What Does Every Defense Move In The Anna Kepner Case Actually Signal?
The defense team in the Anna Kepner case has made a series of choices that, taken together, tell you a great deal about where they believe this case is headed. They reportedly requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered the not guilty plea without their client in the room. They're asking for the same judge who released him in February to decide the detention question again. This look ...
31m Jul 04
31m
How Did Sandra Costilla's Case Change The Entire Rex Heuermann Timeline?
Before prosecutors linked Sandra Costilla to Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach killings were understood to begin around 2007. Sandra's death in 1993 pushed the timeline back by fourteen years — and changed everything about the scope of what investigators believe Heuermann did. This look back examines the case of the earliest known victim and what her connection to the investigation reveals. Sandr...
32m Jul 03
32m
What Does D4VD's Defense Statement Actually Tell You?
 Burke's attorneys didn't say he was innocent. They didn't say he didn't know Celeste Rivas Hernandez. They said he "was not the cause of her death." That phrasing is specific. It's surgical. And this look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, breaks down exactly what it tells you about where the defense is planting its flag. The statement doesn't deny the relationship. I...
30m Jul 03
30m
What One Decision Cost Kouri Richins' Defense The Verdict?
The Kouri Richins defense did real damage on cross-examination — and still lost on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines a strategy that exposed genuine weaknesses in the state's case and asks why it wasn't enough. The cracks were there. The jury saw video of investigators pressing the prosecution's central...
1hr Jul 03
1hr
What Did The Reiners' Counselors Warn Them About Their Son?
Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick. They sent him to treatment seventeen times. They let him live close to them. They even made a film together about his struggles. And at one point, when professionals warned them that Nick was lying and manipulating them, they pushed back on that advice — publicly siding with their son over the experts. That choice s...
1hr 4m Jul 03
1hr 4m
What Does The Federal Indictment In The Anna Kepner Case Actually Tell You?
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder requires proof of intent. The additional charge tells investigators found evidence that goes beyond the asphyxiation. This look back examines wha...
36m Jul 03
36m
Which Piece Of Evidence Made Rex Heuermann Plead Guilty?
Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann's hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, a technology admitted in a New York courtroom for the first time. And the original DNA connection came from a pizza crust recovered during surveillance. This look back...
37m Jul 02
37m
What Did Neo Langston's Posts Reveal About The D4VD Investigation?
When Neo Langston — D4VD's closest friend and frequent collaborator — posted privately that he's legally clear and has receipts, the posts leaked within hours and became the first real crack in D4VD's inner circle. But a statement analyst who reviewed every word found something more telling than what Neo said: the careful, deliberate absence of any reference to the crime, the person involved, o...
43m Jul 02
43m
How Did Prosecutors Convict Kouri Richins With No Murder Weapon?
Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud — and the jury needed only about three hours to get there. But the case against her was built almost entirely on circumstance. This look back lays out exactly how the state assembled it, piece by piece. The evidence the prosecution stacked up was staggering in its breadth even as the phy...
49m Jul 02
49m
What Was Nick Reiner's "Not Guilty" Plea Actually Hiding?
When Nick Reiner's public defender entered a not guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder, it sounded like a denial. It wasn't. Under California law, that plea is a strategic placeholder — and understanding why reveals exactly where this case is headed. He's charged in the stabbing deaths of his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, with a special-circumstance allegat...
30m Jul 02
30m
Maternal Instinct: The Question Taylor Parker’s Entire Interrogation Forces You to Ask
Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It's what kind of person is capable of doing it. That's the question this part of the series refuses to look away from. Set aside the evidence and the timeline and look at the person. A woman who faked a pregnancy for the better part of...
19m Jul 02
19m
Nancy Guthrie, Alex Murdaugh — WHAT Just Surfaced?!
A defense attorney’s read on two cases that just shifted in the same week. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the contents of a second note from the alleged kidnappers were made public months after it was sent — claiming Nancy died shortly after being taken. Investigators reportedly consider it legitimate. Bob Motta evaluates whether the note functions as a confession and what it means for a pros...
1hr 6m Jul 02
1hr 6m
Alex Murdaugh: What the First People at the Scene Said
Dick Harpootlian arrived at Alex Murdaugh’s first retrial hearing carrying transcripts of interviews with the first people to arrive at Moselle after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. What’s in those transcripts, according to Harpootlian: differing accounts that suggest other individuals were present at the property that night. Accounts that don’t align. And a defense team that is now a...
20m Jul 01
20m
Alex Murdaugh: Can the State Still Prove WHY He Did It?!
The prosecution’s motive theory rested on financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court called excessive. Twelve and a half hours of it. Ten days of witnesses describing Murdaugh stealing from clients and loved ones. The court said the trial judge allowed the state to go “far too long and far too deep.” That testimony shaped how the first jury saw the defendant before they evaluated a single pie...
16m Jul 01
16m
Maternal Instinct: How Taylor Parker Handles the Investigators Through Her Interrogation
Stripped to its essentials, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a duel. Trained investigators sit on one side of the room. On the other sits a woman who had already spent the better part of a year proving she could keep the truth from everyone she knew. This part of the series watches that duel from start to finish. Tony treats the interrogation as the back-and-forth it act...
24m Jul 01
24m
Alex Murdaugh Was Denied WHAT Before His Retrial?!
The defense asked for a laptop so Alex Murdaugh could review discovery from prison. The judge denied it after the warden said no inmate gets one. The compromise leaves Murdaugh dependent on his attorneys to bring their own devices to a conference room. With a trial date set for April 2027 and the defense claiming they need six months just to get eight new expert witnesses up to speed, the logis...
15m Jul 01
15m
Nancy Guthrie: Is the Death Note Actually a Confession?!
The second note sent after Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping said she died shortly after being taken. Investigators called it a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappers. Not a hoax. Not one of the fakes that the FBI has been arresting people for. If that assessment holds, the people who took an 84-year-old grandmother from her home left behind a written admission that she died in their cust...
37m Jul 01
37m
Maternal Instinct: The Thing You Never See Taylor Parker Do in Her Whole Interrogation
Everyone who watches the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct comes away unsettled, and most of them can't quite say why. This part of the series names it: it's not what she does on the tape. It's the thing you never see her do, across the entire interrogation. Look at the situation she's in. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is in a hospital, surrounded by pol...
26m Jul 01
26m
Murdaugh’s DNA, Reiner’s Trust, Guthrie’s Ransom — What You Haven’t Heard
Three cases the audience has been fighting about. Three details nobody’s giving a straight answer on. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover them all in one full-length discussion — Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Alex Murdaugh — and challenge the conclusions the comments have already reached. The Guthrie sheriff only “thinks” the FBI arrested people for fake notes — he doesn’t know. The Reiner c...
57m Jul 01
57m
Bryan Kohberger Never Had a Trial — and What His Defense Cost You Is Still Under Seal
The Bryan Kohberger case cost more than eight million dollars in public money. He confessed. There was no trial. And the people who paid for it have never been shown the full bill. This is the story of what happens when real money gets treated like it belongs to nobody. Nearly five and a half million went to his defense — attorneys, experts, investigators — all on the public dime after he was ...
18m Jun 30
18m
Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial May Come Down to Evidence SLED Never Bothered to Test
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction after ruling that court clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury. Now the defense is building the retrial around a piece of evidence the state never fully processed: DNA from an unknown male found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the audience’s hardest questions. Mur...
17m Jun 30
17m
Maternal Instinct: What’s Unsettling About Taylor Parker Isn’t What She Says in the Interrogation
Ask people what disturbs them about the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct, and most will reach for something she said. But the truly unsettling thing on that tape isn't the words. It's the way she carries herself while the words come out. Consider the moment she's living through. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is in a hospital surrounded by police, the ce...
19m Jun 30
19m
What Nick Reiner Just Demanded From the Trust His Murdered Parents Left Behind
Nick Reiner has been charged with stabbing his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, to death in their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty. And from his jail cell, he has filed a petition demanding over a million dollars from the trust his murdered parents established — money he says he needs to hire private defense counsel. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down to tak...
13m Jun 30
13m
The FBI Reportedly Made Multiple Arrests Over Fake Notes in the Nancy Guthrie Case
Sheriff Nanos told a local radio host that he thinks the FBI has made “a number of arrests” for fake ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case. The word that matters is “thinks.” The lead investigator is not certain what the FBI has done inside his own case. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take apart what that uncertainty reveals about the state of this investigation. Nanos dismissed the TMZ emaile...
28m Jun 30
28m
Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Spent Almost a Year Hiding Before Her Interrogation
Most coverage of the Taylor Parker case jumps straight to the hospital. But the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct can't really be understood without the year that came first. For months before any of this, Parker had been telling the people closest to her that she was pregnant — and none of it was true. Keeping a lie like that running takes a specific kind of person. You have to...
19m Jun 30
19m
Nancy Guthrie's Case: Stalled for Good, or About to Blow Wide Open?
The Nancy Guthrie case pulls in two directions at once. The notes contradict each other. One set of reporting says the investigation is stuck; another says an arrest is near. Both can't be true. In this full conversation, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer works through all three fronts. The notes: a message reportedly saying the 84-year-old is "buried with nature," a separate TMZ...
59m Jun 30
59m
Maggie Murdaugh's Fingernails Held Something the State Logged and Then Never Tested
Days before Alex Murdaugh returns to court for the first hearing of his retrial, his defense team filed three motions. Two are the kind of thing you'd expect. One could matter more than anything else in the case. The first asks to move the trial out of the entire Fourteenth Judicial Circuit — five South Carolina counties where, the defense argues, the Murdaugh name has been tied to the legal s...
15m Jun 29
15m
Nancy Guthrie's 'Porch Guy' — How Close the FBI Really Is, Per One Agent
For months the Nancy Guthrie case looked stalled — until a retired FBI agent claimed it's about to break. On Megyn Kelly's show, Maureen O'Connell said her sources indicate investigators are closing in on "porch guy," the masked man filmed outside the 84-year-old's home the night she vanished. She put her confidence at 75 percent and said an arrest would open the floodgates. Retired FBI Specia...
19m Jun 29
19m
Maternal Instinct: Watch Taylor Parker Refuse the One Thing in Her Interrogation
Most people know the Taylor Parker story from the headlines. The version captured on the hospital bodycams in Maternal Instinct is so much worse. This breakdown starts at the beginning of that footage: the moment Parker arrives at the ER cradling a newborn and telling everyone she'd just given birth on the side of the road. She'd made the same claim minutes earlier on a 911 call, sobbing that s...
21m Jun 29
21m
Did Nancy Guthrie's Investigators Already Lose Their Only Shot?
The uncomfortable possibility in the Nancy Guthrie case is that nobody is close to anything. Howard Blum's reporting in Air Mail describes investigators who privately fear an early mistake already cost them the case — suspects cleared one after another, leads drying up, the task force forced back to the ransom notes for lack of anything better. Brian Entin's sources say the same: the person who...
16m Jun 29
16m
What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Put in That Note — and Why It Doesn't Add Up
There is no single note in the Nancy Guthrie case. There's a contradicting pile of them. A message reportedly tied to the man who took the 84-year-old from her Tucson home claims she's "buried with nature." A separate sender was telling TMZ "time is no longer of the essence." And whether the kidnapper ever apologized depends entirely on which outlet you trust. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennife...
25m Jun 29
25m
What Did the Caller Know About Nancy Guthrie That Only an Insider Could?
A caller provided information about what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. That detail narrows the universe of possible sources dramatically. Someone who knows what an abduction victim was wearing either saw her after she was taken, received a description from someone who did, or was part of the operation. The FBI has been fielding tips since February. This one carries a different weight. Separately,...
29m Jun 29
29m
What Are Joseph and Kendra Duggar’s Children Describing About Life Inside That Home?
The Duggar family built a brand on the image of wholesome Christian parenting. Joseph and Kendra presented themselves as the clean branch — the ones who stayed out of the headlines, who smiled through depositions, who begged judges to seal documents. But their children are now describing what life looked like inside the household, and it maps directly onto the IBLP doctrine the family has never...
44m Jun 28
44m
What Could Alex Murdaugh’s Longtime Housekeeper Mean for a Second Trial?
Prosecutors asked Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. Three hours on the stand. But Blanca had been inside that household for twenty years. She knew things about the Murdaugh home that no crime scene technician could learn in a walkthrough — which drawers Maggie opened, how Alex’s routine shifted, what the house felt like when something was wrong. In her first ex...
34m Jun 28
34m
What Did the Murdaugh Defense Find Under Maggie’s Fingernails That Was Never Tested?
The kennel video destroyed Alex Murdaugh’s alibi at the first trial. Audio placed him at the dog kennels minutes before Maggie and Paul were shot. Multiple witnesses identified his voice. He admitted he lied. The jury convicted in three hours. Now Dick Harpootlian says his team has a strategy to counter it — and he won’t say what it is. On the prosecution side, the Supreme Court has ordered th...
44m Jun 28
44m
What Did an Anonymous Caller Claim About Where Nancy Guthrie Was Taken?
An anonymous tip pointed investigators toward a shallow grave south of the border. Nancy Guthrie’s home is less than seventy miles from Mexico. She was reportedly taken from her bed, without shoes or medication, in the middle of the night. The logistics required to move an eighty-four-year-old woman across an international border suggest planning, vehicles, and a destination — not a random crim...
34m Jun 28
34m
Why Can Rex Heuermann Never Be Charged in the States Where He Owns Land?
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight Gilgo Beach murders. Three consecutive life sentences. A hundred years stacked on top. No appeal. The case is closed — in New York. But the judge who sentenced him said “eight that we know of,” and South Carolina and Nevada both have death penalty statutes and both have properties connected to Heuermann where women disappeared. Before the sentence, Heuerma...
1hr 9m Jun 28
1hr 9m
Did the Trust Nick Reiner’s Parents Created Become the Reason They Died?
Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son when he was a baby. They wrote the terms. They chose the language — “mandatory and unconditional.” Half at thirty, the rest at thirty-five. No conditions. No discretion. No off switch. Nick turned thirty in September 2023. The money reportedly never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead. The 136-page probate petition his lawye...
38m Jun 27
38m
What Made Anna Kepner’s Judge Lock Up the Defendant He Had Just Set Free?
Judge Edwin Torres released Timothy Hudson four months ago. He called the government’s case “a much closer call” and said he would not characterize it as strong. Then on June 10th, the same judge reversed himself, ordered Hudson detained, and said from the bench that he could “snap at any time” and that no conditions of release can protect the community. That reversal tells you something change...
38m Jun 27
38m
Why Is a Crypto-Security Firm Now Investigating Nancy Guthrie’s Disappearance?
Two theories are converging on the same conclusion: Nancy Guthrie may not have been the intended target. Her neighbor has maintained a walk-in vault of rare gems at his property for more than four decades. His biggest annual exhibition event coincided with the week Nancy disappeared. The Jewelers’ Security Alliance issued a crime alert citing the Guthrie family’s industry connections. Google Ma...
46m Jun 27
46m
What Were Mackenzie Shirilla and Her Mother Hiding Behind a Code on Monitored Prison Lines?
Natalie Shirilla told her daughter on a monitored prison call that rehabilitation programs are for “actual criminals.” Her daughter was convicted of driving a hundred miles an hour into a building in Strongsville, Ohio, killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal. And the family is still operating as though this was a misunderstanding. Pros...
54m Jun 27
54m
Nancy Guthrie's Abductor Put It In Writing — So Why Is No One Charged?
Everything in the Nancy Guthrie case, in one conversation — and at the center of it, a question that should bother everyone: how is there this much, and still no one in custody? This is a legal breakdown featuring attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski connects the three pieces that only make sense together. First, the note sent to a Tucson newsroom that didn't ...
54m Jun 27
54m
Nancy Guthrie: The Ransom Note Asked for $70K — The Reward Is $1.2 Million
The ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case demanded one Bitcoin, worth roughly seventy thousand dollars at the time. The reward for information about Nancy’s disappearance stands at 1.2 million dollars. If you actually know where Nancy Guthrie is, you don’t demand a fraction of what you could earn legally by providing real information to the FBI. The math only makes sense if you have nothing to...
15m Jun 26
15m
Nancy Guthrie: Who Strangers Decided Was The Man At Her Door
For everyone following the Nancy Guthrie case, here's a thread that's gone mostly unexamined: the legal reckoning that may be coming — not for whoever took her, but for the people who turned her family and total strangers into suspects. Joining this legal breakdown are former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski lays out those roads. Nancy's relatives were c...
16m Jun 26
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Is Savannah Done Looking for Her Mom?
The internet thinks so. Savannah Guthrie went back to work. She sat at the desk. She did the job. And the people watching from the other side of their screens decided that was evidence. Evidence that she’d stopped caring. Evidence that she’d moved on. Evidence that the smile she wore to work meant her mother’s disappearance had become background noise. Here’s what the smile actually meant. Sav...
19m Jun 26
19m
Nancy Guthrie's Lead Investigator Got Referred For WHAT?!
Long before anyone has been charged in the Nancy Guthrie case, the investigation into her disappearance has built a defense attorney's opening argument for them. Joining this legal breakdown are former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski takes the other side of the table. Start with the man who ran it: the sheriff leading the search testified under oath tha...
21m Jun 26
21m
Nancy Guthrie: The Second Note Wasn't A Ransom Demand
Nancy Guthrie has been declared legally dead. No one has found her. For the people trying to hold someone responsible for what happened inside her Tucson home, that creates a problem most people assume is fatal to a case — and it isn't. This is a legal breakdown featuring attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski lays out how a prosecutor actually builds a homicide...
17m Jun 26
17m
Alex Murdaugh’s Key SLED Witness Just Got Fired
Ryan Kelly left SLED after more than a decade and took a job running internal affairs at the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. He was the person responsible for investigating misconduct allegations against other officers. On June 8, 2026, the sheriff fired him for harassment, unbecoming conduct, and improper procedures. The man who policed the police could not survive scrutiny of his own cond...
20m Jun 26
20m
What Barry Morphew Did to the Key Evidence in Suzanne Morphew’s Murder Case
Barry Morphew has been charged with Suzanne Morphew’s murder for the second time. The first prosecution imploded so badly the lead prosecutor was disbarred. Between cases, Barry’s behavior raised questions that go far beyond any courtroom. He left Colorado after charges were dropped and moved more than 600 miles to Cave Creek, Arizona. According to multiple sources and the grand jury indictmen...
17m Jun 26
17m
Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Told the State Trooper Who Pulled Her Over
Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — she looked a state trooper in the eye while covered in dried blood with a dying baby in her lap and told him she had just given birth. The hospital determined in minutes that she had never been pregnant. She'd had a hysterectomy years earlier. Reagan Simmons-Hancock was found dead in her home. She was twenty-one years old and eight months pregnant. Psychothera...
59m Jun 26
59m