Court records, hard questions, no gloss.
Roberta Glass True Crime Report follows high-profile criminal cases through legal documents, courtroom audio, news clips, and sharply argued commentary. It favors records over reputation, especially when public innocence campaigns, media framing, or defense narratives start to harden into folklore.
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Roberta Glass True Crime Report is true crime built around the paperwork. It leans into filings, hearing audio, news reports, trial clips, 911 details, and the small procedural choices that can change how a case looks. The tone is blunt. The show is especially interested in the gap between what a public narrative says and what the record appears to show. Recent excerpts return often to Kouri Richins, including her conviction, sentencing-date dispute, handwritten legal filing, and the case’s surrounding family questions. Eric Richins’ death is treated as a legal and evidentiary matter, not just a headline. Lisa Darden and Trudy Moore become part of that larger pattern because the show compares overdose details, financial benefit, emergency-call behavior, and investigative suspicion. The result is not tidy. It is live, argumentative, and willing to stop midstream when a clause, date, or contradiction needs attention. Julius Jones coverage focuses on new felony charges tied to an alleged prison contraband plot after his clemency changed the shape of his sentence. Andrew Malkinson appears through a different lens: wrongful-conviction coverage, media confidence, and the difficulty of discussing sexually motivated crimes without accepting every public-facing claim at face value. Nick Reiner coverage brings murder charges, death-penalty speculation, and family questions into the same legal frame. The show can be sardonic. It can also be grave, particularly when victims, grief, and public mythmaking collide. Its recurring move is simple: read the record, replay the clip, question the story. Then question it again. That makes the pacing feel chaotic but purposeful, with ads and live-stream texture sometimes crowding the edges while the core remains document-obsessed. It is not comfort true crime. It is skeptical courtroom watching for listeners who want hard opinions, receipts, and a persistent challenge to innocence branding, sympathetic media packages, and convenient defense narratives.
Made for: For true crime listeners who prefer legal filings, courtroom audio, and adversarial analysis over soft-focus storytelling. It fits people who can handle grim cases and want public narratives tested against records.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its insistence on reading source material closely, then judging media and defense claims against those details. It combines live courtroom-watch energy with a blunt, victims-focused skepticism of innocence campaigns.
Tired of the misinformation and propaganda in current true crime reporting, podcasts and documetaries; Roberta Glass set out in 2018 to create a true crime podcast sourced directly from the court records and case files. Roberta's drive and curiosity to look more deeply into true crime cases has taken her to the courthouse where she covered to the NXIVM trial, Ghislaine Maxwell trial and Larry Ray trial as well as Jeffrey Epstein related hearings.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Roberta Glass pairs forceful case commentary with close attention to testimony, exhibits and the narratives built around disputed guilt.
Roberta Glass works through true-crime narratives as arguments to be tested, pausing over testimony, documents and recorded statements before delivering her own firm reading.
A letter on a jail bunk becomes a whole argument, and you're invited to inspect it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Roberta Glass draws a tight, fact-driven line through the Darden-Moore parallels in the Richens case.
Roberta Glass centers the episode on Corey Richens' mother, Lisa Darden, and on Trudy Moore's earlier oxycodone overdose death, building the discussion around the overlap between those events.
A bunk-top letter and one stubborn detail drive this trial-focused episode.
Roberta Glass keeps the Kouri Richins trial anchored to the "walk the dog" letter, treating it as the hinge of the case and circling back to why it carries so much weight.
A skeptical legal true-crime piece that keeps testing what counts as proof.
The piece stays fixed on Corey Richen and the legal case around him, with its strongest stretch coming from the way it replays testimony and commentary without settling into a single account.
A trial-day review built around drug claims, a strange party video, and the jury's reaction.
Roberta Glass True Crime Report stays close to the Corey Richens trial as the defense works to frame Eric Richens as a drug addict, with Sudafed testimony and the tangle of business and hunting evidence around Cody Wright and C&E masonry carrying much of the weight.
A civil hearing, a phone-search fight, and near-daily case contact give the episode its charge.
The final hearing in the O'Keefe family's civil suit against Karen Reed plays as a tight collision of legal tactics, phone access, and the story forming around the case.
A pointed look at alleged victim-playing, money disputes, and the aftermath of Eric Richens' death.
This episode follows a family account of Eric Richens' death and the accusations around Corrie Richens, with the focus landing on betrayal, alleged intentional poisoning, and a widow portrayed as grieving while also positioning herself as victimized and financially wronged.
Amanda Knox, Patrick Lumumba, and Roberta Glass keep the slander conviction firmly in view.
Roberta Glass centers the hour on Amanda Knox's slander conviction and the case's return to Patrick Lumumba, the man Knox accused in her roommate's murder in Italy in 2007.
Bexar County crime, tracked through court.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Roberta Glass analyzes a handwritten 2024 legal filing by convicted murderer Kouri Richins, who claims she and her poisoned husband Eric Richins are still married.
Roberta Glass critiques Amanda Knox's recent interview with Gwyneth Paltrow, arguing it promotes propaganda.
This episode discusses a true crime case involving Nick Reiner, who allegedly called his family 'freeloaders' before murders, with a focus on exposing flaws and supporting victims.
This episode discusses unrevealed testimony from Kouri Richins' trial, with host Roberta Glass exposing flaws and lies in the case while advocating for victims.
Roberta Glass previews Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview with his new wife, Dr.
Roberta Glass examines Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview and questions his account of Lindsay Clancy's disclosures about harming the children.
Roberta Glass criticizes Oprah Winfrey’s nearly 1-hour-45-minute feature for centering postpartum psychosis, which Glass says was never diagnosed in Lindsay Clancy’s case.
This episode discusses Kouri Richins' legal team filing to change her May 13th sentencing date following her conviction for murdering her husband and financial fraud charges.
This episode reports on Julius Jones, who was previously granted clemency from execution in Oklahoma, now facing new felony charges for a prison contraband smuggling plot.
This episode features Roberta Glass exposing lies and propaganda in true crime cases while advocating for victims and uncovering the truth.
This episode discusses a recently surfaced handwritten legal filing from Kouri Richins in 2024, analyzing its implications in a true crime context.
This episode discusses the ongoing case of Nick Reiner, accused of murdering his parents Michelle and Rob Reiner, with analysis of potential death penalty implications in California.
This episode investigates Andrew Malkinson's overturned conviction for a brutal sexual assault, exploring media bias and the wrongful conviction movement.
Roberta Glass opens live and goes straight at Lisa Darden.
The episode revisits what the jury heard, and what it never got to hear, in the case around Lisa Darden and Trudy's 2006 overdose.
The host zeroes in on the Richin trial's "walk the dog" letter.
This episode discusses the jury being presented with Kouri Richins' written statements about her husband's final hours in a true crime case, with host Roberta Glass exposing lies and supporting victims.
Roberta Glass opens on a day of testimony in the Corey Richens trial.
Mark Diller says he was "mistaken" about Karen Read’s phone call, then the judge keeps the phones protocol in place.
This episode discusses the dramatic start of the Kouri Richins trial, focusing on the prosecution's powerful opening statement and the host's analysis of the case.