Three of Mickey Stines’ deputies are named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Judge Kevin Mullins’ widow. According to the suit, they saw their boss deteriorating — and they never warned the man he Read more…
The evidence that helped convict Adam Montgomery of murder the first time — multiple independent witnesses to a pattern of violence against Harmony, documented injuries nobody disputed — has been excluded from the retrial. The Read more…
SLED reopened Stephen Smith’s case in 2021 because of something they found while investigating the Murdaugh murders. They’ve never said what it was. Eric Bland represents Sandy Smith and has been pushing for that answer Read more…
Adam Montgomery is facing over forty-three years in prison without the murder conviction, plus another thirty-two and a half on firearms charges. He will die behind bars. And he still will not tell anyone where Read more…
Timothy Hudson met every condition of his release for months. No violations. Total compliance. And a federal judge just said none of it mattered — not against what he was reading. Anna Kepner’s accused killer Read more…
Two hundred yards. Two football fields. With a shattered jaw, a fractured eye socket, stab wounds, and lacerations across her face and head. Holly Dunn could not call for help — her jaw was destroyed. Read more…
Adam Montgomery’s defense has a theory, and the retrial is where it gets tested: Kayla Montgomery killed Harmony on December 7, 2019, while Adam was out. He came back, found his daughter dead, and spent Read more…
Adam Montgomery’s defense team asked for both charges — murder and assault — to be tried together. Then they tried to undo it. The trial judge said no. The New Hampshire Supreme Court said yes. Read more…
Everybody knows the slayer statute, even if they don’t know the name — it’s the law that kept the Menendez brothers from ever touching their parents’ fortune. So when word broke about what happened to Read more…
A blockchain security firm says this looks like a crypto hit. An anonymous tip crosses the border and nobody tells the sheriff. The crime scene evidence — weeds on the camera, a thirty-dollar backpack, an Read more…
Strip away the twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony that dominated the first trial. Take out the emotional victim impact that the Supreme Court just called prejudicial. What’s left is a circumstantial Read more…
Hudson’s step-grandmother went on national television and said what the public has been demanding for months: charge the parents. She called the cruise “a recipe for disaster.” She said the family knew the situation and Read more…
Lynette Hooker disappearance: On the night Lynette Hooker went missing in the Bahamas, the Soulmate’s AIS tracking system — the transponder that broadcasts a vessel’s position to other boats and to authorities — stopped transmitting Read more…
She testified in one of the most significant criminal trials in American history. She pointed at Richard Speck and said “This is the man.” Then Corazon Amurao went home to the Philippines, married, had children, Read more…
Tucson is sixty miles from the Nogales border crossing. If the person who took Nancy Guthrie had even basic knowledge of the border corridor, the window to move her across was measured in hours, not Read more…
The wrench attack model works through layers. A handler overseas identifies a target. An operative is recruited through encrypted messaging — someone disposable, someone local, someone who gets pointed at an address and cut loose Read more…
The anonymous caller didn’t just say Nancy Guthrie was in Mexico. He described clothing. He gave landmarks. He told a volunteer search group in Nogales exactly where to dig — in the Mariposa arroyos near Read more…
Every theory circulating about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance gets the same test in this session: what does the evidence actually require for it to hold, what’s the behavioral read, and what would have to be true? Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions are gone — and the lawyer who built the financial crimes case the prosecution used as motive says the system just failed the people it was supposed to protect. Eric Bland Read more…
A million-dollar reward. An open invitation for every stranger in America to examine every financial record, every relationship, every move the Guthrie family has made since February. If this was staged, they built the mechanism Read more…
Prosecutors made Adam Montgomery an offer at sentencing in the Harmony Montgomery case: reveal where you put your daughter’s remains, and we’ll recommend a lighter sentence. He sat in the courtroom and said nothing. He Read more…
Lisa McVey planned to die on November 3, 1984. She wrote the note before her shift at Krispy Kreme. She was seventeen, trapped in a home where her grandmother’s boyfriend had been hurting her for Read more…
Nancy Guthrie was eighty-four, lived alone in the Catalina Foothills, and kept a routine that put a rotating cast of people inside her world on a predictable schedule. Caregivers. Service workers. Contractors. Delivery drivers. The Read more…
He knew the arroyos. He described clothing. He identified a specific location near a stream in the desert west of Nogales, Sonora — roughly seventy miles south of Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home. And he bypassed Read more…
The FBI director publicly criticized how the Nancy Guthrie case was handled. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the Bureau and knows what it takes to push that kind of institutional conflict into the open. Read more…
Christine Marie risked everything to get them out. Some of them walked right back in. Samuel Bateman is serving fifty years in federal prison. He still calls. The women still answer. Some of his adult Read more…
A thousand people called 911 because they believed Jesse Ridgway was in danger. He’d staged family violence on YouTube for four years. When the truth came out, he said he “never lied.” He didn’t apologize Read more…
The dashcam in Michael Fosler’s truck was the one piece of evidence that could have objectively recorded the final encounter between Aaron Spencer and the man Spencer says he killed to protect his thirteen-year-old daughter. Read more…
Christine Marie brought tape after tape to local police. The sergeant believed every frame. He wouldn’t move. Short Creek had spent decades looking the other way — polygamy was lifestyle, not crime — and the Read more…
A broke, homeless man walked into a fractured religious community on the Utah-Arizona border. Three years later he was driving Bentleys, commanding fifty followers, and fathers were handing him their young daughters as spiritual wives. Read more…