The True Crime Tapes

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeated red flags about Epstein’s financial activity—including large cash withdrawals, suspicious wire transfers, and employee warnings linking him to underage abuse. The USVI contended that JPMorgan profited from Epstein’s wealth and social connections while turning a blind eye to clear indicators of crimi...

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeated red flags about Epstein’s financial activity—including large cash withdrawals, suspicious wire transfers, and employee warnings linking him to underage abuse. The USVI contended that JPMorgan profited from Epstein’s wealth and social connections while turning a blind eye to clear indicators of crimi...

According to newly surfaced FBI records, a foreign hacker penetrated a server used by the FBI’s New York Child Exploitation Forensic Lab on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2023 and accessed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Special Agent Aaron Spivack later said in sworn statements that he discovered the intrusion after finding a message on the system saying the network had been compromised. The server reportedly contained hundreds of terabytes of sensitive material from child-exploitation investigations, including Epstein-related files, and roughly 100 terabytes of data were later described as permanently unrecoverable. What the intruder actually downloaded, copied or merely vi...

A second push to force the release of additional Jeffrey Epstein records advanced in the House after Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said they had secured enough commitments to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to the floor through another discharge petition. The maneuver closely mirrored the strategy used to pass the original Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, when supporters bypassed Speaker Mike Johnson after Republican leadership declined to schedule a vote. The new measure would strengthen enforcement of the existing transparency law by allowing Epstein survivors, state attorneys general and other officials to sue the Justice...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was described by friends as effectively “living in limbo” while Thames Valley Police continued investigating allegations tied to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his former role as a British trade envoy. Andrew had moved from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after his February 2026 arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Although he had not been charged and faced no formal travel restrictions, friends said he had been advised to keep a low profile and had barely ventured beyond Sandringham. Investigators were examining claims that Andrew may have shared confidential information with Epst...

In the days immediately after Bryan Kohberger’s arrest, investigators had finally identified a suspect in the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, but many of the biggest questions about the case remained unanswered. Police had said the attack was targeted, yet they had not explained whether one victim or all four had been intended targets, what the motive was or whether Kohberger knew any of the students. The murder weapon had still not been recovered, and authorities had released few details about exactly how the killer entered or left 1122 King Road. Investigators had also ke...

Gary Ridgway’s confessions came after he struck a 2003 plea agreement with King County prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in exchange for a complete and truthful accounting of every murder he committed in the county. Ridgway ultimately pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder and spent months giving investigators detailed interviews about how he selected, killed and disposed of his victims. He admitted that he deliberately targeted women he believed were sex workers because he thought they would be less likely to be immediately missed and because he believed their lifestyles made them easier to approach. Ri...

Gary Ridgway’s confessions came after he struck a 2003 plea agreement with King County prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in exchange for a complete and truthful accounting of every murder he committed in the county. Ridgway ultimately pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder and spent months giving investigators detailed interviews about how he selected, killed and disposed of his victims. He admitted that he deliberately targeted women he believed were sex workers because he thought they would be less likely to be immediately missed and because he believed their lifestyles made them easier to approach. Ri...

In January 2023, former Florida judge Belvin Perry, who had presided over the Casey Anthony murder trial, said he believed Idaho prosecutors were likely to seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if the case reached trial. Perry based that assessment on Idaho’s capital-punishment statute and the allegations that Kohberger had murdered four University of Idaho students, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, during the same attack. He said Idaho law contained 11 statutory aggravating factors and that, based on the accusations then known publicly, he believed several of them could potentially apply. At that point, however, pr...

In the immediate aftermath of Bryan Kohberger’s December 30, 2022 arrest, Kaylee Goncalves’s family expressed a mixture of relief, cautious optimism and determination to see the case through. Steve Goncalves said the arrest made him feel that they were finally “on the path to justice” after nearly seven weeks of uncertainty, rumors and waiting for investigators to identify a suspect. He said the family did not recognize Kohberger’s name and had no known personal connection to him at that point, but they immediately began looking back through Kaylee’s life, social media and contacts to see whether any link might e...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.

The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.

The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.

The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.

The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist and bank robber who deliberately tried to make his crimes difficult to connect. He traveled extensively around the United States, sometimes flying to one part of the country, renting a vehicle and then driving hundreds of miles before selecting victims with whom he had no obvious connection. Keyes also buried “kill kits” containing weapons, restraints and other supplies years in advance so he could return later and commit murders without having to purchase suspicious items immediately beforehand. He confessed to killing Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont in 2011 and to abducting and...

More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors praised the House Oversight Committee after it voted 41-0 to recommend holding Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas seeking his testimony and nondisclosure agreements. The survivors said the unanimous committee vote sent a clear message that wealth and influence should not place anyone beyond congressional scrutiny, and they urged lawmakers to keep following the Epstein evidence wherever it leads. The contempt recommendation marked a major escalation in the committee’s fight with Black, who had previously appeared for a voluntary transcribed interview but refused to an...

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan warned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that he could face civil contempt if the Justice Department failed to comply with the court’s orders in the lawsuit brought by journalist and attorney Katie Phang over the Epstein files. Sullivan gave Blanche until September 24 to satisfy several outstanding requirements, including providing support for disputed victim-name redactions, submitting handwritten FBI interview notes for private judicial review and beginning a review of foreign-language Epstein records that could fall under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Sullivan said a contempt finding would be premature at that point, but made cl...

Gary Ridgway’s confessions came after he struck a 2003 plea agreement with King County prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in exchange for a complete and truthful accounting of every murder he committed in the county. Ridgway ultimately pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder and spent months giving investigators detailed interviews about how he selected, killed and disposed of his victims. He admitted that he deliberately targeted women he believed were sex workers because he thought they would be less likely to be immediately missed and because he believed their lifestyles made them easier to approach. Ri...

Gary Ridgway’s confessions came after he struck a 2003 plea agreement with King County prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in exchange for a complete and truthful accounting of every murder he committed in the county. Ridgway ultimately pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder and spent months giving investigators detailed interviews about how he selected, killed and disposed of his victims. He admitted that he deliberately targeted women he believed were sex workers because he thought they would be less likely to be immediately missed and because he believed their lifestyles made them easier to approach. Ri...

Gary Ridgway’s confessions came after he struck a 2003 plea agreement with King County prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in exchange for a complete and truthful accounting of every murder he committed in the county. Ridgway ultimately pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder and spent months giving investigators detailed interviews about how he selected, killed and disposed of his victims. He admitted that he deliberately targeted women he believed were sex workers because he thought they would be less likely to be immediately missed and because he believed their lifestyles made them easier to approach. Ri...

Nearly a year after Ethan Chapin was murdered alongside Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, his parents, Stacy and Jim Chapin, described how their family had tried to survive an unimaginable year of grief without allowing the murders to completely define Ethan’s life. They spoke about the devastating reality of losing one of their triplets, the effect Ethan’s death had on his brother Hunter and sister Maizie, and the deliberate choice they made to focus on the person Ethan had been rather than the brutality of how he died. Stacy and Jim said they had largely stay...

One year after the murders of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, members of the University of Idaho’s Sigma Chi fraternity described how deeply Ethan’s death had affected the chapter and how they were trying to heal while keeping his memory alive. His fraternity brothers remembered Ethan as energetic, dependable and the kind of person who could lift the mood of an entire room, describing him as someone they could always count on. The chapter had largely avoided the spotlight in the immediate aftermath of the killings, choosing instead to grieve privately and support Etha...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as no more than a “casual acquaintance,” said she did not consider her a friend and attributed Maxwell’s presence around the Clinton family largely to her relationship with longtime Clinton friend Ted Waitt. Clinton acknowledged that Maxwell attended Chelsea Cl...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as no more than a “casual acquaintance,” said she did not consider her a friend and attributed Maxwell’s presence around the Clinton family largely to her relationship with longtime Clinton friend Ted Waitt. Clinton acknowledged that Maxwell attended Chelsea Cl...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as no more than a “casual acquaintance,” said she did not consider her a friend and attributed Maxwell’s presence around the Clinton family largely to her relationship with longtime Clinton friend Ted Waitt. Clinton acknowledged that Maxwell attended Chelsea Cl...

​On April 9, 2025, Bryan Kohberger appeared in a Boise, Idaho court for a hearing addressing multiple pre-trial motions ahead of his upcoming trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. The defense sought to exclude several pieces of evidence, including Amazon records allegedly showing Kohberger purchased a Ka-Bar knife and sheath, testimony from a surviving roommate who described an intruder with "bushy eyebrows," 911 call recordings, Kohberger's academic writings on crime scenes, a selfie taken in front of a shower, and weather data potentially undermining his alibi. Additionally, the defense requested the death penalty be removed from consideration, citing Kohberger's au...

Bryan Kohberger was arraigned in Latah County District Court on May 22, 2023, after a grand jury indicted him on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the killings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Judge John Judge advised Kohberger of the charges and the potential penalties, including the possibility of death sentences if prosecutors chose to pursue capital punishment. When asked to enter a plea, Kohberger stood silent rather than personally saying guilty or not guilty, so Judge Judge entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf. The defense later explained that Kohberger remained silent...

Bryan Kohberger returned to Pennsylvania in December 2022 after finishing his first semester as a criminology doctoral student at Washington State University. His father flew to Washington and drove back east with him in Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra, arriving at the family home in northeastern Pennsylvania around December 17 or 18. By then investigators in Idaho had focused heavily on Kohberger through the Elantra, cellphone evidence and DNA recovered from the knife sheath at 1122 King Road. Federal agents surveilled him in Pennsylvania for several days while Idaho authorities finalized the probable-cause case and obtained an arrest warrant. In the early morning ho...

​In the case identified as CR01-24-31665, defendant Bryan Kohberger has filed a motion to suppress evidence obtained from the execution of a Pennsylvania search warrant at 119 Lamsden Drive, Albrightsville, PA, as well as statements he made during that operation. Kohberger's defense argues that the search warrant was invalid due to alleged reckless or intentional omissions of material facts in the supporting affidavit. They contend that these omissions led to a lack of probable cause, rendering the search unconstitutional. Additionally, the defense asserts that law enforcement's failure to properly "knock and announce" their presence violated Kohberger's Fourth Amendment rights, an...

When Jeffrey Dahmer was finally caught in 1991, his confessions to detectives revealed the full horror of his crimes. He admitted in chilling detail that he had lured men and boys back to his apartment, where he drugged, strangled, and dismembered them. He described how he kept body parts as trophies, including skulls and bones, and in some cases engaged in acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. His willingness to recount these actions without visible remorse shocked investigators, as he openly discussed his urges, rituals, and the escalating compulsion that drove him to kill.

Dahmer explained to detectives that he...

In the weeks after the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen was seen out in public and was photographed spending time with friends, something that quickly became fodder for online speculation. Images of Mortensen socializing after the killings were circulated by true-crime accounts and social-media users who treated her appearance and behavior as evidence that she was not grieving “correctly.” Some questioned how she could be seen smiling, going out or trying to resume ordinary parts of her life after surviving such a horrific event, while others folded those photographs into...

Judge Steven Hippler rejected Bryan Kohberger’s effort to present four unnamed people as possible alternate perpetrators in the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Three of the individuals had social connections to one or more of the victims, had interacted with them shortly before the killings, lived within walking distance of the King Road house and had previously been inside it. A fourth person had only a passing connection to one victim after seeing her at a store weeks before the murders. Hippler ruled that those facts were nowhere near enough under Idaho law to...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as no more than a “casual acquaintance,” said she did not consider her a friend and attributed Maxwell’s presence around the Clinton family largely to her relationship with longtime Clinton friend Ted Waitt. Clinton acknowledged that Maxwell attended Chelsea Cl...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as no more than a “casual acquaintance,” said she did not consider her a friend and attributed Maxwell’s presence around the Clinton family largely to her relationship with longtime Clinton friend Ted Waitt. Clinton acknowledged that Maxwell attended Chelsea Cl...

A Florida woman, Jennifer Percival, pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to falsifying records in order to obtain money from a compensation fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims. Percival had applied to Epstein’s estate-funded victims program in late 2020 and was found ineligible for compensation. Years later, when she applied to a separate $290 million JPMorgan Chase settlement fund for Epstein survivors, prosecutors said she altered her original rejection letter to make it appear that the Epstein estate program had approved her claim and paid her $500,000. Based on those false representations, the JPMorgan fund paid her $750,000 in 2024. Percival later admitted th...

The amended warrants for YouTube, DoorDash and Amazon showed how investigators in the Moscow murders were using digital records to reconstruct both Bryan Kohberger’s activity and the movements surrounding 1122 King Road. The DoorDash warrant focused on deliveries to the King Road residence, including the approximately 4 a.m. food delivery Xana Kernodle received shortly before the murders; investigators ultimately cleared that driver, but the records helped tighten the timeline of the victims’ final hours. The YouTube warrant sought subscriber information, device identifiers, login data, cookies, locations and other account information that could show who accessed particular accounts, from where and on w...