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Garret Fisher runs through four updates. In New York, a federal judge has dismissed singer Dawn Richard's civil suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs — not on the merits, but because the statute of limitations had run out; Judge Katherine Polk Failla called the alleged conduct "indisputably odious" while ruling 17 of 18 claims time-barred, leaving one gender-motivated-violence claim that Richard may refile in state court. Combs remains imprisoned on his prostitution-transportation convictions and is a...

Garret Fisher closes the book on Gilgo Beach. After nearly three years of silence, Rex Heuermann — the 62-year-old Long Island architect who murdered eight women between 1993 and 2010 — was sentenced Wednesday in a Suffolk County courtroom to three consecutive life sentences without parole, followed by four more consecutive terms of 25 years to life. There is no parole anywhere in the sentence; he will die in prison. Judge Timothy Mazzei called him "a disgusting and small man," and District Atto...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Provo, Utah, Tracey Grist, 61, has been sentenced to consecutive terms — which the judge said should keep her imprisoned for life — after being convicted of masterminding the "family trap" killing of her son-in-law, Matthew Restelli, 42, who was lured to her home and shot by her son under the pretense of picking up his wife and children. In Waukesha, Wisconsin, Kevin "Conrad" Lychwick, 63, who represented himself and kept handwritten "operations" naming his v...

Garret Fisher covers three cases involving child victims, all defendants presumed innocent. In Idaho, the first-degree murder and kidnapping case against Stacey Wondra, 33, in the 2021 disappearance of 5-year-old Michael "Monkey" Vaughan — whose body has never been found — has been moved from Payette County to Canyon County, with trial set for September 14. In Indianapolis, Toni McClure, 31, is set to stand trial June 22 on charges of murder, criminal confinement, and battery in the death of her...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In New Hampshire, the state Supreme Court has reversed Adam Montgomery's second-degree murder conviction in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, ruling the trial judge improperly joined the murder charge with a separate assault charge — a procedural reversal, not a finding of innocence. Montgomery remains incarcerated on his other convictions (second-degree assault, abuse of a corpse, falsifying evidence, witness tampering) plus prior weapon...

Garret Fisher covers three cases. In Wisconsin, a Dodge County jury has convicted Zachariah Rasch, 44, of first-degree intentional homicide and a corpse-related count in the death of his estranged wife, Crystal Rasch, 37 — the case known as the "tooth in the ashes," after a tooth and skull fragments matched to her were found in a burn pit on his property. He claimed she shot herself; the jury rejected it in about two hours. Sentencing is set for July 21. In Vista, California, OnlyFans creator Mi...

Three cases today, and money runs through all of them. In Los Angeles, Nick Reiner — the thirty-two-year-old charged with stabbing his own parents to death, the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele — has gone to court asking a judge to hand him more than a million and a half dollars from a trust fund, so he can pay for the lawyer he wants to defend him against the charge that he killed the people who set that trust up for him. Also back in the news from behind bars: Sean Combs, the rapper k...

A full-episode deep dive. On Tuesday, a Collin County jury found nineteen-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder for fatally stabbing seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf at a 2025 high school track meet in Frisco, Texas — rejecting his claim of self-defense after deliberating less than three hours, then sentencing him to 35 years in prison after rejecting his "sudden passion" claim. Garret Fisher walks through the verdict, the rainy afternoon under the team tent that ended Austin Metcalf's life...

Here's where things stand this morning. In Fairfax County, Virginia, Brendan Banfield — the former federal agent convicted of murdering his wife, Christine, and a man named Joseph Ryan — has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. In Juneau, Wisconsin, the trial they're calling the tooth in the ashes is now in its second week, and the forensic evidence against Zachariah Rasch is stacking up. And just outside Boston, a former police officer accused of killing a young woman...

Three stories today, and all three of them put a badge in the frame. In Lonoke County, Arkansas, a judge has dismissed the second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer — a father, and a candidate for sheriff — who admitted to shooting and killing the man accused of abusing his daughter. The case fell apart not on the facts, but because law enforcement lost a piece of evidence. In Boston, Officer Nicholas O'Malley has pleaded not guilty to killing a carjacking suspect named Stephenson King J...

A Georgia father, William McCue, is on trial in Lawrenceville on felony-murder and child-cruelty charges after prosecutors say he and his wife trapped their children inside a home with no plumbing, buckets for toilets, and a child sleeping on plywood over a bathtub — a daughter, ten-year-old Zowey McCue, died in a fire her teenage brother set to escape. Garret Fisher covers three cases this Friday. In Las Vegas, twenty-year-old Allysandra Blea has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and ...

Here's where things stand this morning. In Columbia, South Carolina, a jury has found gas station owner Rick Chow not guilty of murder in the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton. In Juneau, Wisconsin, Zachariah Rasch is standing trial, accused of killing his estranged wife, Crystal Rasch, and burning her body in a pit on their property. And in Salt Lake City, Utah, reality star Taylor Frankie Paul has won back unsupervised time with her young son. Three cases. Join our new ...

A Connecticut teen was cleared of murdering 17-year-old lacrosse star Jimmy McGrath at a house party — so why is Raul Valle facing trial all over again? His new lawyer says a retrial would be “Groundhog Day,” the victim’s father says it’s been four years of nothing but delay, and a judge holds the deciding vote. Then: stunning new claims out of CrimeCon 2026. A panel reveals fresh details in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie — mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie — including a mishandled hair ...

Here's what you need to know. Kevin Hart's production company, Hartbeat, is in a legal and financial spiral — suing two former podcast executives over trade secrets, fighting a former assistant's lawsuit headed to trial in October, and absorbing the fallout from a George Floyd joke at the Netflix special The Roast of Kevin Hart. In California, an Orange County judge dismissed the Drano poisoning case against dermatologist Emily Yu, though prosecutors say they will refile. And in Miami, a federal...

Garret Fisher goes inside the killings of Spencer and Monique Tepe, the Ohio dentist and his wife shot dead in their home, as Court TV and Law&Crime anchors take the case apart at CrimeCon and a chilling new detail emerges about the weeks before the murders. Then: the trial of South Carolina convenience store owner Rick Chow, charged with chasing and shooting unarmed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in the back over an accusation of stealing water. And in Mississippi, Carly Gregg, who was 14 whe...

Garret Fisher closes the book on the Matthew Perry case as Kenneth Iwamasa, the assistant who knew Perry for over thirty years and was supposed to keep him sober, becomes the fifth and final defendant sentenced for the actor’s ketamine death. In Minneapolis, Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock gets nearly 42 years for masterminding a scheme that stole hundreds of millions meant to feed children. And in Golden, Colorado, a former town councilman stands trial after two teenagers scouting a homec...

Three cases, three courtrooms, three women holding the bag for what the men in their lives decided to do. Plus one defendant who is the man in question. We are going to talk about all of it. Garret Fisher with a Thursday edition that covers three new cases out of three different states. In South Carolina, a sixty-four-year-old woman is denied bond in the murder of seventeen-year-old Maylashia Hogg, who was nine months pregnant when she was stabbed fifty times and dumped in a ditch behind the de...

Garret on the Newport News dismissal that ended Ebony Parker's criminal trial before the defense could put on a single witness, a Bangor strangulation trial with an HDMI cord and an interstate police chase, and a life-without-parole sentence in the Atlanta murder of roller-skating influencer Beauty Couch. Garret Fisher covers a stunning courtroom collapse in Virginia, where a judge dismissed all eight felony child abuse counts against former Richneck Elementary assistant principal Ebony Parker ...

A judge “takes a chance,” a 4-year-old weighs 23 pounds, and an Ohio courtroom hears that a six-adult household ran a captive torture house for two years. Garret Fisher covers a Massachusetts man held without bond after allegedly firing 60 rounds from an assault-style rifle at random drivers on Cambridge's Memorial Drive — while still on probation from a 2020 shooting that a judge said she was “taking a chance” on. Plus an Oklahoma caregiver gets life after pleading guilty in the Christmas 2022...

Memorial Day Special — How thirteen thousand Union dead in a Georgia stockade produced the trial that gave Nuremberg its blueprint. Garret Fisher marks Memorial Day with the first war crimes trial in American history. November 10, 1865 — Confederate Captain Henry Wirz was hanged in Washington for commanding Andersonville prison, where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died of starvation, disease, and exposure in fourteen months. From the Swiss-immigrant doctor who ran Camp Sumter to the military tri...

Garret Fisher covers the South Carolina Supreme Court overturning Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, Josie Dikeman's conviction in the death of six-year-old Alexavier Pedrin in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the testimony of former MMA fighter Ross Johnson in his Panama City manslaughter trial. Becky Hill's bathroom conversations with the jury foreperson get Murdaugh a new trial, and now he's suing her while the AG threatens the death penalty. A Wisconsin jury rejects first-degree intentional but co...

Four life sentences, a boy band singer with the FBI at his door, and the criminal trial of the assistant principal who watched the warnings stack up and did nothing. Garret Fisher closes the book on a case we have been with you for since January — Paul Caneiro, the New Jersey man who slaughtered his own brother's family, sentenced to four consecutive life terms. Then a brand-new murder-for-hire plot — Why Don't We singer Jack Avery, the FBI knocking on his door, and the Florida attorney and Tik...

All four guilty in the rapper’s birthday-party ambush — and a Tampa jury chooses life without parole over execution; plus quick turns in the Mangione, Woods, and David files. Daily Crime and Justice returns to the daily desk after the Fighting Back series with four developments — and one of them is a finish line. In Tampa, the year-and-a-half saga of murdered rapper Julio Foolio reaches its end: all four defendants convicted of first-degree murder, and a jury rejecting the state’s push for the ...

Daily Crime and Justice returns from its two-week vacation hiatus with an entire episode devoted to one case: the sentencing of Kouri Richins. In March, a Utah jury convicted the children’s grief-book author of murdering her husband, Eric, with a lethal dose of fentanyl. Last week, on what would have been Eric’s 44th birthday, a judge sentenced Richins to life without parole. Garret Fisher recaps the case, walks through a wrenching sentencing hearing where three young sons asked a judge to keep ...