The True Crime Tapes

A potentially significant detail emerged in the early investigation into the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin when a neighbor said the front door of the King Road residence was standing open around 8:30 a.m. on November 13, 2022. The reported sighting came several hours after investigators believed the four students had been killed and more than three hour...

Bryan Kohberger applied and was given a job with the school district in his hometown. On the resume that he submitted to try and get that job, he might have played a little loose with the truth. According to Kohberger, he was a skilled fish filet maestro and was also a proficient boxer and debate champion. It would seem that he was not truthful here however, considering that he only worked at the...

Day six of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held September 1, 2026, centered on closing arguments and the prosecution’s claim that the evidence easily cleared Utah’s probable-cause standard. Deputy Utah County Attorney Ryan McBride argued that the state had built its case through four overlapping categories of evidence: surveillance footage placing Robinson at Utah Valley University, DNA reco...

In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went...

In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went...

In July 2025, the DOJ and FBI tried to close the book on Jeffrey Epstein by claiming they had found no incriminating client list, no credible blackmail evidence, and nothing that could justify investigations of uncharged third parties. That posture collapsed after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by overwhelming margins and forced millions of pages into public view. Once those re...

In July 2025, the DOJ and FBI tried to close the book on Jeffrey Epstein by claiming they had found no incriminating client list, no credible blackmail evidence, and nothing that could justify investigations of uncharged third parties. That posture collapsed after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by overwhelming margins and forced millions of pages into public view. Once those re...

A federal judge handed Jeffrey Epstein survivors a significant legal victory by certifying a class-action lawsuit against FirstBank Puerto Rico and its parent company, First BanCorp. Judge Jed Rakoff ruled on October 20 that the case could proceed on behalf of all women who were abused or trafficked by Epstein between January 1, 1998, and August 10, 2019, dramatically expanding the potential reach...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

During a 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft, former president Bill Clinton was photographed receiving a brief neck and shoulder massage from Chauntae Davies during a stop at an airport in Portugal. Davies, then 22, was working as a flight attendant for Epstein and later said Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited her. According to Davies, Clinton complained th...

A contractor who worked extensively on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, described the disturbing environment he encountered there. He noted that the island was filled with photos of topless women—on desks, in offices, and in Epstein’s bedroom—which ultimately drove him to cut ties with Epstein altogether. His testimony underscored how openly exploitative the atmosphere was, ev...

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...

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...

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers mounted a broad attack on the federal investigation, arguing that prosecutors had built their case on unreliable witness accounts, distorted police reports and evidence that the defense said had been taken out of context. They accused investigators of ignoring statements favorable to Epstein, mischaracterizing physical evidence and failing to reconcile later FBI reports w...

Chad Daybell was found guilty on May 30, 2024, after an Ada County jury deliberated for roughly six hours following a seven-week trial. Jurors convicted him on every count submitted to them, including first-degree murder in the deaths of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and his wife, Tammy Daybell, as well as conspiracy charges, grand theft and insurance fraud. Prosecutors had argued t...

Day thirty-one of Chad Daybell’s trial was devoted to closing arguments, with prosecutors pulling together weeks of testimony into a single theory built around what Fremont County Prosecutor Lindsey Blake called “money, power and sex.” Blake argued that Chad did not have to personally kill JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan or Tammy Daybell to be guilty, because the evidence showed that he had entered into a c...

Day twenty-nine brought Chad Daybell’s defense case to an end and immediately opened the prosecution’s rebuttal. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Eric Bartelink was the final defense witness, testifying about the badly burned and incomplete remains of Tylee Ryan. Bartelink said large portions of Tylee’s skeleton were missing and that her body appeared to have been burned largely intact before being bro...

Day twenty-seven of Chad Daybell’s trial continued the defense effort to challenge both the prosecution’s theory of Tammy Daybell’s death and the investigation itself. Chad’s son-in-law Joseph Murray returned to the stand and was questioned about money Chad distributed to his children on June 9, 2020, the same day investigators discovered JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan buried on Chad’s property; Murray...

Day twenty-six of Chad Daybell’s trial marked the beginning of the defense case, with Daybell’s children taking the stand to challenge the prosecution’s portrayal of Tammy Daybell as healthy before her death. Emma Murray testified that Tammy had been increasingly tired, suffered from medical problems including what Emma described as anemia and sleep apnea, bruised easily and sometimes struggled wi...

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...