Kary Antholis

This week at Crime Story we presented two special reports from the City News Service on key reforms to the criminal legal process in Los Angeles and we continued our presentation of Katherine Mader's serializiation of her memoir. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Wednesday, we reported that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first steps today to move all jail inmates charged with misdemeanors but judged incompetent to stand trial out of jail and into community-based treatment. The move is part of the county’s commitment to a “care first, jails...

This week at Crime Story we presented new developments in a high profile murder trial. We offered a report on the LA DA's first 100 days in office and we continued our presentation of Katherine Mader's serializiation of her memoir.Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Thursday we presented my story Robert Durst Wants To Be Heard about the hearing in the murder trial of Durst in which he broke his year long silence and sought to personally raise legal issues with Judge Windham at the end of the hearing. We also presented the...

You can find links to all of CRIME STORY’S coverage of the Robert Durst trial here. Today, we reported on a readiness hearing for the resumption of the murder trial of Robert Durst. During the hearing, Durst surprisingly asked to speak to the Judge. Below we present audio, video and transcript of those proceedings. https://youtu.be/Pr9A6fo6LRI Judge Mark E. Windham: The People of the State of California versus Robert Durst. On the phone, we have Mr. DeGuerin, Mr. Chesnoff, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Re. For the people in person, Mr. Lewin, Mr. Balian, Milius, Mr. Miyata Mr. Henderson. The Court conferred telephonically with all parties...

You can find links to all of CRIME STORY’S coverage of the Robert Durst trial here. Robert Durst — who's story became an international sensation through the HBO Series "The Jinx" — was back in an LA courthouse yesterday. Durst has been residing a hospital room at the LA County Jail since his trial for the murder of his friend Susan Berman was suspended almost exactly one year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the hearing was for Judge Mark E. Windham to assess the readiness of the parties to resume the trial on May 17 of this...

This week at Crime Story we commemorated the anniversary of a significant moment in the history of criminalizing war attrocities and we continued our presentation of Katherine Mader's serialized presentation of her memoir. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. Today, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of Hermann Goering taking the stand (on March 13, 1946) at Nuremberg’s International Military Tribunal. We marked the event by publishing a special episode of Sean Smith's series Nuremberg, the timely and timeless tale of the effort to use international law to criminalize and condemn the menace embodied in...

This week brought a big announcement of a new Crime Story scripted TV series. We presented a story marking the 30th Anniversary of the Rodney King beating. We continued our presentation of the series by Katherine Mader and offered another update from Mike Romano.Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. Yesterday, Deadline broke the story that the Creator of The Wire, David Simon, and his fellow Executive Producer from that show, George Pelecanos are teaming up with Crime Story for a new HBO limited series set back in the world of the Baltimore Police...