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Kouri Richins goes to trial for the alleged fentanyl murder of her husband Eric in less than a week — and the prosecution's case may not be as airtight as it looked a year ago. The man who was supposed to prove the fentanyl supply chain has recanted. The lead detective faces witness intimidation allegations. Two prosecution experts were excluded. And 26 financial crime charges were severed from the case entirely.Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to break down what the defense gained before the jury ever sat down. Robert Crozier now says under oath that he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl — and the pills were never recovered or forensically tested. Prosecutors dropped the drug distribution charges after that sworn affidavit. Faddis explains why that gap matters, how Detective O'Driscoll's alleged threats to a witness could undermine the investigation's credibility, and what it means that Judge Mrazik blocked the state's domestic violence expert and limited FBI profiler Molly Amman's role.The defense lost two venue change requests in a county where 85 percent of residents had heard of the case. Jury selection wrapped in two days. Faddis walks through whether that rapid process helps or hurts Kouri — and identifies the single biggest card the defense holds heading into opening statements on February 23rd.#KouriRichins #RichinsTrial #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #TrueCrimeToday #SummitCounty #DefenseStrategy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The trial of Colin Gray is underway in Barrow County, Georgia — and the prosecution's opening statement laid out a timeline that may be the most detailed case for parental accountability ever presented in an American courtroom. Gray faces 29 felony counts, including second-degree murder, in connection with the September 4, 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School that killed four people and wounded nine others. Prosecutors allege he gave his son Colt Gray the AR-style rifle used in the attack as a Christmas gift — months after FBI-flagged threats were traced to their home and deputies warned him to keep his son away from firearms.The evidence prosecutors have outlined includes a 2021 internet search by Colt for "how to kill your dad," a shrine to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz found in the teenager's bedroom, a counseling request where Colin described his son as volatile, reports that Colt told his father he was hearing voices days before the attack, and a text from Colt to Colin that allegedly read: "Whenever something happens, just know the blood is on your hands." When law enforcement arrived at Colin's home after the shooting, he reportedly said "I knew it" before anyone told him what had happened.The defense argues Colin was a struggling single father whose son deliberately concealed his plans. They've told jurors a mental health appointment was scheduled for the day after the shooting. The prosecution counters that this isn't about prediction — it's about a father who was warned repeatedly and allegedly kept an assault rifle in his son's bedroom anyway. This trial builds on the Crumbley precedent but with significantly more severe charges. If convicted on all counts, Colin Gray faces up to 180 years in prison. We break down the full case and what it means for the future of parental accountability in school shootings.#ColinGray #ColtGray #ApalacheeHighSchool #ApalacheeShooting #TrueCrimeToday #SchoolShootingTrial #ParentalAccountability #CrumbleyPrecedent #WinderGeorgia #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nancy Guthrie case is three psychological crises happening simultaneously — and each one is making the others worse. The suspect planned enough to surveil the home for weeks but executed with amateur gear and left DNA that came back with no matches in the national database. The investigation has been overwhelmed by fake ransom demands, contaminated evidence, dead-end detentions, and fifty thousand tips that have yet to identify a suspect. And the family has been living in a state of ambiguous loss — suspended between hope and grief — while the internet accused them of involvement in their own mother's disappearance.On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with three decades of forensic mental health experience — delivers a full psychological examination of the Guthrie case across every dimension.She starts with the perpetrator's mind: the clinical significance of the gap between surveillance-level planning and Walmart-level execution, what targeting a pacemaker-dependent 84-year-old woman reveals about consequence processing, and what someone with no criminal record who escalated into this level of crime is experiencing psychologically as the pressure mounts daily.She moves to the chaos surrounding the case: what drives people to exploit a stranger's kidnapping with fabricated communications, how evidence contamination at this scale erodes both investigator confidence and public trust, and at what point the volume of tips and media coverage crosses from resource to obstacle.She finishes with the family's psychological ordeal: the clinical devastation of ambiguous loss sustained over weeks, the specific trauma of being publicly suspected while privately grieving, the compounding helplessness of watching institutional mistakes with no power to intervene, and the hard truth that Sheriff Nanos clearing the family as suspects doesn't undo the damage already inflicted by weeks of online accusation. Scott addresses whether a family can come through this kind of experience without permanent psychological scarring — and what the clinical research says about the answer.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FullBreakdown #SuspectPsychology #FamilyTrauma #InvestigationNoise #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #ForensicPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

When Monique Tepe divorced Michael McKee in 2017, she did what every expert says to do — she got out. She moved on, remarried, had children, and built a stable life in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe. But according to an unsealed affidavit, the danger didn't end with the divorce. Witnesses told investigators McKee had threatened to kill Monique, told her she would always be his wife, and allegedly subjected her to strangulation and sexual violence during their marriage.Court records allege that in the weeks before December 30, 2025, McKee surveilled the Tepe residence using a silver SUV outfitted with stolen Ohio and Arizona license plates. Surveillance footage allegedly captured him on the Tepe property during the Big Ten Championship weekend while the couple was in Indianapolis. Three weeks later, Spencer and Monique were found shot to death in their home. Their two children, ages four and one, were found alive.This episode breaks down the neuroscience and psychology of sustained threat — how chronic fear changes brain chemistry, decision-making, and perception of danger. We examine why normalization of fear is one of the most misunderstood aspects of domestic violence and why the post-separation period is statistically the most lethal. We also look at the institutional blind spots that allowed McKee to allegedly move between four states, acquire and lose medical licenses, evade a process server, and remain unconnected to any domestic violence database.Michael McKee has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder and aggravated burglary. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TrueCrimeToday #DomesticViolencePsychology #NormalizationOfFear #ColumbusOhio #AggravatedMurder #SystemFailure #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Guthrie family spent seventeen days in a psychological vise — grieving a mother whose fate they don't know, while the internet decided they were suspects. Annie Guthrie was the last person to see Nancy alive. That made her a target. Her husband Tommaso was with her. That made him a target. Savannah posted emotional video appeals. Commenters debated whether her tears were real. It took until yesterday for Sheriff Chris Nanos to state publicly that every family member has been cleared — and to call the online accusations what they are: cruel.On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychological dimensions of the Guthrie family's ordeal that go far beyond the missing person case itself. Scott — a licensed clinician with thirty years of experience in trauma recovery and forensic mental health — explains the concept of ambiguous loss, the sustained psychological torment of not knowing whether a loved one is alive or dead, and why research shows it can be more psychologically damaging than confirmed death.She examines the specific trauma of public suspicion — what it does to a person's sense of self to be accused by thousands of strangers based on nothing but proximity to a timeline. She addresses the compounding effect of institutional helplessness: watching evidence get contaminated, footage take ten days to retrieve, DNA get sent to the wrong state for processing — all while the clock runs on your mother's survival — and having absolutely no power to make any of it go faster or better.Scott also takes on the question most people don't want to hear: clearing someone's name doesn't clear the psychological record. The accusations live on in screenshots, archived threads, and the memories of people who never saw the follow-up. The family may carry the psychological weight of false suspicion long after the investigation closes — alongside whatever outcome the case itself delivers.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FamilyCleared #OnlineAccusations #AmbiguousLoss #GriefAndSuspicion #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #FamilyTraumaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

You saw the patterns. You recognized the cycle. Somewhere underneath all the hoping — you knew.And you stayed anyway. Not because you were blind. Because the truth was unsurvivable.Rob and Michele Reiner weren't naive people. Rob directed films for forty years. He knew how stories telegraph their endings. And yet he and Michele built frameworks that kept them tethered to a son who was destroying them.Trust the professionals. Then: the professionals are wrong. Then: redemption through art. Then: he just needs more support.Each framework had its own logic. Each one evolved when the last one failed. And each one kept them in the room.The lies we tell ourselves follow patterns. "This time is different" — resetting after every relapse. "Nobody understands them like I do" — making yourself essential. "They didn't mean it" — reframing every cruelty as symptom. "If I stop, I'm the bad one" — turning your limits into betrayal.Nick destroyed their guesthouse. Admitted to gaming rehab. Convinced his father to make a movie where Rob was the villain for trying to help. And the narrative held: he's sick, not bad.These lies aren't weakness. They're survival. Stories the brain constructs when reality becomes unbearable.Rob said at that party he was petrified of his son. That's not denial. That's a man who sees the truth and is trying to survive it. Knowing and accepting are different things. You can know something in your bones and still not act — because acting means letting go.The question isn't "how could I be so blind?" It's "what was I protecting myself from seeing?"The answer: that you were powerless to save someone who wasn't interested in being saved.Forgive yourself for the lies. They were the only tools you had.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Denial #AddictionFamily #Codependency #FamilyTragedyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two and a half weeks into the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the investigation has been buried under a mountain of noise that shows no sign of clearing. At least one ransom communication has been confirmed fraudulent — leading to the federal arrest of a California man with no connection to the case. Additional ransom notes demanding cryptocurrency remain unverified. A live-broadcast detention near the border produced no charges. A SWAT raid two miles from the home produced no arrests. And the DNA evidence from a glove found miles from the crime scene — the lead that generated the most public hope — came back today with no CODIS match and no connection to the DNA recovered at the property.On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott analyzes the psychological ecosystem of a contaminated case. Scott has worked in forensic mental health for over thirty years and understands what happens when chaos overwhelms an investigation from every direction. She examines the psychology of people who fabricate ransom demands in stranger kidnappings, the corrosive effect of evidence contamination on investigator morale and public confidence, and the psychological phenomenon of dramatic investigative action that produces zero results.She also addresses a dimension of the noise that rarely gets discussed: the chilling effect on real witnesses. When a person of interest is stopped, searched, and broadcast nationally — then cleared and released — what happens to the next person who might have genuine information but doesn't want their life turned inside out on camera? At what point does the volume of public participation tip from asset to liability?This is an examination of how noise, spectacle, and dysfunction can become the primary obstacles in a case where time is the one thing a missing 84-year-old woman doesn't have.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #GuthrieNoise #BungledEvidence #FalseTips #CaseContamination #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #TucsonCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nancy Guthrie investigation just revealed something the headlines buried. The DNA from a glove found two miles from her home does not match the DNA recovered inside her property. That's two different people. The glove that dominated this week's coverage may have zero connection to this crime.The property DNA is the real story. Partial and possibly mixed, it's now in the forensic investigative genetic genealogy pipeline — the same process that ended the Golden State Killer manhunt and identified the Idaho college murders suspect. Parabon NanoLabs' CeCe Moore says she's extremely hopeful and notes that the potential DNA mixture is actually more compelling because it's consistent with a violent encounter.On today's episode, we also dismantle the cartel theory that refuses to die on social media. Its foundation is simple geography — Tucson sits sixty miles from Mexico. That's it. Law enforcement sources told NewsNation the case shows no signs of cartel involvement. Former FBI agents see no operational indicators of organized crime. The suspect on camera is alone, on foot, dressed head to toe in Walmart gear, carrying a cheap backpack, and failed to disable a doorbell camera. Nineteen days later, no one has made direct contact with the family or delivered proof of life. Cartels don't operate this way.The genetic genealogy clock is now ticking. When it delivers a result, the cartel theory either gets its first piece of supporting evidence or it dies on the data. Right now, the data says amateur. The data says local. The data says alone.#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #GuthrieCase #GeneticGenealogy #CartelTheory #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieDNA #TucsonKidnapping #ForensicGenealogy #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case made a series of decisions on the night of February 1st that tell a psychological story investigators are still trying to read. He masked his face. He brought a weapon. He apparently knew where the doorbell camera was. But he dropped a glove that was recovered with his DNA — DNA that came back today with no matches in the national CODIS database. He bought his gear at Walmart. And he took an 84-year-old woman who depends on a pacemaker and daily heart medication, separating her from everything keeping her alive.On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — who has worked in forensic settings with violent offenders for more than three decades and authored The Minds of Mass Killers — analyzes the criminal psychology of the Guthrie case. Scott breaks down what the contradictions in the suspect's behavior reveal: the gap between preparation and sloppiness, the significance of targeting a medically vulnerable victim, and what it means clinically when someone with no criminal record escalates directly into a crime of this magnitude.She addresses the psychological difference between a planned kidnapping and a burglary that went wrong in real time — and what happens inside someone's brain when a crime shifts from one category to another in the middle of execution. She also examines the psychological pressure the suspect is living under right now: two and a half weeks in, no arrest, but the net tightening with every evidence disclosure, every press conference, and every one of the fifty thousand tips flowing into the investigation.This is a forensic psychology deep dive anchored in confirmed facts from the investigation.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #SuspectPsychology #TucsonAbduction #GuthrieInvestigation #ForensicPsychology #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #DNAEvidenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

"They were best friends. The Three Amigos."That's what Anna Kepner's stepmother testified under oath. But her ex-boyfriend says Anna was uncomfortable at home—because her stepbrother was allegedly obsessed with her.On November 7th, 2025, 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found dead under a bed aboard the Carnival Horizon. Her body was wrapped in blankets, covered with life vests, in a cabin she shared with her 16-year-old stepbrother and 14-year-old brother. The cause of death: mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly a bar hold restraint.Her stepbrother is now the sole suspect. But how did the warning signs allegedly get missed?Custody court testimony reveals the stepbrother had been in therapy for more than a year. A travel advisor recommended separate rooms for the step-siblings. On the night before Anna's body was found, her ex-boyfriend alleges the youngest sibling in that cabin was locked out—and heard yelling, chairs being thrown, and the stepbrother screaming at Anna.The adults' cabin was directly across the hall. Shauntel Hudson testified she last saw the teens at 7:30pm. Nearly sixteen hours passed before anyone checked on Anna.This episode examines the psychology of blended families—the pressure to present harmony, the confirmation bias that filters out concerning behavior, and why children often suppress their own distress to avoid breaking the family narrative. People outside the household allegedly saw patterns. The custody-battling father raised alarms. The ex-boyfriend reported obsessive behavior. But the family sailed off on vacation anyway.The stepbrother appeared in sealed federal juvenile proceedings on February 6th, 2026. Anna's father confirmed he was arrested, charged, and released. He said he's "pissed off" that the suspect walks free.Anna was supposed to graduate in May. She planned to join the Navy. She got a night no one checked on her until it was too late.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipHomicide #CustodyTestimony #BlendedFamily #FBIInvestigation #TrueCrime #FamilyRedFlags #CarnivalCruise #TrueCrimeTodayJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins us for comprehensive legal analysis across three of the biggest cases in true crime right now.The Nancy Guthrie investigation: sixteen days, no arrest, and mounting investigative vulnerabilities. The crime scene was reportedly released early. Evidence that the FBI allegedly wanted processed at Quantico was sent to a private Florida lab. Of sixteen gloves collected, fifteen were reportedly contamination from searchers. Bob explains what the eventual defense will exploit.The Anna Kepner case: sealed federal juvenile proceedings following the 14-year-old's death aboard the Carnival Horizon. Her stepbrother appeared in court three months later and was released to guardian custody. Bob breaks down sealed proceedings, the FBI's decision to keep the case federal, and what custody filings have revealed about potential defense factors—including reported memory loss and medication non-compliance.The Kouri Richins trial: opening statements begin February 23rd. Prosecutors allege she poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. But the alleged supplier recanted. No fentanyl was recovered from the home. The judge excluded abuse evidence. Bob analyzes the defense playbook—including how to handle the Google searches, the "Walk the Dog" letter, and the shadow cast by Kouri's mother Lisa Darden.This is the defense perspective across three major cases.#NancyGuthrie #AnnaKepner #KouriRichins #TrueCrimeToday #DefenseAttorney #LegalAnalysis #ThreeCases #MurderTrial #FederalCase #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Jury selection just wrapped in one of the most anticipated murder trials of 2026. On February 23rd, Kouri Richins goes to trial for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl—and the case could go either way.The prosecution has bombshell evidence. Google searches for lethal fentanyl doses. Texts to her boyfriend wishing Eric would "go away." A Valentine's Day sandwich that allegedly contained fentanyl and left Eric reaching for an EpiPen. Nearly $2 million in insurance policies prosecutors say she took out without his knowledge. A jail letter prosecutors describe as witness tampering instructions.But the defense just landed a devastating blow. Robert Crozier, the man prosecutors say supplied the fentanyl through Kouri's housekeeper, recanted his statement in October 2025. He now claims he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, and was "out of it" during his original interview. No fentanyl was ever found in the home.The trial will last five weeks. Over 100 witnesses. More than 1,000 exhibits. And several key pieces of evidence the jury won't hear—including Kouri's claims that Eric was abusive and a domestic violence expert the judge barred from testifying.There's also the shadow of Kouri's mother. Lisa Darden's romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006. Darden had recently been named beneficiary. She was present the night Eric died. No charges filed.Today we break down what both sides will argue, where the weaknesses are, and what eight jurors will have to decide. This isn't a simple case. The evidence cuts both ways—and the verdict is far from certain.#KouriRichins #TrueCrimeToday #EricRichins #MurderTrial2026 #FentanylPoisoning #UtahCrime #TrialPreview #WitnessRecantation #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeNewsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Trial begins February 23rd. Kouri Richins faces charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what the defense has to work with—and where the prosecution is exposed.Robert Crozier, the alleged fentanyl supplier, recanted his original statement in October 2025. He now claims he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, and was "detoxing" during his 2023 interview. The recantation creates a significant credibility issue for the prosecution's drug supply chain narrative.No fentanyl was ever recovered from the Richins home. The evidence linking Kouri to the drug is entirely testimonial. Bob explains how the defense will exploit that gap.The judge excluded evidence that Eric was allegedly abusive and barred a domestic violence expert from testifying. That ruling removes a key defense narrative—but Bob analyzes whether alternative approaches exist.Prosecutors will present Kouri's Google searches: "lethal dose of fentanyl," "luxury prisons for the rich," "permanently delete information from iPhone." Devastating on their face—but Bob explores possible reframings.The "Walk the Dog" letter allegedly found in her jail cell appears to contain witness tampering instructions. The defense says it's fiction from a 65-page manuscript she was writing. The judge partially admitted it.Lisa Darden—Kouri's mother—adds another dimension. Her romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006 shortly after naming Darden as beneficiary. A detective wrote it's "possible" she was involved in planning Eric's death. She was present the night he died.Five weeks. 100+ witnesses. 1,000+ exhibits. This is the defense perspective.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #RichinsTrial #FentanylPoisoning #TrialPreview #DefenseStrategy #WitnessRecantation #LisaDarden #UtahMurder #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

You remember who they were. You have photos. You can describe exactly the person they used to be — before the addiction, before the diagnosis, before they became someone unrecognizable wearing a familiar face.That person is gone. And the world won't let you grieve them. Because they're still alive.Rob and Michele Reiner lived with this grief for seventeen years. The Nick who existed before the drugs, before the manipulation became his entire personality — that person disappeared slowly, piece by piece, while his body remained. There was no funeral. No acknowledgment. Just a guesthouse on their property occupied by a stranger who knew their names.Psychologists call this ambiguous loss. Physical presence, psychological absence. It's one of the hardest forms of grief because there's no ending. No closure. Just an infinite middle where hope and despair take turns destroying you.The Reiners made a movie with Nick in 2015. Did press tours about healing. Talked publicly about their bond. But Nick admitted later he wasn't actually sober during any of it. The redemption was performance. And every time they thought their son had come back, they had to grieve him all over again when the truth surfaced.That's the cruelty of this loss. Every glimmer of the old them reopens the wound. Every flash of recognition makes the absence sharper when it disappears. You attend the same funeral over and over without ever being allowed to bury the body.There's no support group for this. No bereavement leave. No cards or casseroles. Just silence and the expectation that you'll keep showing up while bleeding from a wound nobody acknowledges.You're allowed to grieve someone who's still breathing. The person you loved was real. Their absence is real. And you don't need anyone's permission to mourn them.But if you need permission anyway — here it is.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #AmbiguousLoss #AddictionFamily #GrievingTheLiving #FamilyTragedyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Anna Kepner case is one of the most opaque investigations in recent true crime history—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains why.Anna, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation, reportedly caused by a bar hold restraint. Three months later, her 16-year-old stepbrother appeared in federal court. He was released to guardian custody. No charges have been publicly confirmed. Everything is sealed under federal juvenile protection laws.Bob breaks down what sealed proceedings mean in practice—the courtroom mechanics, the information blackout, the legal rationale for protecting juvenile defendants. He addresses the family's contradictory public statements and explains why confusion about charges is common in these cases.The jurisdictional decision matters: the FBI could have handed this to state prosecutors but chose to keep it federal. That choice tells us something about how the government views the seriousness of what happened in that cabin.Details have emerged through custody proceedings. Text messages revealed the suspect reportedly claims no memory of the night Anna died. Testimony indicated he had ADHD and was on insomnia medication he allegedly hadn't taken for two nights on the cruise, including the night before the discovery. Bob analyzes how these factors might figure into a defense strategy.The family dynamic is extraordinary: the suspect's biological mother is married to the victim's father. They've jointly called for accountability. This creates complications unlike anything either side has likely encountered.This is the legal context you need as this case moves forward.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #TrueCrimeToday #FederalCase #SealedProceedings #JuvenileJustice #CruiseShipDeath #FBIInvestigation #LegalAnalysis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The DNA results are in — and the evidence everyone was betting on just came up empty. On day 18 of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Pima County Sheriff's Department confirmed that DNA from the black glove found two miles from Nancy's home returned zero hits in CODIS, the FBI's national criminal database. No match among 26 million profiles. Worse, the glove DNA doesn't match the separate DNA profile recovered from inside Nancy's residence. Two unknowns. Neither in the system.But on today's True Crime Today, we're asking the question nobody else will: Was this glove ever actually significant evidence? A generic disposable black glove found on a desert roadside, visually compared to blurry night-vision footage — that's what the entire media ecosystem elevated to the defining lead in a national kidnapping case. These gloves come in bulk packs of 500. They're everywhere. And even Sheriff Nanos is hedging, calling the home DNA "more critical" than anything found two miles away.We break down the investigative timeline and the hard questions emerging on day 18. Why is Google only now being asked to recover footage from additional cameras on Nancy's property? That request should have been hour one, not week three. Why is the home DNA still being processed while the roadside glove got fast-tracked? And what does it mean that FBI agents walked into a Tucson gun store with a printed photo lineup of 18 to 24 individuals — checking firearm purchase records — while Sheriff Nanos publicly denies narrowing the suspect pool?Investigators have confirmed they're moving to genetic genealogy, the technique that identified Bryan Kohberger. BlueFly pacemaker-detection technology has been deployed for over two weeks with no results. The family continues to plead publicly. Fifty thousand tips and counting. The effort is real. Whether the pace matches the stakes is the conversation we're having today.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #CODIS #DNAEvidence #FBIInvestigation #GeneticGenealogy #TucsonArizona #MissingPersons #PimaCountySheriffJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sixteen days. No arrest. And a growing list of investigative decisions that defense attorney Bob Motta says could haunt prosecutors at trial.The Nancy Guthrie case has captured national attention—partly because her niece is Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, but increasingly because of what's going wrong with the investigation itself.The crime scene was reportedly released early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood on the front porch before authorities scrambled to re-secure it. The FBI allegedly wanted critical DNA evidence sent to their Quantico lab; Sheriff Chris Nanos reportedly refused and sent it to a private Florida facility instead. An FBI source called it "dumb" and "insane."Then there's the glove problem. Of sixteen gloves collected near the home, fifteen were reportedly discarded by the searchers themselves—contamination that gives any defense attorney a roadmap to reasonable doubt.Bob Motta explains how each of these vulnerabilities translates into courtroom strategy. He breaks down the legal exposure facing Derrick Callella, charged with sending fake ransom texts to exploit the family's nightmare. He examines what Friday's SWAT detention—and Saturday's release of all four individuals—means for future prosecution.And he addresses the devastating human element: 84-year-old Nancy reportedly requires daily heart medication she hasn't had for over two weeks. If the worst happens, her medical vulnerability could elevate charges dramatically.This is what the prosecution will face when charges finally come—and what the defense will use to fight back.#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #SavannahGuthrie #DefenseStrategy #InvestigationErrors #TucsonMissing #FBICase #CrimeSceneEvidence #LegalAnalysis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Court documents reveal disturbing details about former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines' mental state before he shot Judge Kevin Mullins in September 2024.According to defense filings containing testimony from sheriff's office staff and local attorneys, Stines exhibited alarming behavior in the week leading up to the shooting. Witnesses say he lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He told a staffer that someone demanded he kill himself or "they" would murder his wife and daughter. He made her help put a bulletproof vest on his wife. He was calling family members who had been dead for years.Three days before the shooting, Stines gave a deposition in a civil lawsuit alleging his former deputy sexually exploited women inside Judge Mullins' chambers. Attorneys said Stines seemed agitated, took ten breaks, and said he was "having an episode." His attorney disclosed he had a neurological condition causing "issues" under stress.The day before the shooting, friends brought him to a doctor. He was diagnosed with acute stress and sent home. The next day, surveillance footage captured Stines shooting Mullins nine times in his chambers.The defense admits Stines pulled the trigger but claims he was "exhibiting paranoid and psychotic conduct" and "lacked the capacity to intend" what he did. A social worker evaluated him four days later and found him still in "an active state of psychosis." The insanity defense moves forward as the court weighs what everyone saw — and what nobody stopped.#MickeyStines #KevinMullins #LetcherCounty #CourthouseShooting #KentuckyCrime #TrueCrimeToday #SheriffShooting #MentalHealthDefense #Psychosis #TrueCrimeNewsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A retired FBI behavioral expert delivers a full-scope analysis of the Nancy Guthrie investigation — the suspect's behavioral contradictions, the sheriff's documented missteps and public contradictions, and what the complete absence of proof of life means fifteen days in. The FBI flagged specific January surveillance windows. The suspect knew the target but brought amateur gear and left facial hair exposed. Inside the investigation, the crime scene was released and resecured, searchers contaminated the glove evidence, DNA was routed to a Florida lab over FBI objections, and investigators inside the case can't identify who's in charge. DNA from a matching glove is entering CODIS. The ransom trail has insider details but zero follow-through. No one has collected payment. This interview puts every thread together and asks the hard questions about what breaks this case — and what the silence means.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #SheriffNanos #CODIS #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #RansomNoteJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Prosecutors wanted her released. The judge refused.Juliana Peres Magalhães, the Brazilian au pair who confessed to helping Brendan Banfield execute a double murder, was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison — the maximum available under her plea agreement. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation of time served, delivering a ruling that sends a clear message about the limits of cooperation."Your actions were deliberate, self-serving, and demonstrated a profound disregard for human life," Azcarate said. "You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done."Juliana's testimony was essential to convicting Brendan Banfield on two counts of aggravated murder. Her attorney argued that without her cooperation, prosecutors had only circumstantial evidence. But the judge made clear that being the star witness doesn't mean avoiding accountability — not when you helped plan the murder, lured the victim to his death, and fired the kill shot into a man already lying wounded on the floor."The plan did not work without your full involvement," Azcarate said. "This could have been a very different ending where Juliana saved two lives."The courtroom heard from Joe Ryan's mother, Deirdre Fisher, who described losing her son — the man Juliana helped lure to his death through a fake fetish profile. Fisher still hasn't taken down her Christmas tree since the murder. It stands behind the urn holding her son's ashes."My son's life was used and thrown away, seen as worthless and utterly disposable by those who plotted and executed his brutal murder."Despite the ten-year sentence, Juliana's attorney says she'll serve approximately four years with credit for time served and good behavior. Brendan Banfield faces mandatory life without parole at his May 8 sentencing.#JulianaMagalhaes #AuPairMurder #BrendanBanfield #TrueCrimeToday #FairfaxCounty #DoubleMurder #Sentencing #JosephRyan #ChristineBanfield #CourtTVJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI has a male DNA profile from a glove matching the suspect's — and it's going into CODIS. A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down what a match means operationally, what happens if there's no hit, and why existing cheek swabs from people of interest could produce a name before the national database search even finishes. Meanwhile, the ransom communication pattern is raising its own questions. The first note reportedly contained insider details. Every demand since has gone to media — never the family. Two deadlines expired. The Guthries offered to pay on camera. Nobody collected. No proof of life in fifteen days. Pacemaker searches have produced no signal. Nancy hasn't had her heart medication since January 31st. This interview asks what the evidence threads need to produce and what the silence is actually telling investigators about who they're dealing with.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #NancyGuthrieMissing #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #RansomNote #FBISearch #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

"If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me."Rob and Michele Reiner heard some version of that for seventeen years. And they stayed. Eighteen rehab programs. Tens of thousands a month in treatment. A guesthouse so Nick could live close. A film about recovery made together. Every door stayed open. Every line in the sand got erased.They never walked away. And now they're gone.This isn't about assigning blame for what happened — that responsibility belongs to one person. This is about the trap that keeps people standing in fires that are consuming them. The belief that presence equals protection. That love equals proximity. That walking away makes you the villain.It doesn't.Nick reportedly told his parents that refusing their suggested programs meant homelessness. That was the consequence. It never materialized. Every ultimatum softened. And some people will never hit bottom because someone's always there to prevent the fall. Your love becomes the cushion that keeps them from the crash that might actually wake them up.Three things keep you trapped. Guilt weaponization: "If you leave, I'll spiral" — making your departure the cause of their destruction. Sunk cost: you've given too much to quit now. And the fantasy of the final save: what if this was finally the moment they were ready, and you missed it?Rob brought Nick to a Christmas party because leaving him home alone felt too dangerous. A seventy-seven-year-old man couldn't go to a gathering without his adult son. That's not caregiving. That's captivity dressed as love.You're allowed to stop. You're allowed to set limits. You're allowed to survive.The Reiners stayed until there was nowhere left to stand. You don't have to make the same choice.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Enabling #WalkingAway #AddictionFamily #FamilyTragedyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Admitted releasing the crime scene early — then denied it. Routed DNA evidence to a private Florida lab over the FBI's objection. Searchers contaminated the evidence field with their own discarded gloves. A pacemaker helicopter was delayed because the sheriff demoted the pilot. Pool cleaners were escorted onto the active crime scene on Day 13. Investigators told reporters they don't know who's running the case. A retired FBI behavioral expert lays out every documented failure and contradiction in the Nancy Guthrie investigation and examines what the pattern means for the chances of finding an 84-year-old woman who hasn't had her heart medication in over two weeks. The Othram co-founder whose lab helped ID Bryan Kohberger called the DNA decision "devastating." The FBI's public statement reads like a formal objection. This is the interview that puts it all on the table.#NancyGuthrie #SheriffNanos #PimaCountySheriff #NancyGuthrieMissing #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Othram #InvestigationFailures #FBIvsNanos #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nancy Guthrie case just collided with presidential politics, forensic science, and an evidence-handling controversy that has exposed deep fractures between local and federal investigators.A black glove found two miles from Nancy's Tucson home contains DNA from an unknown male. The FBI says it matches the gloves worn by the masked suspect on doorbell footage from the morning she disappeared. That profile is being prepared for CODIS entry. A match could break this case. No match means forensic genealogy — and a timeline an 84-year-old woman without her medication cannot afford.President Trump told the New York Post Monday he would direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty if Nancy is found dead. The family has spent sixteen days telling the suspect it's never too late to do the right thing. Those messages are now directly at odds.The evidence war between Sheriff Chris Nanos and the FBI reached a turning point. After federal sources accused Nanos of blocking the FBI from processing the glove at Quantico and routing evidence to a private Florida lab, the sheriff's department on Monday told media to direct all DNA questions to the FBI. Othram, the forensic genealogy company behind the Bryan Kohberger identification, publicly called the evidence routing devastating.A CBS 5 inside source says investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong — not an intended kidnapping. Both agencies denied the report. But former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke has identified amateur markers in the porch footage across multiple interviews on this show. The behavioral evidence has been building toward this conclusion for two weeks.The family has been cleared as suspects. Helicopters with signal sniffers are scanning for Nancy's pacemaker. And this case now hinges on a DNA profile and a federal database.#NancyGuthrie #TrumpDeathPenalty #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #SheriffNanos #FBIInvestigation #BurglaryTheory #PimaCountySheriff #TrueCrimeTodayJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Investigators aren't guessing. The FBI flagged two precise windows — January 11th and January 31st — weeks before Nancy Guthrie was taken, requesting neighborhood surveillance footage from those exact time frames. A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down why that level of specificity signals investigators already have digital evidence they're working to visually confirm. The suspect knew the target and the timing but showed up with budget Walmart gear, the wrong holster, no camera cover, and facial hair visible beneath his mask. Nancy had a predictable weekly routine and employed staff with physical access to her property — all of whom have been interviewed and DNA-swabbed. A January 23rd Ring video from a home over six miles away shows a man with facial hair that investigators are actively reviewing. This interview examines the behavioral contradictions, the intelligence question, and what the suspect's mistakes reveal about how close investigators may actually be.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #DoorbbellCamera #PimaCountyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Three angles no one else is covering. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — who ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — breaks down the Nancy Guthrie case from the ground up.The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from people who think watching videos makes them behavioral analysts. What happens when millions become amateur investigators — to the family under the microscope, to witnesses afraid of becoming targets, to the perpetrator watching the circus.The Architecture of Vanishing: How does someone disappear in 2026? Cameras everywhere. GPS tracking everything. And an eighty-four-year-old woman is gone without a trace. The blind spots we don't realize exist.The People Who Don't Call: Someone out there has information and hasn't picked up the phone. A neighbor. A coworker. A friend. Someone protecting someone they love. Dreeke explains why people stay silent — and what finally makes them talk.This is the interview that reframes everything.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #FBIExpert #FullInterview #SavannahGuthrie #BehavioralAnalysis #SurveillanceGaps #WitnessPsychology #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Twelve days since Nancy Guthrie vanished. The FBI has released video. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded in. A suspect was detained and released. Ransom deadlines passed in silence.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers the most comprehensive breakdown of this investigation anywhere.She analyzes what the doorbell footage actually reveals about the suspect — equipment, movement, improvisation. She explains how the FBI processes eighteen thousand tips, why Carlos Palazuelos was detained and released, what the evidence trail looks like. She profiles the criminal operation — what the target selection, logistics, and ransom communication tell us about whoever did this. And she addresses the critical question: what breaks this case?Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four years old, requires daily medication, and can barely walk. Her family has publicly offered to pay. The nation is watching. This is everything we know.#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIAnalysis #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #TrueCrime #Manhunt #MissingPerson #KidnapperProfileJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Guilty. All fifteen counts. Less than five hours.Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of the 2018 murders of his brother Keith Caneiro, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children Jesse and Sophia at their Colts Neck mansion. The jury deliberated for under five hours after a five-week trial — their first request was to rewatch surveillance of Caneiro's Porsche leaving and returning on the morning of the killings.The prosecution built an overwhelming case. DNA from both children on bloody jeans in Caneiro's basement. The murder weapon traced to his gun safe. Footage of him disabling his own security cameras at 1:27 AM. Recorded calls capturing Keith confronting Paul over stolen money the day before the murders.Keith Caneiro was shot five times on his front lawn. Jennifer was shot and stabbed inside. Both children were stabbed repeatedly — Sophia at least seventeen times — and left alive as the house burned. Medical examiners found soot in their airways.The defense blamed police tunnel vision and a third brother who was never charged. They introduced a two-person conspiracy theory during closing arguments without ever proving it. The jury rejected the defense entirely.Caneiro faces life without parole. Sentencing is scheduled for May 12. Seven years after the murders, justice has been delivered.#PaulCaneiro #CaneiroTrial #TrueCrimeToday #ColtsNeckMurders #MansionMurders #GuiltyVerdict #NewJerseyCrime #KeithCaneiro #FamilyMurder #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen thousand calls to the tip line. A delivery driver detained because his eyes resembled the masked suspect — questioned for hours, home searched, then released. A black glove recovered in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel bypassing official channels to post evidence himself.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains how the FBI is actually managing this investigation.She walks through how tip lines function at this scale — the categorization, the prioritization, the difference between actionable intelligence and noise. She breaks down what the Palazuelos detention reveals about where investigators stand. She explains the evidentiary chain for the recovered glove and what a DNA match would mean.Neighbors are being asked about trucks. The sheriff insists no vehicle of interest has been identified. No press briefing in a week. A tent appeared at Nancy's front door for ninety minutes with no explanation.Nancy Guthrie has been missing for twelve days. Her family is publicly offering to pay ransom. Is the investigation making progress — or running in circles?#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIInvestigation #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TipLine #TucsonKidnapping #Manhunt #TrueCrime #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

December 13th. A Christmas party. Rob Reiner tells a room full of people he's petrified of his own son. That he believes Nick could hurt him.One guest leaves the room in tears. And then — nothing. No intervention. No call to police. By Sunday afternoon, Rob and Michele Reiner are dead.This isn't another episode breaking down the crime or the upcoming trial. This is about something that millions of people living with someone dangerous understand in their bones: the specific torture of seeing an ending coming and being powerless to stop it.Rob Reiner knew. He said it out loud, with witnesses, hours before his death. Danny Spilar knew — he told reporters he identified Nick as the killer the second he heard the news. Multiple people close to the family said the same thing. The warning signs were everywhere. Discussed openly. Documented for years.None of it changed the outcome.We treat awareness like it's protection. Like vigilance is a force field. But knowing something terrible is coming doesn't give you the power to stop it. It just means you suffer twice — once in anticipation, once when it finally arrives.This episode is for the people who saw the red flags and stayed anyway. Who warned everyone and watched no one act. Who carry the crushing weight of "I knew" like it makes them complicit in what someone else chose to do.It doesn't. Your foresight was not consent. Your presence was not permission. Seeing the train doesn't make you responsible for the train.Your knowing was not a crime. You loved someone past the point where love made sense. And that doesn't make you guilty.It makes you human.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #SurvivorGuilt #FamilyTragedy #AddictionFamily #LovingSomeoneDangerousJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — doorbell camera footage showing a masked individual with a holstered weapon approaching her Tucson home the morning she disappeared.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers an exclusive tactical breakdown of what that footage actually reveals. The equipment choices. The movement. The improvisation at the camera. The deliberate attempt to avoid identification. Every frame contains data about who this person is and how they prepared.Coffindaffer explains how the FBI recovered this video from Google's backend systems — not from the camera itself, which had been wiped — and why that process took eleven days. She breaks down the significance of investigators now requesting footage from January 11, three weeks before Nancy vanished. And she walks through how the Bureau's image analysts identified the backpack as an Ozark Trail Hiker Pack from Walmart.Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for twelve days. The family has publicly offered to pay ransom. The video is the biggest lead investigators have released. What is it actually telling them?#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIVideo #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #MaskedSuspect #NestCamera #TrueCrime #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sixteen days missing. A SWAT raid that went nowhere. A sheriff who says it could take years.Friday night's operation looked like the breakthrough—federal warrant, tactical teams, a "person of interest" stopped in a Range Rover. By Saturday, everyone was released without charges.Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed: "No sign of Nancy was found."Then he told the New York Times the case could take "weeks or months or even years" to solve.Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old. She needs daily heart medication. She hasn't had it for over two weeks.The investigation is fracturing. The FBI wanted evidence sent to Quantico—Nanos sent it to a private Florida lab. An FBI source called it "insane." Investigators are now "leaning away" from everyone they've looked at: family, the Rio Rico detainee, Friday's target.DNA from a glove found two miles from the home is entering CODIS today. Experts say DNA from inside the home may be more significant.An inside source says investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong. The FBI won't commit to any single theory.And Savannah Guthrie addressed her mother's captor Sunday: "It's never too late to do the right thing."This is where the case stands Monday morning.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #MissingPersons #FBI #CODIS #TucsonArizona #Kidnapping #SheriffNanos #BreakingNewsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Alex Murdaugh's fight for a new trial just reached South Carolina's highest court—and the justices came with hard questions.On February 11, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murdaugh's appeal of his double-murder conviction. The hearing split into two phases: first, the alleged jury tampering by former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill; second, whether the trial itself was fair given the evidence admitted against him.Chief Justice John Kittredge set the tone early, calling Hill a "rogue clerk" and pressing prosecutor Creighton Waters on the scope of financial crimes evidence. "The granular detail and the expansiveness of which everything under the sun was allowed is arguably problematic," Kittredge said. Justice George James questioned the "logical connection" between Murdaugh's financial crimes and the murders of Maggie and Paul.Waters attempted to frame Murdaugh's financial desperation as the boiling point—at one point invoking the movie "Fargo" to illustrate his argument. Justice John Few wasn't having it: "I haven't seen 'Fargo'—get to the point."Defense attorneys Harpootlian, Griffin, and Barber argued that Hill's comments to jurors—including "watch his body language" and warnings not to be "fooled"—constituted jury tampering that denied Murdaugh a fair trial. They also challenged cell phone evidence, a blue raincoat with gunshot residue, and the overwhelming emphasis on financial crimes as prejudicial.The state maintained the conviction was based on "overwhelming evidence" and that Hill's remarks were "fleeting" and "largely neutral." But the justices pushed back repeatedly.No decision was issued from the bench. The court will deliberate privately with no deadline for a ruling. This episode covers the full hearing—what was argued, how the justices reacted, and what comes next.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MurdaughAppeal #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #CreightonWaters #MurdaughCase #TrueCrimePodcast #LegalAnalysis

The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance has a new problem — and it may be bigger than any single piece of evidence. Federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Reuters, Fox News Digital, and NewsNation that Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from a glove and DNA samples described as "basically all the evidence" in the case. He sent it to a private Florida lab. The FBI wanted Quantico. Nanos denies the entire story. The FBI hasn't confirmed his denial.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins True Crime Today to explain what this actually looks like from inside the bureau. She walks through the real-world difference between Quantico's capabilities and a private contracted lab, what the FBI loses operationally when it can't access primary evidence in a kidnapping case, and what it takes for a federal source to go public and call a local agency's handling "dumb" and "insane."She also tackles the jurisdictional question most people are asking — can the FBI simply take this case over? The answer is more complicated than the public wants it to be, and Coffindaffer explains why.Beyond the dispute, she analyzes the bureau's latest investigative moves — an updated suspect description from forensic video analysis, a reward doubled to a hundred thousand dollars, and a request for surveillance footage going back a full month before Nancy vanished, including a specific three-hour window on January 11th. What that tells a trained investigator about where this case is heading, and whether the damage already done — a released crime scene, contaminated evidence chain, and an interagency relationship in open conflict — can be overcome in time to bring an 84-year-old woman home.#NancyGuthrie #FBI #SheriffNanos #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #Tucson #ArizonaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

President Trump told reporters investigators have "very strong clues" and previewed something "definitive" from DOJ or FBI, specifically calling it a "solution" rather than a search. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta explains what happens to an investigation when the executive branch starts publicly signaling outcomes.The ransom landscape in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance has spiraled in ways nobody anticipated. Notes demanding millions in Bitcoin were sent to TMZ, KOLD, and KGUN. Harvey Levin confirmed the Bitcoin address is real and described the note as carefully crafted. But a man in Los Angeles has already been arrested for sending imposter texts to the Guthrie family referencing the same demand. A second email arrived from a different IP address using the same type of anonymous server.Motta explains why the ransom situation is now so contaminated that separating the real from the fake may be nearly impossible. The family says they will pay. The FBI says the decision is theirs. Motta walks through Bitcoin traceability and what happens once that money moves. He also dissects the FBI's reward language — "and/or the arrest and conviction" — and what it signals about how the bureau views this case.The Guthrie family has posted four escalating videos on Instagram. They started by asking for proof of life. They are now declaring an hour of desperation. CNN's Andrew McCabe says the tone suggests they have heard nothing back.Meanwhile, Robin Dreeke analyzed the surveillance footage and what it reveals about the planning behind this operation. The man on camera followed a forensic checklist but didn't know there was a camera on the front door. His solution was a plant from the garden. Dreeke explains what that gap tells us and whether the planning profile matches the person improvising with prairie brush. When they identify the man on that porch, watch whether the trail ends with him or leads somewhere else.#NancyGuthrie #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #BitcoinRansom #TrumpGuthrie #RobinDreeke #SavannahGuthrie #FBIReward #RansomImposter #CatalinaFoothillsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The family says they received a message. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. The sheriff said the footage was gone forever. Then it appeared. Someone isn't being straight.Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining when communications are authentic, when they're managed, and when silence is the most important signal. We asked him to assess every public voice in this case.The family's four escalating videos — what does the pattern reveal about what they believe is happening versus what's being communicated behind the scenes? The ransom notes sent to media outlets instead of the family — insider details but no proof of life and no way to respond. The sheriff's complete reversal on the footage — from permanently gone to recovered from backend data. The FBI releasing evidence through the director's personal X account with no press briefing.Both ransom deadlines have passed. The Bitcoin wallet demanding six million dollars sits at zero. No one collected. No one proved they have Nancy. One ransom demand was already confirmed as a fraud — Derrick Callella of California admitted he sent fake texts to the family just to see if they'd respond. He's been charged federally and has no connection to the disappearance.The Guthrie family went on camera and publicly offered to pay. The response was silence.We examine NCIC missing persons data, the statistical rarity of elderly stranger abductions, and what the FBI's own December 2025 bulletin about fake ransom scams tells us about cases like this one. The search radius is not expanding. Septic tank searches. A vehicle towed from the garage. Hours spent inside Annie Guthrie's home. No suspects have been named. But the investigation's physical footprint raises questions the public deserves to examine.Dreeke's answers are something you need to hear.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillersLive #DeceptionDetection #RansomNotes #FBI #SavannahGuthrie #NarrativeControl #TucsonArizona #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kouri Richins' defense says publicity has poisoned her jury pool beyond repair. But there's a detail the headlines missed — the judge already denied that motion days before the story even broke.Judge Richard Mrazik rejected the defense's second attempt to move the trial out of Summit County, finding that a fair and impartial jury can still be seated despite widespread awareness of the case. Prosecutors pointed to 830 potential jurors who said they hadn't heard of the case or hadn't followed it — nearly half the questionnaire pool. The defense's argument that only 72 viable jurors remain didn't hold up.What makes this case so well-known isn't reckless media coverage. It's the nature of the allegations themselves. A children's book about grief — written after her husband's death and before her arrest. A six-page jailhouse letter allegedly laying out fabricated testimony. Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies. And a drug source who now says under oath he never sold fentanyl at all.Richins is charged with aggravated murder in the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric in Kamas, Utah. Prosecutors allege she spiked his cocktail with a fatal dose — five times the lethal amount found in his blood — after a failed attempt on Valentine's Day two weeks earlier. Her realty company allegedly owed at least $1.8 million while Eric's estate was worth roughly $5 million.Her case also appeared in a January 2026 DHS intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement about domestic partners using chemical and biological toxins to kill — seventeen documented cases since 2014 with at least eleven deaths.The defense wants this to be a story about an unfair system. But trace the notoriety back to its source and every thread leads to the same place. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Trial begins February 23rd.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrimeToday #VenueChangeDenied #SummitCountyTrial #FentanylPoisoning #WalkTheDogLetter #JurySelection #RobertCrozier #UtahMurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera. Six photos. Three video clips. A masked individual at her front door. And a gap that tells you more than any press briefing ever will.He covered his face, his hands, nearly every inch of skin. He understood forensic concealment. The FBI describes him as armed. But when he reached the front door and found a camera six inches from his face, he turned around, walked to the yard, and grabbed a plant from Nancy's garden to cover the lens. No tape. No spray. Prairie brush was his solution.The operation itself required a different level entirely. A specific target in a dark-sky community with no streetlights. An 84-year-old woman who can't walk fifty yards taken without a trace. Cameras disabled and physically removed. A 41-minute window between the camera disconnecting at 1:47 AM and Nancy's pacemaker losing Bluetooth connection at 2:28 AM.Robin Dreeke — former FBI Special Agent and chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — applies his behavioral framework to this footage. What do the transition speeds reveal about stress? What does a penlight in the mouth instead of a headlamp tell an analyst? What do reflective jacket elements in a pitch-black community mean? What does the gap between forensic concealment and improvised camera defeat indicate about who you're looking at?The footage was supposed to be gone forever — no subscription, no retained video. It surfaces from residual backend data. Released by Director Patel personally on X with no press briefing. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker publicly questioned whether this is even a kidnapping.When they identify the man on that porch, watch whether the trail stops with him or leads somewhere else. That tells you everything.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIVideo #RobinDreeke #SurveillanceFootage #NestCamera #BehavioralAnalysis #TucsonKidnapping #MaskedSuspectJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nearly everything the public knows about Anna Kepner's death aboard the Carnival Horizon emerged not from the FBI — which maintained complete silence for ninety days — but from a custody dispute between the suspect's divorced parents.Those court filings revealed text messages showing the parents focused on damage control within hours of Anna's body being found hidden under a bed. The suspect's mother texted that her son "just keeps repeating over and over he can't remember anything." A former sheriff's detective who reviewed the messages said the family ran their own PR department while an eighteen-year-old girl lay dead. Discussions about keeping things "hush hush" while both parents acknowledged in court documents that their son is a suspect in an FBI homicide investigation.Three months after Anna's death was ruled a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation, her sixteen-year-old stepbrother appeared at Miami's James Lawrence King Federal Justice Centre facing multiple federal charges. Anna's father Christopher Kepner told the Daily Mail he was "unable to confirm or deny" that the charges include murder and rape — a statement that directly contradicts preliminary November findings from ABC News indicating no signs of sexual assault.Disturbing allegations have emerged: Anna's ex-boyfriend's father stated she was scared of her stepbrother and that he was obsessed with her. Court documents reference prior physical incidents in the household and skipped medication on the cruise. Subpoenas have targeted Temple Christian School and Florida DCF. Anna's family has publicly accused the suspect's father of interfering with the investigation. Her grandmother announced the surrender on Facebook. Her uncle posted about watching a suspect walk free for months.Prosecutors reportedly intend to seek adult charges. If the transfer is granted, the sealed records open and the public finally learns what the FBI built in silence.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #TrueCrimeToday #CruiseShipMurder #FBI #FederalCharges #JusticeForAnna #CustodyBattle #HomicideInvestigation #CarnivalCruiseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Every targeted abduction follows a cycle. Target selection. Surveillance. Planning. Deployment. The deployment is almost always the shortest phase. The surveillance — the watching, the pattern-building, the cataloging of vulnerabilities — is where the real crime takes shape.The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie reveals a sequence consistent with what the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit associates with planned abductions rather than impulsive crimes. Doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM. A second camera detecting a person with no saved video at 2:12 AM. Pacemaker app losing connection at 2:28 AM. Every security system systematically neutralized. Floodlight destroyed. Blood confirmed as Nancy's DNA on the front porch. All belongings left inside.This episode breaks down how predators select targets through cold risk-benefit analysis — isolation, predictable routines, perceived vulnerability, security systems that look functional but aren't. We examine the insider threat pattern documented across hundreds of cases where perpetrators leverage someone with existing access to gather intelligence external surveillance cannot provide.Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke then analyzes every forensic decision at the scene. Sheriff Nanos released it after one day, said it was "done," then admitted he "could have held off." Investigators returned four more times. A rooftop camera was missed for five days. Drone footage showed deputies probing a septic tank behind the property.Dreeke addresses the questions shaping this case: What does the systematic targeting of every camera suggest about the perpetrator's knowledge of the property? What does the septic tank search signal? Can the chain-of-custody breaks be recovered?The predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or speed. It's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #AttackCycle #RobinDreeke #FBI #TrueCrimeToday #PreAttackIndicators #ForensicEvidence #AbductionCase #SurveillanceDetectionJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Ransom notes demanding six million dollars in Bitcoin have dominated the Nancy Guthrie case. But retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — says the behavioral profile of those notes raises questions that go far beyond what's being discussed publicly.Three identical letters were sent to KOLD, a second Tucson station, and TMZ. They contained non-public details about Nancy's Apple Watch location, a destroyed floodlight, and what she was wearing. Harvey Levin called the notes "grammatically perfect" and "structured and layered." The FBI took them seriously. But the notes included no phone number, no email, no encrypted channel — no way for the family to respond at all.The family's public posture shifted from demanding proof of life to "we will pay" with no indication proof was ever provided. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CNN the family's Saturday video was FBI-crafted. CNN's Josh Campbell confirmed the public plea means there is no private line of communication with anyone claiming to hold Nancy. A second message arrived Friday from a different IP with no demands and no proof of life. KOLD won't even call it a ransom note.Dreeke breaks down what legitimate ransom communication looks like, why this case deviates from every known pattern, and what the behavioral profile suggests about who wrote these letters and why. The Monday deadline passed. Six million dollars. A direct threat. And no one to pay it to.Meanwhile, drone footage captured deputies probing a septic tank Sunday morning. Three hours of forensic photography at Annie Guthrie's home Saturday night. The official line says no suspects. The ground investigation says something else entirely.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBI #SavannahGuthrie #RansomNote #TrueCrimeToday #BitcoinRansom #BehavioralAnalysis #TucsonArizona #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

At Conan O'Brien's Christmas party, Rob Reiner reportedly told friends he was afraid his son could hurt him. He and Michele drove home anyway. By morning, both were dead, and Nick Reiner was in custody. This case isn't about whether the signs were visible. It's about why they weren't enough.The Reiners spent fifteen years and millions trying to save Nick from addiction. Eighteen rehab stays. Sixty thousand dollars monthly. Professional interventionists. Addiction counselors who explicitly warned them: your son is manipulating you. For years, Rob and Michele followed protocol. Then they reversed everything. By 2015, both publicly apologized for trusting professionals over Nick. They adopted his framework — that the treatment system, not their son, was the problem.What followed was a systematic dismantling of every protective boundary. A schizophrenia diagnosis. Seventy thousand monthly in psychiatric costs. Nick living in the guesthouse mere feet from their bedroom. A family orbiting one person's chaos while their own identities evaporated.This episode breaks down the mechanics of enabling that becomes fatal. The daily nervous system hijacking where you assess threat levels before breakfast. The isolation that happens so slowly you blame yourself for having no friends. The psychological reversal where your concerns become your betrayal of someone you love. Michele spoke about this openly — the moment she and Rob decided the experts were wrong about their son.This is required listening for anyone watching a family disappear into addiction management. The patterns are recognizable. The ending doesn't have to be the same.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleReiner #TrueCrimeToday #AddictionCrisis #ConanOBrien #CelebrityCrime #FamilyTragedy #NarcissisticAbuse #BeingCharlieJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The full scope of the prosecution's case against Michael McKee is now visible. The affidavit has been unsealed and the Franklin County Coroner has released autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe. The findings are staggering in their detail and their implications. Monique sustained nine gunshot wounds. Spencer sustained seven. Both had defensive injuries to their hands and arms. They were conscious when the shooting began, and they fought. An entire magazine was emptied into two people in their bedroom while their children slept down the hall. The violence never left that room — but it consumed everything in it. The affidavit establishes an alleged pattern spanning eight years. Surveillance footage captured McKee walking through the Tepe property while Spencer and Monique attended the Big Ten Championship game, days before the killings. Witnesses told investigators McKee made threats throughout and after his marriage to Monique, including that he could "kill her at any time" and that she would "always be his wife." A silver SUV with a distinctive sticker was tracked between McKee's home, his workplace, and the area near the Tepe residence — displaying stolen license plates. After McKee's arrest, fresh scrape marks were found where the sticker had been removed. His cell phone went dark from December 29th through the afternoon of December 30th, a window that covers the estimated time of the murders at approximately 3:50 a.m. Prosecutors will argue that silence was deliberate. The firearm charges are filed in the alternative — automatic weapon or silencer-equipped — which signals the investigation hasn't definitively identified the weapon's exact configuration. That matters for sentencing. McKee is a vascular surgeon with licenses in four states and a decade of advanced medical training. According to prosecutors, he is also someone who allegedly spent years building a documented obsession that culminated in a double homicide that left two children without parents. He waived extradition, entered a not-guilty plea, and reserved the right to address bond. Defense attorney Eric Faddis analyzes how prosecutors build around historical threat evidence, the legal strength and vulnerability of digital silence arguments, how apparent post-offense tampering gets presented at trial, and what McKee's early defense posture signals. Forensic psychologists describe the behavioral profile emerging from this evidence as a "grievance collector" — someone who catalogs perceived wrongs for years before acting with devastating precision. The autopsy confirms what happened. The affidavit allegedly explains why.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #OhioHomicide #TepeAutopsy #EricFaddis #TrueCrimeToday #DomesticViolence #GrievanceCollector #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Federal agents entered the Tucson home of Annie Guthrie and Tommaso Cioni carrying forensic extraction equipment. Annie and Tommaso were the last people known to have seen Nancy Guthrie, 84, before she was taken. The sheriff maintains this is standard investigative procedure and has warned that labeling anyone a suspect at this point would be reckless and potentially destructive to the case. No suspects or persons of interest have been identified. More than a hundred investigators are assigned. But the evidence trail tells its own story. Ransom notes demanding bitcoin landed at media outlets — TMZ and local news stations — completely bypassing the family. Whoever made that choice created traceable legal exposure, whether they took Nancy or not. DNA evidence at the scene has been confirmed as Nancy's, though the sheriff has declined to specify whether it's blood. That's a legally significant distinction: DNA indicating someone was present carries different prosecutorial weight than DNA indicating someone was harmed. The specific type of biological evidence shapes charging decisions. Pacemaker data shows Nancy went out of range around 2 a.m. Using cardiac device telemetry to establish an abduction timeline is largely uncharted legal ground. How that evidence enters a courtroom — and how a defense team challenges it — could define the case. The sheriff publicly stated to NBC that Nancy "was harmed at the home" before walking it back as a misstatement. In any eventual prosecution, that retraction becomes a tool for the defense. The Guthrie family's video statement has been analyzed by former federal law enforcement professionals, who described it as carefully scripted and strategically staged by authorities. Savannah Guthrie's language — asking for proof of life, humanizing her mother — was designed to serve both public appeal and investigative objectives simultaneously. A fifty-thousand-dollar FBI reward has been posted. Federal resources have been pledged at the presidential level. Tips continue flooding in. Nancy requires medication the sheriff described as potentially fatal to miss, and her age and physical limitations compound both the urgency and the eventual sentencing exposure under state and federal law. Robin Dreeke, former head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, details how investigators behaviorally evaluate everyone in a victim's orbit without rushing to judgment. Defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what prosecutors need to build a kidnapping case, how medical device evidence gets challenged, and why the choice between Arizona and federal jurisdiction could determine the severity of the outcome.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #FBI #PacemakerEvidence #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #CriminalLawJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen thousand tips. But someone out there still hasn't called.A neighbor who saw something. A coworker who's noticed something off. A family member protecting someone. A friend who heard something and told themselves it was nothing. The tip that breaks the Nancy Guthrie case is probably sitting in someone's head right now — and they haven't made the call.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent his career getting people to talk. He served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He recruited spies. He built trust with people who had every reason to stay silent. He knows why people hold back — and what finally opens them up.In this interview, Dreeke breaks down witness psychology. The different reasons people don't call. The person who doesn't realize what they know is important. The person scared of the spotlight. The person protecting someone they love. Each barrier is different. Each requires a different approach.What makes someone finally break their silence? What tips the scale from protection to confession? How do investigators reach the person who has information but hasn't connected it to this case?Dreeke speaks directly to whoever's out there with a piece of this puzzle. What would it take to get them to call today?#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #WitnessPsychology #TipLine #FBISpyRecruiter #SavannahGuthrie #WhyPeopleDontTalk #MissingPerson #FBIExpertJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis delivers in-depth legal analysis on two high-profile cases — the Alex Murdaugh Supreme Court oral arguments and the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation. During the Murdaugh hearing, the justices came in hot, pressing the state on Becky Hill's perjury conviction, the jury tampering standard Judge Toal applied, and the broad admission of financial crime evidence under Rule 404(b). Chief Justice Kittredge described the corroboration of the tampering claims as “striking,” while Justice Few questioned how the state could continue defending Hill's credibility. Defense attorney Jim Griffin emphasized the lack of direct evidence — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer. Faddis outlines three potential outcomes and explains why a federal appeal could be on the horizon no matter how the court rules. In the Guthrie case, he details eleven days of documented investigative missteps by the Pima County Sheriff's Department, including the early release of the crime scene, a grounded thermal imaging aircraft, a ten-day delay in surveillance footage later recovered by the FBI, and the family's decision to communicate with alleged kidnappers through Instagram. Prosecutors point to a forty-one-minute pacemaker window as the backbone of the forensic timeline, but connecting that timeline to a specific defendant remains a challenge. Faddis breaks down what must happen next in both cases. #AlexMurdaugh #NancyGuthrie #MurdaughSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #BeckyHillPerjury #GuthrieKidnapping #SheriffNanos #Rule404b #MurdaughCase #TrueCrimeAnalysisJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Cameras on every doorbell. GPS tracking in every phone. Digital footprints everywhere. We assume the surveillance world we live in makes vanishing impossible.Nancy Guthrie proves otherwise.Twelve days into this investigation. More than a hundred investigators. FBI resources deployed. Eighteen thousand tips. And an eighty-four-year-old woman with a doorbell camera, a pacemaker app, and family nearby is gone without a trace. No vehicle of interest. No named suspects. Nothing.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent twenty-one years in counterintelligence — a world where people professionally try to avoid detection. He served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He knows the blind spots because he spent his career watching people exploit them.In this interview, Dreeke confronts the question this case demands: how does someone vanish in 2026? What are the gaps in the surveillance architecture we trust? What would an extraction from a home like Nancy's actually require? And what does this case reveal about the difference between the security we think we have and the security that actually exists?We're told you can't disappear anymore. This case says otherwise.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #HowToDisappear #SurveillanceGaps #FBIExpert #SavannahGuthrie #MissingPerson #CatalinaFoothills #DigitalFootprintJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Did the South Carolina Supreme Court just tip its hand in Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal? During oral arguments, the justices came armed with pointed, highly specific questions — and most of the heat was directed at the prosecution. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what stood out and what it could signal.Justice James immediately focused on the “egg juror” affidavit that Justice Toal excluded from the evidentiary hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge described the corroboration between jurors and independent witnesses regarding Becky Hill's alleged conduct as “striking,” noting that Toal's order never addressed claims Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh. The defense maintains Toal applied the wrong legal standard — and based on today's exchange, several justices appeared open to that argument.Hill's subsequent perjury conviction, which occurred after Toal's ruling, loomed large over the discussion. Justice Few challenged the state's characterization of Hill as “not completely credible,” pointing out the obvious tension in relying on a convicted perjurer. On evidentiary issues, Kittredge pushed back on the state's use of Rule 404(b), emphasizing that the rule is designed to limit other-acts evidence, not automatically admit it. He suggested the trial court may have allowed sweeping financial crime testimony without meaningful boundaries.Defense attorney Jim Griffin reiterated that the state's case lacked direct evidence — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer linking Murdaugh to the killings. If the financial evidence is ultimately deemed improperly admitted, the prosecution's case could narrow significantly. Faddis outlines three possible outcomes and explains why, regardless of the state court's decision, a federal appeal may be next. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughHearing #SupremeCourt #BeckyHillPerjury #EricFaddis #JusticeKittredge #CreightonWaters #404bEvidence #MurdaughCase #NewTrialMurdaugh Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal today, and Creighton Waters had a rough morning. From the opening moments, the five justices made clear they had serious questions about both the jury tampering ruling and the evidentiary decisions at trial. Justice George James immediately asked whether the court could consider the egg juror's affidavit — the juror Justice Toal refused to let testify in 2024. Harpootlian told the court he couldn't explain why she was excluded. On the Becky Hill issue, Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order didn't even mention the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony, and that corroboration between juror accounts and an independent witness was striking. Justice Few asked Waters how you call someone not completely credible when she's now a convicted perjurer. The second phase turned to evidentiary errors, where Jim Griffin argued five categories of trial court mistakes. Kittredge told Waters that South Carolina's Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion, not inclusion, and that the gate was left wide open for financial crimes evidence — he couldn't find a single piece that was kept out. Waters tried to use a Fargo movie reference to illustrate financial motive and Justice Few shut him down. Defense attorney Phillip Barber argued in rebuttal that the financial evidence was used to paint Murdaugh as a person capable of anything rather than to prove motive. The court took the case under advisement. A decision could come within 60 days. The three possible outcomes: affirm the conviction, order a new trial, or remand for further proceedings. Today's hearing laid bare the fault lines in this case.#MurdaughTrial #AlexMurdaugh #OralArguments #BeckyHill #CreightonWaters #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #TrueCrimeToday #NewTrial #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Prosecutors wanted her released. The judge had other plans.Juliana Peres Magalhães, the Brazilian au pair who confessed to helping her lover Brendan Banfield execute a double murder, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's plea deal recommendation of time served — a stunning rebuke that extends Magalhães's incarceration by nearly eight years beyond what prosecutors agreed to.The courtroom heard from both families before the sentence came down. Deirdre Fisher spoke about losing her son Joseph Ryan — an innocent man catfished through a fake fetish profile and murdered in what was staged to look like a home invasion gone wrong. The Banfield family addressed the complexity of Juliana's role, acknowledging the manipulation she may have experienced while refusing to excuse her participation in the killings.Magalhães addressed the court directly, stating: "I know my remorse cannot bring you peace. I pray for forgiveness, and I have never forgave myself."Her testimony was crucial to convicting Brendan Banfield of aggravated murder. She detailed the plot, the fake profile, the night of the killings, and the moment she fired the shot that ended Joe Ryan's life. But Judge Azcarate's sentence makes clear that being the star witness doesn't mean avoiding accountability.This ruling raises serious questions about plea agreements and judicial discretion. What does it mean when a judge rejects a prosecutor's recommendation after a defendant has already fulfilled their end of the bargain? And what message does this send to future cooperating witnesses?Today's episode features the complete sentencing audio — every statement, every word from the bench, and the moment the gavel came down.#JulianaMagalhaes #AuPairMurder #BrendanBanfield #TrueCrimeToday #FairfaxCounty #DoubleMurder #Sentencing #JoeRyan #ChristineBanfield #CourtTVJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

FBI Director Kash Patel bypassed the Bureau's press office and released the Nancy Guthrie surveillance footage through his personal X account. No briefing. No questions. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to examine whether the release method creates a legitimate legal vulnerability — and to assess everything else a prosecutor is dealing with eleven days into this case.The forensic centerpiece remains the forty-one-minute gap between the Nest camera going dark at 1:47 a.m. and Nancy's pacemaker losing Bluetooth at 2:28 a.m. Faddis explains what that window establishes on its own, what it still needs to become trial-ready evidence, and how a prosecutor would structure a case around it.A man detained in Rio Rico for eight hours was released without charges. At least three ransom notes with insider details were sent to media outlets. An imposter ransom arrest has already occurred. The FBI says there's no proof of life and no ongoing communication with the suspected kidnappers. Faddis breaks down the legal challenge of sorting legitimate evidence from imposter-generated noise — and how defense attorneys would use the confusion to their advantage.Roadside evidence searches eleven days after the disappearance face obvious chain of custody and degradation challenges. Faddis provides a realistic assessment of what late-stage physical recoveries are worth in court and where the prosecution's strongest and weakest positions are right now.#NancyGuthrie #KashPatel #FBIFootage #EricFaddis #GuthrieProsecution #RioRicoDetention #PacemakerEvidence #RansomNotesFraud #TrueCrimeToday #LegalBreakdownJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.