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The Reiners: When Staying Is the Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do
Rob Reiner told friends he was afraid his son could hurt him — then brought Nick to a Christmas party because he was afraid to leave him alone. That contradiction is the trap millions of people live inside every day. This episode is about the psychology of staying — the guilt weaponization, the sunk cost, the belief that walking away means you failed. The Reiners did everything right by every m...
47m • Feb 22
47m
Robin Dreeke on Nancy Guthrie: The Blind Spots That Let Someone Disappear
She had a doorbell camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. Every layer of modern security we're told should keep us safe. And none of it mattered. Nancy Guthrie vanished from her own home and twelve days later, with more than a hundred investigators and eighteen thousand tips, there is no vehicle of interest, no named suspect, and no confirmed sighting. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke sp...
35m • Feb 21
35m
Murdaugh Appeal: The Justices Had Questions — The State Didn't Have Answers
The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today, and the state walked into a courtroom that wasn't friendly. The justices pressed prosecutor Creighton Waters on both tracks of the appeal — Becky Hill's jury tampering and the evidentiary errors at trial — and the exchanges revealed a bench that has serious doubts about what happened below. Justice James opened b...
32m • Feb 21
32m
Nancy Guthrie: The Prosecution Problem and the Public Making It Worse
The FBI released surveillance footage. They're looking for multiple suspects. A man was detained in Rio Rico for eight hours and released. An imposter ransom demand led to a California arrest. And eighteen thousand tips are now competing with millions of amateur verdicts being rendered in comment sections across the internet. Two experts break down why both sides of this equation — the legal ca...
30m • Feb 21
30m
Kouri Richins: The Children's Book, the Jail Letter, and What FBI Training Reveals
In March 2023, Kouri Richins appeared on television promoting a children's book she'd written. Are You With Me? featured her husband Eric as an angel-winged father watching over their sons. Two months later, she was arrested for his murder. Six months after that, prosecutors found a letter in her jail cell allegedly scripting false testimony for her family. Robin Dreeke's FBI career was built ...
17m • Feb 21
17m
Faddis on Richins and Gray: A Former Prosecutor Dismantles Two Landmark Trials
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis takes on two of the biggest criminal cases in the country in one comprehensive interview — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder trial and the Colin Gray parental accountability case. In the Richins case, the defense has won real pretrial battles: a recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed financial charges, and witness intimidation allegations against ...
51m • Feb 21
51m
Kouri Richins: FBI Analyst Reveals the Behavioral Red Flags Before Eric's Death
Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies taken out without Eric's knowledge. A confrontation in 2020 when he discovered the financial fraud. An alleged failed attempt on Valentine's Day 2022. Then his death eighteen days later. FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent his career profiling individuals capable of sustained deception and violence. His "Life Arc" framework examines the pr...
21m • Feb 21
21m
Colin Gray Trial: FBI Warnings, an Alleged Parkland Shrine, and 29 Felony Counts
Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis dismantles the case piece by piece. The alleged warning signs prosecutors presented span years. An all...
18m • Feb 20
18m
The Reiner Tragedy: Peace Without Resolution
The apology isn't coming. The ending won't make sense. The trial won't fix what's broken. Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Motions. Their brother's face across the room. And at the end of all that waiting — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead. The verdict gives an outcome. It doesn't give peace. That's the trap of waiting for external reso...
23m • Feb 20
23m
Kouri Richins: "The Michael Jackson Stuff" and the Evidence Trail Prosecutors Built
The pretrial wins belonged to the defense. But the prosecution is walking into the Kouri Richins trial with a case they've spent four years constructing — and it starts with a prior poisoning attempt the jury will hear alongside the murder charge. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state's strongest cards. Prosecutors allege Kouri laced Eric's sandwich with fentanyl on Valentine's D...
13m • Feb 20
13m
Kouri Richins Trial Preview: What the Defense Doesn't Want You to Overlook
The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 23rd — and the defense has been quietly dismantling the prosecution's case for months. A recanting drug source who now says it wasn't fentanyl. A lead detective accused of threatening witnesses. Two excluded prosecution experts. And 26 financial crime charges the judge refused to let the jury hear. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eri...
21m • Feb 20
21m
Colin Gray: The Father Who Allegedly Armed a School Shooter
Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder — not because he pulled a trigger, but because prosecutors say he put the weapon in his son's hands and ignored every warning that followed. His son, Colt Gray, allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on September 4, 2024 and opened fire, killing two students and two teachers and wounding nine others in the deadliest school ...
18m • Feb 20
18m
Nancy Guthrie: The Suspect, the Chaos, and a Family Under Siege
The Nancy Guthrie case is a psychological event as much as a criminal investigation. The man on the doorbell footage planned for weeks and still made mistakes that suggest he'd never done anything like this before. His DNA produced no CODIS matches — a person capable of kidnapping an 84-year-old medically fragile woman who has apparently never been in the system. The investigation has been floo...
45m • Feb 20
45m
Monique Tepe Did Everything Right — The System Still Failed Her
Michael McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he would find her wherever she went. According to witnesses cited in an unsealed Franklin County affidavit, those threats were made during and after a marriage that allegedly included strangulation, sexual violence, and sustained emotional abuse. Monique left. She divorced McKee in 2...
16m • Feb 20
16m
Guthrie Family Cleared — But the Psychological Damage Is Already Done
Sheriff Chris Nanos stood at a podium and called the Guthrie family "victims, plain and simple." He said suggesting otherwise is cruel. He begged the media to report with compassion. That was yesterday — seventeen days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and only after weeks of online accusations, body language analysis from strangers, and conspiracy threads targeting Savannah's sister Annie and h...
16m • Feb 19
16m
Nick Reiner: The Lies His Parents Had to Believe
You knew. Somewhere underneath the hoping and the trying — you knew this wasn't going to end well. And you stayed anyway. Not because you were stupid. Because the truth was unsurvivable. Rob and Michele Reiner weren't naive. Rob directed films for forty years. He understood how stories telegraph their endings. These were not people who got fooled easily. And yet they built frameworks that kep...
27m • Feb 19
27m
Nancy Guthrie Case: The Noise That Might Be Burying the Truth
Fake ransom notes. A federal arrest for a fraudulent text. A live-television detention that led nowhere. Sixteen contaminated gloves. A promising DNA lead that just collapsed. Fifty thousand tips and still no suspect. The Nancy Guthrie case has generated more noise in seventeen days than most investigations produce in a year — and the psychological toll of that chaos is hitting everyone involve...
12m • Feb 19
12m
Nancy Guthrie Day 19: Wrong DNA, Wrong Theory — What the Evidence Actually Shows
Everyone is talking about the wrong DNA and the wrong theory. The glove found two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home dominated headlines this week when CODIS returned no match. But that glove DNA doesn't match the DNA found inside her property. Two profiles. Two people. The glove may be completely unconnected to this crime. The DNA that matters came from inside Nancy's home. It doesn't belong to ...
22m • Feb 19
22m
Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper: What His Choices Reveal About His Mind
The man who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home prepared for weeks — and still made mistakes that could define the entire investigation. He surveilled the house. He masked his face. He brought a weapon and a backpack. But he dropped a glove, wore gear traceable to Walmart, and left behind DNA that just came back with zero matches in the national database. This is someone who planned but cou...
17m • Feb 19
17m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Death: The Red Flags Her Family Allegedly Missed
Two versions of the same family. One told to a judge. One allegedly lived by the girl who's now dead. On November 7th, 2025, Anna Kepner—an 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida—was found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Wrapped in blankets. Covered with life vests. Her death was ruled mechanical asphyxiation. Her 16-year-old stepbrother, who shared that cabin, ...
15m • Feb 19
15m
Defense Attorney Bob: Guthrie, Kepner, and Richins Legal Analysis
Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit. The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution's case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly released early. FBI allegedly wanted evidence processed at Quantico; it was sent to a private Florida l...
1hr 6m • Feb 19
1hr 6m
Kouri Richins: What the Jury Won't Hear Changes Everything
The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children's book about grief. Case closed, right? Not even close. As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keeps shifting. The prosecution's key witness—the man who allegedly supplied the fentanyl—now says...
31m • Feb 19
31m
Kouri Richins: What the Defense Is Working With Before Trial
Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt. Robert Crozier—the man prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper—recanted in October 2025. He now says he sold O...
21m • Feb 18
21m
The Reiner Tragedy: Mourning Someone Still Alive
They're still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it. And you're not allowed to grieve them. Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th. But there was no funeral. No acknowledgment. Just a slow-motion vanishing where the person th...
16m • Feb 18
16m
Anna Kepner Case: Inside the Sealed Federal Juvenile Proceedings
Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means. Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly a bar hold restraint. Her 16-year-old stepbrother a...
13m • Feb 18
13m
Nancy Guthrie Day 18: CODIS Fails, the Glove Is a Dead End, and the Investigation Can't Keep Up
Eighteen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, the evidence the nation was banking on just came back empty. DNA recovered from a black glove found two miles from Nancy's home produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI's national database of over 26 million offender profiles. But the bigger problem isn't the miss — it's the fact that th...
21m • Feb 18
21m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Defense Case Is Already Building
No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance—but defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution's case may already be damaged. The Pima County Sheriff's Office reportedly released the crime scene early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood droplets on the porch before it was re-secured. Evidence that the FBI allegedly wanted processed at Quantico was sent to a priv...
32m • Feb 18
32m
Mickey Stines: The Mental Breakdown Nobody Stopped
In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong. He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going to kill his wife and daughter. He made someone put a bulletproof vest on his wife. A local atto...
17m • Feb 18
17m
Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert — The Suspect, the Sheriff, and the Silence
A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed. Nancy's predictable routine and employed staff created multiple intelligence access points. Insid...
1hr 8m • Feb 18
1hr 8m
Judge Rejects Plea Deal in Banfield Case — Juliana Magalhães Gets 10 Years | Au Pair Sentencing
The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars, delivering i...
19m • Feb 18
19m
Nancy Guthrie Case: What the DNA, the Silence, and Fifteen Days Without Proof of Life Mean
The DNA from a glove matching the suspect's is going into CODIS. The FBI's cell tower team is mapping every phone near Nancy's home during the critical windows. Walmart records are being cross-referenced. Cheek swabs from people of interest already exist. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through every active thread that could produce a name — and confronts what the ransom silence actually ...
19m • Feb 17
19m
The Reiner Tragedy: When Love Becomes a Trap
Eighteen rehab stints. Millions of dollars. A guesthouse on the property. A movie made together about healing. Rob and Michele Reiner gave Nick everything for seventeen years. They never walked away. And they're dead. This episode isn't about blame — what happened is the responsibility of one person alone. But it's about a question that haunts everyone who's ever loved someone dangerous: when...
27m • Feb 17
27m
Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert Breaks Down the Investigation's Failures
He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told reporters they don't know who's in charge. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through fifteen ...
20m • Feb 17
20m
Nancy Guthrie Day 16: The Glove, the DNA, and the Theory We Called Two Weeks Ago
One glove. Unknown male DNA. And an investigation that just shifted beneath the surface. Sixteen days after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI confirmed that a glove found two miles away contains a DNA profile matching the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell footage. That profile is headed to CODIS — but there's no guarantee it returns a name. If the suspe...
48m • Feb 17
48m
Nancy Guthrie: What the FBI's January Footage Requests Actually Mean
The FBI asked Nancy Guthrie's neighbors for footage from two narrow windows — January 11th from 9 p.m. to midnight and January 31st from 9:30 to 11 a.m. — three weeks and hours before she was taken. That specificity tells you investigators already have digital evidence pointing to those moments. A retired FBI behavioral expert examines what those date-targeted requests reveal, what the suspect'...
29m • Feb 17
29m
Nancy Guthrie: The Complete FBI Expert Interview — All Three Parts
We gave Robin Dreeke the entire Nancy Guthrie case and asked him to break down what no one else is covering. Three parts. Three angles. The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from amateur analysts who think watching videos makes them investigators. What mass observation does to a case — to the family, to witnesses, to the perpetrator watching themselves get dissected. The Architecture ...
50m • Feb 17
50m
Nancy Guthrie: Complete FBI Breakdown with Jennifer Coffindaffer
The most in-depth analysis of the Nancy Guthrie case anywhere. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for an exclusive interview breaking down everything we know about the investigation. She analyzes the doorbell video frame by frame — what the suspect's equipment, movement, and improvisation reveal about who they are. She goes inside the manhunt — how the FBI pro...
54m • Feb 17
54m
Paul Caneiro Found Guilty — The Evidence That Ended Him
Five weeks of trial. Less than five hours of deliberation. Guilty on all counts. Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of murdering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia in their Colts Neck home in November 2018. The jury found him guilty on fifteen charges including four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated arson. The first thing jur...
16m • Feb 17
16m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: Inside the FBI's Tip Line Chaos
Over eighteen thousand tips. A suspect detained and released. A glove found in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel posting evidence from his personal account. Neighbors asked about trucks while the sheriff says no vehicle of interest exists. On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes us inside the machinery of the Nancy Guthrie manhunt. She explai...
23m • Feb 16
23m
Nick Reiner: The Crushing Weight of "I Knew" He Was Dangerous
"I'm petrified of Nick. I think my own son can hurt me." Rob Reiner said that out loud. At a party. Hours before he was killed. This episode isn't about what Nick Reiner allegedly did. It's about the people left behind who saw something coming and couldn't stop it. The specific, isolating guilt of foresight that fails to save anyone. Rob knew. He said it in front of witnesses. Danny Spilar, ...
20m • Feb 16
20m
Nancy Guthrie Video Breakdown: FBI Agent Reveals What the Footage Shows
The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — six photos and three videos from her doorbell camera showing a masked, armed individual approaching her home the morning she disappeared. On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers an exclusive tactical analysis of what the footage actually reveals. Not behavioral guess...
16m • Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie: The Raid, The Release, The Reality | Weekend Breakdown
The biggest show of force in two weeks—and it produced nothing. Friday night: SWAT raid two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. Three detained. A "person of interest" questioned at a Culver's parking lot. His Range Rover searched and towed. Saturday morning: Everyone released. No arrests. Sheriff Nanos confirming "no sign of Nancy was found." Then Nanos told the New York Times finding her could...
36m • Feb 16
36m
Alex Murdaugh Appeal: Justices Grill Prosecution on "Rogue Clerk" and Financial Crimes
The South Carolina Supreme Court just held oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal—and it did not go well for the prosecution. On February 11, 2026, all five justices heard arguments on whether Murdaugh deserves a new trial for the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul. What unfolded was a masterclass in appellate pressure. Chief Justice John Kittredge didn't mince words, calling former Col...
2hr 25m • Feb 16
2hr 25m
Former FBI Agent Coffindaffer: What the Evidence Fight Means for Finding Nancy Guthrie
Federal sources say Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — a glove found inside the home and DNA samples routed to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. An FBI source called the decision "dumb" and "insane." Nanos says it's "not even close to the truth." The FBI hasn't backed his account. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer b...
16m • Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Does the Man on Camera Match the Operation Behind Him?
The man on the porch is on camera. The question is whether the planning profile matches what you're looking at. Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was built on understanding the dynamic between the person who directs an operation and the person who executes it. He knows what it looks like when someone acts independently and what it looks like...
36m • Feb 16
36m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Behavioral Analyst Reads Every Public Voice in This Case
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. We asked Robin Dreeke to read every public voice in this case and tell us who's being straight. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining when communications are authentic, when ...
35m • Feb 16
35m
Kouri Richins: The Systemic Blind Spots That Let Poisoners Walk Free
The DHS warning about Kouri Richins isn't just about her case. It's about what we're missing. America's autopsy rate has collapsed to 8.5%, with natural-looking deaths autopsied just 4.3% of the time. Death certificates are wrong roughly a third of the time. The January 2026 Department of Homeland Security bulletin documented seventeen spousal poisoning cases since 2014 with at least eleven de...
41m • Feb 15
41m
Nancy Guthrie: What the FBI Footage Reveals About Who Planned This
The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera — six photos and three video clips showing a masked individual at her front door the morning she disappeared. He covered his face. He covered his hands. He covered nearly every inch of skin. Then he reached the front door, found a camera, turned around, and grabbed a plant from the garden to cover the lens. We brought that ...
44m • Feb 15
44m
Anna Kepner: The Text Messages Her Stepbrother's Parents Sent Hours After Her Body Was Found
Newly released text messages between the parents of Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother reveal what they were really focused on in the hours after her body was found — and it wasn't grief. According to court filings in an ongoing custody battle, the suspect's mother texted that her son "just keeps repeating over and over he can't remember anything." The messages show discussions about k...
35m • Feb 15
35m
Nancy Guthrie: How Predators Select Their Targets
The predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or speed. It's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention. This episode is an evergreen examination of how predators operate before they strike — the surveillance phase most people never see, the target selection process that runs on cold risk-benefit analysis, and the insider threat pattern documented across hundreds of F...
38m • Feb 15
38m

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