All aboard the Mid-Riverina Express! This train is heading from one end of Australia to the other. But the fun ends when ultra-rich millionaire Avery Bancroft drops dead on the morning of the final day. Now it’s a family affair, as Shannon Shahid (the victim’s child) accuses half-sibling Taylor Hopson (the victim’s other child) of being the who behind the whodunit. A finding of liable under the Slayer Statute would make Hopson ineligible to receive the victim’s massive inheritance. Two questions remain: 1) Was it even a murder, or did Mr. Bancroft just drop dead? 2) Why did so many of the other passengers have a vendetta against the victim?

A patient of kidney specialist D.J. Davis, MD, falls off a latter at his worksite. Instead of getting up and walking it off, the patient suffers a massive brain hemorrhage and dies. Now Davis faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter for prescribing an allegedly dangerous cocktail of drugs. The State may call out Davis for his wantonness and recklessness. They may even claim he was part of a scheme to push expensive medicines on to patients. But can the State prove that the medicine was even unsafe? Can they disprove that someone else entirely may have forged the doctor’s signature that killed a man?

A helicopter lands on the top floor of the tallest skyscraper in the state on Halloween night. Armed assailants break into the building and disrupt a charity auction for priceless artwork, stealing a fortune. Two people face criminal charges: billionaire Berkley de la Porta who organized the gala, and college student Poe Cameron. The billionaire has the stolen artwork hanging in their mansion and the college student was allegedly seen preparing for the heist. But potentially investigators rushed to conclusions and overlooked other suspects. Perhaps the college student did it, but was forced and under duress.

Ten years ago, Robin Skye stood accused of murdering their spouse in a criminal trial. Though nobody today disputes that Skye is innocent, that previous jury handed down a guilty verdict anyway, and Skye went to prison. Skye’s attorney, Aubrey Gold, was a novice to murder cases, chose not to call any witnesses, and did not deliver a closing argument. Now ten years later, Skye is a free citizen after the conviction was overturned. The tables have turned, and Skye sues their former attorney Gold for legal malpractice. Now it’s Gold’s turn to explain how the choices they made were reasonable and whether presenting a case would have hurt Skye more than helped.

Aspiring ace pilot Reese Campbell takes his legal associate Morgan Felder on a test flight for the former’s new aerial tour company, Koller Campbell Air. Following a change in weather conditions, the novice Campbell deviates from his path and crashes the company plane into a mountain, killing both passengers. Felder’s spouse sues the tour company for negligence, while defendant and sole surviving owner Casey Koller argues one of a number of intervening, superseding factors such as fireworks, engine failure, Cambell’s incapacitation, or the passenger’s assumption of risk.

“Mickey Keenan,” an undercover officer for the Midlands State Police Department, was known for blowing open some of the Department’s biggest cases. On March 18, 2016, the Blitz News Network exposed “Keenan’s” identity—Jamie Robinson. Hours later, Robinson was dead. One of the suspects in Robinson’s final investigation is now on trial for Robinson’s murder.

• On June 29, 2017, Defendant Danny Kosack was scheduled to appear on a highly-rated talk show with Elias, Kosack’s chimpanzee. But a rehearsal before the show went terribly wrong when Elias attacked the people in the room. Plaintiff’s writer, Chris Villafana, was killed during the attack, and Plaintiff and Defendant have sued each other for negligence.

On Friday, October 22, 2004, after returning home from a night out with the soccer team, Bailey Reynolds was kidnapped from the Reynolds home. That evening Bailey’s parents, Ryan and Madison Reynolds, were having dinner at the residence of Tyler and K.C. Perry. The couples both live in Evanston, Midlands. They had left their three children, Kayla, Spencer, and Bailey, with the babysitter, Peyton Bralow. After checking on Bailey around 11:00 p.m., Peyton placed a 911 call to report a possible kidnapping. The police arrived shortly after the call was placed and found Peyton, Kayla, and Spencer in the home. Upon investigation, a ransom note was found in Bailey’s room asking for $250,000 for the return of the child. Three days later on Monday, October 25, Bailey was found in a Hampton Hotel in the neighboring town of Freeport. The child was blindfolded and handcuffed to a pipe in the bathroom. Bailey was not physically injured and was returned to the Reynolds. After the police investigation, Tyler Perry was arrested for the kidnapping.

• On October 31, 2017, two masked individuals entered Third National Bank in Midlands City and robbed the bank at gunpoint.  Police apprehended both, and both pled guilty.  On April 20, 2018, Parker Barrow, the bank teller, stands trial for armed bank robbery and conspiracy.

• On March 17, 2015, the city of Truman, Midlands held its mayoral election. That night, the media reported that incumbent Max Heisman defeated challenger Elizabeth Ginger, and the city tabulation director certified the result the next day. On March 20, Ginger filed a civil lawsuit against Heisman that alleges election fraud and seeks to overturn the election. An expedited trial is scheduled to begin April 17, 2015. Both parties have requested a jury trial.