How Did Rex Heuermann's Wife And Daughter Reach Opposite Conclusions?
She called him her savior. Their daughter says she believes he most likely committed the killings. Same nightmare, opposite conclusions — and that split tells you everything about how denial works and where it breaks. This look back, with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, examines the psychology inside the Heuermann home after a guilty plea forced the collapse of everything a family believed was r...
42m Jul 05
42m
Can D4VD's Defense Separate The Killing From What Happened After?
Even if D4VD's defense creates doubt about who caused Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death, there's a second problem that may be harder to solve: explaining the condition in which her remains were found. This look back, with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, examines whether a defense can realistically separate those two questions in front of a jury — and what happens when they can't. Burke's at...
38m Jul 05
38m
Does Kouri Richins Even Believe She Did Anything Wrong?
The verdict is in, the sentence is coming, and the behavioral questions are just getting interesting. This look back is a post-verdict listener Q&A with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, focused on what's happening inside the mind of a convicted killer once the courtroom empties. Dreeke gives his professional read on the central question: does Kouri Richins actually believe s...
38m Jul 05
38m
Why Couldn't Seventeen Years Of Love Change Nick Reiner?
 "If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me." It's the sentence that keeps people in burning buildings — the thing said right before one more chance is requested. This segment uses the Reiner tragedy to examine why love, presence, and devotion sometimes don't change a trajectory at all. They just keep you standing in its path. Rob and Michele Reiner never walked away from their son. R...
47m Jul 05
47m
What Does Memory Loss And Deliberate Concealment Tell The FBI About Anna Kepner's Case?
Timothy Hudson reportedly told people after Anna Kepner's death that he couldn't remember anything. But the crime scene told a different story: Anna was found under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets — deliberate concealment that requires conscious decision-making. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines how investigators read that cont...
47m Jul 05
47m
How Did Forensics Link Rex Heuermann To Two Victims Found Years Apart?
Two women. Two locations forty miles apart. Eight years between discoveries. And forensic anthropology that connected the tool marks on their remains to the same type of instrument — the same characteristics, years apart. This look back examines the forensic thread that ties Valerie Mack and Jessica Taylor together in the Rex Heuermann case, and what it reveals about the pattern prosecutors bui...
34m Jul 04
34m
Why Did The System Fail Celeste Three Times Before D4VD's Arrest?
Three separate missing-persons reports. Eleven law-enforcement calls to her family's home in fourteen months. A full school year with no enrollment. And a fourteen-year-old girl who was allegedly living openly with a twenty-one-year-old musician while flagged as missing. This look back, with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines every layer of the system that was supposed...
51m Jul 04
51m
What Behavioral Tells Did Kouri Richins Show On Live TV?
A licensed psychotherapist and a retired FBI behavioral chief sit down to watch the same morning-show interview millions saw — and read it in a completely different language. This look back at the Kouri Richins case puts that televised grief performance under an expert lens, knowing now that a jury convicted her of murdering the husband she was crying for on camera. Robin Dreeke breaks down th...
39m Jul 04
39m
Can An Insanity Defense Erase Seventeen Years Of Nick Reiner's Choices?
Sources say Nick Reiner's defense is heading toward insanity. This segment digs into the behavioral question underneath that strategy: how much of what happened was illness he couldn't control, and how much was a pattern of choices stretching back nearly two decades? Nick had every clinical advantage — a facility reportedly costing tens of thousands of dollars a month, doctors managing a serio...
46m Jul 04
46m
Does A Seven-Day Trial Estimate Mean The Anna Kepner Case Is Strong Or Thin?
Prosecutors estimate the trial of Timothy Hudson in the death of Anna Kepner would take about seven days. For a first-degree murder case with an additional serious federal charge attached, that number raises a question worth examining: does it sound like a prosecution that's confident in a tight, clean case — or one that doesn't have as much to present as people assume? This look back, with def...
31m Jul 04
31m
What Did Rex Heuermann's Own Daughter Say About His Guilt?
His own daughter publicly said she believes her father is guilty. That detail — sitting alongside the DNA evidence, the deleted planning document, and the failed motions — paints a picture of a defense that ran out of room from every direction. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines the full weight of what Heuermann was facing when he made the decision to...
32m Jul 03
32m
Why Are The Witnesses In The D4VD Case Running?
When the people closest to a suspect are fleeing, hiding, and resisting subpoenas, investigators pay close attention to what they're running from. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines the witness-behavior pattern surrounding the D4VD case and what it reveals. Burke's close friend and collaborator was arrested in Montana for failing to appear before a g...
30m Jul 03
30m
How Did The Kouri Richins Jury See Past A Shredded Star Witness?
The prosecution's entire fentanyl theory ran through one person — and the defense tore her apart on the stand. Yet the jury still convicted Kouri Richins on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines how that happened. Housekeeper Carmen Lauber was the only witness linking Kouri to the drug that killed Eric. Jur...
1hr Jul 03
1hr
How Does A Family With Every Resource Still End Up Dead?
The Reiners had everything that's supposed to protect a family: money, connections, access to the best mental health and addiction care in the country. Their son struggled for seventeen years, and they threw all of it at the problem. None of it worked. Understanding why is the key to this entire case. This look back goes deep on the behavioral and systemic pattern beneath the headlines. Nick R...
1hr 4m Jul 03
1hr 4m
How Did The Anna Kepner Case Go From Sealed Juvenile Court To Federal Murder Charges?
For months, Anna Kepner's family waited in silence while the legal system processed her death behind sealed juvenile proceedings and closed courtroom doors. Then a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge. The case was unsealed. His name became public. And the family that was...
36m Jul 03
36m
What Did Rex Heuermann's Guilty Plea Give The Families — And Take Away?
People who waited decades for answers in the Gilgo Beach case got a plea hearing instead of a trial. Rex Heuermann stood in a Riverhead courtroom, answered the prosecutor's questions without emotion, and said one word when asked how he killed eight women: "Strangulation." Victims' families packed the gallery, weeping as the man who had maintained his innocence for nearly three years finally adm...
37m Jul 02
37m
Why Was D4VD Arrested With A Ramey Warrant Instead Of An Indictment?
 David Anthony Burke — the recording artist known as D4VD — was arrested by LAPD Robbery-Homicide at a Hollywood Hills residence on a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge, not on an indictment from the grand jury that had been investigating for months. That distinction matters, and this look back breaks down why. A Ramey warrant allows police to arrest a suspect based on probable cause rev...
43m Jul 02
43m
How Far Did Circumstantial Evidence Carry A Kouri Richins Verdict?
No one testified to how the fentanyl got into Eric Richins's body. The defense hammered that point for three weeks. And the jury convicted Kouri Richins anyway — on every count. This look back brings two expert lenses to the question of how the state pulled it off. Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the conviction from the inside. The c...
49m Jul 02
49m
Can A Schizophrenia Diagnosis Keep Nick Reiner Off Death Row?
Nick Reiner sat behind glass and let his public defender enter the plea for him: not guilty to killing his parents. But the real story isn't the plea — it's the documented psychiatric history sitting underneath it, and what it could mean when this case reaches a jury. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. He spent a year under a mental health conservatorship. And ro...
30m Jul 02
30m
Guthrie and Murdaugh — the Details That Just Broke
Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnappers may have written a confession in a note sent days after taking her. Alex Murdaugh’s defense walked into the first retrial hearing loaded with new experts, new evidence demands, and transcripts suggesting other people were at Moselle. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to evaluate both cases — what shifted, what it means, and where both stan...
1hr 6m Jul 02
1hr 6m
Alex Murdaugh: The Prosecution Just Lost WHAT?!
The South Carolina Supreme Court’s ruling didn’t just give Alex Murdaugh a new trial. It took away the prosecution’s most effective weapon. The financial crimes testimony that consumed 12.5 hours of the original trial and turned Murdaugh into a villain before the jury weighed the murder evidence has been sharply limited. Bob Motta evaluates what the prosecution has left and whether it’s enough....
16m Jul 01
16m
Alex Murdaugh: The Judge Said No to WHAT?!
Alex Murdaugh’s first hearing since his murder convictions were thrown out produced a ruling the defense didn’t expect. The judge denied Murdaugh a laptop in prison, citing the warden’s refusal to allow any inmate personal electronic access. Harpootlian warned that without it, preparing for the April 2027 retrial could stretch well beyond the deadline. The judge said she’d provide a conference ...
15m Jul 01
15m
Nancy Guthrie: What the Second Note Really Says
Months after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Arizona home, the contents of a second note became public. It claimed she died shortly after the kidnapping. The people who sent it expressed regret and made no further demands. Investigators reportedly believe the note came from the actual kidnappers. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to examine what that note means legally, wh...
37m Jul 01
37m
Three Cases, Three Details Nobody Caught: Alex Murdaugh, Nick Reiner, Nancy Guthrie
Full-length panel discussion: Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Alex Murdaugh in one uncut session. They take listener questions across all three cases and push back on the reads the audience has already settled on. In Guthrie, the sheriff says arrests were made for fake notes — but isn’t sure, raising questions about how disconnected the agencies are. In Rein...
57m Jul 01
57m
What SLED Left Untested in the Alex Murdaugh Case Is Now the Heart of the Retrial
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team has asked a judge to send untested DNA evidence to Othram, the forensic lab that worked the Kohberger case. The sample was found under Maggie Murdaugh’s left-hand fingernails. SLED identified it as belonging to an unknown, unrelated male and stopped testing. The defense wants to know who it belongs to. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take on the audience’s most heate...
17m Jun 30
17m
Nick Reiner Made a Filing From Jail — It Involves His Murdered Parents’ Money
From a jail cell, Nick Reiner has filed a court petition demanding money from the trust his murdered parents established. Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home. Their son, charged with killing them, now wants their money to defend himself against the charge. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the listener questions that have split the ...
13m Jun 30
13m
Nancy Guthrie’s Sheriff Says the FBI Arrested People for Fake Ransom Notes — He Thinks
The sheriff leading the Nancy Guthrie investigation went on local radio and said he thinks the FBI has made multiple arrests for fake ransom notes in this case. He’s not sure. The lead investigator on a nationally watched kidnapping doesn’t know what his federal partners have been doing. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down to take apart what that agency gap tells you. Nanos is calling the T...
28m Jun 30
28m
Nancy Guthrie's Notes, the FBI's Doubts, and One Agent's Bombshell
Nothing in the Nancy Guthrie case lines up. The notes disagree with each other. One thread of reporting says investigators are hopelessly stuck; another says they're closing in fast. They can't both be right. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes on all three fault lines in one sitting. She breaks down the contradicting notes — "buried with nature," a TMZ tipster's "time is no ...
59m Jun 30
59m
Nancy Guthrie's Case Is About to Crack Wide Open, an Agent Says
Just as the Nancy Guthrie case seemed frozen, a retired FBI agent dropped a bombshell on national radio: they're closing in. Maureen O'Connell told Megyn Kelly her sources say investigators are nearing an identification of "porch guy," the masked man recorded outside the 84-year-old's home the night she disappeared — and she's 75 percent sure. When they get him, she said, everything opens up. ...
19m Jun 29
19m
Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Vanished — and So Did the FBI's Best Lead
What if the honest answer in the Nancy Guthrie case is that no one knows anything? Reporting by Air Mail's Howard Blum says investigators themselves fear they blew their best shot early. NewsNation's Brian Entin describes a trail that simply went cold — the man who took the 84-year-old gone as completely as she is. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes the question on without b...
16m Jun 29
16m
Nancy Guthrie's Note Says One Thing — the Reporting Says Another
Strip the Nancy Guthrie case down to the notes, and you don't get clarity — you get a contradiction. One message reportedly says the 84-year-old grandmother is "buried with nature." A separate person emailing TMZ said "time is no longer of the essence." Same conclusion, two unconnected senders. And the most explosive detail — an apology from the kidnapper — is reported by one outlet and denied ...
25m Jun 29
25m
Nancy Guthrie’s Caller Had a Detail Strangers Couldn’t Know — Does Her Testimony Explain It?
Someone called with a detail about Nancy Guthrie that tips shouldn’t contain: what she was wearing. That kind of knowledge doesn’t come from following the case online. It comes from proximity. The caller either saw Nancy after the abduction, received information from someone who did, or was involved in the operation itself. The FBI has been processing leads since February. This one is different...
29m Jun 29
29m
The Duggar Children Are Speaking — and It Doesn’t Match What the Family Sold on Television
Joseph begged a judge to keep his brother’s case sealed. Kendra smiled through depositions. The family performed normalcy for cameras while Josh Duggar sat in a federal facility. And now the children — Joseph and Kendra’s own children — are describing what was happening inside the household the cameras never entered. What they describe maps directly onto IBLP doctrine: strict obedience hierarc...
44m Jun 28
44m
Alex Murdaugh’s Housekeeper Knows Something — and His Team Is the Only One Investigating the Clerk
The defense says other suspects committed these murders. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson — twenty years inside the Murdaugh household — agrees that other people were in the picture. And her agreement is the worst thing the defense could hear. Because Blanca isn’t saying someone else did it. She’s saying Alex always used someone else for everything — and the killings fit the same operational pattern s...
34m Jun 28
34m
Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Hinges on DNA That Was Never Run Through a Database — Whose Is It?
Dick Harpootlian told national media his team can counter the kennel video. He wouldn’t say how. The kennel video is the single piece of evidence that placed Alex Murdaugh at the murder scene minutes before Maggie and Paul were killed. Multiple witnesses identified his voice. He admitted he lied about being there. The first jury heard it and convicted in three hours. Meanwhile, prosecutors hav...
44m Jun 28
44m
Nancy Guthrie Lives Just Miles From the Border — Did a New Tip Point Across It?
An anonymous tip sent investigators looking for a shallow grave near the border. Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills home is less than seventy miles from Mexico. The masked man on the doorbell camera had a holstered handgun, a backpack traced to Walmart, and forty-five minutes inside the house. Nancy is eighty-four. She left without shoes. Getting her out of that house and across an internationa...
34m Jun 28
34m
Rex Heuermann’s Plea Covers New York — What About the Places His Victims Were Found?
Melissa Barthelemy’s sister picked up a ringing phone. The voice on the other end was Rex Heuermann’s. He had just killed Melissa. And he described what he had done. That detail came out during sentencing — the same proceeding where a judge called Heuermann a disgusting coward and ordered him removed while families chanted ogre. Three consecutive life sentences. A hundred years. No appeal. The...
1hr 9m Jun 28
1hr 9m
Nick Reiner’s Own Lawyers Filed a Document That Reads Like a Motive — Did They Mean To?
Nick Reiner’s defense team filed a 136-page probate petition demanding the release of more than $1.5 million from a trust his parents created when he was born. The petition lays out a date — September 14, 2023, Nick’s thirtieth birthday. A dollar amount — reportedly more than $750,000 owed on that date alone. And two people who controlled the money and ended up dead twenty-seven months later. N...
38m Jun 27
38m
Anna Kepner’s Judge Set the Defendant Free — Then Reversed Himself. What Changed?
Same judge. Same defendant. A completely different conclusion. Four months ago, Magistrate Judge Torres said the case was a much closer call and let Timothy Hudson go home to his uncle’s house. On June 10th, he ordered Hudson detained and said no monitor, no curfew, and no custody arrangement can keep anyone safe. He used the phrase “snap at any time.” Federal judges don’t say that lightly. Hu...
38m Jun 27
38m
Was Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping Actually a Robbery Aimed at the House Next Door?
Two theories. Both say Nancy Guthrie wasn’t the intended target. CertiK — a two-billion-dollar blockchain security firm — classified the abduction as a wrench attack by proxy, a crypto crime where the person taken is leverage against someone else. A six-million-dollar Bitcoin demand. No known cryptocurrency connection to the Guthrie family. Then the gem vault. Nancy’s neighbor has maintained a...
46m Jun 27
46m
Prosecutors Cracked Mackenzie Shirilla’s Prison Code — What Was Her Family Hiding?
Prosecutors cracked the code. Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother Natalie built a fabricated language to communicate on monitored prison lines without being understood. In one decoded conversation, Mackenzie asked her mother to do something that tells you exactly who is directing this family’s post-conviction strategy. In another, Natalie told her daughter that rehabilitation is for “actual crimi...
54m Jun 27
54m
What Nancy Guthrie's Abductor Admitted — And Why It Changed Nothing
The Nancy Guthrie case may have a written confession, a compromised investigation, and a list of innocent people who've been publicly accused — and somehow it has produced exactly zero arrests. Tony Brueski puts the entire legal picture in one place. Joining this legal breakdown are former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. It opens with the note. Sent to a Tucson tele...
54m Jun 27
54m
What The Nancy Guthrie Mob Did To An Innocent Man
An innocent schoolteacher had strangers show up at his home over the Nancy Guthrie case — a crime he had absolutely nothing to do with. The sheriff told him to sue. He hasn't. Almost no one has. And there's a reason. It's a legal breakdown with former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski digs into the legal roads ahead for the Guthrie fa...
16m Jun 26
16m
What Nancy Guthrie's Sheriff Got Caught Saying Under Oath
How much red meat is on the bone for a defense attorney in the Nancy Guthrie case? More than anyone should be comfortable with — and not one suspect has even been named yet. It's a legal breakdown with defense attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI special agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski runs the defense playbook on the investigation into the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mot...
21m Jun 26
21m
What Nancy Guthrie's Abductor Put In Writing
Strip away the frustration, the missing updates, and the months without an arrest, and one question remains in the Nancy Guthrie case: if investigators handed everything they have to a prosecutor, what would actually hold up? Joining this legal breakdown are former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski runs through the state's hand. There's the physical evide...
17m Jun 26
17m
Barry Morphew Tried to Destroy WHAT Before His Murder Trial?!
Barry Morphew faces first-degree murder charges in Suzanne Morphew’s death for the second time — and what he allegedly did between prosecutions is now part of the behavioral record heading into an October trial. After the first case collapsed and the original prosecutor was disbarred, Barry relocated to Arizona under multiple aliases. He lived in a trailer park, went by different names dependi...
17m Jun 26
17m
Maternal Instinct: Taylor Parker Told a State Trooper WHAT?!
Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — this is the full three-part conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott on the Taylor Parker case, all segments uncut. The trooper scene. The boyfriend. The system that failed. Everything. It starts with Taylor herself — the composure she showed while covered in blood selling a lie to a state trooper. The pattern of fabricated illnesses that went back year...
59m Jun 26
59m
Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker's Own Father Did at Her Gender Reveal
Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — the people who could have stopped Taylor Parker were told by the system they weren't allowed to. Her OB-GYN performed the hysterectomy. He watched her steal ultrasound images from his office and post them on social media claiming she was pregnant. He knew it was a medical impossibility. Privacy laws meant the strongest statement anyone at that clinic could mak...
20m Jun 25
20m
Maternal Instinct: Taylor Parker's Boyfriend Went Into Debt for WHAT?!
Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — everybody watching the Netflix documentary has an opinion about Wade Griffin. Some people see a man who got played by a con artist so skilled that no one could have seen through her. Other people see a man who took an eight-million-dollar check to his bank, watched his mother's gifted car get repossessed, had multiple people tell him the pregnancy was impossibl...
18m Jun 25
18m
Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker's Friends Watched Her Fake on Camera
Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — her friends watched her fake a stroke on video, and they bought it. They watched her claim cancer, MS, a brain tumor, and they believed every word. Long before the fake pregnancy, Taylor Parker was already deep into a pattern of fabricated emergencies — and the people around her never suspected a thing. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology ...
22m Jun 25
22m