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A surgeon who took out the wrong organ. An anchor's death his family never accepted. And four witnesses finally firing back at Karen Reed. A Florida surgeon is indicted for manslaughter after allegedly removing a seventy-year-old patient's liver instead of his spleen — and his lawyer says it's not the first wrong organ he's pulled out. Nearly five years after Birmingham anchor Christopher Sign was...

Plus: the Athena Strand trial turns devastating as DNA evidence lands — and we meet Tracey Grist, the Utah mother who Googled a famous murder-for-hire before her son-in-law was lured to his death. Garret Fisher returns to the D4vd case months after it went quiet — and the quiet is over. LAPD Robbery-Homicide kicked open the gate of his Hollywood Hills mansion Thursday afternoon and arrested 21-yea...

The internet's worst tourist gets six months of hard labor, a jury finally calls the concert giant what it is, and SantaCon's president had a very different charity in mind — himself. Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a M...

Plus: New rape testimony rocks the Athena Strand sentencing phase — and Sherrone Moore walks out of court a free man. She was eighteen months old when she fell into a well in Midland, Texas, and the whole world held its breath for fifty-eight hours. Baby Jessica became America's child. This week, Jessica McClure Morales — now forty years old — was arrested at her Midland home on domestic violence...

Plus: A Real Housewife caught shoplifting — for six months. And a cold case from Boca Raton that has never let go. A federal grand jury has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse — five months after the Florida cheerleader was found dead beneath a bed on a Carnival cruise ship. We've followed this case since the...

A dream voyage on a boat called Soulmate has turned into a nightmare — and the only witness is in custody. A Michigan woman vanishes from a dinghy in the Bahamas while sailing with her husband. He paddles to shore. She doesn't. Nine days later, Lynette Hooker is still missing — and her husband Brian is in Bahamian custody, questioned on probable cause, not yet charged. Her daughter says she knows...

He confessed. Then he pled guilty. Now a jury must decide whether he lives or dies. On Tuesday we introduced you to Tanner Lynn Horner — the FedEx contract driver who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022. Since then, the trial in Fort Worth has delivered four days of testimony the likes of which few courtrooms have ever seen. He pleaded guilty moments before the trial began. The ju...

The anesthesiologist is found guilty. The Long Island serial killer finally says the word. And the woman who sold Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him is heading to federal prison. Friday, April 10th, 2026. Three separate courtrooms. Three verdicts that landed within 48 hours of each other. Gerhardt Konig — the Maui anesthesiologist who beat his wife with a rock at a cliffside in Oahu — was con...

A Little House on the Prairie reunion nobody wanted, a 28-year-old disappearance finds new leads, and a man who already admitted it — in court at last. Garret Fisher covers three stories that have been years — in some cases, decades — in the making. The West Wing's Timothy Busfield is back in headlines as wife Melissa Gilbert goes on national television to defend him, revealing she knew about prio...

A son who allegedly shot his parents over money. A man who killed a seven-year-old because she was going to tell her dad. And a woman who drove 78 miles an hour through a red light high on pink cocaine and told cops she was from the future. Humans. Suck. Garret Fisher covers three cases that will test your faith in humanity — and your patience for the justice system. A former NYPD officer is charg...

Back in March, we told you about a sixty-seven-year-old Massachusetts woman named Judy Church who was on trial for poisoning her live-in boyfriend with antifreeze — a man she also secretly insured, threatened to kidnap, and filmed while he was dying. Today, we tell you what happened. The jury deliberated for more than eight hours. The judge had something to say at sentencing. The family had more....

Gerhardt Konig faces cross-examination as his own son tells jurors he confessed — and Blake Lively's case just got a lot smaller. It has been a brutal week for Gerhardt Konig in a Honolulu courtroom. His son took the stand and told jurors that his own father called him twice to confess — then said he planned to jump off the cliff before police could catch him. A digital forensics detective walked...

A TV star's street brawl, a judge blows up a Hollywood hush deal, and a beloved actor dies too soon. The actor who plays an unstoppable action hero punched a neighbor to the ground in a Tennessee suburb — and walked away without charges. A Los Angeles judge refused to let Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner bury the financial terms of their sex tape settlement with Ray J. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer s...

Days three through five in Honolulu deliver Arielle's testimony and damning DNA results. Savannah speaks. Tiger demands a jury. Thursday, April 2nd. Arielle Konig takes the stand on the anniversary of the attack — her birthday — and tells the jury what Gerhardt said while beating her with a rock. Day Five brings DNA testimony that undercuts the defense's mutual-combat story. Savannah Guthrie gives...

April 1st — no jokes, just a legendary golfer in handcuffs, a lottery winner turned burglar, and a Brexit-sized drug bust hiding in fruit. It's April Fool's Day, and Garret Fisher is not laughing. Tiger Woods, 50, is waking up this Wednesday with a DUI charge after rolling his Land Rover on a Jupiter Island road Friday — his second DUI arrest, his fourth high-profile crash, his latest chapter in a...

Three verdicts land in one week — a postpartum officer goes free, a serial killer folds, and a Mississippi dad finally faces justice. A former Massachusetts police officer walks out of court a free woman after being shot by her own colleague. The man accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer — seven murders, seventeen years, a Word document full of kill instructions — is reportedly about to p...

Garret Fisher covers the landmark double verdict against Big Tech. In Los Angeles, a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for deliberately designing addictive platforms that damaged twenty-year-old Kaley's mental health — ordering $6 million in damages in a bellwether case tied to 2,000 pending lawsuits. One day earlier in Santa Fe, a separate jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling ch...

Garret Fisher covers the stunning conclusion of the Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial in Massachusetts — three days of testimony, both sides rested, and now a judge decides whether a postpartum crisis or an assault on a fellow officer happened in that North Andover home. Then: Arielle Konig takes the stand in Honolulu — on her birthday, exactly one year after her husband allegedly tried to kill her o...

The Duggars sold America a fantasy — nineteen kids, humble faith, wholesome values. For years, TLC let them. In 2015, the illusion cracked: eldest son Josh had molested five children, including four of his sisters. He would go on to federal prison for child sex abuse material. Now brother Joseph — seventh of the nineteen — is arrested for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 fami...

Garret Fisher brings you trial developments and two stunning new cases. The Gerhardt Konig attempted murder trial is underway in Honolulu — jurors heard from two nurses who ran toward a woman's screams and found her covered in blood, as the defense blames the wife. Then: a Florida woman who tried to hire a hitman to kill her three-year-old son — using a fake website — was sentenced Monday. No jail...

Garret Fisher covers three celebrity-adjacent cases unraveling in real time. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for fifty days — the family of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie begs Tucson for renewed attention while the sheriff's department faces mounting criticism for early blunders. Then: Justin Timberlake's DWI body cam footage is finally public after he tried to block it — he called the sobriety test...

Garret Fisher with a Monday edition packed with developments from all three coasts. First: Caleb Flynn — the former American Idol contestant accused of shooting his wife Ashley while their daughters slept — has been indicted by a grand jury on eleven counts including aggravated murder. His bond just jumped to three and a half million. Then: a Princeton man who killed his younger brother with a kni...

Garret Fisher examines four disturbing cases of domestic betrayal unfolding across the country. In Massachusetts, Judy Church stands trial for allegedly poisoning her live-in boyfriend with antifreeze after taking out a life insurance policy on him — and trying to have him kidnapped when he tried to leave. In North Carolina, former paramedic Joshua Hunsucker has just been indicted for allegedly ki...

Monday's verdict came down fast: three hours, five counts, guilty across the board. Kouri Richins, the Utah realtor who wrote a children's grief book after allegedly poisoning her husband Eric with a fentanyl Moscow Mule, now faces life in prison. Sentencing lands May 13th — what would have been Eric's 44th birthday. Then: the case you need to know. Dale Warner of Tecumseh, Michigan, tracked his w...

Garret Fisher dedicates today's full episode to the conviction of Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander — three brothers who leveraged a luxury real estate empire to drug, assault, and rape more than sixty women over more than a decade. The trial ran five weeks in Manhattan federal court. Eleven women testified. The jury took eight hours. All three brothers were convicted on every single count. Garret wal...