Eight names. Said out loud. In a courtroom. By the man who killed them.

On Wednesday, Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court and pleaded guilty eight times — once for each woman he strangled and dumped along the Long Island coast over seventeen years. Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Melissa Barthelemy. Megan Waterman. Amber Lynn Costello. Jessica Taylor. Sandra Costilla. Valerie Mack. Karen Vergata. Sentencing is June 17th. Their full episode is coming.

In the Bahamas, Lynette Hooker — 55, Michigan, a sailor who loved the water her whole life — disappeared from a dinghy on April 5th. Her husband says she fell overboard. Her daughter says nothing about that story adds up. He was arrested this week. No charges. No body. This one is still moving.

In Iowa, Ashley Okland was 27 years old when she was shot twice at an open house on April 8th, 2011. This past Wednesday was the fifteenth anniversary of her death. Two days later, Kristin Ramsey stood in a courtroom and pleaded not guilty. Ashley's siblings were in the front row. Trial is January 2027.

And last Saturday night in Union Township, New Jersey — one person killed, six injured at a Chick-fil-A. Masked gunmen. Not random. No arrests. No name yet. When there is, we'll be back for them.

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

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Bianca Devins was seventeen years old when she was killed in Utica, New York on July 14, 2019. You probably already know how she died. What you probably don't know is who she actually was — the ukulele, the anime art, the YouTube videos she made at eleven where she hated being on camera, the way her grandfather sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" to her and she passed it down to her baby sister. The fact that she had been through depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD — years of it, in and out of hospitals — and came out the other side with a plan. She was going to study psychology. She was going to help adolescents who had been failed by the same mental health system that had failed her. She was seventeen years old and she had a plan. Every piece of coverage about this case starts with the internet. This one starts with Bianca.

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

Sources: Rolling Stone — Bianca Devins: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bianca-devins-viral-death-murder-926823/ CBS 48 Hours — Bianca Devins: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bianca-devins-murder-violent-images-psychological-terrorism-48-hours/ Wikipedia — Murder of Bianca Devins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bianca_Devins WKTV — Brandon Clark sentencing: https://www.wktv.com/archive/brandon-clark-sentenced-in-murder-of-17-year-old-bianca-devins/article_d1bdf090-7932-11ec-8d73-77f82ffcca9c.html Rome Sentinel — Appeal denied: https://www.romesentinel.com/news/utica-devins-clark-appeal-denied/article_b6b933bf-d166-441c-98b9-368614a40fe8.html Observer-Dispatch — Sentencing hearing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-sentenced-for-murder-of-utica-teen-bianca-devins/ar-BB1eEeso

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In Chicago, 18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman walked to a lakefront beach at midnight with friends to see the city skyline. She whispered that someone was behind the lighthouse. There was one shot. Every segment this week was about politics. This show is about Sheridan. In Houston, a 36-year cold case broke open — the 1990 Lovers Lane murders. Cheryl Henry was 22. Andy Atkinson was 21. They went on a date night and never came home. Their mothers and Andy's father did not live to see this week. In Cookeville, Tennessee, 34-year-old Samantha Goolsby didn't come home Tuesday night. She was found in the woods the next afternoon. Most of the country never heard her name. We said it. And Rex Heuermann — charged with seven Gilgo Beach murders — is expected to plead guilty April 8th.

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

Sources: 

Block Club Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/27/loyola-murder-suspect-ordered-detained-by-judge-who-calls-crime-horrible/

Chicago Sun-Times — Sheridan Gorman: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/03/24/heres-what-to-know-killing-sheridan-gorman

WTTW Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/27/man-charged-fatal-shooting-loyola-freshman-sheridan-gorman-be-detained-pending-trial

NBC Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-in-killing-of-loyola-university-chicago-student-was-hiding-behind-lighthouse-prosecutors/3912716/

Click2Houston — Lovers Lane DNA: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/03/26/the-crucial-tip-and-dna-link-that-led-to-a-capital-murder-arrest-for-1990-texas-lovers-lane-cold-case/

KHOU Houston — Floyd Parrott arrest: https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/lovers-lane-killings-cold-case-arrest-houston-texas/285-fd2b5b56-b8ce-4dcc-845e-85cafc8a09a3

CBS News — Lovers Lane timeline: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lovers-lane-cold-case-murders-houston-suspect-arrested/

ABC13 Houston — Henry and Atkinson families: https://abc13.com/post/lovers-lane-murders-arrest-made-1990-west-houston-killing-cheryl-henry-andy-atkinson-authorities-say/18779096/

FOX 17 Nashville — Samantha Goolsby: https://fox17.com/news/local/missing-woman-found-dead-suspect-charged-with-murder-in-putnam-county

NBC News — Rex Heuermann: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-expected-guilty-p

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This week's roundup covers four cases that all broke in the last seven days. In Altamonte Springs, Florida, two teenage girls — fifteen and fourteen — are sitting in jail charged as adults with attempted murder after allegedly plotting to kill a classmate in a blood ritual to resurrect the Sandy Hook shooter. New footage and unredacted court documents were released this week. In Southaven, Mississippi, twenty-year-old Mykryra Clemons — who had Down syndrome and was nonverbal — was found dead in a bag in a closet in her mother's bedroom. She had been there since January. Court is tomorrow. In West Des Moines, Iowa, a fifteen-year-old cold case finally broke open: Kristin Ramsey was arrested and charged with the 2011 murder of realtor Ashley Okland, who was shot dead during an open house. Ramsey says she's innocent and is already fighting the charges. And in Seattle, a verdict came down Friday in the 2023 killing of Eina Kwon — a pregnant restaurant owner shot at a red light on her way to work. The man who killed her was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Both the prosecution and defense's own experts agreed. Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

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Skylar Neese was sixteen years old, a 4.0 student, and a girl who wanted to be a criminal defense attorney. On July 6th, 2012, she snuck out of her Star City, West Virginia apartment after midnight to get into a car with two girls she had known for years. She never came home. The case is solved — and the answers are harder to sit with than the questions ever were. This episode goes deeper than the Hulu documentary Friends Like These: the real motive that the doc handled irresponsibly, Skylar’s Law and the legislation her parents fought to pass in her name, and Rachel Shoaf’s June 2026 parole eligibility — live information you can act on right now. Before we talk about how she died, we talk about how she lived.

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The verdict is in. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury in Park City, Utah found Kouri Richins guilty on all five counts — aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, two counts of insurance fraud, and forgery — in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband Eric Richins in 2022. She faces life in prison without parole. Sentencing is May 13th. His sons were five, seven, and nine when he died. They are eight, ten, and twelve today. This one is for them.

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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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Three active cases: the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah enters day thirteen — and two bombshells drop in court, including a six-page letter prosecutors say is Kouri coaching a witness, and the revelation that her grief children's book was written by a ghost writer. In Massachusetts, a federal judge denies a motion to dismiss the Matthew Farwell case — the former detective accused of grooming Sandra Birchmore from age twelve and killing her at twenty-three. And in California, Ashlee Buzzard refuses to appear in court for the second time this week to face charges in the death of her nine-year-old daughter, Melodee. Every Monday, this is where we check in on what's moving.

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This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how people died, we talk about how they lived.

This week’s roundup tracks verified movement only. No gore, no rumor, no comment section detective work. We start in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the ice rink shooting during a high school hockey game has now claimed a third victim, and we break down what is confirmed about the victims, the shooter, and the bystander intervention that likely prevented more loss of life.

Then we move to the still unfolding disappearance of 84 year old Nancy Guthrie in Arizona, including the expanded no parking zone around her neighborhood, the reward landscape, what a CODIS no hit actually means, and why investigators are leaning into slower forensic lanes and signal based search tools.

We also cover Tipp City, Ohio, where Ashley Flynn’s husband faces murder and evidence tampering charges amid allegations of staging, plus an important court calendar update on the preliminary hearing. Finally, we go to Norristown, Pennsylvania, where a shooting investigation led to arrests in two alleged rival sex trafficking operations, and we walk through the specific mechanics described in the criminal complaint and what prosecutors will need to prove next.

Victim centered. System aware. Clear lines between what is confirmed, what is alleged, and what is still unknown.

Resources:

AP story on expanded no parking zone due to journalists and streamers
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/no-parking-zone-in-nancy-guthrie-s-neighborhood-21941696.php

AP story on the family’s $1 million reward, via AP repost
https://www.wboc.com/news/national/savannah-guthrie-says-her-family-is-offering-a-1-million-reward-for-her-mothers-recovery/article_2454b004-00ed-5497-b79c-dea6f0fc90d9.html

Guardian, reward and the $500,000 donation to NCMEC
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/nancy-guthrie-savannah-reward-information

Pima County Sheriff statement on “different day” claims being speculative, Yahoo repost of People reporting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pima-county-sheriff-addresses-claim-025949565.html

Sheriff Chris Nanos telling People there is no evidence the suspect came a different day, Yahoo repost of People reporting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ariz-sheriff-says-no-evidence-054510489.html

AZFamily, glove DNA CODIS update, Walmart backpack lead, BlueFly statement, and reward references
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/02/17/fbi-using-signal-sniffer-technology-search-nancy-guthries-pacemaker/

ABC News live updates via Good Morning America, BlueFly and gun shop canvass
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/US/live-updates/nancy-guthrie-investigation-live-updates-person-detained-released-130050835/police-trying-to-find-nancy-guthrie-through-pacemaker-signals-130238559?offset=5

Parsons BlueFly product page, how they describe the tech
https://www.parsons.com/products/bluefly/

AZPM, 88 CRIME anonymous donation, reward increase details
https://news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2026/2/18/228532-88-crime-receives-anonymous-100k-donation-for-reward-in-nancy-guthrie-case/

CBS News, accomplice not ruled out, reward references and investigative posture
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-guthrie-disappearance-accomplice-arizona/

People reporting on Google Trends address searches, via Yahoo repost
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/online-searches-nancy-guthrie-address-213949998.html

Fox6 Milwaukee, sheriff department statements including biological evidence language and reward admin clarification
https://www.fox6now.com/news/nancy-guthrie-biological-evidence-found-her-catalina-foothills-home

Tipp City, Ohio, Ashley Flynn case

AP wire via ABC News, charges, alleged staging, bond amount, 911 call context
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This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Abigail Williams and Liberty German died, we talk about how they lived.

On February 13, 2017, two eighth grade best friends went for a walk on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. It was a warm snow make up day. School was out. The kind of afternoon where nothing feels dangerous.

Abby Williams was 13. Libby German was 14. They took photos. They crossed the bridge slowly. Libby pressed record when something felt off.

What happened next would fracture a town of under 3,000 people and become one of the most analyzed cases in modern true crime history.

In this episode, we walk through:

• A detailed timeline of February 13 and 14, 2017
• The video and audio Libby captured
• The discovery of the girls near Deer Creek
• The investigation, the misfiled 2017 tip
• The 2022 arrest of Richard Allen
• The 2024 trial, forensic evidence, and ballistics testimony
• The guilty verdict and 130 year sentence
• The ongoing appeals and questions raised by the defense

This is not a story about a bridge. It is a story about two girls who mattered. And about what it took to hold a case together for nearly eight years.

I’m Dino Malvone. This is I Fear You, Babe.

Core Case & Official Info

• Wikipedia — Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German
(Includes timeline, evidence released, details on the video/audio from Libby’s phone, arrest, conviction, and sentencing.)

News & Trial Links

• ABC News — Delphi man found guilty on all charges
https://abcnews.com/US/delphi-double-murder-trial-jury-reaches-verdict-killing/story?id=114784404

• AP News — Video and an unused bullet prove man’s guilt
https://apnews.com/article/9d9756a1e076edaa2f0694a2b54ab3da

• People.com — Where is the Delphi murderer now?
https://people.com/where-is-richard-allen-today-delphi-murderer-11905667

Related Media & Context

• Podcast — Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders (Spotify)
https://open.spotify.com/show/05NNftx1ghXnguEFwlEzAE

• YouTube — Libby German’s last video & analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVwleZgjHNQ

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