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Melani Boudreaux went from a mom of four in Gilbert, Arizona, to living next door to Lori Vallow in Rexburg, Idaho, married to a man she'd met weeks earlier. That new husband secretly recorded her calls for police, and Lori called the pair "powerful warriors on our team." Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke join me on what brainwashing actually means when a mother believes people might be zombies. Melani testified that when Chad Daybell's warning about Brandon tracking her car turned out true, it "validated a lot of the things he was saying." A memo attributed to her husband says she feared JJ and Tylee "needed to die." She still had her uncle Alex stand at her wedding, by her own account. Melani has never been charged in the shooting at Brandon and denies any part in it.
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Lori Vallow's niece Melani Boudreaux had what her husband Brandon calls the perfect life, and within a year of getting close to her aunt's religious circle, she'd asked him for a divorce. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke join me on how that slide starts. Melani's mother got sick when she was a toddler and died when Melani was nine, and Lori made the call. Melani testified she started sending her questions to Chad Daybell through Lori after hearing he could see light and dark in people. Brandon testified he was told he wasn't welcome at the firesides his wife attended. We look at whether her church's belief that God speaks to people directly made her easier to reach, and what the first warning signs look like from the inside. Melani has never been charged in the shooting at Brandon and denies any part in it.
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The brother of the man on trial for killing Sandra Birchmore got a deal before he testified. William Farwell, Matthew Farwell's twin and a former Stoughton officer, took the stand for the prosecution under a grant of immunity.
He testified their relationship began in 2018, when Sandra was an adult, and admitted some of it happened while he was on duty.
Sandra's medical examiner testified her office was never called to the apartment where Sandra was found.
In federal court, Timothy Hudson's lawyers say one pending issue must be settled before they can advise him whether to plead guilty in Anna Kepner's death. The judge set January 15, 2027, as his deadline.
Bryan Kohberger told the judge at his plea that he was satisfied with his attorneys. His petition claims those same attorneys coerced him.
Defense attorney Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI special agent, join me on what each of these deals is worth.
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Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. died on March 12, 2021, forty-five years into six consecutive life sentences for killing his parents and four siblings at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville. In all that time, the story of who held the rifle never stopped changing.
He started with a mob hitman. Within hours he confessed. He told detectives where to find the Marlin and the pillowcase full of spent shells, and then he asked about his father's life insurance. His defense lawyer tried insanity. On the witness stand, DeFeo told the jury: "I killed them all in self-defense." And: "When I got a gun in my hand, there's no doubt in my mind who I am. I am God."
From prison he blamed his sister Dawn, said his mother had a gun, named friends who were never charged, and invented a wife and daughter who didn't exist. Every version fell apart. The powder on Dawn's nightgown put her near the muzzle. It never put her finger on the trigger.
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In the cruise ship murder case against Timothy Hudson, prosecutors say video shows him walking across the ship to throw his stepsister Anna Kepner's phone in a trash can. They say her phone went dead at 8:14 and never came back on.
Prosecutors also cite surveillance footage and DNA. Hudson's lawyers call the evidence circumstantial.
Hudson was 16 at the time of Anna's death in November 2025, and she was 18. He's pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in federal court, where he's being prosecuted as an adult.
If he doesn't enter a plea by the judge's hard deadline of January 15, 2027, his trial opens January 25. Until one pending issue gets cleared up, his lawyers say, they can't counsel him either way. They called their own filing "purposefully vague."
Robin Dreeke once led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. I ask him and trial attorney Bob Motta what a defense actually looks like against the evidence prosecutors describe.
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