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Reid Carter concludes our explosive Jeffrey Epstein series with the trial that finally brought justice - and the recent political scandal that's dividing Trump's own supporters. From Maxwell's desperate Supreme Court appeal to Attorney General Pam Bondi's botched handling of the "Epstein files," discover why the promised revelations never materialized and what it means for the hundreds of victims still seeking answers. Plus, the shocking DOJ memo that claims there was never a client list - so who were these children trafficked to? When political promises meet criminal reality, the truth becomes the first casualty. Justice isn't always transparent, but...

Reid Carter exposes the shocking truth behind Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation and how British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell became his "enabler-in-chief." From their twisted relationship that began in the 1990s to the systematic grooming of victims as young as 14, discover how Maxwell used her sophistication and connections to recruit, train, and abuse vulnerable girls. Part 1 of our explosive two-part series reveals the evidence that convicted Maxwell and the victims who finally brought her down. When wealth and power combine with predatory behavior, the result is a criminal enterprise that shattered hundreds of lives. Justice isn't always swift, but it's absolutely...

Reid Carter closes out Season One of Celebrity Trials with three explosive updates. In Winder, Georgia, Colin Gray's own teenage daughter testified he pressured her to cover for him before she discovered her brother's gun was gone the morning of the Apalachee shooting. Meanwhile in Michigan, the trial of Dale Warner lays bare a horrifying cold case — his wife Dee found strangled inside a sealed fertilizer tank three years after she disappeared. And in Los Angeles, new court filings confirm rising pop star David Burke, known as David, is a formal grand jury target in the murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Ri...

Reid Carter breaks down days one and two of the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah — the children's book author accused of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow mule, then self-publishing a grief memoir for her kids. Plus: Sean Higgins — the man who mowed down NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew on their bikes the night before their sister's wedding — now wants the case tossed, claiming new testing shows his blood-alcohol was below the legal limit. And a quick update on the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping as the reward...

Reid Carter covers three major crime stories gripping America. Mexico's most wanted drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes killed Sunday in Jalisco military raid - CJNG boss behind most of America's fentanyl is dead, but 70 people killed in violent cartel retaliation across 20 Mexican states. Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping enters week four with no arrest - Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother abducted from Tucson home, $200,000+ reward offered, investigators pursuing genealogical DNA leads as theories emerge this was a "burglary gone wrong." And newly released Bryan Kohberger autopsy findings reveal a psychosexual fantasy gone catastrophically sideways - and who his real target was.<...

Reid Carter continues coverage of the Colin Gray trial in Winder, Georgia - the father accused of enabling the Apalachee High School massacre. Days three through five revealed the horrifying forensic details: 36 shots fired, 103 total cartridges carried by his 14-year-old son, and the medical examiner testifying no victim could have survived even steps from a hospital. Colt Gray's grandmother drops a bombshell question the boy asked before the shooting. Plus: Former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn, a music pastor and worship leader, is charged with murdering his teacher wife Ashley in their Ohio home while their children slept. And forensic...

Reid Carter covers the biggest royal scandal in four centuries. Thursday, February 19th: British police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - formerly Prince Andrew - on his 66th birthday at the King's private estate. Held for 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Emails show he forwarded confidential British trade reports to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within five minutes of receiving them. King Charles said "the law must take its course." Virginia Giuffre's family said "he was never a prince." Police still searching his 30-room former mansion. Government considering removing him from line of succession. First royal arrest since 1649.
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Reid Carter concludes the Murdaugh special with the post-conviction chaos. Alex staged his own shooting so son Buster could collect $10 million life insurance - survived with a skull fracture. Pleaded guilty to 22 federal financial crimes, sentenced to 40 years. Then court clerk Becky Hill was accused of pressuring jurors to convict - retired Justice Toal called her "not credible" but denied new trial. Hill arrested on three felonies May 2025. February 11, 2026: South Carolina Supreme Court hears Murdaugh's appeal. Defense cites Aaron Burr's 1807 treason trial. Netflix, HBO, Hulu all made shows. Will the dynasty get one more chapter?

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Reid Carter exposes how South Carolina's most powerful legal dynasty collapsed into murder and fraud. Three generations of Murdaughs controlled criminal prosecutions across five counties for 87 years - locals called it "Murdaugh Country." Then Paul Murdaugh killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach in a drunk boating crash. Alex Murdaugh stole millions from clients, including dead housekeeper Gloria Satterfield's sons. June 7, 2021: Maggie texted a friend her husband sounded "fishy." Hours later, she and Paul were shot dead at the family's dog kennels. A video on Paul's phone caught Alex in a lie that would destroy him.

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Reid Carter takes a deep dive into the two biggest trials in America. The Alexander brothers sex trafficking trial enters a 10-day break after three weeks of devastating testimony - nine women described being drugged and raped, jurors saw "Rapists!" scrawled in eyeliner on a door, texts revealed "twin DP" boasts and "panty dropper pills," and a juror was dismissed for deciding early. Diddy's former defense team now represents the brothers. In Los Angeles, Mark Zuckerberg testified before a jury for the first time - confronted with internal documents showing 4 million children under 13 on Instagram. Parents slept on courthouse steps...

Reid Carter covers the trial opening in Innsbruck where Thomas Plamberger faces negligent homicide for leaving girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner to freeze to death 150 feet below the summit of Austria's highest mountain - prosecutors say nine critical errors, her own mother defends him. Tyler Peterson sentenced to 5 years to life for his role in the starvation death of 12-year-old brother Gavin - father and stepmother already serving life sentences while DCFS ignored years of abuse reports. Shia LaBeouf arrested on two counts of simple battery after weeklong Mardi Gras bar crawl ends in brawl - bartender says he was "terrorizing the...

Reid Carter covers the landmark Colin Gray trial in Georgia where the father of accused Apalachee High School shooter faces 29 felony counts - gave his 14-year-old a Christmas AR-15 despite FBI warnings and a Parkland shooter shrine in the boy's bedroom. Wounded teenagers deliver devastating testimony. Dale Warner's Michigan murder trial reveals wife Dee was strangled, wrapped in a tarp, sealed inside a welded fertilizer tank on family property for three years after she told him she wanted a divorce. Don Lemon pleads not guilty to federal felony charges for covering a Minnesota church protest - defense calls prosecution an "...

Reid Carter covers the desperate search for Today show host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, missing over two weeks from her Arizona home - FBI analyzing DNA from a glove matching doorbell camera suspect as daughter pleads for her return. Paul Caneiro convicted of four counts of first-degree murder after slaughtering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia in their Colts Neck mansion over stolen business funds - then set both homes on fire. Au pair Juliana Magalhaes gets maximum 10-year sentence after judge rejects prosecutors' recommendation of time served - told her she deserves "nothing...

Reid Carter closes Presidents' Day weekend with the assassination attempt that changed American law. March 30, 1981: John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton — all to impress actress Jodie Foster. Reagan nearly died. Press Secretary James Brady was permanently disabled. Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy took a bullet to the chest. Hinckley's trial shocked America — jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity after seven hours. Public outrage rewrote insanity defense laws in 34 states. Hinckley spent 35 years institutionalized before full release in 2022. Now posts music on YouTube.

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Reid Carter covers the assassination that broke America and the murder trial nobody expected. November 22, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in Dallas. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby walked into the police basement and shot Oswald on live television — the first murder broadcast to a national audience. Fifty million Americans watched a man die in real time. Ruby's trial lasted two weeks. Defense claimed psychomotor epilepsy caused a blackout. Prosecution said premeditated murder. Jury deliberated two hours — guilty, death sentence. Ruby appealed, won a new trial, then died of cancer before retrial. Justice denied.

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Reid Carter covers the most bizarre assassination trial in American history. July 2, 1881: Charles Guiteau shot President James Garfield at a train station because God told him to — and because Garfield refused to make him ambassador to France. Garfield lingered for 80 agonizing days while doctors probed his wounds with unwashed hands, feeding him through his rectum when he couldn't eat. Guiteau's trial was pure chaos — he sang hymns, insulted the judge, called witnesses idiots, and argued the doctors killed Garfield, not him. Medically, he was right. The jury didn't care. Hanged June 30, 1882.

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Reid Carter launches Presidents' Day weekend with the assassination that changed America. April 14, 1865: John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre during a coordinated conspiracy to decapitate the government. Secretary of State Seward stabbed in his bed. Vice President Johnson's assassin lost his nerve. Twelve-day manhunt ended with Booth shot dead in a Virginia barn. Eight conspirators tried by military tribunal - not civilian court. Mary Surratt became the first woman executed by the federal government despite pleas for mercy. Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt hanged beside her. Justice or revenge?

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Reid Carter covers jury selection in Utah for Kouri Richins, the mother who allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl then published a children's grief book about his death - prosecutors say she took out $2 million in life insurance policies without his knowledge. Nancy Guthrie update: suspect detained near the Mexican border and released, chilling porch video shows masked figure with pistol, and Savannah Guthrie's family still begging for contact after 11 days. Former Massachusetts cop Kelsey Fitzsimmons, shot in the chest by colleagues while being served a restraining order, accuses her judge of secret meetings, bias, and filing complaints against...

Reid Carter leads with breaking news - a man has been detained in a traffic stop near the Mexican border in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie. FBI and local police stopped a silver SUV in Rio Rico, Arizona, Tuesday night. Court-ordered search of his home underway. FBI Director Kash Patel confirms multiple persons of interest. Hours earlier, FBI released doorbell footage showing armed, masked suspect at Nancy's door at 1:47 a.m. Bitcoin ransom account shows activity. Luigi Mangione erupts - 'double jeopardy.' William Long convicted of murdering ex-wife Michelle. Life without...

Reid Carter takes a deep dive into the case dominating Netflix right now. Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. Injected air into bloodstreams. Poisoned with insulin. Wrote "I am evil, I did this" on a Post-it note. Sentenced to 15 whole-life orders - she will die in prison. But now international medical experts say there's no evidence she killed anyone. Netflix's new documentary is reigniting the debate. Is Lucy Letby Britain's worst female serial killer - or its greatest miscarriage of justice?<...

Reid Carter opens with the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping as the $6 million Bitcoin ransom deadline hits at 5 p.m. today - day nine with no suspects, no proof of life, and Savannah Guthrie telling captors "we will pay." California man arrested for sending fake ransom texts while real kidnapper remains unknown. Colin Gray's murder trial begins in Georgia - father bought his 14-year-old son the AR-15 used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School after FBI warned him about online threats. New documentary reopens the 2008 Lane Bryant massacre - five women executed in a clothing store, killer...

Reid Carter concludes the Patty Hearst saga with the trial that captivated America. February 4, 1976: F. Lee Bailey argued brainwashing turned a kidnap victim into a bank robber. Prosecution played surveillance tapes and jail recordings proving she was a willing revolutionary. Hearst pleaded the Fifth forty-two times. Jury deliberated twelve hours - guilty. Sentenced to seven years. Served twenty-two months before Jimmy Carter commuted. Bill Clinton granted full pardon on his last day in office. The woman who robbed banks as "Tania" married her bodyguard, raised two daughters, acted in John Waters films, and won prizes at the Westminster Dog Show.<...

Reid Carter examines how a 19-year-old newspaper heiress became a machine gun-wielding bank robber in one of the strangest cases in FBI history. February 4, 1974: Three armed radicals burst into Patty Hearst's Berkeley apartment, beat her fiancé, threw her in a trunk. The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded millions in food for the poor. Her father complied. Didn't matter. Two months later, surveillance cameras captured Hearst wielding an M1 carbine during a San Francisco bank robbery, screaming "I'm Tania!" Was she brainwashed or radicalized? Victim or revolutionary? Part one of the kidnapping that redefined Stockholm Syndrome.

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Reid Carter opens with the disappearance gripping America - Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, abducted from her Arizona home five days ago. Blood found inside. Pacemaker disconnected at 2 a.m. Ransom notes sent to media demanding millions in Bitcoin. Savannah's tearful plea: "We need to know she's alive." Trump directing federal resources. Then the Mansion Murders trial update - autopsy testimony reveals eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro suffered 17 stab wounds over her entire 45-pound body with defensive injuries. DNA from both children found on uncle's jeans. Plus, 83-year-old Ohio man sentenced to die in prison after scammers tricked...

Reid Carter updates the search for Savannah Guthrie's missing mother Nancy after a ransom note demanding millions in Bitcoin surfaces - sheriff says 84-year-old could die without medication. Dog the Bounty Hunter's stepson Gregory Zecca arrested for aggravated manslaughter after fatally shooting 13-year-old son Anthony while drunk and high - practiced drawing firearm from waistband before discharging fatal round during UFC watch party in Naples. Daren Abbey sentenced to 100 years for the brutal axe murder of camper Dustin Kjersem at a remote Montana campsite - told the judge he'd be appealing his "crooked ass court system."

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Reid Carter covers the disappearance of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, believed abducted from her Tucson home with blood found inside and signs of forced entry - Savannah drops Milan Olympics assignment, flies to Arizona in what she calls the worst phone call of her life. Nathan Chasing Horse, the Dances with Wolves actor who ran a cult preying on Indigenous women and girls, convicted on 13 charges including sexual assault of a minor - faces minimum 25 years. Norwegian Crown Princess Metta-Mareet's son Marius Borg Hoiby's rape trial opens in Oslo as mother's Jeffrey Epstein emails resurface with...

Reid Carter delivers the verdict in Virginia's au pair affair murder trial — Brendan Banfield's fate decided after the jury rejected his claim that wife Christine invited a stranger for violent sex and he shot the man in self-defense. Prosecutors argued blood evidence proved Banfield staged the crime scene, his boss destroyed his alibi, and his affair with au pair Juliana Magalhães was motive for murder. The verdict is in. Plus: Alexander brothers sex trafficking trial explodes as witnesses testify to drugged drinks, Hamptons shower rape, and video allegedly showing Oren raping a sixteen-year-old. Family scolded by marshal for courtroom ant...

Reid Carter covers major developments in the Luigi Mangione case. Federal judge dismisses murder charge, killing Trump administration's death penalty bid. Pizza delivery man claiming to be FBI agent tried breaking Mangione out of Brooklyn jail with fake court order, barbecue fork, and pizza cutter. Manhattan DA pushes for July trial before federal case goes first. Julio Foolio killer Alicia Andrews wins appeal to remove biased trial judge after YouTube viewers noticed her "overt hostility" toward defense. Former Illinois deputy Sean Grayson sentenced to 20 years for killing Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help and ended up shot in the face.<...

Reid Carter concludes the Port Arthur special with the political miracle that followed the massacre. May 10, 1996: Twelve days after thirty-five people died, Prime Minister John Howard announces the National Firearms Agreement. Ban on semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. National registry. Mandatory buyback. His own coalition nearly revolts. He wears a bulletproof vest to address angry gun owners. But Howard doesn't back down. Result: 650,000 guns destroyed. In the eighteen years before Port Arthur, Australia had thirteen mass shootings. In the twenty-nine years since, effectively none. Gun suicide down 57%. Gun homicide down 42%. It worked. America refuses to learn.

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Reid Carter continues the Australia Day coverage with the deadliest mass shooting in modern Australian history. April 28, 1996: A gunman enters the Broad Arrow Café at Port Arthur's historic site. In ninety seconds, twenty people are dead. He moves to the car park, the tollbooth, executes a mother shielding her two daughters aged six and three. Hijacks a BMW after killing its occupants. Takes a hostage. Returns to a guesthouse where he'd already murdered the owners that morning. Eighteen-hour standoff. Thirty-five dead. Twenty-three wounded. Australia will never be the same. Tomorrow: How one nation chose to act.

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