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He Killed His Daughter After Arguing Abouts Trump. Her Mother Seeks Justice. – Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly reports on Lucy Harrison's 2025 shooting death in Prosper, Texas, and on her mother Jane Coates's failed push to reopen the case after a Collin County grand jury declined to indict her father, Kris Harrison. The piece lays out the inconsistencies in Harrison's account, including his drinking that day, his claim that the gun "just went off," and the physical evidence that contradicts his story, alongside a February 2026 British coroner's finding of gross negligence manslaughter that has no legal force in the U.S. It is valuable as a close look at how a contested shooting was investigated and why the grand jury outcome has provoked anger on both sides of the Atlantic.

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HBO Max’s Best New Show Has A Perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score

This three-part HBO documentary traces model Hoyt Richards' 15 years inside Eternal Values, a New Age cult run by self-proclaimed alien prophet Frederick von Mierers, who bled followers of millions before dying in 1990 while concealing his AIDS diagnosis. Because almost nothing exists online about the group or its leader, the series stands as the fullest account yet of the cult and its eventual collapse around 1999, tied partly to Richards' escape from its North Carolina compound. It's notable as HBO Max's best-reviewed current release, sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes even while lower in the platform's viewership rankings than Euphoria and Hacks.

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A Manson Murder Investigation 20 Years In the Making: ‘There Are Still Secrets’

This is an interview with Tom O'Neill about his two-decade odyssey researching CHAOS, his book arguing that the standard Manson murders narrative concocted by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi conceals darker, unresolved connections—particularly Manson's ties to CIA mind-control researcher Jolly West and MKUltra-era experiments in the Haight-Ashbury scene. O'Neill discusses how the reporting spiraled beyond his control, unearthing suppressed police evidence, terrified and hostile sources, and unresolved leads he ultimately had to publish without tidy conclusions, while wrestling with the ethical risk of feeding conspiracy paranoia rather than genuine accountability. It's worth keeping for its candid look at the messy, obsessive process of long-form investigative reporting and its skepticism toward tidy true-crime narratives generally.

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The New Yorker

Three Trials for Murder

In 1985, Tim Hennis was convicted of murdering Katie Eastburn and her two young daughters in North Carolina, but was acquitted at retrial in 1989 after the prosecution's key witness proved unreliable and physical evidence failed to match him. Twenty years later, DNA testing of sperm samples found in the victim's body matched Hennis, leading the Army to recall him from retirement and court-martial him for the murders despite his civilian acquittal—a controversial use of military jurisdiction that raises questions about double jeopardy and whether scientific evidence alone should override a civilian jury's verdict. The case remains under appeal, with Hennis's lawyers arguing the military lacked jurisdiction and legal scholars divided on whether the extraordinary circumstance of exoneration followed by court-martial sets a dangerous precedent.

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