Robin Dreeke: Watching Yourself on the News — and the Psychology of Thinking You're Getting Away With It
There's a detail in the Nancy Guthrie case that most people gloss over: the person responsible has almost certainly watched themselves on the news. They've seen the surveillance footage. They've watched the press conferences. They've seen their actions described, analyzed, and broadcast across every major network. Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski on Hidden Killers L...
26m Mar 10
26m
Robin Dreeke on Nancy Guthrie: How Someone Does This — and Keeps Living Their Life
Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent decades studying how people make decisions under pressure — decisions that most of us can't fathom and don't want to. The Nancy Guthrie disappearance puts all of that expertise front and center. In this live listener Q&A on Hidden Killers Live, Robin joins Tony Brueski to answer the behavioral questions you've been sending in — the ones that ...
28m Mar 10
28m
Nancy Guthrie and Kouri Richins — FBI Agent Live: Investigation Secrets, Trial Vulnerabilities, and What Actually Breaks Cases
Two major cases. Three interview segments. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer live on Hidden Killers, breaking down everything the headlines are missing in both. The Nancy Guthrie disappearance: 33 days, no arrest, an unidentified suspect on camera, and an investigation that has publicly called itself "red hot." Coffindaffer decodes every major move — the FBI's command center shif...
57m Mar 09
57m
Kouri Richins Trial: The Immunity Witnesses Are Contradicting Each Other — What That Does to This Case
Both had deals with prosecutors. Both were supposed to build the drug chain that ends with fentanyl in Eric Richins' Moscow mule. And they directly contradicted each other on the most critical question: was it fentanyl, or was it oxycodone? Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down exactly what happens to a prosecution when its two key immunity witnesses tell different storie...
22m Mar 09
22m
Nancy Guthrie — A Million-Dollar Reward and a Suspect Who Has Been Watching the Clock
One million dollars in cash. Publicly offered. The suspect in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance has known about that reward for weeks. He's also watched hundreds of investigators work the neighborhood he was in. He's seen his own image broadcast nationally — masked, armed, a backpack on his back. He is not standing still. And neither is the FBI. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joi...
17m Mar 09
17m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation — FBI Insider on the Task Force Decisions That Could Make or Break This Case
When a massive missing persons operation narrows from hundreds of investigators to a small dedicated task force, something has shifted. The question is whether that shift brings resolution closer — or just restructures the uncertainty. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has worked cases from the inside. She knows what investigative language means when it goes public, what a comman...
20m Mar 09
20m
Kouri Richins — $7.5M Debt, 77 Overdrafts, and Tests That Were Never Run
The prosecution says Kouri Richins killed her husband for money. The forensic accountant just showed the jury exactly how much money—and how fast it disappeared. Brooke Karrington testified that by March 2022, Kouri carried $7.5 million in debt. She was paying $80,000 monthly just to service it. Four payday lenders were collecting $2,100 from her every day. Her business account was described a...
54m Mar 09
54m
Colin Gray Convicted of Murder: How His Own Family's Testimony Sealed the Verdict
Colin Gray guilty. All counts. Second-degree murder. Less than two hours of deliberation. The Colin Gray conviction makes him the first parent in Georgia history found guilty of murder for a school shooting committed by his child. Four people died at Apalachee High School—two teachers and two students—and the jury determined Colin Gray "gave him the detonator." The FBI warned Colin Gray in 20...
35m Mar 08
35m
Rex Heuermann's Alleged Murder Blueprint — Wife Says "Hero," Daughter Says "Guilty"
Someone tried to delete this file from Rex Heuermann's hard drives. Forensic analysts recovered it anyway. Tonight we're breaking down every section of what prosecutors call the Long Island Serial Killer's planning document for murder. The document was titled HK2002-04. Hidden on one of fifty-eight hard drives seized from the Massapequa Park basement. According to court documents, it allegedly...
32m Mar 08
32m
Kouri Richins: $4.5 Million in Debt, a Children's Book, and the Psychology of the Mask
Why don't we talk about money when we talk about domestic abuse? And why do abusers look so perfect to everyone except the person living with them? This is Parts 3 and 4 of "Surviving the Fog"—examining financial abuse and public image manipulation through the Kouri Richins case. We're not diagnosing anyone. We're exploring documented psychological patterns. Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins w...
26m Mar 08
26m
Kouri Richins Trial — Witnesses Contradict, Medical Examiner Says "Undetermined"
This is our Week in Review of the Kouri Richins murder trial—and we're breaking down testimony that's raising more questions than answers. Five days in, the prosecution's drug-chain theory is showing cracks. Carmen Lauber—the housekeeper who claims she bought fentanyl for Kouri four times—was using methamphetamine during the relevant period and received immunity from three jurisdictions before...
45m Mar 08
45m
FBI Insider Says Nancy Guthrie Suspect Is "Average" — Nanos Removal Nearly Impossible
Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke is delivering an assessment of the Nancy Guthrie suspect that contradicts four weeks of cable news analysis. The man on that doorbell footage isn't uniquely incompetent. According to Dreeke, who spent 21 years with the Bureau including time as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, what we're seeing is baseline criminal behavior. The...
41m Mar 08
41m
How Eric Richins Missed the Signs: Love Bombing, Digital Evidence, and Coercive Control
Why do smart people end up with partners who want to destroy them? Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins was millions in debt, had a boyfriend on the side, and allegedly arranged fentanyl purchases—all while Eric thought he had a marriage. The question everyone asks: How did he not see it? The answer isn't that he was stupid. Research on coercive control suggests he was targeted. Nobody marries a ...
50m Mar 07
50m
Nancy Guthrie Case: 50,000 Tips, Zero ID on Suspect — Former FBI Chief Explains Why
The footage shows his face. It's been broadcast on every major network. Fifty thousand tips have poured in. And somehow—four weeks later—not one person who has ever interacted with this man has come forward to identify him. That seems statistically impossible. Yet here we are. The Nancy Guthrie investigation has hit dead ends on every front simultaneously. DNA recovered from gloves two miles f...
51m Mar 07
51m
Carmen Lauber Takes the Stand: Inside the Testimony That Could Convict Kouri Richins
Day four of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered the testimony prosecutors had been building toward. Carmen Lauber—the former housekeeper who allegedly supplied the fentanyl that killed Eric Richins—faced the jury and described a drug procurement operation conducted through cash drops and firepit exchanges. Lauber testified under immunity agreements with three Utah counties and federal aut...
36m Mar 07
36m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Former Deputy Exposes Sheriff Nanos's Alleged FBI Grudge
The man in charge of finding Nancy Guthrie is now facing explosive allegations from officers who worked alongside him for decades. Richard Kastigar served 46 years with the Pima County Sheriff's Department, including time as Sheriff Chris Nanos's own second-in-command. Now he's publicly accusing Nanos of harboring "great disdain" for the FBI—and letting it affect the investigation into Savannah...
34m Mar 07
34m
Eric Faddis on Kouri Richins, Nancy Guthrie, and the Michael Jackson Cascio Lawsuit
Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live for an extended breakdown of three major legal stories developing right now. In Utah, the prosecution just finished presenting Kouri Richins' financial situation to the jury—and it's ugly. Negative $1.6 million net worth. A business described as "imploding." Checks bouncing constantly. The prosecution wants jur...
56m Mar 07
56m
Michael Jackson Cascio Lawsuit — Hearing This Week Could Seal or Expose Everything
 A hearing this week will decide whether the Cascio family's lawsuit against the Michael Jackson estate goes to public trial—or disappears into private arbitration where no one will ever see it. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break down both sides of the most explosive entertainment lawsuit in years. The Cascio family defended Michael Jackson for 25 years. They tes...
18m Mar 06
18m
Nancy Guthrie Case — Innocent People Named, Legal Rights Explained
The Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation has produced no arrests and no named suspects—but it's already destroyed innocent people's lives. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break down what legal recourse exists when you've been publicly accused in a case you had nothing to do with. One man was detained, handcuffed, and questioned for hours before being released. His...
15m Mar 06
15m
Kouri Richins Financial Motive Exposed — Eric Faddis Breaks Down Trial Testimony
The prosecution just finished presenting what they believe is the heart of their case against Kouri Richins: financial motive. A forensic accountant walked the jury through bounced checks, hard money loans, and a real estate business described as "imploding." By the day Eric Richins died, Kouri was allegedly $1.6 million in debt. Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden ...
23m Mar 06
23m
Kouri Richins Psychology + Nancy Guthrie Conspiracy Theories — Shavaun Scott Extended
Extended Hidden Killers Live: Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines two cases that reveal how people construct alternate realities — defendants and observers both building narratives that contradict evidence. Kouri Richins appears to live in a different reality. Charged with murder, yet she wrote a grief book. Filed estate lawsuits from jail. Punched Eric's sister over the will. The "Walk the...
57m Mar 06
57m
Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes — Fake Demands, Real Vultures, and No Answers
Multiple ransom notes have been sent to media outlets since Nancy Guthrie's disappearance — at least four to TMZ alone, others to local stations. One person has already been arrested for sending a fake ransom demand. Investigators say they're taking some notes seriously while treating others as opportunistic scams. What does it tell us about human behavior that complete strangers would exploit...
17m Mar 05
17m
Kouri Richins Jail Letter Exposed — Witness Tampering and Alternate Reality
The "Walk the Dog" letter surfaced from Kouri Richins' jail cell. Prosecutors called it blatant witness tampering — alleging she was instructing family members on how to testify and claiming Eric had purchased drugs from Mexico himself. What does it tell us when someone facing murder charges continues trying to control the narrative and recruit others into their version of events? Is this desp...
26m Mar 05
26m
Kouri Richins Forged Signature Fraud — Psychologist Breaks Down the $500K Exploitation
Financial abuse in relationships is real — and it typically looks like one partner restricting access to money, controlling every purchase, or keeping a spouse economically dependent. That's not what the evidence shows in the Kouri Richins case. Eric wasn't keeping Kouri on a tight leash. She had her own real estate business. She had access to accounts. She was closing on multi-million-dollar ...
15m Mar 05
15m
Bob Motta on Kouri Richins Defense Wins & Colin Gray Closing Arguments
Two trials reaching critical moments. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers Live for extended analysis of the Kouri Richins murder case and the Colin Gray school shooting trial. In Utah, the defense hasn't called a witness yet—and may have already won. Cross-examination exposed that the medical examiner still won't call Eric Richins' death a homicide....
1hr 8m Mar 05
1hr 8m
BREAKING: Colin Gray Convicted of Murder — Live Reaction with Bob Motta
The verdict just dropped. Colin Gray—guilty on all 29 counts, including second-degree murder. He's the first parent in Georgia history convicted for a mass school shooting committed by his child. Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers Live to react to this historic verdict and explain what happens next. The jury deliberated less than two hours. Two weeks of testimony. Dozens of witnesses. His own fam...
19m Mar 04
19m
Kouri Richins Defense Has 35 Witnesses — Bob Motta on What Comes Next
The defense in the Kouri Richins trial has 35 witnesses ready to testify. But after weeks of devastating cross-examination that exposed investigative failures, witness contradictions, and questions about whether this case was outcome-driven from the start—do they even need them all? Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke welcome defense attorney Bob Motta back to Hidden Killers Live for analysis of whe...
26m Mar 04
26m
Bob Motta on Kouri Richins — Why the Medical Examiner's Testimony Backfired
The prosecution called Dr. Erik Christensen to prove Eric Richins was murdered. What they got instead may have helped the defense. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke welcome defense attorney Bob Motta to Hidden Killers Live to break down the medical examiner testimony that revealed Eric's death certificate still says "undetermined"—not homicide—four years after his death. Christensen testified the ...
25m Mar 04
25m
Robin Dreeke Live: Competence Myths in Guthrie Case and Truth Detection in Richins Trial
Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke delivers a three-part analysis covering two major cases — the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation and the Kouri Richins murder trial. Part one: the suspect competence myth. Four weeks of commentary have focused on the Guthrie suspect's amateur operation — cheap gear, bad holster placement, improvised camera obstruction. Dreeke's perspective: this i...
1hr 1m Mar 04
1hr 1m
Robin Dreeke on Kouri Richins: Reading Deception in Real Time
The first week of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered the prosecution's key witness — and the defense's demolition of her credibility. Carmen Lauber claims she bought fentanyl for Kouri four times before Eric Richins died. But she was using meth. She got immunity from three jurisdictions. Her supplier now contradicts her. She admitted confusion under cross-examination. The jury has to deci...
20m Mar 03
20m
Nancy Guthrie: The Investigation Isn't Broken — This Is What They All Look Like
Federal sources accusing the sheriff of blocking evidence. The sheriff pushing back publicly. A crime scene released before the FBI secured it. DNA sent to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Conflicting information about whether the doorbell images were from one day or two. From the outside, the Nancy Guthrie investigation looks like a mess. Robin Dreeke says that's because the outside ...
18m Mar 03
18m
Robin Dreeke: The Nancy Guthrie Suspect Isn't Uniquely Sloppy — He's Normal
The Walmart backpack. The awkward holster. The weeds from a potted plant used to cover a doorbell camera. For four weeks, commentators have dissected every visible detail of the Nancy Guthrie suspect and concluded he's amateurish. Robin Dreeke has a different read. This is what criminals actually look like. The only difference is we're watching this time. Dreeke served 21 years with the FBI, i...
24m Mar 03
24m
LIVE: Guthrie and Richins Q&A—Your Questions on Two Major Cases
Two cases that have been dominating your questions. Today we're going through all of them—live. Nancy Guthrie: Four weeks missing. Suspect on camera. Fifty thousand tips. DNA on gloves. No identification. No arrest. Is she alive? How does someone stay unidentified when their face has been broadcast everywhere? What happens with the DNA? When does this go cold? Kouri Richins: Murder trial in f...
1hr 4m Mar 03
1hr 4m
LIVE: The Defense Case Against Convicting Kouri Richins
The defense in the Kouri Richins trial is systematically dismantling the prosecution's case. Today we're going through every crack they're hammering—and there are a lot of them. Carmen Lauber admitted she tested positive for meth during the entire time frame she claims she was buying fentanyl for Kouri. The defense asked if she was high the whole time. She said yes. She told police her memory ...
15m Mar 02
15m
LIVE: Breaking Down the Prosecution's Case Against Kouri Richins
The Kouri Richins murder trial is underway and the prosecution has laid out their theory: Kouri poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl for money and to be with her boyfriend. Today we're going through their case piece by piece—what they've presented, what they're arguing, and whether it adds up. Carmen Lauber is the star witness. She testified she bought fentanyl for Kouri four times—claiming...
17m Mar 02
17m
LIVE: Your Guthrie Questions Answered—What We Know and What We Don't
Four weeks into the Nancy Guthrie investigation and the questions keep piling up. You've been sending them in—about the DNA, the footage, the fifty thousand tips, the pacemaker, the silence. Today we're going through them. No guests. Just your questions and our breakdown of what the evidence tells us. Is Nancy still alive? That's the question nobody wants to ask out loud. A month with no ranso...
32m Mar 02
32m
LIVE: Kouri Richins Trial — Recanted Witness, No Pills Recovered, Competing Narratives
The prosecution's key fentanyl supplier has recanted. No pills were ever recovered. No pills were ever tested. And the woman who claims she sold Kouri Richins the drugs used to poison her husband has been granted immunity. We're breaking down every pressure point in this trial live. Opening statements delivered competing realities. The prosecution showed jurors memes allegedly found on Kouri'...
1hr 47m Mar 02
1hr 47m
LIVE: Nancy Guthrie — $1.2 Million Reward, Investigation Crossroads, No Suspect
Four hundred investigators. DNA at the scene. Forty thousand tips. And still no suspect. The Nancy Guthrie investigation has reached a critical inflection point—and we're breaking down what comes next. Sources say operations may transition from surge mode to a smaller long-term task force. Two people detained and released with no connection. CODIS returned no match on the DNA. Mixed samples a...
1hr 14m Mar 01
1hr 14m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Behavioral Expert on Suspect Psychology and the $1.2 Million Breaking Point
If the perpetrator is local, they've watched themselves become the most wanted person in America. The footage is everywhere. Gun shops are being canvassed. Walmart turned over backpack records. Genetic genealogy is processing DNA. And now sources confirm the doorbell camera captured images from multiple visits—meaning investigators can establish premeditation. Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Count...
1hr 33m Mar 01
1hr 33m
Kouri Richins 911 Call and Bodycam: What the Recordings Actually Show
This is where we stop talking about what the attorneys said and start looking at what the recordings actually show. Two pieces of evidence from the Kouri Richins trial give us the closest thing to being inside that house the night Eric Richins died: the 911 call placed at 3:21 a.m. and the body camera footage from Deputy Nguyen, among the first to arrive on scene. On the 911 call, Kouri is so...
1hr 3m Mar 01
1hr 3m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: FBI Expert on Command Confusion, Failed Leads, and What Breaks Next
Two detentions. No arrests. Four hundred investigators. No suspect named. The Nancy Guthrie case has consumed massive law enforcement resources—and produced no resolution. Sources now indicate the investigation may shift to a long-term task force model. The family, who has cooperated fully throughout, has been briefed that the surge-level operations cannot hold. What went wrong? And what happ...
54m Feb 28
54m
Kouri Richins Trial Breakdown & Nancy Guthrie Legal Exposure Analysis
Two cases at critical inflection points. We're breaking down both live. The Kouri Richins trial is exposing a war between what prosecutors have and what they're missing. The motive evidence is overwhelming—five times the lethal fentanyl dose, a forged insurance policy, a boyfriend she texted "Love you" the night Eric died, internet searches about lethal doses before and deleted messages after....
49m Feb 28
49m
Prosecution Strategy in Kouri Richins Trial — Eric Faddis Analysis
Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth is building his case piece by piece. And the pieces are damning. Five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. A forged insurance policy. A boyfriend she texted "Love you" the night Eric died. Internet searches about lethal fentanyl doses and whether cops can recover deleted messages. A Caribbean vacation booked for the month after her husband's death. And a Valentine's Da...
18m Feb 27
18m
Kouri Richins Defense Strategy Breakdown with Eric Faddis
The Kouri Richins murder trial is three days in, and the defense is already drawing blood. Untested Moscow mule cups. An unsecured crime scene. White specks on the nightstand that nobody analyzed. A medical examiner who testified the manner of death is still "undetermined." Ten searches of the Richins home over four years—and prosecutors still can't tell the jury how fentanyl got into Eric Ric...
32m Feb 27
32m
Eric Faddis on the Legal Time Bomb in the Nancy Guthrie Case
The clock is running for whoever took Nancy Guthrie. Twenty-five days of silence. Twenty-five days of hiding while genetic genealogy labs work through samples and investigators canvass every gun shop in Arizona with photos of that holster. Twenty-five days of exposure compounding. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us live to break down exactly what the person responsible is facing—and why t...
19m Feb 27
19m
Shavaun Scott Full Interview—Guthrie Kidnapping and Richins Murder Psychology
Two of the biggest cases demanding psychological analysis—covered in one comprehensive interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper hasn't said a word in three weeks. No ransom. No demands. No proof of life. The family has begged publicly for any contact. The silence in return has been absolute. What does that mean? What kind of mind takes an 84-year-old woman and re...
53m Feb 27
53m
Why Eric Richins Stayed With a Wife He Suspected Was Poisoning Him
"I think my wife tried to poison me." Eric Richins reportedly said those words to people close to him. He took protective steps—removed Kouri from his insurance, consulted lawyers, transferred assets to his sister's control. He wasn't in denial about the danger. And then he stayed married to her. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers Live to examine the psychology of victims who ...
16m Feb 26
16m
Kouri Richins Trial—Psychologist Breaks Down Why She Allegedly Chose Murder
The Kouri Richins trial raises a question that goes beyond the courtroom: why would someone allegedly choose murder when divorce is always an option? Prosecutors allege Richins poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl, that she made multiple attempts before succeeding, and that she stood to collect nearly two million in life insurance while having an affair. The facts are damning if proven. But...
22m Feb 26
22m
Nancy Guthrie Update: Kidnapper's Total Silence Analyzed by Psychologist
The Nancy Guthrie case has entered its most disturbing phase. Three weeks since her abduction, the person who took this 84-year-old woman has communicated nothing. No demands. No ransom. No proof she's alive. Just complete, unbroken silence. Investigators have received ransom notes—but those came from opportunists, not the actual kidnapper. The person holding Nancy has made no effort to levera...
16m Feb 26
16m
Bob Motta on Guthrie, Richins, and Colin Gray — Defense Attorney Analysis
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins us live to break down three major cases: the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation, the Kouri Richins murder trial, and the Colin Gray prosecution. The Guthrie case is stalling. Twenty-three days in—no arrest, no vehicle, DNA stuck in a lab for potentially a year. Sources say the investigation is scaling back from four hundred personnel to a small tas...
58m Feb 26
58m