Kary Antholis

I’m on location in New Orleans for the beginning of production on a special Crime Story project, and so today we present an abbreviated summary of this week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. Below we share links to our major story of the week and to Hannah Teich’s weekly summary of the Crime Story Daily. (Next week’s update, we will also offer a full report on the other stories from this week.) On Tuesday we reported that Robert Durst lodged some shockingly critical assertions about his lawyers in a Los Angeles Court. The assertions were delivered in the form...

You can find links to all of CRIME STORY’S coverage of the Robert Durst trial here. Robert Durst lodged some shockingly critical assertions about his lawyers in a Los Angeles Court today. The assertions were delivered in the form of a letter as Judge Mark E. Windham was wrapping up a hearing for defense motions for a mistrial in advance of the planned May 17 resumption of Durst's trial for the murder of his friend, Susan Berman. In Crime Story's March 18 piece about last month's Readiness Hearing for the case, we reported the surprise development that Durst sought to personally raise...

This week at Crime Story we presented the story of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights law. Mike Romano shared news on a Three Strikes Project client, and we continued our serialization of Judge Katherine Mader's memoir. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Friday, we presented Part 4 of Sean Smith's Crime Story series Nuremberg. In this installment, Sean examines the United States prosecuting team’s preparation and presentation of the documentary “Nazi Concentration Camps,” and then follows with an assessment of the unprecedented dramatic impact of that film on the proceedings. On...

This week at Crime Story we presented my interview with one of the major contributors to the way crime stories are told in popular culture. Mike Romano shared an important update on the work of the Three Strikes Project, and we continued our serialization of Judge Katherine Mader's memoir. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Thursday we celebrated the 300th episode of the Crime Story Podcast by presenting a conversation with Peter Jankowski, President and Chief Operating Officer of Dick Wolf Enterprises, and Executive Producer of all of the iterations of the Law...

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...