Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial: Attorneys James Gubitose & Timothy Bradl — Opening Statements: Two Very Different Stories
Opening statements are given by both sides of this case Kelsey Fitzsimmons, a 29-year-old North Andover police officer, stands accused of assault with a dangerous weapon — charged with pointing her service weapon at a fellow officer inside her own home. What prosecutors describe as a calculated attempt to shoot Officer Patrick Noonan, the defense calls a mental health crisis: a woman suffering...
30m Mar 24
30m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial: Day One — The Gun, the Direction, and the Officer Who Pulled the Trigger
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial opened Monday in Essex County Superior Court, and the first day made one thing unmistakably clear: this case is going to be decided by a single disputed fact — the direction a gun was pointing in a bedroom in North Andover on June 30, 2025. Fitzsimmons, 29, is a North Andover police officer charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. Three offi...
26m Mar 24
26m
Joseph & Kendra Duggar Arrested — Here's What the Charges Actually Mean
Two arrests. Two states. Two completely separate investigations — all in 72 hours. Hidden Killers breaks down exactly what's happening with the Duggar family this week and what all of it actually means. Joseph Duggar, formerly of TLC's *19 Kids and Counting*, was arrested March 18th on a Florida warrant charging him with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 — a life felony under...
31m Mar 24
31m
Bill Gothard, IBLP, and the Documented System That Made the Duggar Pattern Possible
The Hidden Killers team examines the institutional framework behind the Duggar family — the Institute in Basic Life Principles — and what the documented teachings of that organization reveal about the conditions that enabled the pattern of alleged conduct now producing multiple criminal cases within a single family across multiple generations. The IBLP's Umbrella of Authority doctrine establis...
21m Mar 24
21m
The Duggar Cycle: What Josh's Federal Conviction Taught the Next Generation
The Hidden Killers team presents an in-depth analytical conversation with retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke examining the documented behavioral and psychological patterns inside the Duggar household — and what the evidentiary record reveals about how a closed family system handles alleged harm across generations. Joseph Duggar grew up in a household that managed Josh Duggar's alleged...
27m Mar 24
27m
The Shape of Him Part 1: What Bryan Kohberger's Own Words Reveal
He wrote about watching other people experience emotional connection as though through a window. He built an academic career around studying the psychology of people who cross lines. He documented his own interior life with a precision that is both striking and deeply unsettling — not because it sounds like a killer, but because parts of it sound like someone you know. Hidden Killers presents ...
16m Mar 24
16m
Fitzsimmons Bench Trial, Guthrie Investigation, Richins Conviction: The Evidence Across Three Active Cases
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial, the Nancy Guthrie investigation at its seven-week mark, and the Kouri Richins conviction share one thread: in each case, the institutional record tells a different story than the public narrative — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer makes that case, specifically. In the Fitzsimmons matter, the evidentiary question is narrow and everything: w...
54m Mar 23
54m
Jared Bridegan: How a Custody Dispute Became a Murder Plot | One Mile From Home Pt. 1
The tire on Jared Bridegan's road didn't get there by accident. And the person who placed it didn't get there by accident either. What built that trap on February 16th, 2022 wasn't a snap decision or a moment of rage — it was the conclusion of a years-long psychological process that produced something cold, organized, and deliberate. In Part 1 of One Mile From Home, Hidden Killers host Tony Br...
14m Mar 23
14m
Kouri Richins Guilty: What the Evidence Actually Built — and What the Appeal Would Need to Undo
The verdict is in. Kouri Richins was found guilty of murdering her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl. For a case with no recovered murder weapon, a star witness whose credibility took documented damage during cross-examination, and a defense that rested without calling a single witness, the evidentiary picture that convinced this jury deserves a close examination. The record Eric lef...
13m Mar 23
13m
Another Duggar Arrested: The Religion, The Cover-Ups, and the Children Who Paid the Price
Joseph Garrett Duggar, seventh child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and a former star of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, was arrested on March 18th, 2026 on serious charges involving a minor. According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, Duggar allegedly harmed a young girl on multiple occasions during a family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida in 2020. The victim, now 14, came forward during ...
43m Mar 23
43m
Nanos Exposed: The Sworn Lie and the Record Behind It
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is facing a formal recall, a Board of Supervisors meeting called specifically to address his work history, and a nationally watched missing person case now at 47 days with no arrest. But the story most people haven't heard in full starts in El Paso, Texas in 1976 — and ends with a man sitting under oath in December 2025 denying a record the documents prove existe...
22m Mar 23
22m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: Compromised Leadership, Challenged Evidence, and a Shifting Suspect Profile
The Nancy Guthrie investigation is now contending with two simultaneous problems: a lead investigator whose sworn account of his own career has been contradicted by documented records, and a physical evidence picture whose chain of custody has been publicly questioned. The sheriff leading this case was reportedly separated from his prior law enforcement agency rather than voluntarily resigned,...
21m Mar 23
21m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Evidence, the Ex, and the Charge That Doesn't Add Up
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case turns on a single evidentiary question: where was the muzzle of that gun pointed? At herself or at the officer in her doorway? Every other fact in this case — the postpartum depression diagnosis, the restraining order, the 53-day hospitalization, the alleged removal of exculpatory evidence — feeds into how a judge answers that question. Because she waived her jury. T...
20m Mar 23
20m
Alex Murdaugh: The Family System That Created Him — and the Covert Life He Ran Inside It
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Murdaugh case gets examined at the level where it actually starts — not the double murder, not the fraud trial, but the eighty-six years of institutional power that produced the man who committed both. Three generations of Murdaughs controlled prosecution in South Carolina's lowcountry. Problems disappeared. Consequences never arrived. Part 1 of...
27m Mar 23
27m
Nancy Guthrie: The Evidence Record at 40 Days — and What the Investigation's Posture Actually Reveals
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Nancy Guthrie investigation gets a complete evidence-based accounting at the 40-day mark. No arrest. No named suspect. No viable DNA profile. Two CODIS dead ends. A glove found two miles from her home traced to an unconnected restaurant worker. A Ring camera vehicle 2.5 miles away at 2:36 a.m. that remains unidentified. Cadaver dogs stood down. G...
33m Mar 22
33m
Kouri Richins: Controlling the Narrative After the Murder — and the Victims Who Named Their Killers Before They Died
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, two of the most revealing dimensions of the Kouri Richins case get the examination they deserve — the performance Kouri allegedly constructed in the aftermath of Eric's death, and the parallel cases that document what it looks like when a victim understands exactly what is happening and still cannot survive it. After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a...
30m Mar 22
30m
Kouri Richins: What the Appellate Record Contains — and the Double Life the Conviction Exposed
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Kouri Richins case moves beyond the verdict and into what comes next — while the behavioral pattern the prosecution spent three weeks documenting gets examined against one of the most methodical cases in true crime history. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the appellate r...
37m Mar 22
37m
Kouri Richins: The Defense Strategy Examined — and the Financial Pattern That Defined the Verdict
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the guilty verdict in the Kouri Richins trial gets its most complete analytical breakdown. The defense called zero witnesses, presented no affirmative case, and built everything around reasonable doubt. Eight jurors deliberated for three hours. It wasn't enough. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robi...
1hr Mar 22
1hr
Kouri Richins: The Conviction Nobody Could Guarantee — and the Evidence That Made It Happen
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, two of the most important analytical conversations surrounding the Kouri Richins trial come into full focus now that the verdict is in. No murder weapon. No confirmed drug chain. A death certificate that still reads undetermined. Eight jurors. Three hours. Guilty on all counts. Before closing arguments, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffe...
48m Mar 22
48m
Kouri Richins: Death by a Thousand Cuts — The Evidence That Built a Guilty Verdict
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we go back through the prosecution case that convinced a jury in three hours. No murder weapon. No confession. No eyewitness. What prosecutors had was circumstantial — and they called it death by a thousand cuts. The jury agreed. Tony Brueski breaks down every layer of that case: the $4.5 million in alleged debt, the housekeeper who testified she ma...
1hr 8m Mar 21
1hr 8m
Laken Snelling: The Phone Evidence, the Concealment Record, and What the Indictment Actually Says
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Laken Snelling case gets the examination it demands. The University of Kentucky cheerleader has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter after her newborn son was found dead — wrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag in her closet — hours after she gave birth alone at 4 a.m. on August 27, 2025. The Kentucky Medical Examiner confirmed the bab...
42m Mar 21
42m
Kouri Richins: The Defense Rested Without a Witness — The Jury Took Three Hours to Respond
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we revisit the decision that, in retrospect, may have sealed the outcome. On Day 13 of the Kouri Richins murder trial, the defense rested without calling a single witness. Three were reportedly available. After a one-hour recess following the judge's denial of a directed verdict motion, the defense chose silence. Three hours of jury deliberation late...
1hr 10m Mar 21
1hr 10m
Kouri Richins' Jailhouse Letter Decoded — Evidence, Schemes, and What Prosecutors Are Building
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Walk the Dog letter gets treated the way the legal record demands — as evidence. Tony Brueski breaks it down section by section: the Ronney narrative and the degree of scripted witness instruction embedded in it, the airport drug story constructed as a pre-emptive defense mechanism rather than genuine recollection, the GMA media coordination comp...
48m Mar 21
48m
Kouri Richins Trial 2026: The Silence Is Breaking — Why Accomplices Always Talk
Kouri Richins is watching her story collapse. Every day in Utah, another witness. Another text. Another crack in the foundation. This is Part 5 of The Perfect Wife — examining why long cons always end. Not through brilliant investigation. Through simple math: eventually, someone's survival matters more than the secret. Denise Williams held hers together for seventeen years. Mike Williams dis...
14m Mar 21
14m
Three Open Questions — Kouri, Nancy, Kelsey, and the Answers Nobody's Giving
A murder conviction that closed a trial but opened new questions about immunity, justice, and what happens to the people left behind. A disappearance now in its seventh week with no arrest, a mountain of leads, and a single piece of doorbell footage still doing all the heavy lifting. A cop-on-cop shooting where the officer who was shot is the defendant — and her trial starts in days with a judg...
59m Mar 20
59m
Alex Murdaugh Aftermath: The Victims, The Survivors, The Name That Now Means Murder
The Murdaugh dynasty is over. The law firm dissolved. The property liquidated. The name ruined. But the wreckage keeps spreading. Part 5 of "The Name" explores the aftermath. Gloria Satterfield's sons, robbed twice. Mallory Beach's family, still fighting. Every client Alex stole from, still living with the damage. And Buster Murdaugh, carrying a name that now means murder. This episode is a...
13m Mar 20
13m
The Fitzsimmons Case — When the System That's Supposed to Help Becomes the Threat
She was a police officer. She had a baby. She was hospitalized for postpartum depression. She surrendered her weapons. And then, months later, her own colleagues showed up at her door to take her son and serve a restraining order obtained by the man she was engaged to — and one of them shot her. Now she's the defendant. Kelsey Fitzsimmons goes to trial March 23 in Lawrence, Massachusetts — and ...
17m Mar 20
17m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Texts Are In — And They Tell A Story Nobody Wants To Say Out Loud
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial opens Monday in Lawrence Superior Court. No jury. Judge Jeffrey Karp decides alone. And this week the full text exchange between Fitzsimmons and Justin Aylaian was unsealed, admitted into evidence, and made public. On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski goes through those texts as a behavioral document — not a he-said-she-said, a document — and asks the question this case...
25m Mar 20
25m
Courtney Clenney Trial: The Case That Has No Clean Answer
In April 2022, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney stabbed her boyfriend Christian Obumseli in their Miami high-rise apartment. That is the only fact both sides fully agree on. Everything else — who was the aggressor, what the wound proves, what the investigation was worth — is in dispute. Violently, documentably, and with evidence on both sides. Obumseli secretly recorded Clenney calling him raci...
19m Mar 20
19m
The Nancy Guthrie Investigation — What the Silence Is Actually Telling Us
It has been over six weeks since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson in the middle of the night. There has been no press conference in over a month. No named suspect. No arrest. And this week, newly recovered camera footage from her own property showed nothing. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke cut through what the official sil...
19m Mar 20
19m
Guilty — But Here's What the Verdict Didn't Settle
A jury convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl. She's going to prison. And still — the questions that don't fit neatly inside a courtroom verdict keep coming. Listeners have been flooding in with what's still bothering them, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are working through the ones that matter most. Carmen Lauber gets immuni...
24m Mar 20
24m
Kouri Richins Children's Book: She Played the Grieving Mother on TV — While Charged With His Murder
After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote "Are You With Me?" A children's book about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Played the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy. Prosecutors say she caused it. This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the story. Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011,...
12m Mar 20
12m
Kouri Richins: The Full Psychology of a Marriage Built on Control
The Kouri Richins case has been covered from every legal angle. This is the psychological one — and it's the angle that matters most to anyone who recognizes this story from the inside. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a wide-ranging conversation that uses the Kouri Richins case as a framework to examine the complete arc of a relationship with someone opera...
1hr 3m Mar 19
1hr 3m
Alex Murdaugh: He Staged His Own Shooting — If You've Watched Someone Unravel, This Is That Moment
On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report finding his wife and son shot to death. Three months later, he staged his own shooting on a rural roadside. Both were desperate attempts to maintain control. Both failed. Part 4 of "The Name" covers the full collapse — the murders, the staged shooting, the investigation that finally caught up with him, and the trial that ended with guilty v...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kouri Richins: When Losing Control Turns Deadly — How These Relationships End
According to prosecutors, Eric Richins was quietly making moves toward freedom — consulting attorneys, adjusting his estate — before he died. If the prosecution is right, those moves set something in motion. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers to examine how relationships with narcissistic and borderline partners end — and why the ending is so of...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Officer Shot in Her Own Home — Trial Begins Now
On June 30, 2025, three North Andover police officers showed up at the home of their colleague Kelsey Fitzsimmons to serve a restraining order. One of them left having fired his weapon. She left in a medical helicopter. He says she pointed her service weapon at him and pulled the trigger. She says she was pointing it at herself. There is no body camera footage. There are two sworn accounts of ...
54m Mar 19
54m
Kouri Richins: The Invisible Abuse Nobody Can See from the Outside
It doesn't leave marks. There's no incident to report. From the outside, everything looks fine — a house, kids, a functioning life. And on the inside, you're disappearing. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers to examine what the middle phase of a relationship with a narcissistic or borderline partner actually does to the person on the receiving en...
12m Mar 19
12m
Kouri Richins: Nobody Marries a Monster — They Marry the Mask
The question everyone asks about the Kouri Richins case isn't about poison or life insurance. It's the more basic one: how does something like this happen inside what looks like a normal marriage? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to answer exactly that — starting at the beginning. Before the alleged fraud. Before the affair. Before prosecutors say Kouri told so...
16m Mar 19
16m
Kouri Richins: The Book Interview — Analyzed by a Psychotherapist and an FBI Behavioral Expert
A jury has convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric. Before the arrest, before the trial, she sat down on camera to promote a children's grief book she didn't write — about the man prosecutors say she poisoned. Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to do what nobody did at the time: analyze that interview with t...
22m Mar 19
22m
Kouri Richins Double Life: The $250K HELOC Eric Never Knew — And the Pattern of Wives Who Plan
Kouri Richins allegedly texted her boyfriend Josh Grossman while married to Eric: "If I was divorced right now and asked you to marry me tomorrow, you would?" She had a secret $250,000 HELOC. Prosecutors say she searched for fentanyl while Eric was alive. This is Part 3 of The Perfect Wife — examining the premeditated mind. Women living two complete realities. The wife their husbands knew. An...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kouri Richins Guilty: The Complete Trial Breakdown
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the entire case — no shortcuts, no filler. What did the prosecution actually build that convinced this jury? Where did the defense land real hits and why weren't they enough? And what does the appellate record look like now that the ...
1hr 14m Mar 18
1hr 14m
Alex Murdaugh: Gloria Satterfield Trusted Him — Her Sons Waited 3 Years for Money He Stole
Alex Murdaugh didn't operate alone. He couldn't have. For decades, a system of lawyers, bankers, insurance adjusters, and community members chose not to see what they could have seen. Not because they were evil — because looking away was easier. Part 3 of "The Name" examines the machinery of complicity through Gloria Satterfield — the Murdaugh housekeeper who died in 2018, whose sons were pro...
14m Mar 18
14m
Kouri Richins: The Conviction Is In — Now What Does the Appeal Look Like?
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Her defense team built an appellate record throughout this trial — rulings challenged, motions filed, issues flagged in real time. That record now matters more than ever. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down what's actually in it. The coaching video and whether a jury c...
23m Mar 18
23m
What the McCasland Investigation Isn't Saying — And Why That Matters
Three weeks into the disappearance of retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and FBI have confirmed two things: no evidence of foul play, and all possible scenarios remain on the table. What they have not confirmed is a direction, a sighting, a piece of forensic evidence, or an explanation for why a man who left his phone and glasses behind walked out w...
15m Mar 18
15m
Kouri Richins: Tearing Apart the Victim Narrative — My Opinion on What the Record Actually Shows
The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial wants this jury to see a trapped woman. A wife overlooked by a controlling husband who never gave her a chance. In a recorded call made after Eric's death, Kouri told his best friend he never believed in her. In this episode, I'm giving you my opinion on what the documented record actually shows — and it is the opposite of that story. According to...
34m Mar 18
34m
Kouri Richins: How the Defense Fought — And Where They Lost
The Kouri Richins defense team called zero witnesses and presented no affirmative case. They relied entirely on the damage done to the prosecution's evidence during cross-examination. A jury convicted her anyway. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine what the defense actually accomplished and what the conviction tells us about ...
26m Mar 18
26m
Kouri Richins Guilty: The Prosecution's Case — What Worked and Why
A jury convicted Kouri Richins of aggravated murder. No murder weapon. No confirmed drug chain. A death certificate that still says undetermined. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down how the prosecution got there. From Eric Richins' warning to his friends eighteen days before his death, to the handwriting expert who testifi...
26m Mar 18
26m
Kouri Richins Trial: Eric Richins Knew Something Was Wrong — Bobby Curley Grabbed a Nurse. Neither Survived.
Eric Richins told people close to him after Valentine's Day 2022 that he believed Kouri might be poisoning him. He'd been violently ill. A month later, he was dead. This is Part 2 of The Perfect Wife — for anyone who's ever caught something wrong and couldn't get anyone to act. Bobby Curley knew. In September 1991, he grabbed a nurse's arm and said the words out loud: "Please help me. My wif...
18m Mar 18
18m
Richins, Guthrie, Snelling: The Full Hidden Killers Panel With Coffindaffer and Dreeke
Three of the most significant active criminal cases in the country right now — examined in depth, back to back, by two of the most credentialed analysts anywhere in true crime media. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Hidden Killers for an extended multi-part session covering the Kouri Richins murder trial, the Nancy Guthrie disa...
1hr 3m Mar 17
1hr 3m
Alex Murdaugh Covert Narcissist: He Made Everyone Feel Special — That Was the Trap
The covert narcissist is the most dangerous kind. Because they don't look like what you'd expect. Alex Murdaugh was charming. Generous. Beloved. He made everyone feel special. And the whole time, he was stealing millions, feeding an addiction, running fraud after fraud. Part 2 of "The Name" explores how the mask works — and why Maggie was only just beginning to see through it when everything ...
15m Mar 17
15m