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The dogs reportedly alerted at four locations. That's supposed to mean something. Cadaver dogs are trained to detect the presence of human remains, and when multiple dogs independently alert across a property, it's typically treated as a serious indicator. 

But when that happened at Green Hollow in 2022 — on the Iowa property where Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father Donald Studey buried dozens of women he allegedly killed — the response was a three-day dig, a drilled well, and a closed case. Lucy says they searched the wrong well on a property that reportedly covers more than 400 acres. She reportedly wasn't even present to direct the search. 

Since then, a documentary production crew has reportedly invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars continuing to investigate. They funded a re-autopsy of Charlotte Studey — one of Don's wives — who reportedly died in 1984 from a gunshot wound to the head in Omaha. That death was ruled self-inflicted for decades. It's now officially classified as undetermined. Charlotte's daughters are reportedly fighting in court to unseal the Omaha police files. 

A forensic dig in May 2025 reportedly produced additional cadaver dog alerts and ground-penetrating radar hits in areas never fully searched. No conclusive remains have been found at Green Hollow from any excavation. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, who spent over a year investigating this case on the ground, joins the conversation to break down what happened and what was missed.

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The charges filed against David Anthony Burke in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez carry the most serious legal weight California law allows. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced first-degree murder with special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness in a criminal investigation. Burke also faces charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen and unlawful mutilation of human remains.

If convicted as charged, Burke faces either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. The DA’s office has indicated the death penalty decision will be made at a later date. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his defense attorneys maintain he is innocent.

The special circumstances carry distinct legal significance. The lying-in-wait allegation requires prosecutors to demonstrate Burke waited and watched for an opportunity to carry out the killing. The financial gain allegation is tied to the prosecution’s theory that Burke killed Celeste to protect his music career — his debut album was released two days after her alleged death. The witness-murder allegation stems from prosecutors’ claim that Celeste was involved in an investigation into alleged sexual acts committed by Burke while she was under fourteen.

The People’s Brief also revealed that prosecutors allege Burke possessed a significant amount of child sexual abuse material. The autopsy determined Celeste died from multiple penetrating wounds. Her body was so decomposed when found that the medical examiner used dental records for identification.

Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski address listener questions about the legal architecture of these charges, what each special circumstance requires prosecutors to prove, and what the forensic evidence outlined in the filing reveals about the prosecution’s strategy.

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Green Hollow, Iowa. A remote stretch of wooded hills and deep ravines about 40 miles from Omaha. For decades, it was allegedly the hunting ground of Donald Dean Studey — a man his own daughter now calls a monster. Lucy Studey-McKiddy says she was a child the first time she helped her father at the well. 

She says she carried bags of lye. She says she knew what the well was for. And she says her father allegedly killed dozens of women over a span of decades, targeting women who were vulnerable — reportedly transient women, women at bus stops and truck stops, women with no one waiting for them at home. 

The allegations first surfaced publicly in 2007 and made global headlines in 2022 when cadaver dogs reportedly alerted at multiple locations across the Green Hollow property. But the story goes back much further than that. Don Studey reportedly had a violent criminal history and multiple wives, several of whom died under circumstances that have never been satisfactorily explained. 

Charlotte Studey reportedly died in 1984 from a single gunshot wound in Omaha — officially self-inflicted until a re-autopsy led to a reclassification to undetermined. Lucy's mother reportedly died by hanging in 1970 amid evidence of a beating. Studey's own sister reportedly kept a journal describing alleged killings and confirmed the wells were a graveyard. No charges were ever filed. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta spent over a year on the ground in Green Hollow investigating this case and shares what he found.

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“If I was divorced right now and ask you to marry me tomorrow, you would?” That’s what Kouri Richins texted her boyfriend three months before she killed her husband. She was already planning a future that required Eric Richins to not exist. In part two of our definitive series, we lay out the full architecture of the murder plan — the yearslong affair, the secret insurance policies totaling $2.2 million, the escalating drug purchases, and the failed poisoning on Valentine’s Day that should have been a warning no one could ignore. Eric told his family that if anything happened to him, Kouri was to blame. He said it clearly. He said it directly. And then he died exactly the way he predicted. The prosecution called it “learning from her mistake.” This episode traces every step of a plan that was never impulsive — it was scheduled.

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Three cases at distinct stages of the legal process raise overlapping questions about evidentiary standards, investigative procedure, and institutional accountability.

In Los Angeles, David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, financial gain, and murder of a witness in connection with the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The charges carry the possibility of the death penalty, though the DA’s office has not yet made that determination. Burke has pleaded not guilty, and his defense team maintains he did not cause Celeste’s death. The People’s Brief filed by prosecutors outlines allegations of a sexual relationship beginning when she was thirteen, a killing allegedly motivated by career preservation, and months of alleged evidence destruction.

In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger’s guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder foreclosed any judicial evaluation of the chain of custody dispute now raised publicly by a former defense expert. The Ka-Bar knife sheath carrying Kohberger’s DNA allegedly had documentation that was retroactive and legally insufficient. The victims’ families have filed a civil lawsuit against Washington State University.

In Indiana, Richard Allen’s defense team filed a reply brief and requested oral arguments before the Court of Appeals, arguing the trial court committed constitutional error by excluding alternative suspect evidence, admitting involuntary confessions, and blocking the defense from presenting a complete case.

Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions on the legal standards at stake in each case, the procedural distinctions between pre-trial, post-plea, and appellate proceedings, and what these cases collectively reveal about the American criminal justice system.

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Everyone has an opinion about the 1993 Chandler case. Almost nobody has the full timeline. That changes with this episode.

I’m walking through the entire sequence: how Michael Jackson befriended the Chandler family through a car rental encounter. How the sleepovers and international trips began. How a custody dispute between Jordan’s parents turned a friendship into a weapon. How Evan Chandler was recorded threatening to destroy Jackson before his son said a word about abuse. How a psychiatrist’s letter was obtained on a hypothetical before any disclosure was made. How Evan demanded twenty million dollars before filing a police report. How Jackson’s team counter-offered one million as a test. And how, after all of it, Jackson paid approximately twenty-three million and the criminal investigation died because the one witness they needed stopped cooperating.

Then there’s the strip search — the physical evidence that should have been definitive and wasn’t. And there’s Jordan Chandler, who said no to a PI, became the center of the biggest scandal of the nineties, cut ties with both parents, and has not spoken publicly in over three decades. His silence is either the mark of a person destroyed by abuse or a person trapped by a lie. This episode presents both possibilities and lets you decide.

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Richard Allen’s appellate defense team filed a reply brief and motion for oral arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals, characterizing the State’s case as “superficial inference stacking” built on “tunnel vision into the wrong man.” Attorneys Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman wrote that “the State’s case was a paper tiger, and the trial court systematically barred Allen from lighting a match.”

The defense’s reply responds to the State’s brief filed in March, which argued Allen’s conviction should stand and characterized each alleged error as “harmless.” The defense counters that the cumulative effect of the exclusions denied Allen his Sixth Amendment right to present a complete defense.

Key procedural issues include the admissibility of Allen’s confessions, made during conditions the defense describes as producing psychosis. In one statement, Allen described shooting the victims, who were never shot. The defense was allowed to show video of Allen in solitary confinement but was required to mute the audio. The State’s expert characterized the confessions as logical while jurors could not hear what the defense describes as confused ramblings.

The defense also challenges the exclusion of alternative suspect evidence, including an individual whose interview was allegedly recorded over and whose weapon was never collected. Kegan Kline’s catfish account — the last to contact one of the victims — was ruled a separate investigation.

The motion for oral arguments is procedurally significant. The three-judge panel will decide whether to hear the case in person.

Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions on the legal standards governing this appeal, the implications of the defense’s “paper tiger” characterization, and the appellate court’s range of options.

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The legal system has a schedule. Grief doesn't. That gap is the story of the Reiner case right now. At his most recent hearing, Nick Reiner said one word, the judge pushed the case to September, and the family that lost Rob and Michele Reiner was told — again — to wait. The autopsy reports aren't finished. The defense needs more discovery. The prosecution needs the Medical Examiner's findings. Nobody's ready. And the preliminary hearing that will determine if this case even goes to trial is still months away from being scheduled.

But the people inside this case can't press pause. Jake Reiner published an essay that laid bare what this loss actually looks like from the inside — the phone call, the Lyft ride, the stolen milestones, the unconditional love, the fear his parents must have felt. Tens of thousands of people read it. Jake wrote it because a grief expert told him it might help. His upcoming birthday will be his first without his parents. His sister Romy hasn't spoken publicly — Jake said she'll tell her story in her own way and in her own time.

And while the family processes what may be the most public grief in America right now, sources say Nick is reportedly planning a revenge tell-all from behind bars — allegedly targeting the family and former friends who've walked away. The same family that, according to sources, is telling prosecutors they oppose the death penalty. Not for Nick's sake. For their father's principles.

Tony Brueski breaks down the hearing, the family dynamics, the legal roadblocks, and what happens when a case this devastating moves at a pace the people inside it can't afford. The system has a timeline. The damage is already done.

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A 172-page independent investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach found something beyond the alleged abuse itself. It found the system that kept it hidden.

At the center: two theological teachings that functioned as silencing tools. One took a Christian doctrine about grace and pushed it until confronting a leader about harm was treated as your spiritual deficiency. The other classified anyone who raised concerns as carrying "evil reports" — a label that made you radioactive within the community. People would cut ties with you just to protect themselves.

The investigation documented case after case where this played out. Parents reporting that their children had been harmed. Leadership responding not with action, but with theology — invoking forgiveness, redirecting blame, and shielding the institution. The investigators concluded that this wasn't a series of isolated failures. It was a culture, reinforced from the top, that systematically prioritized the organization over the people inside it.

Elita Galvin has been investigating Greater Grace for years through her podcast Looking for Grace. She's the person who understands the documented cases and the institutional response better than almost anyone outside the investigation itself. Oscar — our guest joining audio-only under a pseudonym — experienced these doctrines as a believer. He absorbed them. He trusted them. It took years after leaving for him to understand what they were actually built to do.

This episode connects the theology to the outcomes. When your belief system makes accountability a sin, the institution doesn't need a cover-up. The doctrine is the cover-up.

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The procedural and forensic dispute over the Ka-Bar knife sheath in the Bryan Kohberger case raises evidentiary questions that his guilty plea ensured no judge or jury would ever evaluate. Defense forensic scientist Brent Turvey alleges the chain of custody documentation was retroactive, potentially constituting evidence tampering, false reporting, and professional misconduct. Moscow Police Chief Anthony Dahlinger maintains the department’s electronic barcode system met all legal requirements. Idaho State Police released a photo of the evidence bag showing an unbroken seal.

Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in July 2025, accepting four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. He waived all appeal rights. The plea foreclosed any evidentiary challenge.

The dispute has generated a rare public conflict between Kohberger’s defense team and their former expert. Attorneys Anne Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow issued a statement saying they are “appalled” by Turvey’s comments and alleging he violated his confidentiality agreement. Turvey maintains the topics he discussed are part of mass public disclosures.

Separately, the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have filed a lawsuit against Washington State University alleging the institution received formal complaints about Kohberger’s conduct and failed to act.

Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski address listener questions on the evidentiary standards governing chain of custody disputes, the procedural implications of the defense-expert conflict, the civil liability landscape facing WSU, and what the unidentified hair — confirmed by the FBI as not Kohberger’s and reportedly never fully processed — means for the completeness of this investigation.

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