O.C. Swingers

After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewhere along the Mason-Dixon county line. Hours later, under the glow of a nearly full moon, only two walked out.

The very last time Dave and Mary Neese saw their only child Skylar was in a grainy black-and-white video. In it, she's sneaking out of her ground-floor bedroom in the middle of the night, her purse over her shoulder, her brown hair swinging as she hurries across the small parking lot to a waiting car.

What happened to Skylar Neese has become gothic American lore: the odd girl out in a vicious teenage triangle. But in the ten years since that fateful night beneath the West Virginia stars, a fuller portrait of what happened has emerged. From award-winning journalists Justine Harman and Holly Millea comes a gripping 10-part series featuring Skylar's family, closest friends, and law enforcement who lived the case—and are still living it.

Each episode of KILLED tells the true tale behind a magazine story once silenced or submerged by the media. Justine Harman interviews some of the biggest names in journalism and learns about the drama and deception that surround major publications' final decisions on whether or not to publish a writer's reporting.

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In the year since we released the first season of O.C. Swingers, the case against handsome Newport Beach surgeon Dr. Grant Robicheaux and his girlfriend Cerissa Riley has transformed completely. Here's what you need to know. 

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After the California Attorney General comes to a shocking conclusion, the fate of the case hangs in the balance of the May 14, 2021 hearing.

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The lawyers reconvene in court; Justine receives some new—and old—information about Dr. Grant's past.

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The case begins to get stale, just as the American political landscape goes haywire. And then a victim's attorney throws a haymaker.

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After Judge Jones refuses to dismiss the case, the prosecution and the defense find themselves in an unlikely alliance.

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On February 7, 2020, DA Todd Spitzer announces that he plans to dismiss the case against Grant and Cerissa. The timing could not have been worse.

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Grant and Cerissa are arrested on 17 felony charges, including drugging and raping multiple women. But, thanks to two warring prosecutors, their case becomes a subplot in a different story.

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Before she was depicted as a modern day Lolita in the press, Cerissa Riley (née Gilligan) was a devout Christian evangelist married to her high school sweetheart.

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