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Day two of CROWN V COLONY. Garret Fisher leaves the gaslight of Whitechapel for something more modern and somehow darker: an ordinary terraced house at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, where Fred and Rose West murdered at least twelve women and girls across twenty years — including their own daughter Heather, 16, and Fred's stepdaughter Charmaine, 8. The bodies were found beneath the cellar, the ba...

Independence Day week begins where the whole genre began. Garret Fisher launches CROWN V COLONY — five days of the United Kingdom's most notorious crimes — in the gaslit fog of Whitechapel, 1888. Over roughly ten weeks of terror, a killer the newspapers christened Jack the Ripper murdered five women in London's East End: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mar...

Part two of the centennial investigation goes into the deep water. If Marilyn Monroe's 1962 death wasn't the simple suicide the coroner signed off on, then what was it? Garret Fisher walks through the theories the new Fox/TMZ special leans into — the rumored affairs with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the heavily redacted FBI surveillance files investigator Paul...

Part one of a two-part centennial investigation. Marilyn Monroe — born Norma Jeane Mortenson 100 years ago this month — was found dead in her Brentwood home on August 4, 1962, and within hours the most famous woman in the world was ruled a "probable suicide" by barbiturate overdose. Garret Fisher walks through the night: the housekeeper, the hours that vanished before police were called at 4:30 a....

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Miami, a six-person jury has found George Pino not guilty of manslaughter and vessel homicide in the 2022 Biscayne Bay boat crash that killed 17-year-old Luciana "Lucy" Fernandez and left passenger Katerina "Katy" Puig, now 21, permanently disabled; the jury deliberated under two hours. Pino is legally acquitted on both counts — and the Puig family and State At...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Nashville, jury selection has begun in the first-degree and felony murder trial of Blaise Taylor, a former Tennessee Titans pro scout accused of secretly poisoning his pregnant girlfriend, Jade Benning, in February 2023; Benning's unborn daughter died days later, and Benning herself died on March 6 — her 25th birthday. He has pleaded not guilty, the defense is...

Garret Fisher covers three cases, each turning on a warning that came first. In Miami, the manslaughter and vessel-homicide trial of George Pino, 55, goes to the jury today after both sides rested — Pino is accused of recklessly piloting his boat into a Biscayne Bay channel marker in 2022, killing 17-year-old Luciana "Lucy" Fernandez and severely injuring another teen, Katerina "Katy" Puig, during...

Garret Fisher runs through four updates. In New York, a federal judge has dismissed singer Dawn Richard's civil suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs — not on the merits, but because the statute of limitations had run out; Judge Katherine Polk Failla called the alleged conduct "indisputably odious" while ruling 17 of 18 claims time-barred, leaving one gender-motivated-violence claim that Richard may ref...

Garret Fisher closes the book on Gilgo Beach. After nearly three years of silence, Rex Heuermann — the 62-year-old Long Island architect who murdered eight women between 1993 and 2010 — was sentenced Wednesday in a Suffolk County courtroom to three consecutive life sentences without parole, followed by four more consecutive terms of 25 years to life. There is no parole anywhere in the sentence; he...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Provo, Utah, Tracey Grist, 61, has been sentenced to consecutive terms — which the judge said should keep her imprisoned for life — after being convicted of masterminding the "family trap" killing of her son-in-law, Matthew Restelli, 42, who was lured to her home and shot by her son under the pretense of picking up his wife and children. In Waukesha, Wisconsin,...

Garret Fisher covers three cases involving child victims, all defendants presumed innocent. In Idaho, the first-degree murder and kidnapping case against Stacey Wondra, 33, in the 2021 disappearance of 5-year-old Michael "Monkey" Vaughan — whose body has never been found — has been moved from Payette County to Canyon County, with trial set for September 14. In Indianapolis, Toni McClure, 31, is se...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In New Hampshire, the state Supreme Court has reversed Adam Montgomery's second-degree murder conviction in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, ruling the trial judge improperly joined the murder charge with a separate assault charge — a procedural reversal, not a finding of innocence. Montgomery remains incarcerated on his other convictions...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Wisconsin, a Dodge County jury has convicted Zachariah Rasch, 44, of first-degree intentional homicide and a corpse-related count in the death of his estranged wife, Crystal Rasch, 37 — the case known as the "tooth in the ashes," after a tooth and skull fragments matched to her were found in a burn pit on his property. He claimed she shot herself; the jury reje...

Three cases today, and money runs through all of them. In Los Angeles, Nick Reiner — the thirty-two-year-old charged with stabbing his own parents to death, the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele — has gone to court asking a judge to hand him more than a million and a half dollars from a trust fund, so he can pay for the lawyer he wants to defend him against the charge that he killed the pe...

A full-episode deep dive. On Tuesday, a Collin County jury found nineteen-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder for fatally stabbing seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf at a 2025 high school track meet in Frisco, Texas — rejecting his claim of self-defense after deliberating less than three hours, then sentencing him to 35 years in prison after rejecting his "sudden passion" claim. Garret Fisher...

Here's where things stand this morning. In Fairfax County, Virginia, Brendan Banfield — the former federal agent convicted of murdering his wife, Christine, and a man named Joseph Ryan — has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. In Juneau, Wisconsin, the trial they're calling the tooth in the ashes is now in its second week, and the forensic evidence against Zachariah Ras...

Three stories today, and all three of them put a badge in the frame. In Lonoke County, Arkansas, a judge has dismissed the second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer — a father, and a candidate for sheriff — who admitted to shooting and killing the man accused of abusing his daughter. The case fell apart not on the facts, but because law enforcement lost a piece of evidence. In Boston, Offi...

A Georgia father, William McCue, is on trial in Lawrenceville on felony-murder and child-cruelty charges after prosecutors say he and his wife trapped their children inside a home with no plumbing, buckets for toilets, and a child sleeping on plywood over a bathtub — a daughter, ten-year-old Zowey McCue, died in a fire her teenage brother set to escape. Garret Fisher covers three cases this Friday...

Here's where things stand this morning. In Columbia, South Carolina, a jury has found gas station owner Rick Chow not guilty of murder in the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton. In Juneau, Wisconsin, Zachariah Rasch is standing trial, accused of killing his estranged wife, Crystal Rasch, and burning her body in a pit on their property. And in Salt Lake City, Utah, reality sta...

A Connecticut teen was cleared of murdering 17-year-old lacrosse star Jimmy McGrath at a house party — so why is Raul Valle facing trial all over again? His new lawyer says a retrial would be “Groundhog Day,” the victim’s father says it’s been four years of nothing but delay, and a judge holds the deciding vote. Then: stunning new claims out of CrimeCon 2026. A panel reveals fresh details in the d...

Here's what you need to know. Kevin Hart's production company, Hartbeat, is in a legal and financial spiral — suing two former podcast executives over trade secrets, fighting a former assistant's lawsuit headed to trial in October, and absorbing the fallout from a George Floyd joke at the Netflix special The Roast of Kevin Hart. In California, an Orange County judge dismissed the Drano poisoning c...

Garret Fisher goes inside the killings of Spencer and Monique Tepe, the Ohio dentist and his wife shot dead in their home, as Court TV and Law&Crime anchors take the case apart at CrimeCon and a chilling new detail emerges about the weeks before the murders. Then: the trial of South Carolina convenience store owner Rick Chow, charged with chasing and shooting unarmed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-...

Garret Fisher closes the book on the Matthew Perry case as Kenneth Iwamasa, the assistant who knew Perry for over thirty years and was supposed to keep him sober, becomes the fifth and final defendant sentenced for the actor’s ketamine death. In Minneapolis, Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock gets nearly 42 years for masterminding a scheme that stole hundreds of millions meant to feed children....

Three cases, three courtrooms, three women holding the bag for what the men in their lives decided to do. Plus one defendant who is the man in question. We are going to talk about all of it. Garret Fisher with a Thursday edition that covers three new cases out of three different states. In South Carolina, a sixty-four-year-old woman is denied bond in the murder of seventeen-year-old Maylashia Hogg...

Garret on the Newport News dismissal that ended Ebony Parker's criminal trial before the defense could put on a single witness, a Bangor strangulation trial with an HDMI cord and an interstate police chase, and a life-without-parole sentence in the Atlanta murder of roller-skating influencer Beauty Couch. Garret Fisher covers a stunning courtroom collapse in Virginia, where a judge dismissed all e...