Go inside the biggest local cases, from crime scene to courtroom. Your host, Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton walks listeners through investigations and how cases move through the justice system with exclusive content and expert interviews. If you want to go beyond the headline, this is where the story continues.
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"If I get out, I'm not coming back."
That's what prosecutors say a Cullman, Alabama spa owner told someone on a recorded jail call. Whitney Cheatham ran a wellness spa in Cullman until police say they traced a string of forged prescriptions back to her business. She's now facing twenty charges, including drug trafficking counts.
This summer, her attorneys asked a judge to let her leave the state for a "professional development summit." Prosecutors say the letter was generated by AI, and that the real plan had nothing to do with a summit at all.
Your host, Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton breaks down the indictment, the state's response and the judge's decision.
Recorded August 5, 2026.
A Cullman County attorney is accused of trying to poison her husband with fentanyl, twice. The second time, she was already out on bond for attempted murder for reportedly putting fentanyl in her husband's food three times. When it came time for a judge to decide if her bond should be revoked, her husband took the stand and asked to let her go. This week, host Jenn Horton, a WBRC Investigative Reporter, breaks down the evidence and court records involving one of the most unusual bond hearings we've seen in years.
Recorded on June 27, 2026.
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A dog comes home with something in her mouth. Not a stick. Not a ball. A human skull.
For more than a year, Chicarin, a German Shepherd mix in Center Point, Alabama kept bringing bones home. A skull. A tibia. Long bones left as gifts in the front yard. Investigators put GPS trackers on the neighborhood dogs. The Jefferson County Coroner ran DNA. Slowly, piece by piece, a picture emerged.
The bones belonged to Curtis Taylor Jr., a 25-year-old legally blind man who vanished from his family's home in February 2024. His family filed a missing persons report. Searches turned up nothing. Then a dog found what investigators couldn't.
He'd been shot. His death: ruled a homicide. His killer: still unknown.
This week on Six on Your Side Investigates, host Jenn Horton takes you inside the 18-month investigation and the latest on the family dog who did what no one else could: bring Curtis Taylor Jr. home.
Recorded: June 11, 2026
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A man was dropped off at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. He asked to be taken there. He wanted and needed help. But Matthew Taylor never walked through the door. Hours later a 27-year-old nurse, wife and young mother named Ada Doss was walking through the parking lot at shift change when she crossed paths with Taylor, who police say gunned her down outside her car.
Taylor was quickly arrested. Inside the jail, his behavior became so alarming a judge ordered Taylor medicated against his will.
WBRC investigative reporter Jenn Horton walks you through the case and what's ahead for Taylor's criminal prosecution.
Recorded: June 11, 2026
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A deadly crash on a rural Alabama road kills a father and a two-year-old girl. The mother is airlifted in critical condition. Then a family member from out of town asks a question no one can answer: where is the baby? The couple had a one-year-old son that no one had seen for three months.
What followed was one of the most disturbing cases Fayette County Sheriff Byron Yerby says he's encountered in 32 years of law enforcement. Court records detail a months-long pattern of child abuse documented in disturbing pictures and text messages between the parents.
WBRC Investigative reporter Jenn Horton takes you inside the case of the missing child, Kahleb Rowan Collins alongside reporter Taylor Pollock who's covered the case since December 2024.
Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.
They drove around shopping for children the day 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney vanished. That's part of the evidence jurors heard before convicting two people for Cupcake's kidnapping. WBRC Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton covered both federal trials and shares the testimony, verdicts, sentences and what's stopping the state's capital murder cases from moving forward.
A man is sitting in a car in a Walmart parking lot in Homewood, Alabama. He's not picking up groceries. He's negotiating a price to have his wife and children killed, seven people total. The man he's talking to? An undercover FBI agent. The hit was never coming. But the intent and the money, according to the government, were very real. Mohammad Mohammad pleaded guilty to all seven federal murder-for-hire counts.
Now, weeks before sentencing, he wants to take it back. Investigative reporter Jenn Horton breaks down the FBI investigation, court records and what happens next in this case.
22 Hours. That's the time separating a mass shooting in one of Birmingham's popular entertainment districts where more than 20 people were gunned down and the murder of a man five miles away. In this episode your host, WBRC 6 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton dissects new court records that put the same stolen car, ammunition and possibly the same gun at both locations and reveal what kind of ammunition prosecutors allege was ordered weeks before the mass shooting.
People were dying across Birmingham and no one knew why. By the end of 2024, Birmingham shattered a homicide record that stood since 1933.
Then investigators started connecting the dots.
6 On Your Side Investigates takes you inside one of the most significant criminal cases in Birmingham, Alabama's modern history: 18 murders, nearly 130 state charges, a 59-count federal indictment and an alleged organized crime operation that prosecutors say ran for years.
This episode unravels the case with original reporting, court documents and the people who covered it from day one.
Nearly seven years after 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard vanished from an Auburn gas station, a Macon County jury finally delivered a verdict - but not the one her family wanted.
Your host, Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton takes you through the case alongside WBRC Reporter Shane Trail, who was in the courtroom as the verdict was read.
This is 6 On Your Side Investigates.
