By 1988, the LAPD had the ballistics. They had the pattern. Same .25 caliber weapon. Same ten-block radius in South LA. Same profile of women being killed. They knew a serial killer was responsible. They Read more…
Over a million dollars. That is what Asa Ellerup reportedly earned from a Peacock documentary about her ex-husband — the man who pleaded guilty to killing eight women, seven of them inside the house they Read more…
She answered the phone and heard the voice of the man who had just killed her sister. Melissa Barthelemy’s sister told a Suffolk County courtroom that Rex Heuermann called her from Melissa’s phone and described Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla was thirteen years old when she started dating a sixteen-year-old. Her parents allowed it. No conditions, no conversations about what that meant for a freshman in high school. By seventeen she had moved Read more…
Victoria Heuermann says she believes her father most likely killed eight women. Asa Ellerup’s attorney says Asa may never believe it. Same confession. Same evidence. Same house — a house Asa refuses to leave, where Read more…
Nobody else in the Murdaugh case occupies Eric Bland’s position. He’s the attorney who built the financial crimes case that became the prosecution’s motive theory. He represents the Satterfield family whose testimony the Supreme Court Read more…
She did. Asa Ellerup gutted the basement where Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women — new floor, new walls, new doors — and moved into it. She sleeps where investigators believe the killings happened. Read more…
The person who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home has not been identified. And right now, the internet is making that job harder. Every viral theory that circulates — every fabricated lead, every comment-section Read more…
Cindy Paulson gave Anchorage police everything. A name. An address. A vehicle. An airplane. The specific parking spot at Merrill Field. She was still wearing Robert Hansen’s handcuffs when she told them. A security guard Read more…
A huge sense of relief. That is how Rex Heuermann’s defense attorney described what his client felt after pleading guilty to killing eight women over seventeen years. Not remorse. Not grief. Relief.Heuermann stood in a Read more…
Victoria Heuermann told the producers of the Peacock documentary that she now believes her father most likely committed the Gilgo Beach murders. She said on camera that while the family was on vacation, he was Read more…
Three of Mickey Stines’ deputies are named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Judge Kevin Mullins’ widow. According to the suit, they saw their boss deteriorating — and they never warned the man he Read more…
The evidence that helped convict Adam Montgomery of murder the first time — multiple independent witnesses to a pattern of violence against Harmony, documented injuries nobody disputed — has been excluded from the retrial. The Read more…
SLED reopened Stephen Smith’s case in 2021 because of something they found while investigating the Murdaugh murders. They’ve never said what it was. Eric Bland represents Sandy Smith and has been pushing for that answer Read more…
Adam Montgomery is facing over forty-three years in prison without the murder conviction, plus another thirty-two and a half on firearms charges. He will die behind bars. And he still will not tell anyone where Read more…
Timothy Hudson met every condition of his release for months. No violations. Total compliance. And a federal judge just said none of it mattered — not against what he was reading. Anna Kepner’s accused killer Read more…
Two hundred yards. Two football fields. With a shattered jaw, a fractured eye socket, stab wounds, and lacerations across her face and head. Holly Dunn could not call for help — her jaw was destroyed. Read more…
Adam Montgomery’s defense has a theory, and the retrial is where it gets tested: Kayla Montgomery killed Harmony on December 7, 2019, while Adam was out. He came back, found his daughter dead, and spent Read more…
Adam Montgomery’s defense team asked for both charges — murder and assault — to be tried together. Then they tried to undo it. The trial judge said no. The New Hampshire Supreme Court said yes. Read more…
Everybody knows the slayer statute, even if they don’t know the name — it’s the law that kept the Menendez brothers from ever touching their parents’ fortune. So when word broke about what happened to Read more…
A blockchain security firm says this looks like a crypto hit. An anonymous tip crosses the border and nobody tells the sheriff. The crime scene evidence — weeds on the camera, a thirty-dollar backpack, an Read more…
Strip away the twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony that dominated the first trial. Take out the emotional victim impact that the Supreme Court just called prejudicial. What’s left is a circumstantial Read more…
Hudson’s step-grandmother went on national television and said what the public has been demanding for months: charge the parents. She called the cruise “a recipe for disaster.” She said the family knew the situation and Read more…
Lynette Hooker disappearance: On the night Lynette Hooker went missing in the Bahamas, the Soulmate’s AIS tracking system — the transponder that broadcasts a vessel’s position to other boats and to authorities — stopped transmitting Read more…
She testified in one of the most significant criminal trials in American history. She pointed at Richard Speck and said “This is the man.” Then Corazon Amurao went home to the Philippines, married, had children, Read more…
Tucson is sixty miles from the Nogales border crossing. If the person who took Nancy Guthrie had even basic knowledge of the border corridor, the window to move her across was measured in hours, not Read more…
The wrench attack model works through layers. A handler overseas identifies a target. An operative is recruited through encrypted messaging — someone disposable, someone local, someone who gets pointed at an address and cut loose Read more…
The anonymous caller didn’t just say Nancy Guthrie was in Mexico. He described clothing. He gave landmarks. He told a volunteer search group in Nogales exactly where to dig — in the Mariposa arroyos near Read more…
Every theory circulating about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance gets the same test in this session: what does the evidence actually require for it to hold, what’s the behavioral read, and what would have to be true? Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions are gone — and the lawyer who built the financial crimes case the prosecution used as motive says the system just failed the people it was supposed to protect. Eric Bland Read more…