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…
Full sentencing breakdown with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Flynn spent four minutes speaking only to his own family and never said Ashley’s name. He apologized for the affair, then told the court he didn’t kill his Read more…
On January 7, 2026, Alan Jackson told a Los Angeles courtroom his team had no choice but to leave Nick Reiner’s defense. Then he walked outside, found the cameras, and said to take it to Read more…
Before Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life without parole, his parents filed letters asking the judge for mercy. His mother listed his accomplishments as too numerous to mention and wrote that he has repented to Read more…
Jim Griffin emailed lead prosecutor Creighton Waters on January 19, 2023. The double murder trial was days away. Griffin called the State’s handling of cell phone discovery “very accommodating and cooperative.” He blamed the defense’s Read more…
At Caleb Flynn’s sentencing for the murder of his wife, one of his daughters had a statement read to the court. Prosecutors allege Flynn told his daughters their statements could mean life or death for Read more…
Caleb Flynn, the former worship leader at Christian Life Center in Tipp City, Ohio, was convicted on all nine counts in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors alleged he shot Ashley twice in Read more…
Before a judge sentenced him to life without parole, Caleb Flynn addressed Ashley Flynn’s family. He said he takes accountability for his words and his decisions. He apologized for the affair. Then he told the Read more…
Before a judge sentenced Caleb Flynn to life without parole for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, Flynn addressed the courtroom. He spoke to his daughters, then his parents, then his brother. He told Read more…