The prosecution asked whether Mackenzie Shirilla intended to kill her boyfriend and his friend. A judge said yes. But a psychotherapist who has spent thirty years inside the minds of people who commit violence says the real question was never Read more…
Blanca Simpson testified for three hours in 2023. The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in three hours. A court clerk’s misconduct erased all of it. And now Blanca is preparing to do something almost nobody in true crime history has had Read more…
Dominic Russo’s father says he needs the truth so he can grieve. But what if the truth he needs isn’t the truth the evidence supports? What if grief has so completely fused with certainty that the family can’t distinguish between Read more…
Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming. He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a boarding house six blocks from Read more…
Guilty on all counts. Unanimous. Three hours of deliberation for a case that took three weeks to present. And the defendant showed almost no reaction. A juror called her “like a statue.”This episode examines the psychology behind that absence of Read more…
The prosecution’s version of the Mackenzie Shirilla case depends on a simple dynamic — she was the aggressor, Dominic Russo was trying to leave, and the crash was her final act of control. Netflix’s The Crash leans into that framing. Read more…
The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough to plan a murder at Read more…
Rebecca Haro maintained her innocence for months. She told investigators a stranger had taken her seven-month-old son from a parking lot in Yucaipa. She gave television interviews with a visible black eye. She begged on camera for her baby to Read more…
Her defense attorney failed to call the one expert who might have changed the verdict. The prosecution charged murder when the evidence arguably supported a lesser charge. The post-conviction system shut the door on new evidence over a single missed Read more…
different things.Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys told national television they have new information about other potential suspects. They’re building a retrial strategy that points the finger away from Alex. Meanwhile, the woman who spent twenty years inside that household has her own Read more…
