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Imagine an officer investigating a suspect in a double child homicide is invited to review surveillance footage that would prove whether the suspect was at work or not. Now imagine the officer declines. According to the defense's appellate filings in the Richard Allen case, that is what happened with one of the most documented alternative suspects in the Delphi murders investigation. This man admi...

When federal investigators found illegal images on a hard drive connected to Keith Raniere, every person charged alongside him moved for a plea deal. He went to trial alone — and lost on every count. For twenty years, NXIVM presented itself as a personal development organization headquartered outside Albany, New York. Executive Success Programs offered multi-day intensives that cost thousands of d...

The Nancy Guthrie investigation has a piece of evidence that, by itself, could end this case. Unknown contributor DNA recovered from inside Nancy's home. The question is whether it gets to a name — and how. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to map exactly that. With 28 years of FBI experience including organized crime and complex investigations, Jennifer knows the...

When the lead sheriff in a high-profile case stops talking to the victim's family more than 100 days in, something has shifted. In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, that shift just got confirmed on the record. Sheriff Chris Nanos told People magazine he is no longer personally communicating with Nancy's family. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings are now reached only through the FBI. He framed the ch...

The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously reversed Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions on the grounds that former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill corrupted the jury process. The guilty verdicts have been vacated. The life sentences have been set aside. The legal record reflects that no individual stands convicted of the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. The constitutional framework is clear....

Kouri Richins is serving life without parole following a jury conviction that required less than three hours of deliberation. The defense called no witnesses at trial. The sentencing judge characterized her as "simply too dangerous to ever be free." Her defense team has requested additional time to file a motion for a new trial and indicated the need to retain an expert. The available appellate av...

Nick Reiner is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility following his arrest in December 2025 in connection with the alleged killings of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, in their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty. Reports now indicate he is allegedly planning a tell-all from inside the facility — one designed not to address the charges but reportedly to target his s...

Richard Allen volunteered his name to law enforcement two days after the Delphi murders. He'd been on the trail. He came forward willingly. His report was misfiled, marked "cleared," and lost. For five and a half years, the investigation moved without it — and according to the defense's appellate filings, it moved in circles. Recorded interviews with suspects connected to pagan rituals were erased...

Three separate grand juries received testimony in the case against David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4VD, in connection with the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Witnesses included friends, managers, and family members — individuals allegedly close enough to the defendant and the circumstances to require sworn testimony. Court records indicate Burke's parent...

The federal trial in the Anna Kepner case was scheduled for June 1. Eighteen days before jury selection, the defense filed Document 74 — an Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial — requesting approximately ninety additional days of preparation. The court granted the motion. The new trial date is September 8. The procedural context makes the continuance notable. The defense previously moved at exceptio...

Defense counsel Jim Griffin confirmed at a press conference that unknown male DNA was recovered from beneath Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails during the original investigation and was never submitted to CODIS for comparison. The defense has indicated it intends to pursue that evidence at retrial. The DNA disclosure accompanies a broader catalog of alleged investigative deficiencies the defense plans...

The defense team for Alex Murdaugh filed a federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, alleging she deprived the defendant of his constitutional right to a fair trial before an untampered jury. The South Carolina Supreme Court's reversal already found her conduct warranted a new trial. The federal complaint is designed to use c...

The State's sentencing memorandum in the Kouri Richins case documented a pattern of conduct from inside the Summit County Jail that prosecutors argued demonstrated irredeemable character — the legal threshold supporting the maximum sentence. The memo details what prosecutors describe as a coordinated campaign against every individual connected to the prosecution. Among the documented actions: the...

The South Carolina Supreme Court's reversal eliminated the prosecution's ability to present twelve hours of financial crimes testimony at retrial. The evidentiary framework that carried the first conviction — theft as motive, financial desperation as context — must now be significantly narrowed. What remains is the physical evidence collected by SLED, and its integrity is about to face scrutiny it...

Operation Tidal Wave was a coordinated federal action in which CBP and HSI agents boarded eight cruise ships docked in San Diego and detained 27 crew members allegedly connected to CSAM — child sexual abuse material — based on intelligence provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Agents had identified targets before the vessels arrived. Ten reportedly served aboard the D...

Prior to sentencing, the court received impact testimony from Kouri Richins' three minor children, delivered through their licensed therapists. The statements documented specific conditions — confinement to bedrooms, a sibling assuming caretaker duties including providing meals and transportation, and animal deaths due to neglect. All three requested permanent incarceration and stated they feel sa...

The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions on procedural grounds — finding the trial judge misapplied the burden of proof, violated Rule 606(b) by probing jurors' mental processes, and credited testimony the court deemed inadmissible. A retrial has been ordered under significantly narrowed evidentiary parameters. The central unknown heading into that proceeding is...

Before sentencing, the court heard impact testimony from Kouri Richins' three minor children, delivered through their licensed therapists. The children submitted written statements to be read in open court — a procedural accommodation given their ages and the nature of the case. The statements documented specific conditions: a child waking to emergency sirens and describing helplessness, a sibling...

Two threads on the Murdaugh case worth examining — the legal architecture of a potential retrial, and the behavioral context the original prosecution couldn't formally introduce. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled the prosecution exceeded permissible bounds at the original trial. Twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony was deemed disproportionate, and any retrial must be signific...

Three years of sealed records. Denied FOIA requests. A state investigation that found nothing — followed by a Supreme Court ruling that found everything. Something doesn’t add up in the Murdaugh jury tampering case, and the files that could explain it are locked behind a protective order that may have just lost its justification. In this episode, I trace the full arc from Becky Hill’s pre-trial bo...

Two post-conviction legal battles are testing different pressure points in the American criminal justice system. In Utah, Kouri Richins — sentenced to life without parole for the aggravated murder of her husband Eric Richins — has secured a twenty-eight-day extension to file a motion for a new trial and faces twenty-six additional pending felony charges in a separate financial crimes prosecution....

How does an industry avoid accountability for decades while carrying tens of millions of passengers a year? It spends $70 million lobbying Congress. It hires former FBI and Coast Guard officials. It registers ships abroad to dodge U.S. taxes and jurisdiction. It fights reform legislation and wins. It settles lawsuits behind NDAs. And it issues identical zero-tolerance statements every time a crew...

Five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court's unanimous ruling overturning Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions, his defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina in Charleston. The complaint alleges Hill, acting under color of state...

People are saying it across social media and comment sections: Murdaugh is already locked up, why bother retrying? True Crime Today takes on that argument directly — and explains why the answer is as simple as it is non-negotiable. Maggie Murdaugh was 52. Paul Murdaugh was 22. They were shot to death at close range on their family’s property. The Supreme Court erased the murder convictions and lif...

For over four decades, former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship have tried to hold the church accountable through every available channel — journalists, law enforcement, social services, federal prosecutors, the courts. According to those who lived it, the system failed at every turn. Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was overturned after five years of appeals. More than forty former mem...