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On February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was killed while she was jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick; her death was caused by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. The suspect, José Antonio Ibarra, is a 26-year-old Venezuelan who had entered the United States illegally. He was arrested by UGA police and has been charged with 10 charges, including felony murder, malice murder, false imprisonment, aggravated assault with intent to rape, and kidnapping. He has pleaded not ...

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.

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in an off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho. On December 30, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger was arrested in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. A trial is scheduled for June 2, 2025.This is the full audio from his trial with large portions of silence removed. You hear what the jury hears, and ...

Alex Baldwin is scheduled to go on trial in July for involuntary manslaughter. Nearly three years ago, during a rehearsal for a scene in the movie Rust on a ranch outside Santa Fe, Baldwin was holding the prop gun that had been loaded with live ammunition. The Colt .45 revolver went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin, who was also a producer for the film, pleaded not guilty, and has maintained he was not responsible for Hutchins' death. Shortly after the shooting, he told ABC News he had "no idea" how a live bullet got onto the set of his ...

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Wade Wilson is charged in the 2019 deaths of 35-year-old Kristine Melton and 43-year-old Diane Ruiz. Melton was found dead in her Cape Coral home on Oct. 7. That same day, Ruiz vanished while walking to work. Her body was found three days later in a field behind a Sam’s Club.In Nov. 2019, Wilson was indicted on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree premeditated murder. Court documents accuse Wilson of strangling the women to death. He faces the death penalty if ...

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...

Karen Swift, a mother with four children, was reported missing on Oct. 30, 2011, three weeks after she had filed for divorce from her husband. Hunters found her body near a Dyersburg cemetery on Dec. 10, 2011, six weeks after she was reported missing and nine weeks after she had filed for divorce.Prosecutors said David Swift was the last person to see his wife alive when she returned home from a Halloween party.Following the indictment more than 11 years after her death, David Swift was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was living after being remarried.If convicted, David Swift faces ...

The high-profile case of a man accused of the death of a 5-year-old boy is set to begin trial. Daniel Garcia is accused of physically beating to death Domenic Aguilar-Acevedo back in July 2021.Garcia at the time was dating the boy’s mother, Nickolle Aguilar, who was also charged in this case. Garcia was first charged with murder but prosecutors are taking him to trial on the charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.That charge is still a first-degree felony and the punishment range is the same, but the jury could consider the possibility of probation. For murder, probation ...

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.

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Karen Read is accused of driving drunk and hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, before leaving him to die in January 2022. Read is now facing several charges, including second-degree murder for the death of O'Keefe. Read is demanding that the indictment be dismissed, claiming that she is the victim of a massive frame-up by state and local police.This is the full audio of her trial (long periods 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 ...

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 AUDIOIn June 2015, Dee Dee Blanchard was found brutally murdered in her home in Springfield, Missouri. She had been stabbed to death. The investigation into her death revealed a shocking and disturbing truth - Dee Dee had been keeping her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, captive and pretending she was sick for years.Gypsy Rose had been forced to use a wheelchair and undergo unnecessary medical treatments for conditions she didn't actually have. It was a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of child abuse where a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in a child to gain ...