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She doesn't deny causing her three children's deaths. The whole trial is one question: was her mind gone — wrecked by postpartum psychosis, as her defense says — or working fine, as prosecutors say? The experts flatly contradict each other, and a verdict could land within days.
The questionThe big question: could she have stopped herself?
23 trial days83 witnesses13 board cards13 connections
Tupac Shakur was 25 when someone in a white Cadillac fired into his car on a Las Vegas side street in September 1996. He died six days later, and for nearly thirty years nobody was charged. Duane "Keffe D" Davis is on trial now because of the one thing that finally cracked the case open: his own mouth. The jury's question is not really who was in that Cadillac — it is whether a man's own confessions, sold in a memoir and repeated on camera for years, are enough to convict him when almost everyone who could confirm or deny them is dead.
The questionCan his own words convict him, and nothing else?
9 trial days29 witnesses14 board cards14 connections
Jared Bridegan, a 33-year-old Microsoft manager, stopped his car on a dark Jacksonville Beach street to move a tire someone had dragged into the road. He was shot dead there, with his young daughter in the back seat. Nobody says Mario Fernandez — the man who married Bridegan's ex-wife — pulled the trigger; the single question for this jury is whether he was the one who arranged and paid for it.
The questionDid Mario Fernandez arrange and pay for this killing?
8 trial days18 witnesses14 board cards14 connections
Federal prosecutors say Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk put a bounty on a rival rapper's head to avenge the 2020 killing of his friend King Von, and that the gunmen who flew to Los Angeles in August 2022 shot the wrong man — killing Quando Rondo's cousin, Saviay'a Robinson. Durk Banks, 33, denies all of it and has been jailed without bail since October 2024. The trial's defining fight is whether his own songs and music videos can be used against him as proof of a real murder.
The questionDid Durk Banks order the hit — and was money on the table?
5 trial days3 witnesses13 board cards14 connections
Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old nurse in Manassas Park, Virginia, was last seen in late July 2024 and has never been found. Police say they found pooled blood in the couple's home and that her husband, Naresh Bhatt, bought knives and cleaning supplies and was recorded disposing of bags in dumpsters before he was arrested. He is charged with her murder, has pleaded not guilty, and goes to trial in October 2026 — a no-body prosecution the state must prove without a recovered body.
The questionCan the state prove Naresh Bhatt murdered his wife with no body?
0 trial days0 witnesses9 board cards8 connections
Alex Murdaugh was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and son — and then, in May 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously threw the whole verdict out. The reason was not new evidence about the killings: it was that the elected Colleton County Clerk of Court, the official who handles the jury, had been talking to jurors during the trial while shopping a book about it. He now gets a second trial, starting April 5, 2027, in a county nobody has picked yet.
The questionThe big one: should there be a second trial at all?
0 trial days0 witnesses13 board cards14 connections
Jared Bridegan, a 33-year-old Microsoft manager, was shot dead on a dark Jacksonville Beach street in February 2022 after stopping to move a tire left in the road. The state says his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, and her husband, Mario Fernandez, arranged and paid for the killing after years of fighting over their children. Fernandez was convicted in August 2026. Gardner is charged too, has pleaded not guilty, and now goes to trial in 2027 — the last of the three to be tried, and the person prosecutors describe as the one who wanted it done.
The questionDid Shanna Gardner arrange and pay to have Jared Bridegan killed?
0 trial days0 witnesses9 board cards8 connections