A pathologist and a detective take the stand on day four of Court TV's Prevatte trial
The channel's gavel-to-gavel stream of the North Carolina murder case passed 160,000 views in its first seven hours, far beyond a usual live broadcast here.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 379,496 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (30,678).
LIVE: Betrayal in the Bloodline Murder Trial - Day 4 | NC v. David Prevatte
Court TV carried the fourth day of North Carolina v. David Prevatte from start to finish, under the channel's own billing, "Betrayal in the Bloodline." Prevatte is charged with first-degree murder and multiple sex offenses in the 2017 death of a five-year-old child. According to the stream's description, he was identified as a suspect in 2018 and arrested in 2022 after a years-long investigation, so the trial opens nearly nine years after the death.
Long live streams on this channel usually gather around 30,000 views across their whole first day. This one passed 160,000 in seven hours. It also drew more comments in that time than such a broadcast usually collects in a full day.
The day's testimony appears in two shorter clips the channel posted alongside it. One features the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy. The other features a detective from the Pender County Sheriff's Office, who described the possible motives the family raised with him during the investigation.
In the comments, viewers keep asking the same few questions. Several want to know why the case took so many years to reach trial. Others ask what the DNA swabs will show and whose cheeks were swabbed. Many remark on how slowly the defense's cross-examination is moving.
A fifth day's stream is already listed on the channel.
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- Channel
- COURT TV
- Subscribers
- 2,480,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 14,865,130
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,528,947 (on a normal day: 1,527,860)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 161,641 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 379,496
The numbers
The figures below show how far this live stream ran ahead of the channel's usual first day for a long broadcast.
