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…
Matthew Farwell’s twin, William, was a cop and was seeing Sandra Birchmore himself when she told him she was 15 the first time Matthew slept with her. He did nothing. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me Read more…
Three people entered Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s life at different points, and none of them came out whole. Dee Dee Blanchard fabricated her daughter’s illness for twenty-three years and was killed in the house charities built Read more…
Melani Boudreaux had a Gilbert detective swear she was a person of interest in the shooting at her husband, and her aunt Lori Vallow had just been arrested over JJ and Tylee. A week later, Read more…
With the jury out on October 28th, the Matthew Farwell trial had two fights over what jurors will hear and decide. Farwell’s lawyers want a former boyfriend of Sandra Birchmore to testify about choking in Read more…
Melani Boudreaux testified that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell taught her some people carried “some type of darkness that you couldn’t cast out,” and that the whole idea was “constantly changing.” By November 2019 she Read more…
Lori Vallow’s niece, Melani Boudreaux, lost her mother as a child, and the call telling her came from Lori. By the fall of 2018, Lori was inviting Melani to religious firesides, and Brandon Boudreaux testified Read more…
“I did.” That was William Farwell’s answer when a prosecutor at the Sandra Birchmore trial asked if he’d ever been intimate with Sandra while on duty as a Stoughton officer. He testified under immunity, so Read more…
On the evening of November 13, 1974, Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. ran into his regular bar on Merrick Road in Amityville and told the men at the counter that his parents had been shot. By Read more…
Had the Anna Kepner case stayed in juvenile court, her stepbrother Timothy Hudson would have been released by 21 with no criminal record. Instead, he’s in federal court as an adult, charged with first-degree murder. Read more…
In March 2026, Gypsy Rose Blanchard appeared in a TikTok joking about murder. In August, leaked prison recordings surfaced — calls from 2020 and 2021 where she told a friend she hoped Ken Urker would Read more…