The defendant in Anna Kepner’s death has now been indicted as an adult — and that single procedural shift was supposed to change everything about whether he stays free before trial. Instead, a federal judge heard the prosecution’s case for detention and walked away without a ruling. Here’s what the Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla’s texts were controlling. Her threats were documented. Her TikTok persona screamed narcissism. Everything about her personality made people want to believe she was capable of murder. But since when does being a difficult person prove premeditated intent beyond a reasonable doubt? In the early morning of July 31st, Read more…
On the surface, these three cases share nothing. Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from her Tucson home is an unsolved kidnapping with DNA at the FBI lab and more than fifty thousand tips under review. The Anna Kepner case is a federal murder prosecution stemming from a death on a Carnival cruise Read more…
Todd Gabler never met Eric Richins. But he might know him better than almost anyone outside the family. Over the course of a year-long investigation, Gabler went through Eric’s phone records, walked through his home, interviewed dozens of people who knew him, and pieced together the reality of a marriage Read more…
Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke — the musician known as D4VD — killed fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and attempted to conceal the evidence for months. They’ve filed special circumstance allegations including murder for financial gain. Burke has pleaded not guilty. But the evidentiary question of what allegedly happened leads to Read more…
IDOC’s own policy caps solitary confinement at thirty days for inmates with serious mental illness. Richard Allen had a diagnosed major depressive disorder and a history of suicidal ideation. According to the defense filings, he was held in the most restrictive solitary cell at Westville for thirteen months — the Read more…
He called himself Vanguard. He claimed to be a once-in-a-generation intellect. When authorities came for him, Keith Raniere was crouched in a closet in Mexico while his follower confronted armed agents on his behalf. The investigation began after a 2017 exposé brought the secret inner circle into public view. The Read more…
The federal murder charge against Timothy Hudson in the death of his stepsister Anna Kepner has dominated coverage. But the filings in a separate custody battle between Timothy’s biological parents tell a story the criminal case never will. Shauntel Hudson is Timothy’s biological mother. She married Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner. Read more…
More than fifty thousand tips have been submitted in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. A retired Pima County detective believes the suspect’s name is probably already in that pile — investigators just haven’t reached it yet. DNA recovered from Nancy’s Tucson home has been shipped to the FBI crime lab at Read more…
David Anthony Burke spent his entire childhood learning to perform emotions from behind a screen — and according to prosecutors, he allegedly spent his early adulthood applying that skill to maintaining a reality nobody around him could detect. This episode goes somewhere different. We’re not walking through charges or court Read more…