Nick Reiner $1.5 million trust — the trust terms reportedly said mandatory. The parents reportedly said no. Twenty-seven months later, Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their own home and their son was arrested the same night. Nobody in law enforcement has publicly connected those two Read more…
Rex Heuermann strangled eight women over seventeen years. A judge handed him consecutive life sentences and told officers to get him out of the courtroom. The families of those women stood in that courtroom and addressed the man who destroyed their lives. One of them told the court about a Read more…
A cybersecurity firm worth two billion dollars classified Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abduction as a wrench attack by proxy. Their language, not ours. A wrench attack is a crypto-targeted crime. Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four years old with no known cryptocurrency holdings. That disconnect is the center of this conversation. If CertiK’s Read more…
The conviction that was supposed to name what happened to five-year-old Harmony Montgomery has been erased. The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled unanimously that trying the December 2019 killing alongside a July 2019 assault in a single proceeding was unfair to Adam Montgomery. The strong assault evidence — multiple witnesses, Read more…
For two decades, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson watched Alex Murdaugh operate through other people. Curtis Eddie Smith cashed checks. Associates carried messages. Relationships provided cover. Deniability was built into every arrangement. Alex Murdaugh, according to the woman who knew the household better than anyone outside the family, never did anything alone. So Read more…
On May 27, Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres kept Timothy Hudson free. On June 10, after receiving sealed evidence filed two days earlier, the same judge ordered Hudson detained and used language federal judges spend their careers avoiding. He wrote that Hudson allegedly exhibits “a level of psychopathy and lack of Read more…
The language in Nick Reiner’s trust reportedly leaves no room for interpretation. Half of the fund was due on his thirtieth birthday. The trust itself calls it “mandatory and unconditional.” That birthday was September 14th, 2023 — more than two years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed. Nick has Read more…
The first jury sat through more than twelve hours of financial crimes testimony. The South Carolina Supreme Court said that was excessive and ordered any retrial to sharply limit it. Now one judge — Debra McCaslin — decides where the line falls. That single ruling could shape the verdict before Read more…
He called once. Gave coordinates. Described clothing. Fifteen volunteers searched the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona-Mexico border and found nothing. Then he called back. New directions. A second search. Still nothing. A third search was scheduled. And through all of it, this anonymous man never contacted the FBI, never contacted Read more…
Natalie Shirilla told her daughter on a monitored prison call that rehabilitation programs are for “actual criminals.” Her daughter was convicted of driving a hundred miles an hour into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear the Read more…