The connection between David Anthony Burke and Celeste Rivas Hernandez wasn’t hidden. It was visible — on livestreams, in photos near her home, backstage at concerts, in matching tattoos. A thirteen-year-old girl who had been Read more…
For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy vanished, someone used her phone to call her fifteen-year-old sister Amanda. Always from crowded Manhattan locations. Always under three minutes. Always targeting the teenager, never the mother. The calls Read more…
The Kouri Richins jury didn’t want to convict her. The foreperson said the panel came in sympathetic, even hoping she was innocent. They returned a unanimous guilty verdict in about three hours anyway. This look Read more…
Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the stabbing deaths of his parents. He’s held without bail, the harshest penalty remains on the table — and his Read more…
Every door closed. The DNA challenge failed. The motion for separate trials was denied. The 178-page omnibus motion was rejected. And then Rex Heuermann, who had spent nearly three years insisting through tears that he Read more…
Burke’s defense team — led by one of the most high-profile criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles — drew a line before charges were even filed: he “did not cause her death.” That is not Read more…
Kouri Richins is convicted and headed to prison — and the questions people are asking only sharpened once the verdict came in. This look back is a post-verdict listener Q&A with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Read more…
When the news broke that Rob and Michele Reiner had been killed, people close to the family reportedly weren’t surprised at all. That detail sits at the center of this segment — not the shock Read more…
Prosecutors say Timothy Hudson killed Anna Kepner “without any warning.” But people outside the family have been telling a different story publicly for months. An ex-boyfriend’s father claims he tried to warn the family about Read more…
Jessica Taylor’s remains told the story twice — once in the woods of Manorville in 2003, and again along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in 2011. Two locations, forty miles apart, eight years between discoveries, Read more…
The public version of this story has been simple: a thirteen-year-old ran from home, vanished into the orbit of a rising musician, and was found in the front trunk of his Tesla. But the documented Read more…
Weeks after her husband died — and, according to prosecutors, weeks after she poisoned him — Kouri Richins went on a local morning show to grieve publicly and promote a children’s book about loss. Trial Read more…
For years, the Reiner family publicly pushed back on the professionals treating their son — at one point even siding with Nick over the counselors who warned that he was lying and manipulating them. This Read more…
The defense team in the Anna Kepner case has made a series of choices that, taken together, tell you a great deal about where they believe this case is headed. They reportedly requested the adult Read more…
Before prosecutors linked Sandra Costilla to Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach killings were understood to begin around 2007. Sandra’s death in 1993 pushed the timeline back by fourteen years — and changed everything about the Read more…
Burke’s attorneys didn’t say he was innocent. They didn’t say he didn’t know Celeste Rivas Hernandez. They said he “was not the cause of her death.” That phrasing is specific. It’s surgical. And this look Read more…
The Kouri Richins defense did real damage on cross-examination — and still lost on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines a strategy Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick. They sent him to treatment seventeen times. They let him live close to them. They even made a film together about Read more…
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder Read more…
Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann’s hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome Read more…
When Neo Langston — D4VD’s closest friend and frequent collaborator — posted privately that he’s legally clear and has receipts, the posts leaked within hours and became the first real crack in D4VD’s inner circle. Read more…
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…