Millions of people watched the Michael Jackson biopic opening weekend and walked out smiling. Millions more read the allegations from his so-called second family and felt their stomachs drop. And almost nobody is holding both of those experiences in their hands at the same time. That’s what this series does. Read more…
One week they demanded speed. The next week they asked for time. David Anthony Burke’s defense team reversed course in open court — and the prosecution didn’t hide their frustration about it. Blair Berk pushed for a preliminary hearing within ten days at the arraignment, invoking California’s “ten of ten” Read more…
The people who hired Brent Turvey to help defend Bryan Kohberger are now publicly condemning him. Not because he did bad work. Because he’s talking about what the work revealed. Turvey is a forensic scientist — PhD in Criminology, three decades of casework, more than 70 trials as a qualified Read more…
It started with one man and a pond in rural Maine. Carl Stevens said God poured liquid waves of love over him — and that story became the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach, a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations spanning more than seventy countries. Most people outside Read more…
Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People’s Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste’s classmates a thousand dollars to deliver Read more…
A shovel from Home Depot via Postmates. Two chainsaws from Amazon. A body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool — all allegedly purchased under the fake name “Victoria Mendez.” That’s what prosecutors laid out in the People’s Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke. Not rumors. Read more…
The AG’s ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen’s appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and Read more…
The Medical Training Institute of America was IBLP’s health authority. It issued guidance to families across the country on everything from childbirth to mental health. It operated without a single licensed doctor. Its publications replaced medicine with spiritual obedience — teaching that mental illness did not exist, that psychological suffering Read more…
The initial 911 call described a home invasion. A man sobbing, barely able to speak, telling a dispatcher someone had broken into his house and shot his wife. Signs of forced entry at the scene. Two gunshot wounds. Only Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and their two elementary-age daughters were inside Read more…
Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey’s property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in Read more…