Prosecutors have a duty to tell the defense about anything that makes one of their own witnesses look dishonest. Prosecutors say two Utah sheriffs turned that duty into a weapon against the Kouri Richins prosecution, and the target was a detective who had the nerve to run for office. Wasatch Read more…
Christa Pike’s lawyers went to Davidson County Chancery Court on October 2, 2026, asking a judge to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve the catheters, tubing, needles and logs from the execution room at Riverbend. Their argument: the state knows a lawsuit is coming and has a duty Read more…
For two years, every billboard in Indiana carried the Delphi investigation’s composite sketch of the man police said killed Abby Williams and Libby German. Millions studied the face. Tens of thousands called in tips. In April 2019, the state police superintendent walked to a podium and told the public to Read more…
Two of the three Stoughton officers the department found had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore have paid with their badges and nothing more. Deputy Chief Robert Devine retired in 2022 while the internal investigation was open. The state’s police standards board decertified him in December 2025 after finding he was Read more…
Both sides in the Matthew Farwell federal trial want the same witness: the Massachusetts medical examiner who ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in 2021, then withdrew it in April 2026. Prosecutors say she’ll testify to a fractured hyoid bone and bleeding in a neck muscle, injuries more common in Read more…
The strongest thing Matthew Farwell has going for him is five years of the state of Massachusetts agreeing with him. The medical examiner ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in May 2021. She changed it to undetermined on April 30, 2026, after federal prosecutors charged Farwell with strangling Sandra in Read more…
Weeks before Ken Urker died, claims circulated online that he was done with Gypsy Rose Blanchard and about to fight for full custody of their daughter Aurora. On October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday, Gypsy’s half-brother and sister-in-law went to his Raceland home after he missed work and stopped answering. Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s paternity evidence does not fit neatly into either side’s story. DNA testing excludes Matthew Farwell as the biological father of her unborn child, yet prosecutors say Birchmore told him the baby was his and that messages from the period show he believed her. That distinction is now central Read more…
Christa Pike’s failed execution now has one detail that is almost impossible to separate from the rest of the story: according to her attorneys, Pike tried to help the IV team find a usable vein while Tennessee was attempting to carry out her death sentence. Two doses of pentobarbital followed, Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s defense is asking a South Carolina judge for records tied to an explosive but disputed question: did local police ever handle the missing weapons used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh? The September 30 motion seeks investigative files, witness interviews and grand-jury material concerning alleged handling, concealment or Read more…