It started with screaming. According to the Associated Press, the Word of Faith Fellowship practiced something called blasting — groups of members surrounding a person and shrieking inches from their face for hours to allegedly drive out demons. Secret recordings Read more…
Someone close to Buster Murdaugh called Alex “a selfish, selfish old man” after the Supreme Court granted a retrial. That’s not the language of a family rallying behind a defendant. That’s the language of a family that’s done. Tony Brueski Read more…
Alan Wilson controls the prosecution of Alex Murdaugh. He also wants to be the next governor of South Carolina. He’s leading in the polls. And he just told reporters the death penalty is an option for the retrial—something that was Read more…
Kouri Richins’ courtroom speech was forty minutes of love, forgiveness, and motherhood. The sentencing memo prosecutors filed tells the story of what she was actually doing from her jail cell — and when you put them side by side, a Read more…
Two interviews. Two families. Two courtrooms where the people who should matter most are being dragged back into it. Buster Murdaugh hasn’t spoken since the conviction was overturned, but sources say he’s angry, not relieved. He reportedly called his father Read more…
Dharmi Mehta was on day four of a Disney Magic cruise when federal agents handcuffed her family’s dining host and loaded him into an unmarked van. Forty-five minutes earlier, he had served them breakfast. According to CBP, between April 23 Read more…
Those boys couldn’t face their mother. They gave their words to therapists who read them in open court — locked doors, animals that died from neglect, a brother smuggling food to a sibling imprisoned in his own bedroom, and a Read more…
The prosecution’s playbook for convicting Alex Murdaugh was just declared constitutionally excessive by the highest court in South Carolina. The state spent weeks building an emotional case around Murdaugh’s financial crimes before the first jury ever weighed the murder evidence. Read more…
A former math teacher from rural North Carolina allegedly built a church where she controlled which couples could reproduce, which members could attend college, and who was allowed to speak to their own families. Jane Whaley and her husband Sam Read more…
The financial crimes carried the first conviction. Twelve hours of stolen money, defrauded clients, and a pattern of lies so deep the jury only needed three hours to decide. The South Carolina Supreme Court just said none of that comes Read more…
