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 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 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 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 Read more…
Prosecutors have a duty to tell the defense about anything that makes one of their own witnesses look dishonest. Prosecutors say two Utah sheriffs turned that duty into a weapon against the Kouri Richins prosecution, and the target was a Read more…
Christa Pike’s lawyers went to Davidson County Chancery Court on October 2, 2026, asking a judge to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve the catheters, tubing, needles and logs from the execution room at Riverbend. Their argument: the Read more…
For two years, every billboard in Indiana carried the Delphi investigation’s composite sketch of the man police said killed Abby Williams and Libby German. Millions studied the face. Tens of thousands called in tips. In April 2019, the state police Read more…
Two of the three Stoughton officers the department found had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore have paid with their badges and nothing more. Deputy Chief Robert Devine retired in 2022 while the internal investigation was open. The state’s police standards Read more…
Both sides in the Matthew Farwell federal trial want the same witness: the Massachusetts medical examiner who ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in 2021, then withdrew it in April 2026. Prosecutors say she’ll testify to a fractured hyoid bone Read more…
The strongest thing Matthew Farwell has going for him is five years of the state of Massachusetts agreeing with him. The medical examiner ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide in May 2021. She changed it to undetermined on April 30, Read more…
