Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Day 1: Attorneys James Gubitose & Timothy Bradl — Opening Statements: Self-Defense or Suicide Attempt?
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons begins with opening statements from both sides. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June 2025. Prosecutors...
30m Mar 24
30m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Begins: Officer's Testimony and a Defense That Says She Never Pointed the Gun at Him
Day One of the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is in the books, and the testimony, the arguments, and the courtroom confrontations that unfolded Monday in Lawrence, Massachusetts set up what is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched criminal trials in New England this year. Fitzsimmons, a 29-year-old North Andover police officer, is charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon....
26m Mar 24
26m
Duggar Family: Two Arrests, Two States, One Week — Cases Explained
The Duggar family is back in criminal court — and this time it's two cases running simultaneously in two different states. Joseph Duggar, the seventh of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children and a former star of TLC's *19 Kids and Counting*, was arrested March 18th on a warrant out of Bay County, Florida. The charge: lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 — a life felony unde...
31m Mar 24
31m
IBLP, Religious Authority, and the Duggar Cases: Where the Law Draws the Line
On True Crime Today, we're examining the legal and institutional dimensions of the organization that shaped the Duggar family — the Institute in Basic Life Principles — and the significant legal questions that arise when a religious belief system intersects with criminal conduct across multiple generations of a single household. The First Amendment's protection of religious practice creates ge...
21m Mar 24
21m
Joseph Duggar Charges: What the Family's Legal History Tells Prosecutors
On True Crime Today, we're examining the legal and procedural dimensions of the criminal charges now facing Joseph Duggar and Kendra Duggar — and what the documented history of this household establishes as evidentiary context for prosecutors approaching this case. Joseph Duggar faces criminal charges. Kendra Duggar faces separate charges. Josh Duggar is currently serving a federal sentence fo...
27m Mar 24
27m
Bryan Kohberger Saw It In Himself — So Why Couldn't Anyone Stop It?
Bryan Kohberger left behind something unusual for a case like this — a documented written record of his own interior life. Reddit posts about emotional disconnection. An academic pursuit of criminology that reads less like career planning and more like someone trying to build a framework around something they felt inside. A paper trail of self-awareness that raises a question most coverage neve...
16m Mar 24
16m
Fitzsimmons Bench Trial, Guthrie Investigation, Richins Conviction: Legal Stakes Across Three Active Cases
Three cases. Three distinct legal frameworks. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the procedural and evidentiary landscape across each in a single conversation. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial presents a specific intent question: did the defendant intend to commit assault, or was she in a suicidal crisis when the discharge occurred? With no neutral third-party witnesses...
54m Mar 23
54m
Jared Bridegan Murder: The Psychology Behind Years of Escalating Custody Hatred | Pt. 1
The murder of Jared Bridegan on February 16th, 2022 didn't begin on a dark road in Jacksonville. It began years earlier — in court filings, custody disputes, and a slow psychological deterioration that the people around it either didn't see coming or didn't know how to name. In Part 1 of One Mile From Home, Tony Brueski takes the Bridegan case out of the headlines and into the psychology — spe...
14m Mar 23
14m
Kouri Richins Convicted of Murder: The Verdict Record, the Sentencing, and the Appeal Landscape
Kouri Richins has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of her husband Eric Richins following a Summit County trial in which the prosecution established he died from a lethal dose of fentanyl administered without his knowledge. The jury reached its verdict despite the absence of a physically recovered murder weapon and credibility challenges to the prosecution's star witness — a co...
13m Mar 23
13m
Joseph Duggar Faces Serious Charges — And His Family's Record Speaks for Itself
Former 19 Kids and Counting star Joseph Garrett Duggar was arrested on March 18th, 2026 on serious charges involving a minor. According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office in Florida, Duggar allegedly harmed a young girl on multiple occasions during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach. The victim, now 14, came forward during a recent forensic interview. When her father confronted Duggar,...
43m Mar 23
43m
Who Is Chris Nanos? The Sheriff's Hidden Record Finally Exposed
He's been the face of the Nancy Guthrie investigation since day one — standing at podiums, giving interviews, telling the nation he has it handled. But in December 2025, six weeks before Nancy Guthrie disappeared, Chris Nanos sat in a sworn deposition and told an attorney he had never been suspended in forty years of law enforcement. The documents tell a completely different story. The Arizona...
22m Mar 23
22m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Recall Filed Against Lead Investigator After Sworn Testimony Contradicted by Records
A formal recall proceeding is now underway against the sheriff leading the Nancy Guthrie missing persons investigation, following documented evidence that sworn deposition testimony he provided regarding his prior law enforcement career was contradicted by official agency records. Those records reportedly reflect a separation rather than voluntary resignation, with a disciplinary history includ...
21m Mar 23
21m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Bench Trial: The Legal Threshold Between Suicide Attempt and Felony Assault
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial rests on a question of specific intent — and the answer to that question determines whether she faces up to five years in prison or walks out of court free. Fitzsimmons, a law enforcement officer on documented medical leave for postpartum depression at the time of the incident, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon following a June 30, 2025, encount...
20m Mar 23
20m
Alex Murdaugh: The Institutional Power Behind the Crime — and the Financial Fraud Running Underneath It
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Murdaugh case is examined from the two structural angles that explain everything that followed — the legal and institutional dynasty that produced Alex Murdaugh, and the financial and behavioral architecture he built and maintained inside it. Part 1 of The Name establishes the foundation. For eighty-six years, three generations of Murdaughs s...
27m Mar 23
27m
Nancy Guthrie: What the Evidence Record at 40 Days Actually Means — A Forensic and Investigative Breakdown
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Nancy Guthrie investigation receives the forensic and investigative examination the evidence record at 40 days demands. No arrest. No named suspect. No viable DNA profile. Two CODIS returns with no match. A glove recovered two miles from her home traced to an unconnected individual. The Ring camera vehicle confirmed as an active lead — 2.5 mil...
33m Mar 22
33m
Kouri Richins: The Grief Performance, the Published Confession, and the Victims Who Saw It Coming
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Kouri Richins conviction gets examined through the two behavioral and evidentiary threads that make it most legible — the pattern of public narrative construction in the aftermath of an alleged murder, and the documented history of victims who identified their killers before they died. After Eric Richins died, Kouri Richins wrote a children's...
30m Mar 22
30m
Kouri Richins: The Appellate Arguments That Have Merit — and the Premeditation Case the Record Built
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the legal aftermath of the Kouri Richins conviction gets its most rigorous examination — alongside the prosecutorial framework of premeditated spousal murder that the case sits within. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke work through the appellate record the defense constructed across t...
37m Mar 22
37m
Kouri Richins: The Defense That Couldn't Survive the Record — A Legal and Financial Breakdown of the Conviction
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Kouri Richins conviction demands two distinct legal examinations. The first is the defense strategy — zero witnesses, no affirmative case, everything built on reasonable doubt — and why it failed. The second is the financial record the prosecution used to establish motive, and why the defense narrative built around it never held up to scrutiny...
1hr Mar 22
1hr
Kouri Richins: How a Circumstantial Case Without a Murder Weapon Ended in Conviction
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Kouri Richins guilty verdict raises the legal question this case was always going to force: how does a prosecution without a murder weapon, a recovered drug, or a death certificate ruling of homicide still secure a conviction on all counts in three hours? Before the jury returned, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral...
48m Mar 22
48m
Kouri Richins: The Circumstantial Case That Held — A Legal Breakdown of the Verdict
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Kouri Richins guilty verdict demands a complete legal accounting of the evidence that built it and the defense strategy that failed to dismantle it. No murder weapon. No confession. No eyewitness. Prosecutors argued the case as death by a thousand cuts — and the jury returned guilty on all counts in three hours. Tony Brueski lays out the pros...
1hr 8m Mar 21
1hr 8m
Laken Snelling: The Manslaughter Charge, the Phone Record, and Whether the Evidence Holds
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Laken Snelling case receives the legal and evidentiary examination it requires. University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter following the death of her newborn son, who was found by her roommates on August 27, 2025 — wrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag in her closet. The Kentucky Medi...
42m Mar 21
42m
Kouri Richins: How the Defense Strategy Collapsed — A Legal Breakdown of the Road to Guilty
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, with the guilty verdict now on record, the legal decisions made during the final stretch of the Kouri Richins murder trial deserve a complete accounting. On Day 13, following the denial of a directed verdict motion and the final cross-examination of lead investigator Detective Jeff O'Driscoll, the defense rested without calling a single witness. T...
1hr 10m Mar 21
1hr 10m
Kouri Richins' Letter as Legal Evidence — What the Document Actually Tells Prosecutors
This week in True Crime Today's Week in Review, the Walk the Dog letter is not treated as a news story. It is treated as an exhibit. Tony Brueski examines the six-page jailhouse letter attributed to Kouri Richins with the specificity the legal record demands — each section analyzed not for shock value but for evidentiary function. The Ronney witness narrative and what it establishes about alleg...
48m Mar 21
48m
Kouri Richins: The Friend Said "Better If He Were Dead" — Why Every Perfect Crime Ends With Someone Talking
Kouri Richins is watching her story collapse in Utah. The friend who testified. The boyfriend. The housekeeper. The financial records. One by one, people are talking. This is Part 5 of The Perfect Wife — examining why the long con always ends. Denise Williams held hers together for seventeen years. Mike Williams disappeared December 2000. Duck hunting. Drowned, eaten by alligators. Denise ...
14m Mar 21
14m
Three Women: Kouri, Nancy, and Kelsey. Three Crimes and Many Unanswered Questions
A murder conviction that shut the courtroom doors but opened a flood of new questions about what’s next — that’s Kouri Richins. A disappearance now stretching into its seventh week, packed with leads but still no arrest — Nancy Guthrie. And a cop-on-cop shooting where the officer who was shot now faces trial in front of a judge alone — Kelsey Fitzsimmons. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behaviora...
59m Mar 20
59m
Murdaugh Legacy: The Dynasty Is Over — But Can Buster Escape What the Name Now Means?
The Murdaugh name meant power for a hundred years. Now it means murder. Part 5 of "The Name" explores what remains after the collapse. The victims still suffering — Gloria Satterfield's sons, Mallory Beach's family, every client Alex robbed. The survivors trying to rebuild. And Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son, carrying a name that will never mean what it used to mean. This episode asks th...
13m Mar 20
13m
Cop Shoots Cop — And the Officer Who Was Shot Is the One on Trial
Kelsey Fitzsimmons is a North Andover, Massachusetts police officer who was shot in the chest by a fellow officer at her own home in June 2025 — and she's the one facing criminal charges. Her trial on assault with a dangerous weapon begins March 23, and today she waived her right to a jury trial, placing her fate entirely in a judge's hands. The circumstances of the case are genuinely contested...
17m Mar 20
17m
Fitzsimmons Trial: Texts Unsealed, Jury Waived — The Double Standard This Case Exposes
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons assault trial opens Monday in Massachusetts — and two developments this week changed the entire shape of what happens next. Fitzsimmons waived her right to a jury trial. Judge Jeffrey Karp alone will decide whether the former North Andover police officer is guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly pointing her service weapon at a colleague who came to serv...
25m Mar 20
25m
FL v. Courtney Clenney — Everything You Need to Know Before Trial Starts April 27th
The Courtney Clenney murder trial begins April 27, 2026 in Miami — and if you haven't been following this case, now is the time to catch up. Because this one is not straightforward. Not even close. Clenney, known online as Courtney Tailor, is charged with second-degree murder in the April 2022 stabbing death of her boyfriend, cryptocurrency trader Christian Obumseli, inside their luxury Edgewa...
19m Mar 20
19m
Nancy Guthrie: What 46 Days With No Arrest Really Means
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona on February 1st. Six weeks later, investigators have not publicly named a suspect, have not made an arrest, and this week confirmed that newly recovered surveillance footage from her property shows nothing suspicious. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behav...
19m Mar 20
19m
The Kouri Richins Verdict — What the Conviction Answered and What It Didn't
Kouri Richins was convicted of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl and is heading to prison for life. It is one of the most documented, most debated poisoning cases in recent true crime history — and the conviction closes the legal chapter while leaving the human one wide open. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take on the post-verdic...
24m Mar 20
24m
Kouri Richins Trial 2026: The Children's Book, The Morning Show — How Narcissist Killers Need the Spotlight
After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" About a father who becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Performed the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy. Prosecutors say she killed him. This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's fatal flaw. The need to be seen. Even for murder. Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood thi...
12m Mar 20
12m
Kouri Richins: What This Case Reveals About Life Inside a Narcissistic Marriage
The Kouri Richins trial put evidence, testimony, and legal arguments on the record. This conversation puts the psychology on the record — and that's the part that speaks to the widest audience. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to walk through the complete psychological arc of the Richins marriage — using documented patterns of narcissistic and borderline relati...
1hr 3m Mar 19
1hr 3m
Alex Murdaugh Called 911 Twice — Once for Murder, Once for a Staged Shooting. Both Were Lies.
June 7, 2021: Alex Murdaugh finds his wife and son shot to death. September 4, 2021: Alex is "shot" on a rural roadside. The first was murder. The second was staged. Both stories fell apart. Part 4 of "The Name" covers the collapse of Alex Murdaugh — the murders, the fake shooting, the investigation, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in under three hours. The Snapchat video prov...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kouri Richins: The Psychology of the End — Why Leaving Is When It Gets Most Dangerous
In the Kouri Richins case, prosecutors allege that as Eric moved quietly toward the exit — consulting lawyers, adjusting finances — the situation escalated toward something irreversible. That pattern isn't unique to this case. It's documented, it's consistent, and it's something psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent decades studying. Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the f...
14m Mar 19
14m
Fitzsimmons Trial: Officer Shot by Police — Was It Suicide or an Attack?
A police officer is shot in her own home by a colleague. She survives. She says she was trying to kill herself. He says she tried to kill him. No cameras were rolling. Trial starts this week. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case out of North Andover, Massachusetts is one of the most genuinely contested criminal trials of 2026 — and True Crime Today has everything you need to understand it before that j...
54m Mar 19
54m
Kouri Richins: What Coercive Control Actually Looks Like Behind Closed Doors
The Kouri Richins case gave the public a front-row seat to financial manipulation, infidelity, and alleged murder. But the years leading up to all of it — the sustained, invisible dynamics inside that marriage — are the part of the story that resonates with the most people. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what the middle years of a relationship with...
12m Mar 19
12m
Kouri Richins: How a Narcissist Chooses Their Target and Makes You Fall in Love
The Kouri Richins murder case raised a question that goes far beyond the courtroom: what does the beginning of a relationship like this actually look like — and how does someone as grounded as Eric Richins not see it? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to walk through the first phase of a relationship with someone who operates with narcissistic or borderline pers...
16m Mar 19
16m
Kouri Richins Convicted: Experts Break Down the Grief Book Interview She Gave Before Her Arrest
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder in the death of her husband Eric Richins. Before her arrest, she appeared on a local morning show to promote a children's book about grief — a book she paid a ghostwriting service to write, presented publicly as her own, weeks after Eric's death. Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chi...
22m Mar 19
22m
Kouri Richins Trial 2026: Secret Boyfriend, Hidden Debt — The Premeditated Mind of Wives Who Plan Murder
Kouri Richins allegedly had a boyfriend while married to Eric. She texted Josh Grossman about marriage. She had a secret $250,000 HELOC. Prosecutors say she searched for fentanyl. Two lives. The wife Eric knew. And the woman planning his death. This is Part 3 of The Perfect Wife — examining the premeditated mind. Melanie McGuire lived this pattern to its extreme. On April 28, 2004, she signe...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kouri Richins Convicted: A Complete Look at the Trial — Prosecution, Defense, and What Comes Next
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke cover the full arc of the case — what the prosecution built across three weeks of testimony, how the defense fought without calling a single witness, and what legal arguments exist now that the verdict is in. Bob Motta breaks down the prosecuti...
1hr 14m Mar 18
1hr 14m
Alex Murdaugh: $4 Million Stolen, Nobody Asked — If You've Watched a System Protect the Wrong Person, Listen
Gloria Satterfield worked for the Murdaughs for twenty years. After she died, Alex promised to take care of her sons. He stole four million dollars from them instead. Part 3 of "The Name" explores the system of silence that enabled Alex Murdaugh for decades. The lawyer who helped structure the fake settlement. The insurance company that paid out without questions. The community that extended ...
14m Mar 18
14m
Kouri Richins: After the Conviction — What a Potential Appeal Would Actually Argue
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. The legal fight doesn't end with a verdict. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine the appellate record built during this trial and what arguments have real traction. The video of investigators directing Carmen Lauber toward conviction — admitted at trial, seen by the jury, ...
23m Mar 18
23m
The McCasland Disappearance: What Law Enforcement Has Said — And What It Hasn't
Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland has been missing since February 27, 2026. The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation with FBI support. Authorities have confirmed no evidence of foul play while stating all possible scenarios remain active. After three weeks, more than 700 homes canvassed, and extensive search operations across Albuquerque's Sandia foothills, the...
15m Mar 18
15m
Kouri Richins: The Controlling Husband Narrative — And Why the Financial Record Tells a Different Story
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the defense has worked to portray Eric Richins as a financially controlling husband who left his wife feeling trapped and overlooked. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to all charges. But the documented financial record tells a different story — and this episode is a commentary and opinion breakdown of what that record actually contains. According to fore...
34m Mar 18
34m
Kouri Richins Conviction: What the Defense Built — And Why It Wasn't Enough
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Her defense team called zero witnesses and rested without presenting an affirmative case — betting that the prosecution had failed to meet its burden. The jury disagreed. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine what the defense accomplished during the prosecution's own case, ...
26m Mar 18
26m
Kouri Richins Found Guilty: What the Prosecution Built — And How It Convicted Her
A jury has convicted Kouri Richins of aggravated murder in the death of her husband, Eric Richins. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine what the prosecution built and why it worked. The dead man's warning. The insurance timeline a handwriting expert connected to the same period phone records show Kouri contacting her housekeep...
26m Mar 18
26m
Kouri Richins 2026: Eric Said She Might Be Poisoning Him — Bobby Curley Said It Out Loud to a Nurse
Eric Richins told friends after Valentine's Day 2022 that he thought Kouri might be poisoning him. He'd been violently ill. According to testimony, the concern was genuine. A month later, he was dead. This is Part 2 of The Perfect Wife — examining what happens when victims see the truth and still can't escape. Bobby Curley saw it too. On September 22, 1991, he grabbed a nurse's arm in a hosp...
18m Mar 18
18m
Richins, Guthrie, Snelling: A Full Legal and Investigative Panel With Coffindaffer and Dreeke
Three active criminal cases. A murder trial going to the jury. A kidnapping investigation at day forty-one. A manslaughter indictment built on phone evidence and a precise legal threshold. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join True Crime Today for a multi-part panel covering all three with the legal and investigative precision each deserves. T...
1hr 3m Mar 17
1hr 3m
Alex Murdaugh: She Caught the Lies and Ended Up Apologizing — You Know This Pattern
He was the most charming man in the room. Everyone loved Alex Murdaugh. That was the mask. Underneath was a man stealing millions, feeding an opioid addiction, living a double life that required constant crimes to maintain. Part 2 of "The Name" explores covert narcissism — the kind that hides behind charm. The kind that makes you feel special while managing you completely. The kind that makes...
15m Mar 17
15m