Paul Caneiro Murdered His Niece and Nephew? Psychotherapist on Family Annihilation Psychology
The Paul Caneiro trial has exposed one of New Jersey's most disturbing alleged family annihilations. Prosecutors say Paul murdered his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children — 11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia — at their Colts Neck mansion in November 2018, then set the house on fire. The alleged trigger? Keith had just discovered Paul stole $78,000 from a trust acc...
15m Jan 29
15m
Tepe Affidavit Unsealed: McKee Was at Their Home Three Weeks Before the Murders
The unsealed affidavit in the Michael McKee case reveals something prosecutors hadn't disclosed until now: McKee was at the Tepe home on December 6th — three weeks before he allegedly murdered his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer. The Tepes were at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis that night. Two hundred miles away. House empty. According to the Columbus Dispatch, video showed M...
14m Jan 29
14m
Bob Motta: Judge Removed From Spencer Trial, McKee Hires Lawyer Who Beat 14 Murder Charges
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for a two-part legal breakdown of the biggest murder case developments this week. First: Aaron Spencer. The Arkansas Supreme Court removed Judge Barbara Elmore from his second-degree murder trial—the second time they've reversed her on constitutional grounds in seven months. Spencer killed Michael Fosler, the man out on bond for allegedly raping his 14-year-...
1hr 10m Jan 29
1hr 10m
Surgeon Michael McKee Hires Attorney Who Beat 14 Murder Charges — The Defense Strategy Revealed
Dr. Michael McKee is facing four counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Columbus home on December 30th. The prosecution has ballistics. Vehicle tracking. Video footage. A suppressed weapon. No forced entry. And McKee just hired Diane Menashe. If that name doesn't mean anything to you, it should. In 2022, Menashe co-counseled...
25m Jan 29
25m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Brendan Banfield Takes The Stand — Brendan Banfield Takes the Stand — The Defense’s Biggest Gamble Yet
Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified 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, Juliana P...
1hr 21m Jan 29
1hr 21m
Monique Tepe Murder Defense—Diane Menashe's Strategy After Acquitting a Doctor of 14 Killings
Michael McKee is now represented by the attorney who got Dr. William Husel acquitted of fourteen murder charges by calling one witness. Diane Menashe doesn't put on defenses. She tears apart prosecutions. She's said publicly that once defense attorneys start presenting evidence, they assume the burden of proving their client innocent—so she avoids it. She lets the state's case fall on its own w...
25m Jan 28
25m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Defense Drops MORE Digital Evidence — Prosecution TEARS Into It on Cross Part 3
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
1hr 9m Jan 28
1hr 9m
Nick Reiner Case Exposed: The $42 Billion Rehab Industry That Profits When Treatment Fails
The Nick Reiner case has forced America to confront an uncomfortable truth: our addiction treatment system isn't designed to help people get better. It's designed to keep them coming back. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on a $42 billion industry built on failure. Relapse rates hover between 40-60% after treatment. For opioids, some studies push that number past 90%. And the industry...
24m Jan 28
24m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Round Two: Defense Unleashes Another Wave of Digital Evidence Part 2
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
1hr 15m Jan 28
1hr 15m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Defense Doubles Down: New Digital Evidence Enters the Banfield Trial Part 1
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
1hr 13m Jan 28
1hr 13m
Aaron Spencer's Murder Defense—Bob Motta on Self-Defense, Prior Threats, and What Jurors Need to Hear
Aaron Spencer faces second-degree murder for killing Michael Fosler. The prosecution says it was purposeful killing. The defense says it was a father protecting his 14-year-old daughter from the man charged with raping her—a man out on $5,000 bond with 43 counts pending against him. Fosler should never have been free. He definitely should never have been with that child in his vehicle at 1 a.m....
25m Jan 28
25m
Elleshia Seymour: The Third Mormon "Doomsday Mom" — Why the LDS Church Keeps Producing Child Abductors While Sitting on $265 Billion
Four American children are trapped in a Croatian orphanage right now. Their father flew across the world to get them — and he's only allowed to see them two hours a day. The reason? Their mother, Elleshia Seymour, allegedly believed the apocalypse was coming. She loaded them onto a one-way flight to Europe, convinced that Salt Lake City was about to be destroyed and that COVID vaccines were tur...
42m Jan 28
42m
Arkansas Supreme Court Yanks Judge Barbara Elmore Off Aaron Spencer Murder Trial | What Happens Now?
Judge Barbara Elmore is off the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court removed her after finding her courtroom restrictions created constitutional problems for a second time in seven months. The first reversal came in May 2025 when the high court called her gag order a "plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." The second came now—after she limited the trial to 55 people, ...
22m Jan 28
22m
"Come Forward and Explain" — Ellen Greenberg's Parents Issue Direct Plea to Sam Goldberg as Federal Probe Expands
Fifteen years of silence. That's what the Greenberg family has received from Sam Goldberg and his relatives since Ellen was found dead with 20 stab wounds in their shared apartment. Now, with federal prosecutors issuing subpoenas and a corruption investigation underway, Ellen's parents are making one final request: help us understand. Sandee Greenberg's invitation was pointed but gracious: "We...
31m Jan 28
31m
Reiner, Caneiro, Tepe: FBI Expert Analyzes the Warning Signs in Three Family Murder Cases
This week we're covering three cases that force the same devastating question: how do families know when a troubled relative has become genuinely dangerous? Nick Reiner is charged with stabbing his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. His attorney withdrew while insisting Nick is "not guilty of murder"—signaling a likely insanit...
1hr 1m Jan 28
1hr 1m
Aaron Spencer Trial DELAYED: Judge Elmore Removed After Supreme Court Intervenes TWICE — 14 Legislators File Complaint
Breaking developments in the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court has removed Judge Barbara Elmore from the murder trial of the father who killed the man charged with raping his daughter. This is the second time the state's highest court had to intervene because of this judge. In May 2025, they struck down her gag order and called it "a plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of disc...
25m Jan 28
25m
Rob Reiner's Son Nick: The Behavioral Warning Signs Everyone Missed
The warning signs in the Nick Reiner case stretch back decades. A yoga instructor who worked with the family described childhood tantrums she'd "never seen" anything like. At fifteen, Nick was physically aggressive with a rehab roommate. As an adult, he destroyed his parents' guesthouse on meth—multiple times—with what he later described as "no logic." He was in and out of rehab eighteen times ...
13m Jan 27
13m
The Tepe Murders: McKee's Defense Attorney Has a Perfect Record in Doctor Murder Trials
Michael McKee entered his not guilty plea Friday. Silent. Stoic. His attorney did the talking. And if you want to understand what's coming in this case, you need to understand who that attorney is. Diane Menashe defended Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician accused of murdering fourteen ICU patients with lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. One. Husel walked on all fourteen...
15m Jan 27
15m
Caneiro Mansion Murders: Detective Testifies 8-Year-Old Sophia Had Stab Wound to Eye
The testimony in Paul Caneiro's quadruple murder trial has turned graphic. A Colts Neck detective told jurors that when eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro's body was removed from the burned mansion, he noticed she had stab wounds—including one to her left eye. Sophia's father Keith, mother Jennifer, and 11-year-old brother Jesse were also found dead inside the home on November 20, 2018. Paul Caneiro...
19m Jan 27
19m
Jesse Butler's Plea Deal May Be VOID — Attorney Files Motion That Could Send Case Back to Adult Court
Jesse Butler thought he got away with it. The Stillwater, Oklahoma teen pled no contest to 11 felony charges — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation, violating a protective order — and avoided prison entirely. But attorney Rachel Bussett just filed a motion that could blow the whole thing up. Her argument: the plea was void from the start. According to court documents, victims...
33m Jan 27
33m
Spencer and Monique Tepe Found Dead — Ex-Husband McKee's Firearm Links to Scene
The ballistic match that prosecutors say connects Dr. Michael McKee to the murders of his ex-wife and her husband is now central to the case against him. McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe and Dr. Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot to death in their Weinland Park home on December 30th. ...
30m Jan 27
30m
Ignored Red Flags: FBI Analyst on Kohberger's 13 WSU Complaints and Reiner Family's Lost Threat Perception
Bryan Kohberger generated 13 formal complaints at Washington State University in a single semester. Nick Reiner had been through 18 rehab programs and a court-ordered conservatorship. In both cases, people saw something. In both cases, according to the evidence, nothing stopped what came next. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers for an extended analysis of institutional f...
47m Jan 27
47m
Nick Reiner, Kohberger WSU Lawsuit & Tepe Murder — Listener Questions Episode
Your questions have been flooding in on three of the most talked-about cases right now, and we're dedicating this episode to answering them. First: Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents Rob and Michele Reiner after years of addiction, schizophrenia, and a family that never gave up — until allegedly, it cost them their lives. Why did Alan Jackson walk away? How do you reconcile "Being ...
1hr 9m Jan 27
1hr 9m
The Entitled Life of Nick Reiner: How Hollywood's Most Enabled Son Allegedly Became a Killer
By the time Nick Reiner was fifteen, he'd already learned a dangerous lesson: there is no bottom, because someone will always catch you. His parents—legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner—spent decades trying to save their troubled son. Eighteen rehab stints. Private wellness instructors. Family therapy. A guesthouse on their $13.5 million Brentwood estate that sou...
42m Jan 27
42m
Tepe Murder Q&A: Michael McKee's 300-Mile Drive, Coercive Control & Failed Systems
Monique's family said they "immediately knew" it was Michael McKee when they got the call. They knew. For eight years they watched her live in fear of a man she'd been married to for seven months. And nothing could be done. Michael McKee is now charged with two counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Ohio home while their children — a four...
22m Jan 26
22m
Licensed to Kill? Michael McKee and the Broken System That Let Him Operate
Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe in their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. But here's what should disturb you even more than the alleged crime itself: for eleven days after those killings, McKee was still employed as a vascular surgeon at an Illinois hospital. Credentialed. On staff. Working. How did he get that license in t...
22m Jan 26
22m
Neo Langston Arrest: The Witness Who Ran to Montana — D4VD Case Grand Jury Update
They found him at his mother's house in Helena, Montana. Neo Langston — Twitch streamer, content creator, and close friend of D4VD — was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant for failing to appear as a witness. By Friday night, he was booked into LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center on $60,000 bail. The unit that tracked him down? LAPD Robbery-Homicide — the same division investigating the dea...
25m Jan 26
25m
Bryan Kohberger WSU Lawsuit: The University Knew — Your Questions Answered
A professor allegedly told colleagues to "mark my words" — if they gave Bryan Kohberger a PhD, he'd eventually stalk and abuse students. Thirteen complaints filed in one semester. Women so scared they needed security escorts to their cars. And according to a new lawsuit, WSU's biggest concern was getting sued by the stalker, not protecting the students he was allegedly terrorizing. The families...
18m Jan 26
18m
The Lululemon Problem: Defense Expert Says Digital Evidence DESTROYS Prosecution's Catfish Theory | Banfield Trial
The prosecution's catfishing theory just hit a wall. On Day 7 of the Brendan Banfield double murder trial, defense witness Harry Lidsky—a former DOJ digital forensics expert—testified that the data simply doesn't support the state's case. According to Lidsky, within the same minutes the FetLife account was created on Christine Banfield's laptop, her phone was searching a Lululemon sale. He bel...
15m Jan 26
15m
Paul Caneiro's Insurance Policy Required All Four Deaths — Including His 8-Year-Old Niece Stabbed 17 Times
This week, a trust account expert told a Monmouth County jury something that reframes the entire Paul Caneiro case. Keith Caneiro's $3 million life insurance policy would only pay Paul if Keith, Jennifer, and both children were dead. All four of them. If any survived, they'd inherit instead. According to prosecutors, this explains why eight-year-old Sophia was stabbed seventeen times and left t...
19m Jan 26
19m
Rob & Michele Reiner Murder: Listener Questions on Nick Reiner, Schizophrenia & Enabling
Seventeen rehab stints. A movie about his addiction. A guest house so they could keep him close. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything parents are supposed to do — and now they're dead, allegedly at the hands of the son they never stopped trying to save. You've been flooding us with questions, and we're answering the hardest ones. When does love become enabling? Why did Alan Jackson walk away f...
30m Jan 26
30m
FBI Expert: Is Juliana Magalhães Credible? Plus Blood Evidence Expert Says Banfield Staged the Scene
She lied for over a year. She wrote letters from jail promising to "take the blame" for Brendan Banfield. She told his mother she would "give my life for his." She only flipped after Banfield was arrested, after she was hospitalized from stress, and after his family stopped paying her legal bills. Now Juliana Peres Magalhães is negotiating with Netflix while media producers fund her commissary....
38m Jan 26
38m
The Reiners Lost Their Threat Perception: FBI & Psychology Experts Analyze 30 Years of Manipulation
How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house on December 13th, 2025? What did Rob and Michele Reiner stop being able to see? Two experts break down the psychological dynamics that may have led accomplished, intelligent parents to underestimate danger from their own son. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligen...
1hr 15m Jan 26
1hr 15m
FBI Expert: Why Monique Tepe's "Perfect Exit" Couldn't Save Her From an Alleged Grievance Collector
She left after seven months. Let him keep the house. Let him have the rings. Paid what she owed—with an interest penalty clause he demanded. Moved back to Ohio, rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children. Her family says Monique never said Michael McKee's name after the divorce. She only called him "her ex-husband." She talked about the emotional abuse. The torment. She was always worr...
33m Jan 25
33m
The Reiners Lost Their Ability to See the Threat: FBI Behavioral Analysis & Conservatorship Failure
How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house with someone in psychiatric crisis on December 13th, 2025? What did Rob and Michele Reiner stop being able to see? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes twenty years of family dynamics that may have led to tragedy. Dreeke ex...
50m Jan 25
50m
The "Wound Collector" Psychology: FBI Experts Break Down Michael McKee & the Tepe Murder Evidence
Eight years. That's how long Dr. Michael McKee allegedly waited after his divorce from Monique Tepe before he drove 300 miles from Illinois to Ohio and shot her and her husband Spencer dead in their home. Most people move on after a failed marriage. They heal. They rebuild. But according to FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, McKee may be what's called a "wound collector"—someone who doesn't le...
41m Jan 25
41m
The Reiner Conservatorship: How California's Mental Health System Forces Impossible Choices
A judge declared Nick Reiner "gravely disabled" in 2020. Licensed fiduciary Steven Baer took control of his treatment decisions. Nick could be forced into a locked psychiatric facility against his will. The Reiners obtained the most powerful legal tool California offers families dealing with severe mental illness. It lasted one year. Four years later, both parents are dead. Here's what the law...
51m Jan 25
51m
Monique Tepe Never Documented the Abuse: Why Victims Stay Silent & How McKee Allegedly Exploited It
Rob Misleh said something on Good Morning America that stops you cold: "She just had to get away from him." He said Monique told him Dr. Michael McKee was emotionally abusive. That she was willing to do anything to escape. That many in the family knew about the torment. Misleh called McKee a monster, said Monique never spoke his name after the 2017 divorce—only "her ex-husband." She was always ...
37m Jan 25
37m
Banfield Murder Trial: Au Pair Photos Replace Wife's on Nightstand, FBI Profiler Breaks Down Manipulation
Eight months after Christine Banfield was allegedly stabbed to death in her own bedroom, detectives returned to the home. What they found tells a story all by itself. The blood-soaked carpet? Gone. Fresh wood flooring in its place. New furniture throughout. And on the nightstand where wedding photos once sat? Pictures of Brendan Banfield with Juliana Peres Magalhães—the au pair who prosecutors ...
58m Jan 24
58m
Dr. Michael McKee Ballistics Link Revealed: Murder Weapon Traced to Illinois Doctor
Police just connected the dots. Sixteen days after Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead in their Columbus home, investigators announced they've recovered multiple firearms from Dr. Michael McKee's property—and one of those weapons has a preliminary ballistic match to the murder scene through NIBIN, the federal database that links bullets to guns across the country. McKee allegedly drove fr...
46m Jan 24
46m
Nick Reiner's Defense Attorney Quits After Declaring "Not Guilty"—What Did Alan Jackson Find?
One of America's best defense attorneys just made the most unusual exit in recent legal memory. Alan Jackson told the court he was "legally and ethically prohibited" from continuing to represent Nick Reiner. Then he walked outside and told reporters: "Pursuant to the law in California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder." What circumstances force an attorney to withdraw while simultaneously st...
44m Jan 24
44m
Murdaugh Appeal Goes to Supreme Court: The Clerk Who Convicted Him Is Now a Convicted Criminal
The Murdaugh saga reaches its most critical moment yet. On February 11th, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Alex Murdaugh's appeal — and the stakes couldn't be higher. Becky Hill, the Colleton County Clerk of Court who managed the jury during Murdaugh's six-week murder trial, has pled guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice, and misconduct in office. She admi...
22m Jan 24
22m
Tepe Double Murder & Kohberger WSU Lawsuit: Attorney Eric Faddis Breaks Down Both Cases
This week on Hidden Killers, we're examining two cases demanding legal accountability—one criminal, one civil—with former felony prosecutor turned defense attorney Eric Faddis. In Ohio, Dr. Michael McKee faces aggravated murder charges for allegedly executing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Richard Tepe in their Columbus home. Police say the murder weapon was recovered from McKee's Chi...
47m Jan 24
47m
The Long Con: FBI Expert on How Nick Reiner Allegedly Reshaped His Family's Reality Over 20 Years
The Reiners called police twice in 2019. A welfare check. A mental health call. That means at some point they perceived enough danger or dysfunction to bring in law enforcement. But by December 2025, they're sharing a home with Nick after watching him act erratically at a party. They went to bed. What happened to their threat calibration? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Kille...
15m Jan 24
15m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Lidsky Challenges the Banfield Digital Evidence Part 3
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
38m Jan 23
38m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Nick Barreiro Takes The Stand — 911 Audio Takes Center Stage Before Objections Stop the Testimony
Nick Barreiro, Audio/Video Forensic Analyst, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, ...
23m Jan 23
23m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Lidsky Challenges the Banfield Digital Evidence Part 2
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
1hr 22m Jan 23
1hr 22m
Kohberger Victims Sue WSU: Inside the 126-Page Lawsuit Alleging "Deliberate Indifference"
Washington State University knew Bryan Kohberger was dangerous. That's what the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin are alleging in a devastating new lawsuit filed January 7th, 2026. The 126-page complaint details at least 13 formal complaints filed against Kohberger during his single semester as a graduate teaching assistant at WSU. Women were requestin...
17m Jan 23
17m
The Rob Reiner Murder: Why Investigators Think Nick Reiner's Violence Points to More Than Mental Illness
Rob and Michele Reiner were stabbed to death in their Brentwood mansion. Their son Nick - diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, fresh off a medication change - is charged with their murders. The family narrative focuses on mental illness. But the violence pattern tells a different story. Sources describe the crime scene as so brutal it disturbed veteran investigators. TMZ's Harvey Levin say...
17m Jan 23
17m
Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Harry Lidsky Takes The Stand — Lidsky Challenges the Banfield Digital Evidence Part 1
Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified 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, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with...
2hr 10m Jan 23
2hr 10m