Two previously undisclosed California storage units rented by Thomas Markle Sr are reportedly set to be searched for suspected child abuse material. The units are said to contain belongings once owned by his daughter, Meghan Markle, as well as memorabilia from his own life and career.

The Duchess of Sussex’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, 60, has reportedly provided the FBI with the locations of the two units at a Los Angeles storage facility.

‘I dread to think what they might find,’ he said last night, as investigations continue in the Philippines and Mexico.

The Daily Mail recently discovered a collection of alleged child abuse images inside a storage locker rented by Markle Sr in Rosarito, Mexico. The newspaper notified the FBI last week, prompting Mexican authorities to raid the facility.

Philippine police are also reportedly ‘very close’ to filing formal charges against Markle Sr after alleged child abuse images were found at his apartment.

Thomas Markle Jr claims his father told him around 2011 that he had two storage units ‘stuffed to the brim’ with Meghan’s former furniture and possessions from her time at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

The former Hollywood lighting director also kept boxes of personal and career memorabilia there. Those items are now expected to be examined as part of the investigation.

Thomas Markle Jr, who is said to have spoken to the FBI for two hours, told The Sun: ‘My father told me about the two units years ago. He’s had them for about 15 years.

‘One is stuffed to the brim with Meghan’s old furniture. The other is packed with boxes, books, photos, memorabilia from his Hollywood career, items from Meghan’s college days and God knows what else.

‘I dread to think what the FBI might find, especially given what has already been found in the Philippines and Mexico.’

Meghan Markle, pictured as a teenager, has been estranged from her father, Thomas Markle Sr, for years. Two previously unknown storage units he rented, reportedly containing some of Meghan’s belongings and his own personal mementoes, are due to be searched

The Daily Mail alerted the FBI after finding sexually explicit books, magazines and photographs—including images of Asian females who appeared conspicuously young—in a Mexican storage unit rented by Thomas Markle

Markle Sr with an unidentified young woman among his belongings

Markle Sr strongly denies the allegations, telling the Daily Mail that they are ‘sick lies’.

He is now living in a Florida care home that specialises in dementia care, close to Meghan’s half-sister Samantha.

An insider claimed: ‘Since the meeting she’s stopped speaking about the allegations on social media.’

Thomas and Samantha reportedly held ‘crisis talks’ lasting three hours yesterday.

Detectives in the Philippines have said they found ‘explicit content’—including footage involving ‘male and female minors’—on digital devices allegedly belonging to the Duchess of Sussex’s father.

Police were granted a warrant on Thursday to examine material recovered from four storage boxes at the 82-year-old’s flat in Cebu.

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Officers spent the weekend reviewing the devices, which reportedly included nine mobile phones, three SD cards, five hard drives, a camera and another non-digital item.

Major General Wilson Asueta of the Philippine National Police said this week: ‘We were able to find that there are files consisting of CSEAM [Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material].

‘This will be subjected further to analysis. These are videos of a male and female minors, others who are not minors doing sexual activities and of course, explicit materials.

‘We are conducting ongoing digital forensics analysis and our field investigators are also doing their best conducting investigations… to validate the information that was provided to us. The investigation is going in the right direction.’

He said none of the children shown in the videos appeared to be from the Philippines, but added that they appeared to be ‘Asian [or] Caucasian’.

The Sun reported last night that police were consequently ‘very close’ to bringing formal charges against Meghan’s father.

The potential evidence was reportedly handed to authorities by Markle’s son, Thomas Jr, 60, who lives in the Philippines.

Meghan’s half-brother claimed he had discovered ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ of child abuse images and videos, including one image that appeared to show his father having sex with an underage girl.

Markle has denied any wrongdoing. He has acknowledged paying for sex in the Philippines but insists the women involved were adults.

He has called the allegations ‘sick lies’ and suggested that he was ‘set up’.

Meghan, now the Duchess of Sussex, is the only child of Thomas Markle Sr and his second ex-wife, Doria Ragland, pictured with Meghan in 2018

Markle moved from Mexico to the Philippines in January last year, then relocated to the United States in May after undergoing an amputation of his lower leg. On Friday, he was reportedly transferred to a Florida care home for dementia patients.

Experts believe that extraditing someone with advanced dementia would be unlikely.

Meanwhile, Mexican authorities confirmed that they had raided a Rosarito storage unit previously rented by Markle after the Mail reported finding a collection of indecent images of children there.

The FBI is also believed to be investigating after Scotland Yard finally shared a letter containing allegations made against Markle by his late former wife, Roslyn Loveless, in January 2019.

The Metropolitan Police referred itself to the independent police watchdog over its failure to act on the letter, despite having shared a copy with Meghan and Prince Harry.

The letter reportedly claimed that Markle had moved to Asia because ’12-year-olds are legal there’.

Police have also reportedly advised Meghan against discussing the allegations publicly. She previously said she was ‘deeply distressed’ by the claims.

A source said Philippine police were ‘still poring over everything but serious images of child abuse have been found… so formal charges are very close’.

Indiana executed a man early Thursday who admitted setting the house fire that killed two children, becoming the first of three people scheduled to be put to death across the United States that day.

Jeffrey Weisheit was convicted of igniting the blaze at a home near Evansville in 2010. The victims were his girlfriend’s children, an 8-year-old and a 5-year-old, and prosecutors said the killings appeared to stem from the couple’s collapsing relationship.

Weisheit was put to death at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Noelle Russell, chief communications officer for the Indiana Department of Correction, said.

He was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. and did not make a final statement, according to Russell.

His last meal was barbecue ribs. Indiana does not permit media witnesses to attend executions, Russell said.

Executions were also scheduled in Florida and Alabama, potentially making Thursday only the second day this year on which three people were executed nationwide.

The closely timed executions came amid renewed scrutiny of the death penalty after Tennessee’s unsuccessful attempt to execute Christa Pike. Courts have nevertheless declined to stop other scheduled executions since Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital last month.

Florida’s execution would be the 19th carried out in the state this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, matching Florida’s record from 2025. Indiana, by contrast, was conducting its first execution of the year.

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Attorneys for the 50-year-old Weisheit asked Republican Gov. Mike Braun to authorize brain scans that they said could support claims that Weisheit had suffered head injuries and dealt with mental health issues.

Braun rejected that request and declined to commute the death sentence to life in prison.

Weisheit’s most recent challenge focused on the lethal-injection drugs Indiana planned to use. His lawyers questioned the drugs because they were obtained from a pharmacy scheduled to face a disciplinary hearing before the Indiana Pharmacy Board the following week.

The Indiana Department of Correction said it was confident the execution could be carried out humanely.

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Florida nears its execution record from 2025

Jesse Guardado admitted killing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton County home in 2004. He pleaded guilty soon afterward, acknowledging that he fatally stabbed her and stole a jewelry box, $80 and other belongings to fund his drug use.

The woman had previously helped Guardado find employment and housing.

In 2024, a federal appeals court ruled that Guardado, now 64, had received a “full and fair” hearing during the sentencing phase of his capital case.

Florida has accounted for more than half of the 32 executions carried out in the United States so far this year.

DeSantis, who is set to leave office in January, has said he wants to deliver justice to families who have waited for decades while death sentences remained unresolved.

Alabama inmate was 19 when he committed killings

Michael Taylor, 54, was scheduled to be executed in Alabama, 35 years after he fatally beat an older couple with a metal bar during a robbery at their home in Gadsden.

Police arrested Taylor, who was 19 at the time, about an hour away in Birmingham while he was driving the victims’ Cadillac.

If carried out, the execution would be Alabama’s third of the year.

Opponents of capital punishment urged Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to commute Taylor’s sentence to life in prison, pointing to his age and lack of maturity when the crimes occurred. Ivey declined to intervene.

“If the state kills Michael, it is not the 19-year-old who made the worst mistake of his life who it kills. But the mature, well-respected, God-fearing man sitting in that cell today,” said Esther Brown of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Alabama planned to execute Taylor by lethal injection after a judge ruled that the nitrogen gas method was unconstitutional.

Taylor’s attorneys objected to the late change because he had chosen nitrogen gas as his preferred execution method several years ago. A judge rejected that challenge.

Donald Trump’s inner circle grew increasingly frustrated with the President before the midterm elections, as voters soured on the war in Iran and he remained focused on the White House ballroom, according to a bombshell report.

The Republican Party is reeling after an historic blue wave swept across the country on Tuesday, with Democrats capturing both the House and Senate by substantial margins.

The blame game is now underway, with Trump pointing the finger at the candidates themselves. But a New York Times report says members of Trump’s midterm strategy team had become frustrated with the President.

Republican officials complained that Trump waited far too long to authorize spending from his $400 million campaign war chest.

Trump referred to the funds—which came from continued fundraising after the 2024 election—as “my money.” Senate strategists were reportedly still unable to secure his approval to spend it as late as August.

One official said they were “shocked at how ill-prepared they were.” By the time Trump released the money, Republicans had to pay considerably more for advertising than Democrats, who had reserved airtime earlier.

An expert said advance ad purchases by left-leaning groups meant Trump’s super PAC had to spend four times as much as leading Democratic super PACs. In Alaska alone, it received 70 percent fewer ads for that money.

The Trump super PAC paid $30,000 for an evening-news spot that Democrats had secured for just $2,700 by booking it much earlier.

Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle reportedly questioned his focus, candidate choices and handling of campaign funds before the midterms

James Blair, who was responsible for overseeing the President’s midterm strategy, also promoted Trump’s unsuccessful redistricting effort

Advisers said Trump’s level of interest in the election shifted dramatically. On some days, he stressed that he would do “anything” to win the midterms.

On other days, however, Trump appeared more interested in how much more popular he was than the candidates he had personally endorsed.

“It says something very nice about me that they just can’t win without me,” he reportedly told aides.

Trump’s candidate choices were another source of concern for his political team.

Michael Whatley in North Carolina, Darline Graham in South Carolina and, above all, Ken Paxton in Texas were viewed as particularly poor selections.

“I have seen the enemy and it is us,” said James Blair, the official overseeing the President’s midterm strategy.

“In many places,” added Tony Fabrizio, the President’s chief pollster.

Throughout 2026, Trump also pursued policies that insiders feared could hand the elections to Democrats.

Tony Fabrizio, the President’s top pollster, identified warning signs about the Iran war in focus groups

Trump’s team also questioned his candidate selections, including Michael Whatley of North Carolina, Darline Graham of South Carolina and Ken Paxton of Texas, pictured

One adviser said the Iran war was a serious misstep on several fronts. Fabrizio conducted polling on the conflict, but the President largely disregarded the findings.

JD Vance negotiated a ceasefire in June, and polling showed that voters favored the pause in fighting by 41 points. In addition, 67 percent believed it could help bring down gas prices.

The truce did not last, however, and the Iran war continued into its ninth month. Hawkish Republicans, including Ted Cruz, were blamed for helping keep Trump committed to the strikes.

In Fabrizio’s focus groups, voters said Trump had broken his promise to avoid foreign wars. They also said they did not understand why the United States was fighting in Iran.

Members of Trump’s powerful MAGA base told pollsters that ending the war and bringing inflation under control were the two steps that could bring them back to the polls.

Senior members of Trump’s staff also tried to persuade him to take a softer position on immigration, particularly after ICE shootings in Minnesota earlier in the year.

The dispute played out over several months between Chief of Staff “Ice Queen” Susie Wiles and Stephen Miller, one of the chief architects of Trump’s immigration policy.

Senior strategists believed the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti had transformed immigration from a political strength for Trump into a liability.

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Fabrizio presented Trump with a possible off-ramp in June, when JD Vance, pictured, negotiated a ceasefire that polling showed voters favored by 41 points; 67 percent believed it could reduce gas prices

Trump aides urged him to moderate his immigration stance after the ICE shootings in Minnesota. The dispute reportedly pitted Chief of Staff “Ice Queen” Susie Wiles, pictured, against Stephen Miller

The President reportedly asked one adviser: “If we never went into Iran, what do you think would happen in the midterms?”

Despite those warnings, some of Trump’s closest allies believed his summer focus on White House renovation projects was alienating voters.

Trump repeatedly promoted plans for a new White House ballroom and a public golf course in Washington instead of concentrating on issues that mattered to voters.

The $5,000 “Trump dividend” was announced at the Republican midterm convention without most members of the President’s inner circle being consulted.

Blair was also accused of being responsible for another midterm setback: the redistricting strategy.

While still working at the White House in 2025, Blair presented Trump with a plan to create more Republican-friendly districts in red states.

When presented with the proposal, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reportedly responded with an expletive: “You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me.”

Democrats ultimately avoided much of the impact of the redistricting effort by recruiting strong candidates in reshaped districts and responding with maps of their own in California, gaining five additional seats.

Trump repeatedly highlighted plans for a new White House ballroom and a public golf course in Washington instead of focusing on key political issues

During a private video call held a week before the election, Blair appeared to anticipate a defeat.

“I’m getting my affairs in order. I suggest everybody else do the same,” he said. He then joked with Fabrizio that they might “get asylum in Israel” to avoid the Democratic lawfare he expected to follow.

The Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment.

Hours after Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress in one of the most painful midterm defeats in modern political history, Trump called Fox News late Tuesday night and did something highly unusual: He praised his opponents.

“Democrats did a good job,” he said. “They fought hard.”

He told The Times that he was fully prepared to accept the result and would prefer to work out deals with Democrats during his final two years in office rather than spend that period vetoing their bills.

By Wednesday morning, Trump was at the construction site of his new ballroom, answering questions as though the defeat belonged to someone else.

He again insisted that he had not been on the ballot, despite asking voters to treat the election as a referendum on him. He also said he had no intention of changing his Cabinet because the results had nothing to do with his administration.

Behind the ballroom show of confidence, however, Trump was making calls—and looking for someone to blame.

After Republican operatives singled out Wiles and even Secretary of State Marco Rubio as possible scapegoats, Trump appeared—after only a few hours of sleep—to focus on another target.

According to a White House insider familiar with the President’s calls, and two other sources who confirmed the account, Trump contacted several close advisers and asked whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should remain in his post.

Vice President JD Vance did not wait to assign blame, pointing directly to the Iran war in a statement Wednesday morning that stopped just short of implicating the President.

Vance wrote: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”

Hegseth has not made a public statement since the midterm results.

By early Thursday morning, Democrats had secured 240 seats in the House of Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate.

Those totals are more than enough to give Democrats control of both chambers, with additional races expected to be called for the party in the coming days, including potentially shocking Senate victories in Mississippi and Alaska.

A Georgia man who called 911 to claim that his missing mother had been “abducted by aliens” was sentenced to prison after police discovered he had concealed her death by burning her body in the backyard.

Jason Christopher Campbell, 35, received a 10-year prison sentence Friday after being convicted of hiding the death of his mother, Marie Campbell, at their home in Homer, about 75 miles northeast of Atlanta, Now Georgia reported.

Marie Campbell, 65, lived with her son and was reported missing on Jan. 6. Her car, purse, identification and cellphone were all left behind, prompting relatives and neighbors to conduct an urgent search of the area.

The search intensified Jan. 8, when Campbell told investigators that an unknown person had picked his mother up from their home three days earlier. He said he had not heard from her since she disappeared.

Investigators soon learned that Campbell had called emergency officials the previous day and claimed his mother had been “abducted by aliens,” according to the outlet.

The bizarre claim led police to search the family property. There, they found Marie Campbell’s charred remains in the backyard, near a still-smoldering fire and a burned mattress.

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Officers also found a vehicle with a seat that had either been removed or folded down. A sheet covered in mud had been placed over the area.

Campbell was charged in February 2025 with concealing his mother’s death after an autopsy confirmed that the remains belonged to Marie Campbell, Now Georgia reported.

Authorities have not revealed how Marie Campbell died, and her son was not charged with causing her death.

However, Banks County prosecutors demonstrated during a five-day trial late last month that Campbell had concealed her death.

Under Georgia law, concealing a death is a felony when the act interferes with investigators’ ability to determine whether the person was unlawfully killed.

After Campbell was convicted, Judge Albert Collier imposed the maximum sentence: 10 years in prison, Now Georgia reported.

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