Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment on February 2, 2021. The lead state police investigator testified he didn’t inspect a duffel bag in the bedroom — the bag that held the strap she was found hanging from. Without what Trooper Dunne called an obvious indication of foul play, Read more…
Ken Urker wrote Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 after the HBO documentary. He proposed in prison in 2018 and ended it in 2019, saying she needed time to build her own identity. Ryan Anderson wrote in 2020 after the same film and married her at Chillicothe in 2022 with Lifetime’s Read more…
The surgeries in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical file are real: eye procedures, ear tubes, salivary glands removed because Dee Dee said she drooled, a feeding tube that kept her on PediaSure into her twenties. Her teeth were pulled. She sat in a wheelchair she never needed. In 2001, Tulane tested Read more…
Ken Urker’s cause of death is pending toxicology, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced it as an overdose within a day. Sandra Birchmore’s death was a suicide on paper for five years, until the state medical examiner withdrew it in April 2026 and a jury in Boston was handed the question. Read more…
“And, yes, I’m eating breakfast with it.” Christa Pike said that to her friend Kim Iloilo at breakfast on January 13, 1995, about a piece of Colleen Slemmer’s skull she was carrying in her pocket. Kim had already heard the rest the night before, when Pike came to her room, Read more…
Bryan Kohberger’s reason for firing his judge is the judge’s own sentencing speech. At the July 2025 sentencing, Judge Steven Hippler called Kohberger a “faceless coward,” the “worst of the worst,” and said his acts had buried anything human in him. Kohberger’s appointed attorney Greg Rauch argues that a judge Read more…
Richard Allen — the man convicted in the Delphi murders — arrived at Westville Correctional Facility in October 2022 weighing roughly a hundred and eighty pounds. He was a CVS pharmacy clerk with depression and anxiety. He had no criminal record. He had voluntarily told police in 2017 that he Read more…
Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell walked out of his state police interview about Sandra Birchmore’s death with the conversation unrecorded and his home and phone never searched. Sandra, 23 and pregnant, was found dead in her Canton apartment on February 4, 2021. The state medical examiner called it suicide in May Read more…
Sandra Birchmore wanted a baby “to have someone to love.” That’s what she told her boss at East Elementary in December 2020, two months before she was found dead in her Canton apartment. On the first day of Matthew Farwell’s federal trial, her boss, her mentor, and her property manager Read more…
A year before Ken Urker died, Gypsy Rose Blanchard says he told her he’d file for sole custody of their daughter. She said it herself, on a September 2025 call to a friend in prison that the Daily Mail published, right after describing the night she found a card to Read more…