After Donna Adelson was convicted, the State Attorney told reporters that decisions regarding additional charges in the Dan Markel conspiracy were coming in the coming weeks. Months have passed. No charges. No grand jury announcement. No public movement of any kind. For a case where prosecutors have repeatedly labeled Wendi Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident. The record starts quiet. Months without a single citation after arriving in August 2023. Then a Read more…
Two cases. Two different kinds of evidence problems. Mackenzie Shirilla’s own family is building the record against her on monitored prison calls — while in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case, the DNA points one direction and a federal judge just said the prosecution’s case isn’t strong enough. Defense attorney Read more…
Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with conspiracy to commit human trafficking — with the alleged victim being the same woman who later placed her three-year-old son in his care. He had a federal drug conviction. He was still Read more…
The DNA odds are 120 sextillion to one pointing at Timothy Hudson. But an FBI agent admitted on the record that he is unaware of any DNA evidence directly connecting Hudson to Anna Kepner’s cause of death. That admission — buried inside a hundred and forty-five pages of unsealed transcript Read more…
Ted Bundy spent ten years on death row making absolutely sure of one thing: that the country would never get the why. The Chi Omega trial in Miami, summer 1979 — the first criminal trial broadcast nationally on American television — was his stage. He fired his attorneys. He rehired Read more…
Eye rolls during victim impact statements. Smirks while therapists read her children’s words. Then tears — real tears — when her own family called her the glue of the family.Pain aimed at her: contempt. Praise aimed at her: emotion. That behavioral split tells you everything about the wiring we’ve been Read more…
Natalie Shirilla called the Russo family “evil people” on a recorded prison line. Steve Shirilla’s teaching contract was not renewed after he appeared on a Netflix documentary defending a convicted killer — his daughter. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what this family is doing to Mackenzie Shirilla’s Read more…
Thirty-six conduct violations. Guilty on thirty-two. Recorded calls where she refuses rehabilitation, calls herself the third victim, and tells her mother she plans to become a life coach. Mackenzie Shirilla’s institutional file at the Ohio Reformatory for Women is growing — and defense attorney Eric Faddis says the parole board Read more…
A federal judge just found Josh Duggar’s sworn testimony not credible — for the second time. The first time, it was Jim Bob on the stand. Same judge. Same courtroom. Same word: not credible. Josh Duggar’s motion to vacate his conviction was denied on June 1 after Judge Timothy Brooks Read more…