Lori Vallow still believes she’s chosen. In a 2025 Dateline interview, she maintained her innocence. She claimed Jesus showed her she’d be exonerated. She showed no remorse. Meanwhile, her surviving son Colby is trying to figure out how to live Read more…
Before the Kouri Richins jury ever decides whether she murdered her husband, they’ve already learned who she is. Phone searches for “fentanyl poisoning.” Deleted memes accessed minutes after first responders left — one saying “I’m really rich.” A jailhouse letter Read more…
Forty days. No suspect. No arrest. Cadaver dogs stood down. The DNA has dead-ended twice. And the desert keeps its secrets. This isn’t pessimism — it’s the evidence. After forty days with no named suspect, no viable DNA profile, and Read more…
The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she would not be testifying. This Read more…
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution’s drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other changed her account of what Read more…
When you don’t have much, do you blame the victim? That’s the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it’s one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, has seen play out in Read more…
CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case. Three years later, Ruby’s children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt’s house. Part 4 of “The Good Mother” examines what happens when you see abuse, Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what it does to the people Read more…
Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive. She was Lori’s best friend. She heard Chad Daybell’s zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked her to lie to police, Read more…
Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she’s leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own. Tony Brueski examines the full arc of this case with psychotherapist Shavaun Read more…
