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The investigative record in the Delphi case contains gaps that Richard Allen’s defense team argues are not accidental. According to the reply brief filed with the Indiana Court of Appeals, investigators allegedly recorded over an interview with an alternative suspect. That individual’s weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. And the trial court ruled that presenting him as an alt...

They cut off the money. They stopped the visits. They let the public defender take over. Insiders say they consider him "Satan incarnate." And yet the surviving Reiner siblings — Jake, Romy, and Tracy — are reportedly telling the DA's office not to seek the death penalty against the brother accused of stabbing their parents to death. Because Rob Reiner believed in something. And his children are c...

The investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach didn't just find alleged abuse. It found the reason nobody could stop it. Two teachings sat at the center of the silence. One took a mainstream Christian doctrine — the finished work of Christ — and twisted it until holding a leader accountable for harm was treated as a spiritual failure. The other labeled anyone who raised a concern as a carrier...

The physical evidence tying Bryan Kohberger to the King Road crime scene came down to one item: a Ka-Bar knife sheath carrying a single source of male DNA matched to Kohberger. It was the prosecution’s anchor. And according to a defense forensic scientist who reviewed the chain of custody documentation, it may have been vulnerable to a challenge that could have kept it out of trial entirely. Brent...

The forensic trail prosecutors outlined in the D4VD People’s Brief reads like a receipt of alleged premeditation. According to the filing, in the weeks following Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s alleged death on April 23, 2025, David Anthony Burke allegedly ordered a shovel through Postmates the following day. Then, prosecutors say, came two chainsaws. A body bag. Heavy-duty laundry bags. An inflatable p...

She performed the role of successful entrepreneur, devoted wife, and grieving widow so convincingly that she landed a spot on local television to promote a children’s grief book she paid a ghostwriter $2,500 to write. But behind Kouri Richins’ carefully constructed image was a financial catastrophe — $7.5 million in debt, a business built on forged signatures and unauthorized credit lines, and a p...

The prosecution didn't just file charges against David Anthony Burke — they filed a blueprint. Nine pages detailing exactly what Deputy DA Beth Silverman plans to present at the preliminary hearing. The defense tried to seal it. The judge said no. What it describes is staggering. Prosecutors allege Burke texted Celeste Rivas Hernandez's phone after she was already dead. They detail a timeline of p...

Millions of people watched the Michael Jackson biopic opening weekend and walked out smiling. Millions more read the allegations from his so-called second family and felt their stomachs drop. And almost nobody is holding both of those experiences in their hands at the same time. That’s what this series does. I’m launching a five-part investigation into the accusations against Michael Jackson. Not...

One week they demanded speed. The next week they asked for time. David Anthony Burke's defense team reversed course in open court — and the prosecution didn't hide their frustration about it. Blair Berk pushed for a preliminary hearing within ten days at the arraignment, invoking California's "ten of ten" rule. She said she wanted the evidence tested publicly. But when the discovery started landin...

The people who hired Brent Turvey to help defend Bryan Kohberger are now publicly condemning him. Not because he did bad work. Because he's talking about what the work revealed. Turvey is a forensic scientist — PhD in Criminology, three decades of casework, more than 70 trials as a qualified expert. Kohberger's defense team brought him in to analyze the crime scene at the King Road house where Kay...

It started with one man and a pond in rural Maine. Carl Stevens said God poured liquid waves of love over him — and that story became the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach, a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations spanning more than seventy countries. Most people outside those walls never heard of it. That changed when a 172-page independent investigation dropped in late...

Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People's Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd bought — so he could stay in contact after her parents...

A shovel from Home Depot via Postmates. Two chainsaws from Amazon. A body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool — all allegedly purchased under the fake name "Victoria Mendez." That's what prosecutors laid out in the People's Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke. Not rumors. Not leaks. A nine-page filing signed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman, unsealed over the defense'...

The AG's ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen's appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and defense attorney Bob Motta starts there. Problem one: the van timeline. The defense obtained survei...

The Medical Training Institute of America was IBLP's health authority. It issued guidance to families across the country on everything from childbirth to mental health. It operated without a single licensed doctor. Its publications replaced medicine with spiritual obedience — teaching that mental illness did not exist, that psychological suffering was a failure of faith, and that the body's proble...

The initial 911 call described a home invasion. A man sobbing, barely able to speak, telling a dispatcher someone had broken into his house and shot his wife. Signs of forced entry at the scene. Two gunshot wounds. Only Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and their two elementary-age daughters were inside the home on Cunningham Court in Tipp City, Ohio, when it happened. Three days later, Caleb was arreste...

Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on that land — says they searched the wrong well. The property spans over four hundred and twenty...

On January 20, 2021, Sandra Birchmore's friend called the Stoughton Police Department and reported Matthew Farwell's relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. Eleven days later, Sandra was dead. That is the institutional failure at the center of this case — and everything that follows flows from it. Sandra was making plans. She believed Farwell was coming ar...

Jake Reiner's Substack essay is the kind of writing that only comes from a place of absolute destruction. He described his parents — Rob and Michele Reiner — as guiding lights, confidants, heroes who supported their children unconditionally. He wrote about milestones stolen and a career they will never witness. He said he would trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with...

The autopsy was completed months before prosecutors charged David Anthony Burke. It was sealed at LAPD's request — reportedly over the medical examiner's own public objection. Celeste Rivas Hernandez's family waited without answers while the investigation continued behind closed doors. When the report was finally unsealed, it confirmed what prosecutors had been building toward — and what the defen...

The recorded calls from Washington County tell you everything about Joseph Duggar's priorities — and the child he allegedly harmed is not among them. He manages his Airbnb. He discusses Bible translations. He tracks which brothers are on vacation. He tells Kendra he feels upset to be "in this situation." He prays for hours. He never once mentions the alleged victim. Not her name. Not her wellbeing...

Timothy Hudson's defense team requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered a not guilty plea without their client in the courtroom. They are pushing for the same judge who released him in February — when this was still a sealed juvenile case — to decide whether he stays free now that he faces first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges as an adult in federal court. Every one o...

Three grand juries. Months of proceedings. Subpoena power. Witness testimony. And not one of them produced an indictment against David Anthony Burke in the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. So the DA filed a criminal complaint instead — and defense attorney Blair Berk made sure the courtroom heard that distinction loud and clear before pushing for the fastest possible pr...

For years, Sandra Birchmore’s family held vigils outside buildings that didn’t want them there. They held signs at the Stoughton Police Department. They demanded answers from a system that had already decided Sandra did this to herself. Then the FBI came. On August 28, 2024, agents arrested Matthew Farwell and charged him with killing Sandra to prevent her from exposing his crimes. A superseding i...

Eric Faddis — criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins Hidden Killers for an extended session covering three major cases demanding attention.  In the Kohberger case, defense-retained forensic scientist Brent Turvey is publicly alleging chain of custody deficiencies with the knife sheath — the sole piece of physical evidence carrying Kohberger's DNA — that he says could have b...