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28:21

What Makes Josh Duggar Think He Deserves Another...

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2026/06/05

Four courts. Four refusals. And Josh Duggar filed every single one of them expecting a different answer.His first appeal came in 2022 — denied. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction in August 2023. The United States Supreme Court declined to hear his case in June 2024. And on June 1 of this year, Judge Timothy Brooks denied Josh’s final motion to vacate — a Section 2255 filing that represented his last procedural avenue. Every legal door is now closed.The ruling was devastating

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58:31

The Crash: Why a Psychotherapist Thinks the Mackenzie...

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2026/06/04

Was it murder? That's the question the trial asked. A judge said yes. Netflix's The Crash put the evidence on screen and the public argued about the answer. But psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent thirty years studying violence and treating people on both sides of it, says the trial was asking the wrong question — and the answer to the right one is something far more complicated and far more tragic than either side is prepared to accept.Shirilla was seventeen when the crash in

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58:57

Did Prosecutors Underestimate The Witness Who Knew...

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2026/06/04

Prosecutors spent twelve and a half hours on Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes at the first trial. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours. The Supreme Court said the financial evidence went too far. Nobody said Blanca went far enough.That imbalance is the story of the retrial before it's even started. Because if round two can't rely on a parade of financial devastation to paint Alex as a monster, it has to rely on the evidence that was always there but never got the time it deserved. The timeline. The

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22:49

The Crash: What If the Mackenzie Shirilla Case Was...

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2026/06/04

There's a question that hangs over the Mackenzie Shirilla case that almost nobody is willing to ask directly. What if this wasn't premeditated murder? What if it wasn't even reckless homicide in the way most people understand it? What if a seventeen-year-old in psychological free fall, in a volatile relationship she couldn't escape, with substances in her system and a diagnosed medical condition that could cause blackouts, experienced something the legal system has no category for?Psychotherapist

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14:55

How Did a Routine Stolen Plate Check at 1:34 AM in...

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2026/06/04

The Tallahassee Police Department responded to the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in the early hours of January 15, 1978. What they found inside — Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy killed, Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler severely injured — was unlike anything the department had investigated.Nita Neary, the only eyewitness, described a man in a stocking mask on the stairs carrying an oak log. The investigators photographed a bite mark on Lisa Levy's body. It was the only physical

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17:50

What Does a Three-Hour Verdict Say About Kouri Richins?

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2026/06/04

Zero defense witnesses. A waived right to testify. Three weeks of silence from a woman whose entire psychological operating system runs on narrative production. And a juror who watched the transformation from "trapped" to "like a statue."This episode tracks what sustained silence does to a mind like Kouri Richins'. Not the legal strategy behind the defense's decision — the psychological experience of it. What it's like to sit in a chair while people from your own life deconstruct the person you

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15:07

The Crash: Did the Prosecution Misread Mackenzie...

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2026/06/04

Two weeks before the crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan, there was an incident on I-71. The prosecution's version: a friend overheard Mackenzie Shirilla say "I will crash this car right now" during a fight with Dominic. That testimony became evidence of prior calculation — proof she'd rehearsed the act before she carried it out. But text messages tell a different story. Mackenzie told Dominic's mother it was Dom who grabbed the steering wheel, not her. Two versions of the same

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21:19

The Crash: Why Everything You Think About Mackenzie...

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2026/06/04

Ninety-three thousand text messages were reviewed in the Mackenzie Shirilla case. The prosecution selected the most threatening ones and presented them to a judge as proof of a mind capable of premeditated murder. "My way or the highway." "Watch your back, your house, your car, your life." A TikTok persona that screamed narcissism. An arrest where she asked cops to protect her bracelets. The personality profile wrote itself — cold, controlling, dangerous.But psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent

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17:24

Why Did Rebecca Haro Have A Baby With A Man Already...

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2026/06/04

Rebecca Haro knew exactly who Jake Haro was when she had a baby with him. She knew about the 2023 child cruelty conviction in Riverside County. She knew about the 2024 illegal possession of a loaded firearm and the probation violations. She knew about the ex-wife who had gone into court and asked a judge for a domestic violence restraining order, specifically requesting protection for a child she shared with him.None of it stopped her. She brought seven-month-old Emmanuel Haro into that home

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59:10

The Crash: Why a Defense Attorney Says the Mackenzie...

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2026/06/03

Defense failure. Prosecutorial overreach. Systemic rigidity. And a defendant making post-conviction choices that may be sealing her own fate. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta says the Mackenzie Shirilla case isn't just one thing that went wrong — it's a cascade of failures that compounded at every stage.Shirilla was seventeen when the crash in Strongsville, Ohio killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was convicted of four counts of murder in a bench trial. Her defense raised a medical

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18:32

Why Does Murdaugh's Housekeeper Think Alex Had A Plan...

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2026/06/03

Alex Murdaugh never worked alone. Not when he was stealing from clients. Not when he was running pills through Curtis Eddie Smith. Not when he staged his own shooting on the side of a Hampton County road. Every major scheme in his life had other hands on it. Other people carrying the weight. Other names on the checks.So why would the murders be different?That's the question Blanca Simpson keeps coming back to. She spent twenty years watching Alex operate from inside his own household. She saw the

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15:48

The Crash: Is Public Opinion Going to Keep Mackenzie...

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2026/06/03

Dominic Russo's sister started a podcast. His parents appear in the Netflix documentary. The families are visible, vocal, and firmly opposed to any leniency for Mackenzie Shirilla. On the other side, Mackenzie agreed to speak from prison in The Crash — and a fellow inmate immediately told the public that the remorseful, soft-spoken woman on camera isn't the person she saw behind bars. The court of public opinion is in session, and Mackenzie is losing.Shirilla is serving fifteen years to life for

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15:04

How Did Ted Bundy Starve Himself Down Twenty Pounds...

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2026/06/03

Ted Bundy was convicted of aggravated kidnapping in Utah in 1976. Bench trial. Judge Stewart Hanson. Sentenced to one to fifteen years. In October 1976, Colorado charged him with the murder of Caryn Campbell. He was extradited to Aspen in January 1977.As his own attorney, he received the legal courtesies the Sixth Amendment requires. Library access. No shackles. No handcuffs in the building. The Pitkin County Courthouse gave a murder defendant the run of the second floor.On June 7, 1977, he jumped

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14:55

The 'Walk the Dog' Letter Tells You Everything About...

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2026/06/03

"Walk the Dog!!" written across the top of a six-page letter found hidden in Kouri Richins' jail cell. Inside: instructions for coaching her brother's testimony. The defense she should never have scripted.But the letter itself isn't the most revealing piece. The "fictional novel" defense is. Because when Kouri was confronted on a recorded jail call, she didn't pause. She didn't stumble. She produced a complete alternative explanation instantly — fictional novel, Mexican prison setting, Crest

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15:23

The Crash: What a Defense Attorney Sees When He Looks...

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2026/06/03

A prosecutor called it a "mission of death." A judge agreed. But a criminal defense attorney who has spent his career on the other side of cases like this says the Mackenzie Shirilla prosecution has vulnerabilities that should have been exposed at trial — and weren't, because the defense never mounted the challenge the evidence demanded.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution relied on

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28:38

The Crash: Every Way Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense...

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2026/06/03

The defense raised a medical condition. Never proved it. Had competing evidence that contradicted the prosecution's key witness. Never introduced it. Filed the post-conviction petition with the one expert who might have changed everything. Filed it one day late. At every critical moment in the Mackenzie Shirilla case, the defense failed — and a seventeen-year-old is serving fifteen years to life because of it.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash in Strongsville, Ohio that

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20:31

What Happens Inside Nancy Guthrie's 41 Missing Minutes?

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2026/06/03

Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m. on the morning of February 1, somebody walked up to an 84-year-old woman's house in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, got inside, and got her out. Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47. Her pacemaker app disconnected at 2:28. Forty-one minutes. That is the entire window. Four months later, nobody outside the investigation can fill it in.This True Crime Today episode walks through the full Nancy Guthrie timeline, beginning to now. The blood on her front

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61:40

The Crash: Is the Mackenzie Shirilla Case Really as...

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2026/06/02

Everyone who watches Netflix's The Crash picks a side. Guilty or railroaded. Monster or misunderstood teenager. Premeditated killer or reckless kid in over her head. The documentary gives you enough to feel certain either way — and that's exactly the problem, because the evidence doesn't support certainty in either direction.Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for driving her car into a building in Strongsville, Ohio at nearly a hundred miles per hour, killing her boyfriend

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24:52

Why Wasn't Murdaugh's Housekeeper Asked About...

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2026/06/02

You want to know what went wrong in the first Murdaugh trial? Forget the jury tampering for a second. Forget Becky Hill. Look at the allocation of time. The state spent twelve and a half hours on financial crimes. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours.Blanca is the person who knew that household's daily patterns better than anyone. She knew how Maggie left her things. She knew where the towels went. She knew what the morning routine looked like and what it didn't look like. When she walked into that

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19:08

The Crash: Did Grief Decide What Happened to...

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2026/06/02

The judge who convicted Mackenzie Shirilla of four counts of murder also denied her post-conviction petition — the one containing a neurologist's expert opinion that the crash may have been caused by a medical episode. Same judge. Same defendant. Same case. The petition was denied on procedural grounds — filed one day late — not on the merits. But the question lingers: when the same person makes every consequential decision about your fate, does confirmation bias become unavoidable?That question

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