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A secret documentary about Elizabeth Holmes premiered at Telluride on September 6. "You Can See Everything", directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, distributed by A24, filmed over three years beginning 34 days before she reported to federal prison. It screens at the New York Film Festival on September 30 and opens theatrically in October. Meanwhile, Holmes's X account, revived in August 2025 after a decade of silence and reportedly run by her partner Billy Evans, has been posting frequently and protesting her innocence. And a clemency petition asking the President to commute her sentence remains listed as pending with the Justice Department's Office...

Former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor invoked his Fifth Amendment right rather than answer questions at a hearing in a Milton murder case he led — the 2021 killing of 25-year-old Marquis Simmons. Judge Peter Krupp allowed it after a sidebar his defense counsel was barred from joining. Defense attorney Rosemary Scapicchio, who is seeking dismissal of charges against Myles Omari King, 26, said Proctor's lawyer had twice indicated he would testify. Proctor was dishonorably discharged over messages found on his phone during the Karen Read prosecution; he has not been charged with any crime, and invoking the Fifth is not evidence of...

Tomasz Kosowski, representing himself in a capital murder trial in Pinellas County, Florida, gave no opening statement and cross-examined none of the state's witnesses on the first day. Assistant State Attorney Alexandra Spadaro told Judge Joseph Bulone that attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, was killed in his firm's bathroom and moved out by wagon — that "his coffin was a dumpster" and his remains lie in the Collier County landfill, where a three-day search found nothing. Kosowski has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent; he has dismissed four sets of attorneys, waived a jury for both phases, and withdrawn his prior counsel's su...

Judge London Kite has refused to step aside from Shanna Gardner's murder case after both prosecutors and Kirsten Bridegan — the widow of victim Jared Bridegan — filed motions asking her to disqualify herself. Kite ruled both legally insufficient without addressing the factual allegations. The dispute began when Gardner's defense sought Kirsten Bridegan's cellphone; Kite initially denied the request, then ordered her to surrender it after an ex parte meeting with Gardner's attorneys that neither prosecutors nor Bridegan's lawyers attended. When she refused, Kite initiated indirect criminal contempt proceedings during Mario Fernandez Saldana's trial. The Fifth District Court of Appeal has stayed the...

Tomasz Kosowski, 47, goes on trial Monday in Pinellas County, Florida, for the first-degree murder of attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, who vanished from his Largo office bathroom in March 2023 and has never been found. Kosowski has dismissed multiple defense teams, is representing himself, withdrew his prior counsel's motions to suppress evidence and their challenges to the death penalty, and waived a jury for both the guilt and penalty phases — a dual waiver attorneys describe as exceptionally rare. Asked by Judge Joseph Bulone why he didn't want a jury, he replied, "I really have to answer that?" He has pleaded not guilty and is...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, no one has been tried for them. A military judge set a June 2028 trial date last month for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay — twenty years after they were first charged — following two decades of litigation driven largely by the CIA's treatment of the defendants in secret custody, which the government has acknowledged and which rendered one co-defendant unfit to stand trial. Plea agreements signed in 2024 were withdrawn by the Defense Secretary, reinstated by a military judge, then vacated on appeal; the death penalty is back on the table. Meanwhile roughly 9,000 deat...

Four jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have now spoken publicly, and their accounts conflict. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher, told NBC10 Boston the holdout juror "admitted he had reasonable doubt" — that she began signing the verdict forms before he said, "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity." Jurors Kellie Farina and Paula Devlin described him as closed off and unwilling to engage. A fourth juror, speaking anonymously to CBS Boston, said the majority pressed him from the beginning, that he was not the only one unwilling to mo...

Four jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have now spoken publicly, and their accounts conflict. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher, told NBC10 Boston the holdout juror "admitted he had reasonable doubt" — that she began signing the verdict forms before he said, "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity." Jurors Kellie Farina and Paula Devlin described him as closed off and unwilling to engage. A fourth juror, speaking anonymously to CBS Boston, said the majority pressed him from the beginning, that he was not the only one unwilling to mo...

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy during a Good Morning America interview Tuesday, days after her murder trial ended in a mistrial — a request the president has no authority to grant, since the pardon power under Article II reaches only federal offenses and Clancy is charged under Massachusetts law. Reddington also said he hopes to reach an agreement with Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, softened his earlier remarks about the prosecution as "bravado," and said the eleven jurors who agreed were at not guilty by reason of insanity. Clancy has not been convicted or ac...

A Lucas County jury convicted attorney Matthew Exton, 43, of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault and multiple firearm specifications Friday, in the April 2025 armed confrontation at the opening night of Sabira restaurant in Toledo. He was acquitted on a third assault count. Prosecutor Julia Bates said Exton "came with anger in him and with the intention to commit a public execution of his ex-wife," and credited restaurant employees and patrons — including a waiter who tackled him — as heroes. Exton testified in his own defense, admitting he pointed the gun but disputing intent, and was removed from the courtroom during clos...

A mistrial was declared Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the jury deadlocked over seven days and roughly 38 hours. With courts closed for the holiday, a full retrospective: the night of January 24, 2023; the four months of psychiatric treatment that preceded it, including a five-day voluntary hospital admission three weeks before her children died; the 21 days of testimony and 84 witnesses; and the six expert witnesses who all agreed Clancy was seriously mentally ill and disagreed only on whether her illness met the legal standard for lack of criminal responsibility. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said the jury was "robbed by one...

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after jurors deadlocked. Their final note: "It is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to." The panel of nine women and three men deliberated about 38 hours over seven days; jury notes indicated an 11-1 split, with defense attorney Kevin Reddington telling the court the eleven favored acquittal. Reddington twice asked Sullivan to remove the holdout juror, arguing the juror had acknowledged doubt but refused to apply it; Sullivan declined, finding the notes did...

The foreperson of Lindsay Clancy's jury sent a note saying one juror "refuses to listen to the law" on reasonable doubt, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told the court — and asked Judge William Sullivan to remove that juror. Sullivan declined: "I don't feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations. I don't feel it's appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11." He questioned each juror individually at sidebar, with Clancy wheeled up to the bench, then reread the instruction on reasonable doubt and sent them back. Reddington ob...

For the second time in two days, jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial told Judge William Sullivan they could not agree: "After much deliberation, we are still unable to come to a unanimous decision." Sullivan responded Wednesday afternoon by reading the Tuey-Rodriguez charge — Massachusetts' version of the Allen or "dynamite" instruction, used as a last resort with a stuck jury. He told them there is no reason to suppose the case will ever go to twelve people more intelligent, impartial or competent, while reminding them the burden rests with the Commonwealth. Under state law he cannot give it again without th...

The singer D4vd — David Anthony Burke, 21 — dropped his private defense team Monday and will be represented by the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, after Judge Charlaine Olmedo determined he qualified for appointed counsel. Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter withdrew without stating a reason; deputy public defenders Walid Kandeel and Lisa Roth took over and entered not-guilty pleas the same morning. Burke is charged with murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose remains were found in his Tesla in S...

A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder Monday in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, deliberating about three hours after nine days of testimony. Davis, 63, is the only person ever charged and the only surviving occupant of the Cadillac from which the shots were fired. Prosecutors never alleged he pulled the trigger, arguing he obtained the gun and orchestrated the shooting as retaliation for a casino-lobby beating of his nephew hours earlier — and built the case largely on Davis's own police interviews, docuseries appearances and 2019 memoir. He did not testify. Shakur's sister wept in the gallery; fa...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial enter a third day of deliberations Monday after roughly ten hours over two days without a verdict. Nine women and three men are weighing first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, or a finding of not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, following five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses. On Friday the jury asked to review Clancy's prescription bottles and the knife from her suicide attempt — the medication question the defense built its case on. Clancy, 36, does not deny strangling Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at their Duxbury home in January 2023, and argues sh...

A Duval County jury convicted Mario Fernandez Saldana of first-degree murder and solicitation to commit a capital felony Wednesday, after just under four hours of deliberation, in the February 2022 ambush killing of Jared Bridegan. Bridegan, 33, a Microsoft senior design manager and father of four, was shot after stopping to move a tire from a dark Jacksonville Beach road with his two-year-old daughter in the back seat. Prosecutors said Fernandez Saldana solicited Henry Tenon — his former tenant, recently evicted and with no money in his accounts — to kill Bridegan to resolve a custody fight and to allow his wife, Shanna Gardner, to b...

The Commonwealth rested its case against Lindsay Clancy after FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff testified he does not believe her account that a voice ordered her to kill her three children. Saathoff, who interviewed Clancy for roughly eleven hours, called it unusual that she reported never hearing a voice before or after that day, that she described it as constant rather than intermittent, and that it stopped once the killings were done: "Committing the act is not curative of the voice. I've not ever seen that." Under questioning from prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, he said the voice gave...

Closing arguments are expected today in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, after Judge William Sullivan denied a defense motion for a mistrial. Prosecution expert Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, testifying that Clancy told each child "go to God" as she killed them, described her Catholic upbringing and began asking whether suicide is a mortal sin before defense attorney Kevin Reddington objected — the second time the phrase has surfaced in the trial. Reddington called it "intentional misconduct." Sullivan refused the mistrial but told jurors the defendant's religion was "absolutely an inappropriate area of testimony… It is to be stricken." Heilbrun testified Clancy retained awareness that...

Judge William Sullivan denied a defense motion for a mistrial Monday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, as Kevin Reddington finished a contentious cross-examination of the Commonwealth's rebuttal psychiatrist, Dr. Avram Mack — at one point asking, "What are you smiling for? This is not funny, sir." Mack has testified Clancy suffered a major depressive episode but was not psychotic, and that she recalled telling her children "go to God" as she killed them. Reddington challenged his credentials and pressed him on the DSM's four-week postpartum window; Mack acknowledged the World Health Organization uses a different one. Prosecutors also called forensic psychologist Dr...

A Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony's motion for a new trial Saturday, leaving intact his murder conviction and 35-year sentence for the April 2025 stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet. Retired Kaufman County Judge Michael Chitty ruled in a one-page order without explanation, two days after a hearing at which Anthony's former trial attorneys testified that a dispute over an unwritten "gentleman's agreement" with prosecutors kept him off the witness stand. Chitty was assigned to the case after visiting Judge Sid Harle recused trial judge John Roach Jr. over a post-verdict television interview. Collin County DA Greg...

Defense psychologist Dr. Paul Zeizel finished cross-examination in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, testifying that psychosis comes and goes "like waves at a beach" and that testing by a state-retained doctor found no evidence she was faking. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham pressed him on the roughly sixty visits he has made to Clancy since her arrest. Judge William Sullivan barred a former McLean Hospital social worker from testifying but admitted the hospital's staffing records, then adjourned early Wednesday citing an unforeseen circumstance he did not explain. The defense is expected to rest shortly; closing arguments could begin Monday. Clancy has pleaded not...

Defense expert Dr. Donald Condie, a clinical and forensic psychiatrist who reviewed Lindsay Clancy's medical records, testified that her providers' notes show postpartum depression progressing to postpartum psychosis — and acknowledged she never reported hearing voices to any treating provider before the killings. On cross, he testified she may not have reported everything out of concern about losing access to her children or risking her nursing license. Defense psychologist Dr. Paul Zeizel, who has seen Clancy 45 times since the killings, then testified that she told her then-husband by phone from the hospital that she heard a male voice telling her she ha...

The Commonwealth rested its case against Lindsay Clancy on Monday after four weeks and more than seventy witnesses, and the defense opened by calling her family. Her mother, Paula Musgrove, testified that Clancy texted her in October 2022 asking her to come stay — "I'm really sick. Something is wrong" — and that in December, standing in the kitchen with Clancy and her then-husband, her daughter said she had thoughts of harming the children. On cross, Musgrove told prosecutors she was not concerned for the children's safety at the time "because I was there." Clancy's sister, Allison Ozga, described a decline beginning at Than...

A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on two counts of first-degree murder in the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents, filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, 70, adding special circumstance allegations of multiple murder and murder by lying in wait — allegations that make the case death-penalty eligible. Reiner, 32, has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent; District Attorney Nathan Hochman's office has not said whether it will seek death. Separately, the fiduciary overseeing a $1.5 million trust his parents opened for him has invoked California's slayer statute to block his access, which he sought in order to...

Prosecutors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial showed jurors notes and search history from her devices, including a note created in December 2022 and last modified January 23, 2023 — the day before she killed her three children — reading, "Medication stole my motherhood and my life." State police also testified she searched "can you treat a sociopath" days before the killings. On cross-examination, defense attorney Kevin Reddington established that an earlier search for suicide methods came from her then-husband's tablet while she was out of the house, and walked jurors through searches for hallucinations and intrusive thoughts that the state had not highlighted. Clancy has plea...

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday morning in Manhattan federal court to two counts of stalking resulting in death in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. There was no plea agreement and no agreed sentencing range. Reading a statement to U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett, Mangione said he shot Thompson and that he knew what he was doing was illegal; his attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo said he has accepted full responsibility for Thompson's death. Members of Thompson's family, including his mother, sat in the front row alongside UnitedHealthcare executives. Garnett found Mangione fully competent to plead and told him...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial saw autopsy photographs of Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, on Wednesday, and the courtroom was cleared twice as Clancy sobbed at the defense table. Two medical examiners testified about all three children; defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked no questions on cross. Earlier that day, Reddington drew out a State Police investigator's testimony that colleagues had discussed a theory that a defense-retained psychologist prompted Clancy to tell her then-husband she heard voices — and got the witness to confirm he never overheard the conversation and that there was no investigative basis for it. A counselor also testified that Cl...

A psychiatric nurse practitioner testified that she raised the possibility of an underlying bipolar disorder with Lindsay Clancy and her then-husband on December 6, 2022 — about seven weeks before Clancy killed the couple's three children. Rebecca Jollotta, of South Shore Hospital's perinatal behavioral health program, cited Clancy's insomnia without tiredness and her adverse reactions to antidepressants, but testified Clancy's symptoms did not fully meet the diagnostic criteria at the time. Clancy has since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Jollotta also testified Clancy scored 23 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in November 2022, and that Clancy never indicated a plan to harm herself or he...

Jury selection began Monday in Las Vegas in the murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, the only person ever charged in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. Davis has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement; prosecutors do not allege he fired the shots, but that he orchestrated the drive-by in retaliation for an assault on his nephew hours earlier. The case rests heavily on Davis's own 2019 memoir and prior interviews. Judge Carli Kierny is presiding; jurors are expected to begin hearing evidence August 17. Also: in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Judge William Sullivan...

Kevin Reddington cross-examined Dr. Jennifer Tufts on Monday, day ten of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court. Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Clancy from September 2022 through the day before the killings, testified that all fourteen of their appointments were by telemedicine and that she had never met Clancy in person until the trial. Reddington questioned her experience level, her online biography, her medication decisions, and what she knew of Clancy's care elsewhere. Tufts also confirmed she is a defendant in the medical malpractice suits Lindsay and Patrick Clancy have filed. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts...

On Thursday the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts vacated the first-degree murder convictions of Latarsha Sanders, who stabbed her two young sons — Edson "Marlon" Brito, 8, and La'son Brito, 5 — to death in Brockton in 2018. The court held that excluding thousands of pages of her psychiatric records, documenting a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, was prejudicial error on the sole question before the jury: criminal responsibility. The trial judge was William Sullivan — the same judge now presiding over Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, where the identical question is being litigated. The Plymouth County District Attorney's office says it is reviewing the opinion. In wee...

Prosecutors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial called the family's former nanny, who told jurors Clancy was a devoted mother and described Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — testimony the Commonwealth is using to argue Clancy was organized, oriented and in command of her household. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home and argues she was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis. Jurors also heard DNA and toxicology evidence, and the state was expected to call the medical examiner's office. Also: in Pensacola, Florida, Timothy Kramer, 53, is on tr...

On the seventh day of testimony in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan on the record that the defense is not contesting the Commonwealth's case-in-chief, stipulating to chain of custody on the blood, DNA and physical evidence — a move that could shorten the trial and narrows it to the single question of criminal responsibility. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and argues she was suffering postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors called crime lab, hospital and toxicology witnesses this we...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial heard her private journals read aloud Monday, with State Police and the Commonwealth using them to argue she was oriented and self-monitoring, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington reading from the same pages to argue she was a woman asking for help. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home; she does not dispute causing their deaths and contests criminal responsibility. Jurors also heard from a Brigham and Women's forensic psychiatrist...

Six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson-area home, the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI Phoenix Field Office released the full text of two ransom notes sent to Tucson CBS affiliate KOLD — the first on February 2, addressed to her daughter, Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, demanding $4 million in bitcoin; the second on February 6, claiming she had died shortly after being taken and was "buried in nature." Investigators say the notes share a distinctive linguistic style they hope someone will recognize. No suspect has been named and the notes' authenticity has not been confirmed. Also: jurors in Li...

Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, was sentenced Thursday, July 30, to 15 years in prison — two days after Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm gave his 16-year-old son life without the possibility of parole. Colin Gray, 55, was convicted in March on 27 counts, including second-degree murder in the deaths of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of teachers Richard "Ricky" Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53. He is the first parent in the country convicted of murder over a school shooting carried out by his child. Prosecutors sought 80 years; the defense as...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial visited the Duxbury, Massachusetts home Friday where her three children died in January 2023 — a court-ordered jury view Judge William Sullivan permitted over the objection of the couple who now own the property. Clancy, 35, attended in a wheelchair. She has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Her defense does not dispute that she caused their deaths and argues lack of criminal responsibility due to postpartum psychosis. Also: People reported, citing anonymous sources, that Nick Reiner was disciplined in April at a Los Angeles ja...

Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty in July 2025 to murdering four University of Idaho students, filed a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief Monday in Ada County District Court, asking to withdraw the plea and get a trial. Representing himself, Kohberger alleges ineffective assistance of counsel and says he was convinced to falsely confess. Those allegations are untested and unanswered; his plea and sentence — four consecutive life terms without parole, plus ten years — currently stand. The family of Kaylee Goncalves, killed alongside Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, said he wants another chance to roll the dice. Also: in Plymouth, Massachusetts, juro...