A father charged with murder. A case thrown out by a judge who found a “coverup.” A sheriff’s race won by the defendant. And a county that may not be done answering for what happened. This is the full three-part conversation with an outside legal analyst covering every dimension of Read more…
The end of the Samuel Bateman story isn’t the end. He’s behind bars for fifty years and the women he claimed as wives are doing something almost nobody wants to talk about — going back to him. Not all of them. But enough of them that the question stops being Read more…
The dashcam SD card in Aaron Spencer’s case didn’t vanish in a vacuum. It disappeared inside a department with a documented history of evidence problems stretching back over a decade. In 2021, a seventeen-year-old named Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a Lonoke County deputy during a traffic stop. Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla is behind bars for driving a hundred miles per hour into a brick wall and killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. A judge called her actions controlled, methodical, and purposeful. She’s serving life with parole eligibility in 2037. And since Netflix put her case back Read more…
Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest him. The thing that had identified him as BTK was a metadata trace from a Read more…
The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss. Spencer beat incumbent Sheriff John Staley by double digits in a three-way Republican primary. The county tilts hard Republican. Brian Mitchell Sr., the Democratic candidate, Read more…
Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal. Judge Ralph Wilson’s ruling in the Aaron Spencer case didn’t stop at identifying problems. He catalogued a pattern: no photographs of the dashcam’s position in Fosler’s Read more…
The detective was fired. The prosecutor is retiring. The county clerk resigned months ago citing persecution. And at the center of it all is a nineteen-page judicial order that documents — in constitutional detail — how the most critical evidence in the Aaron Spencer murder case was mishandled, lost, and Read more…
The evidence in the Elijah Vue case tells one story. The two people charged in his death allegedly tried to tell another. Three-year-old Elijah was reported missing from a Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment in February 2024. His mother’s boyfriend Jesse Vang said the boy wandered off during a nap. His Read more…
Samuel Bateman wasn’t hiding. He was operating in the open, on a street where the local police knew his name, in a town where the sheriff drove past his house every day. The most disturbing question about his case isn’t how he got away with it. It’s why everyone around Read more…