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
Heuermann Plea Mechanics, Family Liability, and the Psychology of Proximity
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court to seven counts of murder and admitted to intentionally causing the death of Karen Vergata, an eighth victim incorporated into the plea agreement without separate prosecution. The plea followed the denial of every significant defense motion — including challenges to the admissibility of whole genome sequencing evidence, a motion to sever the ...
1hr 24m Apr 20
1hr 24m
IBLP Series Conclusion: Survivor Recovery and the Organization's Continuing Operations
Survivors of the Institute in Basic Life Principles describe a recovery process measured in decades rather than months. Former members report entering marriages through courtship systems that prevented independent evaluation of potential partners, receiving educations through the Advanced Training Institute curriculum that left them unable to meet standardized testing requirements, and experien...
42m Apr 19
42m
Kepner Stepbrother Indicted as Adult on Federal Murder and Aggravated Abuse Charges
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned a superseding indictment on March 10, 2026, charging Timothy Hudson, sixteen, with first-degree murder under 18 U.S.C. §1111(a) and aggravated sexual abuse under 18 U.S.C. §2241(a)(1) in the death of his eighteen-year-old stepsister Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. The case was formally transferred from juveni...
52m Apr 19
52m
Heuermann Plea Mechanics and the Civil Liability Case Against His Family
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court to seven counts of murder — three first-degree and four second-degree — and admitted to intentionally causing the death of Karen Vergata, an eighth victim who had not been separately charged. The plea agreement was reached after the defense lost every significant pre-trial motion. The court ruled whole genome sequencing evidence admissible an...
37m Apr 19
37m
Duggar Investigation Expands Beyond Single Household as Kendra Faces Custody Battle
The investigation initiated by Joseph Duggar's arrest on Florida felony charges has expanded beyond the immediate household. Joseph faces two counts in Bay County — lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim under twelve and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person eighteen or older — stemming from allegations tied to a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to ...
1hr Apr 19
1hr
Kendra Duggar Faces Charges as IBLP Doctrine Faces Renewed Scrutiny
Kendra Duggar faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment — following a law enforcement search of the family residence conducted after her husband Joseph Duggar's arrest on Florida felony charges. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the home search revealed loc...
58m Apr 19
58m
Guthrie Investigation Under Scrutiny as Board Moves to Investigate Sheriff Nanos
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Catalina Foothills home in Tucson on February 1 after failing to appear for a church service. Evidence recovered at the scene — including blood confirmed to belong to Guthrie — led the Pima County Sheriff's Department to classify the case as a suspected abduction. Her pacemaker disconnected from its monitoring app in the early morning hours. Surv...
34m Apr 18
34m
Duggar Communications Under Scrutiny as IBLP Doctrine Faces Legal Challenge
Joseph Duggar faces two counts in Bay County, Florida — lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim under twelve and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person eighteen or older — stemming from allegations tied to a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to the arrest affidavit filed by the Bay County Sheriff's Office, a fourteen-year-old girl disclosed during a fo...
50m Apr 18
50m
Gilgo Heuermann Case: Phone Evidence, Civil Liability, and Family Exposure
The prosecution's phone evidence in the Melissa Barthelemy case maps a precise geographic timeline. On July 12, 2009, a prepaid burner phone Barthelemy had communicated with traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan — the documented route between Rex Heuermann's residence and office. Hours later, Barthelemy's personal phone traveled that same corridor in reverse. Over the following fiv...
27m Apr 18
27m
Heuermann's Plea Deal: Eight Victims, FBI Cooperation, and What Comes Next
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court to seven counts of murder — three first-degree and four second-degree — in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings spanning 1993 to 2010. He also admitted under the plea agreement to intentionally causing the death of Karen Vergata, an eighth victim whose killing was not separately charged. Prosecutors dismissed three doubled-up murde...
35m Apr 18
35m
Nancy Guthrie and Alonzo Brooks: The FBI Finally Ruled It a Homicide (Part 5)
The Nancy Guthrie case has forced a national conversation about what happens when the wrong people handle the most critical moments of an investigation. In Tucson, the questions have centered on staffing decisions, sidelined veterans, and whether competence or loyalty determined who was in the room. This five-part series has traced that same failure across decades and jurisdictions. And in this...
18m Apr 18
18m
Cruise Ship Murder Indictment And Gilgo Beach Civil Liability
Two prosecutions with distinct postures are moving simultaneously through the courts, and both present substantive legal questions about the doctrinal framework applied to those adjacent to the accused. In the Southern District of Florida, a federal grand jury has indicted a sixteen-year-old defendant as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of Ann...
49m Apr 17
49m
The Trial That Won't Start: Larry Millete Update
Every trial date has been called final. None of them have held. Larry Millete was arrested in October 2021 for the murder of his wife Maya. He has pleaded not guilty. And as of this recording — more than four years later — he has never sat in front of a jury.This is Episode 5 of the Larry Millete series, and it covers the legal grind that has defined this case since the arrest. A competency eva...
19m Apr 17
19m
Ellerup Civil Liability: The Willful Blindness Standard Under Scrutiny
The wrongful death complaint filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court by Benjamin Torres, acting on behalf of the estate of Valerie Mack, presents claims of wrongful death, assault, battery, false imprisonment, and unjust enrichment against Rex Heuermann, Asa Ellerup, and Victoria Heuermann. The central theory of liability against Ellerup rests on the doctrine of willful blindness — alleging that ...
16m Apr 17
16m
Jesse Butler: The Birthday That Will Erase Everything
In roughly one hundred and twenty days, a clerk in Payne County is going to close a file. And Jesse Butler — the Stillwater teenager who pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts involving two high school students — is going to stop being any of those things, legally, forever. That's the calendar this case has been racing toward from day one. Every move by every actor — the defense, the Payne...
24m Apr 17
24m
IBLP's Political Connections and Why It Still Matters
Governors at IBLP conferences. A congressman on the board. A presidential candidate who publicly defended the Duggars. A Hobby Lobby founder purchasing entire campuses for the organization. And minors from IBLP training centers working on political campaigns.Bill Gothard's vision went beyond religion. He called it the Joshua Generation — a plan to deploy homeschooled children trained inside his...
23m Apr 17
23m
D4VD Arrested: Why LAPD Moved Without an Indictment
The grand jury sat on this case for five months and never returned an indictment. LAPD arrested D4VD anyway. That decision — and what it signals about where this investigation stands — is the most important detail in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case right now. David Anthony Burke was taken into custody on April 16 at a Hollywood Hills residence by LAPD Robbery-Homicide on a probable cause warr...
27m Apr 17
27m
Anna Kepner: Federal Evidence, Sentencing, and What Comes Next
The federal prosecution of Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother rests on a confined evidentiary record that includes ship surveillance footage, physical evidence of alleged concealment, and a medical examiner’s determination of mechanical asphyxiation as cause of death. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida has indicated the government can present its case in app...
17m Apr 17
17m
Anna Kepner Indictment: The Federal Defense Waiver Examined
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida has indicted a sixteen-year-old on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon. The case, which originated in juvenile court, was transferred to adult court after the accused executed a written waiver of his right to contest the transfer. Defense coun...
16m Apr 17
16m
Nancy Guthrie and Adam Walsh: A Confession That Should Have Closed the Case (Part 4)
In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn't. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that evidence from the very first moment were equipped for the responsibility. The Adam Walsh case is what happens ...
18m Apr 17
18m
Experts Dissect the Bateman Case: Manipulation, Trauma, and the FLDS Future
The Samuel Bateman case is the most significant cult-based child trafficking prosecution in years, and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet has put it back in the national conversation. In this full-length panel discussion, former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to cover the complete arc of the case — from how Bateman built his ope...
1hr 3m Apr 16
1hr 3m
Larry Millete: The Family That Wouldn't Stop Searching
Maya Millete's family didn't wait for the system to work. They built their own search operation, organized volunteer parties across Southern California, took the case to national media, and pushed for answers every single week for nine months before Larry Millete was finally arrested.And Larry — the man whose wife was missing — never joined a single search.This is Episode 4 of the Larry Millete...
18m Apr 16
18m
Bateman Is Gone — But Is the FLDS Machine Still Running? | Part 3
The prosecution of Samuel Bateman and his eleven co-defendants is the most thorough federal takedown of a cult-based child trafficking operation in recent memory. Every defendant convicted. Sentences ranging from time served to life. Restitution orders. Asset forfeiture. On paper, the system worked. But the FLDS has been raided before — in 1953, in 2008. Prophets have been arrested, tried, and...
20m Apr 16
20m
Valerie Mack Lawsuit: Rex Heuermann’s Wife Faces Gilgo Beach Reckoning
A six-year-old boy loses his mother. Her remains are found dismembered in Manorville the same year she disappears — unidentified, unnamed, forgotten by a system that failed her. Twenty years pass before anyone can put a name to the remains. Rex Heuermann has now pleaded guilty to killing Valerie Mack and six other women. And now that boy, Benjamin Torres, grown into a man still carrying the wei...
43m Apr 16
43m
IBLP’s Survivors Spent Decades Rebuilding From the Ground Up
Freedom felt like drowning. That's what former IBLP members describe when they talk about the first months and years after leaving. Not relief. Disorientation. The collapse of the only framework they'd ever had for understanding the world.The Institute in Basic Life Principles was designed to be total. It governed education, relationships, marriage, dress, thought, and spiritual identity. When ...
19m Apr 16
19m
Experts Explain the Psychological Wreckage of Bateman's Cult | Part 2
Eight children were removed from Samuel Bateman's compound and placed in foster care. During forensic interviews, none of them disclosed abuse. Their journals — seized by the FBI — were filled with detailed accounts of what Bateman did to them. The written truth they couldn't say out loud. That single detail tells you more about the psychological power of cult-based abuse than any courtroom tes...
24m Apr 16
24m
How Did Bateman Do It? Experts Break Down the Manipulation | Part 1
The Samuel Bateman case is back in the spotlight with Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — and the question the documentary raises but can't fully answer is the one that matters most: how did he do it? How does a man with no money, no institutional authority, and no special training convince fifty people to follow him, fund him, and hand him their children? In Part 1 of this three-part pane...
20m Apr 16
20m
Nancy Guthrie and Crystal Rogers: The Phone Call That Killed the Investigation (Part 3)
One of the central questions in the Nancy Guthrie investigation is whether Sheriff Nanos built his department around loyalty instead of competence — and whether that structure put the wrong people in positions of influence over a case they weren't qualified to handle. In Bardstown, Kentucky, that question played out in its most extreme form. The wrong person in the room wasn't just unqualified....
15m Apr 16
15m
Heuermann Plea, Ellerup Lawsuit, Kepner Cruise Ship Murder Examined
Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke provide legal and behavioral analysis across three significant criminal and civil proceedings examined in this segment. The Heuermann guilty plea is addressed from both procedural and psychological perspectives. Motta examines the plea mechanics — the denied pre-trial motions, the admi...
56m Apr 15
56m
Larry Millete Case: Maya's Last Hours Exposed
Maya Millete called a divorce attorney on January 7, 2021. She came home at 4:42 PM. A neighbor's camera recorded nine banging sounds from the house that night. Her phone went dark at 1:25 AM and has never come back on. The next morning, her husband drove away in the family Lexus with his phone off for eleven hours and came home with hundreds of unexplained miles on the odometer.Then he told hi...
21m Apr 15
21m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Charged as Adult in Federal Court
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated abuse in connection with the eighteen-year-old's death aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. The indictment, announced April 13, marks the first public disclosure of formal charges in a case that had been sealed since th...
19m Apr 15
19m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Case: Stepbrother Faces Life
She told her family she was afraid of him. They put her in a room with him anyway. Now a federal grand jury has laid out what it believes happened behind that door. Timothy Hudson — Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother — has been indicted as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in her death aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Anna was found dead aboard ...
32m Apr 15
32m
IBLP’s Homeschool System Was Designed to Cap Girls’ Education
One girl learned only fractions. Her father said it was enough for baking. Another was told college was acceptable only as a backup plan in case her future husband fell ill. An entire generation of children was educated with a curriculum designed not to prepare them for the world — but to prevent them from wanting to join it.The Advanced Training Institute was IBLP's homeschooling arm. Fifty-fo...
18m Apr 15
18m
Rex Heuermann's Plea Deal Protects Him From Future Charges
Rex Heuermann's guilty plea in Suffolk County Court carries legal implications that extend well beyond sentencing. The 62-year-old architect pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder and admitted to intentionally causing the death of Karen Vergata — an eighth victim he was never formally charged with killing. The plea agreement, accepted by Judge Timothy Mazzei, includes a waiver of Heuermann's ...
18m Apr 15
18m
Gilgo Beach: Asa Ellerup Lawsuit Faces Legal Hurdles
The wrongful death complaint filed by Benjamin Torres against Rex Heuermann, Asa Ellerup, and Victoria Heuermann in Suffolk County Supreme Court raises significant legal questions about civil liability, evidentiary sufficiency, and the boundaries of the statute of limitations in New York. Torres, the adult son of Gilgo Beach victim Valerie Mack, alleges wrongful death, civil conspiracy, conceal...
19m Apr 15
19m
Nancy Guthrie and the Delphi Murders: Did a Broken Investigation Convict the Wrong Man? (Part 2)
The Nancy Guthrie case forced a question that should terrify anyone paying attention: what happens when an investigation is run by the wrong people from the start — and instead of finding the truth, the system builds a case around the most convenient answer? In Tucson, the Guthrie investigation has raised questions about whether underqualified personnel handled the most critical early hours. I...
26m Apr 15
26m
Nancy Guthrie and the Duggars: A Legal Reckoning on Two Fronts
Two cases are converging in the national spotlight — and both present legal questions that reach well beyond the individuals at the center. In Pima County, the Board of Supervisors has invoked Arizona Revised Statute 11-253 to compel Sheriff Chris Nanos to provide sworn testimony on his work history, personnel discipline, immigration enforcement, and budget overruns — with the stated authority...
1hr Apr 14
1hr
Larry Millete's Spellcaster Obsession Exposed
A man pays strangers on the internet to cast magic spells on his wife. He starts with love. He ends with requests for broken bones. He leaves a five-star review. And then — on the same day his wife vanishes — the emails stop completely.This is Episode 2 of the Larry Millete series. In it, we pull apart the most bizarre evidence trail in recent true crime: the spellcaster emails, the subliminal ...
26m Apr 14
26m
Duggar Charges Span Two States — Investigation Still Widening
Joseph Duggar's legal exposure now spans two jurisdictions with fundamentally different stakes. In Bay County, Florida, he faces two charges classified as life felonies under Florida statute — lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12, and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person 18 or older. He posted bond with conditions prohibiting unsupervised contact with any minor, including his...
26m Apr 14
26m