June 1. Miami. Twelve jurors who have probably never heard Anna Kepner’s name will be asked to decide whether the person accused of killing her spends his life in federal prison. And the way this trial has been set up Read more…
Licensed therapists carried the words of three boys to the podium because those children still can’t face the woman prosecutors say killed their father — and what Kouri Richins did while listening tells you everything the jury already knows. The Read more…
Everybody says just leave. As if it is one decision and then it is over. It is not. Leaving is a window. And everything the research tells us says that window is where the danger lives. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly Read more…
Three boys — ages nine, eleven, and thirteen — had their words read into the record by therapists because they couldn’t face the woman convicted of killing their father. One described being locked in his room so often he can’t Read more…
Michael Scott lost his family. His daughter was three when he was arrested. His wife. His anniversary. Gone — not because of anything he did, but because detectives sat a man with learning disabilities in a room for 18 hours Read more…
The Twelve Tribes reportedly designed a world where leaving meant losing everything. And according to former members, that was not a side effect. It was the point. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines what happens after the escape. Former members Read more…
Nobody wakes up one morning and realizes they have lost themselves. It happens in increments so small they feel like nothing — an opinion you stop voicing, a friendship you let go, a boundary you move because moving it is Read more…
The worst moments in an abusive relationship are not what keep you there. The best ones are. The relief after the storm. The version of your partner who seems to understand what they did. That cycle rewires your nervous system Read more…
The final part of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man, goes into the question the trial never touched: How does a man kill his own family? The book draws on decades of research into family annihilators Read more…
Indiana’s response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that’s confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State trying to keep three judges from ever opening the trial Read more…
