Nolan Wells’ story starts the way too many of these do — a group of friends, an island, a holiday weekend, and one kid who never made it back to the boat. He was eighteen. He was talking to a Read more…
It does not start with a crisis. It starts with a compromise so small you don’t think to question it. Then another. Then a hundred more. And one day you realize you have no idea who you are anymore. Psychotherapist Read more…
Deputies conducted a welfare check and told David Anthony Burke directly that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old. According to the prosecution’s filing, he continued anyway. This look back examines what the People’s Brief puts on the record about Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s case doesn’t have one ransom note. It has a pile of them, and they don’t agree with each other. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old grandmother from her Tucson home, describing her as at Read more…
A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn’t automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach beyond the walls, and the Read more…
Have you ever sat with a serial killer before? Rex Heuermann asked that question to a therapist inside Suffolk County Correctional — and the way he asked it told her everything. It wasn’t vulnerability. It was a man performing his Read more…
Barry Morphew spent months living under names that weren’t his own while awaiting trial for his wife Suzanne’s murder. After the original case against him collapsed and the lead prosecutor was disbarred, Barry left Colorado and settled into a trailer Read more…
He allegedly released an album two days after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez was killed. He toured for months. He performed in Minneapolis the night after her remains were found in his Tesla across the country in Los Angeles. This Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s legal team is betting the retrial on a piece of evidence SLED collected and then let sit for years: unknown male DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails the night she and her son Paul were killed at the Read more…
The Reiner siblings are bracing for years of courtrooms — hearings, testimony, their brother’s face across the room while lawyers argue over his mental state. This look back examines the position they’ve been forced into and the harder truth waiting Read more…
