Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud — and the jury needed only about three hours to get there. But the case against her was built almost entirely Read more…
When Nick Reiner’s public defender entered a not guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder, it sounded like a denial. It wasn’t. Under California law, that plea is a strategic placeholder — and understanding Read more…
Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It’s what kind of person is capable of doing it. Read more…
A defense attorney’s read on two cases that just shifted in the same week. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the contents of a second note from the alleged kidnappers were made public months after it Read more…
Dick Harpootlian arrived at Alex Murdaugh’s first retrial hearing carrying transcripts of interviews with the first people to arrive at Moselle after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. What’s in those transcripts, according to Read more…
The prosecution’s motive theory rested on financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court called excessive. Twelve and a half hours of it. Ten days of witnesses describing Murdaugh stealing from clients and loved ones. The court Read more…
Stripped to its essentials, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a duel. Trained investigators sit on one side of the room. On the other sits a woman who had already spent the better Read more…
The defense asked for a laptop so Alex Murdaugh could review discovery from prison. The judge denied it after the warden said no inmate gets one. The compromise leaves Murdaugh dependent on his attorneys to Read more…
The second note sent after Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping said she died shortly after being taken. Investigators called it a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappers. Not a hoax. Not one of the fakes that the Read more…
Everyone who watches the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct comes away unsettled, and most of them can’t quite say why. This part of the series names it: it’s not what she does on the Read more…
Three cases the audience has been fighting about. Three details nobody’s giving a straight answer on. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover them all in one full-length discussion — Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Alex Read more…
The Bryan Kohberger case cost more than eight million dollars in public money. He confessed. There was no trial. And the people who paid for it have never been shown the full bill. This is Read more…
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction after ruling that court clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury. Now the defense is building the retrial around a piece of evidence the Read more…
Ask people what disturbs them about the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct, and most will reach for something she said. But the truly unsettling thing on that tape isn’t the words. It’s the way Read more…
Nick Reiner has been charged with stabbing his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, to death in their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty. And from his jail cell, he has filed Read more…
Sheriff Nanos told a local radio host that he thinks the FBI has made “a number of arrests” for fake ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case. The word that matters is “thinks.” The lead Read more…
Most coverage of the Taylor Parker case jumps straight to the hospital. But the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct can’t really be understood without the year that came first. For months before any of Read more…
The Nancy Guthrie case pulls in two directions at once. The notes contradict each other. One set of reporting says the investigation is stuck; another says an arrest is near. Both can’t be true. In Read more…
Days before Alex Murdaugh returns to court for the first hearing of his retrial, his defense team filed three motions. Two are the kind of thing you’d expect. One could matter more than anything else Read more…
For months the Nancy Guthrie case looked stalled — until a retired FBI agent claimed it’s about to break. On Megyn Kelly’s show, Maureen O’Connell said her sources indicate investigators are closing in on “porch Read more…
Most people know the Taylor Parker story from the headlines. The version captured on the hospital bodycams in Maternal Instinct is so much worse. This breakdown starts at the beginning of that footage: the moment Read more…
The uncomfortable possibility in the Nancy Guthrie case is that nobody is close to anything. Howard Blum’s reporting in Air Mail describes investigators who privately fear an early mistake already cost them the case — Read more…
There is no single note in the Nancy Guthrie case. There’s a contradicting pile of them. A message reportedly tied to the man who took the 84-year-old from her Tucson home claims she’s “buried with Read more…
A caller provided information about what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. That detail narrows the universe of possible sources dramatically. Someone who knows what an abduction victim was wearing either saw her after she was taken, Read more…
The Duggar family built a brand on the image of wholesome Christian parenting. Joseph and Kendra presented themselves as the clean branch — the ones who stayed out of the headlines, who smiled through depositions, Read more…
Prosecutors asked Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. Three hours on the stand. But Blanca had been inside that household for twenty years. She knew things about the Murdaugh home that no Read more…
The kennel video destroyed Alex Murdaugh’s alibi at the first trial. Audio placed him at the dog kennels minutes before Maggie and Paul were shot. Multiple witnesses identified his voice. He admitted he lied. The Read more…
An anonymous tip pointed investigators toward a shallow grave south of the border. Nancy Guthrie’s home is less than seventy miles from Mexico. She was reportedly taken from her bed, without shoes or medication, in Read more…
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight Gilgo Beach murders. Three consecutive life sentences. A hundred years stacked on top. No appeal. The case is closed — in New York. But the judge who sentenced him Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son when he was a baby. They wrote the terms. They chose the language — “mandatory and unconditional.” Half at thirty, the rest at thirty-five. No Read more…