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…
Sandra Birchmore was introduced to Stoughton police officers through a youth Explorers program. The program was supposed to offer mentorship. Instead, a departmental investigation later found inappropriate relationships involving three officers connected to her, and Read more…
In October 2019, someone fired at Brandon Boudreaux outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona. Investigators identified Lori Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, as the suspected gunman. A jury convicted Lori in June 2025 of conspiring Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s messages about Matthew Farwell entering her apartment have taken on new meaning in his federal murder trial. Eight days before her death, she described him asking for a key and looking inside her Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Dee Dee Blanchard, and Ken Urker are connected here by two moments when the public record and the story being told did not line up. Years before Dee Dee’s death, a neurologist Read more…
With the FBI already working the Sandra Birchmore case, police reports say Matthew Farwell’s head-on crash broke a utility pole in two. Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal is set for November 2, 2026, at the Idaho Read more…
On November 13, 1974, Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. shot six members of his family in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, with a .35-caliber Marlin rifle. His mother had told the Read more…
Lori Vallow Daybell, convicted of murdering JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, is taking her case to the Idaho Supreme Court. Her main argument hangs on Mark Means, a lawyer she hired herself. The man paying Read more…
Elizabeth Holmes sat across from Nathan Fielder in You Can See Everything, the A24 documentary, and said she’d never told a lie. A jury convicted her of wire fraud. A judge gave her 11 years. Read more…
At the Matthew Farwell trial, the government rested after arguing the former Stoughton cop killed a pregnant Sandra Birchmore and made it look like suicide. His lawyers say it was suicide, and Farwell has pleaded Read more…
Farwell’s defense called Sandra Birchmore’s ex-boyfriend to show the jury a page from her journal listing reasons to end her life and reasons not to. At the bottom, William Kilroy says, he wrote something in Read more…
Within a day of Sandra Birchmore being found, prosecutors in the Matthew Farwell trial say, several people told State Police she couldn’t have died by suicide. Her death was still ruled a suicide in May Read more…
Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, wrote his closest friend a goodbye eleven days before he drove his truck head-on into a utility pole. By their account, he wrote it the day Read more…
Lori Vallow’s niece and Matthew Farwell’s twin brother were each close enough to see what was happening. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke join me for the full panel on Melani Read more…
Christopher Quaratino was seven years old when his stepfather moved him into a house where four children had been shot in their beds thirteen months earlier. Thirty years later, he called George Lutz “a perpetrator Read more…