Months ago, both sides of the Gilgo Beach case said no plea deal. The LISK defense attorney said they were preparing for trial. The DA said the same. So what happened between then and now that made the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer reportedly decide to admit to murdering seven Read more…
We’ve been on this case from the beginning. We read the defense’s appeal brief. We read the State’s 94-page response. And now we’re going through all of it — three sessions, one complete picture — with defense attorney Bob Motta. Here’s what frames everything. The State calls the evidence against Read more…
Jim Bob Duggar needed to handle a problem in 2003. His teenage son had admitted to harming his sisters. Jim Bob had already gone to church elders. Now he needed someone in law enforcement. He chose Arkansas State Trooper Joseph Hutchens — a personal friend — to handle it quietly. Read more…
The State filed. The defense replies. Three judges decide. And Richard Allen waits in a prison in Oklahoma while the system examines itself. In this session of our three-part panel, defense attorney Bob Motta turns to face forward — and the questions get harder. What does the defense’s reply brief Read more…
Savannah Guthrie believes two ransom notes about her missing mother are real. She said it publicly, through tears, in her first interview since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home. And when you hear the full weight of what she’s carrying — the guilt, the grief, the fear that Read more…
She told them she was “messed up beyond repair.” She said she felt numb to all emotion. She tested at the most severe levels for depression and anxiety. She kept going back. The machine kept processing her and sending her home. Part 3 of our five-part series follows the full Read more…
We’ve told you about the van. We’ve told you about the confession that got the cause of death wrong. Now defense attorney Bob Motta tells you exactly what both of those things mean — and why the State’s response to the appeal doesn’t fix either one. The prosecution’s centerpiece argument Read more…
The Indiana Attorney General filed their formal answer to the Richard Allen appeal. Ninety-four pages. “Conclusive and irrefutable,” they call it. We’ve read every word. And the thing that stands out most is what those 94 pages choose not to say. According to the defense’s appeal brief, Richard Allen told Read more…
On the night Ashley Flynn was found shot in her bed in Tipp City, Ohio, her husband Caleb couldn’t stop talking. He called 911 screaming that someone broke in. He called his mother. He called Ashley’s mother. On bodycam, he sobbed so hard he threw up. He begged officers to Read more…
The evidentiary and investigative record across three active cases raises questions that an expected plea, an ongoing missing persons investigation, and a pair of criminal charges all leave unresolved in their own ways. Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings on April 8. Files Read more…