A Trooper, Two Dead Teenagers, and Ten Years of Waiting

Ten years.

That's how long the families of Kylie Lindsey and Isabella Chinchilla waited for a verdict. Ten years since a Georgia State Trooper driving 90 miles per hour, with no lights, no sirens, no emergency call, plowed into a car full of teenagers at a rural intersection. Two girls killed. Two boys left with traumatic brain injuries. A trooper who walked away from the scene and was elected mayor six weeks later.

Today, we begin full coverage of the A.J. Scott trial.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking. The trial's over. Why cover it now?

Because this case deserves the treatment we give to live trials. Because the questions it raises about police accountability don't expire when the verdict comes in. Because you deserve to see how the system handled a case where the defendant wore a badge. And because what happened in that Georgia courtroom matters beyond the verdict itself.

What We're Building

This won't be a quick summary. We're treating this case with the same care we give to live coverage:

Daily Justice Breakdowns. Each day of trial footage gets a full written analysis. We'll break down every witness, every piece of evidence, every strategic decision by both sides. The same deep-dive coverage our members expect, delivered as the premiere schedule unfolds.

Premiere Schedule. The trial footage will air as scheduled premieres on the main channel. Community posts and engagement before each premiere. The full experience.

Podcast Segments. Audio analysis you can listen to on the drive, at the gym, whenever you want to go deeper on what we saw that day.

Community Polls. You Are The Juror returns. Put yourself in that jury box and tell us how you'd weigh the evidence as each day unfolds.

Dedicated Lives. If interest warrants it, and I have a feeling it will, we'll do live discussions to break down the most significant moments together.

Why This Case Hits Different

Here's the thing. The facts of this crash aren't really in dispute. Scott's own patrol car recorded his speed. His own dashcam captured the collision. His own words at the scene admitted he wasn't on an emergency call. The question was never really what happened. It was whether anyone would be held accountable for it.

Three grand juries before an indictment. A first trial that ended in mistrial when prosecutors withheld evidence. The original judge and DA both recused. Years of delays while Scott served on city council, then ran for mayor, then won, then won again. The families watching him climb politically while they grieved.

You want to know if the rules apply to everyone equally? Watch this case.

A Note on "Dave"

Some of you know I wrote a novel called Dave. It's fiction, but it deals with exactly this kind of case. A traffic accident. Reckless decisions. A young life ended. A professional whose career and future lie in ruins. The weight of consequences that compound across years. The families destroyed by a single moment. The system that processes human tragedy like an assembly line.

I didn't write that book because I wanted to. I wrote it because I couldn't stop thinking about cases like this one. About what happens to everyone involved when a split-second decision ends lives and haunts everyone it touches for decades. Fiction let me explore the human devastation in ways coverage sometimes can't.

The A.J. Scott case is real. Kylie Lindsey was real. Isabella Chinchilla was real. Dillon Wall and Benjamin Finken, the survivors who lived with traumatic brain injuries and years of blame, are real. The families who spent a decade fighting for accountability are real. This isn't a story I made up. This is what the system actually did.

What's Coming

The Case Background Report is live on the website now. Read it before the first premiere. Understand who these people are, what happened on September 26, 2015, and why ten years of legal warfare followed.

Then join us as we watch the trial unfold. Day by day. Witness by witness. The way this case deserves to be seen.

The families waited ten years for their day in court. The least we can do is pay attention to what happened when they finally got it.