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…
The prosecution asked whether Mackenzie Shirilla intended to kill her boyfriend and his friend. A judge said yes. But a psychotherapist who has spent thirty years inside the minds of people who commit violence says the real question was never asked — and the answer might be something the legal Read more…
Blanca Simpson testified for three hours in 2023. The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in three hours. A court clerk’s misconduct erased all of it. And now Blanca is preparing to do something almost nobody in true crime history has had to do — go back to the stand with three Read more…
Dominic Russo’s father says he needs the truth so he can grieve. But what if the truth he needs isn’t the truth the evidence supports? What if grief has so completely fused with certainty that the family can’t distinguish between what happened and what they need to believe happened? Mackenzie Read more…
Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming. He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a boarding house six blocks from the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. He spent Read more…
Guilty on all counts. Unanimous. Three hours of deliberation for a case that took three weeks to present. And the defendant showed almost no reaction. A juror called her “like a statue.”This episode examines the psychology behind that absence of emotion. Not stoicism. Not strategy. A system in overload — Read more…
The prosecution’s version of the Mackenzie Shirilla case depends on a simple dynamic — she was the aggressor, Dominic Russo was trying to leave, and the crash was her final act of control. Netflix’s The Crash leans into that framing. But psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent decades in domestic Read more…
The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough to plan a murder at seventeen. A judge agreed. But a psychotherapist who has treated Read more…
Rebecca Haro maintained her innocence for months. She told investigators a stranger had taken her seven-month-old son from a parking lot in Yucaipa. She gave television interviews with a visible black eye. She begged on camera for her baby to come home. After she was arrested and charged with murder, Read more…