In January 2025, Scott Minton was exonerated in Tennessee after serving 31 years for a crime he didn't commit. Despite 18 alibi witnesses and timestamped receipts placing him in a different county, Minton—who lives with an intellectual disability—was convicted after coercive interrogation produced a false confession. This case reveals how the justice system can fail its most vulnerable.

Kouri Richins stands trial for allegedly murdering her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. The prosecution argues she tried once before on Valentine's Day, obtained the drug from her housekeeper, and served it to Eric in a Moscow Mule cocktail. This episode examines the evidence trail, the alleged financial motive tied to insurance policies and debt, and the testimony from the woman who says she sold Richins the fentanyl.

In June 2025, a Massachusetts jury found Karen Read not guilty of murdering her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, but convicted her of driving under the influence. The case became a national flashpoint, pitting the prosecution's theory that Read struck O'Keefe with her SUV against the defense's explosive allegations of a police cover-up involving a house party fight and a dog attack. The verdict satisfied no one—and left Canton, Massachusetts, struggling to heal.

How a bullet casing in a drain and DNA under a fingernail finally solved Austin's most infamous cold case—and exonerated four innocent men after decades of wrongful accusations.

In February 2023, Fairfax County police found two bodies: Christine Banfield, stabbed to death, and Joseph Ryan, a complete stranger shot dead. What seemed like a home invasion was actually an elaborate scheme - Christine's husband Brendan had catfished Ryan on a fetish website, luring him to the home to frame him for a murder Brendan committed himself. The motive? An affair with the family's au pair.

In November 2006, University of Miami defensive tackle Bryan Pata was shot in the back of the head outside his apartment. The case went cold for 15 years until ESPN journalists cracked what police couldn't.

In December 2025, Cleophus Emmanuel Cooksey Jr. was sentenced to death for a killing spree that claimed eight lives in just three weeks across the Phoenix Valley. This episode follows the investigation that connected seemingly random murders through GPS data, ballistic evidence, and a stolen necklace — revealing how forensic science linked crimes that initially appeared unrelated, including the murder of the killer's own mother.

How prosecutors are building a case that a children's book author systematically poisoned her husband for insurance money. Kouri Richins faces trial for allegedly killing Eric Richins with fentanyl after a failed Valentine's Day attempt.

Peter Sullivan entered prison at 29 years old, convicted of murdering 21-year-old Diane Sindall. He left at 68, after DNA technology unavailable in 1987 proved the semen found on Sindall's body wasn't his. Sullivan maintains he confessed only after being beaten, denied food and sleep, and threatened with rape charges. His case is now Britain's longest known wrongful imprisonment—and the real killer remains at large.

On February 16, 2022, Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan was gunned down after stopping to move a tire blocking a Jacksonville Beach road—with his two-year-old daughter in the car. Prosecutors allege this was no random act: it was a meticulously planned murder-for-hire, orchestrated by his ex-wife Shanna Gardner and her estranged husband Mario Fernandez over a bitter custody dispute. The admitted gunman has pleaded guilty, but key questions remain as Gardner and Fernandez await trial in August 2026.