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New episodes every weekday.Every morning, investigative journalist Garret Fisher delivers the most explosive courtroom coverage you won't find anywhere else. From breaking verdicts to shocking confessions, Daily Crime & Justice is your essential daily source for the legal dramas that create celebrities, destroy reputations, and shape American culture. Seven days a week, Garret brings his signature no-nonsense analysis to the trials everyone's talking about—and the ones they should be.Whether it's a music mogul's sex trafficking case, a criminology student's murder confession, or Hollywood stars battling in civil court, Daily Crime & Justice cuts through the legal jargon to deliver th...
Episodes(40 episodes)
Matthew Perry's Assistant Is Sentenced, a $250M Scheme to Starve Kids, and a Teen Shot Scouting Homecoming Photos
Garret Fisher closes the book on the Matthew Perry case as Kenneth Iwamasa, the assistant who knew Perry for over thirty years and was supposed to keep him sober, becomes the fifth and final defendant sentenced for the actor’s ketamine death. In Minneapolis, Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock gets nearly 42 years for masterminding a scheme that stole hundreds of millions meant to feed children. And in Golden, Colorado, a former town councilman stands trial after two teenagers scouting a homecoming photo spot ended with a 17-year-old shot in the face. Was it an accident, or did he hunt th...
Published: May 29, 2026Duration: 25m 44s
FIFTY STAB WOUNDS IN A SOUTH CAROLINA DITCH; A WINTHROP HUSBAND SAYS THE GUN “SPONTANEOUSLY WENT OFF”; AND A FLINT BRIDE WALKS.
Three cases, three courtrooms, three women holding the bag for what the men in their lives decided to do. Plus one defendant who is the man in question. We are going to talk about all of it.Garret Fisher with a Thursday edition that covers three new cases out of three different states. In South Carolina, a sixty-four-year-old woman is denied bond in the murder of seventeen-year-old Maylashia Hogg, who was nine months pregnant when she was stabbed fifty times and dumped in a ditch behind the defendant's home along with her unborn baby...
Published: May 28, 2026Duration: 25m 40s
"NO PRECEDENT": JUDGE DISMISSES ALL CHARGES AGAINST EBONY PARKER, PLUS A MAINE STRANGLING TRIAL AND A LIFE SENTENCE FOR BEAUTY COUCH'S KILLE
Garret on the Newport News dismissal that ended Ebony Parker's criminal trial before the defense could put on a single witness, a Bangor strangulation trial with an HDMI cord and an interstate police chase, and a life-without-parole sentence in the Atlanta murder of roller-skating influencer Beauty Couch.Garret Fisher covers a stunning courtroom collapse in Virginia, where a judge dismissed all eight felony child abuse counts against former Richneck Elementary assistant principal Ebony Parker — before the defense ever called a witness — ruling that what prosecutors brought to court is, in her words, 'a mashup of l...
Published: May 27, 2026Duration: 27m 31s
60 ROUNDS AT MEMORIAL DRIVE DRIVERS, ATHENA BROWNFIELD CAREGIVER GETS LIFE & OHIO CULT SENTENCED
A judge “takes a chance,” a 4-year-old weighs 23 pounds, and an Ohio courtroom hears that a six-adult household ran a captive torture house for two years.Garret Fisher covers a Massachusetts man held without bond after allegedly firing 60 rounds from an assault-style rifle at random drivers on Cambridge's Memorial Drive — while still on probation from a 2020 shooting that a judge said she was “taking a chance” on. Plus an Oklahoma caregiver gets life after pleading guilty in the Christmas 2022 beating death of 4-year-old Athena Brownfield, who weighed 23 pounds when her remains were found buried in a backpack...
Published: May 26, 2026Duration: 18m 10s
Memorial Day Special - ANDERSONVILLE: THE HENRY WIRZ TRIAL, AMERICA'S FIRST WAR CRIMES CASE & THE 13,000 GRAVES
Memorial Day Special — How thirteen thousand Union dead in a Georgia stockade produced the trial that gave Nuremberg its blueprint.Garret Fisher marks Memorial Day with the first war crimes trial in American history. November 10, 1865 — Confederate Captain Henry Wirz was hanged in Washington for commanding Andersonville prison, where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died of starvation, disease, and exposure in fourteen months. From the Swiss-immigrant doctor who ran Camp Sumter to the military tribunal that established “just following orders” was no defense — a precedent later cited at Nuremberg. Plus Clara Barton's mission to name 13,000 graves, the Union veterans' order that...
Published: May 25, 2026Duration: 21m 6s
Alex Murdaugh Gets New Trial | Josie Dikeman Convicted | MMA Fighter Testifies | Daily Crime and Justice
Garret Fisher covers the South Carolina Supreme Court overturning Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, Josie Dikeman's conviction in the death of six-year-old Alexavier Pedrin in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the testimony of former MMA fighter Ross Johnson in his Panama City manslaughter trial. Becky Hill's bathroom conversations with the jury foreperson get Murdaugh a new trial, and now he's suing her while the AG threatens the death penalty. A Wisconsin jury rejects first-degree intentional but convicts on reckless homicide. The Juggernaut takes the stand and says he just pushed Dayvon Larry. Cases covered: Alex Murdaugh, Becky Hill, Josie Dikeman, Alexavier...
Published: May 22, 2026Duration: 27m 16s
MANIPULATIVE, COLD-BLOODED: PAUL CANEIRO SENTENCED, JACK AVERY MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOT, EBONY PARKER ON TRIAL
Four life sentences, a boy band singer with the FBI at his door, and the criminal trial of the assistant principal who watched the warnings stack up and did nothing.Garret Fisher closes the book on a case we have been with you for since January — Paul Caneiro, the New Jersey man who slaughtered his own brother's family, sentenced to four consecutive life terms. Then a brand-new murder-for-hire plot — Why Don't We singer Jack Avery, the FBI knocking on his door, and the Florida attorney and TikTok influencer charged with allegedly trying to have him...
Published: May 21, 2026Duration: 31m 34s
JULIO FOOLIO MURDER: FOUR CONVICTED, JURY REJECTS DEATH PENALTY. PLUS LUIGI MANGIONE, TIGER WOODS, AND D4VD
All four guilty in the rapper’s birthday-party ambush — and a Tampa jury chooses life without parole over execution; plus quick turns in the Mangione, Woods, and David files.Daily Crime and Justice returns to the daily desk after the Fighting Back series with four developments — and one of them is a finish line. In Tampa, the year-and-a-half saga of murdered rapper Julio Foolio reaches its end: all four defendants convicted of first-degree murder, and a jury rejecting the state’s push for the death penalty in favor of life without parole. Garret Fisher walks th...
Published: May 20, 2026Duration: 21m 41s
THE GRIEF AUTHOR GETS LIFE: KOURI RICHINS SENTENCED ON ERIC'S BIRTHDAY
Daily Crime and Justice returns from its two-week vacation hiatus with an entire episode devoted to one case: the sentencing of Kouri Richins. In March, a Utah jury convicted the children’s grief-book author of murdering her husband, Eric, with a lethal dose of fentanyl. Last week, on what would have been Eric’s 44th birthday, a judge sentenced Richins to life without parole. Garret Fisher recaps the case, walks through a wrenching sentencing hearing where three young sons asked a judge to keep their mother imprisoned forever, and examines Richins’ defiant, tearless courtroom statement — a self-described love letter that never on...
Published: May 19, 2026Duration: 20m 49s
FIGHTING BACK - THE PENCIL LETTER THAT CHANGED AMERICA: GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT
A drifter. A pool hall. A prison cell. And the most consequential letter ever written in pencil on prison stationery.Garret Fisher closes the Fighting Back series with the one story in ten that ends with complete, unambiguous victory — and the one that keeps the whole series honest. Clarence Earl Gideon was a 51-year-old Florida drifter with an eighth-grade education and a long record of minor nonviolent offenses when he was charged with breaking into a pool hall in Panama City in 1961. He couldn't afford a lawyer. The state wouldn't give him one. He represented himself, di...
Published: May 18, 2026Duration: 20m 37s
FIGHTING BACK - SHE HAD THE DOCUMENTS: THE KAREN SILKWOOD STORY
Oklahoma, 1974. A plutonium plant. A whistleblower. A meeting she never made. And documents no one has ever found.Garret Fisher covers the Karen Silkwood case — one of the most haunting whistleblower stories in American history, and the one that refuses to resolve into a clean ending. Silkwood was a lab technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, who became convinced the company was falsifying safety records and endangering its workers. She was elected to the union bargaining committee, testified before the Atomic Energy Commission, and gathered documentation she believed proved the violations. On November 13, 1974, sh...
Published: May 15, 2026Duration: 18m 43s
FIGHTING BACK - THE FAMILIES WHO REFUSED TO SIT DOWN: THE SACKLERS AND PURDUE PHARMA — PART 2
2,600 lawsuits. $11 billion moved into private trusts. A bankruptcy designed as a shield. And a Supreme Court that said no.Garret Fisher concludes the Purdue Pharma story — covering the wave of lawsuits that broke against the company, the bankruptcy filing the Sacklers used to try to insulate their personal fortune from accountability, and the families of overdose victims who showed up to depositions of Sackler family members holding photographs of their dead children and refused to be treated as a line item. Then the Supreme Court's landmark June 2024 ruling that struck down the deal shielding the Sacklers fr...
Published: May 14, 2026Duration: 17m 26s
FIGHTING BACK - A PILL, A LIE, AND HALF A MILLION DEAD: THE SACKLERS AND PURDUE PHARMA — PART 1
They called it a miracle of pain management. Their own salespeople called it a drug. Their own documents called it a franchise.Garret Fisher opens the two-part Purdue Pharma story — the most destructive corporate drug case in American history. In 1996 the Sackler family's privately owned pharmaceutical company launched OxyContin with a marketing campaign built on a lie: that this powerful opioid was less addictive than existing painkillers because of its slow-release formula. Internal documents show the company knew the 12-hour dosing claim was false. They knew. They told their salespeople to say it anyway. They paid do...
Published: May 13, 2026Duration: 18m 27s
FIGHTING BACK - $333 MILLION AND A GHOST TOWN: ERIN BROCKOVICH VS. PG&E — PART 2
The largest direct-action settlement in American history. And the town that won it is still dying.Garret Fisher concludes the Erin Brockovich story — covering the legal strategy that turned 634 plaintiffs into the most powerful class-action force PG&E had ever faced, the $333 million settlement that made history, and the $2.5 million bonus check that changed Erin's life overnight. Then the part the movie doesn't show: the chromium plume that kept growing after the settlement. The school that closed. The houses that were bought and bulldozed. The fire captain whose parents died from the water she grew up dr...
Published: May 12, 2026Duration: 16m 12s
FIGHTING BACK - THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T QUIT: ERIN BROCKOVICH VS. PG&E — PART 1
No law degree. No formal training. Three kids, a borrowed car, and a town full of people dying of cancers nobody could explain.Garret Fisher kicks off week two of Fighting Back with one of the most iconic David vs. Goliath stories in American legal history — and one of the best arguments for why the civil justice system exists in the first place. Erin Brockovich was a twice-divorced single mother of three with $74 in her bank account when she stumbled onto a file that would change her life and save hundreds of others. PG&E...
Published: May 11, 2026Duration: 16m 50s
FIGHTING BACK - YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO: STELLA LIEBECK AND THE McDONALD'S HOT COFFEE CASE
A 79-year-old grandmother. Third-degree burns across 16 percent of her body. Eight days in the hospital. And a corporation that spent millions making her the punchline.Garret Fisher takes on one of the most successfully distorted stories in American legal history: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants. Almost everything the public thinks it knows about this case is wrong — and that's not an accident. McDonald's coffee in 1992 was served 30 to 40 degrees hotter than any competitor, hot enough to cause third-degree burns in under three seconds. The company had received more than 700 burn complaints. Stella Liebeck as...
Published: May 8, 2026Duration: 18m 39s
FIGHTING BACK - THEY WERE TOLD TO LICK THE BRUSH: THE RADIUM GIRLS
The company knew. The scientists knew. The executives took precautions to protect themselves. And then they told two hundred young women the paint was perfectly safe.Garret Fisher covers one of the most infuriating corporate cover-up stories in American history: the Radium Girls of Orange, New Jersey. Beginning in 1917, young women at the United States Radium Corporation were instructed to point their paintbrushes with their lips before dipping them in radium-laced paint — lip, dip, paint, hundreds of times a day. The company's own scientists wore lead shields and used tongs when handling the material. They told the workers it...
Published: May 7, 2026Duration: 18m 39s
FIGHTING BACK - THE CONFESSION THAT CAME TOO LATE: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE — PART 2
Garret Fisher concludes the Central Park Five story — picking up where Part 1 left off, inside the adult prisons where Korey Wise spent his twenties. In 2001, Wise crossed paths with Matias Reyes at Auburn Correctional Facility. Reyes confessed. DNA confirmed it. And then New York City spent years trying not to admit what two juries, a press corps, and a real estate developer with $85,000 to burn had done to five innocent kids. This is the story of the exoneration, the eleven-year fight for a settlement, and what happened to five men who refused to let the system be the last word on...
Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 17m 38s
FIGHTING BACK - FIVE KIDS, THIRTY HOURS, NO LAWYERS: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE - PART 1
Garret Fisher opens the Fighting Back series — two weeks of David vs. Goliath while the production team vacations — with one of the most devastating wrongful conviction stories in American history. April 19, 1989. A woman is attacked in Central Park. Five Black and Latino teenagers aged 14 to 16 are hauled in for questioning with no lawyers, no sleep, and interrogations lasting up to 30 hours. By the time it was over, four of them had confessed to a crime the DNA evidence already proved they didn't commit. And a real estate developer named Donald Trump spent $85,000 on newspaper ads calling for their execution. This is P...
Published: May 5, 2026Duration: 17m 42s
MLB STAR'S TEARFUL TESTIMONY, CAPE CORAL TEEN TAKES THE STAND, GIRLFRIEND'S 'I'M FREE' TAPE
Three trials. Three accused. Three different ways to dodge accountability.A socialite already serving life. A teenage gunman who took the stand in his own murder trial. A girlfriend recorded saying “I’m free” the day after her boyfriend’s six-year-old son died. Garret Fisher walks you through Friday’s tearful testimony from former MLB shortstop Royce Clayton in the Rebecca Grossman wrongful death civil trial — where Scott Erickson’s hamburger and IPA the day after the crash say everything. Then Cape Coral, where Thomas Stein takes the stand for shooting fifteen-year-old Kayla Rincon-Miller. And La Crosse...
Published: May 4, 2026Duration: 33m 56s