Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

15- and 17-year-old boys in custody after shooting at "random" Austin targets Saturday and Sunday. Parents of rape victim begging University of California Santa Barbara to request assistance from larger law enforcement agencies to get attacker behind bars as quickly as possible. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nick Reiner, 32  pleads not guilty to the December 2025 murders of his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.    His preliminary hearing has been postponed to Sept. 15, 2026, as  the defense is still waiting for evidence. There is roughly 2 terabytes of discovery and autopsy results. Reiner is now represented by a public defender after his previous high-profile...

Listen to Mayhem in the Morgue on all podcast platforms: https://link.podtrac.com/MayhemMorgue In this episode of Mayhem in the Morgue , Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns examines how forensic pathology, DNA evidence, and meticulous evidence preservation can revive years-long cold cases, specifically focusing on the 1990 Lover’s Lane murder and the 1993 Brown’s C...

Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert Here's Sydney Silvagni with some of our top stories this week.   Stay informed, stay safe, and stay ahead with "Crime Alert Hourly Update.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shots ran out as Charlie Kirk sat on stage at a Utah Valley University event. The conservative activist reportedly hit near his neck and killed. According to reports, the shot was fired from the roof of a campus building about 200 yards away.  Social Video posts show Kirk in a familiar pose,  speaking into a handheld microphone, sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans &ldq...

Josh Duggar hires a new attorney as he tries for a fourth bid at freedom. Attorney Beau B. Brindley is arguing Duggar’s original trial was unfair. At an appeal hearing last month, Duggar appeared virtually, regarding an appeal that prosecutors argue was filed after the deadline. The court is deciding whether this appeal can proceed.  The current motion alleges prosecutorial misconduct,...

Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction has been unanimously overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court.  A new trial has been ordered for the disgraced attorney privously convicted for the murders of his wife and son.  The ruling was based on jury tampering accusations against court clerk Becky Hill, of improperly influencing jurors, depriving Murdaugh of a fair trial. The court also note...

Moscow Mule Murder Mom, Kouri Richins, gets maximum penalty for poisoning her husband. Pennsylvania adoptive mother points the finger at her husband for inflicting blows that left 5-year-old Landon Maloberti with fatal brain bleeding, massive swelling, and bruises all over his body. Arizona stabbing victim's girlfriend forced to help killer clean crime scene. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omn...

The number of government scientists either missing or mysteriously dead is now 16.  The FBI and White House are reviewing the series of deaths and disappearances looking for connection between the individuals with ties to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and defense-related fields. We have been able establish the fact that  several victims vanished...

The South Carolina Supreme Court reverses Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions on grounds that former Colleton County Clerk, Becky Hill, improperly influenced the jury toward a guilty verdict. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laken Snelling, a former University of Kentucky student athlete, 22, stands accused of killing her newborn in her off-campus room.  She has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree manslaughter charge after the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office determined the infant was born alive and died of “asphyxia by undetermined means”.  She previously told police she did not believe...

When Katherine “Kat” Torbick's co-workers can’t reach the registered nurse, they call police. Schaumburg police force entry into Katherine’s home, and find her lying on the couch, dead, with clear signs of trauma. In the garage, investigators find Katherine’s ex-boyfriend, Kevin Motykie tying a noose. Motykie, 56, is unsteady and slurs his words while admitting he too...

Tyler Brown opens fire on a Cambridge street, injuring two, with the Middlesex District Attorney revealing Brown's done this before. Grandmother stabbed 11 times for deigning to ask her grandson for help with Mother's Day groceries. Army veteran killed in house fire set by man she turned down. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

D4vd back in court today for a status hearing in his murder case, as a judge decides if there's enough evidence to move toward trial. D4vd's preliminary hearing originally set for May 26, now moved to June 29. The defense requested more time to review a "mountain of evidence," with prosecutors stating they have already turned over more than 10 terabytes of digital data, but there could be as much...

Tyler Robinson fails bid to remove cameras from the courtroom as his preliminary hearing is schedule for the summer. Seven years after a woman's body is found on a Kentucky highway, her killer is finally charged. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did Jeffrey Epstein leave a suicide note?  His brother, Mark, says no.  He doesn't believe the one page letter unsealed by a District Judge Kenneth Karas was written by Jeffrey.  Theres only  five sentences printed on a sheet of lined paper. It's been seven years since the accused sex trafficking suspect was found hanging in his cell.  A former cellmate says he found it in...

Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing and presumed abducted for 100 days. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos facing heavy backlash for the handling of the case, and may be officially ousted from office. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been four years since father of three, Eric Richins, died from a fentanyl overdose. We now know his ingestion of the drug was planned by his wife Kori.  Afterwards, she wrote a children’s book about grief,  with her children, to help them cope.   Kouri Richins' book  isn't the only thing she's written. There's a six-page handwritten letter, "the walk the dog let...

  In this week’s episode of "Zone 7," retired NYPD detective Mike Alcazar joins Sheryl McCollum to talk about what hostage negotiation looks like when a scene is tense, the stakes are high, and one wrong move can change everything. Drawing on decades in law enforcement, Mike discusses the Nancy Guthrie case, explains how negotiators read people in real time, and highlights the...

Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app:  https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert Here's Sydney Silvagni with some of our top stories this week: Stay informed, stay safe, and stay ahead with "Crime Alert Hourly Update.”  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Only twelve days after Rebecca Haro reports her son's kidnapping and claims she was knocked out in a parking lot while changing the 15-month-old's diaper, both parents of Emmanuel Haro faced murder charges.  Rebecca Haro faces a preliminary hearing  May 29. Prosecutors have told the court they’re ready to present their evidence. Emmanuel's mother has plead not guilty and is still b...

Just weeks after a judge said says Rex Heuerman  "will go to trial come hell or high water," the accused serial killer pleads guilty to all seven murders for which he's charged, and an additional murder. Now we are learning details of what police found on Heuermann's phones.  Yes, multiple phones.  Rex Heuermann used a series of burner phones to lure sex workers, contacting them hun...

David Anthony Burke facing severe state-level charges in the death of Celeste Rivas. He has not been formally charged with federal crimes. If it can be proven that he lured Celeste to his home, wouldn't let her leave then murdered her, that rises to the level of kidnapping, a federal offence.   D4vd could already be facing the death penalty for the special circumstances in the case...

Sheriffs deputies re-examine Susan Flores' backyard with ground penetrating radar, hoping to finally locate Kristin Smart. Columbian national crosses center line drunk, killing a father of two in the resulting head-on crash. Sydney Silvagni reports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, missing now more than three months. Clashes between FBI director Kash Patel and Pima Sheriff Chris Nanos has seemingly torpedoed the search for Nancy. The search continues as we learn a vast area near Nancy's home is unsearched and why have investigators shifted, now searching for a gray van.    Joining Nancy Grace today:  Caryn Stark -...