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A comprehensive procedural legal analysis of three major criminal cases by former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis. Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her Tucson-area home for over three months. No arrest has been made. No suspect has been publicly identified. FBI Director Kash Patel stated his agency was excluded from the investigation for four days. The Pima County Sheriff dis...

The Cascio family is the latest. They won’t be the last. And the pattern they represent — decades of public defense followed by allegations, followed by money, followed by more allegations — is the pattern that defines the entire Michael Jackson saga. This episode covers the Cascios in full: the Oprah appearance, the memoir, the twenty-five years of vocal defense, the reported sixteen million doll...

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty on July 2, 2025, to the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. He received four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole and waived his right to appeal. The legal proceedings are concluded. A book titled "Broken Plea" by Christopher Whitcomb has introduced claims from former defense expert Brent Turvey regarding alleged chain of custody...

A new book on the Murdaugh case makes the most disturbing claim anyone has put in print about Alex Murdaugh: that he factored the genuineness of his own grief into the murder plan. That he understood his devastation would be so real, so obviously authentic, that it would function as proof of his innocence. And that he was right — the deputies reached forward to squeeze his shoulder in the patrol c...

At Washington State University, Bryan Kohberger's classmates kept a tally board tracking his disturbing behavior. A faculty member told a student to email "911" if she needed help around him. Women were afraid to walk home alone because of him. He was described as a narcissist who never displayed empathy toward another person. In the courtroom, he sat expressionless through everything — victim imp...

The preliminary hearing in the D4VD case is set for May 26 after the defense's motion to delay was denied and a motion to seal the People's Brief was rejected by the court. The prosecution's filing — the most detailed evidentiary document produced in this case — lays out the framework for charges of first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen,...

The crime scene was allegedly released early. A sergeant with no homicide experience was reportedly assigned to lead. The FBI Director stated publicly that his agency was excluded for four days during the most critical window of the investigation. And DNA evidence collected from the home has reportedly been difficult to interpret, with mixed samples that haven't yielded a match in the FBI's CODIS...

A ghostwritten children’s book. A television appearance with a promo code. A six-page letter from jail scripting false testimony. And an anonymous package from her mother to the sheriff. Kouri Richins didn’t just commit murder — she produced, directed, and starred in a fourteen-month campaign to cover it up. In part four of our definitive series, we examine the digital evidence and public performa...

Two landmark cases examined through the lens of criminal psychology by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — one resolved by guilty plea, one in early proceedings. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the November 2022 stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. He received four consecutive life sen...

Wade Robson told a jury under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him. He was twenty-two years old, a professional choreographer, and by every measure a credible witness. His testimony helped acquit Jackson. Then he suffered two nervous breakdowns, filed a lawsuit, and said he’d been abused since the age of seven. James Safechuck told a nearly identical story — same pattern, same defense of Ja...

Prosecutors convened three separate grand juries in the investigation of David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, before securing an indictment on charges of first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and mutilation of human remains. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all counts. His attorneys say the evidence will show he is innocent. The scope of g...

Bryan Kohberger pled guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the Idaho student killings. He waived his right to appeal. He received four consecutive life sentences.  And now a former FBI agent is selling a book that says the evidence was fabricated. “Broken Plea” by Christopher Whitcomb makes extraordinary claims about the Kohberger case — that the knife sheath chain of custody was falsifi...

It took a campfire conversation between former members to crack open decades of alleged abuse inside Greater Grace World Outreach. Once those stories started flowing, they didn't stop. Greater Grace was founded by Carl Stevens in rural Maine in the early 1970s and grew into an evangelical network spanning more than seventy countries. Churches, schools, a Bible college, radio programs, missionary o...

David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, faces first-degree murder charges with three special circumstances — lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness — along with continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen and mutilation of human remains. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts. His defense attorneys state the evidence will show he is innocent and did not cause Celeste...

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and received four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole for the stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. He waived all appellate rights. The criminal case is closed. But newly published letters from his time in the Latah County Jail have o...

Eric Richins died with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood while his three sons slept down the hall. His wife called 911 and said he’d died of a brain aneurysm. The next day, she closed on a property deal. Two days later, she attacked his sister after learning she’d been cut from his estate. In part three of our definitive series, we reconstruct the night of March 3, 2022, and the...

The allegations are staggering. Dozens of women, allegedly taken over decades. Buried in wells on a rural Iowa property. Covered in lye. And the man at the center of it all — Donald Dean Studey — died in 2013 without ever being charged. His daughter Lucy Studey-McKiddy has been making these claims since 2007. She says she was a child when she allegedly helped her father dispose of bodies in the re...

The headline said not guilty. The reality was more complicated. After fourteen weeks of testimony and ten criminal charges, the jury acquitted Michael Jackson. One juror said there wasn’t a shred of evidence. Another called the accuser’s mother a scam artist. The initial vote was nine to three for acquittal before deliberation even began. By every measure, the prosecution failed. But some jurors s...

For years, it was Lucy Studey-McKiddy's word against silence. She alleged her father killed dozens of women in rural Iowa. Agencies investigated, found nothing, and closed the case. Her siblings were divided. The public moved on. Now, reportedly, someone else is talking.  The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders features what's described as testimony from an alleged ac...

The family of Tupac Shakur just made the most aggressive legal move in the nearly thirty-year history of this case. Mopreme Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court that names Keffe D as the primary defendant and designates up to one hundred additional unnamed individuals as co-conspirators. The filing argues that Tupac's 1996 killing was not a spontaneous act of retalia...

The independent investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach didn't pull punches. It named four leaders who should be removed — the senior pastor, the missions director, the youth pastor, and the youth ministry director. It said the organization couldn't meaningfully reform while they remained in authority. It described a culture of authoritarian control, victim silencing, and institutional sel...

The dogs reportedly alerted at four locations. That's supposed to mean something. Cadaver dogs are trained to detect the presence of human remains, and when multiple dogs independently alert across a property, it's typically treated as a serious indicator.  But when that happened at Green Hollow in 2022 — on the Iowa property where Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father Donald Studey buried dozens...

The charges filed against David Anthony Burke in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez carry the most serious legal weight California law allows. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced first-degree murder with special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness in a criminal investigation. Burke also faces ch...

Green Hollow, Iowa. A remote stretch of wooded hills and deep ravines about 40 miles from Omaha. For decades, it was allegedly the hunting ground of Donald Dean Studey — a man his own daughter now calls a monster. Lucy Studey-McKiddy says she was a child the first time she helped her father at the well.  She says she carried bags of lye. She says she knew what the well was for. And she says her fa...

“If I was divorced right now and ask you to marry me tomorrow, you would?” That’s what Kouri Richins texted her boyfriend three months before she killed her husband. She was already planning a future that required Eric Richins to not exist. In part two of our definitive series, we lay out the full architecture of the murder plan — the yearslong affair, the secret insurance policies totaling $2.2 m...