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Reid Carter delivers the verdict in Virginia's au pair affair murder trial — Brendan Banfield's fate decided after the jury rejected his claim that wife Christine invited a stranger for violent sex and he shot the man in self-defense. Prosecutors argued blood evidence proved Banfield staged the crime scene, his boss destroyed his alibi, and his affair with au pair Juliana Magalhães was motive for...

Reid Carter covers major developments in the Luigi Mangione case. Federal judge dismisses murder charge, killing Trump administration's death penalty bid. Pizza delivery man claiming to be FBI agent tried breaking Mangione out of Brooklyn jail with fake court order, barbecue fork, and pizza cutter. Manhattan DA pushes for July trial before federal case goes first. Julio Foolio killer Alicia Andrew...

Reid Carter concludes the Port Arthur special with the political miracle that followed the massacre. May 10, 1996: Twelve days after thirty-five people died, Prime Minister John Howard announces the National Firearms Agreement. Ban on semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. National registry. Mandatory buyback. His own coalition nearly revolts. He wears a bulletproof vest to address angry gun owners....

Reid Carter continues the Australia Day coverage with the deadliest mass shooting in modern Australian history. April 28, 1996: A gunman enters the Broad Arrow Café at Port Arthur's historic site. In ninety seconds, twenty people are dead. He moves to the car park, the tollbooth, executes a mother shielding her two daughters aged six and three. Hijacks a BMW after killing its occupants. Takes a ho...

Reid Carter dives into the tabloids for Friday's bizarre crime roundup. Spandau Ballet singer Ross Davidson convicted of raping one woman and attempting to rape another - prosecutor says the "sex symbol" expected "sex on demand" and attacked women he met on Tinder while they slept. Double killer Gordon "Woody" Mower makes first public appearance in 30 years - the hulking murderer who slaughtered h...

Reid Carter covers the Alexander brothers' federal sex trafficking trial as first witness describes waking up naked with Alon Alexander standing over her after a party at Zac Efron's apartment - says she was repeatedly raped while his brother watched and did nothing. Defense calls them "womanizers" in "hookup culture," not criminals. Newly unsealed autopsy reports reveal Bryan Kohberger stabbed hi...

Reid Carter returns to the Paul Caneiro Mansion Murders trial with a week's worth of devastating testimony - neighbor heard gunshots and thought "someone just got whacked," surveillance captures Paul moments before system mysteriously disconnects, and bloody gloves found in wife's Porsche. Meanwhile, Lindsay Clancy's chilling lawsuit reveals the exact moment she strangled her three children - clai...

Reid Carter covers bombshell developments in the au pair murder trial as defendant Brendan Banfield prepares to testify - defense claims wife wasn't catfished while prosecution points to 4-year-old daughter asking the au pair "Can I call you mommy now?" Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arraigned today in California after FBI captured the Ten Most Wanted fugitive who moved 60 me...

 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...