The connection between these two cases is not the crime. It is the signature. Ohio put a marriage license in front of a judge for a fifteen-year-old who was seven months pregnant, and it was approved. California deputies documented telling Read more…
The Nolan Wells 911 call opens with the strangest soundtrack imaginable: cheerful hold music playing over the commotion of a boat taking on water. Tony plays the uncut audio from start to finish and examines what is happening underneath it. Read more…
Ohio’s attorney general did not hedge. Sixteen children were taken out of a home on Ohmer Street in Hamden, and Andy Wilson did not soften what came next. Based on what he had seen, he said, waiting a certain amount Read more…
The prosecution’s opening statement at Plymouth Superior Court used one adjective for part of what Lindsay Clancy did to herself: superficial. Kevin Reddington answered it with photographs, a fracture list, and a medical record that describes a burst fracture at Read more…
The most devastating number in this case is not a dollar figure and it is not a piece of forensic evidence. It is how old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was when prosecutors say David Burke first found her online. Who was Read more…
A woman in a psychiatric crisis drove herself to a locked ward on New Year’s Eve and checked herself in voluntarily. The malpractice complaint filed against her providers says she was not seen by a doctor for three days. She Read more…
Testimony placed David Burke’s phone and his Tesla off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County in the small hours after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez died. While he was out there, according to an LAPD detective, the phone made one Read more…
Kouri Richins filed a motion for a new trial. Seven weeks after a judge sentenced her to life without parole for the aggravated murder of her husband Eric Richins. Seven weeks after her own sons begged the court to keep Read more…
Three families asked the system for something basic. Answers. Protection. Help. None of them received it. Nolan Wells was eighteen. He went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, and was the only one of the group who did Read more…
Pool fragments on a dead girl’s leggings. That’s the evidence that came out of Day 3 of the d4vd preliminary hearing in Los Angeles, and it draws a direct forensic line between the Hollywood Hills garage where prosecutors allege David Read more…
