The Colleton County Clerk of Court told jurors not to be fooled by the defense. She told them to watch Alex Murdaugh’s movements. She signaled that deliberations should be quick. The South Carolina Supreme Court found every one of those comments credible and ruled unanimously that they destroyed the integrity Read more…
This is the interview that changes how you see the Murdaugh case. James Lasdun’s The Family Man spent years pulling threads that nobody else followed — and what he found reframes everything from the boat crash to the verdict. The book reveals that the accepted narrative of who was driving Read more…
The good days are the trap. You disappear one compromise at a time. And the most dangerous moment is when you decide to go. That is the arc of this conversation — the full three-part interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott about the psychology the public refuses to accept. Four cases Read more…
June 1. Miami. Twelve jurors who have probably never heard Anna Kepner’s name will be asked to decide whether the person accused of killing her spends his life in federal prison. And the way this trial has been set up may surprise you as much as the verdict. Timothy Hudson’s Read more…
Licensed therapists carried the words of three boys to the podium because those children still can’t face the woman prosecutors say killed their father — and what Kouri Richins did while listening tells you everything the jury already knows. The oldest wrote about becoming a parent to his younger brothers Read more…
Everybody says just leave. As if it is one decision and then it is over. It is not. Leaving is a window. And everything the research tells us says that window is where the danger lives. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly consulted a divorce attorney. She was living at the Edisto Read more…
Three boys — ages nine, eleven, and thirteen — had their words read into the record by therapists because they couldn’t face the woman convicted of killing their father. One described being locked in his room so often he can’t remember which side the lock was on. Another described becoming Read more…
Michael Scott lost his family. His daughter was three when he was arrested. His wife. His anniversary. Gone — not because of anything he did, but because detectives sat a man with learning disabilities in a room for 18 hours until he said what they wanted to hear. Robert Springsteen Read more…
The Twelve Tribes reportedly designed a world where leaving meant losing everything. And according to former members, that was not a side effect. It was the point. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines what happens after the escape. Former members describe walking out of Twelve Tribes compounds with no savings, Read more…
Nobody wakes up one morning and realizes they have lost themselves. It happens in increments so small they feel like nothing — an opinion you stop voicing, a friendship you let go, a boundary you move because moving it is easier than defending it. The erosion is invisible until the Read more…