Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers just filed a motion that doesn’t name one hidden document or one lying witness. Instead it demands something bigger: that prosecutors search ten categories of material — witness deals, disciplinary files, lab records, everything — and then swear in writing that nothing helpful to Murdaugh exists beyond Read more…
The office running the Nancy Guthrie investigation handed the public its biggest piece of evidence by accident. The Pima County Sheriff’s Office sent out a media release with the alleged kidnapper’s Bitcoin wallet address printed at the bottom. They clawed it back, but only after it was screenshotted across the Read more…
Something happened in the Lindsay Clancy trial that legal analysts didn’t expect from a prosecution witness — an admission that may have done more for the defense than for the state. I break it down along with everything else that unfolded across the Commonwealth’s case. Thirteen psychiatric medications, all within Read more…
There’s a version of Duane “Keffe D” Davis who spent fifteen years describing, in detail, how he says Tupac Shakur was killed. He told the LAPD in a 2008 proffer session. He said it again on BET’s “Death Row Chronicles.” He put it in writing in his 2019 memoir, claiming Read more…
After three and a half years of silence, Bryan Kohberger finally spoke — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott noticed what he left out before she noticed what he put in. His statement calls the case against him “a work of fiction,” invites the state to seek the death penalty again, and Read more…
There’s DNA sitting in a South Carolina evidence locker that could identify whose skin was under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails the night she and her son Paul were shot to death, and prosecutors trying to convict Alex Murdaugh a second time don’t want an independent lab anywhere near it. SLED tested Read more…
Two families, two very different relationships with the help that was available to them — and this week both stories collided. Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court just wrapped three days of heavy testimony: Patrick Clancy on the stand for two of them, his 911 call played for Read more…
Four sworn admissions of deliberate murder. A judge who asked, point blank, whether Bryan Kohberger was pleading guilty because he was guilty — and whether anyone had forced him into it. He said yes to the first question and no to the second, on the record, with his own attorneys Read more…
Nolan Wells documented everything. Eighteen years old, active on Snapchat, the kind of kid whose phone tells a story. So when his mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, got that phone back after his death, both of his Snapchat accounts being completely empty wasn’t nothing — it was a red flag she couldn’t Read more…
Patrick Clancy sat in the witness box for the prosecution in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial — and by the time cross-examination finished, jurors had heard a very different story than the one that put him there. Plymouth Superior Court opened its first full week with a seven-minute 911 call, pajamas Read more…