Kouri Richins: The Psychological Cost of Knowing Something Is Wrong
Eric Richins' family knew something was wrong long before a toxicology report confirmed it. They said so. They pushed. They hired a private investigator who logged 936 hours and over $100,000 before this case made it to trial. That kind of fight doesn't come from nowhere — and it leaves marks. Tony Brueski digs into the psychology of that experience with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retir...
22m Mar 12
22m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Psychology Behind the Pattern of Exploitation
The Kouri Richins trial record reads like a case study in instrumental exploitation — a boyfriend leveraged for labor and love, a best friend who lost her life savings, a housekeeper pulled into a fentanyl supply chain, friends who wired money that never came back. The question isn't just what allegedly happened. It's how someone operates this way for years, across this many people, without any...
20m Mar 12
20m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 12: Jeff O'Driscoll — Lead Investigator Under Fire on Cross
The Kouri Richins trial brings Jeff O'Driscoll, Summit County Detective, 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...
59m Mar 12
59m
Ruby Franke's 8 Passengers: Family Vlogging Exploitation and Child Influencer Psychology
8 Passengers had 2.5 million subscribers and a billion views. Six children filmed five days a week for eight years. The product was the children. Part 3 of "The Good Mother" examines the family vlogging industry through the Ruby Franke case — what happens when childhood becomes content, when children become products, when algorithms reward access to their worst moments. The Franke children we...
14m Mar 12
14m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 12: Jeff O'Driscoll — Lead Detective Testifies for the State
The Kouri Richins trial brings Jeff O'Driscoll, Summit County Detective, 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...
1hr 34m Mar 12
1hr 34m
Kouri Richins Trial Expert Panel: Defense, Jury Psychology & What the Verdict Means
The Kouri Richins murder trial has generated wall-to-wall coverage. This panel discussion with Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke goes somewhere most of that coverage hasn't. Three segments covering the full scope of what matters most right now. The defense strategy — what two mistrial motions, a fight over a retreat journal, and two compromised immunity witnesses tell us about where this defense actu...
1hr 16m Mar 11
1hr 16m
Religious Dehumanization: How the Daybell "Zombie" Labels Justified Killing Children
What has to happen inside a mother's mind for her to look at her own child and see a demon? Tylee Ryan's last photo was taken at Yellowstone on September 8, 2019. She was dead within twenty-four hours, according to investigators. Her remains were found burned and dismembered in Chad Daybell's backyard. Her mother's explanation to friends? Tylee had "gone dark." She was a "zombie." This is Pa...
16m Mar 11
16m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 12: Carmen Lauber — Lauber Back on the Stand
The Kouri Richins trial brings Carmen Lauber, Richins' Former Housekeeper, 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...
14m Mar 11
14m
Kouri Richins Trial: What a Verdict Either Way Really Means
Whatever verdict comes out of the Kouri Richins trial, it's going to say something important — about the evidentiary bar for circumstantial murder cases, about how we detect alleged domestic poisoning, and about the gap between the story the public follows and the case a jury actually decides. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke tackle the broader implications of this trial in this panel segment. The c...
28m Mar 11
28m
Rob Reiner Son Nick — Family Abandons His Defense
The Nick Reiner murder case reached a new turning point when siblings Jake and Romy Reiner — children of the late Rob and Michele Singer Reiner — officially distanced themselves from Nick's defense following his not guilty plea on February 23rd, 2026. Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 14th, 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at...
21m Mar 11
21m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Victims Beyond Eric Richins
Eric Richins is the name on the murder charge. But the testimony coming out of the Kouri Richins trial has revealed a much longer list of people prosecutors say were harmed — financially, emotionally, and legally — long before and long after his death. A forensic accountant laid out the scale: $7.5 million in debt, $80,000 in monthly payments, a real estate business described under oath as hav...
31m Mar 11
31m
Kouri Richins Trial: Inside the Jury's Head — Expert Panel Analysis
What does a jury do with forty witnesses, two explosive text messages, a credibility fight over a key statement, and a defendant whose behavior after her husband's death was described by everyone present as completely unremarkable? That's the question Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke are answering in this panel discussion on the Kouri Richins murder trial. This isn't a recap of the evidence — it's a...
22m Mar 11
22m
Kouri Richins Defense Strategy Exposed — Expert Panel Breaks It Down
What does the Kouri Richins defense actually have? That's the question this expert panel is built to answer. With the prosecution wrapping nearly forty witnesses and two mistrial motions already on the table, Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke dig into the strategy, the vulnerabilities, and the moments that could define how this case ends. The prosecution's case rests on three pillars: millions in deb...
27m Mar 11
27m
Jodi Hildebrandt Coercive Control: How She Took Over Ruby Franke's Family
Jodi Hildebrandt was a licensed therapist who built a life coaching business called ConneXions. Former clients describe it as a cult. Seven told NBC News she "methodically separated spouses" and destroyed marriages through isolation, shame, and constant surveillance. Her niece reported abuse in 2009 — tied up, duct taped, forced to sleep in snow. Nothing happened. Fourteen years later, Ruby F...
17m Mar 11
17m
Guthrie and Richins: The Legal Questions Both Cases Still Haven't Answered — Full Q&A With Robin Dreeke
True Crime Today brings you the complete listener Q&A session on the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the Kouri Richins murder trial — examining the legal and procedural dimensions of both cases with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. The Guthrie legal questions center on evidentiary foundations that haven't been publicly addressed with any precision. What evident...
1hr 12m Mar 10
1hr 12m
High Control Religion: How Chad Daybell Went from Gravedigger to Cult Leader
Before the death sentence. Before the backyard graves. Before the "zombie" doctrine. Chad Daybell was a gravedigger in Idaho who claimed the dead spoke to him. This is Part 2 of "The Chosen Ones," our psychological examination of spiritual abuse and religious trauma through the Vallow-Daybell case. Today we analyze Chad Daybell — not just what he did, but how he built the authority to make ot...
17m Mar 10
17m
Sandra Birchmore Murder Case: Cop's Dismissal Motion Rejected — Trial Date Confirmed
A federal judge has rejected former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell's bid to have murder charges dismissed in the death of 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore. The October 2026 trial will proceed — and the full story of what allegedly happened to Birchmore is one of the most chilling law enforcement abuse cases in the country. Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment...
14m Mar 10
14m
Kouri Richins: Her Husband's Family Hired a PI — He Handed Prosecutors the Case
When the Summit County Sheriff's Office investigation into Eric Richins' death stalled, his family hired their own investigator. That investigator just finished testifying — and the defense had no answer for him. Todd Gabler spent roughly a year building an independent case before Kouri Richins was arrested. Without a warrant, he obtained phone billing records through Eric's business and disco...
17m Mar 10
17m
1: Kouri Richins Trial: Witness Credibility, Immunity Deals, and the Defense's Theory of the Case
The legal mechanics of the Kouri Richins murder trial raised questions that go beyond the headline details — questions about witness reliability, prosecutorial strategy, and how a defense team constructs a viable theory against five weeks of damaging testimony. True Crime Today examines the trial's legal architecture in this listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host ...
19m Mar 10
19m
Nancy Guthrie: What a Mixed DNA Profile, No Remains, and a Cash Reward Mean for This Investigation
From a legal and investigative standpoint, several developments in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance carry significant implications that haven't been fully examined. True Crime Today addresses them directly in this listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. The DNA evidence. Investigators have indicated the sample recovered at the scene is a mixture — a p...
26m Mar 10
26m
Nancy Guthrie Case: What the FBI's Second Canvass and Escalating Investigation Actually Signal
Law enforcement doesn't go back to a neighborhood a month later and knock on doors again without a reason. That second canvass in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is one of several investigative signals that True Crime Today is breaking down in this listener Q&A — alongside former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. What prompts a follow-up canvass weeks after the initial...
28m Mar 10
28m
Ruby Franke Case: Narcissistic Mother Psychology and Performance Parenting Explained
Ruby Franke's YouTube channel "8 Passengers" had 2.5 million subscribers watching her parent six children. She posted five days a week for eight years. The world saw a devoted Mormon mother with all the answers. In August 2023, her twelve-year-old son escaped through a window — emaciated, bound with rope, wounds on his wrists and ankles. Police found his ten-year-old sister malnourished in a c...
13m Mar 10
13m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 10: Todd Gabler — Family-Hired Investigator Explains His Probe
The Kouri Richins trial brings Todd Gabler, Private Investigator, 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 d...
1hr 21m Mar 10
1hr 21m
Nancy Guthrie Missing and Kouri Richins on Trial — FBI Agent Analyzes Both Cases in Full
True Crime Today covers the cases that matter most. Right now, these are two of the most closely watched in the country — and we brought in one of the sharpest analytical voices in the space to cover both in depth. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us for a three-part conversation spanning the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the Kouri Richins murder trial. For Nancy Guthrie...
57m Mar 09
57m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 10: Detective Jamye Woody — 911 Audio Sets Scene in Court
The Kouri Richins trial brings Jamye Woody, Police Detective, 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 ...
57m Mar 09
57m
Religious Manipulation Explained: The Daybell Case and Spiritual Love Bombing
Before the murders. Before the backyard graves. Before the "zombie" labels and the doomsday beliefs — there was a conference room in Utah and a man who told Lori Vallow she was chosen. This is Part 1 of "The Chosen Ones," a 5-part Hidden Killers series examining the psychology of spiritual abuse through the Vallow-Daybell case. We're not recapping the crime. We're dissecting the religious mani...
13m Mar 09
13m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 10: Matthew Throckmorton —Expert Weighs In on Eric’s Signature
The Kouri Richins trial brings Matthew Throckmorton, handwriting expert, 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...
1hr 2m Mar 09
1hr 2m
Kouri Richins Trial Live: FBI Agent on Boyfriend Tears, Phone Searches, and the Evidence Juries Actually Remember
The boyfriend took the stand and cried. The housekeeper and the dealer told opposite stories about the same drug buy. The phone showed searches about what poison does to a death certificate. And none of it, individually, proves Kouri Richins killed her husband. That is the challenge of a purely circumstantial case — and potentially, it is also its strength. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer C...
22m Mar 09
22m
Kouri Richins Trial Day 10: Cody Wright — Who Changed Eric’s Insurance?
The Kouri Richins trial brings Cody Wright, Eric's former business partner, 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 mainta...
1hr 17m Mar 09
1hr 17m
Charity Beallis Autopsy Results: Official Ruling Explained — Key Questions Remain Unanswered
SCSO releases official autopsy findings in the Charity Beallis case. Her manner of death ruled self-inflicted. Twins Eliana and Maverick — homicide. But the death certificate shows multiple gunshot wounds, and the forensic details explaining the ruling haven't been made public. The evidence supporting Randall Beallis's alibi is substantial: Tesla location data, cell phone records, and home sec...
27m Mar 09
27m
Kouri Richins Trial: He Told His Family She Was Going to Kill Him. Then He Died.
Eric Richins didn't just die. According to testimony in his wife's murder trial, he saw it coming — and said so. He told his family to look at Kouri if anything happened to him. He met secretly with a divorce attorney and instructed her not to communicate by email because he was afraid Kouri would read it. He went to an estate planning attorney with concerns about his sons. He was found dead o...
23m Mar 09
23m
Savannah Guthrie's Mom: The FBI's Guide to Finding a Suspect Who Has Been Hiding for Over a Month
The suspect who allegedly took Nancy Guthrie has been unidentified for over a month. He survived the largest missing persons mobilization in recent Arizona history. He's watched his own image circulate nationally — eyebrows visible, mustache visible, pinky ring on. He has been living with whatever happened to an 84-year-old woman since the night he walked up to her front door. And according to...
17m Mar 09
17m
Savannah Guthrie's Mom Missing: FBI Agent Exposes What the Investigation Language Isn't Telling You
Sheriff Nanos told national television his investigators are "definitely closer" to finding Nancy Guthrie. The FBI moved its command center from Tucson to Phoenix. The task force — once hundreds strong — has been reduced to a focused homicide unit. All of that sounds like progress. But what does it actually mean inside a real investigation? Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — who...
20m Mar 09
20m
Kouri Richins Trial: Forensic Accountant Reveals $7.5M Debt — Medical Examiner Admits Tests Never Done
She allegedly poisoned her husband for the money. The forensic accountant just showed the jury exactly how desperate that financial situation was. Brooke Karrington—a thirty-year expert who reviewed hundreds of thousands of documents—testified that by March 2022, Kouri Richins carried $7.5 million in debt. Monthly payments totaled $80,000. Four payday lenders collected $2,100 from her daily. H...
54m Mar 09
54m
Colin Gray Guilty of Murder — Jury Needed Less Than Two Hours
Breaking verdict in the Colin Gray trial. Guilty on all 29 counts. Second-degree murder. The jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting the first parent in Georgia history for a school shooting committed by his child. Colin Gray gave his fourteen-year-old son an AR-15 for Christmas—seven months after the FBI warned him about online threats Colt made to shoot up a school. No safe. N...
35m Mar 08
35m
Rex Heuermann Murder Document: "Remove Head and Hands" — Daughter Believes He's the Gilgo Beach Killer
A deleted file recovered from Rex Heuermann's basement allegedly contains the Long Island Serial Killer's step-by-step methodology. According to prosecutors, eighty-seven details match how the Gilgo Beach victims were killed. The document—titled HK2002-04—was found on one of fifty-eight hard drives seized from the Massapequa Park home. Created in 2000 and modified through 2002, it allegedly co...
32m Mar 08
32m
Kouri Richins: Surviving the Fog - Financial Abuse, Flying Monkeys, and Why the Mask Never Cracks
Everyone loves them. Your friends think they're charming. Your family thinks you're lucky. You know what they're really like at home. And you wonder if you're the crazy one. This is Parts 3 and 4 of "Surviving the Fog"—examining financial coercive control and the psychology of the mask through the Kouri Richins case. We're not diagnosing anyone. We're exploring documented patterns that explain...
26m Mar 08
26m
Kouri Richins Trial: Medical Examiner Still Says "Undetermined" — Can the Prosecution Recover?
This is our Week in Review of the Kouri Richins murder trial—and one fact may matter more than everything else the jury has heard. Four years after Eric Richins died with fentanyl in his system, the state's own former Chief Medical Examiner still lists his manner of death as "undetermined." Not homicide. The prosecution is asking a jury to convict Kouri Richins of murder when their own medical...
45m Mar 08
45m
Nancy Guthrie Suspect "Not Incompetent — Baseline" Says FBI Expert — Nanos Untouchable Until 2028
The man who took Nancy Guthrie has been called sloppy, amateurish, incompetent by every talking head on cable news. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke disagrees. After 21 years with the Bureau—including leading the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—his assessment is clear: what we're seeing on that doorbell footage isn't unusual. It's baseline. The Walmart backpack. The awkwar...
41m Mar 08
41m
Kouri Richins Trial: Phone Forensics Show Deleted Memes, Searches for Luxury Prison
The digital evidence presented in the Kouri Richins trial doesn't need a plea deal or immunity agreement. It speaks on its own. Forensic analyst Chris Kotrodimos testified about data extracted from seven phones in this case. What he showed the jury was damning. Deleted meme thumbnails recovered from Kouri's phone—accessed moments after first responders left the home where Eric Richins lay dead...
50m Mar 07
50m
Nancy Guthrie Update: Pacemaker Search Failed, DNA Has No Match, Suspect Still Unidentified
Every investigative pathway in the Nancy Guthrie case has dead-ended at once. Four weeks after Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother was kidnapped from her Tucson home, there's no suspect in custody, no confirmed identification of the man on camera, and critical evidence has yielded no actionable leads. The DNA should have been a breakthrough. Gloves recovered two miles from the scene containe...
51m Mar 07
51m
Kouri Richins Trial Update: Housekeeper Says She Bought Fentanyl, Defense Attacks Her Credibility
The Kouri Richins murder trial reached a critical moment as prosecutors called their star witness. Carmen Lauber, the former housekeeper who allegedly purchased the fentanyl that killed Eric Richins, testified under immunity agreements and described a months-long drug procurement operation. Lauber told jurors she bought drugs for Kouri four times in early 2022. The requests allegedly escalated...
36m Mar 07
36m
Why Sheriff Nanos Won't Let the FBI Lead the Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Four weeks after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson residence, the investigation has stalled—and insiders say they know why. Multiple sources within the Pima County Sheriff's Department allege that Sheriff Chris Nanos is refusing to let the FBI take the lead, despite federal agents reportedly wanting to step in. The allegations don't come from outside critics. They come from Nanos's o...
34m Mar 07
34m
How LISK Was Finally Arrested — The Gilgo Beach Killer Caught After 13 Years
Thirteen years of dead ends in the Gilgo Beach case. Every suspect cleared. Then a pizza box changed everything. Today we break down exactly how LISK—the Long Island Serial Killer—was arrested. The Suffolk County task force, the Chevrolet Avalanche tip, the cell tower evidence, the DNA breakthrough, and the pizza crust that allegedly tied it all together. The investigation stalled for years a...
14m Mar 07
14m
Eric Faddis Breaks DownKouri Richins' Finances, Nancy Guthrie's False Accusers, and the Cascio-Jackson Lawsuit
Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis covers three major legal developments in one extended interview. The Kouri Richins trial just heard devastating financial testimony. A forensic accountant told jurors she was $1.6 million in debt the day after Eric Richins died. Her business was "imploding." Checks bounced constantly. The prosecution wants the jury to see financial desperation...
56m Mar 07
56m
Kouri Richins: The Danger Zone—Escalation, Lethality & Getting Out Safely | Surviving the Fog Part 5
Leaving is the most dangerous time. For victims of coercive control, the moment you start pulling away is the moment risk escalates. The relationship was never about love. It was about control. This is Part 5 of "Surviving the Fog"—examining escalation and lethality through the Kouri Richins case. We're not diagnosing anyone. We're exploring documented patterns. Prosecutors allege Eric was a...
14m Mar 06
14m
Michael Jackson Cascio Lawsuit — Hearing This Week Could Seal or Expose Everything
Twenty-five years of sworn statements defending Michael Jackson. Testimony at his 2005 trial. A book. National television appearances. Now all five Cascio siblings are suing, alleging Jackson drugged, raped, and trafficked them since childhood. The estate is calling it extortion. A hearing this week determines whether this case goes public—or gets sealed in arbitration. Former prosecutor Eric...
18m Mar 06
18m
"Either of Us": The Kouri Richins Text That Changes Everything
Most defendants are brought down by what prosecutors find. Kouri Richins may be brought down by what she wrote. Day 9 of the Utah murder trial shifted squarely onto the text messages and recorded calls Kouri sent to her closest friends in the weeks and months following her husband Eric's death — and what emerged was a pattern that the defense has yet to find an answer for. The phrase that stan...
20m Mar 06
20m
Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping: Innocent Man Detained, Teacher Harassed — Who's Liable?
No suspect. No arrest. No person of interest. But the Nancy Guthrie investigation has already left innocent people facing harassment, detention, and destroyed reputations. One man was handcuffed and questioned for hours after SWAT executed search warrants on his home. Released. His attorney says he has "no link whatsoever" to the kidnapping. An elementary school teacher connected to the Guthri...
15m Mar 06
15m
Kouri Richins' Debt, Fraud, and the Mansion She Bought the Day After Eric Died
A forensic accountant just told jurors that Kouri Richins was $1.6 million in debt the day after her husband Eric died. Her business account was "perpetually in the hole." Checks bounced constantly. Hard money loans with brutal interest rates were stacking up. Even liquidating every asset wouldn't have dug her out. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to explain how the prosecu...
23m Mar 06
23m