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On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into a wooded area of a local park and stabbed her 19 times to appease the fictional character Slender Man. Weier and Geyser were both found not guilty by mental disease or defect and committed to mental health institutions. Weier received a sentence of 25 years to life and Geyser was sentenced to 40 years to life. Anissa Weier was released in 2021 to live with her father. Morgan Geyser is scheduled to be released in 2025 to live in a group home and ...

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, many people were desperate to flee the country. CNN reported that a security consultant was among those offering to evacuate them — for a price — as part of an investigation into claims of "black market" rescue operations. CNN's story, which aired on Nov. 11, 2021, showed a photo of Zachary Young, head of Florida-based Nemex Enterprises. The caption below warned of "exorbitant fees" and "no guarantee of safety or success." Chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt told viewers that CNN could not confirm that Young had...

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to state charges in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Mangione’s initial appearance in New York’s state trial court was preempted by federal prosecutors bringing their own charges over the shooting. The federal charges could carry the possibility of the death penalty, while the maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole. Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges ...

Cochran is on trial for murdering her husband Michael Cochran in 2019.Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman said Natalie Cochran used insulin that a friend had given to her to murder her husband because she was running a multi million dollar Ponzi scheme and Michael was pushing for answers about where investors money was going.Truman also said Michael Cochran laid unconscious for hours and Natalie Cochran refused to get help, even after friends visited and urged her to seek medical care. Truman continued to say that another couple had insisted Michel Cochran get help and that’s how ...

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Travis Victor Alexander was an American salesman who was murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Ann Arias, in his house in Mesa, Arizona while in the shower. Alexander sustained 27 stab wounds, a slit throat and a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Arias testified that she killed him in self-defense.This is the full audio from the trial of AZ v. Jodi Ann Arias, with large portions of silence removed.

Leilani Simon is accused of killing her 20-month-old son, Quinton, in October 2022. She allegedly beat him to death and threw away his body in a dumpster. Police later found his body in a landfill.This is the full audio from her murder trial.

Georgia woman Melody Walker Farris faces several criminal charges including malice murder and felony murder for allegedly killing her husband, Gary Farris, and torching his body in a burn pit. Police initially believed Gary had suffered a medical issue and then fell into a fire on his property, causing his death. But, investigators later discovered a bullet found in his rib bones, leading authorities to suspect foul play. A phone call between Melody and her lover allegedly proves she committed the crime. If convicted, Melody faces life in prison.

Rapper Young Dolph, real name was Adolph Thornton Jr., was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee back in November 2021. Several suspects have been charged in connection with his death. One of them, Justin Johnson, aka Straight Drop, faces trial for the murder of the rapper. If convicted, Johnson could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.This is the full audio from his trial starting in September 2024, with large portions of silence removed to improve your listening experience.

Carly Gregg, 15, is charged as an adult in the March 19 shooting that killed her mother, Ashley Smylie. Gregg is also accused of shooting her stepfather, Heath Smylie, who survived with a graze wound to his shoulder.

Sarah Boone is accused of murdering her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr, by zipping him inside a suitcase and leaving him there to die. Prior to his death, Torres had been arrested multiple times for alleged instances of domestic violence against Boone and she had been arrested one time for an alleged instance of domestic violence against Torres. Boone had been arrested once for alleged battery by strangulation against Torres in July 2018 when both Boone and Torres were arrested; however, her charge was dismissed. Torres had been arrested four times for alleged battery against Boone; Boone bailed ...

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Prosecutors have accused Kouri Richins of drugging her husband's Valentine's Day sandwich in February 2022 in an alleged murder attempt that he survived. He died 17 days later, after prosecutors said Kouri Richins spiked his cocktail with a fatal dose of fentanyl. Kouri Richins pleaded not guilty Tuesday.Richins wrote a children's book about loss after Eric Richins died in 2022 and has proclaimed her innocence since she was charged with murder. This is the full audio from her trial starting ...

A Florida jury will determine whether a 60-year-old white woman was justified when she fired through the door of her central Florida apartment a year ago, killing a Black mother during an ongoing dispute over neighborhood children. Lorincz told investigators that the children were running and yelling outside her apartment. She went outside, saw some skates on the ground and threw them at the children. She went back inside her apartment, defense attorney Morris Carranza told jurors. Owens, who was the mother of several of the children and who lived across the street, went to Lorincz’s ...

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.On November 21, 2021, Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. drove an SUV through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, killing 6 people and injuring 62 others. Brooks pleaded not guilty to six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and seventy additional charges. He chose to represent himself at his trial, which began on October 3, 2022. Brooks presented pseudolegal arguments from the sovereign citizen movement and was repeatedly removed from the courtroom for failing to...

On Sept. 27, 2020, a man in the 11300 block of White Rock Terrace in Lakewood Ranch dialed 911 after his neighbor, Ashley Benefield, ran to his house shouting for help. Benefield, then 28, said her husband attacked her and she shot him in self-defense, the Bradenton Herald previously reported.Deputies with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said they found Doug Benefield with gunshot wounds in his right leg, right arm and right chest area. He died at a local hospital later that night.Detectives said at the time they found “no evidence that” Ashley Benefield “was acting in self-defense...

Tyler Dazey, the Dubuque man who is accused of killing his mother, Jennifer Dazey and the family dog, is refusing to participate in his murder trial. Police said when they first arrested Dazey, he claimed he killed his mother because she was practicing witchcraft. Dazey faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole. This is the full audio from his trial in July 2024, with large portions of silence removed.

Christopher Gregor is accused of forcing his six-year-old son to run on a treadmill because he believed the young boy was “too fat.” The son, Corey Micciolo, later died of the injuries he sustained from the alleged abuse. Gregor faces several charges at trial including endangering the welfare of a child and first-degree murder.This is the full audio from that trial, with long portions of silence removed.

A trial is underway in western Wisconsin for Nicolae Miu, a 54-year-old man accused of stabbing four people and killing a teenager in July of 2022 on the Apple River.Miu is charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the death of 17-year-old Isaac Schuman and four counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He pleaded not guilty in September of 2022.The prosecution is arguing that Miu was an aggressor in the incident, and plans to call more than 40 witnesses to the stand. The defense is contending that Miu stabbed the five people in self-defense because the teenagers ...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton. Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. This is the full audio from his murder trial in 1992.

FULL TRIAL AUDIOIn July 2021, Dane County Sheriff's detectives Sabrina Sims and Brian Shunk were assigned to investigate the disappearance of Windsor, Wisconsin, couple Bart and Krista Halderson. Their 23-year-old son Chandler Halderson had reported them missing, telling police they went to the family cabin for the Fourth of July holiday weekend but never returned.Chandler Halderson was charged with the murder of his parents, Bart and Krista. He was also charged with dismembering them and lying to police. He pleaded not guilty. This is the audio from his trial in January 2022.

FULL TRIAL AUDIOJohn C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard was a trial held in Fairfax County, Virginia, from April 11 to June 1, 2022, that ruled on allegations of defamation between formerly married American actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Depp, as plaintiff, filed a complaint of defamation against defendant Heard claiming $50 million in damages; Heard filed counterclaims against Depp claiming $100 million in damages.This is the full audio from that trial.