Three boys wrote impact statements describing locked bedrooms, animals dying from neglect, a sibling sneaking meals to a brother who’d been shut away, and a childhood defined by fear. Their therapists read the words in open court because the children cannot be in the same room with Kouri Richins. Every Read more…
Buster Murdaugh testified for the defense at his father’s murder trial and told a jury Alex wasn’t capable of killing Maggie and Paul. Then Alex was convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence. Barely any prison calls. A quiet marriage. A life built at distance. Now the South Carolina Read more…
Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins’ children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on paper. The details are specific. One child woke to sirens Read more…
Two threads of the Murdaugh case worth pulling on — what was already in motion before June 7, 2021, and what the prosecution may not get to use at a second trial. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. She was living apart from Alex. June 7 was a Read more…
Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial trail and the network of connections that surrounded this verdict, Read more…
In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she’ll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her “picked the wrong one.” In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose Read more…
The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how the rules stay the way they are. Foreign-flag registration shields Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill in federal court in Charleston — five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder convictions based on what the justices called “shocking jury interference.” The Read more…
The question people keep asking has a simple answer. Yes, Alex Murdaugh is serving 40 years federal. Yes, he’ll die in prison regardless of what happens in a retrial. And no, that is not a reason to walk away from the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Tony Brueski makes Read more…
Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was the only time the legal system came close to holding her personally accountable. Five years of appeals later, it was overturned. And according to former members, the church learned it could outlast the courts. The pattern repeated across decades. More than forty former members Read more…