The defense team didn’t file this lawsuit just to hold Becky Hill accountable. They filed it to investigate her. Civil discovery gives them tools the state never used — subpoenas, depositions, sworn testimony under penalty of perjury — and the Read more…
The sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case reads like an operational log. Prosecutors documented what they describe as a sustained campaign from inside a jail cell targeting every person connected to the prosecution — and it didn’t stop until Read more…
Strip away twelve hours of stolen-money testimony and the Alex Murdaugh case has to stand on its physical evidence for the first time. What’s left is a crime scene that sat in the rain, family members who walked through it, Read more…
Federal agents had names before the ships docked. Operation Tidal Wave targeted 27 crew members across eight cruise ships in San Diego based on intelligence from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. CBP and HSI coordinated the boarding. Read more…
Three boys wrote impact statements describing locked bedrooms, animals dying from neglect, a sibling sneaking meals to a brother who’d been shut away, and a childhood defined by fear. Their therapists read the words in open court because the children Read more…
Buster Murdaugh testified for the defense at his father’s murder trial and told a jury Alex wasn’t capable of killing Maggie and Paul. Then Alex was convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence. Barely any prison calls. A quiet Read more…
Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins’ children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on Read more…
Two threads of the Murdaugh case worth pulling on — what was already in motion before June 7, 2021, and what the prosecution may not get to use at a second trial. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. Read more…
Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial Read more…
In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she’ll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her “picked Read more…
