The public version of this story has been simple: a thirteen-year-old ran from home, vanished into the orbit of a rising musician, and was found in the front trunk of his Tesla. But the documented record tells a more complicated Read more…
Weeks after her husband died — and, according to prosecutors, weeks after she poisoned him — Kouri Richins went on a local morning show to grieve publicly and promote a children’s book about loss. Trial testimony established she didn’t write Read more…
For years, the Reiner family publicly pushed back on the professionals treating their son — at one point even siding with Nick over the counselors who warned that he was lying and manipulating them. This segment makes the case that Read more…
The defense team in the Anna Kepner case has made a series of choices that, taken together, tell you a great deal about where they believe this case is headed. They reportedly requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered the Read more…
Before prosecutors linked Sandra Costilla to Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach killings were understood to begin around 2007. Sandra’s death in 1993 pushed the timeline back by fourteen years — and changed everything about the scope of what investigators believe Read more…
Burke’s attorneys didn’t say he was innocent. They didn’t say he didn’t know Celeste Rivas Hernandez. They said he “was not the cause of her death.” That phrasing is specific. It’s surgical. And this look back, with retired FBI Special Read more…
The Kouri Richins defense did real damage on cross-examination — and still lost on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines a strategy that exposed genuine weaknesses in Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick. They sent him to treatment seventeen times. They let him live close to them. They even made a film together about his struggles. And at one Read more…
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder requires proof of intent. The Read more…
Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann’s hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, a technology admitted in Read more…
