The True Crime Tapes

Day 25 of Chad Daybell’s trial marked the end of the prosecution’s case, with retired FBI Special Agent Doug Hart serving as its final witness. Hart walked jurors through some of the most damaging communications between Chad and Lori Vallow, including discussions of the supposed “death percentages” of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell and Chad’s claims that he could spiritually attack people...

The controversy began with Jeffrey Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 23, 2019, when officers found him unresponsive in the cell he shared with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, with an object around his neck. Epstein initially told a correctional officer that Tartaglione had tried to kill him and had been attempting to extort him, wh...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

Day 24 of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on the prosecution’s effort to tie Chad, Lori Vallow and Alex Cox together through phone records, text messages and their behavior surrounding the deaths. FBI investigator Ricky Wright finished his testimony about Alex’s cellphone movements, including his roughly two-and-a-half-hour stay at Chad’s property on September 9, 2019, when prosecutors believ...

Day 22 of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on the physical evidence surrounding the death and disposal of Tylee Ryan. FBI forensic anthropologist Dr. Angi Christensen testified that she examined more than 100 of Tylee’s bones and found fractures and sharp-force injuries inflicted while the bones were still “biomechanically fresh,” meaning around the time of death, although she could not say wh...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke, accountant Richard Kahn, Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust, alleging that Indyke and Kahn knowingly helped facilitate, finance and conceal Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, including abuse connected to Zorro Ranch. The complaint portrayed the two men as far more than ordi...

Former federal agent Robert Mazur argued that investigators should stop treating Ghislaine Maxwell as a uniquely valuable source of truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s network and instead build the investigation around survivors, documentary evidence and the prosecutors who originally developed the case. He pointed to Maxwell’s conviction and her history of false statements under oath as reasons to trea...

Day twenty-one of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on Tammy Daybell’s health, Chad’s behavior after her death and testimony from Tammy’s sister Samantha Gwilliam and her husband Jason. Former deputy coroner Cammy Willmore testified that when she responded to the Daybell home after Tammy died, she noticed unusual pink foam coming from Tammy’s mouth that returned after being wiped away, promptin...

Day nineteen of Chad Daybell’s trial continued with some of the most graphic forensic evidence of the case as Dr. Garth Warren finished walking jurors through the autopsies of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Jurors were shown photographs documenting JJ’s body, including the duct tape around his wrists and the plastic and tape prosecutors said had been used to suffocate him, while Warren also described t...

Day eighteen of Chad Daybell’s trial centered first on Zulema Pastenes, the widow of Lori Vallow’s brother Alex Cox, who gave jurors another firsthand account of the belief system Chad and Lori had built around themselves. Pastenes testified that Chad claimed he could communicate through the veil, access information about people’s pasts and futures, determine whether someone was “light” or “dark,”...

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