In this week’s Weekly Docket, we break down several major crime stories making headlines across the U.S., focusing on confirmed facts, investigative updates, and what remains unanswered.

We begin in Ohio, where investigators continue searching for answers in the unsolved double homicide of Spencer and Monique Tepe, a Columbus couple found shot to death inside their home while their two young children were left physically unharmed. We examine what police have confirmed, surveillance developments, and statements from grieving family members.

Next, we head to New York City, where a Brooklyn medical student is charged with attempted murder after allegedly pushing a 73-year-old man into a moving subway train. The victim survived, but the case has renewed concerns about unprovoked violence in the subway system.

In Minnesota, we look at the brutal Christmas Day killing of a hospital security guard by a patient, along with the broader scrutiny surrounding fraud investigations tied to daycare and social service programs as Governor Tim Walz announces he will not seek reelection.

We also cover a disturbing case out of Florida, where a woman is accused of killing two ex-husbands in separate shootings on the same day, and an Ohio case involving a pregnant woman allegedly held captive and violently assaulted over New Year’s.

In 2000, Sarah Pender was convicted in connection with the murders of her roommates, Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman, and sentenced to 110 years in prison. Prosecutors called her the “female Charles Manson,” portraying her as the mastermind behind the killings, even though she never pulled the trigger. Years later, she made national headlines again after escaping from an Indiana prison with the help of a correctional officer.

Now, more than 25 years later, Sarah is back in court asking for her sentence to be reconsidered — and the case looks very different than it did in 2002. Key evidence used to convict her has since been discredited, the jailhouse informant who testified against her has been exposed as unreliable, and even the former prosecutor who put her away now says her sentence was a major injustice.

In this episode, we walk through Sarah Pender’s story from the beginning: the volatile household, the night of the murders, the investigation, trial, prison escape, years in solitary confinement, and the long fight for freedom that’s still unfolding today.

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1. Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner found dead in their Brentwood home as their son is charged with murder
2. Deadly antisemitic terror attack at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia
3. Mother of two found dead in a Manchester canal as police investigate the circumstances
4. Man charged after witnesses report seeing him drag a body from a Minnesota apartment building
5. Former college football coach arrested on stalking and domestic violence charges tied to a volatile relationship
6. Mass shooting at Brown University leaves two students dead as the suspect remains at large

1. Sarah Pender asks an Indiana judge for a second chance
2. How 9-year-old Renesmay Eutsey slipped out of the child-welfare system’s sight
3. Two classmates charged in the murder of 14-year-old Danika Troy
4. Royal Caribbean faces a homicide ruling in the death of passenger Michael Virgil
5. Russian crypto couple Roman and Anna Novak murdered in a ransom scheme gone wrong
6. New warrants zero in on a 15-year-old in the Saratoga Springs double homicide

In this episode, we dig into the case of Sarah Jean Hartsfield, the Texas woman convicted of murdering her fifth husband, Joseph Hartsfield, with a lethal dose of insulin in Beach City, Texas. We walk through her childhood in Missouri, her five marriages, the assault and abuse allegations, the fires that seemed to follow her, and the 2018 Minnesota shooting of fiancé David Bragg that’s now back under the microscope.

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1. Morgan Geyser Escapes Mental Institution Before Arrest in Illinois

2. Cruise Ship Death of 16-Year-Old Anna Kepner Ruled a Homicide

3. LAPD Corrects Rumors in the Death of 14-Year-Old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

4. Boston Parents Charged After 5-Week-Old Baby Dies from Fentanyl and Cocaine Exposure

5. Huss Street Homicide–Suicide Leaves Two Children and Two Adults Dead in Tiffin, Ohio

6. Former News Anchor Angie Mock Charged with Murdering Her 80-Year-Old Mother in Wichita

7. California Man Zarbab Ali Convicted of Murdering and Desecrating the Body of Estranged Wife Rachel Castillo