The civil lawsuit filed against Asa Ellerup does not accuse her of murder. It accuses her of something a jury may find just as difficult to forgive: choosing not to know. Benjamin Torres — who was six years old when his mother Valerie Mack was allegedly killed and dismembered by Read more…
There were two people in the room when the Jesse Butler plea was finalized. Butler’s defense team. And the Payne County DA’s office. Everyone else — the victim, her mother, her attorney, a tribal victim services advocate assigned to the case — was outside the wall. And this week, over Read more…
David Anthony Burke — the TikTok star and recording artist known as D4VD — was arrested on April 16 by LAPD Robbery-Homicide for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He’s being held without bail. No indictment. No criminal complaint. A probable cause warrant signed by a judge before the Read more…
Bill Gothard didn’t build a church. He built an infrastructure for political and cultural influence — and it’s still functioning.His plan was called the Joshua Generation. Take the best children from his homeschool network, train them inside his system from birth, and deploy them into government to reshape America. This Read more…
The evidentiary picture in Anna Kepner’s case is narrow and deeply specific. Ship surveillance reportedly shows no one other than the accused entering or exiting the cabin. Anna’s body was allegedly found concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets. The alleged concealment itself is a Read more…
The federal case against Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother is now unsealed — and the details inside those records raise questions that go well beyond what happened in that cruise ship cabin. A federal grand jury indicted the accused as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. Read more…
In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn’t. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that Read more…
This is the conversation we’ve been building toward since we started covering the Samuel Bateman case. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony for a full panel discussion timed to Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet — covering the behavioral mechanics, the psychological damage, Read more…
The investigation into Maya Millete’s disappearance produced sixty-seven search warrants and eighty-seven interviews. Her family organized volunteer searches at the Glamis sand dunes, Anza-Borrego Desert, Lower Otay Lake, and locations across Southern California. For nine months, they showed up every weekend. Larry Millete — the man whose wife was missing Read more…
Bateman is in prison. Bistline got life. The case is over. But every time someone asks whether this is finished, the answer keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable truth — the FLDS has survived every attempt to dismantle it for nearly a century. Warren Jeffs is still reportedly running Read more…