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Did anyone check the first story? Tony Brueski and former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer put that question to three cases. Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's ex, died in Louisiana on October 1, 2026; the sheriff's office reports no signs of foul play, Gypsy says overdose, and his sister says he was terrified of her. Sandra Birchmore's death was a suicide in the state's file from 2021 until April 30, 2026, when the medical examiner changed it to undetermined. Matthew Farwell, the Stoughton detective who was the last person seen with her, is on trial in federal court in Boston and says she took her own life. Two more officers from her youth program were found to have had relationships with her and paid only with their badges. By the state's own account, Christa Pike's execution protocol had no instruction for a failed second dose, and the state says that means it did everything right. Three first stories, one agent who used to pull them apart for a living.
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Twelve days before Kouri Richins' murder trial opened, the prosecutors preparing to try her served Verizon with a warrant for the phone records of a sitting sheriff, a former sheriff, and a police chief. Two of those men, Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby and former Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds, pleaded not guilty October 7 to obstructing justice in her case.
The Summit County Attorney's Office says it received an anonymous letter in January listing thirteen allegations against Detective Eric Mainord, one of the lead investigators on the Richins case and a candidate against Rigby for Wasatch County sheriff. Search warrant affidavits say Rigby had shown the same thirteen allegations to Mainord's boss the day after Mainord entered the race, and that she believed the Richins prosecution would be hurt unless he dropped out. County Attorney Margaret Olson's office opened a felony investigation into the sheriff instead of acting on the letter, and kept the case when Rigby asked a judge to take it away.
Rigby is charged with second-degree felony obstruction, which carries one to fifteen years in Utah, plus a misdemeanor false-statement count. A filing from his own attorney says the charges accuse him of sending the letter, which prosecutors say contained false information. Edmunds faces a felony obstruction count; his lawyers say the charge arose from something he told investigators in a March interview. Rigby says he acted lawfully. Police Chief Wade Carpenter, whose records were also seized, has not been charged.
What's at stake for Kouri Richins: Mainord was pulled from the witness list and never testified, which prosecutors say settles the question. Her lawyers say the state knew about the allegations when he testified at the suppression hearing. The judge rules on her new-trial motion after October 16. Tony Brueski connects the two cases.
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Christa Pike told the execution team where to try the needle, her lawyers say. They tried at least seven times, by her lawyers' count, before getting two doses of pentobarbital into her on September 30, 2026. She was still snoring when officials cut the microphone and called an ambulance. The Tennessee Department of Correction says it followed its lawful, established protocol and that the protocol did not allow additional procedures. Pike is the only woman on Tennessee's death row, convicted of the 1995 torture killing of Colleen Slemmer. Her lawyers have asked a Nashville court to preserve every piece of evidence from the chamber, and the Attorney General has hired former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to review what the department did. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski on whether a state can sign off on an operation with no plan for its own failure, and what Stanton can learn from the one witness who felt all of it.
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Three days after Abby Williams, thirteen, and Libby German, fourteen, were found dead on a creek bank in Delphi, Indiana, a man did something investigators say almost never happens. He walked up to a conservation officer in a grocery store parking lot and told him he had been on the trail that afternoon. His name was Richard Allen. The officer, Dan Dulin, wrote it down.
Someone marked the form cleared. One word in red ink. Nobody has ever identified who wrote it. Prosecutor Nick McLeland said at trial he does not know to this day. Sheriff Tony Liggett testified that Allen "got lost in the cracks."
That tip sat in a desk drawer for five years while the investigation processed more than forty-two thousand leads with federal backing.
While Allen's name collected dust, the investigation released a composite sketch in 2017 that went on every billboard in the state. For two years, the public searched for that face. In April 2019, state police released an entirely different sketch and said the first one was never their person of interest.
The FBI served a search warrant on the property owner where the girls were found — the agent swearing under oath there was probable cause this man committed the murders. The warrant was sealed and shelved. No charges followed.
The Delphi police station's recording system erased every early interview with persons of interest. The then-chief later said it was "somehow engaged in a permanent record mode" that caused the device to overwrite itself.
It took a retired Child Protective Services worker named Kathy Shank — volunteering without pay — to open the drawer and find the form in 2022. The break in the case was never buried. It was in a box the whole time.
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Robert Devine ran the youth police program Sandra Birchmore joined at 13, rose to deputy chief, retired during the internal investigation into his contact with her, and became a lawyer. In December 2025 the state's police standards board revoked his certification, finding a pattern of unprofessional conduct and that he was untruthful about his contact with her. Investigators say that contact included Facebook messages sent under a fake name. He disputes the findings, denies any encounter with her, and has sued to get his badge back. He has never been charged; neither has William Farwell, who gave up his certification in 2024. Matthew Farwell, charged federally with killing Sandra and her unborn son, went on trial in Boston on October 6, 2026, and has pleaded not guilty. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski on the department that put three of its officers in a room with a teenager, the DA who never charged a soul, and what each of them owes when the verdict lands.
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