Real-Time Crime

As Christa Pike remains hospitalized, unconscious, on a ventilator in critical condition after a failed execution attempt, the man in charge of Tennessee prisons has announced his resignation.  Governor Bill Lee did not directly reference the situation with Pike, or with this spring’s botched execution of Tony Carruthers, but said Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada stepp...

Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Denise reveals the warning signs of abuse her family missed, including a shocking photo of Nicole’s battered face that she explained away as 'movie makeup.' More than 30 years later, Denise opens up about what Nicole was hiding from the people closest to her, and what she wishes she had understood before it was too late. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

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29 year old Nathalie Belizaire was taken off a Carnival Cruise ship in handcuffs after police say she went on a 4 day cruise while leaving her 4 kids home, unsupervised.  Belizaire has been charged with four counts of felony child abuse after the father of her infant called 911 after hearing kids’ voices and the tv on at her residence.  When police burst through the front door, the...

The attorneys for 50 year old Christa Pike filed an emergency order to preserve all evidence from her botched execution attempt on Wednesday night. Pike’s attorneys detail her conditions, saying she is intubated , unconscious and on a ventilator with her arms swollen, blistered and burned.  The filing alleges the medical team improperly placed the IV and both lethal doses of pentobarbit...

Comedian and actor Dane Cook joins Jen Fessler and Elisa Donovan to open up about the shocking betrayal at the center of his new documentary, Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story . After discovering his half-brother had stolen millions from him, Dane’s life, career and relationship with his family unraveled in ways he never saw coming. He reveals what the betrayal did to him personally, how he r...

Residents are demanding answers after a county in Florida discovered multiple Flock cameras that were not permitted, and have no known owner. It’s also unclear whether those cameras are actively collecting data or who can access it. Florida isn’t alone, several other municipalities have found non-permitted cameras on city property that no one has publicly claimed. Flock cameras have dr...

Governor Kathy Hochul held a brief, joint press conference with New York Attorney General Letitia James. Governor Hochul said the Cornell rape accuser was 'failed' by the people who were obligated to protect her, namely the police and the District Attorney. Hochul issued an executive order appointing James as special prosecutor, saying newly released information raises serious questions about the...

50 year old Christa Pike remains in the hospital, in critical condition this morning.  Pike’s attorneys say she was chemically tortured, suggesting the drugs went into her arm tissue rather than her bloodstream..  They also have expressed frustration that they haven t been given any sense of her prognosis, but if Pike survives, it will be unprecedented.  Meantime, her victim&r...

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It took former Cornell University student “Jane Doe” filing a lawsuit, and outrage on social media, for prosectors to “reopen” the investigation into her allegations that 7 members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and gang raped her back in 2024. The District Attorney claims he never received the full transcript of Jane Doe’s interview with campus police, and says th...

Michelle Carter told her suicidal boyfriend Conrad Roy to go through with it and when he tried to back out, prosecutors said she told him to get back in the truck. The Girl From Plainville creator Patrick Macmanus takes Killer Thriller inside the explosive “texting suicide” case and reveals what he discovered in thousands of private messages about their complicated relationship. See om...

Today marks the 41st anniversary of a month created to bring awareness and save lives for millions of women around the world. October 1st is the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness month and to mark that day 13 years ago, Amy had a mammogram on live national television to remind women to make their own potentially life saving appointments. It was that scan that ultimately led to a stage 2 breast...

Quick and brave actions by the captain of Flydubai flight 1073 and several of its passengers averted a deadly disaster, saving the lives of more than 170 people on board a flight headed from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The investigation is ongoing, but the details of what happened mid-air are nothing short of remarkable. A co-pilot who has now been detained, reportedly began stabbing the capta...

50-year-old Christa Pike is in the hospital this morning after two lethal doses were given to the death row inmate last night. The Supreme Court overturned a federal court’s stay of execution, allowing for the execution to take place. After second attempt at administering the pentobarbital, Pike was heard snoring by witnesses. The governor of Tennessee  has ordered an investigation into...

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71-year-old Douglas Carter walked out of prison this week after spending 40 years on death row for a 1985 murder he says he never committed. Carter was finally freed after DNA from the crime scene excluded him as a suspect. Carter was finally granted a new trial last year after the Utah Supreme Court ruled the two witnesses who testified against him recanted their stories, revealing that police an...

NBC news has sourced a remarkable story describing what life is like for the billionaire music mogul behind bars. Multiple inmates have described a life Sean “Diddy” Combs has curated in prison, spending thousands of dollars a month for men to make his bed, cook his food, clean his clothes and give him massages. They also have photos and videos showing Diddy on a phone - which is not p...

In a shocking development, a federal appeals court has stepped in and stopped the execution of 50-year-old Christa Pike. Pike would’ve been the first woman in more than 200 years executed by the state of Tennessee, and she had already lost her appeal to the Supreme Court. Governor Bill Lee even announced earlier this week that he would not offer Pike clemency. The federal court wants to revi...

50-year-old Christa Pike is scheduled to become the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1819.   Pike was convicted of the torture and murder of an alleged romantic rival when she was 18-years-old.  She committed her crime with her then 17-year-old boyfriend, and because of his age he was given a life sentence, while Pike was sentenced to death. There have been dozens of women’s...

Elisa Donovan and Jenn Fessler react to the guilty verdict in the American Idol murder case and the stunning evidence that convinced a jury despite no recovered murder weapon, no gunshot-residue test and no blood on Caleb. Jenn says the more than 100,000 messages between Caleb and his mistress may have essentially become the prosecution’s “murder weapon.” See omnystudio.com/liste...

It took the jury less than three hours to convict 40-year-old former American Idol Contestant Caleb Flynn for the murder of his wife, Ashley, last February. During closing arguments the prosecution reminded the jury of the overwhelming evidence against Flynn, including his damning text messages about wanting to kill his wife. The defense spent nearly an hour trying to convince the jury there was r...

Lindsay Clancy had her first hearing since the mistrial, and Kevin Reddington made a shocking move… What’s next? Plus, Caleb Flynn’s fate is now in the hands of the jury. What do Emily and Shane think about the AI songs and 100,000+ text messages between him and his mistress?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A bizarre and disturbing story out of the Bay Area: two, 76-year-old murder suspects are in custody, accused of murdering their son-in-law at a California sports complex and playground. Police say Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen each shot 40-year-old Jonathan McKinsey multiple times, witnesses directing police to the couple within minutes of the murder. McKinsey was the director of engineering for t...