D4vd case — the system failures behind Celeste Rivas Hernandez. When Riverside County deputies found David Burke’s number in the phone records of a missing thirteen-year-old, they called him. When LA County deputies knocked on his door for a welfare Read more…
There’s a new wrinkle in the Nolan Wells case out of Jackson County, Mississippi, and it’s not about the water — it’s about who’s connected to who. One of the friends who left Nolan behind on Horn Island over the Read more…
Nolan Wells’ story starts the way too many of these do — a group of friends, an island, a holiday weekend, and one kid who never made it back to the boat. He was eighteen. He was talking to a Read more…
It does not start with a crisis. It starts with a compromise so small you don’t think to question it. Then another. Then a hundred more. And one day you realize you have no idea who you are anymore. Psychotherapist Read more…
Deputies conducted a welfare check and told David Anthony Burke directly that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old. According to the prosecution’s filing, he continued anyway. This look back examines what the People’s Brief puts on the record about Read more…
Nancy Guthrie’s case doesn’t have one ransom note. It has a pile of them, and they don’t agree with each other. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old grandmother from her Tucson home, describing her as at Read more…
A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn’t automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach beyond the walls, and the Read more…
Have you ever sat with a serial killer before? Rex Heuermann asked that question to a therapist inside Suffolk County Correctional — and the way he asked it told her everything. It wasn’t vulnerability. It was a man performing his Read more…
Barry Morphew spent months living under names that weren’t his own while awaiting trial for his wife Suzanne’s murder. After the original case against him collapsed and the lead prosecutor was disbarred, Barry left Colorado and settled into a trailer Read more…
He allegedly released an album two days after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez was killed. He toured for months. He performed in Minneapolis the night after her remains were found in his Tesla across the country in Los Angeles. This Read more…
