Murder Trial
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The Kouri Richins Case: A Moscow Mule, a Grief Book and a Life Sentence
In March 2022, a Utah stonemason and father of three died in his bed with five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood. A year later, his wife published a children’s book about grief. Continue reading
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The Jennifer Dulos Case: A Connecticut Mother of Five, a Bloody Garage and No Body
On May 24, 2019, writer and mother of five Jennifer Farber Dulos dropped her children at school in New Canaan, Connecticut, and was never seen again. That evening, city cameras in Hartford recorded what investigators would call the next step. Continue reading
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The Murdaugh Case: Two Life Sentences, a Clerk’s Whispers and a Retrial in 2027
On June 7, 2021, a South Carolina lawyer from a family of prosecutors called 911 to report his wife and son shot on the family hunting property. Five years later, the case is still not settled, and much of the… Continue reading
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The Fred and Rose West Case: How a Gloucester House Hid Twelve Victims for Two Decades
In February 1994, police dug up a garden in Gloucester, England, looking for a missing 16-year-old. What they found at 25 Cromwell Street revealed two decades of murder by Fred and Rose West, and a string of chances the system… Continue reading
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The Robert Durst Case: A Missing Wife, a Murdered Friend, and the Hot Mic That Undid Him
Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, Susan Berman was shot in 2000, and a Texas jury acquitted Robert Durst of a third killing. A documentary hot mic finally caught him in 2015, but the full courtroom reckoning outlived him. Continue reading
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The Olof Palme Case: A Prime Minister Shot on a Stockholm Street and 40 Years Without an Answer
Sweden’s prime minister was shot walking home from the movies with his wife in 1986, with no bodyguards in sight. Four decades, one overturned conviction, and one dead suspect later, the country still argues about who pulled the trigger. Continue reading
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The Crystal Rogers Case: A Flat Tire on the Bluegrass Parkway and a Ten-Year Wait for Justice
Crystal Rogers, a Bardstown mother of five, vanished on July 3, 2015, her car left on the Bluegrass Parkway with a flat tire. In 2025, boyfriend Brooks Houck was convicted of her murder. Her body has never been found. Continue reading
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The Meredith Kercher Case: A Murder in Perugia the World Remembers by the Wrong Name
Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British student, was murdered in Perugia in 2007. The flawed investigation made Amanda Knox famous, but the man convicted of the killing walked free in 2021 — and faced a new trial by 2026. Continue reading
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The Susan Smith Case: Nine Days of Lies, Two Boys in John D. Long Lake, and a Parole Board’s Answer
For nine days in 1994, America hunted a carjacker who never existed. Then Susan Smith confessed that her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, were at the bottom of John D. Long Lake, and Union, South Carolina, has never stopped… Continue reading
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The Jodi Arias Case: A Camera in the Washing Machine Unraveled Three Versions of a Murder
Travis Alexander was found dead in his Mesa, Arizona shower in June 2008, and a camera in his washing machine held the last photographs of his life. Jodi Arias told police three different stories before a jury, watching worldwide, convicted… Continue reading
