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…
Nineteen Kids and Counting was TLC’s highest-rated program by 2014. It ran for years on the image of a joyful, faithful, perfectly modest family — living proof that the IBLP way of life worked. In Part 2 of Hidden Killers’ five-part series, Tony Brueski examines what was underneath that image. Read more…
The investigative record on the Duggar family is extensive — and it keeps growing. Josh Duggar is serving a twelve-and-a-half-year federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material. Before his arrest, documentation shows that Jim Bob Duggar was aware of what Josh had done to family members and chose Read more…
The State of Indiana just filed its formal response to Richard Allen’s appeal. Their position: the evidence is “conclusive and irrefutable,” the trial was fair, and nothing the defense is raising should change a single day of a 130-year sentence. This episode is our answer to that. We’ve covered this Read more…
The photographs covering the walls of her Duxbury home showed a devoted mother. Her career was built on showing up for women at their most vulnerable. And when she became the patient who needed someone to show up for her, she did everything right — she asked, she documented, she Read more…
The evidentiary picture in the Nancy Guthrie abduction raises serious questions — not just about who took her, but about the investigation itself. Surveillance footage released by the FBI shows a masked man outside Nancy Guthrie’s front door the night she disappeared. Ransom notes demanding cryptocurrency payment arrived in the Read more…
Rex Heuermann is reportedly set to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing on April 8 — an expected move that, if it holds, would resolve seven murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case while leaving four other victims’ families with no charges and no courtroom. The evidentiary Read more…
The jury took three hours. But the case that matters most now isn’t in any courtroom. Three boys were 9, 7, and 5 when their father died of a fentanyl overdose in their Utah home. Their mother wrote them a children’s book about grief, went on television to promote it, Read more…
Three stories. All of them pointing at the same uncomfortable truth: the people and systems that are supposed to prevent harm have a way of failing at exactly the wrong moment. Savannah Guthrie’s first public interview brought new investigative detail to the surface. The suspect made two visits before the Read more…
Bill Gothard built one of the most influential fundamentalist Christian organizations in American history without a single credential to his name. Never ordained. Never married. No theological degree. Just a system — and the certainty to sell it. The Institute in Basic Life Principles reached millions of families through the Read more…