Tupac Shakur: What the Family's New Lawsuit Really Means
Forget what you think you know about the Tupac Shakur case. The narrative just shifted. Mopreme Shakur has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that treats the 1996 Las Vegas shooting not as a solved crime with a single suspect — but as a conspiracy with participants who have never been identified, never been questioned under oath, and never been held accountable. The lawsuit targets Keffe D, who fa...
20m May 06
20m
Greater Grace's Reckoning: The Report They Commissioned Themselves
What do you do when you hire investigators to look into your own organization and they come back saying your top leadership needs to go? If you're Greater Grace World Outreach, apparently, you publish the report and then do as little as possible about it. The GRACE investigation was 172 pages. It named four leaders who should be removed. It described an authoritarian culture rooted in fear-ba...
19m May 06
19m
Don Studey: What Green Hollow's Failed Investigation Missed
Four cadaver dog alerts. A property that reportedly spans over 400 acres. Numerous wells — some wet, some dry, many filled in over the decades. And the FBI spent parts of three days there before announcing they found nothing and walking away. That's the 2022 Green Hollow investigation in a nutshell — and it's the investigation that Lucy Studey-McKiddy says was doomed from the start because the...
16m May 06
16m
Don Studey: Green Hollow Knew and Said Nothing
She carried the bags of lye. She was a child. And she says she knew exactly what was at the bottom of that well. Lucy Studey-McKiddy has spent nearly two decades alleging that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was responsible for the deaths of dozens of women in rural Iowa. The alleged killings reportedly stretched back to the 1970s, centered on a remote wooded area called Green Hollow near Thurm...
24m May 06
24m
Kouri Richins: Eric Said She’d Kill Him. She Did.
Eric Richins called his business partner on Valentine’s Day 2022 with fear in his voice. He’d just eaten a sandwich his wife made him and couldn’t breathe. He broke out in hives. He grabbed his son’s EpiPen. And he told his friend what he believed was happening: his wife was trying to end his life. Two weeks later, he was dead. In part two of our five-part definitive series, we dissect the plan...
16m May 06
16m
D4VD, Kohberger, Delphi — Chainsaws, Muted Video, and Missing Hair
The evidentiary landscape across these three cases reveals patterns that your questions have been tracking with precision. From forensic trace analysis in the D4VD case to chain of custody disputes in Idaho to excluded alternative suspect evidence in Delphi, the investigative details expose alleged systemic gaps at every level. In the D4VD case, prosecutors say LAPD’s Trace Analysis Unit found...
58m May 05
58m
Michael Jackson’s First Accuser: Extortion or Cover-Up?
The twenty-three million dollar settlement is the single most-cited fact in the Michael Jackson saga. His defenders say it proves nothing except that his team wanted the circus to end. His accusers say no innocent person signs that check. Both arguments have weight. And neither one settles the question. This episode takes you through the 1993 Chandler case with the kind of detail that forces y...
23m May 05
23m
Delphi: Richard Allen’s Investigators Recorded Over a Key Interview
The investigative record in the Delphi case contains gaps that Richard Allen’s defense team argues are not accidental. According to the reply brief filed with the Indiana Court of Appeals, investigators allegedly recorded over an interview with an alternative suspect. That individual’s weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. And the trial court ruled that presenting him as an ...
19m May 05
19m
The Reiners Are Protecting Nick's Life. He's Reportedly Trying to Destroy Theirs
They cut off the money. They stopped the visits. They let the public defender take over. Insiders say they consider him "Satan incarnate." And yet the surviving Reiner siblings — Jake, Romy, and Tracy — are reportedly telling the DA's office not to seek the death penalty against the brother accused of stabbing their parents to death. Because Rob Reiner believed in something. And his children ar...
15m May 05
15m
Greater Grace: Scripture Weaponized Against Abuse Victims
The investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach didn't just find alleged abuse. It found the reason nobody could stop it. Two teachings sat at the center of the silence. One took a mainstream Christian doctrine — the finished work of Christ — and twisted it until holding a leader accountable for harm was treated as a spiritual failure. The other labeled anyone who raised a concern as a car...
18m May 05
18m
Bryan Kohberger’s Evidence Bag Was Allegedly Filled In Twice
The physical evidence tying Bryan Kohberger to the King Road crime scene came down to one item: a Ka-Bar knife sheath carrying a single source of male DNA matched to Kohberger. It was the prosecution’s anchor. And according to a defense forensic scientist who reviewed the chain of custody documentation, it may have been vulnerable to a challenge that could have kept it out of trial entirely. B...
19m May 05
19m
Prosecutors Say People Around D4VD Smelled It For Weeks
The forensic trail prosecutors outlined in the D4VD People’s Brief reads like a receipt of alleged premeditation. According to the filing, in the weeks following Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s alleged death on April 23, 2025, David Anthony Burke allegedly ordered a shovel through Postmates the following day. Then, prosecutors say, came two chainsaws. A body bag. Heavy-duty laundry bags. An inflatabl...
21m May 05
21m
Kouri Richins’ Entire Life Was a Lie. Now We Prove It.
She performed the role of successful entrepreneur, devoted wife, and grieving widow so convincingly that she landed a spot on local television to promote a children’s grief book she paid a ghostwriter $2,500 to write. But behind Kouri Richins’ carefully constructed image was a financial catastrophe — $7.5 million in debt, a business built on forged signatures and unauthorized credit lines, and ...
21m May 05
21m
Inside D4VD's Nine-Page Prosecution Roadmap
The prosecution didn't just file charges against David Anthony Burke — they filed a blueprint. Nine pages detailing exactly what Deputy DA Beth Silverman plans to present at the preliminary hearing. The defense tried to seal it. The judge said no. What it describes is staggering. Prosecutors allege Burke texted Celeste Rivas Hernandez's phone after she was already dead. They detail a timeline ...
53m May 04
53m
Michael Jackson: Why Nobody Is Telling the Whole Truth
Millions of people watched the Michael Jackson biopic opening weekend and walked out smiling. Millions more read the allegations from his so-called second family and felt their stomachs drop. And almost nobody is holding both of those experiences in their hands at the same time. That’s what this series does. I’m launching a five-part investigation into the accusations against Michael Jackson. ...
21m May 04
21m
What Made D4VD's Defense Team Change Course
One week they demanded speed. The next week they asked for time. David Anthony Burke's defense team reversed course in open court — and the prosecution didn't hide their frustration about it. Blair Berk pushed for a preliminary hearing within ten days at the arraignment, invoking California's "ten of ten" rule. She said she wanted the evidence tested publicly. But when the discovery started la...
19m May 04
19m
What Kohberger's Defense Expert Found — And Why They're Furious
The people who hired Brent Turvey to help defend Bryan Kohberger are now publicly condemning him. Not because he did bad work. Because he's talking about what the work revealed. Turvey is a forensic scientist — PhD in Criminology, three decades of casework, more than 70 trials as a qualified expert. Kohberger's defense team brought him in to analyze the crime scene at the King Road house where...
23m May 04
23m
Greater Grace World Outreach: Inside the Machine
It started with one man and a pond in rural Maine. Carl Stevens said God poured liquid waves of love over him — and that story became the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach, a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations spanning more than seventy countries. Most people outside those walls never heard of it. That changed when a 172-page independent investigation dropped in l...
30m May 04
30m
D4VD Was Told She Was Thirteen — Prosecutors Say He Continued
Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People's Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd bought — so he could stay in contact after her pare...
17m May 04
17m
What D4VD Allegedly Ordered the Day After Celeste Died
A shovel from Home Depot via Postmates. Two chainsaws from Amazon. A body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool — all allegedly purchased under the fake name "Victoria Mendez." That's what prosecutors laid out in the People's Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke. Not rumors. Not leaks. A nine-page filing signed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman, unsealed over the defe...
18m May 04
18m
Richard Allen: The Two Problems Indiana's Attorney General Cannot Solve
The AG's ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen's appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and defense attorney Bob Motta starts there. Problem one: the van timeline. The defense obtained su...
1hr 37m May 04
1hr 37m
IBLP's Medical Arm Had No Licensed Doctors. Families Followed It Anyway.
The Medical Training Institute of America was IBLP's health authority. It issued guidance to families across the country on everything from childbirth to mental health. It operated without a single licensed doctor. Its publications replaced medicine with spiritual obedience — teaching that mental illness did not exist, that psychological suffering was a failure of faith, and that the body's pro...
46m May 03
46m
Caleb Flynn: What the Eleven-Count Indictment Tells You About the Evidence
The initial 911 call described a home invasion. A man sobbing, barely able to speak, telling a dispatcher someone had broken into his house and shot his wife. Signs of forced entry at the scene. Two gunshot wounds. Only Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and their two elementary-age daughters were inside the home on Cunningham Court in Tipp City, Ohio, when it happened. Three days later, Caleb was arr...
33m May 03
33m
Don Studey: Why the FBI Left Green Hollow After Three Days
Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on that land — says they searched the wrong well. The property spans over four hundred and twen...
1hr 23m May 03
1hr 23m
Sandra Birchmore: The Call That Should Have Saved Her Life
On January 20, 2021, Sandra Birchmore's friend called the Stoughton Police Department and reported Matthew Farwell's relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. Eleven days later, Sandra was dead. That is the institutional failure at the center of this case — and everything that follows flows from it. Sandra was making plans. She believed Farwell was comin...
31m May 03
31m
Nick Reiner: One Brother Grieves, the Other Reportedly Retaliates
Jake Reiner's Substack essay is the kind of writing that only comes from a place of absolute destruction. He described his parents — Rob and Michele Reiner — as guiding lights, confidants, heroes who supported their children unconditionally. He wrote about milestones stolen and a career they will never witness. He said he would trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour w...
43m May 03
43m
D4vd: What the Autopsy and the Timeline Actually Reveal
The autopsy was completed months before prosecutors charged David Anthony Burke. It was sealed at LAPD's request — reportedly over the medical examiner's own public objection. Celeste Rivas Hernandez's family waited without answers while the investigation continued behind closed doors. When the report was finally unsealed, it confirmed what prosecutors had been building toward — and what the de...
34m May 02
34m
Joseph Duggar's Jail Calls Reveal Who He's Really Protecting
The recorded calls from Washington County tell you everything about Joseph Duggar's priorities — and the child he allegedly harmed is not among them. He manages his Airbnb. He discusses Bible translations. He tracks which brothers are on vacation. He tells Kendra he feels upset to be "in this situation." He prays for hours. He never once mentions the alleged victim. Not her name. Not her wellbe...
47m May 02
47m
Anna Kepner: What the Defense's Own Moves Reveal
Timothy Hudson's defense team requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered a not guilty plea without their client in the courtroom. They are pushing for the same judge who released him in February — when this was still a sealed juvenile case — to decide whether he stays free now that he faces first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges as an adult in federal court. Every on...
31m May 02
31m
D4vd: Three Grand Juries and Still No Indictment
Three grand juries. Months of proceedings. Subpoena power. Witness testimony. And not one of them produced an indictment against David Anthony Burke in the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. So the DA filed a criminal complaint instead — and defense attorney Blair Berk made sure the courtroom heard that distinction loud and clear before pushing for the fastest possible...
32m May 02
32m
Sandra Birchmore: From Vigils to a Federal Indictment
For years, Sandra Birchmore’s family held vigils outside buildings that didn’t want them there. They held signs at the Stoughton Police Department. They demanded answers from a system that had already decided Sandra did this to herself. Then the FBI came. On August 28, 2024, agents arrested Matthew Farwell and charged him with killing Sandra to prevent her from exposing his crimes. A supersedi...
24m May 02
24m
Kohberger, Reiner, Tupac: Evidence, Delays, and Discovery
Eric Faddis — criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins Hidden Killers for an extended session covering three major cases demanding attention. In the Kohberger case, defense-retained forensic scientist Brent Turvey is publicly alleging chain of custody deficiencies with the knife sheath — the sole piece of physical evidence carrying Kohberger's DNA — that he says could hav...
52m May 01
52m
Inside the Case Prosecutors Built Against Caleb Flynn
This episode is about the machinery. The subpoenas, the indictment, the pretrial legal battles, and the courtroom moments that shaped this case before a single juror was seated. The prosecution subpoenaed the FBI Lab at Quantico, the Ohio BCI, Apple, Verizon, WhatsApp, Meta, Google, Microsoft, social media platforms, financial institutions, and software companies. They filed motions to compel ...
18m May 01
18m
Tupac: The Lawsuit Built to Break Open a 30-Year Silence
Mopreme Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of the estate of Mutulu Shakur, naming Keffe D and up to one hundred unnamed John Doe co-conspirators in the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The complaint alleges a conspiracy that extends far beyond the occupants of the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Tupac's car near the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 199...
18m May 01
18m
Don Studey: Green Hollow's Defensive Wound Changes Everything
His daughter says she carried the lye. His wife's re-autopsy reportedly revealed a possible defensive wound. And an alleged accomplice has reportedly broken years of silence. The case of Donald Dean Studey and Green Hollow keeps getting harder to ignore. Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father killed dozens of women over decades in the remote hills near Thurman, Iowa — Fremont County, about for...
23m May 01
23m
IBLP’s Duggar Curriculum: The Adults the Booklets Produced — Chapter 5
Her father stopped her math education at fractions. His law degree couldn’t be used in his own state. She had the test scores for scholarships but no transcript the real world recognized. The Wisdom Booklets — the Duggar family curriculum — produced a generation of adults who are now rebuilding from scratch. Filling in academic gaps. Unlearning trained self-blame. Teaching their own children th...
19m May 01
19m
Nick Reiner: What the Autopsy Delay Tells Us
Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead from multiple stab wounds inside their Brentwood home on December 14, 2025. Their son Nick was arrested hours later and has been held without bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility ever since, charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances — making him eligible for the death penalty under California law. This week, the ca...
15m May 01
15m
Kohberger: The Evidence That Never Faced a Jury
Bryan Kohberger pled guilty and is serving four consecutive life sentences for the murders of four University of Idaho students. No trial. No cross-examination. No jury verdict. And now, the forensic expert his own defense hired is alleging that the knife sheath — the only physical evidence tying Kohberger to the crime scene through DNA — had a chain of custody so flawed it could have been chal...
20m May 01
20m
Sandra Birchmore: One Hour to Bury the Truth
Within one hour of finding Sandra Birchmore’s body, officers told the medical examiner there had been no foul play. That call shaped everything. The medical examiner never visited the scene. Canton police misidentified the murder weapon as a scarf. Investigators never compelled a DNA sample from the man seen on surveillance entering Sandra’s building the night she was last seen alive. They let ...
16m May 01
16m
Gilgo Beach Killer Rex Heuermann: Wife, Daughter, and Monster
Three perspectives. One serial killer. And a family that will never be the same. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us access that no trial, no courtroom, no press conference ever could have — the private moments when a wife and a daughter learned the full scope of what the man they loved had done. Asa Ellerup's story is one of a woman whose entire life before Rex was defined by trau...
1hr 1m Apr 30
1hr 1m
Caleb Flynn Case: Who Was Ashley Flynn?
In every case like this, there's a risk that the victim becomes a footnote in someone else's story. This episode makes sure that doesn't happen to Ashley Flynn. She graduated from Tippecanoe High School and Lee University. She came home to Tipp City and never left. She taught elementary school, substituted across the district, coached seventh-grade girls volleyball, and taught bible lessons at...
14m Apr 30
14m
D4VD: What Prosecutors Allege Will Haunt This Case Forever
Some filings lay out a theory. This one lays out an alleged horror. Tony Brueski reads through the People's Brief against David Anthony Burke — the nine-page prosecution roadmap that the defense tried to seal and the judge made public. What Deputy DA Beth Silverman put on the record describes an alleged sexual relationship with a child that started at thirteen, a murder prosecutors say was dri...
33m Apr 30
33m
Rex Heuermann Built Gilgo Beach Kill Room in Childhood Bedroom
Rex Heuermann killed women in the same room where he grew up. The same room where he went through puberty. The same room where, according to the FBI's John Douglas, the violent fantasies that would eventually consume him first took root. He never left that room — not psychologically, not physically. He converted his childhood bedroom into a space his own wife was forbidden to enter, filled it w...
19m Apr 30
19m
IBLP’s Duggar Curriculum: How the Booklets Rewrote History — Chapter 4
Bill Gothard reduced the French Revolution to a lesson about disobedience. The Wisdom Booklets — the Duggar family’s curriculum — taught children that all authority is divine, that questioning it invites destruction, and that the separation of church and state is rebellion against God. The law sections framed Old Testament codes as binding civil law. The Character First program carried Gothard’...
18m Apr 30
18m
Rex Heuermann's Daughter Lived Feet From Gilgo Beach Kill Room
Ten feet. That's the distance between where Victoria Heuermann sat as a child watching television and playing video games, and the room where her father strangled, murdered, and dismembered women over the course of nearly two decades. Ten feet between a normal childhood and a crime scene. She didn't know it then. She knows it now. And she went back to that house, walked into that basement room,...
19m Apr 30
19m
Rex Heuermann's Ex-Wife Asa Ellerup: Gilgo Beach Killer Exposed
She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I'll handle everything. For a woman who had never once felt safe in her own skin, that offer wasn't romance — it was survival. And it sealed her fate for the next three decades. The Peacock documentary on Rex ...
24m Apr 30
24m
Sandra Birchmore: Inside the Crime Scene Evidence
At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene. The forensic e...
17m Apr 30
17m
Don Studey's Green Hollow Connected to Gacy and the Mob
This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he's telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground in Iowa. He made contact with Lucy Studey-McKiddy, the daughter who alleges her father was the Green Hollow Killer, and spent over a hundred hours vetting her claims....
59m Apr 29
59m
Who Was Caleb Flynn Before the Indictment?
Before the arrest, before the 911 call, before the charges  --  there was a man with a guitar and a public image built on faith, family, and music. Caleb Flynn grew up as a pastor's son in Braham, Minnesota. He drummed in his father's praise band as a child, played on state championship basketball teams, studied music ministry at Lee University, and spent over a decade leading worship at church...
18m Apr 29
18m
The Buried Car at Don Studey's Green Hollow Nobody Will Search
Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Sixteen months of investigation. Boots on the ground in Green Hollow. And one question that still doesn't have a clean answer — is Lucy Studey-McKiddy telling the truth about the alleged Green Hollow Killer? Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta approached the Don Studey case the way he approaches every case — looking for the lie. He probed Lucy's stories for...
20m Apr 29
20m