Back from two weeks out with the heaviest stretch of cases the show has ever covered. An arrest in the Wilmer, Alabama family murders. Two USF doctoral students from Bangladesh, both found dead. New developments in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case. And a death penalty verdict that may come this week for the man who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand. Plus follow-ups on Anna Kepner and Kouri Richins.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

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A Monday show coming to you on a Friday. Dino's down with the flu, but the week didn't wait — and four cases this week demand we say their names.

In Wilmer, Alabama, Lisa Gail Fields, her seventeen-year-old pregnant daughter Keziah Arionna Luker, and her twelve-year-old son Thomas "T.J." Cordelle Jr. were found dead in their home in the early hours of Monday, April 20th. Four days later, no one has been arrested. Lisa's husband Nathan Fields has spoken publicly for the first time. We sit with the family the killer or killers left behind — and the eighteen-month-old baby who was the only survivor in that house.

In Titusville, Florida, the federal case against the sixteen-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner is moving fast. Anna had a plan. She was going to join the Navy, become a K9 officer. She was eighteen. She never came home from a family cruise.

In Columbia, South Carolina, Ciarra Howcott was thirty-one. She was found shot on Howell Court on April 13th. We don't know enough about her yet — but we say her name.

And in Lake Elsinore, California, this week brought devastating new revelations in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her autopsy was unsealed. Her family spoke publicly for the first time. And the man accused of killing her stood in a courtroom on the one-year anniversary of the day she was last seen alive. Dino unpacks what prosecutors revealed in court — and why the story belongs to Celeste, not to D4vd.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

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Eight names. Said out loud. In a courtroom. By the man who killed them.

On Wednesday, Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court and pleaded guilty eight times — once for each woman he strangled and dumped along the Long Island coast over seventeen years. Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Melissa Barthelemy. Megan Waterman. Amber Lynn Costello. Jessica Taylor. Sandra Costilla. Valerie Mack. Karen Vergata. Sentencing is June 17th. Their full episode is coming.

In the Bahamas, Lynette Hooker — 55, Michigan, a sailor who loved the water her whole life — disappeared from a dinghy on April 5th. Her husband says she fell overboard. Her daughter says nothing about that story adds up. He was arrested this week. No charges. No body. This one is still moving.

In Iowa, Ashley Okland was 27 years old when she was shot twice at an open house on April 8th, 2011. This past Wednesday was the fifteenth anniversary of her death. Two days later, Kristin Ramsey stood in a courtroom and pleaded not guilty. Ashley's siblings were in the front row. Trial is January 2027.

And last Saturday night in Union Township, New Jersey — one person killed, six injured at a Chick-fil-A. Masked gunmen. Not random. No arrests. No name yet. When there is, we'll be back for them.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

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