The Moscow Murders and More

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

According to newly surfaced FBI records, a foreign hacker penetrated a server used by the FBI’s New York Child Exploitation Forensic Lab on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2023 and accessed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Special Agent Aaron Spivack later said in sworn statements that he discovered the intrusion after finding a message on the system saying the network had been compromised. The server reportedly contained hundreds of terabytes of sensitive material from child-exploitation investigations, including Epstein-related files, and roughly 100 terabytes of data were later described as permanently unrecoverable. What the intruder actually downloaded, copied or merely vi...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was described by friends as effectively “living in limbo” while Thames Valley Police continued investigating allegations tied to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his former role as a British trade envoy. Andrew had moved from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after his February 2026 arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Although he had not been charged and faced no formal travel restrictions, friends said he had been advised to keep a low profile and had barely ventured beyond Sandringham. Investigators were examining claims that Andrew may have shared confidential information with Epst...

A second push to force the release of additional Jeffrey Epstein records advanced in the House after Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said they had secured enough commitments to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to the floor through another discharge petition. The maneuver closely mirrored the strategy used to pass the original Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, when supporters bypassed Speaker Mike Johnson after Republican leadership declined to schedule a vote. The new measure would strengthen enforcement of the existing transparency law by allowing Epstein survivors, state attorneys general and other officials to sue the Justice...

​Prosecutors in the Bryan Kohberger case have introduced evidence indicating that Kohberger purchased a Ka-Bar knife, along with a sheath and sharpener, from Amazon between March 20 and March 30, 2022—approximately eight months prior to the November 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. A knife sheath found at the crime scene contained Kohberger's DNA, strengthening the prosecution's argument that the sheath belonged to him. Additionally, prosecutors have obtained a selfie Kohberger took hours after the killings, which they plan to use to corroborate an eyewitness description of the suspect having "bushy eyebrows."The defense has filed motions to excl...

Moscow investigators filed more than 60 search-warrant applications during the investigation, including six that focused specifically on locating the Ka-Bar-style knife believed to have been used in the murders. The warrants were directed to Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Blue Ridge Knives and Ka-Bar itself, with eBay receiving two separate requests. Investigators sought records identifying anyone who purchased a full-size Ka-Bar U.S. Marine Corps fighting knife or a KA1217S leather sheath after January 1, 2022. The requests covered customer names, addresses, account details, purchase histories, payment information, IP addresses and communications with the retailers. After eBay produced initial information, police obtained a second...

The probable-cause affidavit explained why investigators arrested Bryan Kohberger, but it did not explain why they believed he targeted 1122 King Road or the four students inside. It connected Kohberger to the case through DNA recovered from a knife sheath, surveillance footage of a white Hyundai Elantra, cellphone records and a surviving roommate’s description of a masked man. Still unanswered were whether Kohberger knew any of the victims, how he found the house, whether one person or the residence itself had been the intended target and why two roommates were left alive. The document also did not identify a motive, es...

During the early stages of the Moscow murder investigation, authorities said there were no obvious signs of forced entry at 1122 King Road but did not publicly identify how the killer entered. Attention quickly centered on the sliding glass door connected to the second-floor kitchen because the slope behind the house placed that level close to the ground and made the door easily accessible from the rear parking area. Investigators were repeatedly photographed examining that entrance, while reports that the house was frequently occupied by visitors fueled speculation that the door may have been left unlocked or that someone familiar with...

Nine days after four University of Idaho students were murdered, former FBI profiler Jim Clemente described the unidentified killer as likely being a young man close to the victims’ age who had little criminal or forensic sophistication and probably had not committed that level of violence before. Clemente believed the offender appeared sloppy and compulsive, but he also viewed the decision to enter a house occupied by six people as evidence that the attack was not random. He theorized that the killer either knew one or more of the victims or had stalked them closely enough to understand their habits, in...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red flags and allowed Epstein to conduct transactions that supported his sex trafficking operation.The USVI contends that JPMorgan's actions or lack thereof contributed significantly to the harm caused by Epstein and his network. The motion further emphasizes that...

Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist and bank robber who deliberately tried to make his crimes difficult to connect. He traveled extensively around the United States, sometimes flying to one part of the country, renting a vehicle and then driving hundreds of miles before selecting victims with whom he had no obvious connection. Keyes also buried “kill kits” containing weapons, restraints and other supplies years in advance so he could return later and commit murders without having to purchase suspicious items immediately beforehand. He confessed to killing Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont in 2011 and to abducting and...

More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors praised the House Oversight Committee after it voted 41-0 to recommend holding Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas seeking his testimony and nondisclosure agreements. The survivors said the unanimous committee vote sent a clear message that wealth and influence should not place anyone beyond congressional scrutiny, and they urged lawmakers to keep following the Epstein evidence wherever it leads. The contempt recommendation marked a major escalation in the committee’s fight with Black, who had previously appeared for a voluntary transcribed interview but refused to an...

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan warned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that he could face civil contempt if the Justice Department failed to comply with the court’s orders in the lawsuit brought by journalist and attorney Katie Phang over the Epstein files. Sullivan gave Blanche until September 24 to satisfy several outstanding requirements, including providing support for disputed victim-name redactions, submitting handwritten FBI interview notes for private judicial review and beginning a review of foreign-language Epstein records that could fall under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Sullivan said a contempt finding would be premature at that point, but made cl...

In the days immediately after Bryan Kohberger’s arrest, investigators had finally identified a suspect in the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, but many of the biggest questions about the case remained unanswered. Police had said the attack was targeted, yet they had not explained whether one victim or all four had been intended targets, what the motive was or whether Kohberger knew any of the students. The murder weapon had still not been recovered, and authorities had released few details about exactly how the killer entered or left 1122 King Road. Investigators had also ke...