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Reid Carter presents Part 1 of a two-part series on John Wayne Gacy, timed with Peacock's new series "Devil in Disguise." Gacy was a successful Chicago contractor, Democratic precinct captain, and community pillar who dressed as Pogo the Clown for children's parties. He was also one of America's most prolific serial killers. Between 1972-1978, he murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men, bu...

Reid Carter covers Diddy's strict post-release conditions - five years supervised probation, drug testing, mental health treatment, domestic violence programs, probation officer can search him anytime. Begging to serve sentence at low-level New Jersey prison instead of Brooklyn's MDC. Charles Crawford executed Wednesday after 30 years on death row for raping and murdering college student Kristy Ra...

Reid Carter covers Daisy Link's murder trial - claims self-defense after shooting her husband Pedro Jimenez who she says pistol-whipped her, but prosecutors say she was the aggressor in their violent relationship. Link got pregnant by another inmate while in jail awaiting trial. Adam Montgomery's appeal hearing today - convicted of murdering his 5-year-old daughter Harmony, beating her to death th...

Reid Carter covers Aaron Spencer, Arkansas father running for sheriff while awaiting murder trial for shooting his 13-year-old daughter's abuser - 67-year-old Michael Fosler who was out on bond for 40+ sexual offenses when Spencer found his missing daughter in Fosler's truck. Ellen Greenberg stabbed 20 times including 10 to the back of head - Philadelphia rules it suicide AGAIN despite pathologist...

Reid Carter covers Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez booked after being stabbed multiple times by a 69-year-old truck driver in self-defense - now facing felony battery and civil suit claiming Fox knew about his "propensity for drinking and harmful conduct." Luigi Mangione's attorneys seek to dismiss federal charges and death penalty, arguing he wasn't read Miranda rights and stalking isn't a "crime...

Reid Carter covers Drake's defamation lawsuit dismissed - judge rules Kendrick Lamar calling him a pedophile in "Not Like Us" was opinion, not fact, in the context of a heated rap battle. Twenty-three bodies found in Houston bayous this year spark serial killer fears, but officials insist there's no connection - retired detectives disagree, calling it "unlikely" to be coincidence. Mark Sievers ret...

Reid Carter concludes the Ed Gheen special with the psychology behind the Butcher of Plainfield. Augusta Gein raised Ed in fanatical religious isolation, teaching him women were sinful and disgusting. After her death in 1945, Ed tried to resurrect her through grave robbing, murder, and wearing a "woman suit" made from real skin. Found incompetent in 1957, eventually ruled not guilty by insanity in...

Reid Carter begins a two-part weekend special on Ed Gein, timed with Netflix's Monster series. November 16, 1957: Sheriff Art Schley enters Ed Gein's Wisconsin farmhouse looking for missing hardware store owner Bernice Worden and finds her headless body hanging from the ceiling. Then the inventory begins: lampshades made of human skin, skulls turned into bowls, furniture upholstered in human flesh...

Reid Carter covers Jonathan Rinderknecht's arrest for starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed 6,000 homes. The 29-year-old Uber driver's ChatGPT searches reveal months of fire obsession: burning Bibles, creating images of burning cities, asking "Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes?" He listened to a French rap song about setting fires nine times, l...

Reid Carter covers Mark Sanchez's escalating nightmare: prosecutors reveal charges could be upgraded to Level 3 felony carrying sixteen years in prison, and FOX insiders confirm his broadcasting career is over. Diddy asks Trump for a presidential pardon while requesting New Jersey prison with drug treatment. Bionca Ellis trial witnesses describe her walking away from stabbing 3-year-old Julian Woo...

Reid Carter covers Perry Tole's lawsuit against Mark Sanchez and FOX Corporation, claiming permanent disfigurement and loss of function after the parking space brawl. The 69-year-old oil collector wants millions for injuries to his mouth, jaw and face. Darriynn Brown gets life for snatching 4-year-old Cash Gernon from his crib and murdering him. Bionca Ellis goes on trial for randomly stabbing 3-y...

Reid Carter covers Mark Sanchez's Indianapolis disaster where the FOX analyst got stabbed fighting a 69-year-old oil collector over a parking space. Surveillance shows drunk Sanchez doing wind sprints in an alley before attacking, getting pepper sprayed, then stabbed in self-defense. Charges upgraded to felony battery carrying five years in prison. Ghislaine Maxwell's Supreme Court appeal denied,...

Reid Carter returns from Eight Days of OJ to find celebrity chaos everywhere. Judge Subramanian calls Cassie Ventura a "brave survivor" after Diddy's sentencing, while she reveals moving her family out of New York fearing "swift retribution." Tyrese Gibson's four Cane Corsos mauled a neighbor's spaniel to death while he wasn't home. Fifteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body found decomposing...

Reid Carter presents a purely fictional, speculative episode imagining the OJ Simpson trial in 2025. With Ring cameras, Find My iPhone, TikTok detectives, and Google searches, could the Juice still get loose? From the Bronco chase livestreamed on Instagram to Reddit solving the case before police, Reid reimagines the Trial of the Century with modern technology. This entertainment-only thought expe...

 Reid Carter concludes the O.J. series examining thirty years of aftermath from the verdict that divided America. The immediate chaos that followed acquittal, O.J.'s promise to find "real killers" on golf courses, and the Dream Team's fractures. The civil trial where different rules meant different justice. The fates of every key player - Clark's retreat, Darden's breakdown, Cochran's death, Ito's...

Reid Carter breaks into regular OJ anniversary coverage with breaking news from Manhattan Federal Court. Sean "Diddy" Combs was just sentenced to 50 months for transportation to engage in prostitution after calling his actions "disgusting, shameful and sick." The judge rejected both the prosecution's request for 11 years and the defense's plea for time served. With credit for 13 months already in...

Reid Carter concludes Eight Days of O.J. with September-October 1995 - the closing arguments and four-hour deliberation that shocked the world. Darden's desperate final plea for justice meets Cochran's masterful appeal to "send a message" to the LAPD. Clark's last attempt to refocus on victims gets overshadowed by jury nullification politics. September 29th - the jury gets the case. October 2nd -...

Reid Carter examines July-August 1995 - the months the Mark Fuhrman tapes emerged with 41 uses of the N-word, destroying his credibility and the prosecution's case. Laura Hart McKinny's screenwriting interviews expose Fuhrman's lies about racial slurs while he pleads the Fifth on planting evidence. Judge Ito loses complete control, crying over insults about his wife as the courtroom descends into...

Reid Carter examines June 1995 - the month Chris Darden made the decision that guaranteed O.J. Simpson's freedom. June 15th becomes the day that changed everything when Darden asks O.J. to try on the bloody gloves in front of the jury. The setup was perfect for disaster - latex gloves underneath, arthritis medication stopped, leather shrunk from blood. O.J.'s Academy Award performance struggling w...

Reid Carter examines May 1995 - the month that presented astronomical scientific proof of O.J. Simpson's guilt that somehow became meaningless statistics. Barry Scheck's contamination symphony makes jurors distrust DNA evidence showing one-in-170-million odds of innocence. Dr. Robin Cotton can't translate complex science into plain English while the jury's eyes glaze over. The Bronco becomes a mob...

Reid Carter examines April 1995 - the month this officially stopped being a murder trial and became a racial referendum. Cochran's defense strategy crystallizes into pure politics as O.J.'s home videos try to humanize a killer. Domestic violence evidence gets buried while Judge Ito's wife creates a conflict that nearly ends everything. Dismissed jurors expose the racial tensions destroying the cas...

Reid Carter examines March 1995 - the month Mark Fuhrman went from hero detective to racist villain, handing Johnnie Cochran the race card on a silver platter. F. Lee Bailey's devastating cross-examination about the N-word destroys Fuhrman's credibility with one lie. Evidence collection mistakes become conspiracy theories as Barry Scheck turns criminalist Dennis Fung into a bumbling incompetent. T...

Reid Carter examines February 1995 - the month that presented overwhelming evidence against O.J. Simpson that somehow didn't matter. Blood evidence creating a trail from Bundy to Bronco to Rockingham. The $55 Aris Isotoner gloves that would doom the prosecution. Kato Kaelin becomes the world's most famous houseguest while refusing to say what he really heard. Nicole's Akita with bloody paws that s...

Reid Carter begins the unprecedented 8-day O.J. Simpson retrospective with January 1995 - the month the prosecution lost the case before testimony began. Judge Lance Ito becomes America's first celebrity judge while Johnnie Cochran assembles legal superheroes with O.J.'s millions. Marcia Clark's overconfident opening statement meets Cochran's "conspiracy" preview as the Dream Team roster takes sha...

Reid Carter covers Ryan Routh's conviction for attempting to assassinate Trump - then trying to stab himself in the neck with a pen as the verdict was read. His daughter screamed "he's trying to kill himself!" as marshals tackled him. Dakota Van Patten's trial reveals he macheted his girlfriend Melody Hoffman to death because she might have been pregnant. Jose Soto-Escalera is convicted of strangl...