D4vd: The Amazon Orders That Arrived at His Front Door Under a Fake Name
D4vd case — the prosecution’s alleged cover-up timeline. Prosecutors say David Burke ordered chainsaws, a body bag, and more from Amazon under a fake name and had everything delivered to his Hollywood Hills home. The alias was “Victoria Mendez.” The address was his. And Amazon keeps records of everything.That’s one detail in a months-long chain prosecutors say began the night of April 23, 2025 ...
11m Jul 13
11m
Nancy Guthrie's Ransom Hoaxer Got THIS Punishment
Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is still unsolved after six months, but a separate case tied to it just wrapped up in court. A California man admitted to sending the Guthrie family fake bitcoin ransom demands during the active search for her — and the punishment he received has former investigators furious. His charge was pled down to harassment, which caps out at two years federally. The sentenc...
25m Jul 13
25m
D4vd: They Told Him the Missing Girl Was 13 — What He Did Next
D4vd case — the system failures behind Celeste Rivas Hernandez. When Riverside County deputies found David Burke’s number in the phone records of a missing thirteen-year-old, they called him. When LA County deputies knocked on his door for a welfare check, he showed them her yearbook photo and told them a story. They told him her age. What he allegedly did in response — and what law enforcement...
11m Jul 13
11m
Nolan Wells' Friends Went Silent For THIS Reason
There's a new wrinkle in the Nolan Wells case out of Jackson County, Mississippi, and it's not about the water — it's about who's connected to who. One of the friends who left Nolan behind on Horn Island over the Fourth of July is the son of a sitting county judge. Since that fact came out, the judge has gone silent online, and the rest of the friend group followed. A sitting congressman and a ...
12m Jul 13
12m
Nolan Wells' Friends Gave THIS Excuse For Leaving Him
Nolan Wells' story starts the way too many of these do — a group of friends, an island, a holiday weekend, and one kid who never made it back to the boat. He was eighteen. He was talking to a girl on the north end of Horn Island, off the Mississippi coast, around three in the afternoon. That's the last time anyone saw him alive. His friends left an hour and a half later. He wasn't with them. Th...
19m Jul 13
19m
How Did Giglo Killer Rex Heuerman Control The People Who Loved Him?
It does not start with a crisis. It starts with a compromise so small you don't think to question it. Then another. Then a hundred more. And one day you realize you have no idea who you are anymore. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott ties two of the most confounding cases in true crime together through a single thread — the erosion of agency — and turns the conversation toward anyone who's been maki...
30m Jul 13
30m
How Did D4VD Allegedly Continue After Deputies Said Celeste Was Thirteen?
Deputies conducted a welfare check and told David Anthony Burke directly that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old. According to the prosecution's filing, he continued anyway. This look back examines what the People's Brief puts on the record about the timeline prosecutors intend to prove — and what that welfare check should have triggered but didn't. The filing describes a pattern t...
35m Jul 12
35m
The Nancy Guthrie Note That Wasn't a Ransom Demand
Nancy Guthrie's case doesn't have one ransom note. It has a pile of them, and they don't agree with each other. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old grandmother from her Tucson home, describing her as at rest somewhere in nature. A completely separate message went to TMZ from someone claiming time was no longer urgent. Some outlets report the writer apologized. Others say h...
1hr 1m Jul 12
1hr 1m
How Do You Wall Off Someone Like Kouri Richins From Her Victims?
A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn't automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach beyond the walls, and the legal machinery designed to stop her. The concern isn't abstract. Before sentencing, Kouri wrote a message that landed in the prosecution's filing, vowin...
54m Jul 12
54m
What Did Rex Heuermann Reveal About His Kill Cycle In The Documentary?
Have you ever sat with a serial killer before? Rex Heuermann asked that question to a therapist inside Suffolk County Correctional — and the way he asked it told her everything. It wasn't vulnerability. It was a man performing his own legend. What came after was far more revealing. This look back examines what the documentary sessions produced — details no courtroom would have. Heuermann descr...
38m Jul 12
38m
Barry Morphew Lived Under WHAT Name for Years
Barry Morphew spent months living under names that weren't his own while awaiting trial for his wife Suzanne's murder. After the original case against him collapsed and the lead prosecutor was disbarred, Barry left Colorado and settled into a trailer park in Cave Creek, Arizona, more than six hundred miles from where Suzanne's remains were found in a shallow grave near Moffat. A bar manager in ...
32m Jul 11
32m
What Does D4VD's Alleged Post-Crime Behavior Tell Investigators?
He allegedly released an album two days after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez was killed. He toured for months. He performed in Minneapolis the night after her remains were found in his Tesla across the country in Los Angeles. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, reads that alleged behavior for what it reveals. Coffindaffer examines the profile of someo...
51m Jul 11
51m
Alex Murdaugh's Star Witness Never Told the Jury WHAT?
Alex Murdaugh's legal team is betting the retrial on a piece of evidence SLED collected and then let sit for years: unknown male DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails the night she and her son Paul were killed at the family's hunting property. That sample was never run against a genealogy database, and now the defense wants it sent to Othram, the same forensic lab whose genetic work hel...
35m Jul 11
35m
Why Won't A Verdict Give The Reiner Family Any Peace?
The Reiner siblings are bracing for years of courtrooms — hearings, testimony, their brother's face across the room while lawyers argue over his mental state. This look back examines the position they've been forced into and the harder truth waiting at the end of it. Jake, Romy, and Tracy occupy three roles at the same time: primary mourners with no parents left above them, next of kin with le...
36m Jul 11
36m
What Casey Anthony's Mom Changed About Her Story When She Got to the Stand
Cindy Anthony called 911 and said the car smelled like a dead body. Then she spent three years walking it back. On the witness stand, she told the jury the words were just an expression. She described removing Caylee’s doll from the car and spraying it with Febreze. A mother who knew what she smelled tried to un-know it under oath. George and Cindy held together through the investigation and t...
11m Jul 11
11m
Could Heuermann's Confession Get Thrown Out?
 Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders in front of his own family, in sessions run by a counselor who had no legal right to be there. Allison Winter now faces eighteen felonies for allegedly posing as a licensed clinical social worker and billing insurance for more than sixty thousand dollars while treating Heuermann for nearly three years. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to explain why t...
54m Jul 11
54m
What Buster Murdaugh Did That Even Alex's Defense Team Didn't Expect
Buster Murdaugh named his baby after Alex Murdaugh. That single fact contains everything you need to know about this episode. Alex was convicted of murdering Buster’s mother and brother. He pled guilty to decades of financial crimes. He staged a botched suicide attempt. And Buster — the surviving son — gave his child his father’s name. But when the SC Supreme Court overturned the conviction an...
12m Jul 10
12m
D4VD's Online Purchases Raise WHAT Questions
The D4VD case just cleared another status conference, and a new Hulu documentary dropped right alongside it, putting new pressure on a story that had largely stayed under wraps until charges were filed. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to explain what these pretrial hearings typically cover and why this one is shaping up to be a fight over publicity as much as evidence. Faddis breaks down wh...
18m Jul 10
18m
What 24 Menendez Family Members Did at the Los Angeles Courthouse
Joan VanderMolen loved her sister Kitty. She also stood at a Los Angeles courthouse in 2024 and said Kitty’s sons — the men who killed Kitty — should be released from prison. More than twenty family members stood behind her. The Menendez brothers have never denied killing their parents. The family’s argument is that the full story includes what José Menendez did to his sons, and that the 1996 ...
11m Jul 10
11m
Could Heuermann's Confession Get Thrown Out?
Rex Heuermann's guilty plea may hinge on a conversation that never should have happened the way it did. His ex-wife and daughter were in the room when he confessed to eight murders, in sessions facilitated by Allison Winter — the counselor now charged with practicing without a license. Legal analyst Eric Faddis lays out a theory that could shape what happens next: if Heuermann pled guilty in pa...
18m Jul 10
18m
Rex Heuermann's Therapist Wasn't Even Licensed
Allison Winter spent nearly three years inside the Suffolk County Jail, counseling Rex Heuermann and his family session after session. She was there for some of the most consequential conversations of his case. She just wasn't legally allowed to be doing any of it. Winter is now facing eighteen felony charges, including grand larceny, scheme to defraud, and unauthorized practice of a professio...
18m Jul 10
18m
What Jim Bob Duggar Told the Prosecutor When She Asked About Josh
Josh Duggar was convicted on federal charges involving illegal material depicting minors. Prosecutors described it as among the worst they had encountered. And his mother Michelle wrote the judge a letter calling Josh “tender-hearted” and asking for the family to be reunited. His father Jim Bob took the stand at a pretrial hearing and fought to keep Josh’s prior conduct with minors out of the ...
12m Jul 10
12m
What the Innocence Project Found When They Opened the Scott Peterson Case
For more than twenty years, Janey Peterson has been saying her brother-in-law Scott did not kill Laci. She hasn’t wavered. She hasn’t changed the core argument. She’s pointed to the same uninvestigated burglary across the street, the same witness sightings, the same evidentiary gaps — and in 2024, the Los Angeles Innocence Project agreed there was enough substance to take the case on. Scott Pe...
12m Jul 09
12m
What Chris Watts' Mother Told Reporters About Shanann After the Confession
Chris Watts pled guilty. He confessed in detail. His daughters’ bodies were recovered from crude oil tanks at his worksite. There is nothing left to dispute. And his parents responded by forgiving him at sentencing, blaming Shanann on camera, and telling reporters there were still unanswered questions. This episode traces the Watts family’s loyalty from the sentencing hearing through the media...
14m Jul 09
14m
What Barry Morphew Called Himself While Out on a Murder Bond
Barry Morphew posted a three-million-dollar bond and walked out of an Alamosa County jail in September 2025. He was fitted with an ankle monitor and ordered to remain in Colorado while awaiting trial for the murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew. The trial was set for October 13, 2026. It was supposed to last six weeks. Both sides agreed to the date. Then the defense asked for more time. Attorne...
15m Jul 09
15m
What Does The Unsealed Evidence In The Anna Kepner Case Actually Show?
Unsealed court records lay it out: security footage tracking Timothy Hudson's movements the night Anna Kepner died, a phone that ended up smashed in a trash bin, and DNA testing that points hard in one direction. Anna was found concealed beneath a bed aboard the Carnival Horizon — wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets, cause of death mechanical asphyxiation. Ship surveillance reported...
34m Jul 09
34m
What Did Rex Heuermann Gain By Bringing Up Karen Vergata During His Plea?
 During a confidential session before the plea, Rex Heuermann brought up Karen Vergata — a woman he was never charged with killing. Her case was folded into the agreement. No separate prosecution. No public presentation of the evidence against him in her death. This look back examines a plea that wasn't just about admitting guilt — it was about controlling what came out and what stayed buried. ...
42m Jul 08
42m
Why Did LAPD Seal The D4VD Autopsy Over The Medical Examiner's Objection?
The medical examiner's office completed its findings on Celeste Rivas Hernandez months before the public ever saw them. Then LAPD sought a court order to seal the report — and the ME's office publicly objected, stating the hold prevented them from serving the community with transparency. The people whose job it is to speak for the dead were told to stay silent. This look back, with retired FBI ...
34m Jul 08
34m
Why Did Kouri Richins Wait Fifteen Minutes To Call 911?
The night Eric Richins died comes down to a gap that prosecutors couldn't stop pointing to. This look back walks through that night and the first seventy-two hours after — the window where, the state argued, Kouri Richins' story began to come apart. Digital forensics told a quiet, damning story. Prosecutors say Kouri picked up her phone around 3:06 a.m., then didn't call 911 until roughly fift...
49m Jul 08
49m
What Did Kouri Richins' Sons Tell The Judge They Were Afraid Of?
Eric Richins' three sons didn't walk to the podium at their mother's sentencing. They were too young, and carrying too much. So they handed their written statements to therapists and asked them to read their words exactly. This look back walks through what those boys said — and how Kouri Richins responded as she listened. The statements were devastating in their plainness. The boys described l...
1hr 17m Jul 08
1hr 17m
What Flipped Anna Kepner's Stepmother Against Her Own Son?
Within weeks of Anna Kepner's death, court filings show Timothy Hudson's biological mother — Shauntel Hudson, married to Anna's father Christopher Kepner — expelled Timothy from the household. Neither she nor her husband has seen him since. His biological father put a text exchange into the court record alleging Shauntel said she couldn't jeopardize her marriage to help her own son. Filings all...
35m Jul 08
35m
What Does The Rex Heuermann Wrongful Death Lawsuit Mean For His Family?
Rex Heuermann's guilty plea ended the criminal case. It may have opened a new front entirely. A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack names Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria as defendants, alleging the family profited from a documentary and showed disregard for the victims. Asa's attorney has called the claims reckless. Victoria has publicly stated she believes he...
33m Jul 07
33m
Could Anyone In D4VD's Circle Still Face Charges In Celeste's Case?
 Prosecutors have reportedly said David Anthony Burke did not act alone in disposing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains. That statement, combined with the pattern of resistance from his inner circle, raises a question this look back puts directly to former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis: who else is legally exposed, and what would it take to cross the line from witness to co-defendant? Faddis...
35m Jul 07
35m
Why Did Eric Richins Become A Target The Moment He Tried To Leave?
The most dangerous moment in a controlling relationship isn't the worst fight — it's the exit. According to prosecutors, Eric Richins had quietly begun consulting divorce attorneys and restructuring his finances before he died, and the prosecution's theory holds that his moves toward the door are when the danger spiked. This look back uses that pattern as the frame for one of the most important...
26m Jul 07
26m
What Is The Reiner Defense Quietly Building During This Delay?
Months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed in their own home, their son Nick's case still hadn't reached a preliminary hearing — and the reason is striking. The autopsy reports weren't finished, terabytes of discovery were still changing hands, and the whole proceeding got pushed to the fall. This look back unpacks what a delay like that actually tells you. Eric Faddis — criminal d...
36m Jul 07
36m
What Do The Calls To Melissa Barthelemy's Teenage Sister Reveal About Rex Heuermann?
For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy vanished, someone used her phone to call her fifteen-year-old sister Amanda. Always from crowded Manhattan locations. Always under three minutes. Always targeting the teenager, never the mother. The calls described what had happened in terms designed to terrorize a child. Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to Melissa's murder. This look back examines the phone ...
29m Jul 06
29m
How Did D4VD's Relationship With Celeste Hide In Plain Sight?
The connection between David Anthony Burke and Celeste Rivas Hernandez wasn't hidden. It was visible — on livestreams, in photos near her home, backstage at concerts, in matching tattoos. A thirteen-year-old girl who had been reported missing three times kept appearing in the orbit of a twenty-one-year-old musician with millions of followers. And no system intervened. This look back examines ho...
44m Jul 06
44m
What Evidence Defeated The Kouri Richins Jury's Wish To Acquit?
The Kouri Richins jury didn't want to convict her. The foreperson said the panel came in sympathetic, even hoping she was innocent. They returned a unanimous guilty verdict in about three hours anyway. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines the evidence strong enough to defeat the jury's own wishful thinking. The case had visible holes. No murder weapon....
29m Jul 06
29m
When Do You Finally Walk Away From Someone You Love?
Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the stabbing deaths of his parents. He's held without bail, the harshest penalty remains on the table — and his siblings, Jake and Romy, are done. Sources close to the family put it bluntly: Nick's defense is Nick's defense, and they're not part of it. This look back examines where the case stood ...
37m Jul 06
37m
Why Did Rex Heuermann's Defense Finally Run Out Of Room?
Every door closed. The DNA challenge failed. The motion for separate trials was denied. The 178-page omnibus motion was rejected. And then Rex Heuermann, who had spent nearly three years insisting through tears that he didn't do this, stood up and pleaded guilty to seven murders — and admitted to an eighth. This look back, with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, examines the mechanics of a pl...
42m Jul 05
42m
How Does D4VD's Defense Fight The Most Serious Charges California Can Bring?
Burke's defense team — led by one of the most high-profile criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles — drew a line before charges were even filed: he "did not cause her death." That is not a vague denial. That's a defense theory announced in public. This look back, with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, breaks down how D4VD's team fights charges this severe — and where the strategy either ho...
38m Jul 05
38m
Does A Guilty Verdict Actually Give The Richins Family Closure?
Kouri Richins is convicted and headed to prison — and the questions people are asking only sharpened once the verdict came in. This look back is a post-verdict listener Q&A with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, working through what's still unresolved beneath the legal outcome. Eric Richins's family spent four years inside this case. Does a conviction deliver the closure ever...
38m Jul 05
38m
Why Did Prosecutors Say There Was "No Warning" Before Anna Kepner Was Killed?
Prosecutors say Timothy Hudson killed Anna Kepner "without any warning." But people outside the family have been telling a different story publicly for months. An ex-boyfriend's father claims he tried to warn the family about concerning behavior. Anna's aunt says Anna didn't want to go on the cruise. Hudson's own biological father accused the mother of taking the children without permission. Th...
44m Jul 05
44m
Why Did Rob Reiner's Friends Already Know Who Was Responsible?
When the news broke that Rob and Michele Reiner had been killed, people close to the family reportedly weren't surprised at all. That detail sits at the center of this segment — not the shock of a crime no one saw coming, but the quiet horror of one that several people did. The night before, at a Christmas party, Rob reportedly told friends he was petrified of his son and believed his son coul...
47m Jul 05
47m
Why Did Prosecutors Say There Was "No Warning" Before Anna Kepner Was Killed?
Prosecutors say Timothy Hudson killed Anna Kepner "without any warning." But people outside the family have been telling a different story publicly for months. An ex-boyfriend's father claims he tried to warn the family about concerning behavior. Anna's aunt says Anna didn't want to go on the cruise. Hudson's own biological father accused the mother of taking the children without permission. Th...
47m Jul 05
47m
What Did The Planning Document Say About How Rex Heuermann Treated Jessica Taylor?
Jessica Taylor's remains told the story twice — once in the woods of Manorville in 2003, and again along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in 2011. Two locations, forty miles apart, eight years between discoveries, the same victim. She was twenty years old, working near Port Authority in the same Midtown neighborhood where Rex Heuermann ran his architecture practice. This look back centers on Jess...
34m Jul 04
34m
What Was Happening In Celeste's Home Before D4VD Was Charged?
The public version of this story has been simple: a thirteen-year-old ran from home, vanished into the orbit of a rising musician, and was found in the front trunk of his Tesla. But the documented record tells a more complicated story — and this look back reads it out loud. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was not missing for most of the timeline. She appeared at a family event in the spring. She showe...
51m Jul 04
51m
How Did Kouri Richins Fake Grief On Camera For A Dead Husband?
Weeks after her husband died — and, according to prosecutors, weeks after she poisoned him — Kouri Richins went on a local morning show to grieve publicly and promote a children's book about loss. Trial testimony established she didn't write it; a ghostwriting service did. This look back examines that interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin D...
39m Jul 04
39m
Were Nick Reiner's Doctors Right About Him All Along?
For years, the Reiner family publicly pushed back on the professionals treating their son — at one point even siding with Nick over the counselors who warned that he was lying and manipulating them. This segment makes the case that the experts may have been right, and that the tragedy wasn't a system that failed so much as a patient who allegedly wouldn't let it work. Nick Reiner had elite car...
46m Jul 04
46m
What Does Every Defense Move In The Anna Kepner Case Actually Signal?
The defense team in the Anna Kepner case has made a series of choices that, taken together, tell you a great deal about where they believe this case is headed. They reportedly requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered the not guilty plea without their client in the room. They're asking for the same judge who released him in February to decide the detention question again. This look ...
31m Jul 04
31m