Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by true crime daily, taking you inside the

courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.

I'm your host Joshua Ritter.

I'm a criminal defense lawyer based in Los Angeles and previously an L.A. County prosecutor

for nearly a decade.

You can find me on Instagram and Twitter at JoshuaRitter.esq or at JoshuaRitter.com.

We're recording this on Friday, October 13th, 2023.

In this week's episode, the lead prosecutor gets booted from the case in the double murder

retrial of rapper Y.N.W. Melley.

Plus we discuss the upcoming trial of Chad Daybell for the murder of Lori Valow's two children

plus the murder of his first wife, Tammy Daybell.

At first, breaking news in the conviction of Tim Farrater, jurors arrived at a verdict

of guilty on all counts of child abuse after Farrater locked his adopted son in a homemade

cell in the garage in what the media has dubbed the boy in a box case.

Today we're very excited to be joined by Gigi McElvie, a frequent crime analyst on news

nation and the law and crime network, a dedicated true crime enthusiast and host of the true

crime podcast Pretty Lies and Alibis, which has a very faithful and interactive following.

Gigi, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Oh, good.

We've been looking forward to this, especially when it comes to the daybell case, which we're

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