Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit. The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution’s case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly released early. FBI allegedly wanted evidence processed at Read more…
The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children’s book about grief. Case closed, right? Not even close. As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keeps shifting. The Read more…
Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt. Robert Crozier—the man prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri’s Read more…
They’re still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it. And you’re not allowed to grieve them. Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th. But Read more…
Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means. Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly Read more…
Eighteen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, the evidence the nation was banking on just came back empty. DNA recovered from a black glove found two miles from Nancy’s home produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI’s national database of Read more…
No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance—but defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution’s case may already be damaged. The Pima County Sheriff’s Office reportedly released the crime scene early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood droplets on the porch before it was re-secured. Evidence that Read more…
In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong. He’d lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn’t sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going Read more…
A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed. Nancy’s predictable Read more…
The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth’s recommendation Read more…