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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...

 Reid Carter takes a deep dive into the two biggest trials in America. The Alexander brothers sex trafficking trial enters a 10-day break after three weeks of devastating testimony - nine women described being drugged and raped, jurors saw "Rapists!" scrawled in eyeliner on a door, texts revealed "twin DP" boasts and "panty dropper pills," and a juror was dismissed for deciding early. Diddy's form...

Reid Carter covers the trial opening in Innsbruck where Thomas Plamberger faces negligent homicide for leaving girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner to freeze to death 150 feet below the summit of Austria's highest mountain - prosecutors say nine critical errors, her own mother defends him. Tyler Peterson sentenced to 5 years to life for his role in the starvation death of 12-year-old brother Gavin - father...

Reid Carter covers the landmark Colin Gray trial in Georgia where the father of accused Apalachee High School shooter faces 29 felony counts - gave his 14-year-old a Christmas AR-15 despite FBI warnings and a Parkland shooter shrine in the boy's bedroom. Wounded teenagers deliver devastating testimony. Dale Warner's Michigan murder trial reveals wife Dee was strangled, wrapped in a tarp, sealed in...

 Reid Carter covers the desperate search for Today show host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, missing over two weeks from her Arizona home - FBI analyzing DNA from a glove matching doorbell camera suspect as daughter pleads for her return. Paul Caneiro convicted of four counts of first-degree murder after slaughtering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse...

Reid Carter closes Presidents' Day weekend with the assassination attempt that changed American law. March 30, 1981: John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton — all to impress actress Jodie Foster. Reagan nearly died. Press Secretary James Brady was permanently disabled. Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy took a bullet to the chest. Hinckley's trial shocked...

Reid Carter covers the assassination that broke America and the murder trial nobody expected. November 22, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in Dallas. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby walked into the police basement and shot Oswald on live television — the first murder broadcast to a national audience. Fifty million Americans watched a man die in real time. Ruby's trial last...

Reid Carter covers the most bizarre assassination trial in American history. July 2, 1881: Charles Guiteau shot President James Garfield at a train station because God told him to — and because Garfield refused to make him ambassador to France. Garfield lingered for 80 agonizing days while doctors probed his wounds with unwashed hands, feeding him through his rectum when he couldn't eat. Guiteau's...

Reid Carter launches Presidents' Day weekend with the assassination that changed America. April 14, 1865: John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre during a coordinated conspiracy to decapitate the government. Secretary of State Seward stabbed in his bed. Vice President Johnson's assassin lost his nerve. Twelve-day manhunt ended with Booth shot dead in a Virginia barn. Eight conspir...

Reid Carter covers jury selection in Utah for Kouri Richins, the mother who allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl then published a children's grief book about his death - prosecutors say she took out $2 million in life insurance policies without his knowledge. Nancy Guthrie update: suspect detained near the Mexican border and released, chilling porch video shows masked figure with pist...

Reid Carter leads with breaking news - a man has been detained in a traffic stop near the Mexican border in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie. FBI and local police stopped a silver SUV in Rio Rico, Arizona, Tuesday night. Court-ordered search of his home underway. FBI Director Kash Patel confirms multiple persons of interest. Hours earlier, FBI...

Reid Carter takes a deep dive into the case dominating Netflix right now. Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. Injected air into bloodstreams. Poisoned with insulin. Wrote "I am evil, I did this" on a Post-it note. Sentenced to 15 whole-life orders - she will die in pr...

Reid Carter opens with the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping as the $6 million Bitcoin ransom deadline hits at 5 p.m. today - day nine with no suspects, no proof of life, and Savannah Guthrie telling captors "we will pay." California man arrested for sending fake ransom texts while real kidnapper remains unknown. Colin Gray's murder trial begins in Georgia - father bought his 14-year-old son the AR-15 used...

Reid Carter concludes the Patty Hearst saga with the trial that captivated America. February 4, 1976: F. Lee Bailey argued brainwashing turned a kidnap victim into a bank robber. Prosecution played surveillance tapes and jail recordings proving she was a willing revolutionary. Hearst pleaded the Fifth forty-two times. Jury deliberated twelve hours - guilty. Sentenced to seven years. Served twenty-...

Reid Carter examines how a 19-year-old newspaper heiress became a machine gun-wielding bank robber in one of the strangest cases in FBI history. February 4, 1974: Three armed radicals burst into Patty Hearst's Berkeley apartment, beat her fiancé, threw her in a trunk. The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded millions in food for the poor. Her father complied. Didn't matter. Two months later, survei...

Reid Carter opens with the disappearance gripping America - Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, abducted from her Arizona home five days ago. Blood found inside. Pacemaker disconnected at 2 a.m. Ransom notes sent to media demanding millions in Bitcoin. Savannah's tearful plea: "We need to know she's alive." Trump directing federal resources. Then the Mansion Murders tria...

Reid Carter updates the search for Savannah Guthrie's missing mother Nancy after a ransom note demanding millions in Bitcoin surfaces - sheriff says 84-year-old could die without medication. Dog the Bounty Hunter's stepson Gregory Zecca arrested for aggravated manslaughter after fatally shooting 13-year-old son Anthony while drunk and high - practiced drawing firearm from waistband before discharg...

Reid Carter covers the disappearance of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, believed abducted from her Tucson home with blood found inside and signs of forced entry - Savannah drops Milan Olympics assignment, flies to Arizona in what she calls the worst phone call of her life. Nathan Chasing Horse, the Dances with Wolves actor who ran a cult preying on Indigenous women a...