Kouri Richins Trial Opens: The Witch, The Widow, and What Day 1 Exposed
Day 1 of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered competing narratives that will define the next five weeks in a Park City courtroom. Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth opened with a gut-punch — three memes allegedly found on Kouri's phone the morning Eric Richins' body was removed from their home. One read "I'm rich." Their three boys hadn't been told. Bloodworth presented alleged evidence of $4.5 mi...
28m Feb 24
28m
Nancy Guthrie: What the Suspect Is Thinking Right Now
The footage is everywhere. Twenty-two days of national coverage. The FBI showing photos to gun shops. Walmart handing over backpack records. Genetic genealogy processing DNA. CeCe Moore telling national television that if she were the kidnapper, she'd be "extremely concerned." If this person is local — and the January 11th and January 31st reconnaissance windows suggest they are — they've spen...
20m Feb 24
20m
Nancy Guthrie: Why 400 Investigators May Not Be Enough
ABC News reported the Guthrie investigation may soon scale back from four hundred full-time investigators to a smaller long-term task force. The family has been briefed that certain leads aren't panning out. Three weeks in: DNA still unidentified. No additional video recovered. No vehicle connected to the abduction. Two high-profile detentions that produced nothing. Robin Dreeke spent twenty-...
31m Feb 24
31m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Vincent Nguyen, Summit Co. Sheriff's Office — Deputy Delivers Key Testimony
The Kouri Richins trial brings Deputy Vincent Nguyen, Summit Co. Sheriff's Office, to the stand in this segment. The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense...
1hr 24m Feb 24
1hr 24m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Clinton Benson — Eric Richins’ Brother-in-Law Testifies
The Kouri Richins trial brings Clinton Benson, Eric Richins' Brother-In-Law, to the stand in this segment. The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maint...
53m Feb 24
53m
The Abuse That Leaves No Marks: What Monique Tepe Allegedly Survived and Millions Still Do
It doesn't leave bruises. It doesn't leave evidence a prosecutor can photograph. It leaves something worse — marks on how you think, how you see yourself, and whether you trust your own mind. Millions of people are living inside this right now. Most of them don't have a word for it. According to witnesses who spoke with investigators, Michael McKee allegedly threatened to kill Monique Tepe, al...
19m Feb 24
19m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Katie Richins-Benson — Eric’s Sister Breaks Silence Part 1
The Kouri Richins trial brings Katie Richins-Benson, Sister of Eric Richins, to the stand in this segment. The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maint...
1hr 1m Feb 24
1hr 1m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Agent's Full Assessment — Evidence, Jurisdiction, and the Stall
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer gives True Crime Today her complete read on the Nancy Guthrie investigation across three critical areas. The evidence: DNA that's unresolved, a glove that may be unconnected, genetic genealogy pending, and no more camera footage coming. The jurisdiction: the sheriff's own union breaking ranks publicly, FBI sources calling evidence handling insane,...
54m Feb 24
54m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Eric Richins — A Father Remembers His Son
The Kouri Richins trial brings Eugene Richins, Eric's Father, to the stand in this segment. The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maintains Eric died ...
14m Feb 24
14m
D4VD Case: Texas Court Orders Burke Family to Testify — The Silence Is Breaking
The investigation into the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez took a significant legal turn this week when a Texas appeals court denied habeas corpus petitions filed by D4VD's parents and brother, ordering them to comply with California grand jury subpoenas. Dawud, Colleen, and Caleb Burke had argued that redacted affidavits prevented them from understanding why they were deemed material witnesse...
18m Feb 24
18m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Defense Attorney Kathryn Nester — Defense Opening Statements
The Kouri Richins trial brings the Defense's Opening Statements in the Kouri Richins Murder Trial The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maintains Eric...
39m Feb 24
39m
FBI Agent Assesses What the Guthrie Investigation Actually Has
Every aggressive move in the Nancy Guthrie case has ended the same way: no arrest. Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers Live to strip away the headlines and assess what investigators can actually confirm they have versus what's been assumed. Three people detained and released. Over 50,000 tips with no named suspect. Ransom notes, gloves, and detentions that have not been confirmed as con...
24m Feb 23
24m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 1: Attorney Brad Bloodworth — State of Utah Delivers Opening Argument Against Kouri Richins
The Kouri Richins trial brings and Brad Bloodworth, Deputy County Attorney with the Summit County Attorney's Office  delivers opening statements. The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his po...
27m Feb 23
27m
Robin Dreeke on Kouri Richins Trial & Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers Live for extended analysis of two active cases: Kouri Richins' murder trial beginning February 23rd and the FBI's ongoing investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. For Richins: Robin applies his "Life Arc" framework to the prosecution's timeline—years of alleged insurance positioning, the 2020 confrontation over financial fraud, and the compressed eigh...
54m Feb 23
54m
Coffindaffer on the FBI's Fight to Take Over the Guthrie Case
The power struggle in the Nancy Guthrie investigation is now public. The sheriff's own deputy union called it an ego case. FBI sources say the bureau wants to take over but is legally blocked. Investigators say they don't know who's running things. Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers Live to break it all down. Coffindaffer explains the mechanism that would allow the FBI to assume contro...
15m Feb 23
15m
FBI Analyst Decodes the Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers Live to break down what the FBI's recent investigative moves reveal about the Nancy Guthrie case—and whether the accumulating physical evidence is building toward identification. The developments this week tell a story. FBI contacted Mexican federal law enforcement—despite Sheriff Nanos saying publicly there's no border evidence. A Tucson gun shop owner was sh...
17m Feb 23
17m
LIVE: FBI Agent Breaks Down What's Left of the Guthrie Evidence
Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers Live to assess the physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — and separate what's real from what's noise. The glove found two miles from the house has dominated headlines, but its DNA doesn't match anything at the property and hit nothing in CODIS. Coffindaffer tackles the question no one else is asking: should this glove even be treated as evidence...
15m Feb 23
15m
Anna Kepner: Two Versions of One Family — and a Death Nobody Investigated for 16 Hours
A travel advisor recommended separate rooms for the step-siblings. The family overruled it. The stepbrother had been in therapy for over a year. The night before Anna's body was found, witnesses allege he screamed at her while the youngest sibling was locked out of the cabin. Anna Kepner was found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon — wrapped in blankets, covered with life vests, twenty fe...
28m Feb 23
28m
Kouri Richins Trial Preview: What Both Sides Bring to Five Weeks of Testimony
The Kouri Richins murder trial is here and the case is as contested as it is disturbing. Prosecutors allege she poisoned Eric with fentanyl twice — once in a sandwich, once in a Moscow Mule that killed him. Five times the lethal dose. Google searches for lethal fentanyl levels and luxury prisons. Texts about wanting Eric to "just go away." Nearly two million in life insurance allegedly taken ou...
52m Feb 23
52m
Nancy Guthrie This Week: Investigative Failures, Psychological Damage, and a Case in Trouble
Still no arrest — and the investigation may be building the defense's case for them. Bob Motta breaks down the mounting vulnerabilities: crime scene released early, DNA reportedly diverted to a private lab, evidence gloves contaminated by the search team. Every failure becomes a weapon at trial. Shavaun Scott examines the psychological toll — a perpetrator under pressure, a family enduring ambi...
1hr 17m Feb 22
1hr 17m
The Reiners: You Can't Mourn Someone Who's Still Breathing — But You Should
"How's your son?" "Oh, you know. He's doing better." What else can you say? That the person you raised doesn't exist anymore? That you cry yourself to sleep missing someone who called you yesterday? There's no bereavement leave for losing someone to addiction. No support group for this specific wound. Just silence and the expectation that you'll keep showing up while bleeding invisibly. Rob and...
43m Feb 22
43m
Nancy Guthrie Week Recap: FBI Releases Footage, Investigation Goes Silent
Everything that happened this week in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — broken down by retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer. The FBI released doorbell camera footage of the masked suspect recovered from Google's backend systems. A man was detained and released without charges. A black glove was found in the desert. Eighteen thousand tips came in. FBI Director Kash Patel posted evidence ...
39m Feb 22
39m
Prosecutor Breaks Down Kouri Richins & Colin Gray Trials
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break down two of the most consequential trials happening in America right now—both asking the same fundamental question from different angles. Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd for the alleged fentanyl murder of her husband Eric. The defense has landed blows: recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed charges, int...
1hr 7m Feb 22
1hr 7m
Rob Reiner Saw It Coming — And That's the Part That Haunts Everyone
Everyone close to the Reiners knew. Rob said it out loud. And it still happened. This episode is for anyone who's ever watched someone they love walk toward a disaster they identified years earlier — and carries the guilt of not stopping it. Knowing doesn't protect you. It just means you suffer twice. Your foresight was not consent. Your inability to change someone was not failure. The Reiners ...
47m Feb 22
47m
Nancy Guthrie Case: FBI Expert on What It Takes to Make Someone Vanish
Cameras everywhere. GPS in every phone. Digital footprints on every transaction. We're told it's impossible to disappear in the modern world. Nancy Guthrie's case says otherwise. Twelve days missing. More than a hundred investigators. Eighteen thousand tips. And still — no vehicle of interest, no named suspects, no confirmed sighting since she was last inside her own home in Catalina Foothills....
35m Feb 21
35m
Alex Murdaugh Appeal: What the Supreme Court Justices Just Told Us Without Saying It
The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today. The justices asked sharp, pointed questions — and nearly all of them were aimed at the prosecution. The hearing covered both tracks of the appeal: Becky Hill's alleged jury tampering and whether the trial court committed reversible evidentiary errors. On both, the state was on its heels. Justice James opened by r...
32m Feb 21
32m
Nancy Guthrie: What Prosecutors Need, What the FBI Released, and What the Public Is Getting Wrong
Surveillance footage released. Multiple suspects sought. A man detained in Rio Rico and released after eight hours. An imposter ransom arrest in California. Roadside searches eleven days out. And eighteen thousand tips competing with millions of self-appointed body language experts judging the Guthrie family from their phones. The Nancy Guthrie case is being squeezed from every direction — and ...
30m Feb 21
30m
LIVE: FBI Analyst on Kouri Richins' Post-Death Deception Patterns
Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers Live to decode what Kouri Richins' behavior after Eric's death reveals through his FBI deception-detection lens—the 911 call, the book tour, and the letter allegedly scripting witness testimony from jail. Fourteen months between Eric's death and Kouri's arrest. During that window, she maintained public innocence through media interviews, investigator conversat...
17m Feb 21
17m
Two Trials, One Prosecutor's Take: Richins and Gray Under the Microscope
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today for a deep dive into two of the most significant criminal trials happening in the country — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder case and the Colin Gray parental accountability trial. The Richins case begins February 23rd with the defense riding pretrial wins: a recanting drug source, excluded prosecution experts, and severed financial c...
51m Feb 21
51m
Kouri Richins: What an FBI Profiler Saw in the Years Before Eric Died
The insurance policies started in 2015. By 2017, prosecutors say Kouri Richins had positioned nearly $2 million on her husband Eric's life—without his knowledge. When he discovered her alleged financial fraud in 2020, he met with a divorce attorney. Eighteen months later, he was dead. Robin Dreeke spent his FBI career reading the behavioral patterns that precede violence. His "Life Arc" framew...
21m Feb 21
21m
Colin Gray Faces 180 Years — And the Alleged Evidence Trail Is Devastating
Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder because prosecutors say he armed a child he allegedly knew was dangerous. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state's case against the father of the Apalachee High School shooter — and explains why the defense may be fighting an unwinnable battle. The prosecution's timeline spans years of alleged warning signs. An alleged 2021 search fo...
18m Feb 20
18m
Rob Reiner Case: Healing Without Closure
You're waiting for an ending that isn't coming. The apology. The acknowledgment. The trial that delivers justice. The moment where everything finally makes sense. You've built years around the hope that someday there would be resolution. There won't be. Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Motions. Hearings. Their brother's face while lawyers argue his mental state. And at th...
23m Feb 20
23m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Prosecution's Evidence Could Be Impossible to Overcome
The defense drew blood pretrial. Now the prosecution gets to show the jury what four years of investigation produced — and former prosecutor Eric Faddis says some of this evidence may be unexplainable for the defense. The state's case reportedly begins with Valentine's Day 2022 — an alleged prior poisoning attempt where Kouri Richins is accused of lacing Eric's sandwich with fentanyl. Two frie...
13m Feb 20
13m
Kouri Richins Trial Begins — But the Defense Already Drew Blood
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...
21m Feb 20
21m
Colin Gray Murder Trial: What the Prosecution's Timeline Reveals
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 wound...
18m Feb 20
18m
Guthrie Case Psychology: The Suspect, the Noise, and the Family's Trauma
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 t...
45m Feb 20
45m
McKee Tepe Case: The Psychology of Fear No One Talks About
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...
16m Feb 20
16m
Guthrie Family: Grieving a Missing Mother While the Internet Played Detective
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...
16m Feb 19
16m
Rob Reiner Case: Why Denial Isn't Stupidity
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 destr...
27m Feb 19
27m
Guthrie Case Overwhelmed: Fake Leads, Bungled Evidence, and Zero Answers
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 nea...
12m Feb 19
12m
Nancy Guthrie: Two DNA Profiles, One Case — And the Cartel Theory Falls Apart
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 investiga...
22m Feb 19
22m
Guthrie Kidnapper Psychology: What the Suspect's Mistakes Expose
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 ...
17m Feb 19
17m
Anna Kepner Case: Custody Testimony Exposes What the Cruise Ship Family Hid
"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 s...
15m Feb 19
15m
Three Cases, One Attorney: Guthrie, Kepner, Richins Legal Breakdown
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 colle...
1hr 6m Feb 19
1hr 6m
Kouri Richins Trial Preview: The Evidence That Could Acquit or Convict
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 c...
31m Feb 19
31m
Kouri Richins Trial: Defense Attorney Previews Prosecution Weaknesses
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 2...
21m Feb 18
21m
Rob Reiner Case: The Loss Nobody Sees
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 ...
16m Feb 18
16m
Anna Kepner Update: What Sealed Federal Charges Mean for This Case
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 release...
13m Feb 18
13m
Nancy Guthrie: The Glove Was Never the Answer — What CODIS, the FBI's Secret List, and Day 18 Reveal
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...
21m Feb 18
21m
Nancy Guthrie Update: Defense Attorney Reveals Investigation Vulnerabilities
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. Journali...
32m Feb 18
32m