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April 29, 2026

BILLIONAIRE BLOOD FEUD: MUSK TAKES THE STAND IN $150 BILLION OPENAI TRIAL

Two of the richest men on Earth, one charity, and a federal jury that has to figure out who’s lying. Garret Fisher delivers a special full-episode breakdown of the most consequential courtroom showdown in tech history. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for...
April 28, 2026

REINER FAMILY BREAKS SILENCE; BRAND CONFESSES ON A PODCAST; DAVID BURKE’S PHONE HELD CHILD PORN

The Hollywood murder case’s silent survivors finally speak, a British defendant tries his case on YouTube, and forty terabytes of digital evidence are still being sorted. Garret Fisher walks through three cases with court dates this week. Jake Reiner, the eldest son of the murdered Rob and Michele Reiner, has broken a four-month silence in a devastating Substack essay days before his brother Nick returns to court for a discovery hearing. Russell Brand, six months out from his October rape trial...
April 27, 2026

SHOTS NEAR THE HEAD TABLE: THE COLE ALLEN WHITE HOUSE DINNER ATTACK

A teacher of the month, a Caltech engineer, a hotel room on the 10th floor — and the night gunfire reached the President's first Correspondents' Dinner. On Saturday, April 25th, the White House Correspondents' Dinner had barely begun when shots rang out near the magnetometers outside the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, the First Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet were rushed to safety. A Secret Service agent took a round in his vest. The accused gunman: Cole Tomas...
April 24, 2026

THE KILLER’S MOTHER TAKES THE STAND: ATHENA STRAND DEFENSE BEGINS, D4VD AUTOPSY REVEALED

Plus: a trial date for the Florida man who allegedly murdered a suicidal British woman he met online, and a Salvadoran housekeeper sues Kylie Jenner. Garret Fisher returns to the Athena Strand trial as the defense’s mitigation case opens in Fort Worth with testimony from Tanner Horner’s mother. Before that, jurors heard from Athena’s parents, the forensic DNA team, and the audio of her final moments. Then: the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner finally reveals the cause of death for 14-year-ol...
April 23, 2026

WILLACY EXECUTED, FAIRFAX KILLS HIS WIFE, HEUERMANN CONFESSES AT HOME

A Florida death row closes. A Virginia family dies in the basement. And a suburban serial killer finally tells his wife the truth.Garret Fisher brings you three hard stories. Florida executes Chadwick Willacy thirty-six years after he bound, strangled, and set fire to his neighbor Marlys Sather during a lunch-hour burglary. Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shoots his estranged wife Cerina in the basement of their home and kills himself upstairs while their two teenage children...
April 22, 2026

D4VD CHARGED WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES MURDER; TRACEY GRIST TAKES THE STAND

Plus: four dead girls, a TikTok about wrestling, and a Bay Area town eating itself alive — one year after the fireball on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The d4vd case moves from arrest to formal charge: LA County DA Nathan Hochman announces first-degree murder with three special circumstances — lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and the killing of a witness. The death penalty is on the table. Then to Provo, Utah, where the prosecution rested in the Tracey Grist "family trap" trial and the ...
April 21, 2026

LIVER INSTEAD OF SPLEEN: FL SURGEON CHARGED, SIGN'S 'SUICIDE' UNRAVELS, KAREN READ HIT WITH LAWSUIT

A surgeon who took out the wrong organ. An anchor's death his family never accepted. And four witnesses finally firing back at Karen Reed. A Florida surgeon is indicted for manslaughter after allegedly removing a seventy-year-old patient's liver instead of his spleen — and his lawyer says it's not the first wrong organ he's pulled out. Nearly five years after Birmingham anchor Christopher Sign was found hanged in his home office, his family still refuses to accept the suicide ruling — no full a...
April 20, 2026

THE TESLA KILLER IN HANDCUFFS: D4VD ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF CELESTE RIVAS

Plus: the Athena Strand trial turns devastating as DNA evidence lands — and we meet Tracey Grist, the Utah mother who Googled a famous murder-for-hire before her son-in-law was lured to his death. Garret Fisher returns to the D4vd case months after it went quiet — and the quiet is over. LAPD Robbery-Homicide kicked open the gate of his Hollywood Hills mansion Thursday afternoon and arrested 21-year-old David Anthony Burke for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He is being held w...
April 17, 2026

JOHNNY SOMALI JAILED, TICKETMASTER IS A MONOPOLY & THE MAN WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS

The internet's worst tourist gets six months of hard labor, a jury finally calls the concert giant what it is, and SantaCon's president had a very different charity in mind — himself. Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a MAGA hat — has been sentenced to six months of hard labor in South Korea. A New York jury has found ...
April 16, 2026

America's Baby Is in Handcuffs: Baby Jessica Arrested 39 Years After Famous Rescue

Plus: New rape testimony rocks the Athena Strand sentencing phase — and Sherrone Moore walks out of court a free man. She was eighteen months old when she fell into a well in Midland, Texas, and the whole world held its breath for fifty-eight hours. Baby Jessica became America's child. This week, Jessica McClure Morales — now forty years old — was arrested at her Midland home on domestic violence charges. We have the story. Then: the sentencing phase of the Tanner Horner trial has delivered its...
April 15, 2026

STEPBROTHER INDICTED IN ANNA KEPNER CRUISE SHIP MURDER — NOW CHARGED AS ADULT

Plus: A Real Housewife caught shoplifting — for six months. And a cold case from Boca Raton that has never let go. A federal grand jury has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse — five months after the Florida cheerleader was found dead beneath a bed on a Carnival cruise ship. We've followed this case since the beginning. Today, the indictment. Also: Real Housewives of Pretoria star Melany Viljoen and her hu...
April 14, 2026

HUSBAND HELD IN BAHAMAS AS WIFE'S DISAPPEARANCE DEEPENS — PLUS A CHEERLEADER VERDICT AND A SERIAL KILLER FACES DEATH

A dream voyage on a boat called Soulmate has turned into a nightmare — and the only witness is in custody. A Michigan woman vanishes from a dinghy in the Bahamas while sailing with her husband. He paddles to shore. She doesn't. Nine days later, Lynette Hooker is still missing — and her husband Brian is in Bahamian custody, questioned on probable cause, not yet charged. Her daughter says she knows what happened. Brian's lawyer says he's heartbroken. The truth is somewhere in the water. Also: For...
April 13, 2026

TANNER HORNER PLEADS GUILTY: WHAT THE JURY IS DECIDING

He confessed. Then he pled guilty. Now a jury must decide whether he lives or dies. On Tuesday we introduced you to Tanner Lynn Horner — the FedEx contract driver who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022. Since then, the trial in Fort...
April 10, 2026

CONVICTED IN PARADISE: KONIG GOES DOWN, GILGO KILLER CONFESSES, AND THE QUEEN OF KETAMINE GETS 15 YEARS

The anesthesiologist is found guilty. The Long Island serial killer finally says the word. And the woman who sold Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him is heading to federal prison. Friday, April 10th, 2026. Three separate courtrooms. Three verdicts that landed within 48 hours of each other. Gerhardt Konig — the Maui anesthesiologist who beat his wife with a rock at a cliffside in Oahu — was convicted by a jury, though not of everything prosecutors asked for. Rex Heuermann — the Long Island a...
April 9, 2026

MELISSA GILBERT BREAKS SILENCE, CRUISE SHIP MYSTERY REIGNITES & SERIAL KILLER FINALLY ON TRIAL

A Little House on the Prairie reunion nobody wanted, a 28-year-old disappearance finds new leads, and a man who already admitted it — in court at last. Garret Fisher covers three stories that have been years — in some cases, decades — in the making. The West Wing's Timothy Busfield is back in headlines as wife Melissa Gilbert goes on national television to defend him, revealing she knew about prior allegations before they married. Then: Amy Bradley disappeared from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship...
April 8, 2026

SON, BADGE & BODY BAGS: EX-NYPD COP CHARGED IN PARENTS' MURDERS, FEDEX KILLER ON TRIAL & THE MIAMI MODEL WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS FROM THE FUTURE

A son who allegedly shot his parents over money. A man who killed a seven-year-old because she was going to tell her dad. And a woman who drove 78 miles an hour through a red light high on pink cocaine and told cops she was from the future. Humans. Suck. Garret Fisher covers three cases that will test your faith in humanity — and your patience for the justice system. A former NYPD officer is charged with shooting his elderly parents to death in their Florida apartment, allegedly motivated by mo...
April 7, 2026

DEATH BY ANTIFREEZE: Judy Church Convicted of Poisoning Boyfriend Leroy Fowler She said it was a joke. The jury didn't laugh.

Back in March, we told you about a sixty-seven-year-old Massachusetts woman named Judy Church who was on trial for poisoning her live-in boyfriend with antifreeze — a man she also secretly insured, threatened to kidnap, and filmed while he was dying. Today, we tell you what happened. The jury deliberated for more than eight hours. The judge had something to say at sentencing. The family had more. Judy Church stood there and said nothing. This is the complete story of Leroy Fowler — who knew he w...
April 6, 2026

DOCTOR ON THE STAND: KONIG TESTIFIES, SON DROPS BOMBSHELL, JUDGE GUTS LIVELY LAWSUIT

Gerhardt Konig faces cross-examination as his own son tells jurors he confessed — and Blake Lively's case just got a lot smaller. It has been a brutal week for Gerhardt Konig in a Honolulu courtroom. His son took the stand and told jurors that his own father called him twice to confess — then said he planned to jump off the cliff before police could catch him. A digital forensics detective walked the jury through Christmas Eve Reddit spirals, late-night searches for deadly hiking trails, and a ...
April 3, 2026

REACHER'S REAL FISTS, KIM KARDASHIAN'S EXPOSED DEAL & XANDER'S TRAGIC EXIT

A TV star's street brawl, a judge blows up a Hollywood hush deal, and a beloved actor dies too soon. The actor who plays an unstoppable action hero punched a neighbor to the ground in a Tennessee suburb — and walked away without charges. A Los...
April 2, 2026

WIFE TESTIFIES ON HER OWN BIRTHDAY; GUTHRIE BREAKS SILENCE; TIGER PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Days three through five in Honolulu deliver Arielle's testimony and damning DNA results. Savannah speaks. Tiger demands a jury. Thursday, April 2nd. Arielle Konig takes the stand on the anniversary of the attack — her birthday — and tells the jury what Gerhardt said while beating her with a rock. Day Five brings DNA testimony that undercuts the defense's mutual-combat story. Savannah Guthrie gives her first interview since her mother Nancy was abducted from her Tucson home two months ago — call...
April 1, 2026

TIGER WOODS ARRESTED AGAIN: FOOLS, CRASHES & $100M COCAINE IN BANANAS

April 1st — no jokes, just a legendary golfer in handcuffs, a lottery winner turned burglar, and a Brexit-sized drug bust hiding in fruit. It's April Fool's Day, and Garret Fisher is not laughing. Tiger Woods, 50, is waking up this Wednesday with a DUI charge after rolling his Land Rover on a Jupiter Island road Friday — his second DUI arrest, his fourth high-profile crash, his latest chapter in a long-running story about a man who can't stay out of his own way. Russell Brand's UK rape trial, n...
March 31, 2026

NOT GUILTY: COP CLEARED AS GILGO KILLER CAVES AND A FATHER GETS LIFE

Three verdicts land in one week — a postpartum officer goes free, a serial killer folds, and a Mississippi dad finally faces justice. A former Massachusetts police officer walks out of court a free woman after being shot by her own colleague. The man accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer — seven murders, seventeen years, a Word document full of kill instructions — is reportedly about to plead guilty. And in Mississippi, the second jury to hear a father-daughter murder conspiracy finall...
March 30, 2026

BIG TECH'S BIG TOBACCO MOMENT: META AND YOUTUBE FOUND LIABLE FOR ADDICTING A GENERATION

Garret Fisher covers the landmark double verdict against Big Tech. In Los Angeles, a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for deliberately designing addictive platforms that damaged twenty-year-old Kaley's mental health — ordering $6 million in damages in a bellwether case tied to 2,000 pending lawsuits. One day earlier in Santa Fe, a separate jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling child sexual predators on its platforms. Two juries. Two states. Two verdicts in two days. We covered ...
March 27, 2026

COP WHO SHOT COP TAKES STAND — BOTH SIDES REST; HAWAII DOCTOR'S WIFE TESTIFIES ON HER BIRTHDAY

Garret Fisher covers the stunning conclusion of the Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial in Massachusetts — three days of testimony, both sides rested, and now a judge decides whether a postpartum crisis or an assault on a fellow officer happened in that North Andover home. Then: Arielle Konig takes the stand in Honolulu — on her birthday, exactly one year after her husband allegedly tried to kill her on a Hawaiian hiking trail — and delivers testimony that includes a syringe, a birthday card, a rock,...