Kouri Richins Murder Trial Day 2: First Responders Testify, Defense Exposes Evidence Gaps
Day 2 of the Kouri Richins murder trial focused on crime scene reconstruction—and the defense made sure the jury saw every crack in the investigation. First responders described arriving at the Francis, Utah, home on March 4, 2022. Deputy Vincent Nguyen's body camera showed Kouri Richins distraught as paramedics tried to revive her husband Eric. Medical examiner Dr. Pamela Sue Ulmer confirmed ...
21m Feb 25
21m
Kouri Richins Week 1: The Immunity Deal, the Recanted Supplier, and What Comes Next
Week one of the Kouri Richins murder trial is starting, and the battle lines are drawn. Prosecutors say she poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl for nearly $2 million in life insurance money. The defense says the case is built on compromised witnesses and circumstantial evidence. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down where this five-week trial is heading—and where it's most likely ...
23m Feb 25
23m
Nancy Guthrie Update: $1M Reward, Suspect Visited Twice, DNA Hits Snag — Bob Motta Analysis
The Nancy Guthrie case hit critical mass today with two developments that change the investigative picture entirely. Savannah Guthrie broke more than a week of family silence with an emotional Instagram video offering $1 million for information leading to her mother's "recovery"—bringing total available rewards past $1.2 million. The FBI simultaneously asked the public to stop flooding tip lin...
20m Feb 25
20m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Chelsea Gipson — Crime Scene Tech Details Home Search
The Kouri Richins trial brings Chelsea Gipson, Lead Crime Scene Technician 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 maintai...
1hr 17m Feb 25
1hr 17m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Pamela Ulmer — More Autopsy Evidence Unpacked
The Kouri Richins trial continues with more from Pamela Ulmer, Retired Utah State Medical Examiner. 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 Er...
1hr 23m Feb 25
1hr 23m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Maggie Mobeley & Pamela Ulmer — Autopsy Findings Exposed
The Kouri Richins trial brings Maggie Mobeley & Pamela Ulmer, Utah State Medical Examiner, 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...
41m Feb 25
41m
It Starts With "I've Never Felt This Way" — How Coercive Control Built the McKee-Tepe Trap
Nobody walks into an abusive relationship knowing what it is. The early phase feels like healing — someone finally seeing you, choosing you, making you the center of their world. The attention is overwhelming. The affection is constant. And by the time the walls go up, you're already inside them. This episode examines the mechanics of coercive control escalation through the lens of the McKee-T...
13m Feb 25
13m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Sgt. Andy Crnich — Emergency Responder Breaks Down Scene
The Kouri Richins trial brings Sgt. Andy Crnich, Summit Co. Sheriff's Department, 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 ...
14m Feb 25
14m
Nancy Guthrie: The Investigation, the Suspect, and the Break
Day twenty-two. The investigation may be scaling back. The suspect is watching themselves become the most wanted person in America. And investigators aren't ruling out that multiple people were involved. Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He understands what happens inside an investigation at this stage, what sustained pressure does to someone trying to...
1hr 13m Feb 25
1hr 13m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Margaret Offret — Overdose Scene Testimony
The Kouri Richins trial brings Margaret Offret, Medical Assistant Coordinator, 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 mai...
22m Feb 24
22m
Nancy Guthrie: The Motive No One Is Talking About
Three weeks. No verified ransom demand. No authenticated contact. A family publicly willing to pay — and silence on the other end. True Crime Today's Tony Brueski examines the criminal history patterns that suggest Nancy Guthrie's abduction may have never been about money at all. Using three landmark cases — the obsessive targeting of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman, Danny Rolling's calculat...
16m Feb 24
16m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Deputy David Pementel — Walks Jury Through Medical Log
The Kouri Richins trial brings Deputy David Pementel, 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...
22m Feb 24
22m
Nancy Guthrie: The Accomplice Question — And What Makes Someone Talk
Investigators have publicly stated they're not ruling out multiple people. The evidence is contradictory: sophisticated reconnaissance, sloppy exit. Forensic awareness at the door, a glove dropped miles away. Ransom notes with insider details, no way to collect payment. If there was a second person — a driver, a lookout, someone who helped plan — they're watching this investigation with differ...
23m Feb 24
23m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Cameron Larson — Technician Breaks Down Scene
The Kouri Richins trial brings Cameron Larson, Evidence Technician, 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...
33m Feb 24
33m
Caleb Flynn Charged: Worship Leader Allegedly Staged Wife's Murder as Home Invasion
Caleb Flynn, 39, a former worship pastor and American Idol contestant from Tipp City, Ohio, has been charged with the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, following a multi-agency investigation that includes the FBI and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Ashley Flynn was found shot twice in the head in the master bedroom of the couple's home on Cunningham Court in the early hours of Febru...
20m Feb 24
20m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 2: Vincent Nguyen, Summit Co. Sheriff's Office — Deputy Faces Tough Crossfire
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...
31m Feb 24
31m
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