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
Laken Snelling: The Phone Evidence, the Concealment Record, and Whether This Manslaughter Charge Can Hold at Trial
Laken Snelling's phone told a story that months of public behavior was built to contradict. Deleted labor photos. Week-by-week pregnancy tracking. A documented record of concealment running alongside nationals competitions, a relationship, and a TikTok listing "be a mom" as a life goal. A grand jury saw all four levels of criminal homicide and landed on first-degree manslaughter — conscious dis...
23m Mar 17
23m
D4VD's Inner Circle Cracks: Neo Langston Has Receipts — But Not Her Name
Neo Langston thought he was posting to his Close Friends. He wasn't. On March 13th, screenshots of his private Instagram story flooded the internet — and what he wrote raised more questions than it answered. He said he's legally fine. He said he has receipts. He called D4VD a dickhead. And in everything he wrote about how this situation has destroyed his reputation and betrayed his trust, he n...
16m Mar 17
16m
Kouri Richins Guilty on All Counts: The Full Verdict Breakdown
Eight jurors. Three hours. Five guilty verdicts. Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband Eric Richins. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski delivers the complete verdict breakdown — every detail, in sequence, with the full weight it deserves. The hush puppy text the night be...
23m Mar 17
23m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Verdict — Kouri Richins' Fate Decided
The verdict comes in from the jury. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim...
10m Mar 17
10m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Digital Forensic Pivot, the Surveillance Lead, and What the Internet Disruption Thread Actually Means
The Nancy Guthrie investigation has shifted. Cadaver dogs are paused. Ground searches are scaled back. The operation is now concentrated on digital forensics and detective-led work. And Sheriff Nanos believes investigators know the motive — with a hedge that deserves scrutiny. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers alongside Robin Dreeke to break down what these i...
18m Mar 17
18m
Kouri Richins Trial: What the Evidence Actually Proves — and Where the Gaps Could Decide Everything
The Kouri Richins murder trial is heading to the jury. Three weeks. Nearly forty prosecution witnesses. Zero defense witnesses. And an evidence record that, despite all of it, still carries significant holes that both sides have to navigate. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Hidden Killers to do what the courtroom rarely makes room for — a...
23m Mar 17
23m
Kouri Richins and the Caretaker Pattern: Wives Who Poison What They Serve
Prosecutors say Kouri Richins made Eric a Moscow Mule on March 4, 2022. His favorite drink. From his wife's hands. Fentanyl inside, according to the charges. Dead within hours. This is what the caretaker killer looks like. Not violence. Not rage. Just a drink, made with love, handed over with a smile. Stacey Castor did the same thing to two husbands in Syracuse. Antifreeze in their beverages...
14m Mar 17
14m
Kouri Richins Trial: Brad Bloodworth — Rebuttal Argument Delivered in Court
Brad Bloodworth gives the prosecution's rebuttal and Judge Mrazik gives the jury final instructions before deliberations. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-...
38m Mar 17
38m
Kouri Richins: The Full Listener Q&A — Behavioral Evidence, Defense Gaps & the Verdict
The evidence is in. The witnesses are done. The jury is about to get the Kouri Richins case. Before they do, we spent three conversations answering every significant question our listeners have sent throughout this trial. What does a forensic document examiner saying that wasn't Eric's signature actually prove? What does the Walk the Dog letter reveal about how Kouri sees the people around her...
1hr 13m Mar 16
1hr 13m
Kouri Richins Trial: Wendy Lewis — Defense Fires Back in Closing
Wendy Lewis, Kouri Richins' Attorney, delivers the Defense's closing arguments. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tra...
1hr 9m Mar 16
1hr 9m
Alex Murdaugh Dynasty: 86 Years of "We'll Handle It" — If Your Family Protected the Image, Listen
The Murdaugh case didn't start with murder. It started with a century of believing the rules didn't apply. From 1920 to 2006, three generations of Murdaughs served as solicitor in South Carolina's 14th Circuit. They controlled who faced prosecution. They built a machine that protected their own. And they raised Alex to believe he could get away with anything. Part 1 of "The Name" explores the...
12m Mar 16
12m
Kouri Richins Trial: Brad Bloodworth — Prosecutor Delivers Powerful Final Pitch Part 2
Brad Bloodworth, chief prosecutor for Summit County, serves up closing arguments in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit sc...
57m Mar 16
57m
Kouri Richins: The Defense Sat Down — Here's What That Means
The Kouri Richins defense has rested. No testimony from Kouri. No alternate explanation for how five times the lethal dose of fentanyl ended up in her husband's body. The cross-examinations are done. The objections are logged. And now twelve jurors are sitting with everything they've seen and heard over three weeks of trial. Defense attorney Bob Motta knows exactly what it looks like when a de...
43m Mar 16
43m
Kouri Richins Trial: Brad Bloodworth — Prosecutor Delivers Powerful Final Pitch Part 1
Brad Bloodworth, chief prosecutor for Summit County, serves up closing arguments in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit sc...
1hr 2m Mar 16
1hr 2m
Laken Snelling Indicted — What the Evidence Actually Shows
Laken Snelling, 22, the former University of Kentucky STUNT team cheerleader from White Pine, Tennessee, was indicted by a Fayette County grand jury on March 10, 2026, on charges of first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. She was booked into the Fayette County Detention Center on March 12th. Her arraignment is set fo...
19m Mar 16
19m
Kouri Richins Trial: Judge Richard Mrazik — Court Issues Final Jury Instructions
Judge Richard Mrazik gives instructions to the jury in the Kouri Richins Trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tra...
29m Mar 16
29m
Kouri Richins — Death by 1,000 Cuts: The Complete Trial Breakdown
No smoking gun. No confession. No eyewitness. Just 42 witnesses and a mountain of circumstantial evidence prosecutors say could only point one direction. Kouri Richins stands accused of fatally poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl in March 2022. She has pleaded not guilty. After three weeks of testimony, her defense team called zero witnesses. She never took the stand. And the question tha...
25m Mar 16
25m
Kouri Richins — Closing Arguments and the Deliberation Psychology That Decides the Verdict
The evidence is in. The witnesses have testified. And now the Kouri Richins murder trial moves into its final act — closing arguments and the deliberation room where this verdict will be built or broken. Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of the listener Q&A, focused on what this jury will actually do with three weeks of testimony and how this verdict is l...
14m Mar 16
14m
Kouri Richins — The Letter, the Coached Witness, and the Gaps the Defense Left Unanswered
Three weeks of testimony. A letter written from jail. A witness whose testimony arrived pre-damaged. And then the defense sat down without calling a single person to the stand. The Kouri Richins murder trial just hit its most consequential moment — and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to dig into what the prosecution actually built, what the defense failed to disma...
17m Mar 16
17m
Nick Reiner: His Siblings Are Done — After 18 Rehabs, a Conservatorship, and Two Dead Parents
Jake and Romy Reiner are done. Sources close to the family told TMZ directly: "Nick's defense is Nick's defense. They're not involved." The high-profile defense attorney they initially funded—Alan Jackson, known for winning the Karen Read acquittal—withdrew from the case in January. Nick Reiner now has a public defender. Reports indicate his siblings won't attend the trial. In over two months o...
51m Mar 16
51m
Kouri Richins Walk the Dog Letter: What Each Page Actually Says and Why It Matters
The Walk the Dog letter has been in headlines. But headlines don't explain it. This Hidden Killers Week In Review takes the full six-page jailhouse letter written by Kouri Richins and breaks it down the way it deserves—not as shocking bullet points, but as a document that prosecutors intend to use as evidence of consciousness of guilt. Tony Brueski explains exactly how the witness narrative is...
47m Mar 15
47m
Kouri Richins: "If He Could Just Go Away" — The Texts That Will Define This Trial
Two texts are going to define this case: "If he could just go away" and "If I die, Eric did it." How does any defense attorney argue context around those? This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together defense attorney Bob Motta and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke to examine what the jury is actually absorbing—and what's going to be sitting in that room when deliberations start. ...
54m Mar 15
54m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Says Suspect Behavior Was Amateur — Why the Public Wants to Believe Otherwise
The suspect didn't know there was a doorbell camera. They grabbed weeds from the yard to cover it on the spot. They carried a weapon in what FBI experts have publicly called an "unprofessional manner." When we see that level of improvisation and lack of preparation, what does it tell us about who this person likely is? This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together psychotherapist Shavaun S...
35m Mar 15
35m
Kouri Richins: When Immunity Witnesses Contradict Themselves — Panel Breaks Down the Defense Strategy
Carmen Lauber came in meth-positive. Robert Crozier contradicted his own sworn affidavit. Both are immunity witnesses the prosecution is leaning on hard—and both changed their accounts under prosecutorial pressure. At what point does that dynamic create more risk for the prosecution than the defense? This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, ...
47m Mar 15
47m
Kouri Richins Defense Tried to Blame Eric for His Own Death — Here's Why It's Failing
The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial tried something that doesn't always work—putting the dead man on trial. They suggested Eric Richins had a history with drugs and that the fentanyl that killed him may have come from somewhere other than Kouri. Then the judge blocked their most specific drug evidence before they could even use it. And Eric's closest friend looked a jury in the eye an...
40m Mar 15
40m
Nancy Guthrie: The DNA Mixture Means More Than One Person May Be Keeping This Secret
Law enforcement has confirmed the DNA sample at the Nancy Guthrie scene is a mixture—meaning it may involve more than one person. That changes everything about who's been keeping this secret for over a month. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski together for a deep dive into the details that demand a real conversation. Robin...
54m Mar 14
54m
Kouri Richins Was $1.6 Million in Debt the Day After Eric Died — Forensic Accountant Testifies
The prosecution just laid bare Kouri Richins' finances in open court. Bounced checks. Hard money loans stacking up. A real estate business a forensic accountant called "imploding." By March 5, 2022—the day after Eric Richins died with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system—Kouri was $1.6 million in the red. Even liquidating everything wouldn't dig her out. This Hidden Killers Week...
46m Mar 14
46m
Cascio Family vs. Jackson Estate: $200 Million Lawsuit After Decades of Defense
The Cascio family spent 25 years as Michael Jackson's most vocal defenders. They attacked other accusers. They called themselves his "second family." Frank Cascio declared on Oprah and in his memoir that Jackson's love for children was innocent. Now all five siblings claim Jackson trafficked and sexually abused them starting when some were as young as seven. This Hidden Killers Week In Review e...
42m Mar 14
42m
Nancy Guthrie: What "Cleared" Really Means When You Were Never Charged
The Nancy Guthrie investigation has no arrest, no named suspect, no person of interest. But that hasn't stopped the destruction. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together expert analysis on both the investigation's progress and the innocent people caught in its wake. SWAT executed search warrants on one man's home. He was handcuffed, detained, questioned for hours—then released. His a...
35m Mar 14
35m
Adult Children of Narcissists: The Franke Family After Ruby's Conviction
Ruby Franke was arrested. The performance ended. But for her six children — raised as content for years — the work was just beginning. Part 5 of "The Good Mother" examines what comes after escape. The psychology of recovery. Who are you when the show is finally over? Shari Franke posted "Finally" when her mother was arrested. She wrote a memoir, testified before Utah legislators, advocates fo...
14m Mar 14
14m
Eric Faddis: What's Really Going to Decide the Kouri Richins Trial
Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down with Tony Brueski for an extended Hidden Killers conversation that goes deeper into the Kouri Richins murder trial than anything you'll hear in a standard legal segment. Three issues. Three conversations. Each one with real stakes. The defense's drug use theory has been gutted by a judicial ruling, contradicted by the people ...
52m Mar 13
52m
Cult Survivor Recovery: Healing After the Daybell Case When the Abuser Never Changes
Lori Vallow still believes she's chosen. In a 2025 Dateline interview, she maintained her innocence. She claimed Jesus showed her she'd be exonerated. She showed no remorse. Meanwhile, her surviving son Colby is trying to figure out how to live in the aftermath of something that can never be fixed. This is Part 5 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' final episode examining the psychology of...
15m Mar 13
15m
Can Kouri Richins Overcome What the Jury Already Knows About Her?
Before the Kouri Richins jury ever decides whether she murdered her husband, they've already learned who she is. Phone searches for "fentanyl poisoning." Deleted memes accessed minutes after first responders left — one saying "I'm really rich." A jailhouse letter coaching family on testimony. A forged signature on a life insurance policy a month before Eric died. And three days after his death,...
21m Mar 13
21m
Nancy Guthrie: Don't Be Surprised If They Never Find Her
Forty days. No suspect. No arrest. Cadaver dogs stood down. The DNA has dead-ended twice. And the desert keeps its secrets. This isn't pessimism — it's the evidence. After forty days with no named suspect, no viable DNA profile, and a biological clock that has long since run out for an 84-year-old woman with a cardiac condition, the Hidden Killers monologue goes where the cable coverage won't:...
14m Mar 13
14m
Kouri Richins Stays Silent — Defense Rests, No Witnesses, Closing Arguments Monday
The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she would not be testifying. This episode covers the full story of Day 13: Detective Jeff O'Driscoll's final cross-examination, the directed verdict motion, and the extraordinary legal moment where...
19m Mar 13
19m
The Richins Drug Chain: Can You Convict on Witnesses Who Bought Their Freedom?
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution's drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other changed her account of what drug she bought after federal charges appeared on the horizon. It's the kind of evidentiary situation that keeps defense attorneys up at night — and gives them am...
14m Mar 13
14m
Was the Richins Defense a Hail Mary? Eric Faddis Weighs In
When you don't have much, do you blame the victim? That's the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it's one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, has seen play out in courtrooms more times than he can count. The defense suggested Eric Richins had a drug history. They wanted to show a jury evidence of his alleged high school pill use. The j...
18m Mar 13
18m
System Failure: Ruby Franke Was Reported to CPS for Years — Why Didn't They Stop Her?
CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case. Three years later, Ruby's children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt's house. Part 4 of "The Good Mother" examines what happens when you see abuse, report it, and nothing changes. Why systems designed to protect children fail until the damage is catastrophic. The Franke case wasn't hidden. Ruby docu...
16m Mar 13
16m
Kouri Richins: FBI & Psychotherapist on the Mind Behind the Manipulation
The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what it does to the people who love them, and where it all starts — that takes a different kind of analysis. Tony Brueski brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Ch...
1hr 9m Mar 12
1hr 9m
High Control Religion Enablers: Who Watched the Daybell Tragedy and Stayed Silent
Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive. She was Lori's best friend. She heard Chad Daybell's zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked her to lie to police, she finally understood: she'd been used as an alibi for murder. This is Part 4 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' examination of spiritual abuse and religious trauma throug...
17m Mar 12
17m
Kouri Richins: The Cycle — Where She Came From and What She Left Behind
Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she's leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own. Tony Brueski examines the full arc of this case with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — from Kouri's own chaotic background to the question of what her children are now carrying. H...
28m Mar 12
28m
Kouri Richins Trial: Detective Jeff O' Driscoll — Lead Investigator Returns for Heated Cross
Detective Jeff O' Driscoll, Summit Co. Sheriff's Dept., takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, ...
47m Mar 12
47m
Kouri Richins' Jailhouse Letter: The Full Breakdown on Hidden Killers
You've seen the headlines about the Walk the Dog letter. Now hear it actually explained. Six handwritten pages. Written from jail. Titled by Kouri Richins herself as a destruction instruction — take vague notes, then walk the dog, meaning memorize it and make it disappear. It didn't disappear. It's state's evidence. And on this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski goes through it page by pa...
20m Mar 12
20m
Kouri Richins Trial: Jailhouse Letter Exposed — "It Has to Be Done"
Day 12 of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered what the prosecution has been building toward for three weeks. Lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll took the stand as the state's final witness and read aloud a six-page letter prosecutors say Richins wrote from jail — a letter titled "Walk the Dog!!" that allegedly directs her mother and brother on exactly what to say, who to contact, and what to er...
28m Mar 12
28m
Kouri Richins: What Eric's Family Knew — and What It Cost Them
They walked through that door and something was already wrong. Eric Richins' family felt it before anyone could prove it — and spent years, six figures, and close to a thousand hours of a private investigator's time trying to force the world to catch up to what their instincts already told them. Tony Brueski explores the psychological weight of that experience with psychotherapist Shavaun Scot...
22m Mar 12
22m
Kouri Richins: When Everyone Around You Is a Resource — Psychology Panel
The Kouri Richins trial has given us something rare: a documented, witness-by-witness record of every person allegedly used along the way. A boyfriend. A best friend. A housekeeper. Friends who lost money. Each one, according to prosecutors, served a function — until they didn't. Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to exam...
20m Mar 12
20m
Kouri Richins Trial: Jeff O'Driscoll — Defense Grills Lead Investigator
Jeff O'Driscoll, Summit County Detective, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense ca...
59m Mar 12
59m
Child Influencer Exploitation: Ruby Franke's 8 Passengers and the Family Vlogging Industry
8 Passengers had a billion views. Six children filmed five days a week from birth. Milestones were content. Punishments were content. Worst moments got the most views. Part 3 of "The Good Mother" examines the business underneath the Ruby Franke case: what happens when children become products, when childhood becomes content, when privacy is traded before a child understands the cost. The Fran...
14m Mar 12
14m