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Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s father made a public statement through his attorney after David Anthony Burke’s arrest: he’d never had any contact with the singer. Five days of preliminary hearing testimony contradicted every word of it.
Detective Farell testified the parents knew. Burke attended the family’s church. Celeste’s sister traveled with them to Las Vegas. A notarized consent form bearing the parents’ signatures sent their thirteen-year-old daughter to London with a grown man. Celeste was reportedly pregnant at thirteen while her parents were allegedly aware of the relationship.
Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the legal exposure facing the adults who signed the documents, issued the denials, and allegedly watched their daughter travel internationally with the man now charged with her murder.
A teacher tried to intervene. Deputies visited Burke’s home and confirmed she was there. Nobody with the power to stop it did. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste was fourteen years old.
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Bart Edmiston — one of the friends who was on Horn Island with Nolan Wells on July 4 — has retained attorney Russ Latino and is preparing defamation lawsuits against the people who accused him online of killing Nolan. His lawyer says Bart already provided his boat, GPS data, and phone to investigators. He's cooperated fully. And he just received a credible death threat because of what his attorney calls "wholly fabricated" claims.Filing a defamation suit opens the door to the one thing fabricated claims can't survive: discovery. Depositions under oath. Subpoenas that pull every text and every GPS coordinate into a courtroom. Nobody volunteers for that process if they have something to hide.Ben Crump filed subpoenas to Snapchat, TikTok, WhatsApp, Meta, and Life360 — requesting login histories, IP addresses, password resets, GPS data, and message records. Both sides agreed to a mutual cell phone inspection. The data comes back in twenty-one days. When it does, the Snapchat question gets an answer based on evidence, not speculation.The internet manufactured an entire case file out of a debunked pool photo, an altered audio recording, and AI-generated fakes of Nolan's mother. Every viral accusation made the investigation harder, not easier. And the kids at the center of it — the friends Nolan grew up with, played football with, went to that island with — are carrying death threats for something nobody has proven they did.

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Years before Moscow, Idaho, Bryan Kohberger was a nineteen-year-old fresh out of rehab who stole his sister's phone, sold it at a mall kiosk for less than half its value, and warned his father not to do anything stupid when he got caught. Then his family went to work. They fixed him.
Community college. A bachelor's degree. A master's. A doctoral program in Washington State. By every measure available, they had won. Melissa used the word "proud" in an interview, and she'd earned it.
What came back through that door carried two degrees and did what was done on King Road. And the reflex — whoever is closest is a lever, and levers get pulled — never changed. A courtroom walkout without looking at his mother. Video calls for hours, every day, for months. A birthday cake baked to his specifications from behind reinforced glass. A post-conviction petition filed July 27 naming the three lawyers who kept him off death row, with a reporter at the Times notified before his own family.
This is not a case breakdown. It is not petition analysis. It is an open letter to the people who rebuilt Bryan Kohberger, asking them to consider that the door they've been holding open stopped leading somewhere a long time ago. That letting go doesn't cost them their decency, and that setting down the weight is not the same as pretending it never existed.
Madison Mogen was twenty-one. Kaylee Goncalves was twenty-one. Xana Kernodle was twenty. Ethan Chapin was twenty. Their families carry those names forever. The Kohberger family still gets a choice.

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Both Bryan Kohberger and Lindsay Clancy are asking the legal system to accept an account of something nobody else can see, and the two requests could not be less alike. Full conversation on both cases here.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski. Her background runs through private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs across more than thirty years.
Kohberger admitted the University of Idaho murders in open court, waived his appeal, and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. A year later he filed for post-conviction relief representing himself and told a national newspaper his actual innocence is his truth. The segment covers that phrasing, his allegations against his former attorneys, the effect of a year of silence on a person's self-account, and the timing of his statement against a documentary premiere built around the four students who died.
Clancy's trial turns on whether she was criminally responsible. She does not deny killing her three children. The segment covers the prosecution's framing of her treatment history as manipulation, the medication timeline her defense presented, why a stable-looking afternoon is consistent with psychosis rather than evidence against it, and what a not criminally responsible finding actually triggers in Massachusetts.
The through-line is not that these two are similar. It is that only one of them is making a claim a clinician could ever evaluate.
Scott also takes the question sitting underneath both segments, which is what a courtroom is actually built to evaluate. Juries assess credibility, motive, and behavior. None of those tools were designed for a psychotic illness, and none of them work on a man asserting a private truth about himself a year after saying the opposite under oath.
Follow Hidden Killers for continuing coverage of both.
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There's a difference between asking someone to return your mother and asking someone to tell you where to find her. Savannah Guthrie crossed that line on July 27th. In a video posted to Instagram and addressed to whoever took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home, Savannah used language she's never used before. She offered empathy. She offered something close to forgiveness. And she stopped using the word "home" entirely.
This episode examines what Savannah actually said and what it means — line by line. It also explains the timing: within the same week, Crime Junkie read the first ransom note aloud on air for the first time, FBI Director Kash Patel publicly accused the Pima County Sheriff's Department of losing evidence by keeping federal agents out for four days, and the sheriff's office shot back. Two agencies fighting while an eighty-four-year-old woman's family sits in front of a camera begging for a location.
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