Before Alex Murdaugh ever opened his mouth to testify, the Colleton County Clerk of Court had already told the jury what to think. Don’t be fooled. Watch his movements. Don’t let the defense confuse you. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled that those words — spoken by an officer Read more…
Inside the Twelve Tribes, adultery was reportedly the worst sin a member could commit. Punishable by banishment. No exceptions. Except one. When founder Gene Spriggs allegedly discovered his wife Marsha had affairs with young male disciples, he did not apply the rules he had enforced on everyone else. He reportedly Read more…
Richard Allen walked into Westville Correctional Facility weighing 180 pounds. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He had been in solitary confinement the entire time. He was not under sentence. He had not yet been to trial. He was a pretrial detainee in a maximum-security prison’s most restrictive housing Read more…
Indiana’s response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that’s confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State that’s worried about its record. The defense brought specifics. A van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. Read more…
Part 2 of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man, digs into the night of the murders — and what the jury at Alex Murdaugh’s trial was never shown. The full SLED timeline from June 7th included calls and texts between Alex and men with criminal records Read more…
The evidence across the D4VD case, Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abduction, and the Duggar family allegations shares something uncomfortable in common — each allegedly involves a system designed to protect people that reportedly failed the people who needed it most. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the most pressing questions Read more…
Two years before Lynette Hooker disappeared off a dinghy in the Bahamas, she sent messages to a friend that read, in hindsight, like a flashing light. She had walked away from her husband Brian. She had walked away from the boat. She told her friend, in her own words, it Read more…
The recorded jail calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar allegedly tell a story the family probably never intended the public to hear. Kendra’s alleged repeated question about whether Joseph still loves her. The warnings about recorded lines. The instruction to save case details for attorney meetings. And then Jim Bob’s Read more…
When a community spends eight years with an open wound, it stops looking for the right answer and starts looking for any answer. That’s what happened in Austin after the yogurt shop murders. Four teenagers were pulled into the investigation in 1991, released for lack of evidence, and then pulled Read more…
Former members of the Twelve Tribes describe a childhood defined by a single object: a thin, reed-like rod kept above the door in every room of every home in every community. It was reportedly always within reach because, according to the people who grew up inside, it was always in Read more…