Olympic dressage competitor Michael Barisone shot his student, Lauren Kanarek, in 2019 after a year of tension and alleged harassment. Though Lauren was the victim, do Emily and Shane believe she’s entirely innocent?

Was Michael’s “temporary insanity” case valid, considering he still looked mentally unstable two years after the shooting?!

Plus, what did they think about the Netflix documentary on this case? Do others agree that Lauren isn’t the most likable?!

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A quiet night. A locked door. And a stranger is already inside. She thought she was safe. She wasn’t.
In this episode, Director Traci Hays and star Tyler Perez talk about Kidnapped in Her Own Home: The Martha Carelli Story, a chilling story where a quiet life is shattered when a stranger takes control from inside of a home.

But what makes it even more disturbing? There’s no grand plan, no personal motive, just the terrifying randomness of how it all began.

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Marsha Allen concocted a plan to poison her husband alongside her daughter, Ashley Jones, in 2022 using a root beer float and antifreeze…
When the victim, Harold Allen, was pronounced dead, authorities didn’t suspect any foul play. It was only when Marsha’s home was burglarized 9 months later that the truth finally came out.
Why did Marsha and Ashley do it? How many times did they try to poison him before they were successful? Was this Ashley’s first murder?!

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Calvin Duncan has filed a civil rights lawsuit to fight state lawmakers who just eliminated the office he was elected to last year. Duncan was set to take office as criminal court clerk of New Orleans on Monday, when Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law this week, abolishing the role. Duncan was freed after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, earned his law degree at 60 and is now fighting to assume the office he was legally elected to on Monday.

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Authorities announced they have finally identified remains found by local fishermen as the body of 27-year-old Nahida Bristy. Officials had to use DNA and dental records to make the ID, after they found the body of her friend Zamil Limon on a bridge above the bay days earlier. Limon’s roommate, 26-year-old Hisham Abugharbieh has been charged with their premeditated murders, after police say they have physical, digital and forensic evidence tying him to the crime, including damning searches, like, “can a knife penetrate a skull.”

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The former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein is maintaining he found a suicide note left by Jeffrey Epstein after a first, failed attempt, weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10th. The New York Times has filed a petition to unseal the note and a judge is giving all parties until Monday, May 4th to respond. Epstein’s former cellmate claims he ended the note with the words “time to say goodbye.”

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This true crime story reads like a movie script! A judge called the suspect in this case the “ultimate” risk to the community. On April 13th, a 16-year-old girl who had already been sexually assaulted after being abducted at gunpoint from her school bus stop, mouthed the world “help” to a gas station attendant who rushed into action. It was his brave moves along with the victim’s friends’ Snapchat app that led police straight to the teen, allowing them to arrest a suspect who already had a history of rape charges.

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A woman is stabbed to death. Her husband has an alibi, witnesses, and a time-stamped fast-food receipt. It doesn’t matter. He’s arrested, convicted, and sent to prison, even as a story full of wild contradictions and shifting claims takes hold. The case behind The Thing About Pam is as shocking as it is baffling. We break down the lies, the missed red flags, and how everything went so wrong with Glenn Fleshler, who plays the innocent husband.

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