Kouri Richins Trial Preview: The Untested Evidence That Could Change Everything
With jury selection starting February 10th, 2026, the Kouri Richins murder case is entering its final phase. The Utah mother is charged with fatally poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl, then authoring a children's book about grief. Recent pretrial hearings have addressed witness credibility, the admissibility of jailhouse letters, and whether Eric's high school drug use can be presented to...
20m Feb 06
20m
Tepe Murders & Mica Miller Case — The Coercive Control Pattern No One Stopped
Monique Tepe allegedly knew for eight years that her ex-husband had threatened to kill her. She divorced Michael McKee in 2017 after just seven months of marriage. Witnesses told investigators he strangled her, forced unwanted sex, told her he could end her life. She never filed a public report. She rebuilt everything — new husband, two kids, a life. On December 30th, she and Spencer were found...
1hr Feb 06
1hr
Tepe Autopsy: 16 Wounds, Defensive Injuries & An 8-Year Obsession
Breaking today: The Franklin County Coroner has released the full autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe, the Columbus couple found shot to death in their Weinland Park home on December 30th. The findings are devastating. Spencer sustained seven gunshot wounds. Monique sustained nine. All sixteen wounds were to their upper bodies. Both had defensive injuries to their hands and arms — evid...
17m Feb 06
17m
Pastor JP Miller Groomed Mica Miller At Age 10 — Federal Indictment Reveals Everything
The federal indictment reads like a checklist: tracking devices on her car, a nude photo posted online without consent, fifty-plus contacts in a single day, financial interference, and lies to federal investigators. Pastor JP Miller pleaded not guilty. Mica Miller is dead — two days after serving him divorce papers, her death ruled a suicide. She'd told her family if she ended up with a bullet ...
17m Feb 05
17m
Charlie Adelson Appeal Hearing: Judges Question Whether Tallahassee Jury Was Tainted | Markel Murder Update
Three appellate judges heard oral arguments today in Charlie Adelson's bid to overturn his conviction in the murder-for-hire of Dan Markel. Adelson, currently serving life in a South Dakota prison, was not present as his attorneys argued he was denied a fair trial due to nearly a decade of pretrial publicity in Tallahassee. Defense attorney Michael Ufferman told Florida's First District Court o...
15m Feb 05
15m
Michael McKee's Ego vs. The Evidence — Can He Beat The Tepe Murder Charges?
Surveillance footage. A ballistics match. A cell phone that went dark during the murder window. Years of documented threats. Michael McKee looked at all of it and pleaded not guilty. He waived his bail hearing but reserved the right to revisit it. That's not desperation — that's calculation. Shavaun Scott wrote "The Minds of Mass Killers" and has spent thirty years evaluating violent offenders...
16m Feb 05
16m
Nancy Guthrie Missing: What the Reopened Crime Scene Just Revealed
When investigators entered Nancy Guthrie's home, they found blood. The eighty-four-year-old hadn't wandered off or gotten confused. Her house was immediately processed as a crime scene — and the trajectory of this case has been anything but routine since. Approximately thirty hours after the initial response, the scene was released. Then it was reopened. Crime scene tape returned. Canine units...
20m Feb 05
20m
Monique & Spencer Tepe: The Death Threats Michael McKee Made For Years
According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Michael McKee strangled Monique during their seven-month marriage, forced unwanted sex on her, and told her directly he could end her life. She divorced him in 2017. She never filed a public police report. She never got a protective order. She rebuilt her entire life — married Spencer, had two children, built a career — while car...
28m Feb 05
28m
Sophia Caneiro's Blood Was on Jeans in Her Uncle's Basement — She Was Eight Years Old
The DNA evidence in the Paul Caneiro trial is now on the record, and it's devastating. Forensic scientists testified that blood from eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro was found in three locations on jeans recovered from her uncle Paul's basement — shin, calf, and thigh. Her eleven-year-old brother Jesse's DNA was there too. A surgical glove fused to the jeans by frozen water also carried Sophia's D...
24m Feb 05
24m
Two Murder Cases, One Defense Attorney: Banfield Verdict and McKee Arrest Breakdown
Today on Hidden Killers Live, defense attorney Bob Motta examines two major murder cases that are dominating headlines — the Brendan Banfield conviction and the Michael McKee arrest in the Monique Tepe double homicide. Brendan Banfield is going to prison for life. The former federal agent was convicted of aggravated murder after the jury believed his au pair over his testimony. She got murder ...
57m Feb 05
57m
McKee Pleads Not Guilty Despite Overwhelming Evidence — Here's Why That Matters
Michael McKee entered a not guilty plea to two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Spencer and Monique Tepe. On paper, this might seem routine — defendants plead not guilty every day. But when you look at what investigators say they have, the psychology behind that plea becomes the story. According to court documents: surveillance footage tracking McKee's vehicle arriving in Columbus ...
17m Feb 05
17m
Michael McKee Arrest: Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Evidence in Tepe Double Murder
Michael McKee is in custody, charged with the aggravated murder of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband. The affidavit paints a dark picture — surveillance footage, a vehicle traced to McKee, witnesses saying Monique told them he'd been threatening her for years. The public has already made up its mind. Today on True Crime Today, defense attorney Bob Motta examines what a courtroom will ac...
18m Feb 04
18m
Charity Beallis' Father Says She Was Shot Twice — Describes Viewing Body at Morgue | No Arrest After 2 Months
Two months since Charity Beallis and her six-year-old twins Eliana and Maverick were found shot to death in Bonanza, Arkansas. No arrest. No suspect named publicly. No official autopsy released. Now her father is speaking out about what he saw. Randy Powell tells Hidden Killers he viewed Charity's body at the morgue. According to Powell, she was shot twice — in the chest and between the eyes....
34m Feb 04
34m
Banfield Sentenced to Life: What Happens Now and Can Any Appeal Save Him?
Brendan Banfield's trial is over. The conviction is in. Life without parole. But the legal fight continues — because when you're facing dying in prison, you appeal everything, challenge everything, exhaust every possible avenue. The question is whether any of it has a real chance of working. Today on True Crime Today, defense attorney Bob Motta explains what comes next for Banfield and what hi...
19m Feb 04
19m
FBI Visits Family, Car Impounded — Nancy Guthrie Investigation Takes a Turn
Four days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, the investigation has reportedly turned toward those closest to her. According to a law enforcement source speaking to journalist Ashley Banfield, a vehicle belonging to Annie Guthrie — Nancy's daughter, Savannah's sister, and the last person to see Nancy alive — has been towed, impounded, ...
21m Feb 04
21m
Former Federal Agent Brendan Banfield Found Guilty — What the Defense Got Wrong
The verdict is in. Brendan Banfield, the former IRS criminal investigator, has been convicted of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Christine and Ryan Banfield. The jury deliberated nine hours and came back with guilty on everything. No lesser charges, no compromises. Life without parole. Today on True Crime Today, defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what happened in that Virginia ...
20m Feb 04
20m
EXPOSED: Pastor JP Miller's Alleged Decades of Abuse — The Full Mica Miller Investigation From Grooming to Federal Indictment
Forget what you think you know about this case. This is the deep dive that puts it all together — and what it reveals is a pattern of alleged predatory behavior that spans thirty years, two generations, and at least two suspicious deaths. John-Paul Miller built his reputation as a man of God. He stood at the pulpit every Sunday preaching salvation. But according to court documents, sworn affid...
35m Feb 04
35m
FBI Expert's Deep Dive: Surgeon's Alleged Stalking, Federal Corruption Probe & Murder Defense Exposed
Three cases. Three stages. One expert who's spent thirty years reading dangerous people. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, breaks down the behavioral evidence in the McKee, Greenberg, and Banfield cases. Michael McKee allegedly threatened his ex-wife Monique Tepe for eight years before the December 30th killings — Robin expla...
1hr 4m Feb 04
1hr 4m
BREAKING: Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Philadelphia Agencies in Ellen Greenberg Case—Corruption Probe Targets Shapiro Era
Federal prosecutors have reportedly issued subpoenas to multiple Philadelphia agencies in the Ellen Greenberg case—and they're not looking at whether Ellen was murdered. They're looking at whether the officials who handled her case broke federal law. Ellen Greenberg died in 2011 with twenty stab wounds, including ten to the back of her neck. The medical examiner ruled it homicide. Police pushe...
30m Feb 04
30m
Brendan Banfield Called It "Absolutely Crazy" — FBI Expert Explains What That Language Reveals
Three weeks of testimony. Two days of the defendant on the stand. Brendan Banfield testified that he heard "moaning" from the bedroom, went upstairs with his gun, and shot Joseph Ryan after finding him kneeling over his naked wife with a knife. He called the murder accusation "absolutely crazy." But his own IRS supervisor came forward to say there was no important meeting scheduled that morning...
22m Feb 03
22m
Nick Reiner Case: 18 Rehabs, Unlimited Resources, Two Dead Parents — What His Own Words Reveal
The Nick Reiner case has sparked a national conversation about mental health, addiction, and what happens when families run out of options. But lost in the debate about system failures is a harder question: What do you do when someone refuses to be saved? Today we examine Nick Reiner's documented history — not through tabloid speculation, but through his own words in interviews spanning nearly...
21m Feb 03
21m
Ellen Greenberg Federal Investigation: FBI Agent on Who Flips First in a Cover-Up
Fifteen years after Ellen Greenberg was found with 20 stab wounds and ruled a suicide, the federal government is asking questions — not about how she died, but about who decided to call it suicide and why. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, explains the federal methodology: how investigators build corruption cases against institutions, what makes people in th...
16m Feb 03
16m
Michael McKee Affidavit Unsealed: Stalking Spencer & Monique Tepe, Threats, and a 900-Mile Murder Trip
The probable cause affidavit in the Michael McKee case has been unsealed, and the details are damning. According to court documents filed in Franklin County, McKee allegedly stalked his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer for weeks before their December 30th murders—and drove 900 miles round trip in just 17 hours to carry out the killings. Here's what we now know from the affidavit: ...
26m Feb 03
26m
"She Will Always Be His Wife": What Michael McKee's Words Reveal About Obsessive Killers
Eight years after their divorce, Michael McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe he could kill her at any time. Now he's charged with her murder — and the murder of her husband Spencer. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, breaks down the unsealed affidavit in the case against the Illinois vascular surgeon accused of driving 900 miles to execute the couple in their W...
28m Feb 03
28m
Kouri Richins: How the Defense Gutted the Prosecution's Case Before Trial
When Kouri Richins was arrested in May 2023 for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule, the case against her seemed overwhelming. Financial desperation. Life insurance policies. A housekeeper who said she sold Kouri the drugs. A drug dealer who confirmed the fentanyl. Nearly three years later, as jury selection approaches for her February 2026 trial, the prosecut...
17m Feb 03
17m
FBI Analysis: McKee Murder Case & Kohberger WSU Lawsuit Examined
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins True Crime Today to analyze two cases defined by alleged institutional failure. The McKee investigation: surveillance footage, ballistics databases, and the eleven-day forensic trail that led to a surgeon's arrest for allegedly murdering his ex-wife and her husband. Plus the behavioral red flags — death threats, strangulation allegations, pr...
59m Feb 03
59m
Can Nick Reiner Still Inherit $50 Million? The California Loophole That Could Let Him Profit From Rob and Michele Reiner's Deaths
The Slayer Statute is supposed to be simple. You kill someone, you don't inherit from them. But California law has language that creates an exception — and a 1979 case proves it works. Estate of Ladd involved a mother who killed her two sons. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Her ex-husband argued she should be barred from inheriting under the Slayer Statute. The California Court...
20m Feb 03
20m
GUILTY: Brendan Banfield Convicted of Murdering Wife Christine — Au Pair Walked Free
The verdict is in. Brendan Banfield has been found guilty of aggravated murder in Fairfax County, Virginia. The former IRS special agent was convicted Monday in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield, 37, and Joseph Ryan, 39 — a man prosecutors say was catfished on a fetish website and lured to the family home as part of an elaborate murder plot. The jury of five men and seven...
18m Feb 02
18m
Idaho Four Families Sue WSU: 13 Complaints About Kohberger Exposed
Washington State University allegedly received 13 formal complaints about Bryan Kohberger in one semester. Stalking. Harassment. Predatory behavior toward female students. A professor who reportedly predicted he would become dangerous. Female students who developed their own warning systems because the institution wouldn't protect them. The families of the four murdered Idaho students have tak...
19m Feb 02
19m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Brendan Banfield is Back in the Courtroom for the Verdict - Found GUILTY on All Counts!
The GUILTY Verdict was handed down to Brendan Banfield, the former IRS agent charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors allege Banfield and the family's au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, lured Ryan to their Herndon home through a fetish website and staged the killings as a home invasion. The defense argues digital fore...
6m Feb 02
6m
Idaho Murders Autopsy Bombshell: Xana Kernodle's 67 Wounds and the Evidence She Left Behind
Unsealed forensic filings from the Bryan Kohberger case reveal devastating new details about what happened inside the King Road house on November 13, 2022 — including evidence that one victim's fight for survival may have been what brought down her killer. Xana Kernodle was stabbed 67 times. That number alone is staggering, but the context makes it more significant. Kaylee Goncalves sustained ...
18m Feb 02
18m
Monique Tepe's Ex Allegedly Threatened Her For Years — Why Didn't Anyone Stop Him?
Strangulation allegations. Death threats. Statements that she would "always be his wife." Surveillance footage allegedly showing him at her home three weeks before her murder. Michael McKee is a board-certified surgeon who maintained medical licenses across multiple states while allegedly fixating on his ex-wife for eight years after their divorce. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffe...
22m Feb 02
22m
Monique Tepe's Ex-Husband Allegedly Stalked Her for Years — Court Documents Reveal What She Knew
New court documents in the Spencer and Monique Tepe murder case reveal disturbing allegations about what Monique may have known before December 30th. According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told detectives that Michael McKee — Monique's ex-husband — allegedly threatened to kill her, told her she'd "always be his wife," and was captured on surveillance at her Columbus home while she was o...
36m Feb 02
36m
McKee Investigation Breakdown: Cell Phone Gaps, Stolen Plates, and a Ballistics Match
The Michael McKee case presents a masterclass in forensic investigation. A suspect who allegedly created an 18-hour digital blackout. Stolen license plates from two states. A vehicle tracked through neighborhood surveillance footage. A firearm allegedly matched through a national database. And an arrest across state lines in just eleven days. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walk...
18m Feb 02
18m
Paul Caneiro Trial: Insurance Policy Required All Four Deaths — Why the Children Allegedly Had to Die
Trust account expert Lazaro Cardenas explained something to jurors this week that changes everything about the Colts Neck murders: Keith Caneiro's $3 million life insurance policy was structured so that Paul would only benefit if Keith, Jennifer, AND both children were all dead. Not just Keith. All four of them. According to prosecutors, this is why 11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia weren...
38m Feb 02
38m
Monique Tepe Left the Big Ten Championship Early — Three Weeks Later She Was Dead
Monique Tepe left the Big Ten Championship game at halftime, upset about "something involving her ex-husband." She was 200 miles away in Indianapolis when surveillance allegedly captured Michael McKee at her Columbus home on December 6th, 2025. According to the Columbus Dispatch, video showed him going into the home and leaving "a few hours later." Twenty-four days later, Monique and her husban...
33m Feb 02
33m
14 Legislators File Complaint Against Judge Elmore — Aaron Spencer Gets New Judge 48 Hours Before Trial
The Arkansas Supreme Court removed Judge Barbara Elmore from Aaron Spencer's murder case 48 hours before trial was set to begin. This is the same judge who released Michael Fosler on bond after he was charged with 43 felonies including alleged rape of a minor. The same judge whose gag order the Supreme Court already struck down as a "plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." The s...
47m Feb 01
47m
McKee's Defense Strategy Revealed — How Diane Menashe Could Attack the Tepe Murder Evidence
The choice of attorney tells you everything about how a case is going to be fought. Michael McKee just hired Diane Menashe—the defense attorney who walked Dr. William Husel out of a Columbus courtroom after fourteen murder charges. Every single count. Not guilty. She called one witness. She also kept cop-killer Quentin Smith off death row. Now she's defending the vascular surgeon accused of mur...
50m Feb 01
50m
18 Rehabs, $60K a Month, Zero Accountability — The System That Failed Nick Reiner and Killed His Parents
Most people battling addiction never get a second chance. Nick Reiner got eighteen of them. Eighteen trips to rehab facilities reportedly costing $60,000 a month. Private yoga instructors. Family therapists. A guesthouse on a $13.5 million Brentwood estate where he could land softly every time he fell. Rob and Michele Reiner never stopped showing up for their son. On December 14, 2025, they wer...
1hr 6m Feb 01
1hr 6m
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen Families Face Nightmare — Kohberger Could Sell His Story
Idaho has become America's true crime epicenter—and the state's lawmakers are finally waking up to a disturbing reality. A judge in Bryan Kohberger's case confirmed in November 2025 that under current law, Kohberger could potentially profit from book deals, streaming rights, and paid interviews within just five years of conviction. The judge stated the statute "leaves open the potential for Def...
34m Feb 01
34m
Celeste Rivas Hernandez Case: D4VD's Friend Arrested, Chainsaw and Burn Cage Found Unused
LAPD Robbery-Homicide arrested Neo Langston—D4VD's close friend known online as NeoTheAsian—at his mother's home in Montana for failure to appear before the grand jury investigating the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's now in an LA jail on $60,000 bail. He's not the first witness prosecutors have had to chase down. A female witness went into hiding in December and faced a body...
58m Feb 01
58m
Spencer and Monique Tepe Allegedly Killed by Surgeon With Expired License and Pending Malpractice Suit
For eleven days after Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe were found shot to death in their Columbus home, the man charged with their murders was still working as a vascular surgeon in Illinois. Michael McKee, 39, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder. Prosecutors say ballistic evidence links a firearm from McKee's Rockford property to shell casings re...
52m Jan 31
52m
TMZ's Harvey Levin on Nick Reiner Crime Scene: "All the Markings of a Meth Murder"
Harvey Levin at TMZ says sources describe the crime scene where Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death as "incredibly brutal"—disturbing even to seasoned medical examiner staff. He said publicly it had "all the markings of a meth murder." Their son Nick was arrested near Exposition Park, an area known for drug activity. His documented history includes violent outbursts while "spun o...
32m Jan 31
32m
Monique and Spencer Tepe Murder: Prosecutor Reveals What McKee's Defense Is Up Against
How do prosecutors prove premeditation when there are no eyewitnesses? When there's an eight-year gap between a divorce and a double homicide? When the defendant is a board-certified vascular surgeon with no criminal history who doesn't look like a killer? Michael McKee allegedly drove 300 miles from Chicago to Columbus to execute his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe while ...
51m Jan 31
51m
Nick Reiner's Rehab Roommate Speaks — He Knew Who Killed Rob and Michele Immediately
Breaking details in the Nick Reiner case. A man who shared a room with Nick in a luxury Malibu rehab at age 15 is now speaking out — and his account could shatter the expected insanity defense. Danny Spilar told the Daily Mail that the moment he saw the news about Rob and Michele Reiner's murders, he knew exactly who did it. Not suspected. Knew. Because he'd heard Nick rant about hating his pa...
35m Jan 31
35m
Ruby Franke, Elleshia Seymour, and the Utah Fathers Who Say They Didn't See It Coming
Ruby Franke's twelve-year-old son escaped through a window with duct tape on his wrists. Elleshia Seymour's eight-year-old told a stranger in Croatia to Google his name. Two Utah kids. Two different families. Both figured out how to rescue themselves. Their fathers? Kevin Franke hadn't seen his children in over a year. He told police his only job was paying bills. Kendall Seymour was in Utah w...
23m Jan 31
23m
Two Murder Cases, Both Sides: McKee Evidence & Richins Witness Chaos Explained
Former prosecutor turned defense attorney Eric Faddis delivers dual-perspective analysis on two murder cases making national headlines: Michael McKee in Ohio and Kouri Richins in Utah. The McKee case looks strong on paper. Surveillance footage allegedly places him at Monique and Spencer Tepe's property weeks before the murders. Witnesses describe death threats going back years. Stolen license ...
52m Jan 31
52m
Paul Caneiro Trial Bombshell: Blood Patterns Show Child Victim Tried to Escape Colts Neck Mansion
New testimony in the Paul Caneiro murder trial has revealed what may be the most haunting detail yet in this seven-year-old case. Detective Joseph Cordoma testified that blood stain patterns inside Keith Caneiro's Colts Neck kitchen indicate eleven-year-old Jesse Caneiro was a "mobile blood source" - moving around the kitchen island, leaving blood on surfaces, tracking toward the foyer and the ...
14m Jan 31
14m
Kouri Richins Trial Eve: Key Witness Recants, Prosecution Case Crumbling?
Kouri Richins goes to trial in two weeks on aggravated murder charges for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. But the prosecution's case is taking serious damage heading into opening statements. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the chaos on True Crime Today. The defense just filed a motion alleging witness intimidation. Detective Jeff O'Dr...
20m Jan 30
20m
PhD vs. Surgeon: Why Educated Killers Make the Same Mistakes
Bryan Kohberger studied crime for a living. Michael McKee allegedly studied his ex-wife's home for hours before he came back to kill her. Both believed preparation was protection. Both were wrong. Kohberger—the criminology doctoral student who pled guilty to the Idaho student murders—turned his phone off during the killings but created a traceable return route when it came back online. McKee a...
26m Jan 30
26m