Episodes

Reid Carter covers the disappearance of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, believed abducted from her Tucson home with blood found inside and signs of forced entry - Savannah drops Milan Olympics assignment, flies to Arizona in what she calls the worst phone call of her life. Nathan Chasing Horse, the Dances with Wolves actor who ran a cult preying on Indigenous women and girls, convicted on 13 charges including sexual assault of a minor - faces minimum 25 years. Norw...

Reid Carter delivers the verdict in Virginia's au pair affair murder trial — Brendan Banfield's fate decided after the jury rejected his claim that wife Christine invited a stranger for violent sex and he shot the man in self-defense. Prosecutors argued blood evidence proved Banfield staged the crime scene, his boss destroyed his alibi, and his affair with au pair Juliana Magalhães was motive for murder. The verdict is in. Plus: Alexander brothers sex trafficking trial explodes as witnesses test...

Reid Carter covers major developments in the Luigi Mangione case. Federal judge dismisses murder charge, killing Trump administration's death penalty bid. Pizza delivery man claiming to be FBI agent tried breaking Mangione out of Brooklyn jail with fake court order, barbecue fork, and pizza cutter. Manhattan DA pushes for July trial before federal case goes first. Julio Foolio killer Alicia Andrews wins appeal to remove biased trial judge after YouTube viewers noticed her "overt hostility" towar...

Reid Carter concludes the Port Arthur special with the political miracle that followed the massacre. May 10, 1996: Twelve days after thirty-five people died, Prime Minister John Howard announces the National Firearms Agreement. Ban on semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. National registry. Mandatory buyback. His own coalition nearly revolts. He wears a bulletproof vest to address angry gun owners. But Howard doesn't back down. Result: 650,000 guns destroyed. In the eighteen years before Port Arth...

Reid Carter continues the Australia Day coverage with the deadliest mass shooting in modern Australian history. April 28, 1996: A gunman enters the Broad Arrow Café at Port Arthur's historic site. In ninety seconds, twenty people are dead. He moves to the car park, the tollbooth, executes a mother shielding her two daughters aged six and three. Hijacks a BMW after killing its occupants. Takes a hostage. Returns to a guesthouse where he'd already murdered the owners that morning. Eighteen-hour st...

Reid Carter dives into the tabloids for Friday's bizarre crime roundup. Spandau Ballet singer Ross Davidson convicted of raping one woman and attempting to rape another - prosecutor says the "sex symbol" expected "sex on demand" and attacked women he met on Tinder while they slept. Double killer Gordon "Woody" Mower makes first public appearance in 30 years - the hulking murderer who slaughtered his parents and once tried escaping prison in a coffin now claims his lawyers bribed him to plead gui...

Reid Carter covers the Alexander brothers' federal sex trafficking trial as first witness describes waking up naked with Alon Alexander standing over her after a party at Zac Efron's apartment - says she was repeatedly raped while his brother watched and did nothing. Defense calls them "womanizers" in "hookup culture," not criminals. Newly unsealed autopsy reports reveal Bryan Kohberger stabbed his four Idaho victims over 100 times collectively - Xana Kernodle suffered 67 wounds in frenzied atta...

Reid Carter returns to the Paul Caneiro Mansion Murders trial with a week's worth of devastating testimony - neighbor heard gunshots and thought "someone just got whacked," surveillance captures Paul moments before system mysteriously disconnects, and bloody gloves found in wife's Porsche. Meanwhile, Lindsay Clancy's chilling lawsuit reveals the exact moment she strangled her three children - claims she heard a male voice commanding "Kill the children so you can kill yourself." Both Lindsay and ...

Reid Carter covers bombshell developments in the au pair murder trial as defendant Brendan Banfield prepares to testify - defense claims wife wasn't catfished while prosecution points to 4-year-old daughter asking the au pair "Can I call you mommy now?" Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arraigned today in California after FBI captured the Ten Most Wanted fugitive who moved 60 metric tons of cocaine annually and orchestrated multiple murders including a witness shot in the head...

Reid Carter covers the ultimate snowstorm crime as a massive blizzard shuts down courts across America. February 1874: Alferd Packer led five prospectors into Colorado's San Juan Mountains during one of the worst winters on record. Only Packer walked out alive - looking suspiciously well-fed with money belonging to dead men. He confessed to cannibalism but claimed self-defense. Escaped jail. Caught nine years later. Sentenced to hang. Judge allegedly said: "There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale...

Reid Carter concludes the Azaria Chamberlain story on Australia Day. Lindy gives birth to daughter Kahlia in prison - the baby taken from her within hours. February 1986: A climber falls to his death at Uluru. Search party finds Azaria's matinee jacket near dingo lairs - the jacket police said didn't exist. Lindy released immediately. Royal Commission dismantles every piece of forensic evidence. Meryl Streep wins Best Actress at Cannes playing Lindy. "A dingo ate my baby" becomes cruel pop cultu...

Reid Carter launches an Australia Day Weekend Special examining the case that became a global phenomenon. August 17, 1980: Lindy Chamberlain's nine-week-old daughter Azaria vanishes from a tent at Uluru. Lindy says she saw a dingo leaving with the baby. First inquest rules dingo attack. Then forensic "experts" claim to find fetal blood in the family car. A British pathologist sees handprints and cut throats that don't exist. The blood turns out to be spray-on car coating. The "cat hair" was ding...

Reid Carter covers the not guilty verdict in Uvalde as former school police officer Adrian Gonzales is acquitted on all 29 counts of child endangerment — mothers of slain children weep outside the courthouse while Gonzales thanks God and refuses to address victims' families. Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder serving 11 years for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions, has filed for a Trump commutation — the same woman who claimed her blood-testing machine would revolutio...

Reid Carter covers the Uvalde trial going to the jury after eleven days - Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts for failing to act while 19 children died. Prosecution says he had three minutes to save lives, defense says "inattentive blindness." Au pair murder trial enters week two with defense calling witnesses - Brendan Banfield's attorney tried to throw out the Brazilian au pair's testimony, judge denied. Blood spatter expert says Joseph Ryan's body may have been moved. West Wing and Field of Dream...

Reid Carter exposes the horrifying 2004 murder that shocked America as Netflix's "Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story" trends nationwide. New Jersey nurse Melanie McGuire shot husband Bill, dismembered his body, and dumped the pieces in three Kenneth Cole suitcases in Chesapeake Bay. Fishermen found legs, torso, and arms across eleven days in May 2004. Prosecutors proved Melanie bought a .38 gun two days before murder, searched "how to commit murder" online, and had affair with fertility ...

Reid Carter covers explosive developments as the Uvalde trial enters week three with damning 3D animation showing officer Adrian Gonzales drove directly past the gunman in the parking lot. Surviving teacher Arnulfo Reyes testified he waited 77 minutes with 11 dead children. In Virginia, the au pair affair murder trial revealed Juliana Magalhães was negotiating a Netflix documentary deal while writing love letters vowing to protect the man she now accuses of masterminding the killings. And jury s...

Reid Carter marks MLK Day with the story of James Earl Ray, the escaped convict who murdered America's greatest civil rights leader. April 4, 1968: Ray fired one shot from a rooming house bathroom, killing Dr. King on the Lorraine Motel balcony in Memphis. Two-month international manhunt ended at London's Heathrow Airport. Pleaded guilty on his 41st birthday, sentenced to 99 years, recanted three days later. Spent 29 years claiming conspiracy and a mysterious man named "Raoul." The King family b...

Reid Carter examines America's most disturbing serial killer ninety years after his execution. Albert Fish, the "Gray Man," murdered at least three children between 1924-1928, though he claimed dozens more. In 1928, the 58-year-old lured 10-year-old Grace Budd from her family's Manhattan apartment, promising her a birthday party. Six years later, Fish sent Grace's mother an anonymous letter describing exactly what he did. That letter led detectives to his door. The trial featured an unprecedente...

Reid Carter marks the 49th anniversary of Gary Gilmore's execution - the firing squad death that ended America's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment. January 17, 1977: Five riflemen, four live rounds, and a convicted killer who demanded the state kill him. Gilmore murdered two young Mormon fathers - Max Jensen, 24, and Bennie Bushnell, 25 - in back-to-back Utah robberies. Both complied. Both died anyway. His last words "Let's do it" later inspired Nike's billion-dollar "Just Do It" slog...

Reid Carter covers Timothy Busfield held without bond as prosecutors reveal two decades of alleged grooming behavior - new accuser emerges claiming he kissed her teenage daughter at Sacramento theater audition. Nathan Chasing Horse's Las Vegas trial begins with jury selection - former "Dances with Wolves" actor faces 21 charges for allegedly running cult called "The Circle" and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls who sought him for spiritual healing. Au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães deliv...

Reid Carter covers the Ohio dentist murders - vascular surgeon Michael McKee charged with killing ex-wife Monique Tepe and her dentist husband Spencer eight years after their divorce. He'd "disappeared" from Las Vegas while dodging a malpractice lawsuit, then allegedly drove 300 miles to execute them in their home while their children slept. Day six of the Uvalde trial: Off-duty officer Joe Vasquez testifies he used a master key to breach the classroom and fired the shot that killed the shooter ...

Reid Carter covers day five of the Uvalde trial - teacher Arnulfo Reyes describes being shot in the arm and pretending to be dead while the shooter murdered every student in his Room 111 classroom. None survived. Rangers testify about the unlocked door, Hellfire trigger, and security cameras nobody was watching. Plus a stunning cold case breakthrough - the 1998 Kentucky murder of Linda Rutledge has been solved after 27 years, and the killer is the same man responsible for Austin's Yogurt Shop Mu...

Reid Carter covers emotional testimony in the Uvalde trial as mother Jennifer Garcia describes learning her daughter Eliahna, nine years old, was among the dead - she'd told Ellie to stay at school that morning. Teacher's testimony stricken after bombshell claim she saw the shooter. New Jersey's Mansion Murders trial begins with opening statements - Paul Caneiro accused of shooting his brother, stabbing his niece and nephew, then setting fires to cover up. Prosecutors say he killed over money he...

Reid Carter covers a weekend of celebrity misbehavior. TMZ documentary reveals Nick Reiner's doctors changed his schizoaffective disorder meds one month before he murdered parents Rob and Michele Reiner - sources say he had a complete break from reality and now believes he's the victim of a conspiracy. West Wing and Field of Dreams star Timothy Busfield, 68, has an arrest warrant for allegedly sexually abusing child actors on The Cleaning Lady set - told kids to call him "Uncle Tim." Home Alone'...