I filled three notebooks covering these trials- now I'm sharing my coverage in podcast form so you can experience every moment from Kentucky's most high profile trial in decades.

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Circumstantial: The Crystal Rogers Trials is available to paid subscribers only. You can become a member for $4.99/month and gain access to all of my work, including full interviews, behind-the-scenes content, and my weekly news podcast.

It's here! After months of production- after sitting in those courtrooms every single day, filling notebooks with testimony, watching a decade-long mystery finally unfold in front of a jury- I'm ready to share it with you.

"Circumstantial: The Crystal Rogers Trials" launches today. Episode 1 is live right now, exclusively for Shay Informed subscribers.

And we're starting with a guilty verdict.

The moment the jury verdict was read. Steve Lawson is standing in the front row, red shirt.

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