Courtney Clenney: Everything That Broke Before Her Trial
This case was supposed to be in front of a jury by now. Instead, it’s in pieces. Courtney Clenney has been sitting in a Miami-Dade jail cell since August 2022, charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli. She says she acted in self-defense. The prosecution says the physical evidence contradicts her account. And every time this case gets close to...
20m Apr 20
20m
Inside Warren Jeffs’ Rise to FLDS Prophet — Pt. 1
The Warren Jeffs story didn’t begin with an arrest or a courtroom. It began inside a school. At twenty-one, Jeffs was running Alta Academy—a private FLDS school housed in his father’s compound—with no degree and unchecked authority over hundreds of children. Former students describe destruction lectures that gave them nightmares for years, private interrogation sessions with kids as young as se...
20m Apr 20
20m
D4VD Case — Grand Jury Failed, What Prosecutors Face Now
The grand jury sat on the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case for months. They heard testimony from multiple witnesses. They didn't indict. Now LAPD has arrested D4VD — real name David Anthony Burke — on their own, and the DA's Major Crimes Division has to decide whether the evidence is strong enough to file formal charges without the grand jury's backing. The defense statement after the arrest was p...
15m Apr 20
15m
D4VD Arrest — What Investigators Had on Burke
LAPD bypassed the grand jury process entirely. No indictment. No criminal complaint. Detectives went directly to a judge and secured an arrest warrant for David Anthony Burke — known professionally as D4VD — on suspicion of taking the life of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The question investigators had to answer wasn't just whether they had enough — it was what pushed them over the line ...
15m Apr 20
15m
Valerie Mack's Son Was Six When She Vanished — He's Not Done Fighting
Benjamin Torres lost his mother when he was six years old. Valerie Mack disappeared in 2000. Her dismembered remains were found in Manorville that same year and went unidentified for two decades. Rex Heuermann has now pleaded guilty to her murder. But for Torres, the admission that ended the criminal case opened something else entirely — a wrongful death lawsuit naming Heuermann, his ex-wife As...
1hr 24m Apr 20
1hr 24m
IBLP's Survivors Are Still Recovering — And IBLP Is Still Operating
She couldn't choose what to eat. Not indecision — a total systems failure. Every choice she'd ever made had been routed through a chain of command that no longer existed. That's what leaving the Institute in Basic Life Principles looks like for the people who grew up inside it. Not a clean break. A slow collapse of identity, faith, and function that takes years to rebuild. Survivors describe m...
42m Apr 19
42m
Anna Kepner's Stepbrother Indicted for Murder — The Evidence and the Warning Signs
Security cameras showed one person entering and exiting the stateroom that night. Anna Kepner's younger brother was outside and reportedly heard violent sounds coming from inside. When Anna's body was found the next morning — under the bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered in life vests — the medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Anna was eighteen. A cheerleader from Ti...
52m Apr 19
52m
Heuermann's Plea Was Strategy — The Wrongful Death Suit Tests What Comes Next
Every pre-trial motion denied. Whole genome sequencing ruled admissible. All charges consolidated into a single trial. Rex Heuermann's legal team had nothing left. So on day one thousand after his arrest, the man who spent decades planning how to avoid getting caught planned his exit from the justice system the same way. During a confidential proffer session, Heuermann raised Karen Vergata — a...
37m Apr 19
37m
The Duggar Investigation Is Widening — And Kendra Is Running Out of Time
One arrest set off a chain reaction that hasn't stopped. Joseph Duggar faces life felony charges in Florida after allegedly admitting — twice — to molesting a child who was nine years old during a 2020 family vacation. He and Kendra face separate Arkansas charges after investigators searched their home and reportedly found bedroom door locks installed on the exterior. Officials have declined to...
1hr Apr 19
1hr
Kendra Duggar Is Caught Between Two Systems — And IBLP Built Both of Them
A family portrait went up on the Caldwell family's page without Kendra in it. No explanation. No statement. Just a photograph with a space where their eldest daughter used to stand. Paul Caldwell launched a GoFundMe describing an urgent displacement situation — housing costs, moving expenses. The family that raised Kendra is reportedly being pushed out of their home. And the family she married ...
58m Apr 19
58m
Nancy Guthrie Is Still Missing — And the Sheriff Running Her Case Is Under Investigation
The doorbell camera footage from the night Nancy Guthrie vanished was declared unrecoverable by the Pima County Sheriff's Department. The FBI produced it roughly ten days later. That single detail tells you everything about how this investigation has been run — and who's been running it. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. Blood was found at the scene....
34m Apr 18
34m
Duggar Family Communications Exposed — And the Doctrine Behind the Pattern
The private messages coming out of the Duggar family tell a different story than the public statements. Jim Bob's first written communication to Joseph after his arrest on child molestation charges centered on God's forgiveness — not the alleged victim. Kendra described herself as "disappointed" on a monitored jail call. Anna Duggar, whose husband Josh is serving a federal sentence for possessi...
50m Apr 18
50m
Heuermann's Phone Trail, Taunting Calls, and a Family in Freefall
A burner phone traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan on July 12, 2009 — the exact route between Rex Heuermann's home and his office. Hours later, Melissa Barthelemy's phone traveled that same route in reverse. Melissa had told a friend she was meeting a man. She never came back. For the next five weeks, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda — describing the k...
27m Apr 18
27m
Heuermann's Guilty Plea and the DNA That Made It Inevitable
Investigators followed Rex Heuermann for months through Manhattan before a discarded pizza crust gave them everything. That abandoned sample — recovered legally from public garbage — produced a DNA match to a male hair found wrapped in burlap around Megan Waterman's remains on Ocean Parkway. One connection. That match generated the warrants for Heuermann's home, his devices, and the digital tro...
35m Apr 18
35m
Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach: The Evidence Examined
Two active federal-adjacent cases are moving through courtrooms on opposite coasts, and in both, the evidentiary record is reshaping what accountability looks like for the people standing closest to the accused. In the Anna Kepner case, unsealed federal records reveal that the accused — her sixteen-year-old stepbrother — signed a written waiver requesting adult prosecution on charges of first-...
49m Apr 17
49m
Five Years Later and No Trial for Larry Millete
Maricris Drouaillet stood in a Chula Vista courtroom on January 28, 2026, and told Judge Enrique Camarena that her parents wake up every morning still waiting for justice for their daughter. She begged him not to grant another continuance. The defense cited personal family losses. The judge granted it. Again.This is Episode 5 of a five-part Hidden Killers series on the Larry Millete case. It co...
19m Apr 17
19m
Asa Ellerup: Willful Blindness and the Heuermann Confession
The civil lawsuit filed against Asa Ellerup does not accuse her of murder. It accuses her of something a jury may find just as difficult to forgive: choosing not to know. Benjamin Torres — who was six years old when his mother Valerie Mack was allegedly killed and dismembered by Rex Heuermann in 2000 — has filed a wrongful death complaint naming Heuermann, Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria....
16m Apr 17
16m
Jesse Butler: The Wall Built Around These Two Victims
There were two people in the room when the Jesse Butler plea was finalized. Butler's defense team. And the Payne County DA's office. Everyone else — the victim, her mother, her attorney, a tribal victim services advocate assigned to the case — was outside the wall. And this week, over three days of sworn testimony in a Stillwater evidentiary hearing, every one of them took the stand to say it....
24m Apr 17
24m
The IBLP Machine Is Still Running and No One Stopped It
Bill Gothard didn't build a church. He built an infrastructure for political and cultural influence — and it's still functioning.His plan was called the Joshua Generation. Take the best children from his homeschool network, train them inside his system from birth, and deploy them into government to reshape America. This wasn't aspirational. It was operational. Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Sarah P...
23m Apr 17
23m
D4VD Behind Bars: The Evidence LAPD Couldn't Wait On
David Anthony Burke — the TikTok star and recording artist known as D4VD — was arrested on April 16 by LAPD Robbery-Homicide for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's being held without bail. No indictment. No criminal complaint. A probable cause warrant signed by a judge before the DA ever weighed in. For seven months, the case stalled on one question: how did she die? Celeste's...
27m Apr 17
27m
Anna Kepner: Surveillance, Concealment, and the Federal Case
The evidentiary picture in Anna Kepner’s case is narrow and deeply specific. Ship surveillance reportedly shows no one other than the accused entering or exiting the cabin. Anna’s body was allegedly found concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets. The alleged concealment itself is a significant evidentiary detail — it suggests awareness of what had occurred and a de...
17m Apr 17
17m
Anna Kepner: What the Unsealed Federal Records Reveal
The federal case against Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother is now unsealed — and the details inside those records raise questions that go well beyond what happened in that cruise ship cabin. A federal grand jury indicted the accused as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. Court documents confirm that the accused signed a written waiver requesting adu...
16m Apr 17
16m
Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 4 | Adam Walsh: Twenty-Seven Years Because Evidence Disappeared
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
The Bateman Panel: How He Built It, What It Broke, What Comes Next
This is the conversation we've been building toward since we started covering the Samuel Bateman case. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony for a full panel discussion timed to Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — covering the behavioral mechanics, the psychological damage, and the question of whether Short Creek can ever break the cyc...
1hr 3m Apr 16
1hr 3m
Larry Millete Never Searched — The Family Did
The investigation into Maya Millete's disappearance produced sixty-seven search warrants and eighty-seven interviews. Her family organized volunteer searches at the Glamis sand dunes, Anza-Borrego Desert, Lower Otay Lake, and locations across Southern California. For nine months, they showed up every weekend. Larry Millete — the man whose wife was missing — never showed up once.This is Episode ...
18m Apr 16
18m
Can Short Creek Break Free? The Final Conversation | Part 3
Bateman is in prison. Bistline got life. The case is over. But every time someone asks whether this is finished, the answer keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable truth — the FLDS has survived every attempt to dismantle it for nearly a century. Warren Jeffs is still reportedly running operations from a Texas cell. The One Man Rule doctrine that created the vacancy Bateman filled hasn't c...
20m Apr 16
20m
Rex Heuermann’s Family Sued Over Valerie Mack — Gilgo Beach
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth. That should have been the end of the legal battle. It wasn’t. The son of Valerie Mack — one of the victims Heuermann admitted to killing — has filed a sweeping civil lawsuit that goes after the people who were closest to the convicted killer: his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann. T...
43m Apr 16
43m
They Escaped IBLP and Had to Rebuild Everything From Nothing
Leaving IBLP isn't walking out a door. It's dismantling the only framework you've ever had for understanding yourself — and then trying to build a new one with tools you were never given.Survivors describe the immediate disorientation of life outside the system. They can't make simple decisions because every choice was previously filtered through a hierarchy. They have no transferable education...
19m Apr 16
19m
Inside the Wreckage: The Minds Bateman Destroyed | Part 2
Samuel Bateman called them "atonement ceremonies." Federal prosecutors called them organized child sexual abuse. Bateman wrapped the acts in religious language, framed them as commandments from God, and told his followers — including children — that participation was the path to salvation. When abuse gets dressed in that kind of authority, can a victim even identify what's happening to them as ...
24m Apr 16
24m
Bateman's Playbook: How a Nobody Built a Cult in Three Years | Part 1
You've heard what Samuel Bateman did. Twenty wives. Children as young as nine. Fifty years in federal prison. But the part the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet can only gesture at is the how — the behavioral mechanics that turned a man with nothing into a prophet with total control over fifty people's lives, finances, and children. This is Part 1 of a three-part panel discussion with fo...
20m Apr 16
20m
Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 3 | Crystal Rogers: Bardstown and the Man on the Inside
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
Gilgo Beach Plea, Ellerup Suit, Kepner Cruise Ship Indictment
Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke examine the legal strategy and behavioral dynamics across three cases that converged simultaneously — each one revealing something different about how the justice system processes violent crime, serial offending, and family complicity. The Heuermann guilty plea is examined through both...
56m Apr 15
56m
Larry Millete: Nine Bangs, a Dead Phone, a Missing Mom
At 4:42 PM on January 7, 2021, a camera captures Maya Millete walking toward her front door. No camera in the neighborhood ever records her walking away.Between that moment and 6:45 the next morning — when Larry Millete drove the family Lexus away from the house with his phone turned off — something happened inside the Millete home that changed everything. A neighbor's camera recorded nine bang...
21m Apr 15
21m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: What Investigators Found Changes Everything
The federal grand jury indictment returned against Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother fundamentally reshapes the public understanding of this case. Early reporting indicated there was no evidence of an assault beyond the mechanical asphyxia that caused the eighteen-year-old's death aboard the Carnival Horizon. The indictment tells a different story — charging the stepbrother as an adult...
19m Apr 15
19m
Anna Kepner: What the Cruise Ship Indictment Just Revealed
The sealed case is open. The charges are public. And they are worse than anyone anticipated. Timothy Hudson, the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner, has been indicted by a federal grand jury as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. The indictment, announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Hudson violently as...
32m Apr 15
32m
Raised Inside IBLP: The Children the System Consumed
The Advanced Training Institute didn't educate children. It produced members.ATI was IBLP's closed homeschooling system — fifty-four "wisdom booklets" filtering every subject through Bill Gothard's theology. Families couldn't just enroll. They had to attend both the Basic and Advanced Seminars first. The curriculum wasn't available to the public. Once inside, children learned math through bibli...
18m Apr 15
18m
Rex Heuermann Admitted to a Victim Nobody Saw Coming
The guilty plea Rex Heuermann entered in Suffolk County Court did not come from a sudden crisis of conscience. It came from a legal defense that had exhausted every option and a defendant who chose to negotiate the terms of his surrender rather than sit through a trial he could not win. The mechanics of this deal — and what they reveal about Heuermann's calculus — deserve close examination. In...
18m Apr 15
18m
Gilgo Lawsuit Targets Ellerup and Daughter's Profits
The first civil lawsuit filed by a Gilgo Beach victim's family member doesn't just target Rex Heuermann. It goes after the people who lived with him. Benjamin Torres — the son of Valerie Mack, whose dismembered remains were found in Manorville and along Ocean Parkway — has named Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann as co-defendants in a sweeping wrongful death action filed in Suffolk County Supre...
19m Apr 15
19m
Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 2 | Delphi Murders: Richard Allen and the Misfiled Tip
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 Duggar Collapse: System Failure Exposed
Two investigations. Two collapsing systems. One retired FBI Special Agent connecting the patterns. In Tucson, the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance has been systematically undermined by the leadership decisions of a sheriff now facing unanimous no-confidence from his deputies, a board threatening removal under oath, a $2 million federal lawsuit alleging political retaliation, an...
1hr Apr 14
1hr
Larry Millete Reviewed a Spellcaster Like an Uber
Over $1,000 on love spells. Subliminal speakers hidden throughout the house. Internet searches for "subliminal wife training." A phone hidden under the bed playing audio Maya didn't recognize. Google searches for Rohypnol. And a five-star customer review for a spellcaster — written with the same tone you'd use for a decent Thai restaurant.This is Episode 2 of a five-part Hidden Killers series o...
26m Apr 14
26m
Duggar Family: Charges Expose a System Built on Silence
Joseph Duggar faces two life felony charges in Bay County, Florida — lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12, and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person 18 or older. He was released on bond with conditions barring unsupervised contact with any minor. He and his wife Kendra face separate misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of ...
26m Apr 14
26m
Kendra Duggar’s Window Is Closing. Here’s the Way Out.
There’s a moment on a recorded jail call where Kendra Duggar sounds like a completely different person. She’s crying. Telling Joseph her priorities are the kids. Saying she can’t be there for him because she needs to do anything and everything for her children. She’s not performing faith. She’s not reciting Psalms. She’s a mother in agony who can see, for one clear moment, what she needs to do....
34m Apr 14
34m
The Umbrella That Trapped Them: IBLP Doctrine Exposed
She told her pastor her father was abusing her. He told her she wasn't submissive enough. That exchange — as brutal as it sounds — is the predictable outcome of a doctrine designed to make authority absolute and questioning impossible.The Institute in Basic Life Principles taught that God's protection flows through a strict hierarchy: God to father, father to mother, mother to children. They ca...
24m Apr 14
24m
Nancy Guthrie Case: What Collapses If Nanos Finally Leaves?
The no-confidence vote was unanimous among those who cast ballots — 241 deputies calling for his immediate resignation, zero voting to retain him. The Board of Supervisors has invoked a territorial-era statute to compel sworn testimony under threat of removal. An independent review reportedly confirmed Sheriff Chris Nanos used department resources for political gain during the 2024 election — a...
16m Apr 14
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Every Failure Traces Back to One Man
The crime scene was released too early. The thermal imaging plane was grounded over a personal dispute. The lead sergeant had reportedly never worked a homicide. Veteran investigators had been moved off the squad before Nancy Guthrie ever disappeared. And the doorbell footage the sheriff's department declared unrecoverable? The FBI found it. Each of those failures is documented. Each connects ...
18m Apr 14
18m
Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 1 | JonBenét Ramsey: The Department That Said No
The Nancy Guthrie investigation raised a question that haunts every major case in this country: were the right people in the room when it mattered most? In Tucson, a homicide sergeant with reportedly no homicide experience was dispatched to handle Nancy's disappearance. Veteran detectives were sidelined. A search plane pilot was reassigned. The people with the qualifications the moment demanded...
24m Apr 14
24m
Duggar Family Pattern, Chosen Silence, and the Bateman FLDS Cult
This episode connects three investigative threads through a single behavioral lens. First: the private communications that have surfaced since Joseph Duggar's arrest on felony child molestation charges — jail calls, emails from Jim Bob, Anna Duggar, and Austin Forsyth, and the contrast between the family's private language and their coordinated public statements. Second: the Duggar family syste...
1hr 3m Apr 13
1hr 3m
Larry Millete: She Named Him Before She Vanished
Maya Millete didn't disappear without warning. She told her sister on New Year's Eve 2020 exactly what she feared — and exactly who she feared it from. She told her brother, her sister-in-law, and a receptionist at a divorce attorney's office. She texted her husband in capital letters: I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR WIFE ANYMORE. She had an appointment with a lawyer. She had a financial plan. She had ...
26m Apr 13
26m
Trust Me: The False Prophet — Inside the FLDS Cult of Samuel Bateman
Samuel Bateman positioned himself as the heir to imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, building a breakaway sect of roughly fifty followers along the Arizona-Utah border. By the time he was arrested during an August 2022 traffic stop in Flagstaff, Arizona, he had claimed more than twenty wives — at least ten of them under eighteen according to federal prosecutors, with the youngest reportedly ni...
19m Apr 13
19m