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 4m Feb 04
1hr 4m
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
"She Will Always Be His Wife" — Unsealed Affidavit Reveals McKee's Alleged Threats and Strangulation
Newly unsealed court documents reveal the chilling psychology allegedly behind the murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe. According to witnesses who spoke with investigators, 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 "she will always be his wife." Thes...
33m Feb 02
33m
Arkansas Supreme Court Yanks Judge Elmore Off Spencer Case — Bob Motta Breaks Down What Happens Next
The Arkansas Supreme Court just removed Judge Barbara Elmore from Aaron Spencer's murder trial—and appointed a retired judge from the opposite end of the state to take over. This wasn't a close call. Three justices wanted Elmore gone since May, when the high court struck down her gag order as a "plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." Seven months later, she tried again—differen...
47m Feb 01
47m
Diane Menashe Beat 14 Murder Charges for Dr. Husel — Now She's Defending Michael McKee
Diane Menashe is a 27-year veteran of criminal defense in Columbus who specializes in cases that look unwinnable. In 2022, she co-led the defense of Dr. William Husel, the Mount Carmel physician charged with murdering fourteen ICU patients through allegedly lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. Husel was acquitted on all fourteen counts. She also kept cop-killer Quentin Smith off death...
50m Feb 01
50m
Rob Reiner Spent Millions on Nick's Rehab — The Industry Took the Money and Failed
The Reiner family did everything right. They spent millions. They tried eighteen different rehab facilities—reportedly at $60,000 a month. Private yoga instructors. Family therapists. A guesthouse on a $13.5 million Brentwood estate where Nick could always come home. On December 14, 2025, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death. Their son Nick was arrested that night an...
1hr 6m Feb 01
1hr 6m
Idaho's Son of Sam Law Is Broken — Kohberger and Lori Vallow Could Profit From Their Crimes
Under current Idaho law, convicted killers like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow Daybell could potentially profit from book deals, streaming rights, and paid interviews within just five years. A judge in Kohberger's case confirmed it in November 2025, stating the statute "leaves open the potential for Defendant to receive money from media contracts in the future." Idaho's Son of Sam law hasn't b...
34m Feb 01
34m
Neo Langston Jailed, Witnesses Hiding — FBI Expert on the Evidence Building Against D4VD
The grand jury investigating the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez is done playing nice. LAPD Robbery-Homicide just arrested Neo Langston—D4VD's close friend and fellow content creator known online as NeoTheAsian—at his mother's home in Montana for failure to appear as a witness. He's now sitting in an LA jail on $60,000 bail. Back in December, a female witness went into hiding and h...
58m Feb 01
58m
McKee's Expired License, Fake Addresses, and the System That Let Him Keep Operating
Michael McKee pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe. The evidence police have described is damning—ballistic analysis allegedly linking a firearm from his property to shell casings at the crime scene, surveillance footage reportedly capturing his vehicle at the scene, and a firearm suppre...
52m Jan 31
52m
Rob Reiner's Son Nick: FBI Expert Robin Dreeke on How the Family Stopped Seeing the Danger
How does a family go from calling the police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house with someone in apparent psychiatric crisis on December 13th, 2025? Rob Reiner wasn't stupid. He was a successful director, a public intellectual, a man with resources and connections. Michele wasn't naive. These were accomplished people who had access to the best treatment money could buy. Yet their son Nick is ...
32m Jan 31
32m
McKee Tepe Case: Prosecutor Breaks Down the Evidence — Why His Ego May Convict Him
The evidence against Michael McKee is staggering—ballistic matches linking a firearm from his property to shell casings at the scene, vehicle surveillance tracking his movements from Chicago to Columbus, a confirmed ID as the figure in the alley footage, and a firearm suppressor that prosecutors will argue proves premeditation. McKee allegedly drove 300 miles to execute his ex-wife Monique Tepe...
51m Jan 31
51m
Nick Reiner Hated His Parents at 15 — His Roommate Just Confirmed It: "I Knew Who Killed Them"
Danny Spilar was 15 years old when he shared a room with Nick Reiner in a $60,000-a-month Malibu rehab. What he witnessed back then made him certain — the moment he saw the headlines about Rob and Michele Reiner's murders — exactly who was responsible. According to Danny, Nick would stay up after lights out ranting about how much he hated his parents. This wasn't after years of heroin abuse. T...
35m Jan 31
35m
Ruby Franke and Elleshia Seymour: The LDS Doomsday Pattern Nobody's Talking About
Two Utah mothers. Both raised LDS. Both developed apocalyptic beliefs that destroyed their families. Ruby Franke tortured her children until her twelve-year-old escaped through a window. Elleshia Seymour allegedly took her kids to Croatia based on TikTok prophecies about nuclear winter. In both cases, the children figured out how to save themselves. And in both cases, the fathers say they had ...
23m Jan 31
23m
Monique Tepe Case Prosecution & Defense + Kouri Richins Trial Chaos | Full Breakdown
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis delivers the definitive analysis of two murder cases dominating headlines: the Michael McKee case in Ohio and the Kouri Richins trial in Utah. On McKee: Eric examines the prosecution's case against Monique Tepe's ex-husband from both sides of the courtroom. The affidavit details surveillance footage, death threats spanning years, stolen plates...
52m Jan 31
52m
Jesse Caneiro Was Still Moving: Blood Evidence Testimony Rocks Paul Caneiro Murder Trial
The Paul Caneiro trial just delivered some of its most disturbing testimony yet. A blood stain expert told jurors that eleven-year-old Jesse Caneiro was still moving - still bleeding - still trying to reach the front door when he died. The patterns don't lie. A handprint. A finger mark. Movement toward an exit he never reached. Prosecutors say Paul Caneiro killed his brother Keith, sister-in-l...
14m Jan 31
14m
Kouri Richins Prosecution Imploding? Key Witness Recants, Defense Alleges Threats
The Kouri Richins murder trial begins February 23rd. But two weeks out, the prosecution's case is taking hits from multiple directions. The defense just filed a motion alleging witness intimidation. Lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll allegedly texted a witness saying essentially: answer our calls so we can prep you, or next time I knock on your door, I'll have a warrant and a catch pole for your d...
20m Jan 30
20m
The Educated Killer Playbook: What Kohberger and McKee Reveal About Premeditated Murder
Two men. Two elite educations. Two alleged murder sprees months apart. Bryan Kohberger—criminology PhD, studied crime scene processing at the doctoral level—pled guilty to killing four Idaho students in November 2022. Michael McKee—vascular surgeon with more than a decade of surgical training—stands charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in December 2025. The me...
26m Jan 30
26m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: John Carroll Delivers Closing Arguments: Brendan Banfield’s Last Shot at Reasonable Doubt
John Carroll, Defense Counsel for Brendan Banfield, presented closing arguments today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. 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, ...
1hr 31m Jan 30
1hr 31m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Jenna Sands Presents Closing Arguments: The Final Push to Convict Brendan Banfield
Jenna Sands, Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney for Fairfax County, presented closing arguments in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. 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 Brazili...
22m Jan 30
22m
Monique Tepe Case: McKee Defense Motions, Hearsay Fights & Reasonable Doubt Strategy
The prosecution laid out their case. Now the defense has to tear it apart. Michael McKee pleaded not guilty to the aggravated murders of Monique Tepe and Spencer Tepe. His attorneys are now preparing for the pretrial battles that could determine whether a jury ever hears the most damaging evidence against him. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks us through the defense's li...
17m Jan 30
17m
Brendan Banfield Finishes Testimony: His Version of the Killings, Christine's Alleged Final Words, and 14 Pages of Love Letters
Brendan Banfield told the jury his story. Now they have to decide if they believe it. Day two of Banfield's testimony gave the court his full account of February 24th, 2023 — the moment he says he walked into his bedroom, saw a stranger holding his wife with a knife, announced himself as police, and fired. He testified Christine spoke to him after the attack despite being stabbed seven times in...
17m Jan 30
17m
Monique Tepe Murder: What Evidence Links Ex-Husband Michael McKee to the Killings?
Michael McKee sits in Franklin County jail charged with the aggravated murders of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The unsealed affidavit lays out surveillance footage, witness statements about years of alleged death threats, stolen license plates, cell phone data showing his phone went dark during the murder window, and vehicle tracking placing his SUV in Columbus before ...
16m Jan 30
16m
Detective Threatened Witness With "Catch Pole for the Dog" — Kouri Richins Case Explodes
The Kouri Richins murder case just took a sharp turn nobody saw coming — and it's not about the defendant. It's about how the prosecution has allegedly been treating its own witnesses. Defense attorneys filed a motion this week revealing text messages they say show lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll threatening a reluctant witness with arrest, jail, and a "catch pole for the dog" if she didn't com...
14m Jan 30
14m
Shavaun Scott on Paul Caneiro Family Annihilation and Nick Reiner Addiction Treatment Failure
Two families. Two different kinds of catastrophic failure. One expert to help us understand both. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers — joins Hidden Killers for an extended examination of the psychology behind family annihilation and the systemic failures of America's addiction treatment industry. The Paul Caneiro trial continues in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ...
52m Jan 30
52m
The Son of Sam Loophole: How Idaho Killers Could Cash In — And Why Lawmakers Are Finally Acting
A judge just confirmed what victims' families feared most: under Idaho's current law, Bryan Kohberger could legally profit from telling his story. The same applies to Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. The statute that's supposed to prevent this hasn't been updated since 1978 — and it shows. This week, Idaho Senator Tammy Nichols introduced legislation to modernize the state's Son of Sam la...
16m Jan 30
16m
Rob Reiner Tragedy: Why the $42 Billion Addiction Industry Doesn't Want to Fix Itself
The 28-day treatment model has been the standard since the 1970s. Relapse rates have stayed roughly the same. The approach hasn't fundamentally evolved. In almost every other area of medicine, fifty years of data showing 40-90% failure rates would have triggered a complete overhaul. So why hasn't that happened with addiction treatment? In Part 2 of our examination following the Nick Reiner trag...
20m Jan 29
20m