Mica Miller: The Playbook of Control and the System That Failed Her
Mica Miller called police fourteen times in her final months. She told officers she was afraid for her life. She told family members if she ended up with a bullet in her head, it wasn't by her—it was JP. Two days after serving her husband divorce papers, she was dead. Her death was ruled a suicide. Now the federal government has indicted Pastor John-Paul Miller. They allege he cyberstalked her...
51m Feb 08
51m
McKee Was Allegedly at Monique Tepe's House While She Was 300 Miles Away at a Football Game
December 6th, 2025. Monique and Spencer Tepe are in Indianapolis watching the Big Ten Championship. According to court documents, Michael McKee was at their Columbus home that same day—captured on surveillance walking through their yard. Monique left the game at halftime. Upset about something involving her ex-husband. Did she somehow know he'd been there? Did she sense something? Three weeks...
1hr 4m Feb 08
1hr 4m
The Au Pair Walked Free. Brendan Banfield Got Life. Here's What the Defense Never Explained.
Juliana Peres Magalhães testified that she watched Brendan Banfield stab his wife Christine. She admitted to helping stage the crime scene. She called 911 with him standing next to her. She walked out of court with time served on a manslaughter plea. Brendan Banfield is going to prison for the rest of his life. The jury deliberated nine hours. Guilty on every count. Aggravated murder. No com...
38m Feb 08
38m
No Fentanyl Recovered, Key Witness Recanted — Can Prosecutors Still Prove Kouri Richins Killed Eric?
Eric Richins had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. But no fentanyl was ever recovered. No pills. No forensic link tying Kouri Richins directly to the drugs. And now the witness who was supposed to prove where the fentanyl came from has recanted. Robert Crozier originally told investigators he sold fentanyl to the housekeeper in the alleged drug chain. Now he's signed a swor...
38m Feb 08
38m
"He Threw a Rock to Prove He Was Crazy" — Nick Reiner's Own Words Before Rob and Michele's Murder
On the Dopey podcast, Nick Reiner admitted to throwing a rock through a window specifically to "prove he was crazy" and manipulate staff into giving him drugs. That wasn't speculation from a prosecutor. That was Nick, in his own words, explaining how he gamed the system. Now he's reportedly expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity for the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Miche...
56m Feb 07
56m
"She Will Always Be My Wife" — What McKee Told Monique Tepe Before She Died
Monique Tepe told friends what her ex-husband said to her. That he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he'd find her and buy the house right next to hers. Now she and Spencer Tepe are dead. Monique can't testify. And those three statements might be the most damaging evidence prosecutors have. This episode takes you inside both the investigation that caught Mich...
35m Feb 07
35m
McKee Affidavit Unsealed: Surveillance, Stalking, and the Words of Ownership
Newly unsealed court documents in the Monique Tepe and Spencer Tepe murder case reveal both the evidence prosecutors are building on and the psychology allegedly behind the killings. According to witnesses, Michael McKee made three statements to Monique during and after their marriage: that he could "kill her at any time," that he would "find her and buy the house right next to her," and that ...
34m Feb 07
34m
Neo Langston Testifies for 40 Minutes—While D4VD's Manager Got Three Days
Neo Langston finally faced the grand jury investigating Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death on February 4, 2026—but his testimony lasted roughly 40 minutes, a fraction of the three days D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth spent answering questions. The stark contrast has raised immediate questions about what happened inside that Los Angeles courtroom. Langston, a close friend of singer D4VD, was arre...
15m Feb 07
15m
Eric Faddis on Guthrie, Beallis & McKee: Legal Analysis Across Three Major Cases
Defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down three of the most followed cases in true crime—the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the Charity Beallis family deaths, and the newly unsealed McKee affidavit. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home. She's the mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence, and bitcoin ransom de...
45m Feb 07
45m
Murdaugh's Last Shot: The Liar Who Guarded the Jury
The South Carolina Supreme Court hears Alex Murdaugh's appeal February 11, 2026. The ground has shifted — because the woman who oversaw his jury just admitted to lying under oath about her conduct during the trial. Becky Hill, former Colleton County Clerk of Court, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct. The perjury conviction stems fro...
20m Feb 07
20m
McKee Affidavit Exposed: Eight Years Leading to the Tepe Murders
The unsealed affidavit in the McKee case documents what prosecutors describe as nearly a decade of alleged obsession with Monique Tepe. Surveillance footage shows Michael McKee in the Tepes' yard days before the murders—while Spencer and Monique were out of town. Witnesses describe years of threats. Stolen plates. A phone that went dark during the killing window. Defense attorney Eric Faddis a...
15m Feb 06
15m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert on How Investigators Read Everyone in the Victim's Life
The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is now focused on the people in her world as much as the crime scene itself. Agents with forensic extraction devices entered the home of Nancy's daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni, the last people to see her before she vanished. The Pima County Sheriff has confirmed no suspects and no persons of interest, and has called unverifi...
15m Feb 06
15m
Charity Beallis: Two Gunshots, No Arrest—What Investigators Are Waiting For
Charity Beallis and her six-year-old twins were found shot to death December 3rd in Bonanza, Arkansas. Two months later, no arrest. Charity's father says he viewed her body and she was shot twice—chest and forehead. If accurate, that eliminates suicide. So what's taking so long? The timeline speaks for itself. Divorce finalized December 2nd. Joint custody awarded. Twins scheduled to return to ...
14m Feb 06
14m
Nancy Guthrie: What a Former FBI Behavioral Analyst Sees in the Evidence
Law enforcement released the most precise timeline yet in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM. Software detected a person at 2:12 AM with no video available. Her pacemaker app disconnected at 2:28 AM. That is a forty-one-minute window — and it is the last digital record of Nancy in her own home. The Pima County Sheriff has now denied reports of force...
23m Feb 06
23m
Nancy Guthrie Abduction: Bitcoin Ransom, DNA Evidence & What Comes Next
Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy was taken from her Tucson home against her will. Forced entry confirmed. DNA evidence recovered. Ransom notes demanding bitcoin sent to media outlets including TMZ. The FBI is now involved, and no suspects have been publicly identified. Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what investigators and prosecutors are likely building behind the...
18m Feb 06
18m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Forensic Evidence That Could Prove EVERYTHING — Why Isn't Anyone Asking?
The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 2026. She's charged with poisoning her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl, then writing a children's book about grief. The prosecution says she killed him for money. The defense says key witnesses have recanted and the state can't prove she ever had fentanyl in her hands. But there's one piece of evidence that could answer the most import...
20m Feb 06
20m
McKee & JP Miller — Shavaun Scott On The Men Who Believe Rules Don't Apply To Them
One woman allegedly endured eight years of death threats before she and her husband were killed in their Columbus home. The other made fourteen police reports, filed for divorce, and was dead two days later — ruled a suicide. Different states. Different circumstances. The same pattern running underneath: women who tried to survive, systems that failed them, and men who allegedly believed conseq...
1hr Feb 06
1hr
Michael McKee Psychology Profile: What the Tepe Autopsy Reveals About the Killer
Sixteen bullets. Two victims. Two children left crying in a house with their dead parents. The autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe are now public — and they paint a brutal picture of what happened inside that Weinland Park bedroom on December 30th. Every wound was to the upper body. Both victims had defensive injuries. The trajectories show they moved, turned, tried to escape. The shoo...
17m Feb 06
17m
JP Miller Tracked Mica Miller, Posted Her Nudes, Contacted Her 50x A Day — Then She Died
Mica Miller tried to leave. She filed for divorce. She called police fourteen times. She reported GPS trackers on her car. Slashed tires. Harassment. She told officers she was afraid for her life. Two days after serving JP Miller divorce papers, she was dead. Ruled a suicide. The federal indictment against Pastor JP Miller alleges a pattern that psychotherapist Shavaun Scott calls textbook coe...
17m Feb 05
17m
Charlie Adelson Appeal Goes to Court — Did a Tainted Jury Pool Doom His Defense? | Dan Markel Murder
Charlie Adelson wasn't in the courtroom today. He's sitting in a South Dakota prison while his appellate attorneys argued that his murder conviction should be reversed. The hearing before Florida's First District Court of Appeal lasted 40 minutes and centered on one core question: Was the Tallahassee jury pool so poisoned by pretrial publicity that a fair trial was impossible? Defense attorney ...
15m Feb 05
15m
Michael McKee Won't Fold — The Bundy-Peterson Psychology Behind His Plea
Michael McKee didn't negotiate. He didn't collapse. With surveillance footage, a ballistics match, and years of documented threats on the table, he pleaded not guilty and waived his bail hearing while reserving the right to revisit it. That's a chess move from a defendant who apparently thinks he can win. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of "The Minds of Mass Killers" — has spent three d...
16m Feb 05
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Blood, a Reopened Scene, and a Family's Desperate Plea
Nancy Guthrie vanished from her own home at eighty-four years old. She didn't wander. She didn't leave voluntarily. Investigators arrived to find blood at the entry and inside the house — and immediately treated the residence as a crime scene. Then came a sequence that defies easy explanation. The scene was released after roughly thirty hours. Activity stopped. And then investigators surged ba...
20m Feb 05
20m
Monique Tepe Knew Michael McKee Would Kill Her — Why She Never Got Help
Strangulation during the marriage. Forced sex. Direct death threats. According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Monique Tepe experienced all of this — and divorced Michael McKee after just seven months. But she never filed a public police report. She never obtained a restraining order. She rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children, and kept carrying the weight o...
28m Feb 05
28m
Paul Caneiro Trial: Murdered Children's DNA Found on Clothing in Defendant's Basement — 14 Miles From Crime Scene
Breaking testimony from the Paul Caneiro quadruple murder trial. New Jersey State Police forensic analysts confirmed DNA from both Sophia Caneiro, age 8, and Jesse Caneiro, age 11, was found on clothing in their uncle Paul's basement. The children were stabbed to death fourteen miles away in Colts Neck. Sophia's blood appeared in three separate locations on a pair of jeans — shin, calf, thigh. ...
24m Feb 05
24m
Bob Motta On Banfield's Failed Defense, Appeal Odds, and the McKee Murder Evidence
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a deep examination of two major murder cases — the Brendan Banfield conviction and the Michael McKee arrest in the Tepe murders. We start with Banfield. The former IRS agent just got convicted of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Christine and Ryan Banfield. The jury deliberated nine hours and came back guilty on everything. They be...
57m Feb 05
57m
Game Player Psychology: What McKee's Defense Strategy Reveals | Tepe Double Murder
Michael McKee faces two counts of aggravated murder for the shooting deaths of Spencer and Monique Tepe. The evidence against him — according to court filings and police statements — includes surveillance footage, ballistics evidence, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, and years of documented threats against his ex-wife Monique. He pleaded not guilty. This episode explores ...
17m Feb 05
17m
McKee Charged in Tepe Murders: A Defense Attorney's View of the Evidence
Michael McKee has been charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband. The surveillance footage, the phone records, the witnesses claiming Monique said he'd threatened her for years — it all looks like an open-and-shut case. The public has already decided he's guilty. But defense attorney Bob Motta looks at cases differently. His job is to examine evidence the way a courtroom ...
18m Feb 04
18m
"Shot Twice — Chest and Between the Eyes" — Charity Beallis' Father Describes What He Saw at the Morgue
Randy Powell went to the morgue. He viewed his daughter's body. And he's telling Hidden Killers what he saw. According to Powell, Charity Beallis was shot twice — in the chest and between the eyes. If accurate, two gunshot wounds makes self-infliction essentially impossible. Two months after Charity and her six-year-old twins Eliana and Maverick were found dead in their Bonanza, Arkansas home,...
34m Feb 04
34m
Banfield's Last Chance: What His Appeal Will Argue and Why It Probably Won't Work
 Life without parole. In Virginia, that's not a figure of speech. There's no parole board, no time off for good behavior, no path out. Brendan Banfield is 40 years old. Barring something extraordinary on appeal, he will die in a state prison. So what does "extraordinary" look like? Defense attorney Bob Motta is here to explain what Banfield's appellate team is actually going to argue — and why...
19m Feb 04
19m
Blood at the Front Door, Back Door Wide Open — Inside the Nancy Guthrie Crime Scene
The crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home tells a story investigators are still trying to piece together. Blood at the front door. The back door left wide open. Multiple cameras smashed. And an 84-year-old woman who can't walk 50 yards on her own, gone without a trace. Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing Sunday after she failed to show up fo...
21m Feb 04
21m
Banfield Verdict Breakdown: The Moment the Defense Lost This Case | Bob Motta Analysis
Nine hours. That's all it took for twelve jurors to decide Brendan Banfield murdered his wife Christine and her lover Ryan. No compromises on the charges. No sympathy for the former federal agent who swore he didn't do it. They believed the au pair — the woman who got murder dropped to manslaughter and walked out of jail the day she testified against him. Defense attorney Bob Motta is here to ...
20m Feb 04
20m
Pastor JP Miller EXPOSED: The Full Mica Miller Story — Alleged Grooming, Cyberstalking, and a Body Count That Keeps Growing
You've seen the clips. The bizarre pulpit announcement. The eulogy where he said he tried to raise her from the dead. The protests outside his church. But you haven't heard the full story — until now. This episode goes back to the beginning. To a ten-year-old girl walking into Solid Rock Church and meeting a twenty-five-year-old married pastor who, according to her own police report, would spe...
35m Feb 04
35m
FBI Behavioral Expert on McKee's Threats, Greenberg's Federal Investigation & Banfield's Collapsed Alibi
Robin Dreeke spent thirty years in the FBI reading behavior, building cases, and getting people to reveal themselves. Today he tackles three major cases in one comprehensive interview. The Michael McKee case: the surgeon allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could kill her "at any time" — eight years after their divorce. Robin explains the behavioral profile of possessive obsession and wha...
1hr 5m Feb 04
1hr 5m
Ellen Greenberg: Feds Investigate Philadelphia Agencies for Corruption—Shapiro, Schwartzman, and the Cover-Up That Took 15 Years to Unravel
This is the episode we've been waiting fifteen years to make. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has reportedly issued subpoenas to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Medical Examiner's Office, and other agencies—including the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office that Josh Shapiro ran when the case sat on his desk for four years. Sources tell the Philade...
30m Feb 04
30m
Did Brendan Banfield's Testimony Expose Him? FBI Behavioral Expert Breaks It Down
Brendan Banfield called the murder accusation "absolutely crazy." Then his alibi collapsed. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, breaks down the au pair affair murder case — what Banfield's testimony revealed, why his word choices matter, and what the full behavioral picture tells us. Banfield testified for two days, describing how he burst into the bedroom wit...
22m Feb 03
22m
The Broken Prism: Nick Reiner's Lifetime of Manipulation, Victimhood & the Parents He Allegedly Destroyed
Rob and Michele Reiner did everything right. Every treatment program. Every therapy session. They made a movie together as a family trying to heal. They publicly apologized for listening to professionals instead of their son. They let him live in their guest house even after he destroyed it in a drug-fueled rage. And according to prosecutors, Nick Reiner allegedly stabbed them both to death. ...
21m Feb 03
21m
Who's Getting Subpoenaed in the Ellen Greenberg Case? FBI Agent on the Federal Corruption Probe
Subpoenas are going out. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is reportedly investigating whether people who handled Ellen Greenberg's case committed crimes — not whether she was murdered, but whether the investigation itself was corrupted. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, explains the federal playbook: what simultaneous subpo...
16m Feb 03
16m
Michael McKee: "She Will Always Be His Wife"—Inside the Alleged 8-Year Obsession Before the Tepe Murders
For eight years after their divorce, Michael McKee allegedly refused to let go. According to witnesses cited in court documents, he told Monique Tepe he could "kill her at any time." That he would "find her and buy the house right next to her." That she would always be his wife. She told friends. She moved on. She remarried. She had children. And according to investigators, he was watching the ...
26m Feb 03
26m
Why Did Surgeon Michael McKee Allegedly Stalk Monique Tepe for 8 Years? FBI Agent Explains
Michael McKee allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could "kill her at any time" and that "she will always be his wife" — eight years after their divorce. Now the vascular surgeon is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the December 30th killings of Monique and her husband Spencer in their Columbus, Ohio home. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintell...
28m Feb 03
28m
Kouri Richins Trial: Key Fentanyl Witness Recants — Can Prosecutors Still Prove Murder?
The Kouri Richins murder trial begins February 23rd, 2026, and the prosecution's case looks nothing like it did when she was arrested nearly three years ago. Robert Crozier — the man who allegedly sold fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper Carmen Lauber — has signed a sworn affidavit saying he never sold fentanyl at all. He now claims it was OxyContin, and that he was detoxing and "out of it" during ...
17m Feb 03
17m
McKee Investigation & WSU Kohberger Lawsuit: Two Cases of Systemic Failure
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down two cases where the warning signs were allegedly clear — and no one acted. The Michael McKee case: how investigators tracked a surgeon across state lines in eleven days using surveillance footage, ballistics databases, and digital forensics. Then the behavioral profile — eight years of alleged death threats, strangulation allegations, ...
59m Feb 03
59m
The $50 Million Loophole: How California Law Could Let Nick Reiner Inherit From Rob and Michele Reiner — Even If He Killed Them
In 1975, a woman named Gloria Ladd killed her two teenage sons. Drugged them. Smothered them. She was charged with murder, pled insanity, and was committed to a state hospital. Then she inherited their money. The California Court of Appeal ruled that an insanity verdict does not trigger the Slayer Statute — the law designed to prevent killers from profiting off their crimes. The statute requir...
20m Feb 03
20m
IRS Agent Brendan Banfield CONVICTED — Au Pair's Testimony Seals His Fate
Brendan Banfield will die in prison. A Fairfax County jury convicted the former IRS special agent of aggravated murder Monday in one of the most disturbing domestic murder plots in recent memory. The 40-year-old federal law enforcement officer now faces mandatory life without parole for the February 2023 killings of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan — a stranger prosecutors say was lured to th...
18m Feb 02
18m
WSU Knew Bryan Kohberger Was Dangerous — 13 Complaints Exposed in Federal Lawsuit
A professor warned colleagues that Bryan Kohberger would become a predator. Female students created informal warning systems to avoid being alone with him. At least 13 formal complaints were filed about his stalking, harassment, and predatory behavior in a single semester. And Washington State University allegedly did nothing. The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and...
19m Feb 02
19m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Brendan Banfield is Back in the Courtroom for the Verdict - Found GUILTY on All Counts!
The Verdict was handed down today in Fairfax County, Virginia. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home. Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. M...
6m Feb 02
6m
67 Stab Wounds: Unsealed Autopsy Reveals Xana Kernodle's Brutal Fight Against Bryan Kohberger
The forensic details from the Idaho student murders are finally public — and what they reveal about Xana Kernodle's final moments is both heartbreaking and remarkable. New court filings show the wound counts for all four victims: Kaylee Goncalves sustained 38 sharp-force wounds, Madison Mogen 28, Ethan Chapin 17, and Xana Kernodle 67. Xana took more wounds than the other three combined. But th...
18m Feb 02
18m
8 Years of Threats: The Behavioral Red Flags Before Monique Tepe's Murder
Michael McKee allegedly told Monique he could "kill her at any time." Witnesses described death threats spanning years. Court documents allege strangulation during their marriage — one of the strongest predictors of future lethality. Three weeks before the murders, surveillance footage allegedly captured him in her backyard while she was out of state. The divorce was 2017. The murders were 202...
22m Feb 02
22m
The System Failed Monique Tepe Long Before December 30th
Court documents allege Michael McKee told Monique he could "kill her at any time." That he'd "find her and buy the house right next to her." That she would "always be his wife." Witnesses say he allegedly strangled her during their marriage. And according to the unsealed affidavit, surveillance cameras captured him at her property weeks before the murders — while she was 180 miles away at a foo...
36m Feb 02
36m
Stolen Plates, A Silent Phone, and a Ballistics Match: Inside the McKee Investigation
Michael McKee allegedly drove 350 miles from Chicago to Columbus, executed his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer, and drove back — all while his cell phone showed zero activity for 18 hours. Investigators say he used stolen license plates from Ohio and Arizona. He allegedly kept the murder weapon in his condo for eleven days. And police still caught him. Former FBI Special Agent Jen...
18m Feb 02
18m
Keith Caneiro's Last Phone Call: "Give Me the F*ing Login, Paul!" — Hours Before Quadruple Murder**
The final recorded phone call between Keith Caneiro and his older brother Paul was played for jurors this week—and it captures a man demanding answers hours before his murder. "Give me the f***ing login, Paul!" Keith is heard saying, giving his brother a deadline of 8 p.m. to provide access to a trust account. By the next afternoon, Keith, his wife Jennifer, and their two children—11-year-old J...
38m Feb 02
38m