In every case like this, there’s a risk that the victim becomes a footnote in someone else’s story. This episode makes sure that doesn’t happen to Ashley Flynn. She graduated from Tippecanoe High School and Lee University. She came home Read more…
Some filings lay out a theory. This one lays out an alleged horror. Tony Brueski reads through the People’s Brief against David Anthony Burke — the nine-page prosecution roadmap that the defense tried to seal and the judge made public. Read more…
Rex Heuermann killed women in the same room where he grew up. The same room where he went through puberty. The same room where, according to the FBI’s John Douglas, the violent fantasies that would eventually consume him first took Read more…
Bill Gothard reduced the French Revolution to a lesson about disobedience. The Wisdom Booklets — the Duggar family’s curriculum — taught children that all authority is divine, that questioning it invites destruction, and that the separation of church and state Read more…
Ten feet. That’s the distance between where Victoria Heuermann sat as a child watching television and playing video games, and the room where her father strangled, murdered, and dismembered women over the course of nearly two decades. Ten feet between Read more…
She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I’ll handle everything. For Read more…
At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same Read more…
This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he’s telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground Read more…
Before the arrest, before the 911 call, before the charges — there was a man with a guitar and a public image built on faith, family, and music. Caleb Flynn grew up as a pastor’s son in Braham, Minnesota. He Read more…
Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Sixteen months of investigation. Boots on the ground in Green Hollow. And one question that still doesn’t have a clean answer — is Lucy Studey-McKiddy telling the truth about the alleged Green Hollow Read more…
