Christa Pike is conscious and speaking one week after Tennessee tried to execute her with two doses of pentobarbital. Her recovery is encouraging, but severe arm injuries and an uncertain prognosis remain. We examine why the lethal injection may have failed, whether her survival is unprecedented and what medical and legal steps come next.

Dawood Safi has been given an indefinite hospital order after killing Wayne Broadhurst as he walked his dog in Uxbridge. The case involved a random fatal attack, an attempted-murder conviction, psychiatric evidence of psychotic depression and a judicial recommendation that Safi be deported from the UK.

A murder investigation is under way after emergency services found a body inside a burning van in Prestatyn, North Wales. Police are working to identify the victim and are appealing for anyone who noticed anything unusual in Gas Works Lane during a crucial one-hour period on Sunday night to come forward.

Prisoners have survived the electric chair and failed lethal injections, but survival has rarely cancelled a death sentence. From Willie Francis to Romell Broom, Doyle Hamm, Alan Miller and Thomas Creech, these cases reveal when states tried again, why some never did, the recurring failures behind botched executions and the constitutional law governing what happens next.

Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her after two doses of pentobarbital failed to cause her death. She remains under a death sentence, but Tennessee cannot simply restart the process. A hospital recovery, independent review, fresh court challenges and potentially a new execution date now stand between Pike and any second attempt.

Caleb Flynn once appeared on American Idol after being encouraged to audition by his wife, Ashley. Thirteen years later, police were called to the couple's home in Tipp City, Ohio, after a violent incident inside. What followed drew investigators into digital records, an affair, thousands of private messages and competing accounts of what had happened inside the house.

Christa Pike was 18 when 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was murdered in Tennessee in 1995. More than three decades later, Pike is scheduled for lethal injection in what would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman since 1820. Here is the crime, the death sentence, the appeals and why the case has taken so long.

Bloodied clothing, personal possessions and identification belonging to Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were discovered in a Sydney skip as police searched for the missing couple. Now jurors in Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double-murder trial are examining how that discovery fits with blood, DNA and ballistic evidence recovered from Baird’s Paddington home.

Elizabeth Holmes has issued a new message from federal prison, saying she was “silenced for a long time” and remains determined to prove her innocence. The Theranos founder also says future posts personally written by her will carry the initials “EAH”, creating a new distinction between Holmes’s own words and messages posted by the team managing her account.

At least 11 people have been killed in Haiti’s Artibonite region after gang members retaliated following an operation by a UN-backed security force. The attack came after three gang members were killed and the international unit withdrew, exposing the challenge of protecting civilians once short security operations end.

Eleven women’s bodies have now been discovered across Ekurhuleni since July, intensifying fears of a serial killer near Johannesburg. Police are examining possible links, but arrests in individual cases show why the full pattern remains unresolved. Here is what investigators have established, how the death toll developed and what they still need to prove.

For seventeen years, an unidentified bomber sent and planted explosive devices across the United States while investigators struggled to discover who was behind them. Universities, airlines, scientists and technology figures became part of a case that grew into one of the FBI's longest manhunts. This is the full story of the Unabomber investigation, from its first mysterious package to the extraordinary search for the person behind it.

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended one vote short of an acquittal on criminal-responsibility grounds. Eleven jurors were prepared to clear her, while Michael Desronvil refused. Now jurors are publicly disputing what happened inside deliberations as Clancy’s lawyers ask the court to block a retrial, investigate the holdout and potentially enter a finding of not guilty.

An honest witness can identify the wrong person. We explain the difference between seeing, remembering and identifying, and why lighting, time, later information and line-up procedures matter.

The first descriptions are confidence recorded at the time and safeguards designed to reduce contamination. It gives listeners a fair way to evaluate witness evidence without dismissing the people who came forward.

A persuasive theory can still rest on a weak source. This episode offers five practical questions for checking true crime claims: where each detail came from, what it proves, whether corroboration is genuinely independent, which alternatives remain and what the person’s legal status actually is.

We explore how repetition, missing evidence and behaviour interpreted after a suspect is named can make a story feel stronger than it is.

A cold case can be reopened when preserved evidence and a new question meet. We examine DNA, witness accounts, lost records and the crucial gap between an investigative lead and proof.

We explain what forensic genetic genealogy can and cannot show, why old assumptions must be tested, and how to read a headline declaring an unsolved crime solved.

Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for transfer from FPC Bryan to the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, Texas, on August 23, 2027. The Theranos founder is still serving a federal sentence for defrauding investors, meaning a halfway-house move is not the same as unconditional release.

We examine what Residential Reentry Center placement means, Holmes' prison timeline, her unsuccessful appeal and her separate clemency effort. What happens after the transfer could determine the final phase of one of Silicon Valley's most infamous criminal cases.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story returns to Fall River, Massachusetts, and one of the most enduring criminal mysteries of eighteen ninety-two.

Inside a strangely divided house, ordinary family routines begin producing questions that the surviving evidence still cannot answer cleanly.

Follow the real timeline, the people inside Second Street, the evidence investigators relied on, and the crucial places where Netflix's version begins separating from the historical record.

A recording can be authentic while the story built around it remains uncertain. Here is how investigators assess what CCTV actually establishes.

The Delphi case begins on a February afternoon in 2017, when Abby Williams and Libby German head to the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana.

A phone recording, an unidentified figure on the bridge and a haunting fragment of audio become central to an investigation that will stretch across years.

This episode follows the original timeline, the evidence that emerged and the unanswered questions that transformed an ordinary trail into one of America’s most closely examined crime scenes.