A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder requires proof of intent. The Read more…
Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann’s hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, a technology admitted in Read more…
When Neo Langston — D4VD’s closest friend and frequent collaborator — posted privately that he’s legally clear and has receipts, the posts leaked within hours and became the first real crack in D4VD’s inner circle. But a statement analyst who Read more…
Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud — and the jury needed only about three hours to get there. But the case against her was built almost entirely on circumstance. This look back Read more…
When Nick Reiner’s public defender entered a not guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder, it sounded like a denial. It wasn’t. Under California law, that plea is a strategic placeholder — and understanding why reveals exactly where this Read more…
Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It’s what kind of person is capable of doing it. That’s the question this part Read more…
A defense attorney’s read on two cases that just shifted in the same week. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the contents of a second note from the alleged kidnappers were made public months after it was sent — claiming Nancy Read more…
Dick Harpootlian arrived at Alex Murdaugh’s first retrial hearing carrying transcripts of interviews with the first people to arrive at Moselle after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. What’s in those transcripts, according to Harpootlian: differing accounts that suggest Read more…
The prosecution’s motive theory rested on financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court called excessive. Twelve and a half hours of it. Ten days of witnesses describing Murdaugh stealing from clients and loved ones. The court said the trial judge allowed Read more…
Stripped to its essentials, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a duel. Trained investigators sit on one side of the room. On the other sits a woman who had already spent the better part of a year proving Read more…
