Did Asa Ellerup Really Renovate Rex Heuermann's Basement and Move In?
She did. Asa Ellerup gutted the basement where Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women — new floor, new walls, new doors — and moved into it. She sleeps where investigators believe the killings happened. She told a documentary crew the nightmares are constant and permanent.She chose not to attend sentencing. Valerie Mack's son, who was six when his mother was killed, has filed a lawsuit ...
18m Jun 18
18m
Nancy Guthrie: Every Viral Theory Helps Her Suspect Stay Hidden
The person who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home has not been identified. And right now, the internet is making that job harder. Every viral theory that circulates — every fabricated lead, every comment-section accusation, every “gait analysis” from a grainy nighttime doorbell clip — generates tips that investigators are obligated to process. Tens of thousands of them. That’s tens of thou...
21m Jun 18
21m
What Happened After Police Let Robert Hansen Walk Despite Cindy Paulson's Report?
Cindy Paulson gave Anchorage police everything. A name. An address. A vehicle. An airplane. The specific parking spot at Merrill Field. She was still wearing Robert Hansen's handcuffs when she told them. A security guard at the airfield independently confirmed her story. The evidence was verifiable, specific, and actionable. They didn't believe her. Hansen had a bakery and a reputation. Cindy ...
14m Jun 18
14m
Rex Heuermann's Attorney Said the Guilty Plea Brought Him 'a Huge Sense of Relief'
A huge sense of relief. That is how Rex Heuermann's defense attorney described what his client felt after pleading guilty to killing eight women over seventeen years. Not remorse. Not grief. Relief.Heuermann stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and answered every question from the DA in one or two words. Strangulation. Yes. Eight. He never elaborated. He never looked at the gallery. He planned e...
16m Jun 18
16m
Rex Heuermann's Daughter Believes He Did It — His Ex-Wife May Never Accept It
Victoria Heuermann told the producers of the Peacock documentary that she now believes her father most likely committed the Gilgo Beach murders. She said on camera that while the family was on vacation, he was home killing and dismembering women in the basement. She arrived at that conclusion and said it out loud.Her mother has not arrived there. Asa Ellerup's attorney has said publicly that ev...
18m Jun 18
18m
Did Mickey Stines’ Own Deputies Watch Him Fall Apart Before the Shooting and Say Nothing?
Three of Mickey Stines’ deputies are named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Judge Kevin Mullins’ widow. According to the suit, they saw their boss deteriorating — and they never warned the man he allegedly killed. The lawsuit says they had a legal duty to act. They didn’t. But it wasn’t just the deputies. Attorneys who sat across from Stines during a four-hour deposition three days before ...
33m Jun 18
33m
The Strongest Evidence Against Adam Montgomery Won’t Be Allowed at His Retrial
The evidence that helped convict Adam Montgomery of murder the first time — multiple independent witnesses to a pattern of violence against Harmony, documented injuries nobody disputed — has been excluded from the retrial. The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s ruling severing the assault and murder charges means the prosecution walks into the Harmony Montgomery retrial without the material that mad...
54m Jun 17
54m
Does Eric Bland Think the Murdaughs May Know More About Stephen Smith?
SLED reopened Stephen Smith's case in 2021 because of something they found while investigating the Murdaugh murders. They've never said what it was. Eric Bland represents Sandy Smith and has been pushing for that answer since he took the case. He's also the attorney who represented the Satterfield sons and helped dismantle Murdaugh's financial empire. He sits at the intersection of both investi...
14m Jun 17
14m
Adam Montgomery Knows Where Harmony Is — Forty-Three Years Won’t Make Him Talk
Adam Montgomery is facing over forty-three years in prison without the murder conviction, plus another thirty-two and a half on firearms charges. He will die behind bars. And he still will not tell anyone where he put his daughter. The Harmony Montgomery case has reached the point where the legal system’s tools are running out and the one person with the answer has decided to keep it. The retr...
18m Jun 17
18m
Anna Kepner: Hudson Did Everything Right for Months — Why Didn’t It Matter?
Timothy Hudson met every condition of his release for months. No violations. Total compliance. And a federal judge just said none of it mattered — not against what he was reading. Anna Kepner’s accused killer is behind bars. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres had released Hudson in February and held the line through prosecution pressure and public outcry. As recently as May 27, Torres kept him free...
17m Jun 17
17m
Why Did Holly Dunn Crawl 200 Yards With a Shattered Jaw After the Railroad Killer?
Two hundred yards. Two football fields. With a shattered jaw, a fractured eye socket, stab wounds, and lacerations across her face and head. Holly Dunn could not call for help — her jaw was destroyed. She could barely see. But she could make out the shape of a house in the distance, and she walked toward it because lying down on railroad tracks in Kentucky at twenty years old was not how her st...
13m Jun 17
13m
Adam Montgomery’s Defense Says Kayla Killed Harmony — Not Him
Adam Montgomery’s defense has a theory, and the retrial is where it gets tested: Kayla Montgomery killed Harmony on December 7, 2019, while Adam was out. He came back, found his daughter dead, and spent months covering it up. That’s the story they intend to put in front of a new jury in the Harmony Montgomery murder case. The theory has one thing going for it: Kayla is the only witness to the ...
17m Jun 17
17m
Adam Montgomery’s Lawyers Switched Sides — and It Saved His Appeal
Adam Montgomery’s defense team asked for both charges — murder and assault — to be tried together. Then they tried to undo it. The trial judge said no. The New Hampshire Supreme Court said yes. And the Adam Montgomery murder conviction in the Harmony Montgomery case is now reversed. The ruling hinges on a concept the audience deserves to hear explained by someone who has actually litigated it:...
20m Jun 17
20m
Is Nick Reiner About to Beat the Law That Stopped the Menendez Brothers?
Everybody knows the slayer statute, even if they don’t know the name — it’s the law that kept the Menendez brothers from ever touching their parents’ fortune. So when word broke about what happened to Nick Reiner’s trust fund — a petition demanding more than a million and a half dollars from a trust his parents built — the internet ruled in one sentence: case closed, he gets nothing. This episo...
27m Jun 17
27m
Nancy Guthrie May Be a Crypto Victim. Anna Kepner’s Parents May Never Be Charged.
A blockchain security firm says this looks like a crypto hit. An anonymous tip crosses the border and nobody tells the sheriff. The crime scene evidence — weeds on the camera, a thirty-dollar backpack, an improvised forced entry — doesn’t match the prepared operations in the wrench attack database. And yet the theory keeps checking boxes. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer deliver...
52m Jun 16
52m
What Would Eric Bland Tell Prosecutors to Cut From the Murdaugh Retrial?
Strip away the twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony that dominated the first trial. Take out the emotional victim impact that the Supreme Court just called prejudicial. What's left is a circumstantial murder case built on a cell phone video and a lie about being at the kennels. Eric Bland says that might be enough. He also says it might not. Bland built the financial crimes ca...
17m Jun 16
17m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship: His Own Grandmother Says Charge the Parents
Hudson’s step-grandmother went on national television and said what the public has been demanding for months: charge the parents. She called the cruise “a recipe for disaster.” She said the family knew the situation and put those kids together anyway. That’s not a stranger with an opinion. That’s a family member — someone who knows the dynamics inside that household — publicly breaking rank du...
11m Jun 16
11m
Lynette Hooker’s Sailboat Went Dark for 11 Hours the Night She Vanished
Lynette Hooker disappearance: On the night Lynette Hooker went missing in the Bahamas, the Soulmate’s AIS tracking system — the transponder that broadcasts a vessel’s position to other boats and to authorities — stopped transmitting for eleven hours. It went dark. Then it came back on. If it had failed permanently, you’d assume a hardware malfunction. But shutting off and restarting is what ha...
21m Jun 16
21m
Why Did Corazon Amurao Stay Silent for Sixty Years After Richard Speck?
She testified in one of the most significant criminal trials in American history. She pointed at Richard Speck and said "This is the man." Then Corazon Amurao went home to the Philippines, married, had children, and turned down every interview, every book deal, and every media request for the rest of her life. On the night of July 13, 1966, Speck entered a Chicago townhouse and killed eight st...
14m Jun 16
14m
Nancy Guthrie: Did Someone Move Her Across the Border That Night?
Tucson is sixty miles from the Nogales border crossing. If the person who took Nancy Guthrie had even basic knowledge of the border corridor, the window to move her across was measured in hours, not days. And four months later, investigators have not publicly stated whether they’ve ruled that possibility out. An anonymous caller recently directed a volunteer group in Nogales, Mexico, to an are...
17m Jun 16
17m
Nancy Guthrie: The Person at Her Door May Not Even Know Who Hired Them
The wrench attack model works through layers. A handler overseas identifies a target. An operative is recruited through encrypted messaging — someone disposable, someone local, someone who gets pointed at an address and cut loose if it goes wrong. That person may never know who’s behind the operation or what the real objective is. If that’s what happened at Nancy Guthrie’s front door, the pers...
24m Jun 16
24m
Nancy Guthrie: A Caller Described Her Clothes and Said Dig Here
The anonymous caller didn’t just say Nancy Guthrie was in Mexico. He described clothing. He gave landmarks. He told a volunteer search group in Nogales exactly where to dig — in the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona border. That level of specificity is either someone who knows something or someone who wants you to believe he does. The Nancy Guthrie update that went national in June actually st...
19m Jun 16
19m
Why Does Nancy Guthrie’s Case Keep Attracting Liars?
Every theory circulating about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance gets the same test in this session: what does the evidence actually require for it to hold, what’s the behavioral read, and what would have to be true? The Mexico tip came on Mother’s Day to a volunteer collective in Sonora. The caller described landmarks, clothing, and a specific location. Two searches found nothing. He called back ...
1hr Jun 15
1hr
Did the Murdaugh Court Just Tell Eric Bland's Clients They Don't Matter?
Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions are gone — and the lawyer who built the financial crimes case the prosecution used as motive says the system just failed the people it was supposed to protect. Eric Bland represented the Satterfield sons. He helped expose the web of financial schemes that became the backbone of the state's argument for why Murdaugh killed his wife and son. The Supreme Court ag...
21m Jun 15
21m
Would Nancy Guthrie’s Family Bet $1 Million on a Lie?
A million-dollar reward. An open invitation for every stranger in America to examine every financial record, every relationship, every move the Guthrie family has made since February. If this was staged, they built the mechanism that guarantees their own destruction. The staging theory says the masked man on Nancy Guthrie’s porch was manufactured, the blood was planted, the back door was set d...
20m Jun 15
20m
Adam Montgomery Was Offered a Deal to Bring Harmony Home — He Said Nothing
Prosecutors made Adam Montgomery an offer at sentencing in the Harmony Montgomery case: reveal where you put your daughter’s remains, and we’ll recommend a lighter sentence. He sat in the courtroom and said nothing. He walked into his own jury selection smiling. He refused to attend most of his trial. And he has never once told anyone where Harmony is. That silence now sits alongside a unanimo...
21m Jun 15
21m
Why Did Lisa McVey Write a Suicide Note Hours Before Bobby Joe Long Grabbed Her?
Lisa McVey planned to die on November 3, 1984. She wrote the note before her shift at Krispy Kreme. She was seventeen, trapped in a home where her grandmother's boyfriend had been hurting her for three years. Then Bobby Joe Long grabbed her off her bicycle at two-thirty in the morning and threw her into a red Dodge Magnum. And somehow, in the back of a serial killer's car, the girl who wanted t...
15m Jun 15
15m
Who Knew Nancy Guthrie Lived Alone — and When the Lights Went Out?
Nancy Guthrie was eighty-four, lived alone in the Catalina Foothills, and kept a routine that put a rotating cast of people inside her world on a predictable schedule. Caregivers. Service workers. Contractors. Delivery drivers. The pool route. The landscaper. People who could stand in front of that house without anyone looking twice. Investigators have publicly cleared her family. But the fami...
22m Jun 15
22m
What Did Nancy Guthrie’s Mother’s Day Caller Actually Know?
He knew the arroyos. He described clothing. He identified a specific location near a stream in the desert west of Nogales, Sonora — roughly seventy miles south of Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home. And he bypassed over a million dollars in combined FBI and family reward money to deliver that information to a volunteer collective that searches for the missing in cartel territory. The anonymous caller...
19m Jun 15
19m
Why Did The FBI Director Go Public Against The Sheriff In The Nancy Guthrie Case?
The FBI director publicly criticized how the Nancy Guthrie case was handled. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the Bureau and knows what it takes to push that kind of institutional conflict into the open. Private conversations failed first. Then the director went on record. That sequence tells you something specific about how badly the agency believes the early investigation was compromis...
29m Jun 15
29m
Why Did The Women Christine Marie Saved Walk Back To Samuel Bateman?
Christine Marie risked everything to get them out. Some of them walked right back in. Samuel Bateman is serving fifty years in federal prison. He still calls. The women still answer. Some of his adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the girls Christine helped pull out of his house have returned to his sphere. The conviction changed nothing about his hold on them. The sentence change...
34m Jun 14
34m
Is Jesse Ridgway A Fraud Or Something A Psychotherapist Would Diagnose?
 A thousand people called 911 because they believed Jesse Ridgway was in danger. He'd staged family violence on YouTube for four years. When the truth came out, he said he "never lied." He didn't apologize to a single caller. He felt nothing but satisfaction that his show was working. That was a decade ago. The pattern has only escalated. A creator platform called StoryFire that burned through...
37m Jun 14
37m
What Happened To The SD Card That Could Have Settled The Aaron Spencer Case?
The dashcam in Michael Fosler's truck was the one piece of evidence that could have objectively recorded the final encounter between Aaron Spencer and the man Spencer says he killed to protect his thirteen-year-old daughter. Detective Robbie McCain pulled the camera off the windshield without photographing it. Removed the SD card and viewed it on his personal computer — violating department pro...
38m Jun 14
38m
What Recording Finally Forced The FBI To Move On Samuel Bateman?
Christine Marie brought tape after tape to local police. The sergeant believed every frame. He wouldn't move. Short Creek had spent decades looking the other way — polygamy was lifestyle, not crime — and the local department had stopped seeing what was in front of them long before Bateman declared himself a prophet. The recording that changed everything came in late 2021. Bateman, in his own v...
54m Jun 14
54m
How Did Samuel Bateman Build A Cult From Nothing In Three Years?
A broke, homeless man walked into a fractured religious community on the Utah-Arizona border. Three years later he was driving Bentleys, commanding fifty followers, and fathers were handing him their young daughters as spiritual wives. The behavioral question isn't whether he was evil. It's how he did it — and why every system that should have stopped him didn't. Robin Dreeke spent decades at ...
42m Jun 14
42m
Mackenzie Shirilla Drove That Same Dead-End Road Days Before She Killed Two People
The crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan wasn't the first time Mackenzie Shirilla drove to that dead-end road in Strongsville, Ohio. She'd been there days before the fatal night. The data recorder from her car captured the final run — accelerator at full capacity, zero braking, a straight line into a commercial building at close to a hundred miles per hour. Russo and Flanagan wer...
50m Jun 13
50m
Anna Kepner's Cruise Ship Case: What 145 Pages Of Sealed Testimony Revealed
The unsealed transcript from the February detention hearing in the Anna Kepner case runs a hundred and forty-five pages and lays out the prosecution's full theory for the first time. CCTV footage tracking Timothy Hudson's movements aboard the Carnival Horizon. Phone records. Snapchat activity showing Anna was still posting at 8:14 in the evening. Prosecutors say she and Hudson were alone in the...
34m Jun 13
34m
Why Did Eric Richins Stay With Kouri Richins When He Already Knew?
Eric Richins called his sister Katie from overseas years before his death and told her Kouri Richins had tried to harm him. He consulted a divorce attorney. He rewrote his will and restructured his estate to protect his three sons. He told family members that if anything happened to him, Kouri was responsible. He saw the threat clearly. And he still went home every night. Katie testified at se...
41m Jun 13
41m
Are Mackenzie Shirilla's Parents Building A Case Against Their Own Daughter?
Steve Shirilla lost his teaching job after defending his convicted daughter on Netflix. Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a prison call telling Mackenzie that Dominic Russo's family are "evil people." Prosecutors decoded calls where mother and daughter spoke in a private made-up language to evade monitoring — and in one decoded exchange, Mackenzie allegedly asked if they could tell police she ha...
39m Jun 13
39m
Why Did Nick Reiner's Trustee Quit After Four Months?
In this Nick Reiner case update, we follow the strangest thread in the entire trust fight: the man who was handed control of the money — and walked away months later. Paul Kanin took over Nick Reiner's trust after Rob and Michele Reiner were killed. According to the petition, his tenure was a wall of refusals, what Nick's lawyers call "a shifting series of excuses and justifications" — concern...
18m Jun 13
18m
Why Do Mackenzie Shirilla’s Parents Think She’s the Real Victim?
Christine Russo lost her brother Dominic when Mackenzie Shirilla drove a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. Davion Flanagan, nineteen, died alongside him. In a published interview, Christine said it plainly about Mackenzie’s parents: “They created a monster — they’re monsters themselves.” Recorded prison calls between Mackenzie and her family show how the Shirilla h...
24m Jun 13
24m
Can Nick Reiner Even Mount A Defense Without His Money?
Strip away the famous name and the Nick Reiner case update comes down to a brutal structural problem: a man facing the most serious charges California can bring — two counts of first-degree murder in his parents' deaths, which he denies — says he cannot fund the defense he wants, while more than $1.5 million sits in a trust bearing his name. His petition argues every week of delay is a week hi...
48m Jun 12
48m
Why Is Alex Murdaugh's Defense Team So Quiet About the Judge Who Now Controls His Fate?
Something unusual is happening in the Alex Murdaugh case, and almost nobody has noticed it: the fighting stopped. For three years, every development in this case triggered a war — motions, press conferences, accusations flying in both directions. Then South Carolina named the judge who will run the retrial, a woman with a documented professional history with Murdaugh's own lead defense attorney...
24m Jun 12
24m
Should Alex Murdaugh Fear The Judge Who Sided With Police?
Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial is fixated on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin's story — her reported history with defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. This episode digs into the other half, and it's the half that should worry the defense. Before the South Carolina Supreme Court handed McCaslin exclusive control of the Murdaugh case — the motions, the evidentiary fights, and the retr...
15m Jun 12
15m
Is Nick Reiner Racing the Clock to Drain His Parents’ Trust Fund?
A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for their children. He wants the money for a high-powered defense attorney. He wants it for soap and socks. And he wants it before a conviction can trigger the one law designed to stop him. California’s sl...
24m Jun 12
24m
Why Did Wichita Cops Lie To BTK Before His Arrest?
On January 8, 2005, the Wichita Police Department received a typewritten question from the BTK Killer. Dennis Rader had left it inside an empty cereal box in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He wanted the police to tell him, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to his computer. He asked them to be honest. They lied. In the fifth and final chapter of hos...
22m Jun 12
22m
Did Nick Reiner's Parents Lock In His Payout At Birth?
In the latest Nick Reiner case update, the fight over Rob and Michele Reiner's money turns on a document older than the internet: a trust established for Nick when he was an infant. That document is now the center of a probate war. According to Nick's petition, his parents didn't leave the payouts to anyone's discretion — they wrote "mandatory and unconditional" distributions into the trust it...
16m Jun 12
16m
How Was a Career Criminal Free to Allegedly Kidnap Someone Near Nancy Guthrie’s Home?
Coral Michelle Smith has been in and out of the Pima County criminal justice system for fifteen years — prison four times, probation revoked twice, a kidnapping charge dismissed through a plea deal — and on May 29th she was allegedly free to kidnap someone and commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at an intersection less than seven miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home. That proximity...
17m Jun 12
17m
Jesse Ridgway Has Used Every Person in His Life and He’s Never Going to Stop
His fans cared enough to call the police a thousand times. He was never in danger. He let them worry for four years because it was making him rich. His creators trusted him enough to build on his platform. It collapsed and he sold it for parts. His wife went through the worst week of her life and he was on TMZ before she finished recovering. Every person who gets close to Jesse Ridgway becomes ...
49m Jun 11
49m
Christine Marie Says Samuel Bateman Never Saw Her Coming
All three parts of our interview with Christine Marie, woven together into one extended conversation — the cult psychologist and survivor who walked into Samuel Bateman's FLDS inner circle, fed the FBI the evidence that ended his freedom for fifty years, and is still living in Short Creek today doing the work nobody else will. She wasn't even supposed to be there for him. She and her husband T...
59m Jun 11
59m