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Garret Fisher covers three cases that test the limits of what people are capable of doing to those who trust them most. Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling, 22, is indicted on manslaughter charges after her newborn's body is found in a trash bag in her closet — a baby investigators say was alive at birth and died of asphyxia. Then: an update on Ashlee Buzzard, charged with sho...

In the inaugural episode of Daily Crime and Justice, new host Garret Fisher takes you inside one of the most chilling murder trials in years: the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother of three and children's book author who stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. With fourteen days of testimony now complete, the defense rested without calling a single wi...

Reid Carter concludes the Jeffrey Dahmer special with the trial that captivated America. January 1992: Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to 15 murders. Defense claimed necrophilia and multiple personalities made him kill. Prosecution argued he was calculating, organized, and in complete control. February 15, 1992: Jury deliberated 10 hours—guilty but sane on all counts. Sentenced to 957 years in pr...

Reid Carter exposes how Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 young men between 1978 and 1991 while Milwaukee police ignored every warning sign. Convicted in 1988 for molesting a 13-year-old Laotian boy, served just 10 months. May 1991: Three police officers returned the victim's 14-year-old brother—naked, bleeding, and drugged—to Dahmer's apartment. Thirty minutes later, Konerak Sinthasomphone was dead. Jul...

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 concludes the two-part John Wayne Gacy special timed with Peacock's "Devil in Disguise." After confessing to 33 murders, Gacy pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming multiple personalities made him kill. The jury didn't buy it - guilty on all counts. February 1980: sentenced to death. Fourteen years on death row painting clowns, giving interviews, showing zero remorse. May 1...

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 examines the 2005 acquittal that proved celebrity murder is legal in Los Angeles. Robert Blake, star of Baretta and In Cold Blood, shot his wife Bonny Lee Bakley outside Vitello's restaurant, left her to bleed out while he had dinner, then convinced twelve Angelenos he was innocent. From his eighteen different story versions to hiring hitmen who testified against him, this is how Holly...

After 35 years in prison, the Menendez brothers are suddenly eligible for parole - and Erik is fighting for his life in a hospital. Reid Carter reveals how explosive new evidence, including allegations that Jose Menendez raped a Menudo band member, transformed America's most hated killers into TikTok heroes. The shocking May 2025 resentencing, Netflix's controversial dramatization, and the cultura...

August 20, 1989: Jose and Kitty Menendez are brutally shotgunned to death in their Beverly Hills mansion. Reid Carter exposes how their sons Lyle and Erik transformed from grieving orphans to cold-blooded killers, spending $700,000 in six months while police chased mob theories. The bombshell confession to therapist Dr. Oziel, the explosive abuse allegations that shocked America, and the sensation...

Reid Carter explores how the only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder spent decades confessing to the crime - until his own words became the evidence that landed him in jail. From the MGM Grand fight that started it all to Keffe D's media tour that sealed his fate, discover how the most famous unsolved murder in hip-hop history finally has a defendant. Plus, why his recent jailhouse fig...

How did federal prosecutors finally bring down the "Pied Piper of R&B" using laws designed for organized crime bosses? Reid Carter breaks down the devastating RICO case that exposed R. Kelly's criminal enterprise and the brave victims who testified to 25 years of systematic abuse. From his 31-year sentence to his current desperate claims about prison assassination plots, discover how a predato...

How did the man behind one of the most inspirational songs in music history become one of America's most notorious predators? Reid Carter exposes R. Kelly's three-decade reign of terror, from his secret marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah to the "cult" allegations that finally awakened America. Discover how the music industry, law enforcement, and society itself protected a monster hiding in plain sig...

Reid Carter concludes the Lindsay Lohan saga with her shocking transformation from convicted criminal to Disney comeback queen. After the Bling Ring robbed her home, sharing a jail cell with her burglar, and fleeing to Dubai to escape American celebrity culture, Lindsay did the impossible: she got boring. Now married with a baby, sober for a decade, she's returned in "Freakier Friday" to prove chi...

Lindsay Lohan served just 84 minutes in jail for seven misdemeanors including two DUIs and cocaine possession while regular Americans rot in cells for far less. Reid Carter exposes the shocking timeline of Hollywood's most famous train wreck: the Disney darling who lived in hotels as a teenager, crashed her Mercedes high on cocaine, led police on a chase down PCH, and showed up to court with "F**k...

Reid Carter concludes our explosive Jeffrey Epstein series with the trial that finally brought justice - and the recent political scandal that's dividing Trump's own supporters. From Maxwell's desperate Supreme Court appeal to Attorney General Pam Bondi's botched handling of the "Epstein files," discover why the promised revelations never materialized and what it means for the hundreds of victims...

Reid Carter exposes the shocking truth behind Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation and how British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell became his "enabler-in-chief." From their twisted relationship that began in the 1990s to the systematic grooming of victims as young as 14, discover how Maxwell used her sophistication and connections to recruit, train, and abuse vulnerable girls. Part 1 of our exp...

Reid Carter closes out Season One of Celebrity Trials with three explosive updates. In Winder, Georgia, Colin Gray's own teenage daughter testified he pressured her to cover for him before she discovered her brother's gun was gone the morning of the Apalachee shooting. Meanwhile in Michigan, the trial of Dale Warner lays bare a horrifying cold case — his wife Dee found strangled inside a sealed fe...

Reid Carter breaks down days one and two of the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah — the children's book author accused of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow mule, then self-publishing a grief memoir for her kids. Plus: Sean Higgins — the man who mowed down NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew on their bikes the night before th...

Reid Carter covers three major crime stories gripping America. Mexico's most wanted drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes killed Sunday in Jalisco military raid - CJNG boss behind most of America's fentanyl is dead, but 70 people killed in violent cartel retaliation across 20 Mexican states. Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping enters week four with no arrest - Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old moth...

Reid Carter continues coverage of the Colin Gray trial in Winder, Georgia - the father accused of enabling the Apalachee High School massacre. Days three through five revealed the horrifying forensic details: 36 shots fired, 103 total cartridges carried by his 14-year-old son, and the medical examiner testifying no victim could have survived even steps from a hospital. Colt Gray's grandmother drop...

 Reid Carter covers the biggest royal scandal in four centuries. Thursday, February 19th: British police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - formerly Prince Andrew - on his 66th birthday at the King's private estate. Held for 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Emails show he forwarded confidential British trade reports to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within five minu...

Reid Carter concludes the Murdaugh special with the post-conviction chaos. Alex staged his own shooting so son Buster could collect $10 million life insurance - survived with a skull fracture. Pleaded guilty to 22 federal financial crimes, sentenced to 40 years. Then court clerk Becky Hill was accused of pressuring jurors to convict - retired Justice Toal called her "not credible" but denied new t...

Reid Carter exposes how South Carolina's most powerful legal dynasty collapsed into murder and fraud. Three generations of Murdaughs controlled criminal prosecutions across five counties for 87 years - locals called it "Murdaugh Country." Then Paul Murdaugh killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach in a drunk boating crash. Alex Murdaugh stole millions from clients, including dead housekeeper Gloria Satter...