Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

On November 10, 2026, rescuers in Lexington County pulled 11-month-old Koah Sharp alive from a buried dog crate, where investigators believe he’d spent about 24 hours. Koah's father, 25-year-old Michael Comer, was charged with attempted murder and custodial interference, among other offenses. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield and attorney and criminologist Dr. Casey Jordan get into the most disturbing question in the Michael Comer case: Could a father have tried to kill his own baby to get back at the child’s mother?

The FBI says a witness recognized Meghan Markle’s father in disturbing photographs recovered from a California storage unit. Thomas Markle Sr., 82, was arrested in Lakeland, Florida, on November 6, 2026, and charged with one federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material. Investigators say they seized film negatives, slides and other items from two Los Angeles-area storage units he had rented since 2008. Prosecutors allege that some of the photos show Markle himself with a child. He previously denied possessing the material or engaging in sexual activity with minors. 
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Kylie Arellano was 15 when she vanished from Garden City, Utah, on May 29, 2025. She was 17 when police found her alive 521 days later, on November 1, 2026, at the Huntington, Oregon, home of 39-year-old Adam Hunter Harmel. The break came when Kylie met another kid playing Among Us, moved the conversation to Discord, and sent them news stories about her own disappearance. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield follows the search for Kylie, the video call that led to her rescue, and the disturbing allegations in the federal case against Adam Harmel.
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A West Point cadet allegedly spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s protein shake with Xanax so he could give her abortion pills while she slept. On February 4, 2022, Caleb Suh gave the medication to his girlfriend, identified in court papers as Jane Doe, without her knowledge or consent. She wanted to keep the baby. After waking up in pain and bleeding, she called 911 and learned at the hospital that she was miscarrying. Caleb Suh pleaded guilty to felony assault on June 30, 2026, and Jane Doe sued him for assault and battery on October 28. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down what happened inside the West Point barracks, what Caleb Suh admitted in federal court, and how he got his sentencing pushed to January 2027, in part so he could finish his semester at Columbia University’s School of Public Health.

Matthew Farwell’s defense says he went to Sandra Birchmore’s apartment to end their affair. Federal prosecutors say he went there to kill her. On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts, apartment with a duffel bag strap around her neck. She was pregnant. Prosecutors allege that Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, strangled her three days earlier and staged the scene. Matthew Farwell pleaded not guilty to federal charges of killing a witness or victim and causing the death of an unborn child. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by WBZ-TV reporter Kristina Rex, who covered the trial from inside the courtroom, to break down the November 6 closing arguments.
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