When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn’t been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today’s Read more…
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn’t the egg juror Read more…
The prosecution asked for time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while her lover Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was just sentenced to 10 years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected Read more…
Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m., something happened inside Nancy Guthrie’s home. The doorbell camera went offline at one end. The pacemaker lost Bluetooth connectivity at the other. That forty-one-minute window is the hardest forensic evidence in this case — and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what it proves, Read more…
Everyone’s a behavioral analyst now. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded the Nancy Guthrie investigation — most of them wrong, many based on gut feelings from people watching family videos online. Reddit threads are dissecting body language. Comment sections are full of accusations. The entire country has become an amateur investigation Read more…
An FBI source told NewsNation it’s “dumb” and “insane” — Sheriff Chris Nanos is allegedly blocking federal agents from accessing key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, routing a glove and DNA samples to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Nanos called the reports “not even close to the Read more…
Eleven days into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department is being questioned from every direction — by its own deputies’ union, by county supervisors, and by the Guthrie family itself. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal damage created by Read more…
Mickey Stines’ defense team just filed a motion that could reshape the entire trajectory of this case. The former Letcher County sheriff, charged with shooting and killing District Judge Kevin Mullins inside his chambers in September 2024, is now claiming he has a serious intellectual disability or serious mental illness Read more…
We brought Robin Dreeke the footage, the operation, the contradictions, and the silence. We asked him every question this case demands — and his answers are something you need to hear for yourself. Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. We asked him Read more…
The headlines said Kouri Richins was fighting to move her trial. What they didn’t tell you is that fight was already over. Judge Mrazik denied the defense’s second venue change request on February 2nd — the same motion Fox News reported on five days later as though it were still Read more…