The True Crime Tapes

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke, accountant Richard Kahn, Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust, alleging that Indyke and Kahn knowingly helped facilitate, finance and conceal Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, including abuse connected to Zorro Ranch. The complaint portrayed the two men as far more than ordi...

Former federal agent Robert Mazur argued that investigators should stop treating Ghislaine Maxwell as a uniquely valuable source of truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s network and instead build the investigation around survivors, documentary evidence and the prosecutors who originally developed the case. He pointed to Maxwell’s conviction and her history of false statements under oath as reasons to trea...

Day twenty-one of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on Tammy Daybell’s health, Chad’s behavior after her death and testimony from Tammy’s sister Samantha Gwilliam and her husband Jason. Former deputy coroner Cammy Willmore testified that when she responded to the Daybell home after Tammy died, she noticed unusual pink foam coming from Tammy’s mouth that returned after being wiped away, promptin...

Day nineteen of Chad Daybell’s trial continued with some of the most graphic forensic evidence of the case as Dr. Garth Warren finished walking jurors through the autopsies of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Jurors were shown photographs documenting JJ’s body, including the duct tape around his wrists and the plastic and tape prosecutors said had been used to suffocate him, while Warren also described t...

Day eighteen of Chad Daybell’s trial centered first on Zulema Pastenes, the widow of Lori Vallow’s brother Alex Cox, who gave jurors another firsthand account of the belief system Chad and Lori had built around themselves. Pastenes testified that Chad claimed he could communicate through the veil, access information about people’s pasts and futures, determine whether someone was “light” or “dark,”...

Gene Deal is a former bodyguard who worked closely with Sean "Diddy" Combs during the 1990s, providing personal security and gaining intimate knowledge of the music mogul's professional and personal life. Over the years, Deal has become a vocal critic of Diddy, sharing his experiences and observations through various interviews and media appearances. He has discussed his departure from Diddy's emp...

Gene Deal is a former bodyguard who worked closely with Sean "Diddy" Combs during the 1990s, providing personal security and gaining intimate knowledge of the music mogul's professional and personal life. Over the years, Deal has become a vocal critic of Diddy, sharing his experiences and observations through various interviews and media appearances. He has discussed his departure from Diddy's emp...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers mounted a broad attack on the federal investigation, arguing that prosecutors had built their case on unreliable witness accounts, distorted police reports and evidence that the defense said had been taken out of context. They accused investigators of ignoring statements favorable to Epstein, mischaracterizing physical evidence and failing to reconcile later FBI reports w...

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers mounted a broad attack on the federal investigation, arguing that prosecutors had built their case on unreliable witness accounts, distorted police reports and evidence that the defense said had been taken out of context. They accused investigators of ignoring statements favorable to Epstein, mischaracterizing physical evidence and failing to reconcile later FBI reports w...

Michigan Democrats resurfaced audio from a July 2025 interview in which Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers argued that the government should be careful about releasing the names of people who appeared in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight records if there was no evidence they had participated in criminal activity. Rogers said someone could have flown with Epstein for a legitimate business reas...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and state Rep. Meredith Dixon announced two legislative proposals aimed at strengthening protections for human trafficking survivors and closing legal gaps exposed in part by the Jeffrey Epstein case. The proposed Trafficking Investigation and Meaningful Enforcement Act would eliminate the statute of limitations for sex-trafficking prosecutions, raise the ag...

The Justice Department had been warned well in advance that its rushed handling of the Epstein files could expose victims. In July 2025, Sen. Dick Durbin disclosed information provided by a protected FBI whistleblower alleging that Attorney General Pam Bondi had pushed roughly 1,000 FBI personnel onto around-the-clock shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records on an extremely s...

Day seventeen of Chad Daybell’s trial began with FBI Special Agent Steve Daniels finishing his testimony about the June 2020 search of Chad’s property and the recovery of JJ Vallow’s remains. Daniels walked jurors through the burial site near the pond and pet cemetery, explaining how investigators noticed disturbed ground, carefully removed layers of soil and eventually uncovered JJ wrapped in bla...

Day sixteen of Chad Daybell’s trial focused on the search for JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and the physical evidence recovered from Chad’s property. Retired Rexburg Police Detective David Stubbs continued describing the November 2019 welfare check for JJ and the searches that followed after Lori Vallow falsely claimed JJ was staying with Melanie Gibb. Stubbs testified that investigators quickly realiz...

Day fifteen of Chad Daybell’s trial centered on testimony from people close to both Chad and JJ Vallow, beginning with JJ’s grandmother Kay Woodcock. Woodcock described becoming increasingly alarmed after Charles Vallow’s death as Lori stopped allowing regular contact with JJ, eventually leading Woodcock to discover through Charles’ email account that Lori had moved to Rexburg. She also testified...

Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin had been living recognizable college lives filled with friendships, relationships, school, work and plans for the future before they were murdered in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Mogen and Goncalves had been best friends since childhood and had remained inseparable through high school and into the University of Idaho, where they e...