Real-Time Crime

55-year-old Collin Gray will spend the next 15 years behind bars, after a judge sentenced the father of 16-year-old Colt Gray for the 2024 school shooting that left 4 dead and 9 others wounded.  Collin Gray gifted the assault rifle to his mentally unstable son who had shown an affinity towards school shooters in the months leading up to the mass shooting. Both father and son were sentenced on...

When survival depends on outsmarting the person holding you captive, courage takes on an entirely different meaning. Elisa Donovan talks with Girl in the Coffin star Tahirah Sharif about the psychology of captivity, why victims adapt in ways outsiders often misunderstand, and what stories like these reveal about fear, resilience, and the incredible instinct to survive. See omnystudio.com/listener...

An Arizona District Attorney has announced that parents Angelo and Alexus Fiordilino will not be charged in the near fatal drowning of their 18 month old son.  The toddler was pronounced dead after he was rushed to the hospital when his parents found him in the family’s swimming pool, unresponsive.  Five hours later a worker for the medical examiner discovered the child was still a...

The first woman ever elected as mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota is now being investigated for sexual harassment after the Police Chief filed a formal complaint of her “illegal conduct” towards city employees. 53-year-old Kaohly Her, who served in the State House and began her term in January, is accused of sending a bizarre text saying “Happy Weiner Wednesday” with a hot dog e...

The ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy finished an emotional 2 days on the stand where he recounted finding Lindsay badly injured after a suicide attempt and then, while on a 9-1-1 call, found his three young children strangled to death. The jury saw the exercise bands Lindsay Clancy used to kill her children and then heard the disturbing, 7 minute 9-1-1 call from Patrick Clancy. It was so emotional, th...

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current event in their daily "Morning Run."  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A total of 10 women are publicly accusing actor Jared Leto of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers. The BBC has a new documentary out today called Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret where the women describe several disturbing incidents, including one who claims he had sex with her in California when she was just 17, which is below the age of consent. Leto denies the women’s alle...

It’s been a shocking and disturbing Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill today with Senator and fellow Doctor Rand Paul leading the charge against Dr. Anthony Fauci. Before testifying, Fauci acknowledged what he called Paul’s “unhinged obsession“ with him and said because of Paul’s repeated public pledges to put Fauci behind bars, he had to invoke the Fifth Amendm...

This is a cautionary tale for everyone who stays in rental homes on vacation (like us)… we actually recorded this episode from an Airbnb!  Former two time Jeopardy champion, 44-year-old Joey DeSana pleaded guilty this week to two counts of felony secret peeping after a woman staying in his North Carolina rental home found secret cameras in her bedroom and bathroom. The married father o...

It was an extraordinary day on Florida’s death row, two inmates executed in one day, and one of them was 80-years-old. A massive debate is underway on whether or not our country should be executing elderly inmates. Florida has set three separate records this summer, executing the oldest inmates in that state’s history. The Supreme Court set an age limit on how young a criminal can be b...

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s is a historic day on Florida’s death row with a rare double execution. The state is executing two inmates in one day for the first time in more than 60 years. After a brief delay, Florida executed 68-year-old James Duckett at 1:19pm ET and just a few hours later is set to execute the oldest man in state history, 80-year-old Dominick Occhicone. The Supreme Court just denied both me...

The man who pleaded guilty last summer of the brutal campus killings of four Idaho college students, now claims he was coerced into pleading guilty for the crimes. Bryan Kohberger, who is currently serving four life sentences, filed a handwritten petition to the court on Monday asking for a trial, after he claims he was forced by his attorneys into making a false plea to avoid death row. It’...

Investigators are trying to piece together what happened in a Michigan home that led to 47-year-old Kris Karolkiewicz shooting and killing his six children, his wife and then himself after setting the family home on fire. We know Kris recently lost his job as a Vice President with the American Heart Association, but it’s still unclear if that played a role in the unthinkable tragedy. Investi...

The final and fifth day of the D4vd preliminary hearing brought even more surprising evidence to light, and gave more insight into David Anthony Burke’s defense. A judge ruled the prosecution brought forward enough evidence to bring the singer to trial, but several, shocking text messages from 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez to D4vd, paint a much different picture about their relationshi...

The murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, was one of the most talked about crime cases in the early 2000’s.  Scott Peterson: the husband, soon-to-be father & convicted murderer was picked apart by the media… But was it well deserved? The truth is, Scott didn’t do himself any favors by having an affair, looking particularly uninterested in finding his wife,...

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s day one of testimony in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial, the 35-year-old mother who strangled her three young children, but blames postpartum psychosis for the killings. The first witness was Clancy’s ex-husband Patrick, also father to 5-year-old Clara, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. Patrick Clancy described his wife’s declining and confusing mental state i...

Jenn Fessler and Elisa Donovan revisit the infamous Pamela Smart case, unpacking the scandalous relationship with her 15-year-old student that set the stage for one of the most controversial murder convictions in modern American history. They unpack the latest developments and court hearing in Smart's decades-long fight for freedom, debate whether she received a fair trial, and ask the question th...

A sad and disappointing back and forth continues to rage online between the attorney for Nolan Wells’ family and the volunteer search team that found the 18-year-old 2 days after disappearing from a Fourth of July celebration. The Cajun Navy, along with the Governor of Mississippi have called Ben Crump a liar for repeating what a member of the Navy said during a Nancy Grace interview about w...

A horrific story out of Oklahoma has left two children without their mother. 43-year-old Sara Gilson joined in on a TikTok trend pretending to sit down for a Netflix documentary, that she said would be about her “soon to be ex-husband who I just found out is a pedophile.” Two weeks later, her young son called 9-1-1 to say his stepdad shot his mom. Police found Gilson dead, shot in the...

Day 4 of the D4vd, aka David Anthony Burke, preliminary hearing was the most disturbing day of testimony so far. There were audible gasps in the courtroom as the medical examiner showed photos from the autopsy of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, detailing how the young teen was stabbed twice and then dismembered. We also heard testimony from a police detective who went over the sexually graphi...

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As “The Odyssey” continues to dominate the box office for the second weekend in a row, Elon Musk has renewed his vow to create an AI version of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”. Musk maintains that Nolan cast non-white characters in his movie in order to be considered for the Academy Awards.  Musk, telling his followers, “Before this year ends, Grok Imagin...

Most murders aren't committed by serial killers or lifelong criminals. They're carried out by ordinary people whose emotions, relationships, and decisions spiral out of control. Elisa Donovan talks with David Lascher about starring alongside Melissa Joan Hart in  Twisted Desire , a true crime drama inspired by real events that explores how teenage obsession, manipulation, and emotional turmoi...