Fifteen years of silence. That’s what the Greenberg family has received from Sam Goldberg and his relatives since Ellen was found dead with 20 stab wounds in their shared apartment. Now, with federal prosecutors issuing subpoenas and a corruption investigation underway, Ellen’s parents are making one final request: help us Read more…
This week we’re covering three cases that force the same devastating question: how do families know when a troubled relative has become genuinely dangerous? Nick Reiner is charged with stabbing his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. His attorney withdrew while insisting Read more…
Breaking developments in the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court has removed Judge Barbara Elmore from the murder trial of the father who killed the man charged with raping his daughter. This is the second time the state’s highest court had to intervene because of this judge. In May Read more…
The warning signs in the Nick Reiner case stretch back decades. A yoga instructor who worked with the family described childhood tantrums she’d “never seen” anything like. At fifteen, Nick was physically aggressive with a rehab roommate. As an adult, he destroyed his parents’ guesthouse on meth—multiple times—with what he Read more…
Michael McKee entered his not guilty plea Friday. Silent. Stoic. His attorney did the talking. And if you want to understand what’s coming in this case, you need to understand who that attorney is. Diane Menashe defended Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician accused of murdering fourteen ICU Read more…
The testimony in Paul Caneiro’s quadruple murder trial has turned graphic. A Colts Neck detective told jurors that when eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro’s body was removed from the burned mansion, he noticed she had stab wounds—including one to her left eye. Sophia’s father Keith, mother Jennifer, and 11-year-old brother Jesse were Read more…
Jesse Butler thought he got away with it. The Stillwater, Oklahoma teen pled no contest to 11 felony charges — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation, violating a protective order — and avoided prison entirely. But attorney Rachel Bussett just filed a motion that could blow the whole thing up. Read more…
The ballistic match that prosecutors say connects Dr. Michael McKee to the murders of his ex-wife and her husband is now central to the case against him. McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe Read more…
Bryan Kohberger generated 13 formal complaints at Washington State University in a single semester. Nick Reiner had been through 18 rehab programs and a court-ordered conservatorship. In both cases, people saw something. In both cases, according to the evidence, nothing stopped what came next. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke Read more…
Your questions have been flooding in on three of the most talked-about cases right now, and we’re dedicating this episode to answering them. First: Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents Rob and Michele Reiner after years of addiction, schizophrenia, and a family that never gave up — until allegedly, Read more…