Prosecutors describe an alleged pattern in the D4vd case that goes far beyond a single act of violence. David Anthony Burke allegedly made contact with Celeste Rivas Hernandez when she was eleven. The relationship allegedly became sexual when she was thirteen and he was eighteen. By the time prosecutors allege Read more…
Bryan Kohberger’s guilty plea closed the criminal case. It did not close the questions about who he is. A new book on the Idaho murders has published, for the first time, three letters Kohberger wrote from the Latah County Jail in October 2023 — to his dog, his sister, and Read more…
The body was barely cold and Kouri Richins was already executing the next phase. The morning after her husband died, she signed closing papers on a multimillion-dollar mansion he’d argued against buying. Two days later, she drilled open his safe to get at the cash inside. And then came the Read more…
A man who reportedly had a documented history of violence and multiple wives — several of whom died under unexplained circumstances. A daughter who has been alleging for nearly two decades that he killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on the family property. An FBI investigation that Read more…
Michael Jackson walked out of a California courthouse a free man. Then he left the country. Then he never set foot in Neverland again. Whatever the verdict meant legally, it cost him something no jury could return. This episode is the 2005 criminal trial in full. The Martin Bashir documentary Read more…
A daughter’s allegations. A community’s reported silence. A failed investigation. And now, reportedly, an alleged accomplice speaking on camera for the first time. The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders represents the most comprehensive public examination of the case against Donald Dean Studey — a man his Read more…
Forget what you think you know about the Tupac Shakur case. The narrative just shifted. Mopreme Shakur has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that treats the 1996 Las Vegas shooting not as a solved crime with a single suspect — but as a conspiracy with participants who have never been Read more…
What do you do when you hire investigators to look into your own organization and they come back saying your top leadership needs to go? If you’re Greater Grace World Outreach, apparently, you publish the report and then do as little as possible about it. The GRACE investigation was 172 Read more…
Four cadaver dog alerts. A property that reportedly spans over 400 acres. Numerous wells — some wet, some dry, many filled in over the decades. And the FBI spent parts of three days there before announcing they found nothing and walking away. That’s the 2022 Green Hollow investigation in a Read more…
She carried the bags of lye. She was a child. And she says she knew exactly what was at the bottom of that well. Lucy Studey-McKiddy has spent nearly two decades alleging that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was responsible for the deaths of dozens of women in rural Iowa. Read more…