Sheriff Nanos told a local radio host that he thinks the FBI has made “a number of arrests” for fake ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case. The word that matters is “thinks.” The lead investigator is not certain what the FBI has done inside his own case. Tony Brueski Read more…
Most coverage of the Taylor Parker case jumps straight to the hospital. But the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct can’t really be understood without the year that came first. For months before any of this, Parker had been telling the people closest to her that she was pregnant — Read more…
The Nancy Guthrie case pulls in two directions at once. The notes contradict each other. One set of reporting says the investigation is stuck; another says an arrest is near. Both can’t be true. In this full conversation, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer works through all three fronts. The Read more…
Days before Alex Murdaugh returns to court for the first hearing of his retrial, his defense team filed three motions. Two are the kind of thing you’d expect. One could matter more than anything else in the case. The first asks to move the trial out of the entire Fourteenth Read more…
For months the Nancy Guthrie case looked stalled — until a retired FBI agent claimed it’s about to break. On Megyn Kelly’s show, Maureen O’Connell said her sources indicate investigators are closing in on “porch guy,” the masked man filmed outside the 84-year-old’s home the night she vanished. She put Read more…
Most people know the Taylor Parker story from the headlines. The version captured on the hospital bodycams in Maternal Instinct is so much worse. This breakdown starts at the beginning of that footage: the moment Parker arrives at the ER cradling a newborn and telling everyone she’d just given birth Read more…
The uncomfortable possibility in the Nancy Guthrie case is that nobody is close to anything. Howard Blum’s reporting in Air Mail describes investigators who privately fear an early mistake already cost them the case — suspects cleared one after another, leads drying up, the task force forced back to the Read more…
There is no single note in the Nancy Guthrie case. There’s a contradicting pile of them. A message reportedly tied to the man who took the 84-year-old from her Tucson home claims she’s “buried with nature.” A separate sender was telling TMZ “time is no longer of the essence.” And Read more…
A caller provided information about what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. That detail narrows the universe of possible sources dramatically. Someone who knows what an abduction victim was wearing either saw her after she was taken, received a description from someone who did, or was part of the operation. The FBI Read more…
The Duggar family built a brand on the image of wholesome Christian parenting. Joseph and Kendra presented themselves as the clean branch — the ones who stayed out of the headlines, who smiled through depositions, who begged judges to seal documents. But their children are now describing what life looked Read more…