Before trial, Farwell’s defense filed a motion accusing federal investigators of pressuring the medical examiner who performed Sandra Birchmore’s autopsy into changing her original finding. The government says there is no evidence or good-faith basis Read more…
Matthew Farwell first contacted Sandra Birchmore on Facebook when she was thirteen. By fifteen, prosecutors allege, they were in a relationship he called one he was “addicted” to. He met her through a law enforcement Read more…
One officer is federally charged. His twin brother lost his certification. A former deputy chief is named in a civil suit. The Norfolk DA worked with the department and declined to charge anyone. The medical Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s DNA was on evidence collected from Sandra Birchmore’s apartment. Prosecutors in his federal trial say it sat there untested while his case was closed as a self-inflicted death. The parking-lot interview had no Read more…
Bryan Kohberger is serving four life sentences after pleading guilty to the Idaho student murders. He now says his former lawyers withheld information and persuaded him to confess to crimes he says he did not Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she found something unexpected at Chillicothe Correctional Center: the chance to make decisions of her own. The woman who helped arrange Dee Dee Blanchard’s killing later told interviewers that prison allowed Read more…
Bryan Kohberger had a court date to argue Judge Steven Hippler should be removed from his post-conviction case. An October 14 order took that October 15 hearing off the calendar and also canceled the June Read more…
Eight steps on Sandra Birchmore’s phone at 9:40 p.m. Three minutes later, prosecutors say the building’s security footage shows Matthew Farwell leaving. That short stretch of time is one of the details federal prosecutors are Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s own description of a confrontation with Ken Urker has resurfaced. In a September 2025 recorded prison call, she said she damaged his headboard with a kitchen knife after finding a card addressed Read more…
Kouri Richins made a new move in her fight for another trial, and prosecutors questioned the reason she gave. Her attorneys submitted a sealed request to pause the case while investigators examined possible interference surrounding Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard told PEOPLE she believed Ken Urker died from an overdose. The official cause had not been released. That distinction matters when the father of her young daughter is found dead and online Read more…
Sandra Birchmore told friends that Matthew Farwell had made a complete 180, according to federal prosecutors. A friend had disclosed their relationship to the Stoughton Police Department. Prosecutors say Farwell went from anger to renewed Read more…
Caleb Flynn received life without parole following nine guilty verdicts. Patrick Mulligan filed his notice of appeal and requested appointed counsel, opening another legal fight over the verdict in Ashley Flynn’s death. Mulligan has questioned Read more…
Christa Pike’s legal team warned a court about IV access before Tennessee tried to execute her on September 30, 2026. She survived two doses of pentobarbital, and her attorneys now say the very complications they Read more…
Bryan Kohberger said he was guilty. Now he wants it back. His judge wiped the hearing calendar. The prosecution wants the petition dismissed on paper. His alibi is driving alone looking at the moon, and Read more…
“I want everybody to be proud of me, but people get hurt there.” Christa Pike said that to her aunt at Christmas 1994, nineteen days before she and Tadaryl Shipp killed Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Read more…
Sandra Birchmore told eighty people she was having a baby. She paid for nursing school. She searched baby shower venues. She sent six hundred texts that day and left no note. The defense says she Read more…
Nine years since the Delphi murders. One conviction. And every failure in between. In February 2017, Abby Williams, thirteen, and Libby German, fourteen, were found dead on a creek bank in Delphi, Indiana. Nine years Read more…
Twenty-five minutes. That’s how long Sandra Birchmore spent on the phone with her best friend the evening of February 1, 2021. Lesley Davis testified the conversation was normal. Sandra never mentioned wanting to end her Read more…
Bryan Kohberger’s alibi before his guilty plea was that he was out driving alone, looking at the moon and the stars. No witness. No phone. Now he wants that plea thrown out and a chance Read more…
Judge Steven Hippler was supposed to hear arguments about whether he should be removed from Bryan Kohberger’s post-conviction case. He filed an order the night before vacating the hearing — along with every other court Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s documented record starts with a 2001 biopsy that came back negative for muscular dystrophy. Dee Dee found a new doctor. It runs through a neurologist who caught the harm in 2007 and Read more…
Six days after she wrapped a boot lace around another inmate’s neck, Christa Pike picked up a prison phone, called her mother, and explained the difference between that and what she’d done to Colleen Slemmer. Read more…
In September 2025, Gypsy Rose Blanchard called a friend in prison and the recording surfaced after Ken Urker died. She described finding a card he wrote to an ex, drinking until she couldn’t stand, carving Read more…
Every failure in the Delphi investigation moved in the same direction. Away from alternative suspects. Toward Richard Allen. The recording system erased every early interview. The only tip from a person who placed himself on Read more…
Aurora was born December 28, 2024, one year to the day after Gypsy Rose Blanchard walked out of Chillicothe. The pregnancy announcement in July said “not planned at all” and “I want to be everything Read more…
Bryan Kohberger filed a post-conviction petition accusing Anne Taylor of hiding exculpatory evidence, coercing his plea, and fabricating a story about touring a death row cell. That claim opened attorney-client privilege. Three years of protected Read more…
Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment on February 2, 2021. The lead state police investigator testified he didn’t inspect a duffel bag in the bedroom — the bag that held the strap she Read more…
Ken Urker wrote Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 after the HBO documentary. He proposed in prison in 2018 and ended it in 2019, saying she needed time to build her own identity. Ryan Anderson wrote Read more…
The surgeries in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical file are real: eye procedures, ear tubes, salivary glands removed because Dee Dee said she drooled, a feeding tube that kept her on PediaSure into her twenties. Her Read more…