She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I’ll handle everything. For Read more…
At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same Read more…
This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he’s telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground Read more…
Before the arrest, before the 911 call, before the charges — there was a man with a guitar and a public image built on faith, family, and music. Caleb Flynn grew up as a pastor’s son in Braham, Minnesota. He Read more…
Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Sixteen months of investigation. Boots on the ground in Green Hollow. And one question that still doesn’t have a clean answer — is Lucy Studey-McKiddy telling the truth about the alleged Green Hollow Read more…
From inside solitary, Joseph Duggar has been performing the role of a man reborn. Bible readings. Hours of prayer. A new translation because the old one didn’t work anymore. He found the Book of Ruth and told Kendra it encouraged Read more…
A five-year-old girl sits in front of Wisdom Booklet 36. She can’t fully read it yet. But the framework is already being installed: if something happens to you, the first question is what did you do wrong. The Duggar family Read more…
Parents in rural Iowa warned their children for decades — don’t go back into the hollow, stay away from Don Studey. He was the boogeyman of Green Hollow. And when criminal defense attorney Bob Motta went into the small towns Read more…
He wasn’t invited. He drove six hours anyway. And he ended up closer to the Green Hollow dig than most of the local cops who were actually assigned to be there. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta had spent months investigating Read more…
Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell Read more…
