Why Did a Mother Beg a Judge for Foster Care Over Sending Her Son Back to Word of Faith?
Former teacher Rebeca Melo told the Associated Press that inside the Word of Faith Christian School, children would turn on each other in the middle of class. One child would accuse another of having demons. The group would surround the accused. According to Melo, children were thrown to the ground and beaten. Teachers were allegedly told not to intervene. John Cooper, who worked as a teacher’s...
18m May 20
18m
What Does the AG Know About Murdaugh Now That He Didn’t Know Five Years Ago?
That is the question Dick Harpootlian asked at the defense press conference — and it is the question Attorney General Alan Wilson has not answered. Five years ago, the state prosecuted Alex Murdaugh for murder and did not seek the death penalty. The evidence was what it was. The facts were what they were. Then Murdaugh won his appeal on jury tampering grounds, and suddenly Wilson announced the...
18m May 20
18m
Why Did Murdaugh’s Defense Team File a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Becky Hill?
A federal civil rights lawsuit against a former clerk of court. That is where the Murdaugh case stands right now — and the implications go far beyond one defendant. Murdaugh’s attorneys filed a Section 1983 claim against Becky Hill, the former Colleton County Clerk whose conduct during the original trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to order a new trial. The claim is straightforward: H...
23m May 20
23m
Why Did Anna Kepner’s Defense Suddenly Need 90 More Days For Cruise Ship Trial?
Eighteen days before Anna Kepner’s federal trial was set to begin, the defense filed a motion asking for ninety more days. The prosecution didn’t fight it. The court granted it. September 8 is the new date. The Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial — Document 74 on the federal docket — landed May 13. It’s the first continuance request in the entire case. That detail matters because of everything ...
18m May 20
18m
How Did Three Bombshells in Five Days Reshape Everything About Murdaugh’s Retrial?
The Supreme Court overturned everything five days ago. Since then, the AG put the death penalty on the table while running for governor. Buster Murdaugh reportedly called his father selfish and won’t visit him. And the defense went on national television hinting at unnamed third parties. Three bombshells. One week. And the retrial hasn’t even been scheduled. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke pull...
55m May 19
55m
Why Documented Cruise Crime Cases Stay Buried - Disney, Royal Caribbean, and Carnival Hope
According to federal court filings, three crew members on a single Disney ship were charged in early 2024 — all allegedly carrying exploitation material on personal devices. A Royal Caribbean attendant pled guilty to secretly recording passengers including children as young as two inside their cabins. Sentenced to 30 years. On Celebrity, according to the FBI, a youth counselor allegedly targete...
20m May 19
20m
Was Someone Else Supposed To Be at Moselle the Night Maggie and Paul Were Killed?
Jim Griffin said “third parties and potential motives” on national television. Dick Harpootlian said the reversal gives them subpoena power. Both said people have come forward with information since the 2023 trial. Neither would say another word. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke unpack the listener question underneath the defense’s cryptic statements: Was the plan always for someone else to be at...
16m May 19
16m
The Court Clerk Who Wanted to Be Famous and Destroyed the Murdaugh Murder Verdict
Becky Hill wasn’t some rogue spectator who wandered into a courtroom. She was the elected Clerk of Court in Colleton County — chosen by the same community that filled the jury pool, entrusted with managing the evidence and protecting the process. And according to the SC Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, she used that position of trust to push Alex Murdaugh’s jury toward a guilty verdict so she ...
20m May 19
20m
What Did Word of Faith’s ‘Prayer’ Abuse Members’ Bodies?
It started with screaming. According to the Associated Press, the Word of Faith Fellowship practiced something called blasting — groups of members surrounding a person and shrieking inches from their face for hours to allegedly drive out demons. Secret recordings captured the sound. Former members said it eventually was not enough. According to Rick Cooper, a Navy veteran who spent over two dec...
16m May 19
16m
Why Has Buster Murdaugh Reportedly Stopped Visiting His Father Before Trial Two?
Someone close to Buster Murdaugh called Alex “a selfish, selfish old man” after the Supreme Court granted a retrial. That’s not the language of a family rallying behind a defendant. That’s the language of a family that’s done. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through listener questions about the distance between the 2023 family and the 2026 family. Buster testified for his father three years...
16m May 19
16m
Who Actually Benefits From Putting the Death Penalty Back on Alex Murdaugh’s Table?
Alan Wilson controls the prosecution of Alex Murdaugh. He also wants to be the next governor of South Carolina. He’s leading in the polls. And he just told reporters the death penalty is an option for the retrial—something that was never on the table in 2023. Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke tackle listener questions about where the line falls between prosecution str...
24m May 19
24m
Kouri Richin’s Tried To Get Revenge On Everyone Exposing Her Crimes
Kouri Richins’ courtroom speech was forty minutes of love, forgiveness, and motherhood. The sentencing memo prosecutors filed tells the story of what she was actually doing from her jail cell — and when you put them side by side, a portrait emerges that’s hard to look away from. According to prosecutors, while Kouri rehearsed a speech about not holding hate, she was orchestrating attacks on ev...
29m May 19
29m
Did Buster Murdaugh's Anger and Kouri Richins' Defiance Just Change Everything?
Two interviews. Two families. Two courtrooms where the people who should matter most are being dragged back into it. Buster Murdaugh hasn’t spoken since the conviction was overturned, but sources say he’s angry, not relieved. He reportedly called his father a “selfish old man.” The defense needs his loyalty at retrial. The prosecution needs his anger. Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Spec...
55m May 18
55m
What Federal Agents Found on Cruise Workers’ Phones — And Why None Were Charged
Dharmi Mehta was on day four of a Disney Magic cruise when federal agents handcuffed her family’s dining host and loaded him into an unmarked van. Forty-five minutes earlier, he had served them breakfast. According to CBP, between April 23 and 27, officers boarded eight cruise ships in San Diego as part of CSAM enforcement. On April 28, HSI executed Operation Tidal Wave, acting on NCMEC intelli...
25m May 18
25m
What Was Kouri Richins Really Saying When She Told Her Boys She's Coming Home?
Those boys couldn’t face their mother. They gave their words to therapists who read them in open court — locked doors, animals that died from neglect, a brother smuggling food to a sibling imprisoned in his own bedroom, and a childhood spent being afraid. Every one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her away. Kouri Richins responded with a forty-minute speech that never acknowled...
21m May 18
21m
Can Prosecutors Still Win After the Supreme Court Gutted Their Case Against Murdaugh?
The prosecution’s playbook for convicting Alex Murdaugh was just declared constitutionally excessive by the highest court in South Carolina. The state spent weeks building an emotional case around Murdaugh’s financial crimes before the first jury ever weighed the murder evidence. The Supreme Court said the state went far too deep and could have made the same argument with far less. What does th...
15m May 18
15m
Why Were Word of Faith Members Told God Would Kill Them If They Left Jane Whaley?
A former math teacher from rural North Carolina allegedly built a church where she controlled which couples could reproduce, which members could attend college, and who was allowed to speak to their own families. Jane Whaley and her husband Sam reportedly converted a shuttered steakhouse into the Word of Faith Fellowship in 1979. It grew, at its peak, to approximately 750 members in North Carol...
21m May 18
21m
What Lead Did SLED Dismiss on the Day of the Murdaugh Killings?
The financial crimes carried the first conviction. Twelve hours of stolen money, defrauded clients, and a pattern of lies so deep the jury only needed three hours to decide. The South Carolina Supreme Court just said none of that comes in this time. So what’s left? Creighton Waters now walks into a courtroom with the physical case — and only the physical case. A crime scene compromised by rain...
18m May 18
18m
Did Buster Murdaugh Just Turn on His Own Father?
Buster Murdaugh defended his father at trial, told the jury Alex couldn’t have done this, and then went silent for three years. No interviews. Almost no prison visits. A quiet wedding. A deliberate distance. Now that the conviction is overturned, both sides are staring at the same person — and his loyalty is no longer a given. Sources close to the family say Buster is angry, not relieved. He r...
17m May 18
17m
Does South Carolina Really Think They Can Win Alex Murduagh Trial 2?
The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't just reverse Alex Murdaugh's conviction. It overruled one of its own prior decisions to do it. The court formally adopted the Fourth Circuit's three-step Cheek test for evaluating juror tampering claims, replacing the standard Jean Toal relied on when she denied the new trial motion. That's not a routine correction. That's the court deciding its own prece...
50m May 18
50m
A Murdaugh Juror’s Doubts Scored Alex NEW TRIAL!!
A juror in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial had questions about his guilt. She voted to convict anyway — after the Clerk of Court told the jury not to be fooled by the defense. All five South Carolina Supreme Court justices just ruled unanimously that Becky Hill's conduct was unprecedented in the state's history and that her comments tainted the verdict. The court found Hill was motivated by...
50m May 17
50m
Why Did Kouri Richins' 9-Year-Old Tell the Judge He'd Be Happy Once She's Gone?
He's nine years old. He couldn't stand at the podium himself, so a therapist read his words for him. His message to Judge Richard Mrazik was simple: "Once she is gone, I will feel happy." He was talking about his own mother. And his mother sat in that courtroom, watched therapists read the statements her three sons wrote, and scoffed. Rolled her eyes. Looked irritated that her children's pain w...
1hr 4m May 17
1hr 4m
What Did It Cost to Allegedly Keep the FBI Out of the Nancy Guthrie Case for Four Days?
FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly said publicly that the bureau was locked out of the Nancy Guthrie investigation during the most critical window. The Pima County Sheriff's Office disputes that characterization. What isn't disputed is that four days passed — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says digital evidence, biological material, and witness memory all degrade fastest in...
42m May 17
42m
How Alex Murdaugh Asked His Housekeeper to Lie For Him!
Alex Murdaugh walked into the guest house pacing, shirt half untucked, rubbing his stomach in circles, holding a spit cup in one hand. He told Blanca Simpson to sit down. Then he asked her a question: do you remember what I was wearing that day? The Vineyard Vines shirt? She sat there and listened. In the back of her mind, she knew that wasn’t what he was wearing. She didn’t know he’d just come...
50m May 17
50m
Why Is Indiana Unable To Defend The Delphi Evidence?
The defense raised FBI cell data that contradicted the van timeline. They raised a confession that named the wrong method. They raised an alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators. Indiana's answer: procedural default, waiver, harmless error. When a prosecution holding a 130-year conviction won't engage with the underlying record, three appeals judges have...
47m May 17
47m
How The Murdaugh Boat Crash Story Changed After Alex Got Involved
Morgan Doughty's first written statement — given before Alex Murdaugh got to anyone — allegedly said Connor Cook took over driving the boat before the crash that killed Mallory Beach. By the next day, the story had changed. According to James Lasdun's new book The Family Man, a whispered conversation between survivors at the hospital happened while Alex was prowling the hallways, allegedly tryi...
49m May 16
49m
Kendra Duggar Asked If Her (Alleged) Predator Husband Still Loved Her
In recorded jail calls obtained through FOIA, Kendra Duggar allegedly never asks about the nine-year-old girl at the center of the case against her husband. She doesn't ask about the allegations. She doesn't ask about the child who reportedly told investigators what happened. On a recorded line — knowing it would become public — her question is: do you still love me? That tells you everything a...
58m May 16
58m
What Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnappers Knew About Her
The surveillance camera at Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home was allegedly targeted and concealed with weeds. That tells you the person planned ahead. But the footage apparently survived through cloud-based recovery — which tells you the person didn't plan far enough. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says that contradiction is the behavioral signature of this case: someone operating in...
34m May 16
34m
What Alex Murdaugh’s Housekeeper Heard Him Say BEFORE The Murders In Private!
Maggie Murdaugh told her housekeeper she would have sold everything — the house, the land, all of it — to settle the $30 million lawsuit and make things right for the families involved. Alex wouldn’t even give her a straight answer about where the money stood. Blanca Simpson heard both sides of that conversation because she’d spent fifteen years inside the Murdaugh home, trusted enough to be in...
41m May 16
41m
How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Own Children Begged the Court to Keep Them Safe From Her?
Three boys told a judge they’re terrified of Kouri Richins. They asked for one thing: never let her out. Her answer was a promise to come back for them — and it’s one of the most chilling things you’ll ever hear a convicted defendant say to her own children. Those boys didn’t speak for themselves. They couldn’t. Their therapists carried their words to the podium — words about locked bedrooms, ...
49m May 16
49m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial: A Defense Attorney and Former Prosecutor on What Happens Now
The conviction is reversed. The retrial is coming. And the case Alex Murdaugh faces the second time around is fundamentally different from the one that produced a guilty verdict in March 2023. Eric Faddis — who has tried cases from both the prosecution and defense side — provides the complete legal analysis. Faddis dissects the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, from Toal’s reversed burden of p...
55m May 15
55m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial Landscape: New Advantages, New Risks, and a Jury No One Can Seat
Both sides of the Murdaugh case gained leverage over the past three years — but the advantages cut in opposite directions. The defense has a Supreme Court opinion calling the first trial fundamentally unfair and a former clerk with a perjury conviction. The prosecution has a locked-in transcript of everything Murdaugh said under oath and three years of investigative refinement. Eric Faddis ana...
15m May 15
15m
Yogurt Shop Murders: The Killer Nobody Suspected
Robert Eugene Brashers committed at least eight murders across Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas. He assaulted women and girls. He restrained them with their own clothing. He set fires to destroy evidence. And he walked in and out of the criminal justice system without anyone connecting his crimes. He died during a police standoff in 1999 at the age of 40. For 26 years after his dea...
14m May 15
14m
The FBI Documented 12 Tribes’ Silence Training. Yellow Deli Keeps Serving.
The evidence fills bookshelves. It spans hidden camera footage, court records, SPLC reports, FBI interviews, investigative journalism, and survivor memoirs. The group’s own published materials include a child discipline manual and racial teachings documented as white supremacist. And the Yellow Deli is still open. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines why the Twelve Tribes has operated for fi...
19m May 15
19m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial: The Financial Evidence the Supreme Court Said Went Too Far
Twelve and a half hours. Ten days of trial. Ten witnesses. That is how much time the prosecution spent on Alex Murdaugh’s financial crimes the first time around. The South Carolina Supreme Court said the State could have made its motive argument in a fraction of that time — and ordered the next trial to do exactly that. Eric Fadds analyzes what the restriction means for the prosecution’s case....
20m May 15
20m
Alex Murdaugh New Trial: Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Ruling That Reversed It All
The Colleton County Clerk of Court told jurors not to be fooled by the defense. She told them to watch Alex Murdaugh’s movements. She signaled that deliberations should be quick. The South Carolina Supreme Court found every one of those comments credible and ruled unanimously that they destroyed the integrity of the verdict. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fadds dissects the legal ...
20m May 15
20m
Alex Murdaugh: The Findings That Reframe the Entire Case
This is the interview that changes how you see the Murdaugh case. James Lasdun's The Family Man spent years pulling threads that nobody else followed — and what he found reframes everything from the boat crash to the verdict. The book reveals that the accepted narrative of who was driving the boat the night Mallory Beach died may have been built after the fact. It traces Alex's manipulation pa...
1hr 4m May 15
1hr 4m
Why Intelligent People Can’t Leave — Miller, Ellerup, Richins, Murdaugh
The good days are the trap. You disappear one compromise at a time. And the most dangerous moment is when you decide to go. That is the arc of this conversation — the full three-part interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott about the psychology the public refuses to accept. Four cases anchor the discussion: Mica Miller, who could name the trap and still went back. Asa Ellerup, who defended...
1hr 2m May 14
1hr 2m
How Did Kouri Richins React When Her Own Children’s Words Filled That Courtroom?
Licensed therapists carried the words of three boys to the podium because those children still can’t face the woman prosecutors say killed their father — and what Kouri Richins did while listening tells you everything the jury already knows. The oldest wrote about becoming a parent to his younger brothers because the adult in the house couldn’t be bothered. He wrote about a father who’ll never...
29m May 14
29m
Anna Kepner Trial: The Jury May Never Hear the Full Story
June 1. Miami. Twelve jurors who have probably never heard Anna Kepner’s name will be asked to decide whether the person accused of killing her spends his life in federal prison. And the way this trial has been set up may surprise you as much as the verdict. Timothy Hudson’s defense team has not asked for a single continuance. The sixteen-year-old signed a written waiver requesting adult prose...
23m May 14
23m
Maggie Murdaugh Didn’t Want to Go to Moselle — A Therapist on Why She Went Anyway
Everybody says just leave. As if it is one decision and then it is over. It is not. Leaving is a window. And everything the research tells us says that window is where the danger lives. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly consulted a divorce attorney. She was living at the Edisto beach house. On June 7, two witnesses testified she did not want to go to Moselle when Alex asked her to come. Her own s...
20m May 14
20m
What Did Kouri Richins Say After Her Own Children Asked a Judge to Lock Her Up Forever?
Three boys — ages nine, eleven, and thirteen — had their words read into the record by therapists because they couldn't face the woman convicted of killing their father. One described being locked in his room so often he can't remember which side the lock was on. Another described becoming a parent to his younger brother because their mother was drunk or gone. The youngest said hearing Kouri's ...
32m May 14
32m
Yogurt Shop Murders: The Lives the System Destroyed
Michael Scott lost his family. His daughter was three when he was arrested. His wife. His anniversary. Gone — not because of anything he did, but because detectives sat a man with learning disabilities in a room for 18 hours until he said what they wanted to hear. Robert Springsteen survived death row, had his sentence commuted, his conviction overturned, and his charges dropped — only to have ...
16m May 14
16m
Why It’s So Hard to Leave 12 Tribes’ Yellow Deli
The Twelve Tribes reportedly designed a world where leaving meant losing everything. And according to former members, that was not a side effect. It was the point. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines what happens after the escape. Former members describe walking out of Twelve Tribes compounds with no savings, no identification, no work history, and no understanding of how to navigate a worl...
17m May 14
17m
Asa Ellerup Called Rex Heuermann Her Hero — Then He Confessed to Eight Murders
Nobody wakes up one morning and realizes they have lost themselves. It happens in increments so small they feel like nothing — an opinion you stop voicing, a friendship you let go, a boundary you move because moving it is easier than defending it. The erosion is invisible until the day you catch your own reflection and do not recognize who is looking back. This conversation puts two cases side...
15m May 14
15m
Why Mica Miller Went Back to the Man She Told Police Was Grooming Her
The worst moments in an abusive relationship are not what keep you there. The best ones are. The relief after the storm. The version of your partner who seems to understand what they did. That cycle rewires your nervous system in ways that have nothing to do with intelligence, willpower, or self-respect. And it is the reason Mica Miller could tell police her husband was grooming her and still g...
27m May 14
27m
Alex Murdaugh: The Grief and the Deception Were Both Real
The final part of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man, goes into the question the trial never touched: How does a man kill his own family? The book draws on decades of research into family annihilators and finds cases that are disturbingly similar to Alex Murdaugh. Jean-Claude Romand faked an entire career for eighteen years, stole from everyone close to him, and killed h...
17m May 14
17m
Indiana Has Three Problems It Cannot Fix In The Delphi Appeal
Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that's confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State trying to keep three judges from ever opening the trial record. The defense brought specifics. The van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data. The confession that doesn't match the cause of death. The alternative suspect whose intervi...
1hr 1m May 13
1hr 1m
A Disney Passenger Filmed Her Server Getting Arrested — The Truth Was Is BEYOND Disturbing
April 23rd, 2026. Two things happen at the B Street Cruise Terminal in San Diego. Disney Cruise Line announces a landmark partnership extension through 2031 — doubling sailings, projecting over a million passengers through that dock. On the same day, at the same terminal, CBP agents board the Disney Magic and walk ten crew members off the ship in restraints. A passenger films her family’s head ...
34m May 13
34m
Kouri Richins Sentenced: Convicted Killer Learns Her Fate
Kouri Richins has been sentenced to Life Without Parole after being found guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, by poisoning him with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. She was also sentenced to several consecutive sentences for the other 4 charges. The case drew national attention from the beginning: a Utah mother, real estate agent, and children’s book author accused of killin...
52m May 13
52m