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The special circumstances alleged against David Burke include murder of a witness, murder for financial gain, and lying in wait. Prosecutors have indicated they are considering the death penalty. That's the legal framework surrounding a case that just produced its most significant filing — and the defense team responded by abandoning the strategy they'd been running for weeks. Former felony prosec...

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings her clinical expertise to an examination of the alleged behavioral patterns prosecutors have described in the case against David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd. Charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and mutilation of human remains, Burke has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys maintain he is...

Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott provides clinical analysis of two of the most psychologically significant cases in true crime — the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murders and the prosecution of David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, for the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In the Kohberger segment, Scott analyzes three never-before-published letters written from the Latah...

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott provides clinical analysis of the bystander and enabler psychology at work in the case surrounding David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, and the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Burke faces first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and mutilation charges. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors convened three s...

Arizona has victim rights protections on the books. The Guthrie family are the recognized victims in this case. The question is whether those protections give them the legal authority to demand answers — about how this investigation is being conducted, what information they're entitled to, and what recourse they have if they're allegedly being shut out of the process. Former felony prosecutor and...

A global church network built by a man who claimed divine revelation at a pond. A 172-page investigation that says its top leaders need to go. Two survivors — one born inside, one who walked in freely — breaking down how all of it works. This is the full conversation on Greater Grace World Outreach, an organization that has operated across more than seventy countries for decades with churches, sch...

Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott brings her expertise in mass killer psychology to a forensic analysis of newly published evidence in the Bryan Kohberger case. Three letters written from the Latah County Jail in October 2023 — never before made public — reveal a psychological profile that raises profound questions about detachment, narcissism, and the complete absence of empathy. Kohberger...

Nearly two decades of allegations. A three-day federal investigation. A wife's reclassified death. Cadaver dog alerts that nobody can explain. And now, reportedly, an alleged accomplice speaking on camera.  The Don Studey case is a collision of everything broken about how we investigate crimes against vulnerable people — and the Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders has...

What does it take to force law enforcement back to a case they've already closed? Maybe millions of people watching. My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming on Paramount+ — a three-part documentary that reportedly delivers what nearly two decades of allegations haven't been able to produce on their own: new witnesses, previously unreported evidence, and the testimony of an alleged...

It started around a campfire. A group of former Greater Grace World Outreach members — calling themselves the Millstones — started comparing stories. What they found was bigger than any of them expected. Allegations spanning decades. What investigators would later describe as patterns consistent with a cover-up. A system allegedly built to silence the people it harmed. Their work led to a Baltimor...

Here's what reportedly happened in December 2022. Cadaver dogs alerted at multiple locations on a rural Iowa property where Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father buried dozens of women he allegedly killed. The FBI arrived. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation arrived. The Fremont County Sheriff's Office was on site.  They drilled into a well. Spent parts of three days. Found nothing. Close...

Everybody reportedly knew. Neighbors allegedly told their kids to stay out of Green Hollow. Law enforcement allegedly treated Don Studey's property as a danger zone. His own family members reportedly described him as someone who would take a life if you crossed him.  And still, Donald Dean Studey lived to 75 and died without ever being charged in connection with a single homicide. His daughter Luc...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for an extended listener Q&A covering the D4VD People’s Brief, the Kohberger book revelations, and the Delphi appeal’s request for oral arguments. Dreeke brings his behavioral expertise to the alleged patterns across all three cases. In the D4VD case, prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke maintai...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the defense’s reply brief and motion for oral arguments in the Richard Allen appeal. Allen was convicted in 2024 of murdering thirteen-year-old Abby Williams and fourteen-year-old Libby German and is serving a hundred and thirty years. His appellate attorneys, Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman,...

Imagine going to your church leadership and telling them your child has been harmed. Now imagine their response isn't to call authorities or launch an investigation — it's to tell you that you're the one with the spiritual problem. That bringing this up means you don't understand grace. That you're carrying an "evil report." That people should distance themselves from you. That's what the independ...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the revelations in Christopher Whitcomb’s Broken Plea and answer your questions about the Idaho student murders. Whitcomb, a retired FBI agent and former member of the Bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team, draws on previously unseen defense expert reports and Kohberger’s own jail writings to argue...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to answer your questions about the D4VD case following the People’s Brief. The behavioral patterns prosecutors describe in this filing demand expert analysis — and your messages made clear you’re ready for it. According to the filing, David Anthony Burke allegedly maintained a sexual relationship with...

Three parts. Three angles. One case that gets more disturbing the deeper you go. The People's Brief filed against David Anthony Burke this week describes an alleged cover-up built on staged text messages, fake-name Amazon orders, and three midnight trips to a remote highway. It describes years of alleged exploitation of a child who was eleven when they met. And it triggered a defense reversal — fr...

Deputy DA Beth Silverman disclosed in court that investigators obtained a wiretap during the investigation of David Anthony Burke. That means a judge — at some point while this probe was still active — authorized real-time surveillance of Burke's communications. Getting a wiretap approved isn't easy. It requires showing a judge that other investigative methods have been tried or would fail. It mea...

Greater Grace World Outreach has been operating for decades across more than seventy countries. Churches, schools, missions, a Bible college, radio programs — a massive evangelical infrastructure built on the teachings of one man: Carl Stevens, a former appliance salesman from Maine who said God spoke to him at a pond. For the people inside, it was everything. For the people who got out, it was a...

Reported missing twice. A welfare check conducted. Law enforcement called the suspect directly. And according to prosecutors, David Anthony Burke allegedly continued pursuing a thirteen-year-old girl anyway. The People's Brief describes what prosecutors say was a years-long exploitation of Celeste Rivas Hernandez — from the time Burke allegedly met her at age eleven, through a sexual relationship...

One trip to a remote highway in the middle of the night could be anything. Three trips — on April 23, May 8, and May 31 — to the same isolated stretch off SR-154 near Lake Cachuma? Prosecutors say that's a pattern. The People's Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke describes an alleged cover-up that prosecutors say began within minutes of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's arrival at his Hollyw...

The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal uses harmless error the way a contractor uses spackle — applied to every crack in the wall and meant to convince you the structure is sound. Defense attorney Bob Motta reads the ninety-four-page brief as a document designed not to defend the evidence, but to prevent the appeals court from ever reaching it. The procedural strategy is...

The system did not fail. It worked exactly the way it was designed to work. Before any abuse occurred inside IBLP families, the curriculum had already built the infrastructure of silence — booklet by booklet, teaching by teaching, year by year. Girls were taught their bodies were spiritual hazards. Wisdom Booklet 15 quizzed children on "eye traps" in women's clothing. Booklet 36 taught that victim...

Ashley Flynn's family did not wait for a verdict. They retained lawyers, went to court, and built legal protections for Ashley's two elementary-age daughters before the case had even reached a grand jury. According to court filings submitted by the family after the arrest, Caleb Flynn was the primary beneficiary on Ashley's life insurance policy. He had left ministry — after years as a worship pas...