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The DNA result in Sandra Birchmore’s case creates a simple fact with a complicated legal consequence: Matthew Farwell was not the biological father of her unborn child. Prosecutors still say the pregnancy matters to motive because they allege Birchmore told Farwell the baby was his and that his own communications show he believed her.
Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing Birchmore and causing the death of her unborn child. The government alleges he strangled her on February 1, 2021 and staged the Canton apartment to look like suicide. The defense maintains she took her own life.
That defense gained a significant piece of evidence when the Massachusetts medical examiner amended Birchmore’s death certificate. The original finding of “asphyxia by hanging” and “suicide” became “asphyxia” and “undetermined.” Defense expert Dr. Thomas Andrew says suicidal hanging remains possible. Prosecutors will counter with forensic experts who say the physical findings are more consistent with strangulation.
The jury will also hear material from both sides of Birchmore’s state of mind. Judge Denise Casper has allowed prosecutors to introduce selected texts, social-media communications, oral statements and journal passages. She has separately ruled that the defense may present evidence of Birchmore’s mental-health history and prior suicidal thoughts.
Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to break down the evidentiary balance: DNA that contradicts biological paternity, messages that may support perceived paternity, and a death certificate that moved away from suicide without moving all the way to homicide.
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Christa Pike’s September 30 execution attempt failed after Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital and she remained alive. Her attorneys now say the IV process included at least seven needle sticks, a needle bent at a 90-degree angle, and injuries to both arms that were documented after she reached the hospital.
One of the most striking details comes from Pike’s own legal team: they say she was actively helping the IV team identify possible access points. That claim sits beside another documented failure from the same state only four months earlier. On May 21, Tennessee halted Tony Carruthers’ execution after officials could not establish the required backup line and a central-line attempt failed.
The Carruthers litigation produced sworn testimony that the physician assigned to that central-line procedure, Dr. Mark Fowler, had not placed one since 2013 and did not have current hospital privileges. His role in Pike’s September 30 procedure is disputed in current reporting, so the confirmed issue is broader than one doctor: Tennessee entered Pike’s execution with a recent failed IV case already on the books.
Carruthers’ sister later filed a complaint alleging that he suffered a stroke and partial paralysis after the May attempt. Pike’s attorneys say she was left unconscious and on a ventilator after the September attempt. Those are separate claims with different evidentiary status, but together they have forced Tennessee to confront the consequences of its execution protocol.
Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to examine the human behavior behind the paperwork, including Pike’s reported cooperation with the team and the experience of Colleen Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, who watched the state fail to carry out a sentence she had waited decades to see completed. Governor Bill Lee has paused the remaining 2026 executions and ordered an independent review.
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Alex Murdaugh is headed back to trial, and the missing murder weapons are now at the center of a new discovery fight. His lawyers filed a September 30 motion asking the court to compel production of records from an investigation into allegations that local police may have handled or moved evidence after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed.
The defense motion relies on reporting about a state grand-jury inquiry involving Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and another officer. Alexander was present at Moselle on June 7, 2021, but he has not been charged. His attorney denies the allegations. The defense wants the underlying witness statements and investigative material so it can determine whether the reported claims affect the State's original theory of what happened to the weapons.
Meanwhile, prosecutors say the defense is overstating a separate discovery dispute. After Murdaugh's lawyers demanded full cellphone extraction files, the State responded that all cellphone records in its possession had already been turned over during discovery for the 2023 trial. That issue is scheduled to be part of an October 16 evidentiary hearing.
The fight sits beside older forensic problems that are already part of the record. Maggie's cellphone location history was overwritten after recovery, according to appellate filings. Confirmatory testing of stains on Alex Murdaugh's shirt found no human blood. A low-level male DNA contribution that excluded Alex and Paul was found beneath Maggie's fingernails, and further testing was authorized in August 2026.
The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned Murdaugh's murder convictions in May 2026. The retrial is scheduled for April 5, 2027, in Sumter County. The next phase is no longer just about what happened at Moselle. It is also about what evidence survived the first investigation and what a second jury will be allowed to see.
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Caleb Flynn entered sentencing still saying he did not kill Ashley Flynn. He left with life without parole and a question from his own daughter hanging over the courtroom. Judge Jeannine Pratt repeated Ava’s question about why Flynn hated her mother so much, then said the court could not answer it and no explanation could justify the verdict the jury had returned.
That verdict followed a prosecution built without the murder weapon. No gun was recovered. Prosecutors instead argued that the total digital record pointed to Flynn: approximately 107,000 messages exchanged with Alleigha Botner, activity from Apple devices, location evidence, deleted apps, and communications the State said exposed motive, planning, and contradictions in Flynn’s account.
The defense presented no witnesses and attacked the leap from an affair and digital evidence to murder. Flynn’s lawyers argued the State had not produced direct proof that he fired the shots. The jury convicted him on all nine counts after deliberating a little more than two hours. His attorneys have said an appeal is coming.
Pratt’s sentencing remarks were direct. She said Flynn could have ended the marriage without taking Ashley from her children. She described the conduct reflected in the verdict as deceitful and cruel and said the daughters’ lives and sense of security had been shattered. Flynn again denied killing Ashley before the sentence was imposed.
The legal fight now moves toward appeal. The emotional question his daughter asked has no appellate answer.
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A post-mistrial filing in the Lindsay Clancy case sent true-crime discussion straight toward Patrick Clancy, even though Kevin Reddington's Rule 25 motion did not accuse Patrick of killing the children or identify him as an alternate suspect. The filing was aimed at the Commonwealth's proof, not at replacing Lindsay Clancy with another defendant. 
Reddington argued that prosecutors had failed to present legally sufficient evidence that Clancy committed the killings and failed to prove criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. That sounded jarring after a trial in which the defense focused on postpartum psychosis and lack of criminal responsibility. But a Rule 25 motion is a procedural challenge to whether the prosecution's evidence can legally sustain a conviction. Massachusetts rules specifically permit that motion to be renewed after a jury is discharged without a verdict. 
The jury had deadlocked 11-1 before Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. Reddington's team then challenged the strength of the trial record while also turning attention toward the conduct of the single holdout juror. Online, those separate issues blurred together and fueled accusations against Patrick that the Rule 25 filing itself did not make. 
On October 1, Sullivan denied the renewed motion, ruling that the Commonwealth had presented enough physical and circumstantial evidence for a rational jury to determine whether Clancy committed the charged acts and whether she was criminally responsible. 
That decision keeps a retrial possible, but it is not the final post-mistrial ruling. The defense is separately arguing that the mistrial was unnecessary and that another trial could violate double jeopardy. The legal fight now moves from whether the evidence was sufficient to whether Clancy can constitutionally be tried again. 
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