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Gypsy Rose, Sandra Birchmore and Christa Pike: Did Anyone Check the First Story?
Did anyone check the first story? Tony Brueski and former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer put that question to three cases. Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's ex, died in Louisiana on October 1, 2026; the sheriff's office reports no signs of foul play, Gypsy says overdose, and his sister says he was terrified of her. Sandra Birchmore's death was a suicide in the state's file from 2021 until April 30, 2026, when the medical examiner changed it to undetermined. Matthew Farwell, the Stoughton detective who was the last person seen with her, is on trial in federal court in Boston and says she took her own life. Two more officers from her youth program were found to have had relationships with her and paid only with their badges. By the state's own account, Christa Pike's execution protocol had no instruction for a failed second dose, and the state says that means it did everything right. Three first stories, one agent who used to pull them apart for a living.
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Kouri Richins' Trial Got Two Sheriffs Indicted for What
Twelve days before Kouri Richins' murder trial opened, the prosecutors preparing to try her served Verizon with a warrant for the phone records of a sitting sheriff, a former sheriff, and a police chief. Two of those men, Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby and former Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds, pleaded not guilty October 7 to obstructing justice in her case.
The Summit County Attorney's Office says it received an anonymous letter in January listing thirteen allegations against Detective Eric Mainord, one of the lead investigators on the Richins case and a candidate against Rigby for Wasatch County sheriff. Search warrant affidavits say Rigby had shown the same thirteen allegations to Mainord's boss the day after Mainord entered the race, and that she believed the Richins prosecution would be hurt unless he dropped out. County Attorney Margaret Olson's office opened a felony investigation into the sheriff instead of acting on the letter, and kept the case when Rigby asked a judge to take it away.
Rigby is charged with second-degree felony obstruction, which carries one to fifteen years in Utah, plus a misdemeanor false-statement count. A filing from his own attorney says the charges accuse him of sending the letter, which prosecutors say contained false information. Edmunds faces a felony obstruction count; his lawyers say the charge arose from something he told investigators in a March interview. Rigby says he acted lawfully. Police Chief Wade Carpenter, whose records were also seized, has not been charged.
What's at stake for Kouri Richins: Mainord was pulled from the witness list and never testified, which prosecutors say settles the question. Her lawyers say the state knew about the allegations when he testified at the suppression hearing. The judge rules on her new-trial motion after October 16. Tony Brueski connects the two cases.
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Did Christa Pike's Execution Protocol Ever Plan for Her to Survive?
Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski discuss the controversial execution of Christa Pike and the state's protocol for failure.
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Gypsy Rose, Sandra Birchmore and Christa Pike: Did Anyone Check the First Story?
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I was an Explorer advisor for a year with the FBI, and it's actually a wonderful program. You meet with the individuals about once a month, I think we met, and we taught crime scene, and we taught handcuffing techniques, and we do all these teaching kind of a school for about an hour or so because we prepare them for competitions, and they compete against the other Explorer teams that in these areas, proper handcuffing. I'm just throwing out a couple of crime scenes, things like that. So it's actually a beautiful program. What is not beautiful about it is when you get somebody like this, and I understand he is innocent in the eyes of the law, but factually he is so guilty of, uh, of corralling her, Of recruiting grooming grooming her and at 15 having sexual relationship with her, which obviously is statutory rape and then continuing these relationships or relationship with her sexual relationship. […]
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