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 Reid Carter covers the ultimate snowstorm crime as a massive blizzard shuts down courts across America. February 1874: Alferd Packer led five prospectors into Colorado's San Juan Mountains during one of the worst winters on record. Only Packer walked out alive - looking suspiciously well-fed with money belonging to dead men. He confessed to cannibalism but claimed self-defense. Escaped jail. Caug...

Reid Carter concludes the Azaria Chamberlain story on Australia Day. Lindy gives birth to daughter Kahlia in prison - the baby taken from her within hours. February 1986: A climber falls to his death at Uluru. Search party finds Azaria's matinee jacket near dingo lairs - the jacket police said didn't exist. Lindy released immediately. Royal Commission dismantles every piece of forensic evidence. M...

Reid Carter launches an Australia Day Weekend Special examining the case that became a global phenomenon. August 17, 1980: Lindy Chamberlain's nine-week-old daughter Azaria vanishes from a tent at Uluru. Lindy says she saw a dingo leaving with the baby. First inquest rules dingo attack. Then forensic "experts" claim to find fetal blood in the family car. A British pathologist sees handprints and c...

Reid Carter covers the not guilty verdict in Uvalde as former school police officer Adrian Gonzales is acquitted on all 29 counts of child endangerment — mothers of slain children weep outside the courthouse while Gonzales thanks God and refuses to address victims' families. Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder serving 11 years for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions, has...

Reid Carter covers the Uvalde trial going to the jury after eleven days - Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts for failing to act while 19 children died. Prosecution says he had three minutes to save lives, defense says "inattentive blindness." Au pair murder trial enters week two with defense calling witnesses - Brendan Banfield's attorney tried to throw out the Brazilian au pair's testimony, judge de...

Reid Carter exposes the horrifying 2004 murder that shocked America as Netflix's "Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story" trends nationwide. New Jersey nurse Melanie McGuire shot husband Bill, dismembered his body, and dumped the pieces in three Kenneth Cole suitcases in Chesapeake Bay. Fishermen found legs, torso, and arms across eleven days in May 2004. Prosecutors proved Melanie bought a .3...

Reid Carter covers explosive developments as the Uvalde trial enters week three with damning 3D animation showing officer Adrian Gonzales drove directly past the gunman in the parking lot. Surviving teacher Arnulfo Reyes testified he waited 77 minutes with 11 dead children. In Virginia, the au pair affair murder trial revealed Juliana Magalhães was negotiating a Netflix documentary deal while writ...

 Reid Carter marks MLK Day with the story of James Earl Ray, the escaped convict who murdered America's greatest civil rights leader. April 4, 1968: Ray fired one shot from a rooming house bathroom, killing Dr. King on the Lorraine Motel balcony in Memphis. Two-month international manhunt ended at London's Heathrow Airport. Pleaded guilty on his 41st birthday, sentenced to 99 years, recanted three...

Reid Carter examines America's most disturbing serial killer ninety years after his execution. Albert Fish, the "Gray Man," murdered at least three children between 1924-1928, though he claimed dozens more. In 1928, the 58-year-old lured 10-year-old Grace Budd from her family's Manhattan apartment, promising her a birthday party. Six years later, Fish sent Grace's mother an anonymous letter descri...

Reid Carter marks the 49th anniversary of Gary Gilmore's execution - the firing squad death that ended America's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment. January 17, 1977: Five riflemen, four live rounds, and a convicted killer who demanded the state kill him. Gilmore murdered two young Mormon fathers - Max Jensen, 24, and Bennie Bushnell, 25 - in back-to-back Utah robberies. Both complied. B...

Reid Carter covers Timothy Busfield held without bond as prosecutors reveal two decades of alleged grooming behavior - new accuser emerges claiming he kissed her teenage daughter at Sacramento theater audition. Nathan Chasing Horse's Las Vegas trial begins with jury selection - former "Dances with Wolves" actor faces 21 charges for allegedly running cult called "The Circle" and sexually abusing In...

Reid Carter covers the Ohio dentist murders - vascular surgeon Michael McKee charged with killing ex-wife Monique Tepe and her dentist husband Spencer eight years after their divorce. He'd "disappeared" from Las Vegas while dodging a malpractice lawsuit, then allegedly drove 300 miles to execute them in their home while their children slept. Day six of the Uvalde trial: Off-duty officer Joe Vasque...

Reid Carter covers day five of the Uvalde trial - teacher Arnulfo Reyes describes being shot in the arm and pretending to be dead while the shooter murdered every student in his Room 111 classroom. None survived. Rangers testify about the unlocked door, Hellfire trigger, and security cameras nobody was watching. Plus a stunning cold case breakthrough - the 1998 Kentucky murder of Linda Rutledge ha...

Reid Carter covers emotional testimony in the Uvalde trial as mother Jennifer Garcia describes learning her daughter Eliahna, nine years old, was among the dead - she'd told Ellie to stay at school that morning. Teacher's testimony stricken after bombshell claim she saw the shooter. New Jersey's Mansion Murders trial begins with opening statements - Paul Caneiro accused of shooting his brother, st...

Reid Carter covers a weekend of celebrity misbehavior. TMZ documentary reveals Nick Reiner's doctors changed his schizoaffective disorder meds one month before he murdered parents Rob and Michele Reiner - sources say he had a complete break from reality and now believes he's the victim of a conspiracy. West Wing and Field of Dreams star Timothy Busfield, 68, has an arrest warrant for allegedly sex...

 Reid Carter concludes the Hillside Stranglers saga on the 47th anniversary of the murders that finally exposed Kenneth Bianchi. January 11th, 1979: Bianchi lured Western Washington University students Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder to a house he was guarding, raped and strangled them both. Arrested within days. Faked multiple personality disorder claiming "Steve" committed the murders - psychiatri...

Reid Carter exposes the four-month killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978. Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono posed as undercover police officers, flashing fake badges and luring ten women and girls - ages 12 to 28 - into their car. Victims were taken to Buono's upholstery shop where they were raped, tortured, and strangled before their naked bodies...

Reid Carter covers the dramatic second day of the Uvalde trial where teacher Stephanie Hale returns to the stand after her bombshell testimony nearly derailed the entire case - judge denied defense mistrial motion but will decide whether to strike her testimony completely. Nick Reiner's arraignment postponed to February after celebrity attorney Alan Jackson withdrew - Rob Reiner's son charged with...

Reid Carter covers the dramatic first day of testimony in the Uvalde school shooting trial - former officer Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts of child endangerment as families sob hearing 911 calls and teacher's surprise testimony threatens to derail the prosecution. Pamela Smart, 57, files habeas petition seeking to overturn 1990 conviction for having her 15-year-old student lover kill her husband...

Reid Carter covers Patriots star Stefon Diggs charged with felony strangulation after allegedly attacking his private chef over a pay dispute - tried to choke her with his elbow when she asked for money. Uvalde school shooting officer Adrian Gonzales goes on trial today - first of nearly 400 cops who stood in that hallway for 77 minutes while children died to face justice. And teen killer Derek Ro...

Reid Carter covers the most audacious military operation since Noriega. Saturday morning, Delta Force and FBI agents raided Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's fortified compound in Caracas while US forces disabled air defenses and cut power to the capital. Maduro and wife Cilia Flores captured attempting to reach their safe room. Transported to USS Iwo Jima, then Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detenti...

Reid Carter returns from the 12 Crimes of Christmas special with updates you may have missed. Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty to murdering her nine-year-old daughter Melodee, whose body was found in rural Utah with gunshot wounds to the head. Courtroom erupted in gasps. Bryan Kohberger is "not responding well" behind bars - guards call the Idaho student killer a "diva" filing constant complaints...

Reid Carter concludes the 12 Crimes of Christmas with the police sergeant who murdered his third wife and likely killed his fourth. March 2004: Kathleen Savio found dead in dry bathtub - ruled accidental despite bruises and gash to head. October 2007: Fourth wife Stacy, 23, vanishes. Stepbrother helped Peterson carry warm blue barrel from bedroom - tried to kill himself afterward believing Stacy w...

Reid Carter concludes the Michael Peterson saga with the stunning reversal that freed a convicted murderer. Blood spatter expert Duane Deaver: exposed as a fraud who lied about credentials and falsified evidence in multiple cases. December 2011: Conviction vacated after eight years in prison. The owl theory: microscopic feathers and talon-shaped wounds suggest Kathleen was attacked outside before...

Reid Carter begins a two-part examination of novelist Michael Peterson and two eerily similar deaths sixteen years apart. November 1985, Germany: Elizabeth Ratliff found dead at bottom of stairs - Peterson was last to see her alive, adopted her two orphaned daughters. December 2001, North Carolina: Wife Kathleen Peterson found dead at bottom of stairs in pool of blood - seven lacerations to her he...