The Kouri Richins defense did real damage on cross-examination — and still lost on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines a strategy that exposed genuine weaknesses in the state’s case and asks why it wasn’t enough. The Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick. They sent him to treatment seventeen times. They let him live close to them. They even made a film together about his struggles. And at one point, when professionals warned them that Nick was lying and Read more…
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder requires proof of intent. The additional charge tells investigators found evidence that goes beyond the Read more…
Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann’s hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, a technology admitted in a New York courtroom for the first time. And the Read more…
When Neo Langston — D4VD’s closest friend and frequent collaborator — posted privately that he’s legally clear and has receipts, the posts leaked within hours and became the first real crack in D4VD’s inner circle. But a statement analyst who reviewed every word found something more telling than what Neo Read more…
Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud — and the jury needed only about three hours to get there. But the case against her was built almost entirely on circumstance. This look back lays out exactly how the state assembled it, piece by Read more…
When Nick Reiner’s public defender entered a not guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder, it sounded like a denial. It wasn’t. Under California law, that plea is a strategic placeholder — and understanding why reveals exactly where this case is headed. He’s charged in the stabbing deaths of Read more…
Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It’s what kind of person is capable of doing it. That’s the question this part of the series refuses to look away from. Set aside Read more…
A defense attorney’s read on two cases that just shifted in the same week. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the contents of a second note from the alleged kidnappers were made public months after it was sent — claiming Nancy died shortly after being taken. Investigators reportedly consider it legitimate. Read more…
Dick Harpootlian arrived at Alex Murdaugh’s first retrial hearing carrying transcripts of interviews with the first people to arrive at Moselle after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. What’s in those transcripts, according to Harpootlian: differing accounts that suggest other individuals were present at the property that night. Accounts Read more…