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
Sheriff Mickey Stines: Court Docs Reveal Psychosis Before Shooting Judge
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 sle...
17m Feb 18
17m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Ret. FBI Expert on the Evidence, the Failures, and the Ransom Silence
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 h...
1hr 8m Feb 18
1hr 8m
Au Pair Sentenced to Maximum 10 Years In Banfield Case — Judge Defies Prosecutors in Banfield Case
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 th...
19m Feb 18
19m
Nancy Guthrie: Suspect DNA Enters National Database as Ransom Trail Goes Cold
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 que...
19m Feb 17
19m
Rob Reiner Case: The Trap of Never Walking Away
"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 i...
27m Feb 17
27m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Contradictions Sheriff Nanos Can't Explain
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 ...
20m Feb 17
20m
Nancy Guthrie: Trump Threatens Death Penalty as FBI Races to ID Unknown DNA
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 disappeare...
48m Feb 17
48m
Nancy Guthrie Case: FBI Targets Specific January Dates — Ret. FBI Expert Reacts
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...
29m Feb 17
29m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert's Complete 3-Part Analysis — What Everyone's Missing
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...
50m Feb 17
50m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: FBI Agent's Complete Analysis
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 sus...
54m Feb 17
54m
Caneiro Verdict: Convicted of Killing Brother's Family — What the Jury Saw
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 mor...
16m Feb 17
16m
Nancy Guthrie: The FBI's 18,000-Tip Investigation Explained
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 ...
23m Feb 16
23m
Rob Reiner Case: Foresight That Couldn't Save Anyone
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 mill...
20m Feb 16
20m
Nancy Guthrie FBI Video: What Investigators See That You Don't
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 im...
16m Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie Case: SWAT Raid Fails, DNA Enters CODIS, Sheriff Says "Years"
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 ...
36m Feb 16
36m
Murdaugh Appeal Hearing: Chief Justice Slams "Rogue Clerk" as Prosecution Struggles
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 it...
2hr 25m Feb 16
2hr 25m
FBI Blocked From Guthrie Evidence — Former Agent Coffindaffer Explains What's at Stake
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...
16m Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Trump Signals Arrest Coming as Ransom Chaos Spirals
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 w...
36m Feb 16
36m
Nancy Guthrie: Who's Being Straight and Who's Managing the Narrative?
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 sign...
35m Feb 16
35m
Kouri Richins: Venue Change Denied as Trial Date Approaches
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. P...
41m Feb 15
41m
Nancy Guthrie: The Gap Between the Man on Camera and the Operation Behind Him
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 inch...
44m Feb 15
44m
Anna Kepner: What the Custody Battle Revealed Before the Arrest
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'...
35m Feb 15
35m
Nancy Guthrie: The Surveillance Phase No One Saw Coming
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...
38m Feb 15
38m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert Says Ransom Notes Defy Every Known Pattern
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, an...
1hr 9m Feb 15
1hr 9m
Rob Reiner Warned Friends Hours Before His Son Allegedly Killed Him
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. ...
48m Feb 14
48m
Michael McKee: Surveillance, Stolen Plates, 16 Gunshot Wounds — The Tepe Case Evidence Exposed
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 ...
32m Feb 14
32m
Nancy Guthrie: What the Forensic Search of Her Daughter's Home and Bitcoin Ransom Notes Actually Mean
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...
33m Feb 14
33m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Spy Recruiter on Why Key Witnesses Stay Silent
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 D...
17m Feb 14
17m
Inside the Murdaugh Supreme Court Arguments and the Guthrie Investigation: Attorney Eric Faddis Breaks It Down
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...
44m Feb 14
44m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert Explains How Someone Disappears in 2026
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 famil...
18m Feb 14
18m
Murdaugh Supreme Court Hearing: What the Justices’ Questions Might Mean
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 ...
15m Feb 13
15m
Murdaugh Oral Arguments: The State Got Hammered — Here's What Happened
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...
17m Feb 13
17m
Au Pair Sentenced to 10 Years — Judge Defies Prosecutors in Banfield Case
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 year...
42m Feb 13
42m
Nancy Guthrie: What Happens Now And What Will Matter In Court?
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 wi...
13m Feb 13
13m
Nancy Guthrie: Are Millions of Amateur Detectives Helping or Hurting?
Eighteen thousand tips and counting. Body language experts on every platform. Family videos analyzed frame by frame by people who've never worked a case. The Nancy Guthrie investigation has become a national obsession — and everyone thinks they're qualified to solve it. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent twenty-one years at the Bureau, including time as Chief of the Counterintelligenc...
16m Feb 13
16m
FBI Says Sheriff Blocking Evidence in Guthrie Case — He Says "Not Even Close"
Day 13 of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the two agencies that should be working together are publicly contradicting each other. Federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Reuters, Fox News Digital, and NewsNation that Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from key evidence — a glove found inside Nancy's home and DNA samples. The FBI wanted Quantico. Nanos sent it to a priv...
30m Feb 13
30m
Nancy Guthrie: Attorney Breaks Down Every Investigative Failure — and What They Mean in Court
The legal fallout from the Pima County Sheriff's Department's handling of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is mounting. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to analyze the investigative decisions that a courtroom would scrutinize most heavily — and several of them trace directly to Sheriff Chris Nanos. The crime scene was released prematurely...
16m Feb 13
16m
What Mickey Stines' Mental Illness Filing Is Really About
New filing just dropped in the Mickey Stines case, and it raises more questions than it answers. The former Letcher County sheriff charged with murdering Judge Kevin Mullins is asking a court to declare him ineligible for the death penalty based on serious mental illness or intellectual disability. His attorneys cite Kentucky's 2022 statute barring execution for defendants with qualifying condi...
17m Feb 13
17m
Nancy Guthrie: We Asked the FBI's Former Spy Recruiter Every Question This Case Demands
We gave Robin Dreeke the footage, the operation, the contradictions, and the silence. We asked him everything. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program for 21 years. We asked him to apply his behavioral framework to the surveillance clips and tell us whether the man on Nancy Guthrie's porch matches the operation that unfolded around him — the target selection, the c...
59m Feb 13
59m
Kouri Richins Trial: Crozier Recants, O'Driscoll Exposed, and the Jury Fight Is Over
Three collisions are happening at once in the Kouri Richins case, and they're all converging just as jury selection begins. First, the venue fight is done. Judge Mrazik denied the defense's second motion to move the trial out of Summit County on February 2nd. The defense said only 72 viable jurors remained from a pool where 85 percent recognized the case. Prosecutors said 830 potential jurors ...
21m Feb 13
21m
Nancy Guthrie: The FBI Changed Its Story on the Footage — We Asked a Deception Expert What That Means
For ten days, authorities said the Nest camera footage was gone forever. Today it exists. We asked Robin Dreeke what that reversal means — and it's not the only thing we asked him about. Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI running the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining whether people's communications matched what they actually knew. We put every public voi...
18m Feb 12
18m