A cybersecurity firm worth two billion dollars classified Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abduction as a wrench attack by proxy. Their language, not ours. A wrench attack is a crypto-targeted crime. Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four years old with no known cryptocurrency holdings. Read more…
The conviction that was supposed to name what happened to five-year-old Harmony Montgomery has been erased. The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled unanimously that trying the December 2019 killing alongside a July 2019 assault in a single proceeding was unfair Read more…
For two decades, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson watched Alex Murdaugh operate through other people. Curtis Eddie Smith cashed checks. Associates carried messages. Relationships provided cover. Deniability was built into every arrangement. Alex Murdaugh, according to the woman who knew the household better Read more…
On May 27, Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres kept Timothy Hudson free. On June 10, after receiving sealed evidence filed two days earlier, the same judge ordered Hudson detained and used language federal judges spend their careers avoiding. He wrote that Read more…
The language in Nick Reiner’s trust reportedly leaves no room for interpretation. Half of the fund was due on his thirtieth birthday. The trust itself calls it “mandatory and unconditional.” That birthday was September 14th, 2023 — more than two Read more…
The first jury sat through more than twelve hours of financial crimes testimony. The South Carolina Supreme Court said that was excessive and ordered any retrial to sharply limit it. Now one judge — Debra McCaslin — decides where the Read more…
He called once. Gave coordinates. Described clothing. Fifteen volunteers searched the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona-Mexico border and found nothing. Then he called back. New directions. A second search. Still nothing. A third search was scheduled. And through all of Read more…
Natalie Shirilla told her daughter on a monitored prison call that rehabilitation programs are for “actual criminals.” Her daughter was convicted of driving a hundred miles an hour into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, killing Dominic Russo and Davion Read more…
The woman now controlling every motion, every evidentiary fight, and the retrial itself in the Alex Murdaugh double murder case once shared an office with the man defending him. Judge Debra McCaslin reportedly rented space from Dick Harpootlian — Murdaugh’s Read more…
A 136-page petition now sitting in a Los Angeles probate court makes one of the most uncomfortable legal arguments in recent memory: Nick Reiner, charged with killing both his parents, says the trust they created for him when he was Read more…
