew Farwell without putting her on the stand. On November 3rd the defense did. Dr. Read more…
Jennifer Sprague told Judge Sullivan that prosecutors will retry Lindsay Clancy. She would not say for what. Reddington asked why the charge is a secret when eleven of twelve jurors said she was too sick Read more…
Judge William Sullivan had two notes from Lindsay Clancy’s foreperson telling him a juror wouldn’t follow reasonable doubt instructions. Sullivan questioned each juror at the bench, took the holdout at his word, and sent them Read more…
Three cases, one conversation. Matthew Farwell allegedly demanded Sandra Birchmore re-earn his trust after she told him about his twin brother William. Patrick Clancy’s attorney promised a judge in open court that Lindsay would testify Read more…
Charles Vallow did everything a man is supposed to do when he believes his life is in danger. Part 2 of our docu-series is about why it wasn’t enough. It starts in St. George on Read more…
The man leading the independent review of Christa Pike’s failed execution conducted Tennessee’s 2022 review — the state didn’t follow his recommendations. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke examine whether hiring the same person again produces Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s twin brother Billy was rejected by Stoughton police in 2011. The chief wrote down why, and the department hired him in 2017 with that letter still in his file. Matthew had been passed Read more…
Patrick Clancy’s attorney told a judge Lindsay would testify she warned her doctors. Lindsay’s own lawyer says that never happened. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke examine the collision between two civil lawsuits filed two days Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s lawyers put three experts on the stand November 2nd, and every one came to answer the man who told the jury Sandra Birchmore was strangled. Kentucky’s chief medical examiner said Dr. William Smock Read more…
The state medical examiner’s office changed Sandra Birchmore’s cause of death from suicide to “undetermined.” Not homicide — undetermined. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke examine whether that ruling, combined with the DNA exclusion, the absence Read more…
Sandra Birchmore told Matthew Farwell she’d been with William, his twin brother. Prosecutors allege Farwell’s response was a demand directed at Sandra, not a confrontation with William. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer flew to Tucson in late October and spent a week investigating the Nancy Guthrie case on the ground. She walked Nancy’s street after midnight and says she could see twenty yards with her Read more…
The Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case is usually told from the end backward. This docu-series tells it from the beginning, and Part 1 is the beginning. Lori Vallow was a former pageant contestant from Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer flew to Tucson, spent a week in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood, and came back with theories from the people who live there. The one that shocked her came from the money end of the Read more…
Lindsay Clancy told her husband in December 2022 that she was having thoughts of harming their children. Her psychiatrist, who saw her fourteen times by video, testified that Lindsay denied having thoughts of harming anyone Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer flew to Tucson and spent an evening at El Charro, Nancy Guthrie’s favorite restaurant and the oldest family-owned Mexican restaurant in America. She asked the whole room — servers, diners, hostesses — what Read more…
The defense’s forensic psychiatrist reviewed Sandra Birchmore’s records and built a case that Sandra’s history pointed toward suicide. Dr. Melissa Piasecki never met Sandra, flew in from Nevada for one day, and the judge kept Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer spent a week in Tucson investigating the Nancy Guthrie case. She stood in front of Nancy’s house and looked at the porch where deputies found Nancy’s blood next to a clump of vine Read more…
Jennifer Coffindaffer flew to Tucson and walked Nancy Guthrie’s street after midnight with her car lights off. The AP had called this neighborhood mostly dark at night. A former FBI supervisor said neighbor cameras would Read more…
In testimony at the Chad Daybell trial, Melani Pawlowski described meeting Chad in November 2018. He was presented as someone who could identify light and darkness in people. Brandon told jurors Melani began attending religious Read more…
Matthew Farwell allegedly asked a close friend to help raise his children in a note dated June 24, 2024. According to prosecutors, he also asked that his wife not be forgotten and said he would Read more…
Melani Boudreaux was trying to remake her life when she moved near her aunt Lori Vallow in Rexburg, Idaho, in November 2019. Within days of meeting Ian Pawlowski, she married him in Las Vegas. Her Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s death was called a suicide before the medical examiner had a full picture of what investigators would eventually find. At Matthew Farwell’s federal trial, Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez testified that her office Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s case has moved from an eleven-to-one mistrial into a fight about the one juror who would not vote to acquit. Kevin Reddington asked the court to examine the holdout juror’s questionnaire, review phone Read more…
Anna Kepner’s death aboard the Carnival Horizon led to a federal murder prosecution against her teenage stepbrother, Timothy Hudson. Now the lawyers representing him say there is one pending issue they must resolve before advising Read more…