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Three cases. Three families. None of them have the answers they were promised.  Bryan Kohberger pled guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students and is serving life without parole — but his own defense expert is now publicly alleging the key physical evidence had serious chain of custody problems, and a new book by a former FBI agent reveals untested crime scene evidence that wasn't Kohb...

The trial begins May 4. Here's what the jury is walking into. An 11-count indictment: aggravated murder, three counts of murder, felonious assault, evidence tampering, and witness intimidation. Nearly three dozen subpoenas targeting the FBI Lab, tech companies, social media platforms, banks, and insurance companies. An expert report that arrived late enough to push the trial back four days. And a...

Mopreme Shakur, acting as administrator of the estate of Mutulu Shakur, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on April 28, 2026, naming Duane "Keffe D" Davis and John Does 1 through 100 as defendants in connection with the September 7, 1996, murder of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The complaint alleges a conspiracy to murder Tupac that extended beyond the individuals pre...

Crime scene photos missing. A defensive wound on a dead wife's arm. A father who allegedly told his daughter he choked her mother too hard. And an alleged accomplice who reportedly kept the secret of Green Hollow for years. The case of Donald Dean Studey should have been investigated decades ago — and it's only getting more disturbing.  Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father killed dozens of women...

The Duggar family curriculum promised a college-equivalent education. It produced adults who couldn’t pass entrance exams, couldn’t use their degrees, and didn’t understand their own bodies until their twenties. One woman was taught math only through fractions — because baking was all she’d need it for. Graduates of IBLP’s law school discovered they couldn’t practice in most states. Young adults w...

Nick Reiner appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 29 for what was scheduled as the preliminary hearing in the double murder case stemming from the December 14, 2025, stabbing deaths of his parents, filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, inside the family's Brentwood residence. The hearing was continued to September 15 after both the prosecution and defense agreed th...

Bryan Kohberger pled guilty on July 2, 2025, to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in the November 2022 stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at their off-campus residence near the University of Idaho. He received four consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole, plus an additional ten years for burglary, a...

Within one hour of finding Sandra Birchmore’s body, officers told the medical examiner there had been no foul play. That call shaped everything. The medical examiner never visited the scene. Canton police misidentified the murder weapon as a scarf. Investigators never compelled a DNA sample from the man seen on surveillance entering Sandra’s building the night she was last seen alive. They let him...

Who was Rex Heuermann — really? His ex-wife says he was the one person she could count on. His daughter says he was a loving father who never let his two worlds cross.  The FBI's John Douglas says he's a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopathic serial killer who almost certainly has more victims than the eight he's admitted to. They're all right. And that's what makes this case unlike anything...

A GoFundMe that raised over $175,000. More than 1,400 individual donors. T-shirt sales, benefit dinners, local businesses redirecting profits. A church that had to cancel a public memorial because the man charged with killing Ashley had served as its worship pastor. And a family that went to court  --  not for criminal charges, but to build a financial wall around two little girls before the syste...

For over a year, this case lived behind sealed doors and unnamed sources. That's over now. The People's Brief filed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman puts the prosecution's entire case on the public record for the first time — and what it alleges David Anthony Burke did to fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez is staggering in its detail and its darkness. Tony Brueski reads the full nine-page filing...

Rex Heuermann told the therapist working with his family that the dark thoughts started in high school. He knew they weren't healthy. He couldn't name what they were. But he knew something inside him wasn't right. He said he started reading books about death — one in particular called Death Scenes, filled with images of mutilated bodies, severed limbs, pure carnage. That's what was feeding his min...

The Duggar family curriculum taught children that the French Revolution was caused by rejecting authority — not poverty, not inequality, not tyranny. The Wisdom Booklets framed the separation of church and state as a spiritual failure and taught Old Testament law as binding civil code. The Character First program carried Gothard’s authority doctrine into public schools. Arkansas prisons adopted hi...

Victoria Heuermann asked her father a question that took more courage than most people will ever need in their entire lives. She looked at the man who raised her — handcuffed, shackled, sitting in a jailhouse room — and asked him: when you were killing those women, did you ever think about me? Rex Heuermann's answer was one word. No. He said the two worlds never crossed. He said he never thought a...

It's the question everyone keeps asking. How did she not know? She lived in the same house. She slept in the same bed. And for nearly thirty years, Rex Heuermann was strangling and dismembering women in their basement while Asa Ellerup went about her life as if nothing was wrong. The easy answer is that she had to have known. The comfortable answer is that she looked the other way.  But the real a...

At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene. The forensic evide...

Sixteen months. Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Multiple trips to rural Iowa. An FBI dig infiltrated in a rental car. A Gacy connection nobody saw coming. Alleged mob ties. An unsolved robbery.  Two sisters telling opposite stories. And a case that refuses to die. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of the Defense Diaries podcast and the man behind the most comprehensive John Wayne Gac...

He told American Idol cameras in 2013 that music was all he knew. That he loved his wife more than anything. That she nudged him to audition. Caleb Flynn got the golden ticket, went to Hollywood, and was cut before the televised rounds. He went back to Ohio and kept leading worship. But by 2021, the worship career was over. A brief stint selling life insurance. Then a role as VP of Sales at a Tipp...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta spent sixteen months doing what he does in every case — looking for the lie. He had over a hundred hours of phone conversations with Lucy Studey-McKiddy, the woman who alleges her father Don Studey was the Green Hollow Killer, responsible for the deaths of dozens of women buried in wells near Thurman, Iowa. He drove to Green Hollow. He watched the FBI dig.  He i...

Jim Bob Duggar watched one son go to prison. He changed nothing. Not one safeguard. Not one rule. Not one conversation about how he raises men. He kept the system running — and according to the state of Florida, it allegedly produced another son facing life felonies for harming a child. Joseph Duggar’s recorded jail calls from Washington County tell the whole story. A man performing faith while er...

Wisdom Booklet 36 taught that if a woman doesn’t cry out during an attack, God holds her equally guilty with her attacker. Children as young as five studied this material. The Duggar family curriculum trained girls to view their bodies as spiritual hazards, quizzed them on “eye traps” in their clothing, and rewrote biblical stories of victimized women to blame the victims. A counseling document as...

The parents in Tabor and Thurman told their kids the same thing for decades — don't go into the hollow. Stay away from Don Studey. He was the boogeyman of Green Hollow, Iowa, and the community around him allegedly knew exactly what kind of man he was.  When criminal defense attorney Bob Motta went into those small towns to interview locals about the alleged Green Hollow Killer, everyone wanted to...

A criminal defense attorney with no credentials, no badge, and a rental Chevy Caprice that happened to look like a cop car drove six hours to a remote Iowa crime scene — and got closer to the dig than the local deputies assigned to guard it. Bob Motta had been investigating the Don Studey case for months. The alleged Green Hollow Killer is accused by his own daughter, Lucy Studey-McKiddy, of killi...

Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell was making different plans entirely. According to federal prosecutors, Farwell told one person that if Sandra didn’t end the pregnancy, he wou...

Three high-profile cases with active proceedings across multiple jurisdictions. Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances — including the allegation of multiple murders and use of a deadly weapon — in the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, at their Brentwood residence. He pled not guilty through public de...