The Nancy Guthrie case pulls in two directions at once. The notes contradict each other. One set of reporting says the investigation is stuck; another says an arrest is near. Both can’t be true. In this full conversation, retired FBI Read more…
Days before Alex Murdaugh returns to court for the first hearing of his retrial, his defense team filed three motions. Two are the kind of thing you’d expect. One could matter more than anything else in the case. The first Read more…
For months the Nancy Guthrie case looked stalled — until a retired FBI agent claimed it’s about to break. On Megyn Kelly’s show, Maureen O’Connell said her sources indicate investigators are closing in on “porch guy,” the masked man filmed Read more…
Most people know the Taylor Parker story from the headlines. The version captured on the hospital bodycams in Maternal Instinct is so much worse. This breakdown starts at the beginning of that footage: the moment Parker arrives at the ER Read more…
The uncomfortable possibility in the Nancy Guthrie case is that nobody is close to anything. Howard Blum’s reporting in Air Mail describes investigators who privately fear an early mistake already cost them the case — suspects cleared one after another, Read more…
There is no single note in the Nancy Guthrie case. There’s a contradicting pile of them. A message reportedly tied to the man who took the 84-year-old from her Tucson home claims she’s “buried with nature.” A separate sender was Read more…
A caller provided information about what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. That detail narrows the universe of possible sources dramatically. Someone who knows what an abduction victim was wearing either saw her after she was taken, received a description from someone Read more…
The Duggar family built a brand on the image of wholesome Christian parenting. Joseph and Kendra presented themselves as the clean branch — the ones who stayed out of the headlines, who smiled through depositions, who begged judges to seal Read more…
Prosecutors asked Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. Three hours on the stand. But Blanca had been inside that household for twenty years. She knew things about the Murdaugh home that no crime scene technician could learn Read more…
The kennel video destroyed Alex Murdaugh’s alibi at the first trial. Audio placed him at the dog kennels minutes before Maggie and Paul were shot. Multiple witnesses identified his voice. He admitted he lied. The jury convicted in three hours. Read more…
