Ken Urker’s sister says he slept with a gun every night, and she says the fear came from the internet, not from Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Ken was found dead on October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday, after his employer and Gypsy’s brother Dylan went to the Raceland home when he Read more…
Caleb Flynn’s lawyer filed the appeal, asked for a public defender, and said his firm was finished. Alleigha Botner deleted her texts the morning Ashley died, lied to the FBI, and was not charged. Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney called a relationship prosecutors say started at 15 an affair. Sandra Birchmore Read more…
Christa Pike’s aunt remembered Christmas 1994 one way, and her mother remembered it another. To the aunt, Christa said she was scared of the Job Corps center in Knoxville: she wanted everybody to be proud of her, but people got hurt there. To her mother, she said a girl was Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney chose one word for the relationship with Sandra Birchmore: affair. Prosecutors say it started when Sandra was 15. Stevens told the jury Farwell made regrettable decisions and did not kill Sandra. She used the same phone to build a different woman: Sandra searching the suicide ribbon Read more…
In September 2023, Richard Allen’s defense team filed a document that should have reshaped the Delphi case. The Franks memorandum ran a hundred and thirty-six pages. It names men the defense alleges were connected to the murders through confessions, social media posts matching the crime scene, and a car that Read more…
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore and staged her death as a suicide in February 2021. Prosecutor Cummings told the jury it started with a photo from the Explorers program, Sandra at 12 standing at the end of a line. By 15, prosecutors allege, he was with her. Read more…
On the first day of Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial, prosecutor Torey Cummings put Sandra Birchmore’s last text on the screen. She called it a message of welcome to the man who’d known Sandra since she was 12. Four minutes after she sent it, Farwell walked into her Canton apartment Read more…
Botner sent more texts than Caleb Flynn did. She wrote I want to kill her, researched how to erase their conversations, deleted her own texts the morning Ashley died, and lied to the FBI about the affair. Investigators skipped her home, skipped her DNA and fingerprints, skipped every Flock camera, Read more…
Patrick Mulligan filed Caleb Flynn’s notice of appeal two days after the life-without-parole sentence, then told reporters his firm would not touch it. He asked the court to appoint a public defender for the man he just defended. The appeal challenges Judge Pratt’s jury instructions and the venue decision that Read more…
Who wrote the first version matters. In Louisiana, Gypsy Rose Blanchard told People magazine that Ken Urker overdosed before any official cause of death existed. The sheriff’s office there says no signs of foul play, and his sister says he’d left Gypsy a month before. In Massachusetts, prosecutors say Canton Read more…