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On March 24, 1998, an 11-year-old boy pulled the fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Then he ran into the woods behind the school, where his 13-year-old friend was waiting in camouflage with a deer rifle. When the children and teachers filed outside, the two boys opened fire from the trees and killed four girls aged 11 and 12 and an English teacher. Ten more people were wounded.
The boys were Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden. Johnson’s rifle was a 30-06 with a telescopic sight. Teacher Shannon Wright, 32, pushed sixth-grader Emma Pittman out of the way and was shot in the chest and abdomen.
In the video below, Johnson, now grown, is asked about that day under oath. “I never went to school that day to kill anyone,” he says. “My bullets hit three people. The other three went in the air, and that’s what I meant to do all along.” Asked if he could see their faces through the scope, he says: “If I aimed at them, yes, I could.”
His first shot, he says, was at the roof. Asked why he switched from the roof to people, he answers: “I don’t know.” The last thing he remembers is watching 12-year-old Natalie Brooks get hit in the head and Golden running back to tell him “we’re on the run.”
In his own deposition at 14, Golden refused to answer a single question about why he shot. Arkansas could only hold them as juveniles. Johnson walked out at 21 in 2005, and Golden at 21 in 2007.
Each later blamed the other. In 2017 a judge awarded each family $30 million. Two years later Golden died in a head-on crash.
Were Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden children who deserved a second chance, or killers who walked free at 21 only because of their age?
On March 24, 1998, an 11-year-old boy pulled the fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Then he ran into the woods behind the school, where his 13-year-old friend was waiting in camouflage with a deer rifle. When the children and teachers filed outside, the two boys opened fire from the trees and killed four girls aged 11 and 12 and an English teacher. Ten more people were wounded.
The boys were Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden. Johnson’s rifle was a 30-06 with a telescopic sight. Teacher Shannon Wright, 32, pushed sixth-grader Emma Pittman out of the way and was shot in the chest and abdomen.
In the video below, Johnson, now grown, is asked about that day under oath. “I never went to school that day to kill anyone,” he says. “My bullets hit three people. The other three went in the air, and that’s what I meant to do all along.” Asked if he could see their faces through the scope, he says: “If I aimed at them, yes, I could.”
His first shot, he says, was at the roof. Asked why he switched from the roof to people, he answers: “I don’t know.” The last thing he remembers is watching 12-year-old Natalie Brooks get hit in the head and Golden running back to tell him “we’re on the run.”
In his own deposition at 14, Golden refused to answer a single question about why he shot. Arkansas could only hold them as juveniles. Johnson walked out at 21 in 2005, and Golden at 21 in 2007.
Each later blamed the other. In 2017 a judge awarded each family $30 million. Two years later Golden died in a head-on crash.
Were Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden children who deserved a second chance, or killers who walked free at 21 only because of their age?
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Tyler Hadley was 17 when he stood behind his mother with a hammer. A few hours later, more than 60 classmates were partying in his house a few feet from his parents’ bodies.
A year earlier he had told friends: “If you kill my mom, I’ll give you my Lincoln.” They thought it was a joke. “I thought it was a joke too,” he says now.
On July 16, 2011, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, his mother was sitting at her desk. He stood behind her with the hammer for what felt like five minutes. “I think it was more 20 seconds.”
In the video below, he describes what his father asked him. “He asked, why are you doing this? And I said, why not?”
Then he looked in the bathroom mirror, covered in blood. “I laughed at myself in the mirror.”
He spent at least two hours cleaning. He piled everything into his parents’ bedroom, shut the door and texted friends that the party was at his house. “I’m covered in blood and I’m just like, yeah, yeah, come on.”
During the party he told his best friend, Michael Mendoza, what he had done. Mendoza didn’t believe him. Then Tyler opened the bedroom door a little. “There was a leg.”
Mendoza called a crime tip line. Police arrested Tyler that night. “I had no thought that Michael would report me.”
He was sentenced to life. Asked what his three wishes were at 17, he listed them: get out of jail, have his parents back, and “a lot of money.” In that order.
Was it madness, or a teenager who knew exactly what he was doing?
Tyler Hadley was 17 when he stood behind his mother with a hammer. A few hours later, more than 60 classmates were partying in his house a few feet from his parents’ bodies.
A year earlier he had told friends: “If you kill my mom, I’ll give you my Lincoln.” They thought it was a joke. “I thought it was a joke too,” he says now.
On July 16, 2011, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, his mother was sitting at her desk. He stood behind her with the hammer for what felt like five minutes. “I think it was more 20 seconds.”
In the video below, he describes what his father asked him. “He asked, why are you doing this? And I said, why not?”
Then he looked in the bathroom mirror, covered in blood. “I laughed at myself in the mirror.”
He spent at least two hours cleaning. He piled everything into his parents’ bedroom, shut the door and texted friends that the party was at his house. “I’m covered in blood and I’m just like, yeah, yeah, come on.”
During the party he told his best friend, Michael Mendoza, what he had done. Mendoza didn’t believe him. Then Tyler opened the bedroom door a little. “There was a leg.”
Mendoza called a crime tip line. Police arrested Tyler that night. “I had no thought that Michael would report me.”
He was sentenced to life. Asked what his three wishes were at 17, he listed them: get out of jail, have his parents back, and “a lot of money.” In that order.
Was it madness, or a teenager who knew exactly what he was doing?
John Holmes was the most famous porn actor in America. On July 1, 1981, at 4 a.m., he opened the door on Wonderland Avenue for the men who beat four people to death with pipes.
Days earlier, he had helped the people in that house rob one of the biggest drug dealers in Los Angeles.
In the video below, Tom Lange, the LAPD detective who worked the case, explains the setup. Holmes went to Eddie Nash’s house to buy drugs and left the back door unlocked. That night his friends walked in, put a gun in Nash’s mouth and left with about $100,000 in cash, drugs and guns. Holmes was paid with drugs and a cut.
Nash figured out who had left the door open. Scott Thorson, Liberace’s former lover, was at Nash’s house that day. He later testified: “John was begging for his life.”
Then Nash gave Holmes a job. “There’ll be a knock on the door about 4 a.m. I want you to let them in.”
Holmes let them in. Ron Launius, Billy DeVerell, Joy Miller and Barbara Richardson were killed. Susan Launius survived with a crushed skull.
Holmes’s palm print was found on the bed railing above Ron Launius’s head. Lange says Holmes’s wife told police he showed up at her house that morning covered in blood.
He ran to Florida and changed his name. Lange found him in a hotel. In 1982 a jury acquitted him of murder.
Nash offered the detectives $500,000 to forget about him. In his first trial, one juror refused to convict. Twenty years later, Nash admitted he had bribed her.
Holmes never said what happened inside that house. He died of AIDS in 1988. He was 43.
Was John Holmes a killer, or the most famous hostage in Los Angeles?
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In 1972, one of America's most innocent faces appeared on a box of Ivory Snow. 99 and 44/100% pure. A young mother holding a baby, in supermarkets across the country.
That same week, she appeared in a $60,000 adult film. It went on to gross more than $50 million.
Her name was Marilyn Chambers. In the video below, she explains how she got the job by trying to lose it.
She answered a newspaper casting call in San Francisco. On her way out, two brothers named Jim and Artie Mitchell called her upstairs and pitched Behind the Green Door.
She wasn't sure she could do it. So she named a price off the top of her head and demanded a percentage of the gross, certain they would say no.
An hour later, they were knocking at her door with a contract. Every term she had asked for.
"They called my bluff."
Then she remembered one detail she had forgotten to mention. She was the mother on the Ivory Snow box.
The brothers didn't panic. They picked up the phone and started calling everyone they could think of. The woman from the Ivory Snow box was about to star in an adult film.
Procter & Gamble pulled every box and ad featuring her face and ordered its agencies to check the backgrounds of models they hired.
Then Chuck Traynor entered her life, fresh from his divorce from Linda Lovelace. He decided what she said, where she went, and even whether she could take a college class.
Chambers died in 2009 at 56. Her teenage daughter found her.
Did she bluff her way into a fortune, or did the Mitchell brothers see an opportunity no one else could?
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"I was gonna do one more, make it an even fifty."
A Canadian pig farmer said this to the man in the next bunk, two days after his arrest. He didn't know the man was an undercover police officer, or that a camera was recording.
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. For years, women disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Robert Pickton picked them up and drove them back to his farm.
Investigators later found the remains or DNA of 33 women there. A witness testified that he fed the bodies to his pigs. Health officials warned people who had bought pork from the farm.
More than four years before Pickton's arrest, a police geographic profiler warned that a serial killer might be operating in the area. Police leaders dismissed the warning as "inaccurate and inflammatory."
In the video below, recorded in February 2002, Pickton sits on a cell bunk, eating dinner and talking about how he got caught.
"I was kinda sloppy at the end too. Getting too sloppy."
Then he says: "I wanted one more. Make the big five O."
He told the undercover officer he had killed 49 women.
A jury convicted him of six counts of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years. In February 2024, he became eligible for day parole.
Three months later, another inmate attacked him in a Quebec prison. Pickton died at 74.
He was charged with 26 murders but convicted of six. Was the justice system enough, or has his death become a substitute for justice?
"I was gonna do one more, make it an even fifty."
A Canadian pig farmer said this to the man in the next bunk, two days after his arrest. He didn't know the man was an undercover police officer, or that a camera was recording.
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. For years, women disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Robert Pickton picked them up and drove them back to his farm.
Investigators later found the remains or DNA of 33 women there. A witness testified that he fed the bodies to his pigs. Health officials warned people who had bought pork from the farm.
More than four years before Pickton's arrest, a police geographic profiler warned that a serial killer might be operating in the area. Police leaders dismissed the warning as "inaccurate and inflammatory."
In the video below, recorded in February 2002, Pickton sits on a cell bunk, eating dinner and talking about how he got caught.
"I was kinda sloppy at the end too. Getting too sloppy."
Then he says: "I wanted one more. Make the big five O."
He told the undercover officer he had killed 49 women.
A jury convicted him of six counts of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years. In February 2024, he became eligible for day parole.
Three months later, another inmate attacked him in a Quebec prison. Pickton died at 74.
He was charged with 26 murders but convicted of six. Was the justice system enough, or has his death become a substitute for justice?
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Thirteen days before her execution, Christa Pike said her worst nightmare was the lethal injection failing. It did.
In 1995, she was 18. She murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer with a box cutter and a piece of asphalt over a boyfriend. She carved a pentagram into Colleen's chest and kept a piece of her skull.
Her confession to police: "I just kept hitting her and hit her and hit her."
Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in modern America. In 2006, from death row, she said: "I did something horrible that is unacceptable. But I don't deserve to die."
In the video below, recorded in September, she describes her greatest fear: "The thought of suffocating and drowning on my own bodily fluid and blood isn't very appealing to me."
On September 30, 2026, Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital. Pike survived.
She woke up days later in a hospital. Colleen's mother had traveled from Florida to witness the execution.
This week Pike spoke publicly for the first time: "There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain. My body hurts, my arms hurt, my hands hurt, my throat hurts."
The governor says her death sentence remains in place.
Should Tennessee try again, or has she already paid?
Thirteen days before her execution, Christa Pike said her worst nightmare was the lethal injection failing. It did.
In 1995, she was 18. She murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer with a box cutter and a piece of asphalt over a boyfriend. She carved a pentagram into Colleen's chest and kept a piece of her skull.
Her confession to police: "I just kept hitting her and hit her and hit her."
Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in modern America. In 2006, from death row, she said: "I did something horrible that is unacceptable. But I don't deserve to die."
In the video below, recorded in September, she describes her greatest fear: "The thought of suffocating and drowning on my own bodily fluid and blood isn't very appealing to me."
On September 30, 2026, Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital. Pike survived.
She woke up days later in a hospital. Colleen's mother had traveled from Florida to witness the execution.
This week Pike spoke publicly for the first time: "There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain. My body hurts, my arms hurt, my hands hurt, my throat hurts."
The governor says her death sentence remains in place.
Should Tennessee try again, or has she already paid?
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Before shooting his parents, 16-year-old Daniel Petric asked them: "Can you close your eyes? I have a surprise for you."
Daniel was a pastor's son in Ohio. His father banned violent video games at home. Daniel secretly bought Halo 3 for about $70.
His father took the game and locked it in a safe. Inside was also his 9mm pistol.
On October 20, 2007, Daniel found the key. He took the game. He took the gun.
His parents were sitting on the couch. He shot his father in the head first, then his mother. Susan Petric died. Mark Petric survived.
Daniel placed the gun in his father's hand. He wanted the scene to look like a murder-suicide.
His sister and her husband arrived unexpectedly. Daniel refused to let them inside. They forced the door open, and she called 911: "My mom is shot and my dad is shot."
Daniel drove away in the family van. He took Halo 3 with him.
In the video below, he explains his thinking from prison: "At the end of every round, everything just resets. At the end of every level, everybody's still there."
At sentencing, his father asked the judge for mercy.
Daniel received life in prison with parole eligibility after 23 years. He can first seek release in 2030.
His father forgave him. Should anyone else?
Before shooting his parents, 16-year-old Daniel Petric asked them: "Can you close your eyes? I have a surprise for you."
Daniel was a pastor's son in Ohio. His father banned violent video games at home. Daniel secretly bought Halo 3 for about $70.
His father took the game and locked it in a safe. Inside was also his 9mm pistol.
On October 20, 2007, Daniel found the key. He took the game. He took the gun.
His parents were sitting on the couch. He shot his father in the head first, then his mother. Susan Petric died. Mark Petric survived.
Daniel placed the gun in his father's hand. He wanted the scene to look like a murder-suicide.
His sister and her husband arrived unexpectedly. Daniel refused to let them inside. They forced the door open, and she called 911: "My mom is shot and my dad is shot."
Daniel drove away in the family van. He took Halo 3 with him.
In the video below, he explains his thinking from prison: "At the end of every round, everything just resets. At the end of every level, everybody's still there."
At sentencing, his father asked the judge for mercy.
Daniel received life in prison with parole eligibility after 23 years. He can first seek release in 2030.
His father forgave him. Should anyone else?
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A 13-year-old shot his favorite teacher on the last day of school. The teacher had told him to return to class instead of talking to two girls.
Lake Worth, Florida. May 26, 2000. Nathaniel Brazill had been sent home that morning for throwing water balloons.
He went home, took a .25-caliber pistol, and returned. In his pocket was a love letter to one of the girls: "I'm gonna miss you. I love you always."
His English teacher, Barry Grunow, told him to go back to class. The school hallway camera recorded Brazill raising the gun and firing once.
In the video below, Brazill shows the jury how he held it. Twenty-five years later, he still says: "The gun went off. One shot."
The jury convicted him of second-degree murder. He received a 28-year sentence.
Grunow left behind a wife and two young children.
In prison, Brazill earned his GED at 16 and became a paralegal at 18. He later represented himself in a lawsuit against the prison system and won.
His release date is May 18, 2028. He will be 41. "This is a nation of second chances," he says. "That's all I'm asking for."
Grunow's widow declined to comment.
Should Brazill get another chance after 28 years, or is that sentence the price of taking a teacher's life?
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A 13-year-old shot his favorite teacher on the last day of school. The teacher had told him to return to class instead of talking to two girls.
Lake Worth, Florida. May 26, 2000. Nathaniel Brazill had been sent home that morning for throwing water balloons.
He went home, took a .25-caliber pistol, and returned. In his pocket was a love letter to one of the girls: "I'm gonna miss you. I love you always."
His English teacher, Barry Grunow, told him to go back to class. The school hallway camera recorded Brazill raising the gun and firing once.
In the video below, Brazill shows the jury how he held it. Twenty-five years later, he still says: "The gun went off. One shot."
The jury convicted him of second-degree murder. He received a 28-year sentence.
Grunow left behind a wife and two young children.
In prison, Brazill earned his GED at 16 and became a paralegal at 18. He later represented himself in a lawsuit against the prison system and won.
His release date is May 18, 2028. He will be 41. "This is a nation of second chances," he says. "That's all I'm asking for."
Grunow's widow declined to comment.
Should Brazill get another chance after 28 years, or is that sentence the price of taking a teacher's life?
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He was 14 when he beat his 8-year-old neighbor with a baseball bat, cut her throat and pushed her body inside the frame of his waterbed. Then he slept on that bed for a week while the whole street searched for her.
Jacksonville, Florida. November 3, 1998. Maddie Clifton went outside to play and never came home.
Volunteers searched the woods and ponds for days.
Joshua Phillips lived across the street.
Police came to the house. A sergeant later recalled that Phillips sat on that bed petting his dog, "cool as a cucumber." Maddie was right underneath him.
Seven days after she vanished, her body was found inside his bed.
In the video below, Phillips stands in court in an orange jumpsuit and reads a letter to Maddie’s family. "I did something horrible. I’m so sorry." He was sentenced to life without parole in 1999.
After the Supreme Court ruled out automatic life without parole for juvenile offenders, a judge resentenced him in 2017. He received life, with a sentence review possible after 25 years.
This May, Phillips withdrew his request for that review. He said he still believed he could live a productive and meaningful life if released, but wanted to address concerns about his rehabilitation before returning to court.
Maddie would have been 36 this year.
Did the boy who slept on that bed grow into a different man, or should some things close the door for good?
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In June 2014, Sandra Bullock hid in her closet and called 911 while a stranger walked through her house. Police later seized 24 guns from his home. Three years later, he walked out on probation.
In the video below, her call is played in court. "I can’t hear anything. I’m locked in my closet. It’s a safety door. It’s shut."
His name was Joshua Corbett. He had been lurking outside her gates for several days.
On June 8, 2014, he climbed her fence, rang the doorbell for several minutes and came in through a sunroom door.
Bullock saw him pass her bedroom door. She locked herself in a closet and stayed on the phone with 911 for 15 minutes. Her son Louis was not home.
When officers found Corbett on the stairs, he told them: "I’m sorry. I love you, Sandy."
He was carrying a handwritten letter. “You are my wife by law, the law of God, and you belong to me,” it said.
At his home, police seized 10 handguns, 13 rifles, a shotgun and a machine gun. He faced 26 counts, and his bail was set at more than $2 million.
Then a judge ruled that Corbett had not freely agreed to the search of his house and gun safe. The weapons charges were dropped.
In 2017, he pleaded no contest to stalking and burglary. He had spent about three years in jail. The sentence was five years of probation, mental health treatment and a 10-year stay-away order.
"Everyone wins here," his lawyer said. "The victim wins, the defendant wins, and the court wins."
In May 2018, he missed a court date. When police came to arrest him, he threatened to kill them. He was found dead in his house about five hours later.
Did the court protect Bullock with a 10-year order, or did it let the man with 24 guns walk because of how police searched his house?
In June 2014, Sandra Bullock hid in her closet and called 911 while a stranger walked through her house. Police later seized 24 guns from his home. Three years later, he walked out on probation.
In the video below, her call is played in court. "I can’t hear anything. I’m locked in my closet. It’s a safety door. It’s shut."
His name was Joshua Corbett. He had been lurking outside her gates for several days.
On June 8, 2014, he climbed her fence, rang the doorbell for several minutes and came in through a sunroom door.
Bullock saw him pass her bedroom door. She locked herself in a closet and stayed on the phone with 911 for 15 minutes. Her son Louis was not home.
When officers found Corbett on the stairs, he told them: "I’m sorry. I love you, Sandy."
He was carrying a handwritten letter. “You are my wife by law, the law of God, and you belong to me,” it said.
At his home, police seized 10 handguns, 13 rifles, a shotgun and a machine gun. He faced 26 counts, and his bail was set at more than $2 million.
Then a judge ruled that Corbett had not freely agreed to the search of his house and gun safe. The weapons charges were dropped.
In 2017, he pleaded no contest to stalking and burglary. He had spent about three years in jail. The sentence was five years of probation, mental health treatment and a 10-year stay-away order.
"Everyone wins here," his lawyer said. "The victim wins, the defendant wins, and the court wins."
In May 2018, he missed a court date. When police came to arrest him, he threatened to kill them. He was found dead in his house about five hours later.
Did the court protect Bullock with a 10-year order, or did it let the man with 24 guns walk because of how police searched his house?
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In 2011, Nancy Brophy wrote an essay called "How to Murder Your Husband." Seven years later, her husband was shot dead at the cooking school where he worked.
Daniel Brophy was 63 and taught at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland. On June 2, 2018, a coworker found him dead in the kitchen. He'd been shot twice while preparing for work.
In the video below, Brophy takes the witness stand and tries to explain why she bought parts for a gun. She says they were research for a future novel. When asked to explain why having gun parts didn't mean she had a working gun, she compared them to ingredients for an omelet. "I've got eggs and flour in my pantry and that's not an omelet either."
Investigators had another problem for her. Surveillance footage placed a minivan matching hers near the school around the time Daniel was killed. Brophy initially told police she'd been home. She later said she had no memory of that morning and insisted she never entered the building.
Prosecutors argued that money was the motive. Brophy stood to receive a substantial life insurance payout, and three days after the murder, she tried to collect on a policy. The murder weapon was never found. Her defense said the evidence was circumstantial and disputed the claim that money drove her to kill.
The jury never heard her 2011 essay. The judge excluded it from evidence. But on May 25, 2022, jurors found Brophy guilty of second-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Was she a novelist whose research went too far, or did she write about murder long before putting a plan into action?
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In 2011, Nancy Brophy wrote an essay called "How to Murder Your Husband." Seven years later, her husband was shot dead at the cooking school where he worked.
Daniel Brophy was 63 and taught at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland. On June 2, 2018, a coworker found him dead in the kitchen. He'd been shot twice while preparing for work.
In the video below, Brophy takes the witness stand and tries to explain why she bought parts for a gun. She says they were research for a future novel. When asked to explain why having gun parts didn't mean she had a working gun, she compared them to ingredients for an omelet. "I've got eggs and flour in my pantry and that's not an omelet either."
Investigators had another problem for her. Surveillance footage placed a minivan matching hers near the school around the time Daniel was killed. Brophy initially told police she'd been home. She later said she had no memory of that morning and insisted she never entered the building.
Prosecutors argued that money was the motive. Brophy stood to receive a substantial life insurance payout, and three days after the murder, she tried to collect on a policy. The murder weapon was never found. Her defense said the evidence was circumstantial and disputed the claim that money drove her to kill.
The jury never heard her 2011 essay. The judge excluded it from evidence. But on May 25, 2022, jurors found Brophy guilty of second-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Was she a novelist whose research went too far, or did she write about murder long before putting a plan into action?
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In 2020, Mary Trump accused her uncle Donald of cheating her out of "tens of millions of dollars." A year later, he sued her for $100 million. In June 2026, they settled privately.
Neither side disclosed the settlement terms. Their family dispute had turned into lawsuits worth millions on both sides.
In the video below, Mary Trump describes the legal battle: "Four years ago I sued my family because I believed there had been some fraud involved in my disinheritance. A year later, Donald sued me for breach of contract for a hundred million dollars."
In 2018, The New York Times investigated Donald Trump's wealth. Its report estimated he had received at least $413 million from his father's empire.
On September 24, 2020, Mary filed a 52-page complaint in New York. She accused Donald, his sister, and her late brother's estate of fraud and conspiracy over her inheritance.
In September 2021, Donald sued Mary for $100 million. His lawsuit alleged she had given confidential family financial records to The New York Times.
On November 14, 2022, Judge Robert Reed dismissed Mary's case. He ruled that a 2001 settlement had clearly released the claims she was bringing.
In 2023, the same judge dismissed Trump's claims against The New York Times. He also ordered Trump to pay the newspaper's legal costs.
On June 17, 2026, Mary and Donald announced they had settled. Neither side revealed the financial terms.
Did this family dispute end with justice for Mary Trump, or with a private deal that left the real cost unknown?