What Did Todd Gabler Find Inside the Richins Home That Police Left Behind?
After law enforcement released the Richins home, Todd Gabler walked in and spent four or five straight days searching it. GoPro cameras running. Documents scanned. Eric's brother-in-law Clint Benson present or aware the entire time. No officers. No oversight from the Sheriff's Office. Just a PI operating under rules that gave him access a detective would need a warrant to get. He found things....
19m May 27
19m
What Happened to the Dashcam SD Card in Aaron Spencer's Murder Case?
The evidentiary picture in Aaron Spencer's case has shifted dramatically since Judge Ralph Wilson replaced Judge Barbara Elmore. The defense filed a motion to dismiss based on the destruction of evidence — an SD card from Michael Fosler's dashcam containing front-facing and rear-facing video and audio from the night of the shooting. Four officers and a defense tech expert testified about the ca...
15m May 27
15m
Delphi: The Detective Allegedly Left Out Every Detail That Didn't Fit His Theory
Every piece of evidence used to convict Richard Allen traces back to one document: Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit. According to the defense's appellate filings, that document told the judge a version of events the witnesses themselves would not recognize. Betsy Blair saw Bridge Guy up close and described a man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. The affidavit allegedly included...
15m May 27
15m
Why Do Some NXIVM Members Still Defend Keith Raniere After Everything?
Licensed therapists were reportedly not welcome inside NXIVM. The people with professional training to spot coercive influence were the exact people Keith Raniere kept out. That detail tells you everything. This episode goes inside the recruitment — how Raniere got smart, ambitious, successful people through the door and made leaving feel impossible. His first venture, Consumers’ Buyline, was ...
20m May 27
20m
Does Anna Kepner’s Killer Stand A Chance In Court?
The evidence in Timothy Hudson's federal case presents a narrow path for the defense. He is reportedly on camera as the sole individual entering and exiting the Carnival Horizon stateroom where Anna Kepner's body was found concealed. Anna died from asphyxiation. The cause of death and the forensic timeline are established. Hudson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and additional fede...
21m May 27
21m
What Can Nancy Guthrie's Family Do When the Sheriff's Own Deputies Don't Trust Him?
The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance from her Catalina Foothills home has produced no arrest and no publicly identified suspect. The DNA evidence recovered from inside the home was initially sent to a private lab in Florida, then transferred to the FBI for more advanced analysis. The crime scene was reportedly released too early. A homicide unit supervisor was allegedly installe...
22m May 27
22m
How Did the Duggar Family End Up on Both Sides of the Death Penalty?
A family that endorsed presidential candidates, worked inside conservative political organizations, and helped build the movement that just passed death penalty legislation for crimes against children — has now produced two brothers facing charges involving minors. One is convicted. One is awaiting trial. And the political allies who stood beside them for twenty years have gone silent. Tony Br...
18m May 27
18m
Is The Nancy Guthrie Case Closer To Breaking Than We Think?
Sheriff Chris Nanos keeps saying the Nancy Guthrie investigation is "getting closer." That's the language he's chosen. Whether anyone believes him, and whether the actual evidence supports that read, is exactly the conversation Tony Brueski takes to retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer in this extended segment. Jennifer pulls together three live threads in the case. The change in fa...
55m May 26
55m
How Did a Civil Case Lead a Defense PI to Kouri Richins' Darkest Secret?
For 34 years, Todd Gabler sat on the defense side of the courtroom. Over a hundred homicide cases, always working to challenge the prosecution's theory. That was the job. Then an estate planning attorney connected him with Eric Richins' sister Katie — the same attorney Eric had quietly hired before his death to build a trust that cut Kouri out. The assignment was civil. Property disputes. Trust...
18m May 26
18m
What If Nancy Guthrie Was Targeted By A Crypto Crime Network?
The theory has a name. Wrench Attack. It's the term used in FBI and digital forensic circles for organized crypto-extortion operations — networks that target wealthy individuals or their family members, recruit disposable operatives to do the violent work, and demand cryptocurrency ransoms protected by layers of cutouts that make the architects nearly impossible to trace. The question is wheth...
23m May 26
23m
Delphi: Police Destroyed the Only Recording and Never Collected the .40 Cal
According to the defense's appellate filings, a man connected to Abby Williams admitted in a police interview to practicing pagan rituals that included animal sacrifice and human bloodletting. He told them he owned a .40 caliber firearm. Officers never collected the weapon. The Delphi Police erased the only recording of his interview. His work alibi was based on a badge swipe that officers refu...
24m May 26
24m
Did the Women of NXIVM Know What Keith Raniere Branded on Their Bodies?
Every person charged alongside Keith Raniere took a deal. Every single one. When they learned what was on his hard drive, the plea agreements came fast. He was the only one who maintained nothing was wrong. NXIVM operated for two decades out of suburban Albany, New York, disguised as a self-improvement company called Executive Success Programs. Members paid thousands for courses, wore colored ...
17m May 26
17m
Is Nancy Guthrie's Case About To Crack Wide Open?
There's a reason Sheriff Chris Nanos keeps using the phrase "getting closer." The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sitting on top of two specific bodies of evidence that — if processed right — could end this case. Whether the office actually has the capacity and the strategy to deliver on that potential is a different conversation. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brues...
21m May 26
21m
What Made Sheriff Nanos Cut Off Nancy Guthrie's Family?
Something has shifted in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, and Sheriff Chris Nanos isn't pretending otherwise. He's confirmed he's no longer talking directly with Nancy's family — Savannah Guthrie, her siblings, none of them. Every family conversation now routes through the FBI. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer sits down with Tony Brueski to read this development the way only som...
11m May 26
11m
Why Did The State Refuse To Charge Becky Hill With Jury Tampering?
Five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, his defense team filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Becky Hill. Seventeen pages. Section 1983. Six hundred thousand dollars in damages directed to the receivership. Jim Griffin said publicly the money isn't the point — the subpoena power is. Depositions. Sworn testimony. The abi...
30m May 26
30m
Which Of Kouri Richins' Appellate Arguments Actually Have Teeth?
The defense asked for additional time to file a motion for a new trial and indicated they need to retain an expert. The appellate lanes are identifiable: alleged prosecutorial monitoring of attorney-client jail calls, the Crozier recantation, the venue challenge, and sufficiency of the evidence. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines each one and separates what has g...
43m May 25
43m
What Does Nick Reiner's Reported Tell-All Reveal About His Mental State?
The contrast at the center of the Reiner case right now is almost impossible to reconcile. Jake Reiner published a raw Substack essay about losing both parents — milestones stolen, a career Rob and Michele won't get to see, grief that doesn't quiet down. From inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility, his brother Nick is reportedly planning something very different: a tell-all designed to name n...
43m May 25
43m
Delphi: How Carroll County Failed Abby and Libby from the Very First Day
A conservation officer interviewed Richard Allen two days after Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered. Allen said he'd been on the trail. He gave his name. He answered every question. And then his report was misfiled under the wrong name and sat in a box for five and a half years. That one clerical failure cost the investigation half a decade — time that was spent, according to the...
23m May 25
23m
What Did Three Grand Juries Hear About The People Around D4VD?
Three separate grand juries heard testimony from friends, managers, and family members of David Anthony Burke — people allegedly close enough to what prosecutors describe that they were questioned under oath. The alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez is the center of this case. The alleged failures surrounding it are what make it a systemic story. According to prosecutors, Celeste was four...
46m May 25
46m
What Did The Defense Find In Discovery That Slowed The Kepner Trial?
The defense in the Anna Kepner case moved faster than virtually any federal team facing two life sentences. Waived the transfer hearing. Requested adult prosecution. Pushed toward a June 1 trial date with roughly three and a half months from first discovery to jury selection. Then eighteen days out, they asked for ninety more. Document 74 — an Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial — cited the gov...
40m May 25
40m
What Happens When The Defense Runs Maggie Murdaugh's DNA Through CODIS?
Jim Griffin confirmed at the defense press conference that unknown male DNA was recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and never run through CODIS. Physical evidence from the person who was fatally shot, documented in the investigation, sitting unmatched in an evidence file. The defense has plans for it at retrial. That revelation sits alongside a catalog of alleged SLED investigat...
50m May 24
50m
Why Is Murdaugh's Defense Using A Federal Lawsuit To Investigate Becky Hill?
The defense team didn't file this lawsuit just to hold Becky Hill accountable. They filed it to investigate her. Civil discovery gives them tools the state never used — subpoenas, depositions, sworn testimony under penalty of perjury — and the complaint makes clear they intend to use every one of them. The Section 1983 claim alleges Hill deprived Alex Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a ...
41m May 24
41m
What Did The Sentencing Memo Reveal About Kouri Richins' Jail Campaign?
The sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case reads like an operational log. Prosecutors documented what they describe as a sustained campaign from inside a jail cell targeting every person connected to the prosecution — and it didn't stop until sentencing day. A fake dating profile created for the lead detective and posted online. What prosecutors characterize as false DCFS reports filed agai...
1hr 1m May 24
1hr 1m
Why Didn't SLED Track Down The Vehicle Near Murdaugh's Weapon Storage?
Strip away twelve hours of stolen-money testimony and the Alex Murdaugh case has to stand on its physical evidence for the first time. What's left is a crime scene that sat in the rain, family members who walked through it, no recovered weapon, no DNA on the defendant, and an investigative lead that reportedly went nowhere. Blanca Simpson, the Murdaugh housekeeper, told investigators about a s...
42m May 24
42m
How Did 27 Crew Members Pass Screening Before Operation Tidal Wave?
Federal agents had names before the ships docked. Operation Tidal Wave targeted 27 crew members across eight cruise ships in San Diego based on intelligence from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. CBP and HSI coordinated the boarding. Every one of the 27 was detained. Every one was deported. Not a single charge was filed. KPBS confirmed federal prosecutors in both San Diego...
45m May 24
45m
Why Did Kouri Richins Blame The Jury Instead Of Answering Her Kids?
Three boys wrote impact statements describing locked bedrooms, animals dying from neglect, a sibling sneaking meals to a brother who'd been shut away, and a childhood defined by fear. Their therapists read the words in open court because the children cannot be in the same room with Kouri Richins. Every one of them asked the judge to keep her locked up forever. They said they finally feel safe. ...
1hr 15m May 23
1hr 15m
Why Is Buster Murdaugh Furious About His Father's Retrial?
 Buster Murdaugh testified for the defense at his father's murder trial and told a jury Alex wasn't capable of killing Maggie and Paul. Then Alex was convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence. Barely any prison calls. A quiet marriage. A life built at distance. Now the South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the convictions, the retrial is approaching, and sources say Bus...
1hr 12m May 23
1hr 12m
What Were Kouri Richins' Kids Too Afraid To Say In Person?
Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins' children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on paper. The details are specific. One child woke to sirens and felt powerless. Another took on the role of caretaker — getting his younger brother to the bus, making sure he had food. T...
1hr 21m May 23
1hr 21m
What Did Maggie Murdaugh's Divorce Lawyer Already Know?
Two threads of the Murdaugh case worth pulling on — what was already in motion before June 7, 2021, and what the prosecution may not get to use at a second trial. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. She was living apart from Alex. June 7 was a day she did not want to spend at Moselle, and two witnesses testified to exactly that. She went anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun ...
40m May 23
40m
Was Becky Hill Acting Alone — Or Did Someone Help Rig Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Trial?
Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial trail and the network of connections that surrounded this verdict, and the lone-wolf explanation is getting harder to defend. Hill was planning a book d...
19m May 23
19m
What Do Kouri Richins And Alex Murdaugh Tell Us About A Broken System?
In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she'll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her "picked the wrong one." In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose murder convictions were just thrown out by the Supreme Court responds by suing the court ...
58m May 22
58m
The Cruise Industry Spent $70 Million Blocking Laws To Protect Kids
The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how the rules stay the way they are. Foreign-flag registration shields the industry from U.S. taxes and jurisdiction simultaneously. The CVSSA created a ...
24m May 22
24m
What Does Alex Murdaugh's Federal Lawsuit Against Becky Hill Actually Do?
Alex Murdaugh's defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill in federal court in Charleston — five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder convictions based on what the justices called "shocking jury interference." The complaint seeks six hundred thousand dollars in compensa...
16m May 22
16m
What Do We Owe Maggie and Paul Murdaugh If the State Won’t Retry Their Murder Case?
The question people keep asking has a simple answer. Yes, Alex Murdaugh is serving 40 years federal. Yes, he’ll die in prison regardless of what happens in a retrial. And no, that is not a reason to walk away from the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Tony Brueski makes the case for why the retrial isn’t a choice — it’s the only path to justice. Maggie was 52 years old. Paul was 22. They we...
14m May 22
14m
Why Did “Word of Faith” Members Give Over $85,000 to Politicians?
Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was the only time the legal system came close to holding her personally accountable. Five years of appeals later, it was overturned. And according to former members, the church learned it could outlast the courts. The pattern repeated across decades. More than forty former members testified to investigators in the 1990s — no charges. Inside Edition aired an...
18m May 22
18m
How Do You Legally Protect Yourself From Kouri Richins Behind Bars?
The prosecution's sentencing memo included a message Kouri Richins wrote before the judge even ruled. She said she'd "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She wrote "they picked the wrong one" and "they haven't seen anything yet." This isn't speculation about what she might do — it's what she already put in writing from a jail cell. Eric Faddis break...
28m May 22
28m
What Legal Ammunition Does Kouri Richins Actually Have For Her Appeal?
Kouri Richins told her three sons at sentencing that she'd appeal her conviction and fight "no matter how long it takes." Her defense attorneys got the deadline to file a motion for a new trial extended from fourteen days to twenty-eight and told the judge they need to retain a new expert. The question nobody in the courtroom answered is whether any of it matters. Eric Faddis breaks down every...
15m May 22
15m
Was D4vd Building Himself Out Of Other People's Nightmares?
The D4vd case keeps getting framed as a celebrity scandal. In this one, Tony Brueski goes somewhere harder. The death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the charges against David Anthony Burke, sit next to a body of work that now reads very differently than it did when teenagers were streaming it a billion times. Start with the name on the album: Withered. The shelved deluxe edition c...
25m May 22
25m
How Did Kouri Richins Expose Herself at Her Own Sentencing Without Saying a Word?
Before she opened her mouth, Kouri Richins had already told the room everything. The eye rolls during her children's statements. The disgust during Eric's sisters' grief. The immediate tears the moment her own family proclaimed her innocence. Every reaction was a data point, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott reads them all. This three-part conversation on Hidden Killers Live covers the full ar...
56m May 21
56m
600 Crimes, 7 Convictions — How the Cruise Industry Built a System That Erases Cases
Why were zero charges filed after Operation Tidal Wave? Why does the New York Times find only 13 prosecutions in a decade? Why do settlements come with NDAs? This is the architecture of the justice gap: foreign-flag registration placing ships under jurisdictions that do not investigate. Private security teams with inherent conflicts of interest conducting the first investigation. A federal law ...
19m May 21
19m
Why Did Kouri Richins Use Her Sentencing Speech to Tell Her Children She's Innocent?
She said it multiple times. "Be like your dad." The father a jury found she poisoned with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. She said it to three boys who had just finished describing, through their therapists, a childhood of locked doors and threatened animals and a mother they no longer call by any title other than her first name. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to brea...
15m May 21
15m
Why Is the State Racing to Retry Alex Murdaugh for Murder Before the AG Leaves Office?
Speed versus delay. That’s the framework for understanding every pre-trial decision in Alex Murdaugh’s retrial. The AG promised to retry aggressively and as soon as possible. The defense will engineer the opposite. And the wild card decisions made in chambers before a single witness is sworn may matter more than anything said in front of a jury. Tony Brueski breaks down why the clock is the re...
22m May 21
22m
Did Word of Faith Really Seize Passports from Brazilians Who Came to Serve God?
The Word of Faith Fellowship did not just operate in Spindale, North Carolina. According to the Associated Press, it maintained affiliated churches in Brazil, Ghana, Scotland, Sweden, and other countries. Brazil was reportedly the biggest source of foreign labor. The AP’s investigation found that the church allegedly used its Brazilian congregations to recruit young people with promises of reli...
16m May 21
16m
Why Did Kouri Richins Start Sobbing the Moment Her Family Called Her Innocent?
For hours, Kouri Richins sat stone-faced through her own children's pain. Then her brother Ronney stepped to the podium, started crying about missing Eric's "stupid finger dance" and Christmas mornings with the boys — and Kouri fell apart. Tears streaming. Full sobbing. The first visible emotion she'd shown all day. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to explain what that flip mea...
16m May 21
16m
What Was Kouri Richins Mouthing to Her Lawyers While Her Own Kids Begged for Prison?
Three therapists read three letters from three boys under fourteen. The children described locked bedrooms, threatened pets, a mother "drunk almost daily," and a night one boy believes he was drugged because he woke up shaking and couldn't speak. Not one of them called her "mom." They used her first name. Every one of them asked for life without parole. Kouri Richins responded by making faces ...
26m May 21
26m
Why Did Alex Murdaugh’s Defense Just Sue Becky Hill?
The Murdaugh defense filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Becky Hill before the retrial has even been assigned a judge. They told reporters it’s about accountability and investigation. It is both of those things. It’s also a calculated move to arm themselves for the murder retrial with tools no criminal defendant normally gets this early. The lawsuit gives the defense subpoena power an...
25m May 21
25m
What Did Murdaugh’s Defense Reveal About the Federal Lawsuit, the AG, and the Retrial?
Three major developments from one press conference. A federal lawsuit against Becky Hill. An accusation that the Attorney General is playing politics with the death penalty. And DNA evidence the first jury never knew existed. The Section 1983 lawsuit targets Hill for depriving Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial. The defense is using it as an investigative vehicle — civil disc...
1hr 4m May 20
1hr 4m
Cruise Ships Are Predatory Playground: Dozens of Cruise Workers Have Master Keys to Your Cabin
Master keycards that open every cabin. Youth centers without standardized staffing ratios. Background checks limited to whatever foreign governments provide. No international offender registry. No mandatory device screening. This is the access structure parents are not being told about — the gap between the safety the cruise industry markets and the screening that actually exists. According to ...
24m May 20
24m
Why Was Unknown DNA Under Maggie Murdaugh’s Fingernails Never Run Through CODIS?
The DNA evidence alone would be enough to change the shape of this case. Unknown male DNA beneath Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails, collected at the scene, and never run through the one database designed to identify it. Jim Griffin confirmed the defense has this evidence and intends to use it at the retrial. It is the kind of detail that raises questions not just about what happened at Moselle th...
24m May 20
24m
How Are Murdaugh’s Lawyers Planning to Use the Supreme Court Ruling to Win a Retrial?
The defense team that lost the Murdaugh murder trial in six weeks has had three years to study exactly why. And the SC Supreme Court handed them something defense attorneys almost never get — a ruling that doesn’t just grant a new trial but tells them where the prosecution overstepped and how far the next judge should limit the state’s case. Harpootlian and Griffin walk into Trial 2 with a blue...
18m May 20
18m