EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Five cases this week. Closing arguments in the Kouri Richins murder trial are happening today in Park City, Utah — the jury that spent three weeks hearing how a Utah mother allegedly poisoned her husband with fentanyl, wrote a grief book for their kids, and tried to coach a witness from jail is now deciding her fate. In Queens, New York, a 75-year-old man was arrested this week for the murder and dismemberment of his 34-year-old wife Salisha Ali, who had already left him — but was talked into one last visit. In Michigan, Dale Warner was convicted of murdering his wife Dee, whose body was found sealed inside a welded fertilizer tank on their farm three years after she disappeared. In Massachusetts, the federal murder case against former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell — accused of grooming Sandra Birchmore from age twelve and killing her at twenty-three — survived a motion to dismiss. And in California, Ashlee Buzzard has a court date in 48 hours to face charges in the death of her nine-year-old daughter Melodee. If she doesn't show up, a judge has warned he will have her extracted from her cell.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

SOURCES

Kouri Richins https://kutv.com/news/local/kouri-richins-murder-trial-moves-to-closing-arguments-after-three-weeks-of-testimony https://www.kpcw.org/summit-county/2026-03-12/kouri-richins-rests-in-murder-trial-without-presenting-defense-case https://www.courttv.com/news/ut-v-kouri-richins-grief-author-murder-trial/https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/14/kouri-richins-trial-what-know/ https://www.abc4.com/richins/kouri-richins-trial-week-three/

Salisha Ali https://queensda.org/husband-charged-with-murder-and-dismemberment-of-wife-whose-remains-were-found-in-separate-locations-along-brookville-blvd-and-cross-bay-blvd/ https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/husband-allegedly-murdered-dismembered-young-wife-dumped-remains-queens-woods/6475807/https://www.amny.com/new-york/queens-murder-senior-husband-young-wife-03112026/https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/16/queens-woman-had-separated-from-husband-now-accused-of-dismembering-her-mom-says/

Dee Warner https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/03/10/dale-dee-warner-murder-trial-verdict-fertilizer-tank/89029126007/ https://www.13abc.com/2026/03/10/jurors-reach-verdict-dale-warner-murder-trial/https://www.clickonde

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