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True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWas D4VD’s Entire Life a Performance? What His Own Words Reveal
Before the arrest. Before the charges. Before Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s name entered the conversation. D4VD sat in front of cameras and told the world exactly…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Legal Remedies Are Available in the Guthrie, Kepner, and Spencer Cases?
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides legal analysis across three active criminal matters in a single session.In the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, no…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Did the Kouri Richins Defense Try to Destroy the PI Who Broke the Case?
When Todd Gabler took the stand, the defense came at him with everything they had. Attorney Kathy Nester spent her entire cross-examination trying to reframe…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCan the Missing SD Card Get Aaron Spencer's Murder Case Dismissed?
Aaron Spencer faces second-degree murder charges with a firearm enhancement in the October 2024 shooting death of Michael Fosler in Lonoke County, Arkansas…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDelphi: Without This Warrant, There Is No Gun, No Confession, and No Case Against Allen
The search warrant for Richard Allen's home, car, and electronics is the foundation of the State's case. Without it, there is no gun, no bullet comparison, no…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Do Some NXIVM Members Still Defend Keith Raniere After Everything?
The people best trained to recognize what NXIVM was doing were the people Keith Raniere reportedly made sure never got inside the organization. Licensed…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Legal Options Does Timothy Hudson Have in the Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Case?
Timothy Hudson, sixteen, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in connection with the death…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Legal Remedies Exist for Nancy Guthrie's Family With No Arrest and No Suspect?
No arrest has been made in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her residence in Tucson's Catalina Foothills community. DNA evidence recovered from the…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Are the Duggars’ Political Allies Silent About Joseph Duggar’s Arrest?
Nearly two hundred pastors, youth leaders, and church officials were accused or convicted of crimes against children in 2025 alone. A megachurch founder who…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHas Sheriff Nanos Lost Control Of The Nancy Guthrie Case?
When the lead sheriff in a high-profile case stops talking directly to the victim's family more than 100 days in, hands family communication entirely to the…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Were Kouri Richins' Phone Records Hiding From Police?
The Summit County Sheriff's Office had the case. But they didn't have the phone records — not the way Todd Gabler got them. Because Eric Richins' business paid…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCould "Wrench Attacks" Explain What Happened To Nancy Guthrie?
In FBI and digital forensic circles, the term "Wrench Attack" refers to a specific kind of organized crime operation — networks that target wealthy individuals…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDelphi: Officers Were Offered the Surveillance Tape to Verify the Alibi — They Declined
Imagine an officer investigating a suspect in a double child homicide is invited to review surveillance footage that would prove whether the suspect was at…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid the Women of NXIVM Know What Keith Raniere Branded on Their Bodies?
When federal investigators found illegal images on a hard drive connected to Keith Raniere, every person charged alongside him moved for a plea deal. He went…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCould Unknown DNA Finally Reveal Who Took Nancy Guthrie?
The Nancy Guthrie investigation has a piece of evidence that, by itself, could end this case. Unknown contributor DNA recovered from inside Nancy's home. The…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Is The FBI Now The Only Voice Talking To The Guthries?
When the lead sheriff in a high-profile case stops talking to the victim's family more than 100 days in, something has shifted. In the Nancy Guthrie…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Is South Carolina's Constitutional Obligation After The Murdaugh Reversal?
The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously reversed Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions on the grounds that former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill corrupted…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Legal Tools Exist To Stop Kouri Richins From Behind Bars?
Kouri Richins is serving life without parole following a jury conviction that required less than three hours of deliberation. The defense called no witnesses…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCould Nick Reiner's Reported Tell-All Damage His Own Defense?
Nick Reiner is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility following his arrest in December 2025 in connection with the alleged killings of…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDelphi: The Investigation That Lost Its Own Evidence Before the Victims Were Buried
Richard Allen volunteered his name to law enforcement two days after the Delphi murders. He'd been on the trail. He came forward willingly. His report was…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Were Three Grand Juries Needed In The D4VD Case?
Three separate grand juries received testimony in the case against David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4VD, in connection with the alleged murder of…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Does The Unopposed Continuance Signal In The Kepner Case?
The federal trial in the Anna Kepner case was scheduled for June 1. Eighteen days before jury selection, the defense filed Document 74 — an Unopposed Motion to…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Untested Evidence Could Reshape Alex Murdaugh's Retrial?
Defense counsel Jim Griffin confirmed at a press conference that unknown male DNA was recovered from beneath Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails during the original…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Can Civil Discovery Reveal About Becky Hill That The State Never Found?
The defense team for Alex Murdaugh filed a federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Did Prosecutors Build The Case That Kouri Richins Is "Irredeemable"?
The State's sentencing memorandum in the Kouri Richins case documented a pattern of conduct from inside the Summit County Jail that prosecutors argued…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCan SLED's Physical Evidence Survive Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Alone?
The South Carolina Supreme Court's reversal eliminated the prosecution's ability to present twelve hours of financial crimes testimony at retrial. The…
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Why Did Federal Prosecutors File Zero Charges After Operation Tidal Wave?
Operation Tidal Wave was a coordinated federal action in which CBP and HSI agents boarded eight cruise ships docked in San Diego and detained 27 crew members…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid Kouri Richins Hurt Her Own Appeal From The Podium?
Prior to sentencing, the court received impact testimony from Kouri Richins' three minor children, delivered through their licensed therapists. The statements…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Legal Mechanisms Could Force Buster Murdaugh To Talk?
The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions on procedural grounds — finding the trial judge misapplied the burden of proof…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Did The Judge Hear Before Sentencing Kouri Richins?
Before sentencing, the court heard impact testimony from Kouri Richins' three minor children, delivered through their licensed therapists. The children…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Will Alex Murdaugh's Jury Never Hear Next Time?
Two threads on the Murdaugh case worth examining — the legal architecture of a potential retrial, and the behavioral context the original prosecution couldn't…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Won’t South Carolina Unseal the Files That Could Prove Murdaugh’s Jury Was Rigged?
Three years of sealed records. Denied FOIA requests. A state investigation that found nothing — followed by a Supreme Court ruling that found everything…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsRichins Appeal And Murdaugh Federal Lawsuit: Two Cases Testing The Limits Of Post-Conviction Law
Two post-conviction legal battles are testing different pressure points in the American criminal justice system.In Utah, Kouri Richins — sentenced to life…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsThe Cruise Industry Lobby Spent $70 Million To Protect Predatory Crew Members From Exposure
How does an industry avoid accountability for decades while carrying tens of millions of passengers a year? It spends $70 million lobbying Congress. It hires…
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Murdaugh v. Hill: How Does A Section 1983 Lawsuit Change The Retrial Landscape?
Five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court's unanimous ruling overturning Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions, his defense team filed a…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy ‘He’s Already in Prison’ Is Not an Answer for the Murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh
People are saying it across social media and comment sections: Murdaugh is already locked up, why bother retrying? True Crime Today takes on that argument…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Were the Only Convictions Against Word of Faith Members for Unemployment Fraud?
For over four decades, former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship have tried to hold the church accountable through every available channel — journalists…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsKouri Richins: What Legal Protections Exist Against A Convicted Murderer's Reach?
The prosecution's sentencing memorandum in the Kouri Richins case included pre-sentencing communications in which the defendant stated she intended to "expose…
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Kouri Richins Appeal: Which Legal Issues Survive Appellate Review?
Following her life-without-parole sentence for the aggravated murder of Eric Richins, Kouri Richins' defense team has secured a twenty-eight-day extension to…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Are People Finding When They Replay Every D4vd Song?
The D4vd case has produced something ugly that nobody likes to name. In the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, with David Anthony Burke charged and…
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What Does Every Expression on Kouri Richins' Face at Sentencing Actually Mean?
A psychotherapist watched the Kouri Richins sentencing and saw things the rest of us felt but couldn't name. The contempt that overrode self-preservation. The…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews600 Cruise Ship Crimes, 7 Convictions in a Decade — The System Was Built This Way
Thirteen prosecutions in ten years. That is what the New York Times investigation found for cruise ship assault cases across the entire industry. The system…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Did Kouri Richins Use Her Sentencing to Tell Her Kids the Murder Was a Lie?
She could have expressed remorse. She could have asked for mercy. She could have addressed even one thing her children described — the locked rooms, the dead…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCould Pre-Trial Decisions Determine the Outcome of Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Retrial?
The prosecution promised speed. The defense wants time. And the decisions being made before a jury is ever seated may matter more than the evidence itself…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Were Americans at Word of Faith Paid While Brazilians Doing the Same Work Were Not?
When Andre Oliveira left his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil for the mother church in North Carolina, he expected a spiritual experience…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Did Kouri Richins Only Break Down When Her Brother Said She's Innocent?
Kouri Richins didn't shed a single tear while her own children's words filled the courtroom. Not when they described locked doors. Not when they called her by…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Was Kouri Richins Making Faces While Her Son Said He Wants Her Gone Forever?
The courtroom was told to stay composed. Kouri Richins couldn't do it. While victim impact statements described the destruction she left behind — a father who…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Did Becky Hill Walk Away With Probation For Corrupting Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Trial?
Becky Hill pled guilty to misconduct in office, obstruction of justice, and perjury. The South Carolina Supreme Court said she engaged in shocking jury…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsMurdaugh’s Defense Files a Federal Lawsuit, Challenges the AG, and Reveals Untested DNA
One press conference. Three significant developments. The Murdaugh defense team filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accused the Attorney General of…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Cruise Lines Won’t Tell You About the People Who Have Keys to Your Cabin
One-third of cruise ship assault survivors were minors, according to a Congressional report. Maritime attorneys confirm a similar ratio across more than a…
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Why Did SLED Never Run the DNA Found Under Maggie Murdaugh’s Fingernails?
Maggie Murdaugh had unknown male DNA beneath her fingernails. Investigators collected it. And then, according to the defense, nobody ever ran it through CODIS…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid the SC Supreme Court Give Alex Murdaugh’s Defense Lawyers Exactly What They Needed?
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team didn’t just get a second chance — they got a court-issued roadmap showing exactly where the prosecution went wrong and how far the…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Did Word of Faith Fellowship Sue Child Protective Services Over Abuse — and Win?
A former teacher at the Word of Faith Christian School told the Associated Press that in the middle of class, children would surround a classmate accused of…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid the AG’s Office Fail to Investigate Becky Hill’s Jury Tampering in the Murdaugh Case?
The Murdaugh defense team came out swinging at Attorney General Alan Wilson — and the accusation they leveled is not one that gets tossed around lightly. They…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Will Murdaugh’s Federal Lawsuit Against Becky Hill Expose What the State Missed?
When the South Carolina Supreme Court granted Alex Murdaugh a new trial, it confirmed what the defense had argued for months — Becky Hill’s conduct compromised…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid Anna Kepner’s Defense Just Tip Their Hand In Cruise Ship Trial?
The defense team in the Anna Kepner federal case just made its first move that doesn’t look like confidence. After three months of waiving rights, requesting…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Three Forces Are Already Shaping Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Before It Even Starts?
A governor candidate threatening the death penalty. A son who won’t visit his father. Defense lawyers hinting at mystery suspects on national television. None…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsA 6-Year-Old Stopped It — The Cases Federal Courts Exposed Across Every Cruise Line
Federal filings show three crew members charged on the Disney Dream in early 2024. A Royal Caribbean cabin attendant sentenced to 30 years after pleading…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Does Alex Murdaugh’s History With Curtis Smith Reveal About the Night of the Murders?
Three months after Maggie and Paul were found at Moselle, Alex Murdaugh drove to a rural road and allegedly paid Curtis Eddie Smith to end his life in an…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsBecky Hill Wanted a Book Deal — and It Cost South Carolina the Murdaugh Murder Verdict
A court clerk’s ambition destroyed the most consequential murder conviction in South Carolina history. Becky Hill, the elected Clerk of Court in Colleton…