True Crime This Week

This week: Season Two of the Karen Read trial begins, mass shooting in Kashmir, man who claimed to cure HIV caught up in murder-for-hire plot, Lori Daybell is guilty again, a California judge breaks bad, and more!Further Reading:https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/karen-reads-second-murder-trial-let-the-witness-questioning-beginhttps://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5373353/kashmir-mass-shooting-india-vance-trump-modihttps://abcnews.go.com/US/verdict-reached-murder-conspiracy-trial-doomsday-mom-lori/story?id=121032614https://vermontbiz.com/news/2025/april/19/convictions-notorious-danville-murder-casehttps://nypost.com/2025/04/22/world-news/hitman-who-killed-maurizio-gucci-shoots-son-in-face-turns-gun-on-self-reports/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/16/tyler-wilkins-confesses-murder-jorden-nebling/83114120007/https://apnews.com/article/california-judge-murder-charge-wife-shooting-ferguson-af092ace87db252e8d95f3e02840b633https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/florida-man-richard-christopher-smith-offers-police-alcohol-during-car-chase/

A special report on the Maura Murray case. In March, we learned that a fingerprint found in Maura Murray's car was linked to former West Point cadet Steffen Baldwin, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ohio on unrelated charges. I recently obtained a copy of his autobiography and it provides important insight into his time at West Point and his struggles with mental illness.

This week: Richard Allen confesses again and again, Bestselling author gets shot by police in LA, Robot lawyers invade New York, Hollywood director ordered to pay $1.7 billion to his victims, Lori Daybell is still crazy, a snooker champion takes his dead brother out for beer, and more!

This week: Jean-Claude Van Damme is a hard target, prosecutors seek death penalty for Mangioni, Toledo Jane Doe identified, defense tries for new trial in Lucy Letby case, a New Jersey police chief likes Viagra in his coffee, and more!Further Reading:https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/houston-deputy-suicides/index.htmlhttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jean-claude-van-damme-sex-trafficked-women-romania-b2726995.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/luigi-mangione-death-penalty.htmlhttps://www.toledoblade.com/local/police-fire/2025/04/01/remains-found-in-1987-identified-as-those-of-missing-michigan-woman-tammy-lowe/stories/20250401122https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/02/evidence-used-to-convict-lucy-letby-is-flawed-leading-experts-sayhttps://abc7.com/post/wisconsin-amber-alert-missing-pregnant-teenager-gary-day-impregnated-found-beaver-dam-nebraska/16123685/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/us/covenant-school-shooter-nashville-motivation/index.htmlhttps://www.nj.com/hudson/2025/03/police-chief-pooped-on-floor-spiked-coffee-with-viagra-cops-say-in-shocking-list-of-complaints.html

This week: A DNA database goes bankrupt, Who let Andrew Tate back into the U.S.?, Big Brother comes to London, Selena's killer denied parole, a real life monster under the bed, and more!Further Reading:https://www.sciencenews.org/article/23andme-bankruptcy-genetic-data-deletehttps://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2025/03/why-donald-trump-embraced-andrew-tatehttps://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/andrew-tate-choking-woman-unconscious-sexual-assault-1235057372/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22wdedqeohttps://metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/new-big-brother-cameras-announced-london-despite-dystopian-warning-22790959/https://deadline.com/2025/03/gerard-depardieu-18-month-suspended-sentence-sexual-assault-1236352154/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/selena-murder-yolanda-saldivar-parole.htmlhttps://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/skeletal-remains-of-nh-woman-missing-for-5-years-discovered/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ashlee-shingoose-parents-update-1.7494827https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-child-said-monster-was-bed-babysitter-finds-man-hiding-rcna198388

This week: Police release 911 call in Idaho murders, someone took out a hit on a ghost hunter, JFK files released, update in the Maura Murray case, Michael Proctor is fired, and more!Further Reading:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/audio-of-911-call-released-in-idaho-college-student-murders-case/#https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ghost-adventures-star-aaron-goodwins-wife-fell-in-love-hitman-who-brutally-murdered-his-own-familyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/19/jfk-files-summary-assassination-takeaways/https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/michael-proctor-fired-karen-read-massachusetts-state-police/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/20/metro/kim-sullivan-waterbury-described-as-private-by-neighbors/https://abcnews.go.com/US/1979-maryland-cold-case-rape-murder-solved-genetic-genealogy/story?id=119916996https://apnews.com/article/golden-toilet-stolen-blenheim-palace-thief-trial-c77c211a0fbc65290f920da2d5abe852