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Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:33
Jensen Huang already had money, power and people telling him how great he is when, reports say, he got involved with Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive U.S. intelligence…
Nov 14, 2026 · 20:37
SLED cut seventy-four pieces from the white T-shirt Alex Murdaugh wore the night Maggie and Paul were killed. Eleven months after those tests came back, the lead agent on the…
Nov 14, 2026 · 11:08
Information CIA officer Aldrich Ames gave the KGB led to the execution of at least ten CIA and FBI intelligence sources, a Justice Department review found, and the Justice…
Nov 13, 2026 · 13:36
Columbus police say they had no reports involving Michael McKee and his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, before Monique and her husband, Spencer, were shot to death in their home. This…
Nov 13, 2026 · 17:04
Jensen Huang confessed his affair to Nvidia's employees in a company-wide memo, and reports say the woman was Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive U.S. intelligence…
Nov 13, 2026 · 17:51
U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset, and reports say she is the woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with. Nvidia's board…
Nov 13, 2026 · 15:29
Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia and turned it into the chipmaker behind much of the AI boom, and he has told his employees he was unfaithful to his wife. Reports say the woman is…
Nov 13, 2026 · 59:50
Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, sat with no visible reaction as a federal jury convicted him of killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. On True Crime…
Nov 13, 2026 · 18:09
Alex Murdaugh got a text at twelve minutes to eight the morning after his wife and son were killed, and he never answered it. It came from Curtis "Eddie" Smith, the cousin Alex…
Nov 13, 2026 · 13:14
On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me after the Matthew Farwell verdict to talk about the way Sandra Birchmore's life was picked apart in court. The former…
Nov 12, 2026 · 18:44
The Tyler Robinson trial in the Charlie Kirk case is set for June 21, 2028, and I take you through how Judge Tony Graf landed on that date after rejecting all three requests.…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:09
After the Matthew Farwell verdict, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on True Crime Today to talk about the loyalty that surrounded Sandra Birchmore's killer, beginning with…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:04
The Siders case out of Vinton County, Ohio, has four adults charged and four different mental-health rulings, and not one trial. Investigators say 16 children were found in a…
Nov 12, 2026 · 14:41
Sandra Birchmore was still making plans with Matthew Farwell in her last weeks, and now that a federal jury has convicted him of killing her and her unborn child, psychotherapist…
Nov 12, 2026 · 17:44
Sandra Birchmore's family gasped as the verdict was read: guilty on both counts for former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell, convicted of killing Sandra and her unborn child.…
Nov 12, 2026 · 1:02:38
Matthew Farwell's judge read the jury's deadlock note and told jurors they hadn't deliberated long enough. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries noted Judge Denise Casper hadn't given the…
Nov 12, 2026 · 17:27
Whose hand was Maggie Murdaugh's phone in at 8:53? Part 2 of the Murdaugh murder mystery is built on that question. On the night of June 7, 2021, by the state's reckoning Maggie…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:06
What if Matthew Farwell's prosecutors lost? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says they'd have no plain murder charge to fall back on, and that's the trap built into this trial.…
Nov 11, 2026 · 22:36
The unknown man's DNA in the JonBenét Ramsey case went into the FBI's database of arrested and convicted people in December 2003, and it has never matched anyone. In January…
Nov 11, 2026 · 12:47
What if jurors believed Matthew Farwell killed Sandra Birchmore and still couldn't convict him? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries explains how that could happen. The charge is killing…
Nov 11, 2026 · 24:19
The Norfolk County DA's office says it never prosecuted Matthew Farwell because of one ruling in the Sandra Birchmore case. The woman who made that ruling testified about what…
Nov 11, 2026 · 18:00
Matthew Farwell's jury sent Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper two notes back to back, and the second said jurors were deadlocked. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries reads that as…
Nov 11, 2026 · 17:44
Matthew Farwell's defense needs jurors to believe Sandra Birchmore stayed quiet the night she died by choice. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says nothing about her life supports…
Nov 11, 2026 · 1:00:47
What did the first investigators decide about Sandra Birchmore and Nancy Guthrie, and what did it cost? Retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke and Tony take both cases in one…
Nov 11, 2026 · 19:41
Why would Alex Murdaugh need dogs on the steps at Moselle? Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper, fell outside the house in February of 2018 and died in a hospital…
Nov 11, 2026 · 16:38
The note claiming Nancy Guthrie had died ended with an apology to her family. Investigators believe that note, sent to a Tucson TV station on Feb. 6, 2026, is authentic, and its…
Nov 10, 2026 · 29:45
In January 2024, the South Carolina Attorney General's office told Judge Jean Toal that Becky Hill's comments to the Alex Murdaugh jury didn't matter because the evidence was…
Nov 10, 2026 · 16:49
As the Matthew Farwell guilty verdict was read, Sandra Birchmore's family gasped and Farwell's attorney rubbed his back. The verdict ended a federal trial the Norfolk District…
Nov 10, 2026 · 13:09
Did the Pima County Sheriff's Department lose Nancy Guthrie's case before it ever got started? The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home in…
Nov 10, 2026 · 25:36
A Massachusetts judge cleared the way for a second Lindsay Clancy trial on November 9, 2026, rejecting her lawyers' claim that a retrial would put her in double jeopardy. Clancy,…
Nov 10, 2026 · 14:31
What did Matthew Farwell's lawyer call Sandra Birchmore's excitement about her baby? The defense's closing argument, delivered Nov. 6, 2026, tried to turn one of the government's…
Nov 10, 2026 · 17:28
What did Matthew Farwell tell a fellow cop before Sandra Birchmore died, and what did prosecutors say it meant? Federal prosecutors closed their case on Nov. 6, 2026, arguing the…
Nov 10, 2026 · 1:01:20
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins me on Sandra Birchmore, Alex Murdaugh and Nancy Guthrie, three cases where the first investigators may have walked past the…
Nov 10, 2026 · 20:43
Lori Vallow Daybell's niece, Melani Pawlowski, was in the middle of a divorce when a bullet shattered her husband Brandon Boudreaux's car window outside his Gilbert, Arizona,…
Nov 10, 2026 · 12:18
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins me on the Nancy Guthrie investigation, nine months after Savannah Guthrie's mother was taken from her Catalina Foothills…
Nov 9, 2026 · 18:44
A24's Primetime gives the kids at the center of his stings one line, and it gives the men he caught crying scenes and backstories. A24 made the film without talking to Hansen,…
Nov 9, 2026 · 14:51
SLED released the Murdaugh family's Moselle estate less than twelve hours after Maggie and Paul were shot in June 2021, and Alex Murdaugh's law partner testified what was still…
Nov 9, 2026 · 27:47
Sandra Birchmore’s accused killer, former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell, sat through closing arguments in Boston federal court without ever taking the stand. Prosecutor…
Nov 9, 2026 · 19:34
Prosecutors in Matthew Farwell's federal trial say the state troopers who investigated Sandra Birchmore's death in 2021 closed it as a suicide without seeking one search warrant.…
Nov 9, 2026 · 15:35
Closing arguments in Matthew Farwell's murder trial begin Friday, November 6th, after his defense called Dr. Thomas Andrew, the former chief medical examiner of New Hampshire.…
Nov 9, 2026 · 27:48
Before Elizabeth Holmes entered federal prison, she spoke publicly about Sunny Balwani, the former Theranos executive who had been her partner. She testified about an assault she…
Nov 8, 2026 · 31:58
A mistrial did not end the Lindsay Clancy case. But the next criminal proceeding remains unsettled, and a separate civil lawsuit has introduced a dispute between lawyers over…
Nov 8, 2026 · 29:50
In February 2021, Sandra Birchmore was found dead at her Canton, Massachusetts, apartment. A police account described a suicide. The medical examiner who performed her autopsy…
Nov 8, 2026 · 30:37
Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has produced something investigators have to contend with in nearly every major case: a flood of theories from people who believe they understand…
Nov 8, 2026 · 50:03
In the Lindsay Clancy case, the jury’s verdict never arrived. The case ended in a mistrial, with eleven members favoring acquittal and one holdout favoring conviction. Now the…
Nov 8, 2026 · 44:23
Elizabeth Holmes says she has never told a lie. Nathan Fielder hears it directly in You Can See Everything, the A24 documentary he made with Lance Oppenheim about the Theranos…
Nov 7, 2026 · 31:44
Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal does not ask the Idaho Supreme Court to revisit every piece of murder evidence. One of its central claims is about something that happened before her…
Nov 7, 2026 · 43:41
A single claim at a civil hearing has reopened one of the hardest questions in the Lindsay Clancy case: did her mental health providers receive a warning about possible harm to…
Nov 7, 2026 · 50:48
In 2011, a Stoughton police chief wrote that William Farwell's past behavior was incompatible with police work. In 2017, the department hired him. Years later, William testified…
Nov 7, 2026 · 33:00
It is easy to say a getaway car was never identified because the streets were too dark. It is much harder to prove what individual cameras could have seen on the night Nancy…
Nov 7, 2026 · 1:00:15
Eleven jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers now want the murder charges thrown out for good. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney…
Nov 7, 2026 · 58:19
Tylee Ryan, 16. JJ Vallow, 7. Tammy Daybell, 49. Charles Vallow, 62. This four-part docu-series tells the full story of the case that took their lives, and of the two people…
Nov 7, 2026 · 13:16
In June 2025, a South Carolina judge threw out Michael Colucci's murder indictment after the lead SLED agent on the Alex Murdaugh case admitted he never wrote down what the…
Nov 6, 2026 · 16:56
Alex Murdaugh's lawyers say the grand jury that indicted him heard a lie from SLED's lead case agent, David Owen, and they want the indictments thrown out over it. Owen told the…
Nov 6, 2026 · 15:47
Prosecutors haven't decided whether to try Lindsay Clancy for murder a second time, and eleven jurors in the first trial were ready to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.…
Nov 6, 2026 · 25:34
Matthew Farwell wasn’t the only Stoughton officer Chief Donna McNamara’s internal investigation found had an inappropriate relationship with Sandra Birchmore. It named his twin…
Nov 6, 2026 · 16:19
Matthew Farwell is charged with killing a witness, which means prosecutors have to prove he killed Sandra Birchmore to keep her from going to federal authorities. His lawyers…
Nov 6, 2026 · 15:51
Prosecutors in the Matthew Farwell trial say Sandra Birchmore spent the evening of February 1st, 2021, searching for baby shower venues and children's furniture, and that she…
Nov 6, 2026 · 1:00:21
In 2027 Elizabeth Holmes trades a federal prison camp for a Texas halfway house outside Austin, where Billy Evans is raising her two kids and still has the power of attorney she…
Nov 6, 2026 · 14:41
Lori Vallow Daybell is serving life without parole in Idaho, plus two Arizona life sentences. Chad Daybell is on Idaho's death row. Part 4 of this docu-series covers how the…
Nov 6, 2026 · 16:08
Elizabeth Holmes started an 11-year sentence in a Texas prison camp on May 30, 2023, for defrauding Theranos investors, and she left behind a baby girl named Invicta. The name is…
Nov 5, 2026 · 17:14
Lori Vallow Daybell's appeal reached the Idaho Supreme Court on November 2nd, and Justice Cynthia Meyer asked the question that reframed everything: if the court sides with Lori,…
Nov 5, 2026 · 12:19
In Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, Billy Evans keeps stepping into the frame. Fielder lived in her house for the 34 days before prison, and…
Nov 5, 2026 · 20:39
Dr. Thomas Andrew, the pathologist who closed out Matthew Farwell’s defense, said on November 4th that the findings from Sandra Birchmore’s autopsy favor suicide. Under…
Nov 5, 2026 · 17:32
Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy over Theranos and sentenced to 11 years, told Nathan Fielder's camera she has never lied in her life. Fielder spent her…
Nov 5, 2026 · 15:20
Elizabeth Holmes testified that Sunny Balwani, the former president of Theranos and twice her age, assured her that since she'd met him, she was safe. She was 19, and what she…
Nov 5, 2026 · 1:01:48
Lindsay Clancy and Lori Vallow Daybell were both in court on November 2nd with their futures on the line. In Massachusetts, prosecutors confirmed Clancy will be retried but…
Nov 5, 2026 · 15:13
In September 2019, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7, vanished from their mother's apartment in Rexburg, Idaho. Their mother, Lori Vallow, never reported them missing. Their…
Nov 5, 2026 · 14:21
Lori Vallow Daybell is serving three life sentences for the murders of JJ and Tylee and the conspiracy to kill Tammy Daybell. On November 2nd, her lawyer asked the Idaho Supreme…
Nov 4, 2026 · 33:15
Why does Lindsay Clancy’s defense want the holdout juror’s phone records? At the November 2nd hearing, Kevin Reddington argued the phone could show the man researched the case,…
Nov 4, 2026 · 15:58
Patrick Clancy's civil suit against Lindsay's doctors depends on proving she told them she was having thoughts of hurting her children. His lawyer said she'll testify to exactly…
Nov 4, 2026 · 16:22
Matthew Farwell’s defense called Dr. Angi Christensen on November 3rd, the forensic anthropologist the FBI asked to examine Sandra Birchmore’s broken hyoid. The answer to why…
Nov 4, 2026 · 15:50
Lindsay Clancy will be tried again. That's what prosecutors told Judge Sullivan on November 2nd. When Sullivan asked what the charge would look like, Jennifer Sprague said it…
Nov 4, 2026 · 16:38
The foreperson on Lindsay Clancy's jury wrote Judge Sullivan twice during deliberations. She told him a juror acknowledged doubt but refused to apply it as the law required.…
Nov 4, 2026 · 1:02:32
Farwell demanded Sandra Birchmore re-earn his trust. Clancy's husband's lawyer told a judge Lindsay would testify she warned her providers. Tennessee said it followed protocol…
Nov 4, 2026 · 14:21
On July 11, 2019, Charles Vallow was shot twice in a Chandler, Arizona rental house by his brother-in-law, Alex Cox. Cox claimed self-defense and was never charged before his own…
Nov 4, 2026 · 14:42
The same person who reviewed Tennessee's execution procedures in 2022 is now reviewing Christa Pike's failed execution. The state ignored his recommendations then. Tony Brueski…
Nov 3, 2026 · 31:22
When Stoughton swore in William Farwell on March 21, 2017, his file held a 2011 letter from the chief explaining exactly why he should never be a police officer. The department…
Nov 3, 2026 · 16:23
Howard Cooper told a judge Lindsay Clancy would testify she warned her doctors about homicidal thoughts. Kevin Reddington denied it the same night. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke…
Nov 3, 2026 · 20:16
Matthew Farwell’s bone expert gave the jury her numbers on November 2nd, and prosecutors asked where they’ve ever applied to someone Sandra Birchmore’s age. Heather Garvin…
Nov 3, 2026 · 13:09
Sandra Birchmore's death was ruled a suicide. The state ME changed that determination — to "undetermined." Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke walk through whether the defense has…
Nov 3, 2026 · 19:17
Both Farwell brothers were involved with Sandra Birchmore. Prosecutors allege that when Matthew found out about William, he didn't confront his twin — he allegedly demanded…
Nov 3, 2026 · 1:02:20
Jennifer Coffindaffer stopped covering the Nancy Guthrie case from a distance and flew to Tucson. She walked the streets, looked at the porch, sat in the restaurant, drove toward…
Nov 3, 2026 · 14:45
Every case has a before. In the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case, the before is where the warning signs are hiding in plain sight. Part 1 of our docu-series starts with a tape.…
Nov 3, 2026 · 20:35
Jennifer Coffindaffer says the last question she asked in every FBI case was: what are the rumors? She spent a week in Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood asking exactly that. The…
Nov 2, 2026 · 27:09
Patrick Clancy’s attorney told a Massachusetts judge that Lindsay Clancy would take the stand in the civil case and testify she explicitly warned her mental health providers…
Nov 2, 2026 · 9:53
Nancy Guthrie's favorite restaurant is El Charro in Tucson — the oldest family-owned Mexican restaurant in America. Jennifer Coffindaffer went there in October, sat down, and…
Nov 2, 2026 · 23:39
The first question the prosecution asked Farwell’s mental health expert on cross was stopped by the judge before she could answer. Dr. Melissa Piasecki had spent a day on the…
Nov 2, 2026 · 17:06
The man who took Nancy Guthrie tore vines off the front of her house to cover the camera. That clump was lying on an enclosed porch next to her blood when deputies arrived — and…
Nov 2, 2026 · 15:44
Jennifer Coffindaffer has covered the Nancy Guthrie case on air since the first week. In October she flew to Tucson and stood on Nancy's street after midnight with her car lights…
Nov 2, 2026 · 38:46
Meanwhile Lori's own Idaho murder convictions are now before the state Supreme Court. Her appeal argues that the trial judge improperly removed Mark Means, the lawyer she wanted,…
Nov 1, 2026 · 28:06
The Sandra Birchmore case is back at a question federal prosecutors raised long before Matthew Farwell's trial: what did he mean by the note he allegedly wrote to his closest…
Nov 1, 2026 · 24:46
There are two courtrooms in the story of Lori Vallow’s niece Melani Boudreaux: the custody dispute over her four children and the criminal trials that later examined Lori Vallow…
Nov 1, 2026 · 34:19
Police reports describing Sandra Birchmore’s death as a suicide were in the medical examiner’s hands before the examiner had investigated the death for herself. Dr. María del Mar…
Nov 1, 2026 · 41:06
Lindsay Clancy's first murder trial ended in an eleven-to-one deadlock. Eleven jurors favored finding her not criminally responsible; one juror believed the prosecution had made…
Nov 1, 2026 · 26:08
A federal court filing in the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder case says Timothy Hudson’s attorneys cannot make a final plea decision until one pending issue is addressed. The…
Oct 31, 2026 · 33:15
In the federal murder trial of Matthew Farwell, prosecutors called a witness with a direct connection to both the accused and Sandra Birchmore: Matthew’s twin brother William.…
Oct 31, 2026 · 35:29
Then there is a custody-case document attributed to Melani’s later husband, Ian Pawlowski. It describes Melani recounting a belief that Brandon was no longer himself and might…
Oct 31, 2026 · 29:18
Sandra Birchmore’s fractured hyoid bone is one of the most heavily contested details in Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial. Prosecutors allege the former Stoughton police…
Oct 31, 2026 · 31:04
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s history with Dee Dee Blanchard contains a warning that looks enormous in hindsight. Neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein examined Gypsy, questioned the…
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