Timothy Hudson’s defense team told a federal judge that one unresolved issue is preventing them from deciding whether their client pleads guilty or goes to trial for the murder of his stepsister Anna Kepner. They won’t say what that issue Read more…
Marc Flasterstein wrote “Munchausen by proxy” in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s chart after a muscle biopsy at Tulane came back negative. The biopsy confirmed Gypsy’s muscles were healthy. The chart said Dee Dee Blanchard was fabricating her daughter’s illness. Flasterstein never Read more…
Sandra Birchmore entered a police explorer program as a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl. The officers who allegedly targeted her had unchecked access to vulnerable minors through that program. No meaningful background checks. No oversight. Multiple officers have been named in Read more…
Two women who knew Sandra Birchmore best took the stand in the Matthew Farwell murder trial on October 23rd, and both described a woman getting ready to be a mother. Lindsey Crean, her friend since middle school, said Sandra called Read more…
A fractured hyoid bone. A severe chest imprint. Glasses placed neatly on the bed. A locked door. Sandra Birchmore’s autopsy tells a story that has no parallel in documented cases involving the position the defense describes. The digital evidence runs Read more…
Eleven of twelve jurors wanted to acquit Lindsay Clancy. One man held out. Then it came out that Michael Desronvil had a dropped domestic violence charge from 2021 and an active restraining order against him during the trial, though Desronvil Read more…
Alan Bono was 40 years old. He managed a kennel in Brookfield, Connecticut. He was stabbed on his own lawn on February 16, 1981 — the town’s first homicide in 193 years. Three films, a book, a Netflix documentary, and Read more…
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell’s DNA was found on a duffel bag strap recovered around Sandra Birchmore’s neck. The defense disputes the government’s account of her death. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis unpack the central evidence in Farwell’s Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s investigators chose an interview that left no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, made the tactical call to question Matthew Farwell in a school parking lot so the Read more…
Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails are back at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s murder case. At the October 16 hearing, defense lawyers said additional testing found unidentified male DNA beneath both hands, and they argued that a sample from Maggie’s phone also Read more…
