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Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a jail phone line. What she said about the family of the boy her daughter killed is on the public record now — released by Strongsville police and reported by Cleveland media. It is not what a mother says when she understands what happened. It is what a mother says when she has decided her daughter is the victim. That call is one piece of a pattern the audience has...

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders. His ex-wife and children reportedly received over a million dollars from a Peacock documentary about the case. The families of the women he killed received nothing. New York has a Son of Sam law. It doesn’t apply here — because the current version only covers the convicted person, not their family. Lawmakers have pushed to close that gap since 2023. T...

The audience went looking for answers in the Nancy Guthrie case. They found something law enforcement hasn’t publicly addressed. A neighbor of Nancy’s in the Catalina Foothills reportedly runs a YouTube channel showing a walk-in vault stocked with high-value gems and minerals. Google Maps pins both properties at the same location. Five months after Nancy’s alleged abduction, the audience wants to...

Three of the most followed cases in the country moved at the same time. Rex Heuermann stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and heard the judge call him disgusting, despicable, and a coward before handing down the maximum sentence. His plea deal includes FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit cooperation — and a phone call he allegedly made to one of his victims’ family members after the murder tells you what...

For four months, the sixteen-year-old charged with killing Anna Kepner lived with a relative under electronic monitoring. A federal judge approved that arrangement when Hudson was charged as a juvenile. When the case moved to adult court, the same judge took another look at the evidence — and used language in his detention order that signals something beyond ordinary concern about flight risk. The...

Melissa Barthelemy was twenty-four years old when Rex Heuermann strangled her to death. Her remains were found near Gilgo Beach on Long Island. And according to testimony delivered at Heuermann’s sentencing, what Heuermann did after the murder may tell investigators more about him than the killing itself. Heuermann was sentenced to consecutive life terms. Judge Mazzei asked if he was even a little...

CertiK is backed by Tiger Global and Coinbase. They classified Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abduction as a wrench attack by proxy and referenced a six-million-dollar Bitcoin ransom demand. Their report used the phrase proxy target selection — language that implies the attackers may not have found the person they were looking for. Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four. She has no known crypto holdings. She lives...

The defense asked the trial judge to separate the charges. The judge said no. Five New Hampshire Supreme Court justices — unanimously — said that decision denied Adam Montgomery a fair trial and reversed the second-degree murder conviction in the killing of his five-year-old daughter Harmony. The problem was the evidence gap between the two charges. The July 2019 assault had multiple witnesses, do...

The defense says “other suspects.” Alex Murdaugh’s own housekeeper of twenty years agrees there were other people in the picture — and her reading of it is the opposite of what the defense intends. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson believes Alex had a Plan A that involved another person being at Moselle the night Maggie and Paul were killed. When that plan collapsed, she says, he carried it out himself an...

Anna Kepner’s ex-boyfriend says she was scared of her stepbrother. She slept at friends’ houses to avoid being around him. Hudson’s own step-grandmother went on national television and called the family cruise “a recipe for disaster” — and said the parents should be held accountable. Three teenagers who weren’t raised together were put in a single cabin on a ship in international waters. The quest...

Alan Jackson walked away from the Nick Reiner murder defense when the money collapsed. His firm has now filed a declaration in a Los Angeles probate case stating they are “ready, willing, and able” to return — the moment more than $1.5 million is released from the trust Rob and Michele Reiner built for their son as a baby. The loyalty of the most high-profile defense attorney this case has seen is...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer called it a “huge breakthrough.” CertiK, one of the world’s leading blockchain security firms, has formally classified what happened to Nancy Guthrie as a wrench attack by proxy — a crypto-related kidnapping where the victim isn’t the crypto holder. The target is someone they love. The model has a documented structure. Handlers buy stolen financial d...

During her path to the bench, Judge Debra McCaslin reportedly sat before state lawmakers and named the attorneys who shaped her legal career. One of three names she gave was Dick Harpootlian — Alex Murdaugh’s lead defense lawyer. As a young attorney, she reportedly rented office space from him. Now she holds exclusive jurisdiction over every proceeding tied to the retrial on charges that Murdaugh...

Before anyone picked up a shovel, the caller had already crossed a line that separates a vague tip from something investigators take seriously: he described what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. Not a guess. Specific clothing. He described landmarks in the Mariposa arroyos west of Nogales, Mexico — a stretch of desert seventy miles from her Tucson home. He gave a location precise enough for fifteen volu...

A convicted killer with thirty-six institutional conduct violations — guilty on thirty-two — and a family that still insists she doesn’t belong there. Mackenzie Shirilla was found guilty of killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan after driving her car into a building at close to a hundred miles an hour in Strongsville, Ohio. Every court that has reviewed the case has upheld the conviction. And h...

Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial jumped on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin's story — her reported connection to defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. She rented office space from him. She named him as one of three lawyers who shaped her career. She worked a case alongside him. She presided over another where he defended an accused killer and reportedly denied the state's motion to hold hi...

Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was an infant. They chose the word “mandatory.” They chose the word “unconditional.” Three decades later, those two words may be the strongest weapon in a probate petition filed from a Los Angeles jail cell — by the man accused of killing them both. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us live for the full f...

Three life sentences. A hundred years. No appeal. And he still walked away from a murder confession without a charge, an ex-wife’s civil exposure, and property in death penalty states where women disappeared. Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing looked like the end. The judge’s words — disgusting, coward, not a man at all — gave the families something they had waited years to hear. But the legal...

Four lots in Chester, South Carolina. A timeshare in Las Vegas. And women who vanished near both. Rex Heuermann’s property records map a geographic footprint that extends well beyond Long Island. A woman disappeared twenty miles from his South Carolina property. An escort vanished in Las Vegas two weeks after he purchased a timeshare there. The timelines are circumstantial. They are also the kind...

She made the documentary. She collected the check. And the families filed the lawsuit. Asa Ellerup reportedly earned over a million dollars from a Peacock documentary about Rex Heuermann — her ex-husband, the man who pleaded guilty to murdering eight women. While she was filming, Valerie Mack’s son was preparing a wrongful death suit that names Asa as a co-conspirator. The lawsuit does not accuse...

The phone rang and Melissa Barthelemy’s sister picked it up. On the other end was the man who had just killed her sister — calling from Melissa’s own phone, describing what he had done. That testimony came out during Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing. It was not the only thing the courtroom heard that the public barely noticed. Heuermann confessed to killing Karen Vergata — a murder he was ne...

That is the question that sits underneath everything in this case. Prosecutors say the murders happened when the family was away. The wrongful death lawsuit from Valerie Mack's son says the family knew or deliberately avoided knowing. Asa's attorney says she had no knowledge or involvement. Victoria says she believes her father most likely did it. Asa may never get there. This is a live airing of...

Eric Bland helped bring down Alex Murdaugh's financial empire. He represented the families Murdaugh stole from. He watched the prosecution turn his work into a motive theory that convicted Murdaugh of double murder. And then the Supreme Court overturned everything — and told prosecutors they'd gone too far with the very evidence Bland helped assemble. Now Bland is watching the retrial take shape f...

That is what she told the Peacock documentary crew. Every night. For the rest of her life. And she is saying this from inside the house where Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women in the basement — a basement she gutted, rebuilt, and moved into. Asa chose not to attend sentencing. Her attorney said the day belongs to the families. Valerie Mack's son has filed a lawsuit alleging Asa and he...

In court, Rex Heuermann said strangulation in the same tone every time the DA asked how each woman died. He answered yes and no and eight and nothing else. He did not turn around. He did not acknowledge the families. His attorney described the plea as bringing a huge sense of relief. He ran a double life for seventeen years — architecture firm by day, murders timed to the family vacation calendar....