Defense Attorney Bob: Guthrie, Kepner, and Richins Legal Analysis
Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit. The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution's case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly released early. FBI allegedly wanted evidence processed at Quantico; it was sent to a private Florida l...
1hr 6m Feb 19
1hr 6m
Kouri Richins: What the Jury Won't Hear Changes Everything
The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children's book about grief. Case closed, right? Not even close. As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keeps shifting. The prosecution's key witness—the man who allegedly supplied the fentanyl—now says...
31m Feb 19
31m
Kouri Richins: What the Defense Is Working With Before Trial
Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt. Robert Crozier—the man prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper—recanted in October 2025. He now says he sold O...
21m Feb 18
21m
The Reiner Tragedy: Mourning Someone Still Alive
They're still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it. And you're not allowed to grieve them. Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th. But there was no funeral. No acknowledgment. Just a slow-motion vanishing where the person th...
16m Feb 18
16m
Anna Kepner Case: Inside the Sealed Federal Juvenile Proceedings
Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means. Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly a bar hold restraint. Her 16-year-old stepbrother a...
13m Feb 18
13m
Nancy Guthrie Day 18: CODIS Fails, the Glove Is a Dead End, and the Investigation Can't Keep Up
Eighteen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, the evidence the nation was banking on just came back empty. DNA recovered from a black glove found two miles from Nancy's home produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI's national database of over 26 million offender profiles. But the bigger problem isn't the miss — it's the fact that th...
21m Feb 18
21m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Defense Case Is Already Building
No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance—but defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution's case may already be damaged. The Pima County Sheriff's Office reportedly released the crime scene early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood droplets on the porch before it was re-secured. Evidence that the FBI allegedly wanted processed at Quantico was sent to a priv...
32m Feb 18
32m
Mickey Stines: The Mental Breakdown Nobody Stopped
In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong. He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going to kill his wife and daughter. He made someone put a bulletproof vest on his wife. A local atto...
17m Feb 18
17m
Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert — The Suspect, the Sheriff, and the Silence
A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed. Nancy's predictable routine and employed staff created multiple intelligence access points. Insid...
1hr 8m Feb 18
1hr 8m
Judge Rejects Plea Deal in Banfield Case — Juliana Magalhães Gets 10 Years | Au Pair Sentencing
The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars, delivering i...
19m Feb 18
19m
Nancy Guthrie Case: What the DNA, the Silence, and Fifteen Days Without Proof of Life Mean
The DNA from a glove matching the suspect's is going into CODIS. The FBI's cell tower team is mapping every phone near Nancy's home during the critical windows. Walmart records are being cross-referenced. Cheek swabs from people of interest already exist. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through every active thread that could produce a name — and confronts what the ransom silence actually ...
19m Feb 17
19m
The Reiner Tragedy: When Love Becomes a Trap
Eighteen rehab stints. Millions of dollars. A guesthouse on the property. A movie made together about healing. Rob and Michele Reiner gave Nick everything for seventeen years. They never walked away. And they're dead. This episode isn't about blame — what happened is the responsibility of one person alone. But it's about a question that haunts everyone who's ever loved someone dangerous: when...
27m Feb 17
27m
Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert Breaks Down the Investigation's Failures
He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told reporters they don't know who's in charge. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through fifteen ...
20m Feb 17
20m
Nancy Guthrie Day 16: The Glove, the DNA, and the Theory We Called Two Weeks Ago
One glove. Unknown male DNA. And an investigation that just shifted beneath the surface. Sixteen days after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI confirmed that a glove found two miles away contains a DNA profile matching the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell footage. That profile is headed to CODIS — but there's no guarantee it returns a name. If the suspe...
48m Feb 17
48m
Nancy Guthrie: What the FBI's January Footage Requests Actually Mean
The FBI asked Nancy Guthrie's neighbors for footage from two narrow windows — January 11th from 9 p.m. to midnight and January 31st from 9:30 to 11 a.m. — three weeks and hours before she was taken. That specificity tells you investigators already have digital evidence pointing to those moments. A retired FBI behavioral expert examines what those date-targeted requests reveal, what the suspect'...
29m Feb 17
29m
Nancy Guthrie: The Complete FBI Expert Interview — All Three Parts
We gave Robin Dreeke the entire Nancy Guthrie case and asked him to break down what no one else is covering. Three parts. Three angles. The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from amateur analysts who think watching videos makes them investigators. What mass observation does to a case — to the family, to witnesses, to the perpetrator watching themselves get dissected. The Architecture ...
50m Feb 17
50m
Nancy Guthrie: Complete FBI Breakdown with Jennifer Coffindaffer
The most in-depth analysis of the Nancy Guthrie case anywhere. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for an exclusive interview breaking down everything we know about the investigation. She analyzes the doorbell video frame by frame — what the suspect's equipment, movement, and improvisation reveal about who they are. She goes inside the manhunt — how the FBI pro...
54m Feb 17
54m
Paul Caneiro Found Guilty — The Evidence That Ended Him
Five weeks of trial. Less than five hours of deliberation. Guilty on all counts. Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of murdering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia in their Colts Neck home in November 2018. The jury found him guilty on fifteen charges including four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated arson. The first thing jur...
16m Feb 17
16m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: Inside the FBI's Tip Line Chaos
Over eighteen thousand tips. A suspect detained and released. A glove found in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel posting evidence from his personal account. Neighbors asked about trucks while the sheriff says no vehicle of interest exists. On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes us inside the machinery of the Nancy Guthrie manhunt. She explai...
23m Feb 16
23m
Nick Reiner: The Crushing Weight of "I Knew" He Was Dangerous
"I'm petrified of Nick. I think my own son can hurt me." Rob Reiner said that out loud. At a party. Hours before he was killed. This episode isn't about what Nick Reiner allegedly did. It's about the people left behind who saw something coming and couldn't stop it. The specific, isolating guilt of foresight that fails to save anyone. Rob knew. He said it in front of witnesses. Danny Spilar, ...
20m Feb 16
20m
Nancy Guthrie Video Breakdown: FBI Agent Reveals What the Footage Shows
The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — six photos and three videos from her doorbell camera showing a masked, armed individual approaching her home the morning she disappeared. On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers an exclusive tactical analysis of what the footage actually reveals. Not behavioral guess...
16m Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie: The Raid, The Release, The Reality | Weekend Breakdown
The biggest show of force in two weeks—and it produced nothing. Friday night: SWAT raid two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. Three detained. A "person of interest" questioned at a Culver's parking lot. His Range Rover searched and towed. Saturday morning: Everyone released. No arrests. Sheriff Nanos confirming "no sign of Nancy was found." Then Nanos told the New York Times finding her could...
36m Feb 16
36m
Alex Murdaugh Appeal: Justices Grill Prosecution on "Rogue Clerk" and Financial Crimes
The South Carolina Supreme Court just held oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal—and it did not go well for the prosecution. On February 11, 2026, all five justices heard arguments on whether Murdaugh deserves a new trial for the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul. What unfolded was a masterclass in appellate pressure. Chief Justice John Kittredge didn't mince words, calling former Col...
2hr 25m Feb 16
2hr 25m
Former FBI Agent Coffindaffer: What the Evidence Fight Means for Finding Nancy Guthrie
Federal sources say Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — a glove found inside the home and DNA samples routed to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. An FBI source called the decision "dumb" and "insane." Nanos says it's "not even close to the truth." The FBI hasn't backed his account. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer b...
16m Feb 16
16m
Nancy Guthrie: Does the Man on Camera Match the Operation Behind Him?
The man on the porch is on camera. The question is whether the planning profile matches what you're looking at. Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was built on understanding the dynamic between the person who directs an operation and the person who executes it. He knows what it looks like when someone acts independently and what it looks like...
36m Feb 16
36m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Behavioral Analyst Reads Every Public Voice in This Case
The family says they received a message. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. The sheriff said the footage was gone forever. Then it appeared. We asked Robin Dreeke to read every public voice in this case and tell us who's being straight. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining when communications are authentic, when ...
35m Feb 16
35m
Kouri Richins: The Systemic Blind Spots That Let Poisoners Walk Free
The DHS warning about Kouri Richins isn't just about her case. It's about what we're missing. America's autopsy rate has collapsed to 8.5%, with natural-looking deaths autopsied just 4.3% of the time. Death certificates are wrong roughly a third of the time. The January 2026 Department of Homeland Security bulletin documented seventeen spousal poisoning cases since 2014 with at least eleven de...
41m Feb 15
41m
Nancy Guthrie: What the FBI Footage Reveals About Who Planned This
The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera — six photos and three video clips showing a masked individual at her front door the morning she disappeared. He covered his face. He covered his hands. He covered nearly every inch of skin. Then he reached the front door, found a camera, turned around, and grabbed a plant from the garden to cover the lens. We brought that ...
44m Feb 15
44m
Anna Kepner: The Text Messages Her Stepbrother's Parents Sent Hours After Her Body Was Found
Newly released text messages between the parents of Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother reveal what they were really focused on in the hours after her body was found — and it wasn't grief. According to court filings in an ongoing custody battle, the suspect's mother texted that her son "just keeps repeating over and over he can't remember anything." The messages show discussions about k...
35m Feb 15
35m
Nancy Guthrie: How Predators Select Their Targets
The predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or speed. It's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention. This episode is an evergreen examination of how predators operate before they strike — the surveillance phase most people never see, the target selection process that runs on cold risk-benefit analysis, and the insider threat pattern documented across hundreds of F...
38m Feb 15
38m
Nancy Guthrie: The Ransom Notes No One Can Answer
The ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case were supposed to be the roadmap. Three identical letters demanding six million dollars in Bitcoin. Grammatically perfect, according to Harvey Levin. Intimate knowledge of Nancy's home. Non-public details about her Apple Watch location, a destroyed floodlight, what she was wearing when she vanished. The FBI took them seriously. But these notes have beco...
1hr 9m Feb 15
1hr 9m
The Reiner Murders: Inside the Psychology of Enabling Until Death
Rob Reiner stood at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party reportedly telling friends his son could hurt him. He went home anyway. Hours later, he and Michele were dead. This episode doesn't ask why Nick Reiner allegedly killed his parents. It asks why they stayed. Eighteen rehab facilities. Sixty thousand dollars a month. Fifteen years of trying. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything addiction exper...
48m Feb 14
48m
McKee Affidavit and Tepe Autopsy: 16 Wounds, Stolen Plates, and the Psychology of an Alleged Eight-Year Obsession
The affidavit is public. The autopsy reports are released. And the Michael McKee case just became one of the most forensically and psychologically layered murder prosecutions in Ohio. Spencer Tepe was shot seven times. Monique Tepe was shot nine times. Both had defensive wounds on their hands and arms — they were awake, aware, and fighting when they were killed in their bedroom while their chil...
32m Feb 14
32m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Forensic Extraction at Daughter's Home — What FBI Behavioral Analysis and Defense Law Reveal
Federal agents arrived at the home of Annie Guthrie and Tommaso Cioni with forensic extraction equipment. They were the last people to see Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, before she was taken from her Tucson residence. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence at the scene, and ransom notes demanding bitcoin — routed to media outlets rather than the family. T...
33m Feb 14
33m
Nancy Guthrie: The Witness Who Could Break This Case — And Why They Haven't Called
Eighteen thousand tips. And the one that matters probably hasn't come in yet. Someone out there knows something. A neighbor who saw something. A coworker who's noticed changed behavior. A friend who heard a conversation they've tried to forget. A family member protecting someone they love. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent his career getting people to talk. He ran the Bureau's Count...
17m Feb 14
17m
Eric Faddis: A Kidnapping Investigation in Crisis and a Murder Conviction Under Siege
Two cases. One attorney who has prosecuted murder and defended against it. Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down the institutional failures in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation and the aggressive Supreme Court oral arguments in the Alex Murdaugh appeal. In the Guthrie case, eleven days without a suspect have exposed a pattern of decisions by Sheriff Nanos that could compromis...
44m Feb 14
44m
Nancy Guthrie: The Surveillance Blind Spots That Let Her Vanish
We live in the most surveilled moment in human history. Cameras on every doorbell. GPS in every phone. License plate readers on every highway. We're told if you commit a crime, you'll be caught. Nancy Guthrie had a Nest camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. And she's gone. Twelve days. No vehicle of interest. No suspects. No trace. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke ran the Bureau's Coun...
18m Feb 14
18m
Murdaugh Appeal: Becky Hill's Perjury Conviction Just Changed Everything
When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn't been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today's oral arguments and what the bench's aggressive questioning of the state signals about the like...
15m Feb 13
15m
Murdaugh Supreme Court Showdown: Justices Expose Cracks in the Conviction
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn't the egg juror allowed to testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing? From there, the hearing split into two phases that ...
17m Feb 13
17m
Juliana Magalhães Gets 10 Years — Judge Rejects Prosecution's Plea Deal
The prosecution asked for time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while her lover Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was just sentenced to 10 years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars. This s...
42m Feb 13
42m
Nancy Guthrie: The 41-Minute Window That Could Make or Break This Case
Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m., something happened inside Nancy Guthrie's home. The doorbell camera went offline at one end. The pacemaker lost Bluetooth connectivity at the other. That forty-one-minute window is the hardest forensic evidence in this case — and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what it proves, what it doesn't, and what a prosecutor still needs to connect it to a d...
13m Feb 13
13m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert on What Millions of Amateur Investigators Are Getting Wrong
Everyone's a behavioral analyst now. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded the Nancy Guthrie investigation — most of them wrong, many based on gut feelings from people watching family videos online. Reddit threads are dissecting body language. Comment sections are full of accusations. The entire country has become an amateur investigation unit. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke ran the Burea...
16m Feb 13
16m
Sheriff Nanos Denies Blocking FBI — But His Track Record Says Otherwise
An FBI source told NewsNation it's "dumb" and "insane" — Sheriff Chris Nanos is allegedly blocking federal agents from accessing key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, routing a glove and DNA samples to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Nanos called the reports "not even close to the truth." But the documented history of this sheriff's credibility tells a very different story. From a...
30m Feb 13
30m
Nancy Guthrie's Crime Scene Released Too Early — What a Prosecutor Sees
Eleven days into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the Pima County Sheriff's Department is being questioned from every direction — by its own deputies' union, by county supervisors, and by the Guthrie family itself. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal damage created by a cascade of documented investigative decisions. The crime scene was re...
16m Feb 13
16m
Mickey Stines Wants the Death Penalty Gone — Here's What the Law Actually Says
Mickey Stines' defense team just filed a motion that could reshape the entire trajectory of this case. The former Letcher County sheriff, charged with shooting and killing District Judge Kevin Mullins inside his chambers in September 2024, is now claiming he has a serious intellectual disability or serious mental illness that should legally exempt him from execution under a 2022 Kentucky statut...
17m Feb 13
17m
Nancy Guthrie: The Footage, the Person Behind It, and the Silence — We Asked the FBI Everything
We brought Robin Dreeke the footage, the operation, the contradictions, and the silence. We asked him every question this case demands — and his answers are something you need to hear for yourself. Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. We asked him to apply his behavioral framework to every movement in the surveillance clips and tell us w...
59m Feb 13
59m
Kouri Richins' Venue Fight Is Dead — What the Defense Is Really Building
The headlines said Kouri Richins was fighting to move her trial. What they didn't tell you is that fight was already over. Judge Mrazik denied the defense's second venue change request on February 2nd — the same motion Fox News reported on five days later as though it were still pending. The defense argued 85 percent of prospective jurors recognized the case and the pool had shrunk to roughly ...
21m Feb 13
21m
Nancy Guthrie: The Ransom Deadline Passed in Silence — We Asked the FBI's Deception Expert Why
The ransom deadline passed. No follow-through. No proof of life. No verified contact. We asked Robin Dreeke what that silence means — and it's not the only contradiction we put in front of him. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was reading communications for authenticity and detecting when what people say doesn't match what they know. We asked him...
18m Feb 12
18m
Nancy Guthrie: The Man on That Porch Is Not the Most Important Person in This Case
The FBI released surveillance footage today from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera. Six photos. Three video clips. And the most important thing they reveal isn't who is on that porch — it's who isn't. A masked individual walks up to the 84-year-old's front door in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, reaches toward the camera, turns around, grabs a plant from Nancy's own garden, and covers the lens...
21m Feb 12
21m
Nancy Guthrie: The Man on the Porch Had a Checklist — We Asked the FBI Who Gave It to Him
He covered his face. He covered his hands. Someone made sure of that. But nobody told him about the camera on the front door. We asked Robin Dreeke what that tells us about whoever did. Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was understanding the relationship between the person who plans and the person who shows up. We brought h...
19m Feb 12
19m