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…
The crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan wasn’t the first time Mackenzie Shirilla drove to that dead-end road in Strongsville, Ohio. She’d been there days before the fatal night. The data recorder from Read more…
The unsealed transcript from the February detention hearing in the Anna Kepner case runs a hundred and forty-five pages and lays out the prosecution’s full theory for the first time. CCTV footage tracking Timothy Hudson’s Read more…
Eric Richins called his sister Katie from overseas years before his death and told her Kouri Richins had tried to harm him. He consulted a divorce attorney. He rewrote his will and restructured his estate Read more…
Steve Shirilla lost his teaching job after defending his convicted daughter on Netflix. Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a prison call telling Mackenzie that Dominic Russo’s family are “evil people.” Prosecutors decoded calls where mother Read more…
Christine Russo lost her brother Dominic when Mackenzie Shirilla drove a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. Davion Flanagan, nineteen, died alongside him. In a published interview, Christine said it Read more…
In this Nick Reiner case update, we follow the strangest thread in the entire trust fight: the man who was handed control of the money — and walked away months later. Paul Kanin took over Read more…
Strip away the famous name and the Nick Reiner case update comes down to a brutal structural problem: a man facing the most serious charges California can bring — two counts of first-degree murder in Read more…
Something unusual is happening in the Alex Murdaugh case, and almost nobody has noticed it: the fighting stopped. For three years, every development in this case triggered a war — motions, press conferences, accusations flying Read more…
Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial is fixated on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin’s story — her reported history with defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. This episode digs into the other half, and it’s the Read more…
A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for Read more…
On January 8, 2005, the Wichita Police Department received a typewritten question from the BTK Killer. Dennis Rader had left it inside an empty cereal box in the bed of a pickup truck at a Read more…
In the latest Nick Reiner case update, the fight over Rob and Michele Reiner’s money turns on a document older than the internet: a trust established for Nick when he was an infant. That document Read more…
Coral Michelle Smith has been in and out of the Pima County criminal justice system for fifteen years — prison four times, probation revoked twice, a kidnapping charge dismissed through a plea deal — and Read more…
His fans cared enough to call the police a thousand times. He was never in danger. He let them worry for four years because it was making him rich. His creators trusted him enough to Read more…
All three parts of our interview with Christine Marie, woven together into one extended conversation — the cult psychologist and survivor who walked into Samuel Bateman’s FLDS inner circle, fed the FBI the evidence that Read more…
A lot of the women listening to this have survived a relationship with someone like Jesse Ridgway. The manipulator. The performer. The partner who takes your worst day and makes it about them. And when Read more…
Eric Richins told his sister Katie that Kouri Richins was the most evil person he had ever met. He told her he would live through hell every single day until his youngest son turned eighteen Read more…
In 2023, an Oklahoma sheriff named Eddie Virden announced a multi-state task force to investigate cold cases potentially connected to Dennis Rader during the years Rader was officially considered inactive. In August of that year, Read more…
The Psycho Series hit a billion views. The pregnancy announcement got seventeen million views on X alone. The outrage pays. But is the paycheck the engine, or is it something the paycheck can’t explain? Jesse Read more…
Ashley Ridgway is either a participant in a staged hoax or a real woman whose husband turned the worst week of her life into a media tour. Either way, a psychotherapist has something to say Read more…
Every woman listening to this knows this man. The partner who takes your worst day and makes it about them. The guy who starts every fire and tells everyone you’re the one who’s crazy. The Read more…
A father charged with murder. A case thrown out by a judge who found a “coverup.” A sheriff’s race won by the defendant. And a county that may not be done answering for what happened. Read more…
The end of the Samuel Bateman story isn’t the end. He’s behind bars for fifty years and the women he claimed as wives are doing something almost nobody wants to talk about — going back Read more…
The dashcam SD card in Aaron Spencer’s case didn’t vanish in a vacuum. It disappeared inside a department with a documented history of evidence problems stretching back over a decade. In 2021, a seventeen-year-old named Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla is behind bars for driving a hundred miles per hour into a brick wall and killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. A judge called her actions controlled, methodical, and purposeful. Read more…
Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest Read more…
The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss. Spencer beat incumbent Sheriff John Staley by double digits in Read more…