Nancy Guthrie Investigation: Institutional Failures and Ransom Analysis
Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four, the mother of NBC Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reportedly abducted from her residence in the Catalina Foothills community near Tucson, Arizona, on or about February 1, 2026. Bloodstains at the scene were confirmed as Guthrie's. Her Bluetooth-enabled pacemaker disconnected from her phone at approximately 2:30 a.m., suggesting movement out of range. Surveillan...
41m Apr 27
41m
Lucy Letby Case: Conviction, Institutional Failure, and Expert Challenge
Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England, was convicted in August 2023 of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder involving infants under her care between June 2015 and June 2016. An additional attempted murder conviction was secured at retrial. She is serving fifteen whole-life orders — the British equivalent of life without the possibilit...
41m Apr 26
41m
Duggar Family Pattern: Secrecy Architecture and Institutional Control Examined
The pattern of internal management of serious allegations within the Duggar family is now documented across two generations. Josh Duggar's admitted abuse of his sisters was handled privately for years before becoming public. Joseph Duggar allegedly admitted to the conduct described in the arrest affidavit when confronted by the victim's father — and according to that affidavit, no contact was m...
38m Apr 26
38m
D4VD Charge Sheet Breakdown: Special Circumstances and Prosecution Theory
David Anthony Burke, twenty-one, professionally known as D4VD, has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with first-degree murder with three special circumstances — lying in wait, commission of a crime for financial gain, and killing a witness to a crime — as well as continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen years of age, lewd and lascivious acts with an indi...
41m Apr 26
41m
Duggar Family Case: Generational Pattern and Kendra's Legal Position
Amy Duggar King, the cousin of the Duggar siblings and author of the memoir Holy Disruptor, has publicly identified her grandfather, Jimmy Lee Duggar, as the origin point of the family's pattern of control and alleged abuse. In her account, Jimmy Lee's violence against her mother Deanna was known within the family and protected by silence for decades. Amy contends that the behavioral framework ...
1hr 11m Apr 26
1hr 11m
D4VD Murder Defense Examined: Special Circumstances and Evidence
David Anthony Burke, twenty-one, professionally known as D4VD, has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with first-degree murder with three special circumstances — lying in wait, commission of a crime for financial gain, and killing a witness to a crime — as well as continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen years of age and mutilation of human remains in the...
48m Apr 26
48m
Joseph Duggar: Two States, Two Cases, Two Alleged Confessions
Joseph Garrett Duggar, thirty-one, formerly of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, has been charged in Bay County, Florida, with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under twelve years of age and lewd and lascivious conduct — charges classified as life felonies under Florida law. Duggar has entered a plea of not guilty and was released on six hundred thousand dollars bond. The court has ordered ...
44m Apr 25
44m
D4VD Murder Prosecution: Grand Jury Silence and Witness Flight
David Anthony Burke, twenty-one, professionally known as D4VD, has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen years of age, and mutilation of human remains in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Burke has entered a plea of not guilty. The special circumstances — lying ...
36m Apr 25
36m
D4VD Formally Charged: Celeste Rivas Murder Case Examined
David Anthony Burke, twenty-one, professionally known as D4VD, has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen years of age, and mutilation of human remains in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Burke has entered a plea of not guilty. The special circumstances attached...
42m Apr 25
42m
Amy Duggar King Addresses Kendra Duggar's Legal and Family Situation
Amy Duggar King, Jim Bob Duggar's niece and author of Holy Disruptor, addresses the situation facing Kendra Duggar — the twenty-seven-year-old wife of Joseph Duggar who now faces her own criminal charges alongside her husband's pending case in Florida. Joseph Duggar, thirty-one, was arrested March 18 and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under twelve, according to the Bay Co...
19m Apr 25
19m
D4vd and the Kepner Cruise Ship Murder With Attorney Eric Faddis
Today on True Crime Today, the full Eric Faddis interview. We move through the David Anthony Burke case in two parts, first the people around him and who is still legally exposed, then the felony complaint and the defense strategy already forming, then pivot to federal court in Florida for the Anna Kepner not guilty plea and what the defense moves are signaling. If you only listen to one legal...
46m Apr 24
46m
Lucy Letby: Death Certificates Still Say Natural (Pt. 5)
Years after a jury convicted Lucy Letby of murdering seven babies, some of those children's death certificates still officially list the cause of death as natural or unknown. The Cheshire Coroner's Court has opened formal inquests into five of the deaths. Full hearings are provisionally scheduled for September 2026, pending the outcome of the Thirlwall Inquiry. The families are still fighting f...
18m Apr 24
18m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: A Trial Attorney Reads the Defense Signals
On today's True Crime Today, Eric Faddis walks us through the federal case against Anna Kepner's stepbrother. The not guilty plea. The strategic decisions already made by the defense. The cellphone data reportedly pulled from Anna's father. The seven-day trial estimate that raises its own questions. We cover the plea procedure, the defense's own request for the adult transfer, the judge-select...
17m Apr 24
17m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: The Not Guilty Plea Explained
The person accused of killing Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship just pleaded not guilty in federal court — and he didn’t even show up to say it. His attorney filed a one-page document while the sixteen-year-old stayed home, wearing a GPS ankle monitor, living with a relative, and recently cleared to work at his biological father’s landscaping business. That’s the reality of this case r...
14m Apr 24
14m
Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Empire: Fractured But Not Dead — Part 5
Warren Jeffs will die behind bars. The FLDS he built is hemorrhaging members. Short Creek—the community he sealed off from the world—now has soccer games, bars, and a winery. But the story is not over. From a Texas prison cell, Jeffs continues issuing edicts. A hardened core of followers—scattered across multiple states—still considers him their prophet. Reports suggest plural marriage may be r...
16m Apr 24
16m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Federal Charges Expose Key Evidence
Anna Marie Kepner, eighteen, a senior at Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida, was found dead on November 7, 2025, inside a cabin she shared with her stepbrother and half-brother aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship during a family vacation. Her body was reportedly concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, and covered with life jackets. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner determined...
34m Apr 24
34m
The D4vd Complaint: Death Penalty Charges and a Defense Already Swinging
On today's True Crime Today, Eric Faddis takes us inside the David Anthony Burke felony complaint. Three special circumstances. A continuous sexual abuse charge that defines the witness-murder theory. And a defense team using very precise legal language Eric says tells you exactly where this trial is headed. We hit the financial-gain theory and whether protecting income you already have fits t...
12m Apr 24
12m
D4vd's Inner Circle: Eric Faddis on the Witnesses Who Haven't Been Charged
On today's True Crime Today, trial attorney Eric Faddis joins us to break down the legal architecture of the David Anthony Burke case. Prosecutors have reportedly said Burke had help disposing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains. So far he is the only name on the complaint. Eric, a former felony prosecutor, walks us through the cooperation language around Neo Langston, the grand jury testimon...
18m Apr 24
18m
Amy Duggar King Describes Family's Alleged Suppression System
Amy Duggar King, Jim Bob Duggar's niece and author of the memoir Holy Disruptor, provides detailed testimony about what she describes as a systematic pattern of information suppression within the Duggar family and its associated religious communities. Amy characterizes Jim Bob Duggar as someone who controls information with the same precision others apply to financial management — determining ...
11m Apr 24
11m
D4VD: The Interview That Goes Where Others Won't
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings over three decades of clinical expertise in trauma, violence psychology, and forensic mental health to a complete three-part examination of the D4VD case with Tony Brueski. The charges against David Anthony Burke in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez include first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, ly...
57m Apr 23
57m
Lucy Letby and a Wrongful Conviction Parallel (Pt. 4)
Lucia de Berk was a Dutch pediatric nurse convicted in 2003 of murdering patients. The evidence: she was present during unexplained deaths, statistical correlation suggested her presence wasn't coincidence, and medical experts interpreted clinical events as deliberate harm. She was sentenced to life in prison. In 2009, a court accepted the deaths were natural. She was completely innocent. She s...
20m Apr 23
20m
D4VD: Was the Music Warning Us All Along?
David Burke grew up in a religious household. He was homeschooled. He listened exclusively to gospel music until age 13. Within a few years, he went from Fortnite montages in a closet to a world tour and millions of streaming fans. His biggest hit was called "Romantic Homicide." His debut album was called "Withered." And now he's charged with first-degree murder, sexual abuse of a child, and mu...
18m Apr 23
18m
Duggar “Satan Claus”: The Blacklist Behind the Beliefs
You think you know the Duggars’ rules. The matching outfits. The courtship rituals. The no-kissing-before-marriage thing. But there’s a list behind the list — and it starts with Santa Claus. In the IBLP, Santa’s name was treated as an anagram of Satan. The Duggars erased him from Christmas entirely. And that was just the beginning of a blacklist that went far beyond holiday traditions. Tony Br...
26m Apr 23
26m
How a Hoax Call Exposed Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Compound — Part 4
In 2008, Texas authorities raided the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch and removed more than 460 children—the largest child custody action in U.S. history. The phone call that triggered the raid came from a woman in Colorado who had never been to the ranch. It was a complete fabrication. And it led investigators to evidence that was anything but fake. Inside the compound: a temple with beds for un...
18m Apr 23
18m
D4VD Toured for Months. His Circle Said Nothing.
Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke performed on a world tour for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly killed — including the night her body was discovered in Los Angeles. His close friend Neo Langston fled to Montana rather than testify before a grand jury. His parents tried to quash their subpoenas. His manager testified over several days. And through all of it — months of pu...
17m Apr 23
17m
D4VD: Every System Failed Celeste Rivas Hernandez
The charges against David Anthony Burke in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez are staggering — first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, mutilation of remains. But the psychological questions underneath those charges start years before the alleged crime. How does a 13-year-old end up living with a 19-year-old celebrity? How does an online connection ...
23m Apr 23
23m
Amy Duggar King Details Alleged Generational Abuse in Duggar Family
Amy Duggar King, Jim Bob Duggar's niece and author of the memoir Holy Disruptor, details the alleged generational abuse she says began with her grandfather, Jimmy Lee Duggar, and has continued through subsequent generations of the Duggar family. According to Amy's published account, Jimmy Lee Duggar was physically violent and predatory. She alleges her mother Deanna was beaten so severely she ...
37m Apr 23
37m
D4VD Murder and Duggar Prosecution: Complete Legal Analysis
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to provide detailed legal analysis of two significant active prosecutions: the first-degree murder case with special circumstances against David Anthony Burke (D4VD) in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the multi-jurisdiction charges against Joseph and Kendra Duggar. In the Burke matter: Motta examines ...
59m Apr 22
59m
Lucy Letby's Notes: Confession or Breakdown? (Pt. 3)
I AM EVIL I DID THIS. Those words, written on a green Post-It note in Lucy Letby's handwriting, were the first piece of evidence shown to jurors. The prosecution called them a confession. The defense called them the scrawl of a woman in psychological collapse. The jury looked at those words for ten months. The debate over what they mean has lasted years. Lucy Letby's trial at Manchester Crown ...
19m Apr 22
19m
Duggar Case: Dual Prosecutions and Defense Obstacles
Joseph Duggar faces a life felony charge in Bay County, Florida, for the alleged repeated molestation of a child under 12 during a 2020 family vacation. He has pleaded not guilty. Separately, he and his wife Kendra Duggar each face four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of false imprisonment in Washington County, Arkansas, stemming from a home search conducted in conn...
21m Apr 22
21m
D4VD Was at Coachella 12 Days Before Celeste Vanished Forever
The charges are in. And they're worse than anyone expected. David Anthony Burke — the singer known as D4VD — has been formally charged in connection with the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. First-degree with special circumstances. Continuous abuse of a minor. Inappropriate acts with a child under fourteen. Mutilation of remains. The maximum sentence: life without parole or ...
21m Apr 22
21m
FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs’ Cash-Funded Escape Exposed — Part 3
Warren Jeffs did not run alone. When the FLDS prophet vanished to avoid charges in Arizona and Utah, the community that worshipped him bankrolled the escape. Cash, prepaid debit cards, untraceable phones, rotating safe houses—the operation was funded by the tithes of families who believed they were serving God. His brother Seth was caught in a separate traffic stop with nearly $142,000 and a ch...
17m Apr 22
17m
D4VD Murder Defense: Legal Strategy and Exposure
David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder with three special circumstances, charges carrying a maximum penalty of death or life without parole. His defense team, led by attorney Blair Berk, has asserted that Burke “was not the cause of her death”—a statement criminal defense attorney Bob Motta identifies as a deliberate preview of the defense’s legal theory. Motta joins Tony Brueski and Ro...
18m Apr 22
18m
D4VD First-Degree Murder: Special Circumstances Explained
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has filed first-degree murder charges with special circumstances against David Anthony Burke, professionally known as D4VD, in connection with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The special circumstances include lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness. Additional charges include continuous sexual acts wit...
20m Apr 22
20m
D4vd, Duggar, Flynn: Three Cases, Three Legal Battlegrounds
Three active cases. Three distinct legal postures. Three sets of listener questions that demand procedural clarity. David Burke, twenty-one, known professionally as D4vd, was arrested April 16, 2026, by LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division on suspicion of the murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He is held without bail on a probable cause warrant. No formal charges or grand jury indi...
59m Apr 22
59m
Sandra Birchmore Case: Farwell’s DNA on the Strap — October Trial Set
The evidence against former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell just got significantly worse. Federal prosecutors revealed in April 2026 court filings that Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap that was tied around Sandra Birchmore’s neck when her body was discovered. His sperm cells were found in her underwear. And a coworker told investigators that about two weeks before Birc...
23m Apr 22
23m
Lucy Letby: A Hospital Buried Its Own Warnings (Pt. 2)
In late 2015, consultant pediatricians at the Countess of Chester Hospital began tracking a devastating pattern. Every unexplained infant death and collapse on the neonatal unit tracked back to the same nurse. They raised it with management. They documented it. They pushed. And the institution pushed back. According to the Thirlwall Inquiry, what followed was not negligence in the accidental s...
19m Apr 21
19m
Caleb Flynn Trial Set for May: Prosecution’s Evidence Examined
Caleb Flynn, thirty-nine, faces eleven charges in Miami County Common Pleas Court in connection with the February 16, 2026, killing of his wife Ashley Flynn at their Tipp City, Ohio, home. The indictment includes one count of aggravated murder, three counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, three counts of tampering with evidence, and two misdemeanor counts of intimidation of an attor...
16m Apr 21
16m
Celeste Rivas' Home Life Before D4VD Raises Real Questions
The version of this story most outlets are telling is wrong, or at least incomplete. A 13-year-old girl named Celeste Rivas Hernandez did not simply vanish in April of 2024 and reappear in a Hollywood Hills Tesla trunk a year and a half later. She was in and out. She was at her cousin's high school graduation in May of 2024. She was on surveillance video fighting with neighbors in her own back...
30m Apr 21
30m
How Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Turned Children Into Property — Part 2
The true crime community knows the name Warren Jeffs. The FBI manhunt, the Texas trial, the life sentence—those are the headlines. But the story that matters most is the one that happened before any of that, inside the FLDS community, where children were the currency of a system designed by one man. Girls were given to men decades older in so-called celestial marriages. Boys were expelled by t...
18m Apr 21
18m
Joseph Duggar Arraignment Looms: Dual-State Charges Examined
Joseph Garrett Duggar, thirty-one, faces a two-front legal battle after being arrested on March 18, 2026, and extradited from Arkansas to Bay County, Florida. The Florida charges — lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under twelve and lewd and lascivious conduct — carry significant prison exposure under Florida statute. His bond was set at six hundred thousand dollars: five hundred thous...
22m Apr 21
22m
D4vd Held Without Bail: Legal Path Forward in Rivas Hernandez Case
David Anthony Burke, the twenty-one-year-old musician known as D4vd, was arrested on April 16, 2026, by LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division detectives on suspicion of the murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He is being held without bail. The case is expected to be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration. No formal charges have been fil...
21m Apr 21
21m
Karen Vergata: How Heuermann Confessed to an Uncharged Gilgo Murder
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to seven murders in Suffolk County Court. Then he admitted to an eighth — Karen Vergata — one he was never formally charged with. The confession was part of the plea deal: admit to killing Karen, and he won’t be separately prosecuted for it. She gets a confessed killer but no indictment, no trial, no verdict with her name attached. The final episode of “The Seven.”...
20m Apr 21
20m
D4VD Murder Arrest and Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping — Legal Analysis
Two major active cases with critical legal developments. David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old recording artist known as D4VD, is being held without bail at a Los Angeles County facility following his arrest on suspicion of the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The arrest was executed by LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division without a grand jury indictment or filed criminal complaint. Th...
49m Apr 20
49m
Lucy Letby: The Deaths No One Could Explain (Pt. 1)
When the death rate in a hospital neonatal unit triples in two weeks, someone should notice. When babies who were stable crash without medical explanation on the same nurse's shifts, someone should act. When twin brothers from the same family are allegedly attacked on consecutive days, the alarms should be deafening. At the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016, all of t...
22m Apr 20
22m
Nancy Guthrie Case — Ransom Demands and FBI Silence
Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing from her residence in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, where she was last seen on the evening of January 31, 2026. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and FBI Phoenix Field Office continue to lead the investigation. No suspect has been publicly named. No arrest has been made. The FBI's reward stands at $100,000 for information leading t...
19m Apr 20
19m
OnlyFans Murder Trial Update: Courtney Clenney Case Stalls
Another delay. Another set of witnesses who didn’t show. And a judge who’s running out of patience. Courtney Clenney’s second-degree murder trial was set for April 27th. That date is gone. The prosecution scheduled roughly 15 to 16 depositions with Williams rule witnesses who could reportedly testify to a pattern of aggression by Clenney — and not a single one appeared. Both sides are now targ...
20m Apr 20
20m
How Warren Jeffs Built the FLDS Into His Empire — Part 1
Before the FBI manhunt, before the Texas raid, before the trial that ended with life in prison—Warren Jeffs was a school principal. That is where the FLDS story actually begins. For twenty years, Jeffs ran Alta Academy, a private school inside his father’s compound, shaping children into obedient followers through fear, isolation, and a carefully constructed mythology of coming destruction. Whe...
20m Apr 20
20m
D4VD Grand Jury Refused to Indict — Prosecution's Problem
David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4VD, is being held without bail at a Los Angeles County detention facility following his arrest on suspicion of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Major Crimes Division, led by prosecutor Beth Silverman, is reviewing the case for filing consideration. No grand jury indictment was returned despit...
15m Apr 20
15m
D4VD Held Without Bail in Celeste Rivas Case
David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old recording artist known as D4VD, is being held without bail at a Los Angeles County facility following his arrest on suspicion of the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The arrest was executed by LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division at a Hollywood Hills residence on Marmont Avenue. No grand jury indictment was returned. No criminal complaint was filed...
15m Apr 20
15m