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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)
MUSK MELTDOWN ON THE STAND, D4VD’S CHAINSAW SHOPPING LIST, AND THE “BABY LAMB” WHO STRANGLED A CHILD
Three stories where the people in charge stopped pretending. From Oakland to Hollywood Hills to Fort Worth, this is what privilege, predation, and pathology look like in the open.Day three of Musk versus Altman, and the world’s richest man finally meets a question he can’t bully. We bring you the cross-examination, the term sheet meltdown, and the Tesla AGI tweet that came back to bite him. Then to Hollywood, where the David case took a hard turn this week. The preliminary hearing was supposed to start today. Instead, prosecutors filed a brie...
Published: May 1, 2026Duration: 32m 47s
BRAIN SCANS FOR ATHENA'S KILLER, FOOLIO'S HUNTERS ON TRIAL & DAD WHO BURIED HIS KIDS DODGES DEATH
Tanner Horner's defense plays the trauma card in Texas, four men face capital charges for a rapper's birthday ambush, and a Georgia father escapes execution for unspeakable crimes.Garret returns with three death penalty stories pulling the system in different directions. In Texas, Tanner Horner's defense team marches teachers, a former pastor, an ex-girlfriend, and brain scientists past the jury — every lever pulled for the man who admitted murdering seven-year-old Athena Strand. In Florida, opening statements begin in the trial of four men accused of hunting down Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio at his Tampa birthday party. An...
Published: Apr 30, 2026Duration: 30m 40s
BILLIONAIRE BLOOD FEUD: MUSK TAKES THE STAND IN $150 BILLION OPENAI TRIAL
Two of the richest men on Earth, one charity, and a federal jury that has to figure out who’s lying.Garret Fisher delivers a special full-episode breakdown of the most consequential courtroom showdown in tech history. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for one hundred and fifty billion dollars, accusing Sam Altman of stealing the charity Musk helped found in 2015. OpenAI says it’s sour grapes from a billionaire who quit, lost, and started a competitor. Day One brought opening statements, a near-gag-order, and Musk on the witness stand declaring that the entire foundation of c...
Published: Apr 29, 2026Duration: 25m 43s
REINER FAMILY BREAKS SILENCE; BRAND CONFESSES ON A PODCAST; DAVID BURKE’S PHONE HELD CHILD PORN
The Hollywood murder case’s silent survivors finally speak, a British defendant tries his case on YouTube, and forty terabytes of digital evidence are still being sorted.Garret Fisher walks through three cases with court dates this week. Jake Reiner, the eldest son of the murdered Rob and Michele Reiner, has broken a four-month silence in a devastating Substack essay days before his brother Nick returns to court for a discovery hearing. Russell Brand, six months out from his October rape trial in London, sat down with Megyn Kelly and admitted to “exploitative” sex with a sixtee...
Published: Apr 28, 2026Duration: 22m 56s
SHOTS NEAR THE HEAD TABLE: THE COLE ALLEN WHITE HOUSE DINNER ATTACK
A teacher of the month, a Caltech engineer, a hotel room on the 10th floor — and the night gunfire reached the President's first Correspondents' Dinner.On Saturday, April 25th, the White House Correspondents' Dinner had barely begun when shots rang out near the magnetometers outside the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, the First Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet were rushed to safety. A Secret Service agent took a round in his vest. The accused gunman: Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a Caltech-educated teacher and indie video game developer from Torrance, California — a man with no r...
Published: Apr 27, 2026Duration: 26m 20s
THE KILLER’S MOTHER TAKES THE STAND: ATHENA STRAND DEFENSE BEGINS, D4VD AUTOPSY REVEALED
Plus: a trial date for the Florida man who allegedly murdered a suicidal British woman he met online, and a Salvadoran housekeeper sues Kylie Jenner.Garret Fisher returns to the Athena Strand trial as the defense’s mitigation case opens in Fort Worth with testimony from Tanner Horner’s mother. Before that, jurors heard from Athena’s parents, the forensic DNA team, and the audio of her final moments. Then: the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner finally reveals the cause of death for 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose body was found last September in a Tesl...
Published: Apr 24, 2026Duration: 35m 11s
WILLACY EXECUTED, FAIRFAX KILLS HIS WIFE, HEUERMANN CONFESSES AT HOME
A Florida death row closes. A Virginia family dies in the basement. And a suburban serial killer finally tells his wife the truth.Garret Fisher brings you three hard stories. Florida executes Chadwick Willacy thirty-six years after he bound, strangled, and set fire to his neighbor Marlys Sather during a lunch-hour burglary. Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shoots his estranged wife Cerina in the basement of their home and kills himself upstairs while their two teenage children are inside. And the Peacock finale of The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets drops tonight, featuring Asa...
Published: Apr 23, 2026Duration: 25m 9s
D4VD CHARGED WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES MURDER; TRACEY GRIST TAKES THE STAND
Plus: four dead girls, a TikTok about wrestling, and a Bay Area town eating itself alive — one year after the fireball on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.The d4vd case moves from arrest to formal charge: LA County DA Nathan Hochman announces first-degree murder with three special circumstances — lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and the killing of a witness. The death penalty is on the table. Then to Provo, Utah, where the prosecution rested in the Tracey Grist "family trap" trial and the defense put the sixty-year-old grandmother on the stand as their first witn...
Published: Apr 22, 2026Duration: 32m 19s
LIVER INSTEAD OF SPLEEN: FL SURGEON CHARGED, SIGN'S 'SUICIDE' UNRAVELS, KAREN READ HIT WITH LAWSUIT
A surgeon who took out the wrong organ. An anchor's death his family never accepted. And four witnesses finally firing back at Karen Reed.A Florida surgeon is indicted for manslaughter after allegedly removing a seventy-year-old patient's liver instead of his spleen — and his lawyer says it's not the first wrong organ he's pulled out. Nearly five years after Birmingham anchor Christopher Sign was found hanged in his home office, his family still refuses to accept the suicide ruling — no full autopsy, a forty-eight-hour cremation, a widow who allegedly told his sister 'this was a terrible mist...
Published: Apr 21, 2026Duration: 34m 7s
THE TESLA KILLER IN HANDCUFFS: D4VD ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF CELESTE RIVAS
Plus: the Athena Strand trial turns devastating as DNA evidence lands — and we meet Tracey Grist, the Utah mother who Googled a famous murder-for-hire before her son-in-law was lured to his death.Garret Fisher returns to the D4vd case months after it went quiet — and the quiet is over. LAPD Robbery-Homicide kicked open the gate of his Hollywood Hills mansion Thursday afternoon and arrested 21-year-old David Anthony Burke for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He is being held without bail. Then: the Athena Strand trial hits Days 7 and 8 with DNA evidence, a mother's test...
Published: Apr 20, 2026Duration: 38m 0s
JOHNNY SOMALI JAILED, TICKETMASTER IS A MONOPOLY & THE MAN WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
The internet's worst tourist gets six months of hard labor, a jury finally calls the concert giant what it is, and SantaCon's president had a very different charity in mind — himself.Garret Fisher has three stories that should make you feel something today. Johnny Somali — the livestreamer who mocked World War II's comfort women, harassed strangers across Asia, and showed up to court drunk in a MAGA hat — has been sentenced to six months of hard labor in South Korea. A New York jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly, overcharging fans b...
Published: Apr 17, 2026Duration: 22m 50s
America's Baby Is in Handcuffs: Baby Jessica Arrested 39 Years After Famous Rescue
Plus: New rape testimony rocks the Athena Strand sentencing phase — and Sherrone Moore walks out of court a free man.She was eighteen months old when she fell into a well in Midland, Texas, and the whole world held its breath for fifty-eight hours. Baby Jessica became America's child. This week, Jessica McClure Morales — now forty years old — was arrested at her Midland home on domestic violence charges. We have the story. Then: the sentencing phase of the Tanner Horner trial has delivered its most devastating testimony yet — two women who say Horner raped them as teenager...
Published: Apr 16, 2026Duration: 24m 42s
STEPBROTHER INDICTED IN ANNA KEPNER CRUISE SHIP MURDER — NOW CHARGED AS ADULT
Plus: A Real Housewife caught shoplifting — for six months. And a cold case from Boca Raton that has never let go.A federal grand jury has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse — five months after the Florida cheerleader was found dead beneath a bed on a Carnival cruise ship. We've followed this case since the beginning. Today, the indictment. Also: Real Housewives of Pretoria star Melany Viljoen and her husband were arrested in Boca Raton after allegedly stealing over five thousand dollars in groceries from a Pu...
Published: Apr 15, 2026Duration: 20m 5s
HUSBAND HELD IN BAHAMAS AS WIFE'S DISAPPEARANCE DEEPENS — PLUS A CHEERLEADER VERDICT AND A SERIAL KILLER FACES DEATH
A dream voyage on a boat called Soulmate has turned into a nightmare — and the only witness is in custody.A Michigan woman vanishes from a dinghy in the Bahamas while sailing with her husband. He paddles to shore. She doesn't. Nine days later, Lynette Hooker is still missing — and her husband Brian is in Bahamian custody, questioned on probable cause, not yet charged. Her daughter says she knows what happened. Brian's lawyer says he's heartbroken. The truth is somewhere in the water. Also: Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling pleads not guilty at her mans...
Published: Apr 14, 2026Duration: 18m 20s
TANNER HORNER PLEADS GUILTY: WHAT THE JURY IS DECIDING
He confessed. Then he pled guilty. Now a jury must decide whether he lives or dies.On Tuesday we introduced you to Tanner Lynn Horner — the FedEx contract driver who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022. Since then, the trial in Fort Worth has delivered four days of testimony the likes of which few courtrooms have ever seen. He pleaded guilty moments before the trial began. The jury's only job now: death or life in prison. This episode covers the prosecution's case, the defense's mitigation strategy, the alter ego named Zero, the children's clothing found at hi...
Published: Apr 13, 2026Duration: 18m 34s
CONVICTED IN PARADISE: KONIG GOES DOWN, GILGO KILLER CONFESSES, AND THE QUEEN OF KETAMINE GETS 15 YEARS
The anesthesiologist is found guilty. The Long Island serial killer finally says the word. And the woman who sold Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him is heading to federal prison.Friday, April 10th, 2026. Three separate courtrooms. Three verdicts that landed within 48 hours of each other. Gerhardt Konig — the Maui anesthesiologist who beat his wife with a rock at a cliffside in Oahu — was convicted by a jury, though not of everything prosecutors asked for. Rex Heuermann — the Long Island architect who murdered at least eight women over three decades — stood in Suffolk County Court and said the...
Published: Apr 10, 2026Duration: 22m 29s
MELISSA GILBERT BREAKS SILENCE, CRUISE SHIP MYSTERY REIGNITES & SERIAL KILLER FINALLY ON TRIAL
A Little House on the Prairie reunion nobody wanted, a 28-year-old disappearance finds new leads, and a man who already admitted it — in court at last.Garret Fisher covers three stories that have been years — in some cases, decades — in the making. The West Wing's Timothy Busfield is back in headlines as wife Melissa Gilbert goes on national television to defend him, revealing she knew about prior allegations before they married. Then: Amy Bradley disappeared from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 1998 at age twenty-three, and a Netflix documentary may have cracked the case wide open — the FBI...
Published: Apr 9, 2026Duration: 21m 46s
SON, BADGE & BODY BAGS: EX-NYPD COP CHARGED IN PARENTS' MURDERS, FEDEX KILLER ON TRIAL & THE MIAMI MODEL WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS FROM THE FUTURE
A son who allegedly shot his parents over money. A man who killed a seven-year-old because she was going to tell her dad. And a woman who drove 78 miles an hour through a red light high on pink cocaine and told cops she was from the future. Humans. Suck.Garret Fisher covers three cases that will test your faith in humanity — and your patience for the justice system. A former NYPD officer is charged with shooting his elderly parents to death in their Florida apartment, allegedly motivated by money and a two-hundred-thousand-dollar loan he ha...
Published: Apr 8, 2026Duration: 18m 43s
DEATH BY ANTIFREEZE: Judy Church Convicted of Poisoning Boyfriend Leroy Fowler She said it was a joke. The jury didn't laugh.
Back in March, we told you about a sixty-seven-year-old Massachusetts woman named Judy Church who was on trial for poisoning her live-in boyfriend with antifreeze — a man she also secretly insured, threatened to kidnap, and filmed while he was dying. Today, we tell you what happened. The jury deliberated for more than eight hours. The judge had something to say at sentencing. The family had more. Judy Church stood there and said nothing. This is the complete story of Leroy Fowler — who knew he was in danger, said so out loud, and went back anyway. He was fifty-five years old...
Published: Apr 7, 2026Duration: 24m 6s
DOCTOR ON THE STAND: KONIG TESTIFIES, SON DROPS BOMBSHELL, JUDGE GUTS LIVELY LAWSUIT
Gerhardt Konig faces cross-examination as his own son tells jurors he confessed — and Blake Lively's case just got a lot smaller.It has been a brutal week for Gerhardt Konig in a Honolulu courtroom. His son took the stand and told jurors that his own father called him twice to confess — then said he planned to jump off the cliff before police could catch him. A digital forensics detective walked the jury through Christmas Eve Reddit spirals, late-night searches for deadly hiking trails, and a Dropbox folder labeled 'Divorce.' Then Konig himself took the stand, and...
Published: Apr 6, 2026Duration: 22m 40s