D4vd case — the prosecution’s alleged cover-up timeline. Prosecutors say David Burke ordered chainsaws, a body bag, and more from Amazon under a fake name and had everything delivered to his Hollywood Hills home. The alias was “Victoria Mendez.” The address was his. And Amazon keeps records of everything.That’s one Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is still unsolved after six months, but a separate case tied to it just wrapped up in court. A California man admitted to sending the Guthrie family fake bitcoin ransom demands during the active search for her — and the punishment he received has former investigators furious. His Read more…
D4vd case — the system failures behind Celeste Rivas Hernandez. When Riverside County deputies found David Burke’s number in the phone records of a missing thirteen-year-old, they called him. When LA County deputies knocked on his door for a welfare check, he showed them her yearbook photo and told them Read more…
There’s a new wrinkle in the Nolan Wells case out of Jackson County, Mississippi, and it’s not about the water — it’s about who’s connected to who. One of the friends who left Nolan behind on Horn Island over the Fourth of July is the son of a sitting county Read more…
Nolan Wells’ story starts the way too many of these do — a group of friends, an island, a holiday weekend, and one kid who never made it back to the boat. He was eighteen. He was talking to a girl on the north end of Horn Island, off the Read more…
It does not start with a crisis. It starts with a compromise so small you don’t think to question it. Then another. Then a hundred more. And one day you realize you have no idea who you are anymore. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott ties two of the most confounding cases in Read more…
Deputies conducted a welfare check and told David Anthony Burke directly that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old. According to the prosecution’s filing, he continued anyway. This look back examines what the People’s Brief puts on the record about the timeline prosecutors intend to prove — and what that Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s case doesn’t have one ransom note. It has a pile of them, and they don’t agree with each other. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old grandmother from her Tucson home, describing her as at rest somewhere in nature. A completely separate message went to Read more…
A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn’t automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach beyond the walls, and the legal machinery designed to stop her. The concern isn’t abstract. Read more…
Have you ever sat with a serial killer before? Rex Heuermann asked that question to a therapist inside Suffolk County Correctional — and the way he asked it told her everything. It wasn’t vulnerability. It was a man performing his own legend. What came after was far more revealing. This Read more…