The prosecution’s motive theory rested on financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court called excessive. Twelve and a half hours of it. Ten days of witnesses describing Murdaugh stealing from clients and loved ones. The court said the trial judge allowed the state to go “far too long and far too Read more…
Stripped to its essentials, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a duel. Trained investigators sit on one side of the room. On the other sits a woman who had already spent the better part of a year proving she could keep the truth from everyone she knew. This Read more…
The defense asked for a laptop so Alex Murdaugh could review discovery from prison. The judge denied it after the warden said no inmate gets one. The compromise leaves Murdaugh dependent on his attorneys to bring their own devices to a conference room. With a trial date set for April Read more…
The second note sent after Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping said she died shortly after being taken. Investigators called it a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappers. Not a hoax. Not one of the fakes that the FBI has been arresting people for. If that assessment holds, the people who took an Read more…
Everyone who watches the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct comes away unsettled, and most of them can’t quite say why. This part of the series names it: it’s not what she does on the tape. It’s the thing you never see her do, across the entire interrogation. Look at Read more…
Three cases the audience has been fighting about. Three details nobody’s giving a straight answer on. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover them all in one full-length discussion — Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Alex Murdaugh — and challenge the conclusions the comments have already reached. The Guthrie sheriff only Read more…
The Bryan Kohberger case cost more than eight million dollars in public money. He confessed. There was no trial. And the people who paid for it have never been shown the full bill. This is the story of what happens when real money gets treated like it belongs to nobody. Read more…
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction after ruling that court clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury. Now the defense is building the retrial around a piece of evidence the state never fully processed: DNA from an unknown male found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails.Tony Brueski Read more…
Ask people what disturbs them about the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct, and most will reach for something she said. But the truly unsettling thing on that tape isn’t the words. It’s the way she carries herself while the words come out. Consider the moment she’s living through. A Read more…
Nick Reiner has been charged with stabbing his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, to death in their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty. And from his jail cell, he has filed a petition demanding over a million dollars from the trust his murdered parents established — Read more…