13th Juror Podcast

COURT REPORT: Shocking Verdicts, a Buried Baby & Major Courtroom Drama A jury deadlocked. A shocking verdict. A convicted defendant allowed to go home. And an 11-month-old baby found buried alive. This week on 13th Juror: Court Report , we're breaking down some of the biggest developments in cases making headlines across the country. After weeks of explosive testimony in the Matthew Farwell tr...

Sandra Birchmore: The Defense Rests | Matthew Farwell Trial What if the evidence prosecutors say proves murder could have another explanation? After weeks of testimony in the federal trial of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell, the defense has rested. And its final witnesses presented a very different interpretation of Sandra Birchmore's death. In this final full-length installment of...

Y’all, there’s a reason we’re back for a second Court Report this week. Juries return verdicts in the Andrew Griffin and Robert Kessler trials. We’ll hear what Stephanie Crone-Overholts’s family told the court at sentencing and why the judge had one last thing to say about that cheesesteak. Then, an update on YNW Melly’s retrial and a look at Yella Beezy’s murder-for-hire trial, where a witness wa...

Court Report: A Chilling 911 Call, Courtroom Chaos & Major Trial Developments Court Report is dropping EARLY this week, and there's a reason why. From shocking courtroom scenes to new evidence raising difficult questions, the first few days of November have already delivered some major developments. In Ohio, Ashley Morgan is accused of murdering her boyfriend, Sean Reagan, and claiming self-de...

Court Report | October 29, 2026 A woman calls 911 and admits she just shot her boyfriend. But what she says happened in the moments before she pulled the trigger raises questions about whether this was murder—or self-defense. Meanwhile, a courtroom bombshell in the Lindsay Clancy case has two attorneys telling very different stories about what she allegedly revealed before the deaths of her three...

Sandra Birchmore: The Final Witnesses | Part 2 What if the evidence that could change everything had been there from the very beginning? As prosecutors wrap up their case against former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell, some of the most compelling testimony is still to come. A medical examiner faces questions about a decision she made years earlier. An expert points to details that may t...

Expecting Trouble: The Pregnancy Trap | The Laura Owens Case When former Bachelor star Clayton Echard met Laura Owens in May 2023, he had no idea that one brief encounter would turn into a years-long legal nightmare. A pregnancy announcement. Claims of twins. Positive pregnancy tests. And a paternity battle that quickly became very public. But as Clayton fought to clear his name, he discovered som...

This week on Court Report, we're covering major verdicts, shocking courtroom developments, and several high-profile cases that are far from over. A Wisconsin jury reaches a verdict in the heartbreaking death of seven-year-old Ethan Hauschultz, while jurors in North Carolina deliberate in the long-awaited murder trial of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth. Plus, the woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart...

To Serve and Betray | The Sandra Birchmore Case: United States v Matthew Farwell When 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead inside her Massachusetts apartment in February 2021, investigators initially ruled her death a suicide. But Sandra was pregnant, excited about becoming a mother, and making plans for her future. Her family believed there was more to the story. What followed would expose...

A nearly 15-year-old disappearance takes a major turn, a murder trial ends in chaos, and a jury delivers a verdict in a deadly Florida crash. This week on Court Report , we're covering the arrest in the Michelle Parker disappearance, the juror controversy that derailed David Prevatte's trial, and the verdict in Leigha Mumby's case. Plus, Murdaugh Madness returns with new DNA testing developments a...

This week on Court Report , we're covering some of the biggest courtroom headlines and legal developments from across the country. An undercover sting in Alabama leads to the arrests of several public officials, a deadly shooting rocks a Georgia community, and new developments emerge in the decades-old murder of a young mother. Plus, we're following several high-profile trials, including the disap...

On the final weekend of her life, Ashley Flynn celebrated Valentine’s Day with the people she loved most. By early Monday morning, the 37-year-old mother of two was dead— shot twice in her own bed. Her husband, Caleb, told police he heard the gunshots and believed someone had broken into their home. But as investigators began pulling apart the events of that night, they uncovered a secret life hid...

This week on Court Report, some of the biggest cases we've been following are taking unexpected turns. A death-row execution goes horribly wrong. The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial finally speaks out. Alex Murdaugh’s defense says a new investigation could raise serious questions about the missing murder weapons. And an appeals court weighs in on something we’ve never really had to...

This week, we’re bringing you a bonus episode because this case is simply too big—and there are too many unanswered questions—to fit into Court Report. Seven men who were Cornell students and members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the time are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting a fellow student after a night involving alcohol and ketamine. Disturbing Snapchat messages circulated while...

Attorney Steven Cozzi arrived at work on an ordinary Tuesday morning—and then seemingly vanished. His car was still outside. His phone, wallet, and keys were left behind. But inside the office building, investigators found blood, signs of a cleanup, and surveillance footage of a mysterious man leaving with a heavily loaded wagon. What followed was an investigation that would uncover a contentious...

This week on Court Report, Patrick Clancy speaks publicly for the first time since Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial—and new allegations surrounding the lone holdout juror are raising even more questions about what happened inside that jury room. Plus, new developments in the disturbing Siders family case, a verdict in the Irondequoit family murders, and a decades-old unidentified man may have opened a su...

On February 16, 2022, Jared Bridegan was driving home with his two-year-old daughter when he came across a tire blocking the road. He stopped to move it. Seconds later, he was dead. What looked like a roadside shooting would unravel into an alleged murder-for-hire plot years in the making — involving a mysterious pickup truck, a hired gun, a bitter custody battle, and people much closer to Jared t...

This week on Court Report, we’re covering a packed slate of trials, new developments, and cases taking some unexpected turns. A self-proclaimed witch is standing trial for the alleged murder of a young mother whose body has never been found — and the defense says prosecutors can’t even prove she’s dead. We’re also checking in on the bizarre courtroom developments in the Dr. Tomasz Kosowski murder...

Andrea Yates and Lindsay Clancy — two mothers, two tragedies, and two cases separated by more than two decades that raised many of the same difficult questions. In this episode, we take a deeper look at Andrea Yates: the years of severe mental illness leading up to the deaths of her five children, what happened during her two trials, and why her case was compared so often to Lindsay Clancy. James...

The Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial — but the conversation surrounding this case is far from over. In this bonus episode, Brandi sits down with James “Buddy” Day, creator and host of Unmarked, for a conversation about the verdict, the jury’s deliberations, and the complicated intersection of mental illness and criminal responsibility. This is also the first of several upcoming collaborati...

This week on Court Report: A breakthrough more than 40 years in the making in the Texas Killing Fields — and a jury that needed less than an hour to make its decision. A former NFL scout learns his fate in a case involving a poisoned drink. A massive DNA scandal raises questions about more than a thousand criminal cases. Plus — an Egyptian media personality facing the ultimate punishment, a Grammy...

Just when we thought the Lindsay Clancy series was over, the trial’s final day brought a stunning mistrial, a last-minute appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court, and a courtroom battle unlike anything we’ve seen before. Now, jurors are speaking out about what happened behind closed doors—including the evidence that changed their minds, the lone holdout, and why eleven of them believed Lindsay was...

THE LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL: CLOSING ARGUMENTS & A JURY DIVIDED After weeks of testimony, the Lindsay Clancy trial is finally in the hands of the jury. In this episode, we break down the closing arguments from both sides — the defense’s claim that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis and the prosecution’s argument that her actions show she knew exactly what she was doing. We’ll cover t...

This week on Court Report, we’ve got two major verdicts — including a long-awaited decision in one of the most infamous murders in music history. Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was killed, a Las Vegas jury has finally decided the fate of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Then, we’re going back ten years to the disappearance of 19-year-old Morgan Bauer. For more than seven years, her family searched for a...

This week’s Court Report is packed with verdicts, plea deals, courtroom twists, and some very unexpected developments in cases we’ve been following for months. A former college cheerleader admits what really happened to her newborn after initially telling investigators a very different story. We finally have a verdict in the Jared Bridegan murder-for-hire case — but almost immediately afterward, a...