Mackenzie Shirilla is behind bars for driving a hundred miles per hour into a brick wall and killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. A judge called her actions controlled, methodical, and purposeful. She’s serving life with parole eligibility in 2037. And since Netflix put her case back Read more…
Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest him. The thing that had identified him as BTK was a metadata trace from a Read more…
The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss. Spencer beat incumbent Sheriff John Staley by double digits in a three-way Republican primary. The county tilts hard Republican. Brian Mitchell Sr., the Democratic candidate, Read more…
Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal. Judge Ralph Wilson’s ruling in the Aaron Spencer case didn’t stop at identifying problems. He catalogued a pattern: no photographs of the dashcam’s position in Fosler’s Read more…
The detective was fired. The prosecutor is retiring. The county clerk resigned months ago citing persecution. And at the center of it all is a nineteen-page judicial order that documents — in constitutional detail — how the most critical evidence in the Aaron Spencer murder case was mishandled, lost, and Read more…
The evidence in the Elijah Vue case tells one story. The two people charged in his death allegedly tried to tell another. Three-year-old Elijah was reported missing from a Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment in February 2024. His mother’s boyfriend Jesse Vang said the boy wandered off during a nap. His Read more…
Samuel Bateman wasn’t hiding. He was operating in the open, on a street where the local police knew his name, in a town where the sheriff drove past his house every day. The most disturbing question about his case isn’t how he got away with it. It’s why everyone around Read more…
Jesse Vang faces harm to a child through repeated acts causing death — a charge that carries life in prison, filed with repeater enhancers because of his extensive criminal history. Katrina Baur faces chronic neglect of a child with consequence of death — up to sixty years, but structured around Read more…
Christine Banfield’s sister looked Brendan Banfield in the eye at his sentencing and told him she never truly knew him. Nobody did. Joseph Ryan’s mother reminded a Fairfax County courtroom that her son had a face, a name, and a life full of meaning — and Banfield shot his face, Read more…
Bill Wegerle was a suspect in his own wife’s murder for eighteen years. From the day Vicki Wegerle was killed in their Wichita home in September of 1986 until the day in March of 2004 when the actual killer mailed her stolen driver’s license to a local newspaper, Bill Wegerle Read more…