Steve Shirilla lost his teaching job after defending his convicted daughter on Netflix. Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a prison call telling Mackenzie that Dominic Russo’s family are “evil people.” Prosecutors decoded calls where mother and daughter spoke in a Read more…
Christine Russo lost her brother Dominic when Mackenzie Shirilla drove a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. Davion Flanagan, nineteen, died alongside him. In a published interview, Christine said it plainly about Mackenzie’s parents: “They Read more…
In this Nick Reiner case update, we follow the strangest thread in the entire trust fight: the man who was handed control of the money — and walked away months later. Paul Kanin took over Nick Reiner’s trust after Rob Read more…
Strip away the famous name and the Nick Reiner case update comes down to a brutal structural problem: a man facing the most serious charges California can bring — two counts of first-degree murder in his parents’ deaths, which he Read more…
Something unusual is happening in the Alex Murdaugh case, and almost nobody has noticed it: the fighting stopped. For three years, every development in this case triggered a war — motions, press conferences, accusations flying in both directions. Then South Read more…
Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial is fixated on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin’s story — her reported history with defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. This episode digs into the other half, and it’s the half that should worry the Read more…
A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for their children. He wants the Read more…
On January 8, 2005, the Wichita Police Department received a typewritten question from the BTK Killer. Dennis Rader had left it inside an empty cereal box in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He Read more…
In the latest Nick Reiner case update, the fight over Rob and Michele Reiner’s money turns on a document older than the internet: a trust established for Nick when he was an infant. That document is now the center of Read more…
Coral Michelle Smith has been in and out of the Pima County criminal justice system for fifteen years — prison four times, probation revoked twice, a kidnapping charge dismissed through a plea deal — and on May 29th she was Read more…
