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
Kouri Richins Trial: Jeff O'Driscoll — State Calls 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...
1hr 34m Mar 12
1hr 34m
Kouri Richins Full Panel: Motta & Dreeke on the Trial Nobody Is Fully Explaining
Three segments. Fifteen questions. Two of the sharpest people working this case. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke sit down for a full panel discussion on the Kouri Richins murder trial — and none of it is surface level. The defense strategy and what it tells us. Two compromised immunity witnesses and whether they're helping or hurting the prosecution. A circumstantial case built on three pillars — d...
1hr 16m Mar 11
1hr 16m
Cult Dehumanization: How the Daybell Doctrine Made Children "Zombies" | Spiritual Abuse
The last photograph of Tylee Ryan was taken at Yellowstone. September 8, 2019. She's sixteen. She's smiling. Within a day, investigators believe she was dead. Her remains were found nine months later — burned and dismembered in Chad Daybell's backyard. Her mother's explanation, according to friends who testified? Tylee had "gone dark." This is Part 3 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' 5-p...
16m Mar 11
16m
Kouri Richins Trial: Carmen Lauber — Lauber Returns for More Testimony
Carmen Lauber, Richins' Former Housekeeper, 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 ...
14m Mar 11
14m
Kouri Richins Case: What It Reveals About Domestic Poisoning and Justice
The Kouri Richins murder trial isn't just a courtroom story. It's a case that forces hard questions about how this type of alleged crime operates, why it's so difficult to catch, and what justice looks like when the evidence is entirely circumstantial. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke take the panel wider than the courtroom in this segment. Eric Richins reportedly told friends he thought his wife wa...
28m Mar 11
28m
Nick Reiner's Siblings Cut Him Off — Family Walks Away
Nick Reiner — son of legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner — pleaded not guilty on February 23rd, 2026 to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 14th, 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood, California home. He is held without bail. The death penalty remains on the table. And his siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner,...
21m Mar 11
21m
Kouri Richins: The Pattern Behind the Murder Charge
Most coverage of the Kouri Richins trial focuses on the night Eric died. This episode focuses on everything that came before it — and everyone who was allegedly in the way. Trial testimony has produced something more damning than any single piece of forensic evidence: a map of every person prosecutors say Kouri Richins used and what happened to them when they were no longer useful. A husband s...
31m Mar 11
31m
Kouri Richins: The Texts, the Witnesses, and What the Jury Is Holding
The courtroom evidence in the Kouri Richins trial is one thing. What the jury is actually absorbing is another. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the specific moments and pieces of testimony that are going to follow those twelve jurors into deliberations — and why some of it is going to be nearly impossible to set aside. Two texts are at the center of this discussion. One Kouri sent to her...
22m Mar 11
22m
Kouri Richins: What the Defense Strategy Is Really Telling Us
Two mistrial motions. Forty prosecution witnesses. A case built entirely on circumstantial evidence. The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial hasn't shown their full hand yet — but the moves they've already made are saying a lot. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke step into the panel to break down the defense's strategy from the ground up. Why file mistrial motions in the middle of the prosecutio...
27m Mar 11
27m
Toxic Therapist: How Jodi Hildebrandt Used Coercive Control on Ruby Franke's Family
In 2009, Jodi Hildebrandt's niece went to police alleging abuse. Tied up. Duct taped. Forced to sleep outside. The allegations went nowhere. Fourteen years later, Ruby Franke's children were found bound and starving in Jodi's house. By then, Jodi had spent nearly two decades destroying families through a "life coaching" business that former clients describe as cult-like. Part 2 of "The Good M...
17m Mar 11
17m
Guthrie Investigation and Richins Trial: The Full Evidence and Behavioral Analysis Session With Robin Dreeke
Hidden Killers delivers the complete listener Q&A — the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the Kouri Richins murder trial examined back to back with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. This is the investigative and analytical deep-dive both cases have warranted from the beginning. The Guthrie evidence thread runs through a set of details that have been underexamined ...
1hr 12m Mar 10
1hr 12m
Religious Narcissism: Inside Chad Daybell's Belief System | Spiritual Abuse Psychology
Chad Daybell kept spreadsheets. Not business records. Not finances. Lists of people — family, friends, his own children — each assigned a "light and dark rating" on a scale he invented. Everyone who dropped below a certain number was declared a "zombie." Everyone declared a zombie ended up dead. This is Part 2 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' 5-part psychological examination of spiritua...
17m Mar 10
17m
Matthew Farwell's Case Won't Be Dismissed — Sandra Birchmore's Trial Is Set
A federal judge has denied former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell's motion to dismiss the charges against him in the death of Sandra Birchmore — and the October 2026 trial is locked in. Sandra Birchmore was 23 years old and three months pregnant when she was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in February 2021. For years, her death was officially ruled self-inflicted. ...
14m Mar 10
14m
Kouri Richins: The Family Hired a PI — He Gutted the Defense's Entire Theory
The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial has built its case around one central argument: Eric Richins had a history of substance use, and his death was a tragic accident. On the tenth day of testimony, a private investigator hired by Eric's own family took the stand and systematically dismantled that theory from every angle. Todd Gabler spent roughly a year investigating Eric's death inde...
17m Mar 10
17m
Kouri Richins: Immunity Deals, the Escalation Evidence, and What the Prosecution Had to Prove
The Kouri Richins murder trial is built on a stack of evidence that includes text messages, cell tower data, fentanyl receipts, and two witnesses who changed their stories after receiving immunity. Hidden Killers examines the evidentiary architecture of this case in a listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. The escalation detail is one of the most si...
19m Mar 10
19m
Nancy Guthrie: Pacemaker Data at 2:28 AM, a DNA Mixture, and the Evidence Picture Nobody's Fully Explaining
The evidentiary details in the Nancy Guthrie case are accumulating — and several of them aren't getting the scrutiny they deserve. Hidden Killers digs into the evidence layer with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski in this listener Q&A focused on what the physical and forensic record actually tells us. The pacemaker. Nancy's device last synced at 2:28 in the morni...
26m Mar 10
26m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Internet Outage, the Escalation Decision, and What the FBI Is Really Doing
The details in the Nancy Guthrie case that aren't getting enough attention are precisely the ones that matter most to understanding what happened and who's responsible. Hidden Killers brings you a deep-dive listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski — going beyond the press conference talking points and into the evidence. The night Nancy vanished, the in...
28m Mar 10
28m
Narcissistic Mother Signs: Ruby Franke and the Psychology of Performance Parenting
Ruby Franke built a parenting empire on YouTube. 2.5 million subscribers watched her raise six children. She looked like exactly what she was selling: a devoted mother with answers for everything. Her children experienced someone different. Part 1 of "The Good Mother" examines narcissistic mother psychology through the Ruby Franke case — the parent whose public warmth masked private cruelty, ...
13m Mar 10
13m
Kouri Richins Trial: Todd Gabler — Family-Hired Investigator Breaks Silence
Todd Gabler, Private Investigator, 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 calls a t...
1hr 21m Mar 10
1hr 21m
Nancy Guthrie and Kouri Richins — An FBI Special Agent's Full Analysis of Two Cases the Nation Is Watching
One is a missing persons investigation that has consumed the country for over a month with no arrest and one suspect still unidentified. The other is a murder trial built entirely on circumstantial evidence, currently anchored by two immunity witnesses who cannot agree on what drug was sold. Jennifer Coffindaffer — who spent years as an FBI Special Agent working the kinds of cases most people o...
57m Mar 09
57m
Kouri Richins Trial: Detective Jamye Woody — 911 Call Played, Detective Testifies
Jamye Woody, Police Detective, takes the stand 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 tragic a...
57m Mar 09
57m
1: Spiritual Love Bombing: How Chad Daybell's Religious Manipulation Works | Cult Psychology
How do you recognize spiritual abuse before it's too late? It starts with feeling chosen. Someone tells you that you're special — that they can see your divine purpose, that you were set apart before birth, that the rules don't apply to someone at your level. That's how it started for Lori Vallow. A religious conference. A man named Chad Daybell. A claim that they'd been married in a past lif...
13m Mar 09
13m
Kouri Richins Trial: Matthew Throckmorton — Was It Eric’s Signature? Expert Testifies
Matthew Throckmorton, handwriting expert, 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...
1hr 2m Mar 09
1hr 2m
Kouri Richins Trial: Retired FBI Agent Exposes the Prosecution's Most Vulnerable Points
Nine days of testimony. A housekeeper who says she sold fentanyl. A dealer who says it was oxycodone. A boyfriend's intimate texts read aloud in court. Phone searches asking what poison does to a death certificate. A case built entirely on circumstantial evidence — and a retired FBI Special Agent who knows exactly where it holds and where it doesn't. Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the Kouri...
22m Mar 09
22m
Kouri Richins Trial: Cody Wright — Unapproved Insurance Changes Exposed
Cody Wright, Eric's former business partner, 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...
1hr 17m Mar 09
1hr 17m
Charity Beallis Autopsy Results Released: Official Ruling, Twins Homicide — Questions Remain
The Sebastian County Sheriff's Office has released the official autopsy results in the Charity Beallis case. Her manner of death has been ruled self-inflicted. Her six-year-old twins, Eliana and Maverick — homicide. Three months of investigation involving the FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service, and Arkansas State Police. The alibi evidence for Randall Beallis is verified across multiple in...
27m Mar 09
27m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Lie She Told the Woman Who Bought the Drugs
Days after Eric Richins was found dead, his housekeeper called his wife with one question: please tell me those pills were not for him. According to testimony, Kouri Richins answered without hesitation. Eric died of a brain aneurysm, she said. That lie — delivered calm and clean to the one person who knew exactly what those pills were — is the moment prosecutors say tells you everything about ...
23m Mar 09
23m
Nancy Guthrie: The FBI Knows Someone in His Life Is Sitting on the Answer
The suspect on Nancy Guthrie's porch has visible eyebrows. A visible mustache. A pinky ring. He was on camera. And according to retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — who built a career inside the Bureau working cases exactly like this — someone in that man's life knows who he is. That person has been sitting on that knowledge for over a month. In this episode, Coffindaffer focuses...
17m Mar 09
17m
Nancy Guthrie: When the FBI Says "Closer," a Retired Agent Tells You What That Actually Means
"Definitely closer." That's what Sheriff Nanos told the Today show. "Red hot." That's what retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek. Both phrases sound like momentum. But inside an FBI investigation, those words carry a specific weight — and a specific limit. Coffindaffer spent years inside the Bureau. She knows the difference between an investigation generating activity a...
20m Mar 09
20m
Kouri Richins Burned Through $1.35 Million in 90 Days — Defense Says Investigation Was "Outcome-Driven"
The prosecution's motive case against Kouri Richins is built in dollars and bank statements. Forensic accountant Brooke Karrington testified that by March 2022, Kouri carried $7.5 million in debt, was hemorrhaging $80,000 monthly in payments, and owed four payday lenders $2,100 every single day. Her business account was "perpetually in the hole." December 2021 alone saw 77 overdraft transaction...
54m Mar 09
54m
Colin Gray Guilty of Murder: First Parent Convicted for Child's School Shooting in Georgia History
The jury needed less than two hours. Colin Gray is guilty of second-degree murder on all 29 counts—the first parent in Georgia history convicted for a school shooting committed by his child. The evidence was overwhelming. The FBI warned Colin Gray in 2023 after his son threatened to shoot up a school online. His response? Buy the fourteen-year-old an AR-15 for Christmas seven months later. No ...
35m Mar 08
35m
LISK Planning Document Recovered: 87 Details Matching Gilgo Beach Murders — Family Divided
Forensic analysts recovered a deleted file from Rex Heuermann's basement. According to prosecutors, it's the Long Island Serial Killer's planning document for murder. The document—titled HK2002-04—was hidden on one of fifty-eight hard drives seized from the Massapequa Park home. Created in 2000, modified through 2002, it allegedly contained eighty-seven details prosecutors say match the method...
32m Mar 08
32m
The Mask and the Money — Coercive Control Psychology in the Kouri Richins Case
Everyone loves them. Your friends think they're charming. Your family thinks you're lucky. You know what they're really like at home. That's the loneliest place a human being can be. Tonight we're examining the psychology of coercive control through the Kouri Richins case—Parts 3 and 4 of "Surviving the Fog." We're not diagnosing anyone. We're exploring documented patterns. Financial abuse cr...
26m Mar 08
26m
Kouri Richins Trial: Drug Supplier Contradicts Star Witness — FBI Analyst and Defense Attorney React
This is our Week in Review of the Kouri Richins murder trial—and the prosecution's key witnesses are telling different stories under oath. Carmen Lauber testified she bought fentanyl for Kouri Richins four times before Eric died. Robert Crozier—the man who allegedly supplied those drugs to Lauber—took the stand and said something different. He testified he only sold oxycodone, not fentanyl, be...
45m Mar 08
45m
Nancy Guthrie Update: Why the "Sloppy" Suspect Hasn't Been Caught — And Why Nanos Can't Be Removed
Everyone watching the Nancy Guthrie case has said the same thing: the suspect looks incompetent. The Walmart backpack. The awkward holster. The camera cover made from plant leaves. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke says that assessment misses the point entirely. Dreeke spent 21 years with the FBI, including serving as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His analys...
41m Mar 08
41m
Kouri Richins Trial — Deleted Memes After Eric's Death and the Psychology Behind It
Breaking down the digital evidence that could define the Kouri Richins murder trial—and the psychological patterns that explain how Eric never saw it coming. Forensic testimony focused on data from seven phones. Digital analyst Chris Kotrodimos showed the jury deleted meme thumbnails recovered from Kouri's device—accessed moments after first responders left the home where Eric lay dead. One me...
50m Mar 07
50m
Nancy Guthrie Q&A — Pacemaker Signal, DNA Dead Ends, and Why No One Can ID the Suspect
You've been flooding us with questions about the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. Tonight we're answering them—no guests, no filter, just the facts and what they tell us. Four weeks. An 84-year-old woman still missing. A suspect captured on camera whose face has been seen by millions. Fifty thousand tips submitted. And somehow, not a single person can identify him. How is that possible? Not one co...
51m Mar 07
51m
Kouri Richins Trial — Star Witness Describes Fentanyl Purchases
Breaking testimony from the Kouri Richins murder trial as the prosecution's key witness takes the stand. Carmen Lauber, testifying under immunity deals with three Utah counties and federal authorities, has told jurors she purchased drugs for Kouri Richins four separate times in early 2022—and that Kouri knew the final batch contained fentanyl. According to Lauber's testimony, the drug procurem...
36m Mar 07
36m
Sheriff's Own Deputies Call Nancy Guthrie Investigation an "Ego Case"
Breaking developments in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation—and they're coming from inside the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Multiple current and former members of Sheriff Chris Nanos's own agency are publicly questioning how the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother is being handled. Sgt. Aaron Cross, president of the Pima County Deputies Organization, delivered a damning assessmen...
34m Mar 07
34m
LISK Arrested: THE UNRAVELING — How a Pizza Box Led to the Gilgo Beach Killer
Investigators had been watching the man they believed was LISK—the Long Island Serial Killer—for months. They had cell tower evidence. Burner phone records. But they needed DNA. Then he threw away a pizza box. In the final part of our Gilgo Beach Killer series, we examine how a discarded pizza box allegedly provided the evidence that led to charges in a thirteen-year cold case—and what happen...
14m Mar 07
14m
Eric Faddis: Financial Motive, False Accusations, and the Cascio Lawsuit — Kouri, Nancy, and MJ
Three cases. Three legal minefields. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the week's biggest developments in one extended conversation. Kouri Richins' finances are now on full display for the jury. A forensic accountant testified she was $1.6 million in debt the day after Eric died—business imploding, checks bouncing, hard money loans stacking. The prosecution wants jurors to see premedit...
56m Mar 07
56m
Kouri Richins & The Danger Zone: When Control Slips, Everything Escalates | Surviving the Fog Part 5
Leaving is the most dangerous time. The moment you start seeing clearly is the moment risk spikes. The relationship was never about love. It was about control. When control slips, they tighten their grip. This is Part 5 of "Surviving the Fog"—examining escalation through the Kouri Richins case. We're not diagnosing anyone. We're exploring documented patterns. Prosecutors allege Eric was aski...
14m Mar 06
14m
Cascio Family vs. Michael Jackson Estate: Defenders Turned Accusers — $200M Lawsuit Explained
For 25 years, the Cascio family was Michael Jackson's shield. They testified at his 2005 trial. Frank Cascio wrote a book defending him. They went on national television saying Jackson never harmed anyone. Now all five Cascio siblings are suing, alleging Jackson drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked them since childhood. The estate says it's a $200 million extortion scheme. Former prosecuto...
18m Mar 06
18m
Kouri Richins Trial: Friends Testify, Damning Texts Revealed & Prosecution Nears Rest
The Kouri Richins murder trial entered its ninth day with prosecutors unleashing their most personal evidence yet — the words of her closest friends and the text messages she sent in the weeks and months after her husband Eric Richins died of a fatal fentanyl overdose in 2022. A coworker testified Kouri said it would be better if Eric were dead — then held her ground on the stand even after be...
20m Mar 06
20m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: When Internet Sleuths Destroy Innocent Lives
No arrest. No suspect. No person of interest. A month after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, investigators have nothing public to show—but innocent people are already paying the price. A 37-year-old man living with his elderly mother was handcuffed and questioned for hours after SWAT executed search warrants. He was released. His attorney issued a statement saying he has "no l...
15m Mar 06
15m
Kouri Richins Was $1.6 Million in Debt When Eric Died — Motive or Coincidence?
Forensic accounting testimony just painted the clearest picture yet of Kouri Richins' financial situation—and it's worse than anyone knew. Negative $1.6 million net worth. A business account "perpetually in the hole." Checks bouncing constantly. Hard money loans with brutal interest rates coming due. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to analyze whether financial chaos equals m...
23m Mar 06
23m
The Long Island Serial Killer's Alleged Hunt: LISK's Burner Phones, Taunting, and Gilgo Four Pattern
July 2009. A fifteen-year-old girl answers her missing sister's phone. A man's voice asks: "Do you know what I did to your sister?" Amanda Barthelemy received seven calls over the following weeks. The man described what he'd done. On August 26, he said: "You won't see her again. I killed her." In Part 4 of our Gilgo Beach Killer series, we examine the alleged LISK hunting methodology—how pros...
14m Mar 06
14m
Kouri Richins Trial: Allie Staking — Tension and Tribute After Eric’s Passing
Allie Staking, friend of Kouri, takes the stand 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 tragic ...
38m Mar 06
38m
Kouri Richins Deep Dive + Nancy Guthrie Update — Psychology of Alternate Realities
This extended Hidden Killers episode brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott in for comprehensive analysis of two cases united by a single theme: the construction of alternate realities. Kouri Richins appears to inhabit a different reality than everyone around her. Charged with murder, she wrote a grief book and promoted it on television. From jail, she filed lawsuits demanding millions from Eric...
57m Mar 06
57m