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True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Were Word of Faith Members with Cracked Ribs Forbidden from Seeing a Doctor?
Imagine being surrounded by a group of people — their mouths inches from your face — screaming at full volume for hours. That was reportedly the starting point…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsCould the Murdaugh Family’s Silence Speak Louder Than Any Witness at the Retrial?
Marian Proctor took the stand in 2023 and said something the defense couldn’t undo: Alex never talked about finding who killed Maggie and Paul. That was one…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Is Every Politician in South Carolina Trying To Out-Tough Each Other on Murdaugh?
David Pascoe says he’d convict Murdaugh in two weeks. Stephen Goldfinch took a swipe at Pascoe’s ties to the defense while pledging his own retrial. Alan…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid Kouri Richins File False Reports Against the Family Raising Her Own Children From Jail?
Prosecutors’ sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case reveals a pattern of retaliation that went far beyond the courtroom — and every target was someone…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhat Do Buster Murdaugh's Fury and Kouri Richins' Sentencing Speech Reveal?
Two cases where the people left behind are still fighting to be heard.Buster Murdaugh sat behind his father at the first trial and told a jury Alex wasn’t…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews27 Cruise Workers Had Illegal Material on Their Phones — All Sent Home Free
A family’s personal dining host on the Disney Magic served them breakfast, then was loaded into a federal van in handcuffs forty-five minutes later. The…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Didn't Kouri Richins Acknowledge a Word Her Children Said?
Her children had therapists read their words because they couldn’t be in the room with her. They described locked doors, dead animals, a brother sneaking food…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsThe Prosecution’s Playbook for Convicting Murdaugh Was Just Declared Unconstitutional
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions were overturned unanimously by the SC Supreme Court — and the ruling didn’t just vacate the verdict. It told the prosecution…
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Did Word of Faith Ministers Really Hand Out Birth Control to Decide Who Had Children?
Jane Whaley had no seminary degree, no ordination, and no formal ministry credentials. She was a former high school math teacher from rural North Carolina. And…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Is Dick Harpootlian Threatening Subpoenas Before the Murdaugh Retrial?
The first jury heard twelve hours of financial crimes testimony before they ever weighed the physical evidence. Three-hour conviction. The Supreme Court just…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Would Buster Murdaugh Call Alex a 'Selfish Old Man'?
He was the loyal son. He sat in the courtroom, testified for the defense, told a jury his father wasn’t the man prosecutors claimed. Then Alex Murdaugh got…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Do The “Rules” Keep Changing Around Alex Murdaugh’s New Trial?
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal sat individual jurors down and asked them whether Becky Hill's comments changed their votes. The South Carolina Supreme Court…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsSupreme Court Says Alex Murdaugh Gets A New Trial!
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Alex Murdaugh's motion for a new trial by requiring him to prove the Clerk's comments actually harmed his case. The South…
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Why Did Kouri Richins Tell Her Sons to 'Be Like’ The Dad She Murdered?
Kouri Richins stood up in a Park City courtroom and spoke for forty minutes. She looked at her three sons and told them to "be like your dad." Eric Richins…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Did the Person on Nancy Guthrie's Porch Try to Hide the Camera With Her Own Weeds?
The person on Nancy Guthrie's porch allegedly tried to conceal the doorbell camera using foliage ripped from her own yard. Not professional equipment. Not a…
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Who Staged The Murdaugh Murder Crime Scene?
Maggie Murdaugh’s pajamas were laid out in the laundry room doorway when Blanca Simpson walked into the house twelve hours after the murders. Underclothes were…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsEVERYTHING The Jury Never Heard In The Delphi Murder Trial
In a recorded jailhouse call, Richard Allen asked his own father how much longer he could stay lucid. That call was excluded from trial. The jury that…
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How Did Alex Murdaugh Go From 'A Loving Family Man' To Evil Incarnate?
Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called "anomic" — men who see their families as symbols of their own success and destroy them when the…
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Anna Duggar Is the “Stand By Your Predator” Template — Now Kendra Is Being Pointed Toward the Same Playbook
Anna Duggar used the monitored jail system to send Josh private photos and messages while he served a federal sentence for possessing child sexual abuse…
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Why 84-Year-Old Nancy Guthrie - With Medical Needs Isn't a Ransom Target
Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old, medically vulnerable, and requires medication. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says she is not a rational target…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsPaul Murdaugh Kept Mallory Beach’s Obituary in His Truck — What Nobody Else Saw
Paul Murdaugh kept Mallory Beach’s obituary tucked into the door frame of his truck. Every time he climbed in, it was right there. Blanca Simpson saw it…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Terrified Children She’s Coming to Get Them?
Her children begged a judge to keep her locked away forever. Kouri Richins responded by telling them she’s coming home — and everything she said in between is…
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Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Former Prosecutor on the Ruling, the Evidence, and the Fight
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, restricted the evidence that dominated his first trial, and rewrote the legal…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid Kouri Richins Really Scoff While Her Own Kids Told the Court What She Did to Them?
The courtroom heard from three boys who still can’t stand in front of Kouri Richins and speak. Their therapists did it for them — reading handwritten words…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAlex Murdaugh Retrial: Former Prosecutor on What Both Sides Gained in Three Years
Three years between the verdict and the reversal. In that time, the defense picked up a perjury conviction against the clerk who tampered with the jury and a…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsYogurt Shop Murders Case Solved: Serial Killer Identified Through DNA
In late September 2025, the Austin Police Department announced a forensic breakthrough in the 1991 yogurt shop murders. Cold case detective Dan Jackson, who…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsYellow Deli Might Be in Your Town. Meet 12 Tribes.
There may be one in your town. A charming restaurant with handcrafted furniture, homemade bread, and staff who seem unusually warm and attentive. There are at…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAlex Murdaugh Retrial Evidence: Former Prosecutor on What the State Can Still Use
The Supreme Court said the prosecution went "far too long and far too deep" into Alex Murdaugh’s financial crimes at the first trial. They singled out…
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Alex Murdaugh Conviction Reversed: Former Prosecutor on How Toal Got the Law Wrong
A former Chief Justice of South Carolina evaluated Becky Hill’s jury conduct and concluded Alex Murdaugh wasn’t prejudiced. Five sitting Supreme Court justices…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAlex Murdaugh: The Book That Exposes What the Trial Couldn't
James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and his book The Family Man. This interview covers it all — the manipulation…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsWhy They Couldn’t Leave — The Psychology Behind Miller, Ellerup, Richins, and Murdaugh
Why didn’t she just leave? The question gets asked in every domestic violence case, every coercive control prosecution, every murder where the warning signs…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAnna Kepner Cruise Ship Trial: The Defense Is Sprinting. Here’s What They Know.
The defense has seen the FBI reports. They’ve seen the forensics. They’ve seen whatever is in the autopsy report the Miami-Dade medical examiner won’t release…
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A Therapist Explains Why Maggie Murdaugh Went to Moselle When She Didn’t Want To
The window between deciding to leave and actually being gone is the most dangerous place a person can stand. Most people do not know that. Most people think…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsKouri Richins Sent a Message After Her Conviction — It Ended With a Winking Emoji
After a jury convicted her unanimously on every count — including the fatal poisoning of her husband Eric Richins — Kouri Richins sent a message from jail to…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsYogurt Shop Murders Aftermath: Freed But Never Exonerated
When Y-STR DNA testing revealed that the genetic material at the yogurt shop crime scene belonged to an unknown male — excluding all four accused men and over…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsThey Left 12 Tribes’ Yellow Deli. Then Joined Another Cult.
You walk out the door of a Twelve Tribes compound with nothing. No bank account. No driver’s license. No work history. No understanding of how to rent an…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsA Therapist on Why Asa Ellerup Defended Rex Heuermann Until the Day He Confessed
The most dangerous kind of erosion leaves no bruises and makes no noise. It works through small compromises that feel reasonable in the moment and catastrophic…
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The Psychology Behind Why Mica Miller Couldn’t Leave Pastor John-Paul Miller
She could name it. She told police her husband was grooming her. She took legal action. And according to the timeline, she went back. The assumption most…
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Alex Murdaugh: Researchers Have a Name for This Type of Killer
The trial proved guilt. It never explained how. James Lasdun's The Family Man does what no other Murdaugh book has attempted — it uses decades of criminal…
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How Indiana Backed Itself Into A Corner On The Delphi Appeal
The Richard Allen appeal has moved into its final procedural stretch. The defense filed its reply brief at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was…
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Disney Cruise Workers Arrested for What Was on Their Phones — Then SET FREE!!
Federal agents boarded eight cruise ships in San Diego between April 23rd and 27th. According to CBP, 27 crew members were allegedly involved in exploitation…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsKouri Richins Sentenced After Guilty Verdict in Eric Richins Murder
Kouri Richins has been sentenced to Life Without Parole after a Utah jury found her guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, by poisoning him with…
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Kouri Richins Sentencing: "She's Not a Monster" — What Her Defense Just Argued
Description: The trial is over. The conviction is on paper. And yet, inside that courtroom at sentencing, Kouri Richins' defense team argued as if the fight…
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Every Delphi Brief Is Filed. Three Judges. One Decision Left.
Richard Allen's appeal is fully briefed. The reply brief landed at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed behind it. The State of Indiana…
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Kouri Richins Gets Her Sentence — Eric's Family Gets Their Say
The conviction told us what happened. The victim impact statements told us who was lost.Kouri Richins has been sentenced to [INSERT SENTENCE] after a jury…
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Yogurt Shop Murders Trial: Death Row on Zero Evidence
The 2001 and 2002 trials in the yogurt shop murders case are a case study in how criminal prosecution can produce convictions without physical evidence. Robert…
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Alex Murdaugh Conviction Thrown Out: Becky Hill’s Comments Destroyed the Verdict
She was supposed to be neutral. Instead, she told jurors not to be fooled by the defense, coached them to scrutinize the defendant’s body language, and wanted…
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12 Tribes’ Founder Died. Yellow Deli Didn’t Close for a Day.
Gene Spriggs built the Twelve Tribes into a movement spanning four continents, approximately forty communities, and at least thirty-three Yellow Deli…
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Allen Told His Father He Was Losing His Mind Before The Delphi Confessions
Indiana has a theory for why Richard Allen confessed to the Delphi murders while sitting in solitary confinement at Westville. According to the State's…
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Indiana Never Searched One Delphi Suspect's Phone
According to Richard Allen's reply brief, Indiana investigators interviewed an alternative suspect in the Delphi murders, then allegedly recorded over the tape…
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Alex Murdaugh Deleted His Phone Log the Week of the Murders
The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh. But they never saw the full picture. James Lasdun's The Family Man reveals evidence that prosecutors chose not to present —…
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D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, And Duggar Cases Allegedly Share The Same Systemic Failures
The procedural and legal questions across the D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, and Duggar cases reveal how alleged institutional failures compound regardless of the type…
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The Coast Guard Wants This Sailboat in the Lynette Hooker Case
More than a month after Lynette Hooker disappeared off a dinghy in the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service has gone public with a request that…
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Joseph Duggar's Recorded Jail Calls And Jim Bob's Email May Undermine His Defense
The legal dimensions of the Joseph Duggar case extend beyond the Florida charges into recorded communications that may carry evidentiary weight. Joseph faces…
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Yogurt Shop Murders Investigation: Seven False Confessions and a Broken System
The Austin yogurt shop murders investigation was compromised from the start. The detective who ran early interrogations, Hector Polanco, was implicated in at…
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Germany Rescued the Kids. 12 Tribes’ Yellow Deli Stayed Open.
The Twelve Tribes — the group behind the Yellow Deli restaurant chain — has faced allegations of systematic child discipline across three continents and five…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsNancy Guthrie's Evidence Allegedly Stalled Between Two Labs While She Stayed Missing
The procedural failures alleged in the Nancy Guthrie investigation reflect how institutional friction can compound across an active missing persons case. Three…
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D4VD Allegedly Took Celeste Across State Lines And Internationally — No Federal Charges
The alleged conduct described in court filings against David Burke, known as D4VD, crosses state lines and international borders — yet the prosecution is…
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Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Check to a Cop — Nobody Can Explain Why
A new book is reframing everything about the Murdaugh case — and it starts with the patterns nobody was paying attention to.James Lasdun's The Family Man…
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Retired FBI Agent Exposes Three Critical Failures in the Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks the Nancy Guthrie case open across three conversations that challenge the public’s understanding from…