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Three stories where the people in charge stopped pretending. From Oakland to Hollywood Hills to Fort Worth, this is what privilege, predation, and pathology look like in the open. Day three of Musk versus Altman, and the world’s richest man finally meets a question he can’t bully. We bring you the cross-examination, the term sheet meltdown, and the Tesla AGI tweet that came back to bite him. Then...

Tanner Horner's defense plays the trauma card in Texas, four men face capital charges for a rapper's birthday ambush, and a Georgia father escapes execution for unspeakable crimes. Garret returns with three death penalty stories pulling the system in different directions. In Texas, Tanner Horner's defense team marches teachers, a former pastor, an ex-girlfriend, and brain scientists past the jury...

Two of the richest men on Earth, one charity, and a federal jury that has to figure out who’s lying. Garret Fisher delivers a special full-episode breakdown of the most consequential courtroom showdown in tech history. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for one hundred and fifty billion dollars, accusing Sam Altman of stealing the charity Musk helped found in 2015. OpenAI says it’s sour grapes from a billi...

The Hollywood murder case’s silent survivors finally speak, a British defendant tries his case on YouTube, and forty terabytes of digital evidence are still being sorted. Garret Fisher walks through three cases with court dates this week. Jake Reiner, the eldest son of the murdered Rob and Michele Reiner, has broken a four-month silence in a devastating Substack essay days before his brother Nick...

A teacher of the month, a Caltech engineer, a hotel room on the 10th floor — and the night gunfire reached the President's first Correspondents' Dinner. On Saturday, April 25th, the White House Correspondents' Dinner had barely begun when shots rang out near the magnetometers outside the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, the First Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet wer...

Plus: a trial date for the Florida man who allegedly murdered a suicidal British woman he met online, and a Salvadoran housekeeper sues Kylie Jenner. Garret Fisher returns to the Athena Strand trial as the defense’s mitigation case opens in Fort Worth with testimony from Tanner Horner’s mother. Before that, jurors heard from Athena’s parents, the forensic DNA team, and the audio of her final momen...

A Florida death row closes. A Virginia family dies in the basement. And a suburban serial killer finally tells his wife the truth. Garret Fisher brings you three hard stories. Florida executes Chadwick Willacy thirty-six years after he bound, strangled, and set fire to his neighbor Marlys Sather during a lunch-hour burglary. Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shoots his estranged w...

Plus: four dead girls, a TikTok about wrestling, and a Bay Area town eating itself alive — one year after the fireball on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The d4vd case moves from arrest to formal charge: LA County DA Nathan Hochman announces first-degree murder with three special circumstances — lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and the killing of a witness. The death penalty is on the table....

A surgeon who took out the wrong organ. An anchor's death his family never accepted. And four witnesses finally firing back at Karen Reed. A Florida surgeon is indicted for manslaughter after allegedly removing a seventy-year-old patient's liver instead of his spleen — and his lawyer says it's not the first wrong organ he's pulled out. Nearly five years after Birmingham anchor Christopher Sign was...

Plus: the Athena Strand trial turns devastating as DNA evidence lands — and we meet Tracey Grist, the Utah mother who Googled a famous murder-for-hire before her son-in-law was lured to his death. Garret Fisher returns to the D4vd case months after it went quiet — and the quiet is over. LAPD Robbery-Homicide kicked open the gate of his Hollywood Hills mansion Thursday afternoon and arrested 21-yea...

The internet's worst tourist gets six months of hard labor, a jury finally calls the concert giant what it is, and SantaCon's president had a very different charity in mind — himself. Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a M...

Plus: New rape testimony rocks the Athena Strand sentencing phase — and Sherrone Moore walks out of court a free man. She was eighteen months old when she fell into a well in Midland, Texas, and the whole world held its breath for fifty-eight hours. Baby Jessica became America's child. This week, Jessica McClure Morales — now forty years old — was arrested at her Midland home on domestic violence...

Plus: A Real Housewife caught shoplifting — for six months. And a cold case from Boca Raton that has never let go. A federal grand jury has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse — five months after the Florida cheerleader was found dead beneath a bed on a Carnival cruise ship. We've followed this case since the...

A dream voyage on a boat called Soulmate has turned into a nightmare — and the only witness is in custody. A Michigan woman vanishes from a dinghy in the Bahamas while sailing with her husband. He paddles to shore. She doesn't. Nine days later, Lynette Hooker is still missing — and her husband Brian is in Bahamian custody, questioned on probable cause, not yet charged. Her daughter says she knows...

He confessed. Then he pled guilty. Now a jury must decide whether he lives or dies. On Tuesday we introduced you to Tanner Lynn Horner — the FedEx contract driver who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022. Since then, the trial in Fort Worth has delivered four days of testimony the likes of which few courtrooms have ever seen. He pleaded guilty moments before the trial began. The ju...

The anesthesiologist is found guilty. The Long Island serial killer finally says the word. And the woman who sold Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him is heading to federal prison. Friday, April 10th, 2026. Three separate courtrooms. Three verdicts that landed within 48 hours of each other. Gerhardt Konig — the Maui anesthesiologist who beat his wife with a rock at a cliffside in Oahu — was con...

A Little House on the Prairie reunion nobody wanted, a 28-year-old disappearance finds new leads, and a man who already admitted it — in court at last. Garret Fisher covers three stories that have been years — in some cases, decades — in the making. The West Wing's Timothy Busfield is back in headlines as wife Melissa Gilbert goes on national television to defend him, revealing she knew about prio...

A son who allegedly shot his parents over money. A man who killed a seven-year-old because she was going to tell her dad. And a woman who drove 78 miles an hour through a red light high on pink cocaine and told cops she was from the future. Humans. Suck. Garret Fisher covers three cases that will test your faith in humanity — and your patience for the justice system. A former NYPD officer is charg...

Back in March, we told you about a sixty-seven-year-old Massachusetts woman named Judy Church who was on trial for poisoning her live-in boyfriend with antifreeze — a man she also secretly insured, threatened to kidnap, and filmed while he was dying. Today, we tell you what happened. The jury deliberated for more than eight hours. The judge had something to say at sentencing. The family had more....

Gerhardt Konig faces cross-examination as his own son tells jurors he confessed — and Blake Lively's case just got a lot smaller. It has been a brutal week for Gerhardt Konig in a Honolulu courtroom. His son took the stand and told jurors that his own father called him twice to confess — then said he planned to jump off the cliff before police could catch him. A digital forensics detective walked...

A TV star's street brawl, a judge blows up a Hollywood hush deal, and a beloved actor dies too soon. The actor who plays an unstoppable action hero punched a neighbor to the ground in a Tennessee suburb — and walked away without charges. A Los Angeles judge refused to let Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner bury the financial terms of their sex tape settlement with Ray J. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer s...

Days three through five in Honolulu deliver Arielle's testimony and damning DNA results. Savannah speaks. Tiger demands a jury. Thursday, April 2nd. Arielle Konig takes the stand on the anniversary of the attack — her birthday — and tells the jury what Gerhardt said while beating her with a rock. Day Five brings DNA testimony that undercuts the defense's mutual-combat story. Savannah Guthrie gives...

April 1st — no jokes, just a legendary golfer in handcuffs, a lottery winner turned burglar, and a Brexit-sized drug bust hiding in fruit. It's April Fool's Day, and Garret Fisher is not laughing. Tiger Woods, 50, is waking up this Wednesday with a DUI charge after rolling his Land Rover on a Jupiter Island road Friday — his second DUI arrest, his fourth high-profile crash, his latest chapter in a...

Three verdicts land in one week — a postpartum officer goes free, a serial killer folds, and a Mississippi dad finally faces justice. A former Massachusetts police officer walks out of court a free woman after being shot by her own colleague. The man accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer — seven murders, seventeen years, a Word document full of kill instructions — is reportedly about to p...

Garret Fisher covers the landmark double verdict against Big Tech. In Los Angeles, a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for deliberately designing addictive platforms that damaged twenty-year-old Kaley's mental health — ordering $6 million in damages in a bellwether case tied to 2,000 pending lawsuits. One day earlier in Santa Fe, a separate jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling ch...