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The Duchess of Sussex wasted no time releasing a statement following news that her estranged father, 82 year old Thomas Markle, Sr. was in possession of hundreds, if not thousands, of photos and videos of young girls being sexually abused.  In her statement, Meghan Markle says she was informed by police of “disturbing allegations” against him in 2018 and that explains why she kept her distance from her father as well as  her choice to not allow him to have contact with her children.  Markle claims she was given assurances that authorities were investigating the allegations.  It was Meghan’s half brother, T...

With less than two weeks before the midterm elections, a left wing online group has released a 30 minute video that features three men who claim the late Senator Lindsay Graham paid them for sex;  one of them says he was just 17 at the time. Graham suddenly passed away over the summer and his sister, Darline, is in a very tight race to retain her brother’s senate seat. Some conservatives have dismissed the video as an “open secret” and an attempt to distract South Carolina voters. One former lawmaker says it highlights something more serious, saying the secrets our leaders...

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This is a bizarre story that needs more context to fully understand. 7 year pro and defensive lineman Jordan Elliot is off the Tennessee Titans after the team says he went to his car in the player parking lot to retrieve a gun after an altercation with a teammate. Those who know Elliot say this is completely out of character for the husband and father of four, and “was a call for help more than a criminal act." However, the NFL has a strict firearm policy; personnel are not allowed to bring guns anywhere at league facilities.

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Ken McElroy terrorized an entire town and kept getting away with it. Until the day his luck ran out. He was gunned down in front of dozens of witnesses, and suddenly “nobody saw a thing.”

In Broad Daylight author Harry MacLean joins Elisa Donovan to unpack this wild true crime story, how McElroy became untouchable, and why everyone stayed silent.

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A shocking crime out of Georgia where an elderly woman is accused of killing her 75-year-old ex-husband and his new, 40-year-old girlfriend. 76-year-old Grace Edge turned herself into police after officials say she shot and killed the two and shot and injured the girlfriend’s mother. The sheriff told reporters that Edge and her ex had an on again, off again relationship and that she was “not accepting” of the new situation. To add some perspective to this unusual headline: Less than half a percent of ALL murderers in this country are 75 years or older. 

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An Idaho prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against a 23-year-old woman charged with murdering her twin toddlers in 2025. Andrea Shaw has pleaded not guilty, claiming her 18-month-old twins got sick and died after receiving flu shots and their scheduled vaccinations. Prosecutors maintain that an autopsy revealed symptoms consistent with smothering and said suffocation "is the only conceivable explanation" for their deaths.

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The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case issued a surprise ruling Wednesday, dismissing an attempt by Clancy’s attorney to investigate the lone holdout juror in her murder trial. Kevin Reddington had filed a motion requesting access to the juror’s initial questionnaire, an examination of his cellphone and for him to be questioned in court, but the judge refused to move forward with any investigation into Michael Desronvil. Clancy’s team still has a motion to dismiss murder charges against Clancy in play, citing double jeopardy. That will be decided at the next hearing in early November, where both s...

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Would you give up your aisle seat - for a middle seat - on a 10 hour international flight so a couple could sit together? Tomiko Harvey just posted round two on her social media after receiving racist backlash for refusing to do just that. While the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people who have weighed in support Harvey’s decision to stay put, several have pointed out that posting a video of her seat mate crying and the mention of “white tears” lacked empathy and kindness. 

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Elisa Donovan and Jenn Fessler are still trying to process Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything.

From outrageous revelations to laugh-out-loud absurdity, the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary is unlike anything they've ever watched. Elisa and Jenn break down the wildest moments and debate the question at the heart of it all: Who's manipulating whom?

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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey made the rare decision to commute the death sentence of a 53-year-old man convicted in the 1995 killing of a sheriff’s deputy. Ivey said there was “not enough direct evidence to carry out the most serious punishment.” The current district attorney has taken it a step further, publicly voicing concerns about prosecutorial misconduct, asking the courts to overturn Toforest Johnson’s conviction and grant him a new trial. Johnson has maintained his innocence from the beginning, with at least 10 witnesses who corroborate Johnson was nowhere near the scene of the murder and zero physical evidence tying hi...

In the race for Ohio Governor, billionaire Republican and Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy has acknowledged his campaign is behind one of the uglies campaign ads ever released. In it, his opponent, Democrat Dr. Amy Acton’s birth mother calls her own daughter a liar and says she has a serious problem. The real problem, Acton hasn’t seen her birth mother since 1978 when she was 12.  Acton was removed from her mother’s home after her stepfather was charged with raping her between the ages of 10 and 12. Her mother chose her husband over her children and now is smearing her publicl...

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The President has been on another bizarre bragging tour over the results of three cognitive tests that are used for early detection of dementia. The point is, this is NOT a test that measures intelligence whatsoever. Instead, it measures for mild cognitive impairment, which only means he isn’t suffering from dementia. His perfect score may signal he has a great memory - there’s one tricky question that you’ll hear along with us for the first time - but it does not reveal his “extreme intelligence.”

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Why is our president so obsessed with changing names? His latest target is the state of New Mexico: Trump writing on his social media that a name change would increase home values and incomes, but made sure to insult the state by saying it’s known for its “crooked elections.” Of note, Trump lost New Mexico in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. There has been strong reaction from New Mexico officials, but not a lot of fear about what may happen next. While the president can change bodies of water and other geographic features, he cannot technically rename a state.  

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77-year-old William Reaves will die by lethal injection tonight after being convicted of first-degree murder for the 1986 shooting of Deputy Richard Raczkowski. He will become Florida’s eighth prisoner over the age of 70 to be executed this year, but more than 100 military veterans sent a moving letter to Governor DeSantis on Monday, urging him to commute Reaves’ sentence to life given his PTSD from the battlefield. Meantime, Officer Raczkowski’s family and former coworkers say they’ve waited long enough for justice and plan to be at tonight’s execution. One deputy saying he wants the last thing Reaves to see is...

After a four month investigation, Mississippi’s Attorney General announced that a white officer was justified when he shot at a moving vehicle, killing a 1-year-old black boy and critically injuring the driver. Little Kohen Wiley’s mom and her friend were accused of shoplifting a box of diapers from Walmart, when 5 officers surrounded their vehicle as they were leaving the parking lot. Both women deny stealing anything and have never been charged. The officer who fired the shots, 33-year-old Hunter Foster, has had two accusations of using racial expletives towards his black co-workers and the police chief who chos...

Sandra Birchmore was failed by law enforcement as an adolescent, and it followed her through adulthood.

She was groomed, taken advantage of by authority figures, and her life was taken. Allegedly, someone wanted to ensure that she kept their secrets…

Emily and Shane are diving into the background of this case, what happened to Sandra, and the main players in this horrific crime.

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A New York Times investigation has revealed recently unsealed court documents that say O.J. Simpson may have had an accomplice who helped him dispose of the murder weapon in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. While Simpson was acquitted of the murders, according to the alleged accomplice’s brother, mobster Joey Ippolito was willing to testify about his role in the cover-up in exchange for lessened prison time for charges he was facing.  The details surrounding this new information are shocking, even to Simpson prosecutors, who are claiming they knew nothing about this at the tim...

What did relatives know, and what did they keep secret?

Actress Marlene Forte, who played the brothers' aunt in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, joins Killer Thriller to reveal the disturbing family secrets, the warning signs that may have been ignored, and why José Menendez's own sister defended the nephews who murdered him. 

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What a let down.   After high hopes that a 90 year mystery would finally be solved, a team of U.S. researchers are leaving a remote island empty-handed after suspected ‘plane debris’ was, in fact,  a clump of trees   The expedition arrived at Nikumaroro in the South Pacific after years of research and a hope that the team had finally located Amelia Earhart’s plane.  Previous visits to the uninhabited island found signs of a castaway camp, a 1930s-era woman’s shoe and other evidence attributed to the celebrity aviator, including glass from a cosmetics freckle cream jar.  But for now, the myst...

For the first time in its 35 seasons, ‘Dancing With The Stars” has suspended a pro dancer from the show, and it’s because of a social medial post. Val Chmerkovskiy shared a now-deleted TikTok post referencing the Will Smith and Chris Rock 2022 Oscars incident after judge Carie Ann Inaba criticized his wife and fellow pro dancer following their samba routine last episode. Even though Chmerkovskiy publicly apologized, the production company behind DWTS announced over the weekend that “the well-being of everyone who works on Dancing with the Stars is non-negotiable” and that Chmerkovskiy would not participate in this week’s competitio...

A shocking story out of Wichita, Kansas:  A 34-year-old mom with two of her kids in the backseat, drove through a soccer field killing a 6-year-old boy and a 34-year-old man. Five kids between the ages of 5 and 9 were also injured, along with 5 other adults. While the woman is said to be cooperating with police, there is outrage growing that she’s been released without being charged as the investigation continues. Police say they are awaiting toxicology results from the driver and are conducting a mechanical investigation of her pickup truck before deciding on any potential charges. 

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Who doesn’t love a good zombie movie to get you in the Halloween spirit? Today, we are listing our favorite zombie horror films ranging from a “zom/com” to a war themed zombie movie to get you ready for October 31. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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Who doesn’t love a good zombie movie to get you in the Halloween spirit? Today, we are listing our favorite zombie horror films ranging from a “zom/com” to a war themed zombie movie to get you ready for October 31. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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Who doesn’t love a good zombie movie to get you in the Halloween spirit? Today, we are listing our favorite zombie horror films ranging from a “zom/com” to a war themed zombie movie to get you ready for October 31. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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Today’s horror category might be the scariest of them all. In these horror movies, locks, guns, and law enforcement prove ineffective against the enemy, because when a supernatural entity is after you, nothing can stop it. Yes, we are listing our favorite “deep cuts” supernatural horror films today. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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Today’s horror category might be the scariest of them all.  In these horror movies, locks, guns, and law enforcement prove ineffective against the enemy, because when a supernatural entity is after you, nothing can stop it. Yes, we are listing our favorite “deep cuts” supernatural horror films today. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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Today’s horror category might be the scariest of them all.  In these horror movies, locks, guns, and law enforcement prove ineffective against the enemy, because when a supernatural entity is after you, nothing can stop it. Yes, we are listing our favorite “deep cuts” supernatural horror films today. Every weekend we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll highlight our top movies within that category.

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A teenage girl, a major cocaine operation, and seven years in federal prison. Jennifer Fessler sits down with Denise Trigo Fleming, author of Dealing: Memoirs of a Cocaine Teenpin, to explore how she went from a teenager caught up in Southern California’s glamorous drug scene to serving time in federal prison. Denise opens up about the dangerous relationships and fierce loyalties that kept pulling her deeper into that world, the devastating loss of her best friend, and the choices that changed her life forever. She also reflects on surviving prison, rebuilding her life, and how she sees her pa...

Even though the Honolulu Medical Examiner has determined that Southwest Airlines attendant Jenny Lupton died by suicide after falling from her 24th floor balcony, the homicide division of the Honolulu police department continues to investigate her death.  Lupton’s family has plenty of reasons to believe the 50-year-old mom would never take her own life, including her final text moments before her death to a friend: “What are we doing tomorrow?” Lupton’s family maintains the medical examiner acknowledged he’s open to changing his suicide finding if police present evidence supporting foul play.

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It was not the interview most people were expecting to see on Fox News: Sean Hannity asking tough questions, complete with follow ups for 41-year old Katie Zacharia. The newly installed and immediately embattled press secretary was trying to clear up questions and confusion over her qualifications to refer to herself as a lawyer. It took several attempts by Hannity to get Zacharia to admit she never took the bar again after failing it the first time. At one point, Hannity asked her a question many of us have been asking: “Why didn’t you just say, ‘I never practi...

More than four years after a barrel containing human remains was found at Lake Mead, investigators have identified the victim as Edward “Buddy” Jackson. Police say Jackson was shot once in the head and was believed to be in his mid to late 50s at the time of his murder. Jackson was last seen visiting family in Arkansas in the 1980s and has no known ties to the Vegas area. Jackson’s remains were among four bodies found in Lake Mead in 2022 after a massive drought exposed the skeletal remains.

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A 16-year-old Bend, Oregon resident shot through locked doors at an Oregon elementary school, and then shot and killed three children, ages 5, 8, and 11 along with a teacher. Remarkably, an armed community member saw the teen enter Silver Rail Elementary School with a long rifle and pursued him inside the school and shot him dead before police arrived. Another teacher and a 7-year-old student were critically injured and are currently in the hospital. Police say the heroic bystander saved countless lives, and credit him, along with a new classroom door lock system from keeping dozens of children and teachers safe.<...

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**UPDATE Since this episode was recorded, TMZ says prison officials have pushed back on the reports that Diddy's injury was a result of the fight with Christopher Coke.  Though, they don't explain how Diddy was injury.**

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The head injury that landed Sean “Diddy” Combs in the hospital reportedly came from a fight with a fellow inmate, but not just any inmate.  Diddy reportedly got a beatdown from notorious Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke who has an entire Netflix episode devoted to him and his life of crime.  The fight apparently broke out because Coke, along with...

He may seem sweet, attentive and genuinely interested in your daughter. But what if the romance is actually a trap?

In Stolen From the Suburbs, starring Sydney Sweeney, teenage girls are manipulated by young men they think they can trust before being abducted into a sex trafficking ring.Actress Brooke Nevin explains the real grooming tactic known as the “Romeo trap,” how traffickers exploit emotional vulnerability and her warning to unsuspecting parents that this can happen anywhere.

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