Kelsey Fitzsimmons: When the Shooting Isn’t in Question — Just Where the Gun Was Pointed
Everyone agrees on one thing: Kelsey Fitzsimmons drew her gun, and another officer pulled the trigger. What no one agrees on is where that gun was aimed. At Officer Noonan? Or at herself? Now, one judge — no jury — will decide what really happened in those split seconds. On Hidden Killers, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski d...
22m Mar 25
22m
Joseph Duggar: The Recorded Confession, Two States, and a Defense with No Easy Outs
Joseph Duggar is accused of sexually abusing a child — and reportedly confessed – twice. Once to the victim’s father, and again to detectives during a recorded call. Now, he’s facing charges in two states: molestation and lewd conduct in Florida, and child endangerment and false imprisonment in Arkansas — matching the number of children in his home. On Hidden Killers, criminal defense attorney...
32m Mar 25
32m
Duggar Charges, IBLP Control, and the Nancy Guthrie Case: What the Evidence Is Forcing Into View
The Hidden Killers team delivers an urgent, extended analytical session with retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, connecting three high-stakes investigations through behavioral science, institutional power, and the hard evidence now surfacing. In the Duggar case: Joseph and Kendra Duggar face active criminal charges while Josh Duggar remains in federal prison, his appeal denied. Robin ...
1hr 6m Mar 24
1hr 6m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: FBI Targeted Canvass, Sheriff Scandal, and the Missing Link of January 11th
Seven weeks into the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the investigation has reached a critical pivot point — and the Hidden Killers team is examining the developments shaking the case from inside and out. The FBI is reportedly conducting a targeted canvass aimed at individuals who left the area before Nancy vanished, while questions of sheriff misconduct and the still-unaddressed January 11th timel...
18m Mar 24
18m
The System That Created the Duggars — And the Dark Design Behind IBLP
The Duggar story didn’t begin with Josh’s crimes or Joseph’s allegations. It began decades earlier — with Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) — a movement engineered to control families from the top down. It’s time to confront what this system was built to do, how it operates behind closed doors, and why the Duggars aren’t an anomaly. They’re the blueprint. At the co...
21m Mar 24
21m
The Duggar Reckoning: How Josh’s Conviction Ignited a Generational Crisis
The Hidden Killers team launches a gripping, high-stakes analysis with retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, exposing the escalating psychological and behavioral patterns inside the Duggar household — and what the evidence reveals about how this insular family system continues to process alleged harm behind closed doors. Joseph Duggar grew up in the same tightly controlled environment t...
27m Mar 24
27m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons, Nancy Guthrie, Kouri Richins: FBI Analysis of Three Cases With No Clean Answers
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer spent her career inside one of the most powerful investigative institutions in the country. In this conversation, she applies the analytical frameworks developed across that career to three active cases — each one a different kind of institutional breakdown. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case is, at its core, a question of how law enforcement handles me...
54m Mar 23
54m
Kouri Richins Verdict: What Broke the Defense and Whether the Appeal Can Survive It
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the Kouri Richins conviction with a specific analytical lens: not just what the jury decided, but what the evidentiary record required them to navigate — and what, if anything, in that record supports a viable appeal. The prosecution won this case without a recovered murder weapon. Its star witness — central to establishing Kouri Richins...
13m Mar 23
13m
Nancy Guthrie Missing: What a Compromised Lead Investigator Actually Does to a Case
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has spent her career inside federal law enforcement. She knows what a functioning investigation looks like, and she knows what institutional dysfunction does to one. The Nancy Guthrie case — now 47 days in with no arrest — is raising questions that go directly to the structural integrity of the lead agency. The sheriff running this investigation ...
21m Mar 23
21m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: How a Postpartum Depression Crisis Became a Felony Assault Charge
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings a framework to the Kelsey Fitzsimmons case that goes beyond the courtroom question of guilt or innocence — she examines the institutional layers that converted a woman in documented mental health crisis into a criminal defendant. Coffindaffer spent decades inside federal law enforcement. She understands what protocols exist, what should ex...
20m Mar 23
20m
Alex Murdaugh: What the Dynasty Built — and What the Double Life Required to Survive
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the behavioral and psychological framework underneath the Murdaugh case gets its most complete examination. The Name is a five-part series — and Parts 1 and 2 together form the foundation that every other piece of this story sits on. Part 1 starts where the case actually starts: 1920. For eighty-six years, three generations of Murdaughs held prosecu...
27m Mar 23
27m
Nancy Guthrie: Jennifer Coffindaffer and Robin Dreeke on the Investigation's Posture — and the Silence That Matters
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Nancy Guthrie investigation addresses what the public posture of this case is actually communicating — and what forty days of evidence buildup is quietly saying underneath it. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down where the investigation stands a...
33m Mar 22
33m
Kouri Richins: The Narrative She Built After Eric Died — and the Cases Where Victims Said It Out Loud
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the behavioral analysis that matters most on the Kouri Richins case goes beyond the trial record and into the psychological architecture underneath it — the compulsion to perform grief publicly, and the documented history of victims who recognized what was being done to them and couldn't escape it anyway. After prosecutors say Kouri Richins killed h...
30m Mar 22
30m
Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on the Appeal — and the Premeditated Pattern Behind the Verdict
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Kouri Richins case shifts to what happens after a conviction — and what the behavioral record underneath it reveals when examined alongside one of the most documented cases of spousal premeditation in American true crime. Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to...
37m Mar 22
37m
Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on What the Defense Got Right, What Failed, and What the Jury Actually Saw
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert voices best positioned to explain the Kouri Richins guilty verdict break down both dimensions of the trial that defined it — the defense strategy that collapsed under a three-hour deliberation, and the financial pattern that gave the prosecution its most durable argument. Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chie...
1hr 1m Mar 22
1hr 1m
Kouri Richins: Coffindaffer, Dreeke, and Motta on the Evidence, the Behavior, and the Verdict
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert voices who analyzed the Kouri Richins trial before the verdict provide the clearest framework for understanding what the guilty verdict actually means. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and defense attorney Bob Motta each bring a distinct professional lens — and together they form the most co...
48m Mar 22
48m
Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on the Defense That Rested — and the Verdict That Followed
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis that matters most on the Kouri Richins verdict comes from two people who read the defense's position clearly before the jury ever left the room. Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down what the defense accomplished, what it didn't, and what the guilty verdic...
1hr 8m Mar 21
1hr 8m
Laken Snelling: Jennifer Coffindaffer and Robin Dreeke on the Evidence, the Charge, and the Jury Problem
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Laken Snelling case goes where standard coverage won't. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down a case that sits at the intersection of behavior, law, and accountability in ways most prosecutions don't. The foundation: University of Kentucky cheerl...
42m Mar 21
42m
Kouri Richins: Eric Faddis Predicted Every Pressure Point — Then the Jury Confirmed Them
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the most useful expert analysis of the Kouri Richins trial comes into sharper focus now that the verdict is in. Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — sat down with Tony Brueski before the jury returned and worked through exactly where this case would be decided. Three hours of deliberation and a guilty verdict on all counts la...
1hr 11m Mar 21
1hr 11m
FBI Experts and a Psychotherapist Break Down Kouri Richins — Behavior, Background, and the Letter
This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the conversations that matter most on the Kouri Richins case aren't happening on the news. Former FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to examine what the documented record of Kouri Richins' background actually suggests about the pattern of alleged behavior prosecutors are ...
48m Mar 21
48m
Live Q&A — Kouri's Verdict, Nancy's Silence, and Kelsey's Trial Starts in Days
Tonight Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke go live with listener questions across three cases — and nothing is off limits. Kouri Richins is convicted. Does the immunity deal for Carmen Lauber sit right? Does Robin think Kouri believes she did anything wrong? Nancy Guthrie has been missing 46 days with no arrest — investigators just pulled new footage from her pr...
59m Mar 20
59m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Is Days Away — Your Questions, Live
The trial of North Andover police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons starts March 23. She's charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. And today she waived her right to a jury — putting her entire fate in the hands of a single judge. The case is one of the most contested and emotionally complicated ones we've covered. A new mother. A documented mental health crisis. Her own colleagues arriving at he...
17m Mar 20
17m
Nancy Guthrie — Six Weeks In, and Your Questions Deserve Real Answers
Six weeks since Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home in Tucson. No suspect. No arrest. And this week's news — more camera footage, nothing useful — isn't making it easier to stay hopeful. Tonight Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take listener questions live and don't dodge the hard ones. Why are investigators suddenly focused on specific dates weeks before...
19m Mar 20
19m
Kouri Richins Convicted — Robin Dreeke & Tony Take Your Questions Live
The verdict is in. Kouri Richins is going to prison for the fentanyl murder of her husband Eric — and listeners have been sitting on questions ever since the jury came back. Tonight, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take them live. What really happens the moment a verdict like this hits someone like Kouri? Does the behavioral mask hold, or does it finally crac...
24m Mar 20
24m
Kouri Richins: Love Bombing to Lethal — The Full Psychology of a Marriage Built on Control
Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for the most comprehensive psychological examination of the Kouri Richins case yet. Not the evidence. Not the verdict. The relationship — from the very first moment to the very last one. How someone like Eric Richins gets pulled in before he ever sees the trap. What the years of sustained control do to a...
1hr 4m Mar 19
1hr 4m
Kouri Richins: The Most Dangerous Moment — What Getting Out of a Relationship Like This Actually Takes
Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for the final conversation in this series on the psychology behind the Kouri Richins case: how these relationships end, and what it costs. Why is the exit the most dangerous moment? What does a narcissist's rage look like when it's quiet and controlled rather than explosive? How do you actually leave saf...
14m Mar 19
14m
Kouri Richins: Trauma Bonding, Gaslighting & the Slow Disappearance Inside a Narcissistic Marriage
Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the part of the Kouri Richins story that gets the least attention: what was happening inside that marriage, day to day, long before prosecutors say things turned deadly. The emotional exhaustion. The gaslighting. The affair. The way someone can know something is deeply wrong and still not leav...
12m Mar 19
12m
Kouri Richins: The First Trap — Love Bombing, Targeting & Why the Strongest People Fall Hardest
Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to break down what the Kouri Richins case puts in sharp focus: how someone with narcissistic or borderline patterns pulls their partner in before the target ever sees it coming. This isn't about the crime. It's about what came before it — the relationship architecture that prosecutors say was built aroun...
16m Mar 19
16m
LIVE: Kouri Richins — Breaking Down the Book Interview With a Psychotherapist and FBI Expert
Before the arrest. Before the conviction. Kouri Richins sat on camera and sold the world a grief book she didn't write about a husband a jury says she killed. Tony Brueski is going live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to break down that interview now that we know the full story. What was she doing psychologically? What does Robin Dreeke...
22m Mar 19
22m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Guilty — The Full Trial Breakdown
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to go through the whole case — prosecution, defense, and the appellate record underneath all of it. What did the state actually prove? What did the defense accomplish without calling a single witness — and why wasn't it enough? ...
1hr 14m Mar 18
1hr 14m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Convicted — Does the Appeal Have Legs?
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. The defense built a record throughout this trial specifically for this moment. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to break it down. The coaching video. The hearsay ruling. The missing pill bottle instruction. The Carmen Lauber informant instruction. Bob Motta tel...
23m Mar 18
23m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Guilty — Did the Defense Have a Chance?
Kouri Richins has been convicted. The defense called zero witnesses, landed real hits on the prosecution's case, and still lost. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to ask where it fell apart. The coaching video. The no-fentanyl admission. The Carmen Lauber credibility attack. Zero witnesses. Bob Motta breaks down the...
26m Mar 18
26m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Guilty — Breaking Down How the Prosecution Won
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to break down how the prosecution got a conviction without a murder weapon, a confirmed drug chain, or a death certificate that says anything other than undetermined. What landed with the jury? What does this conviction tell us ...
26m Mar 18
26m
Dreeke and Coffindaffer: Live Panel on Richins, Guthrie, and Snelling — Three Cases, One Extended Behavioral and Investigative Breakdown
Three active criminal cases. Two former FBI agents. One extended live conversation that goes deeper than the headlines on all of them. Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer join Hidden Killers Live for a multi-part panel session covering the Kouri Richins murder trial, the Nancy Guthrie dis...
1hr 3m Mar 17
1hr 3m
Robin Dreeke on Laken Snelling: What Months of Active Concealment Reveals That Denial Never Could
Laken Snelling didn't deny the pregnancy. She managed it. Tracked it week by week on her phone. Deleted the labor photos. Competed at nationals. Took what looked like maternity photos with her boyfriend. Posted a TikTok listing "be a mom" as a life goal. And gave birth alone at 4 in the morning without telling a single person. That is not denial. And Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Co...
23m Mar 17
23m
Robin Dreeke on Nancy Guthrie: The Behavioral Architecture of Premeditation and 41 Days of Deliberate Silence
Sheriff Nanos believes he knows the motive. He says this person could strike again. He says they're definitely closer. And after forty-one days, forty thousand tips, and one of the largest FBI task forces deployed on a kidnapping in recent memory — there is still no arrest. Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — joins Hidden Killers Live alon...
18m Mar 17
18m
Robin Dreeke on Kouri Richins: The Behavioral Profile Built From Silence, Memes, and a Text Sent One Month Too Soon
Kouri Richins didn't testify. The defense didn't call a single witness. And the behavioral record accumulated over three weeks of prosecution testimony is now headed to the jury with no counter-narrative on record. Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — joins Hidden Killers Live alongside retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to bre...
23m Mar 17
23m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Listener Q&A — Motta & Dreeke Answer Everything
Three weeks of trial. Both sides rested. Closing arguments coming. And our listeners have not stopped asking questions. Tonight we're going live with the full three-part listener Q&A breakdown — defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke answering everything the Hidden Killers audience has been asking about the Kouri Richins murder trial since day one. T...
1hr 13m Mar 16
1hr 13m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Defense Rests — Motta & Dreeke React
It's happening live. The Kouri Richins defense has rested and we're breaking it all down in real time with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke. Kouri Richins did not take the stand. The defense closed without calling her. After three weeks of a murder trial that has captivated the true crime community — an affair, a forged insurance signature, a ho...
43m Mar 16
43m
Robin Dreeke: Inside the Jury Room — How the Kouri Richins Verdict Gets Made
Twelve people are about to deliberate a circumstantial murder case assembled over three weeks of testimony. Robin Dreeke — former FBI behavioral analyst and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — has spent a career understanding how people build conclusions under pressure, resist them, and defend them in groups. He joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of the Kouri ...
14m Mar 16
14m
Robin Dreeke: What Kouri Richins' Silent Defense Reveals About Behavior and Guilt
The defense rested without calling a single witness. To most observers, that's a legal strategy. To Robin Dreeke — former FBI behavioral analyst and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — it's a behavioral data point worth examining on its own terms. Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for a listener Q&A on the Kouri Richins murder trial, dissecting three weeks of ac...
17m Mar 16
17m
LIVE: Eric Faddis on the Richins Trial — The Drug Theory, the Deals, and the Paper Trail
Tonight we're going deep on the Kouri Richins murder trial with someone who's sat in both chairs — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live for the conversation that covers all of it. The defense said the fentanyl might not have come from Kouri. The judge blocked their evidence. The forensics disagreed with their theory. Does anything they've argued act...
52m Mar 13
52m
LIVE: Will Kouri Richins Testify? Eric Faddis on the Deception Problem
Kouri Richins has a deception problem — and it's documented, on tape, and already in front of the jury. Phone searches for fentanyl poisoning. Memes accessed minutes after first responders left. A letter from jail telling family members what to say. A forged signature on a life insurance policy. The question tonight is the one every trial watcher is asking: does she take the stand and try to e...
21m Mar 13
21m
LIVE: Did the Richins Prosecution Build Their Case on Bought Testimony?
Two witnesses. Two immunity deals. One murder case. Carmen Lauber changed her story after being told she was facing federal time. Robert Crozier said one thing to investigators on video and the opposite on the stand. And a detective's own recorded words suggested the goal was getting Kouri convicted — not finding the truth. Tonight Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live to answer the question a ...
14m Mar 13
14m
Eric Faddis LIVE: Did Richins Defense Just Make Things Worse for Kouri?
The defense said the fentanyl might not have come from Kouri. They suggested Eric had a drug history. The judge blocked their evidence. His business partner contradicted their theory to his face. And the toxicology report pointed straight to illicit street fentanyl. So the question for tonight's live discussion is direct: was this defense strategy ever going to work — or did it make things wor...
18m Mar 13
18m
LIVE: Kouri Richins — The Psychology of Who She Is and What She Left Behind
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for the complete psychological breakdown of the Kouri Richins case — the exploitation, the family's grief, and the cycle at the root of all of it. This live event covers the full scope across three connected conversations: the alleged pattern of instrumental exploitation the trial r...
1hr 10m Mar 12
1hr 10m
LIVE: Kouri Richins — The Cycle, the Children, and What Gets Passed Down
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for the final part of this psychological series on the Kouri Richins case — the one that asks the hardest questions. Where does someone like Kouri Richins come from? What does a chaotic upbringing do to a person's decision-making decades later? And what are the five children at the ...
28m Mar 12
28m
LIVE: Kouri Richins — What the Family Knew Before Anyone Else Did
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for a raw conversation about what Eric Richins' family experienced — from the moment they walked through that door to the years of fighting that followed. This panel examines the psychological reality of watching someone you love stay in a dangerous relationship, being unable to sto...
22m Mar 12
22m
LIVE: Kouri Richins — The Psychology of Using People
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke as they dig into one of the most documented behavioral patterns in the Kouri Richins trial — the alleged systematic use of the people closest to her. Testimony from this trial has named names and attached dollar amounts to the people prosecutors say were left behind. This live panel...
20m Mar 12
20m
Kouri Richins Trial LIVE: Full Panel — Motta & Dreeke on Defense, Jury & Verdict
The full three-part live panel on the Kouri Richins murder trial with Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke. This is not a recap. This is a live discussion going straight at the questions that are going to define how this case is remembered. The defense strategy — mistrial motions, immunity witness problems, and whether this team is fighting the evidence or the optics. The jury psychology — what's actual...
1hr 17m Mar 11
1hr 17m