Caleb Flynn Case: Dreeke Analyzes the Staged Burglary and 911 Call
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to dissect the behavioral evidence in the Caleb Flynn murder case — starting with the 911 call that investigators say was part of a staged performance. Robin applies his decades of behavioral analysis to the key elements your listener questions are focused on: What does the 911 audio reveal about ...
16m Apr 21
16m
Duggar Behavioral Patterns: Dreeke Analyzes Joseph’s Alleged Confessions
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break down the behavioral indicators in the Joseph Duggar case — including the extraordinary detail that the accused allegedly confessed twice before being arrested. According to the arrest affidavit, Joseph Duggar admitted to molesting a nine-year-old girl when confronted by the victim’s fathe...
22m Apr 21
22m
D4VD Arrest and Nancy Guthrie Ransom — Expert Breakdown
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — former federal investigator with decades of behavioral analysis and case-building experience — joins Tony Brueski for a full-episode deep dive into the two biggest cases in the country right now. In the D4VD case, LAPD bypassed a grand jury that declined to indict and arrested David Anthony Burke on suspicion of the murder of 14-year-old Celest...
49m Apr 20
49m
Nancy Guthrie — Why the FBI Won't Trace the Bitcoin
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — who spent decades building federal cases and who has publicly called for the bureau to pay the bitcoin ransom and trace the wallet — sits down with Tony Brueski for an analytical breakdown of the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Coffindaffer addresses the central tactical question: the FBI has recovered cryptocurrency ransoms before, including in t...
19m Apr 20
19m
D4VD Defense Denies Causation — What That Concedes
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — with decades of experience building federal cases and reading witness behavior — joins Tony Brueski to analyze the next phase of the D4VD case and what the defense team's public statement actually reveals. Burke's attorneys specifically stated he "was not the cause" of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death. Not that he was uninvolved. Not that he did...
15m Apr 20
15m
Celeste Rivas Hernandez: Dreeke Breaks Down the Behavioral Red Flags
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to answer your questions about one of the most disturbing cases in recent memory — the alleged grooming and killing of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered remains were found inside the Tesla of pop star D4vd. Robin brings decades of behavioral analysis expertise to the pat...
21m Apr 20
21m
D4VD Arrest — What the Evidence Trail Exposes
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — former federal investigator with decades of case-building experience — sits down with Tony Brueski to dissect the arrest of D4VD in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case. LAPD didn't wait for a grand jury indictment. Detectives went to a judge and moved on their own — seven months after a 14-year-old girl's remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla...
15m Apr 20
15m
Heuermann's Plea, the Family Lawsuit, and the Psychology of Not Knowing
Asa Ellerup called Rex Heuermann her savior. Their daughter Victoria sat in a packed Suffolk County courtroom and watched him plead guilty to killing eight women. Asa has maintained she would have known if something was wrong. Victoria has publicly said she believes her father most likely committed the killings. A mother and daughter inside the same house, the same marriage, the same nightmare ...
1hr 24m Apr 20
1hr 24m
IBLP: The Cost of Leaving and the Machine That Won't Stop
The survivors can't pick what to eat for dinner. Not because they're indecisive — because every decision they ever made was routed through a hierarchy that no longer exists. Their operating system crashed. That's what leaving the Institute in Basic Life Principles actually looks like. Not a dramatic escape through a gate. A slow, disorienting collapse of identity, faith, relationships, and basi...
42m Apr 19
42m
Anna Kepner: Federal Indictment, Warning Signs, and the Case for Detention
Anna Kepner was eighteen years old. She was found dead under the bed in her cruise ship stateroom, wrapped in a blanket and covered in life vests. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Security cameras showed her sixteen-year-old stepbrother Timothy Hudson was the only person who entered and exited the room that night. Her younger brother was outside and reportedl...
52m Apr 19
52m
Heuermann's Calculated Plea and the Civil Lawsuit Targeting His Family
Rex Heuermann maintained his innocence for one thousand days. On the last one, he stood in a Suffolk County courtroom — calm, controlled, no visible emotion — and pleaded guilty to strangling eight women over seventeen years. His defense attorney called it a calculated pivot. Every pre-trial ruling had gone against the defense. Whole genome sequencing was in. Consolidation of all charges into o...
37m Apr 19
37m
Kendra's Open Letter and the Duggar System Under Investigation
Kendra Duggar cried on a recorded jail call and told Joseph the kids had to be her priority. She said she wasn't well. Could barely eat. Could barely stand. For one conversation, she sounded like a mother beginning to think for herself. Then the family filled her schedule. ATV rides. Worship music. Days surrounded by Duggar sisters-in-law. Joseph sending scripture from his cell — lyrics about s...
1hr Apr 19
1hr
Kendra Duggar's Open Letter and the Doctrine That Trapped Her
The Caldwell family posted a portrait without Kendra in it. No statement. No explanation. Her father Paul launched a GoFundMe for displacement and housing costs. The family is reportedly being pushed out. And the system that built the world Kendra was raised inside is the same system now directing the choices being made for her. Kendra faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas after investig...
58m Apr 19
58m
Nancy Guthrie: Investigative Failures and the Sheriff Fighting to Keep His Badge
Sheriff Chris Nanos told the public Nancy Guthrie had been abducted — then reversed himself the next day. When reporters questioned the contradiction, he told them he wasn't used to being held accountable for what he says. An insider who spoke to a national outlet said the message inside the department during those early press conferences was simple: stop talking. He didn't. Nancy Guthrie, 84,...
34m Apr 18
34m
Duggar Jail Calls and IBLP: The Behavioral Patterns and the Doctrine
Every public statement from the Duggar siblings after Joseph's arrest hit the same notes — scripted, measured, on-brand. The private communications tell a completely different story. Jim Bob's first written message to his son focused on God's forgiveness. Kendra called it "disappointing." Anna Duggar — whose own husband Josh is serving federal time — put money on Joseph's books. Austin Forsyth ...
50m Apr 18
50m
Heuermann's Family Fallout and the Calls That Haunted a Teenager
Someone used Melissa Barthelemy's phone to call her 15-year-old sister for five straight weeks after Melissa vanished. Always under three minutes. Always from crowded Manhattan streets. Always targeting the teenager — never the mother. The calls described what had been done to Melissa in detail no stranger should have known. The burner phone Melissa had connected with on the day she disappeared...
27m Apr 18
27m
Heuermann Pleads Guilty — What the Evidence and the Plea Deal Reveal
Rex Heuermann admitted to killing eight women. His defense attorney called it "relief." Not remorse. Not accountability. Relief. That single word tells you more about Heuermann's internal framework than the plea itself — and this week's panel digs into exactly why. A discarded pizza crust recovered from a Manhattan garbage can gave investigators the DNA match that broke this case open. That sa...
35m Apr 18
35m
Kepner Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach Civil Defense
Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins for a full-episode analysis of two cases where the legal questions are converging on the same core issue — how much the people standing next to an accused knew, chose not to see, or gambled on. In the Anna Kepner federal case, Faddis examines why a sixteen-year-old’s defense team would sign off on a waiver volunteering him for adu...
49m Apr 17
49m
Asa Ellerup’s Civil Defense After the Guilty Plea
When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County Court, the criminal case reached its conclusion. But for his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, a different legal fight is just beginning. A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack alleges that Ellerup and her daughter Victoria either knew about, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning of the murders. The complai...
16m Apr 17
16m
Jesse Butler: The Clock Nobody Wanted To Stop
Fifteen minutes. That's how long a teenage girl had to understand that the boy she accused of nearly killing her was about to walk out of a Stillwater courtroom without a single day in prison. Fifteen minutes to process "no contest." Fifteen minutes to process "youthful offender." Fifteen minutes to realize the August birthday coming in four months would legally erase the whole thing. Jesse B...
24m Apr 17
24m
Anna Kepner: Can a Medication Defense Work Here
The physical evidence in the Anna Kepner case presents a compressed, specific set of facts that prosecutors believe can be tried in approximately one week. Ship surveillance showing no one else entering or exiting the cabin. A body allegedly concealed under a bed with deliberate covering. A cause of death — mechanical asphyxiation — that implies sustained physical contact. Defense attorney and...
17m Apr 17
17m
Anna Kepner Case: The Defense Gamble That Changes Everything
Unsealed federal court records in the Anna Kepner case have revealed a defense move that experienced criminal attorneys are calling highly unusual. The accused — a sixteen-year-old facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his eighteen-year-old stepsister — signed a written waiver requesting to be prosecuted as an adult. His defense counsel co-signed the ...
16m Apr 17
16m
LIVE: Full Panel — FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on the Bateman Netflix Doc
The full panel, live and uncut. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony for a complete breakdown of the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — from how he built the cult, to what it did to the people inside, to whether Short Creek will ever stop producing predators who call themselves prophets. Robi...
1hr 3m Apr 16
1hr 3m
LIVE: Is the FLDS Cycle Finally Breaking? | Part 3
The final segment of our live three-part panel on the Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. Parts 1 and 2 covered how he built it and what it did to the people inside. Now we're talking about what happens next — and whether "next" means healing or repetition. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are back with Tony for the convers...
20m Apr 16
20m
LIVE: The Psychological Damage Inside Bateman's FLDS Cult | Part 2
Going live for Part 2 of our panel on the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. If Part 1 was about how Bateman built his cult, this one is about what it did to the people inside it — and the damage that's still unfolding. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are back with Tony for the conversation about the invisible wrec...
24m Apr 16
24m
LIVE: FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on How Bateman Built His Cult | Part 1
We're going live with a conversation you're not going to want to pause. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony to break apart the Samuel Bateman case in real time — starting with the question everyone who watched the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet keeps asking: how did a broke, homeless man get fifty people to hand...
20m Apr 16
20m
Gilgo Beach Plea, Ellerup Suit, Anna Kepner Case: Deep Dive
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski for a wide-ranging conversation that covers Rex Heuermann's guilty plea, the civil lawsuit against his family, and the federal adult indictment in the Anna Kepner case — bringing both legal strategy and behavioral expertise to bear on each story. Motta opens ...
56m Apr 15
56m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Defense Challenges Examined
A defense attorney breaks down the federal indictment against Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother — and examines the significant challenges facing both the prosecution and the defense in a case that involves a minor charged as an adult, contradictory early reporting, and a family splintering across multiple courtrooms. The conversation begins with the most striking element of the indict...
19m Apr 15
19m
Rex Heuermann: Why He Pleaded Guilty and What He Avoided
A defense attorney walks through the strategic calculus behind Rex Heuermann's guilty plea — and explains why the timing, the terms, and the inclusion of an uncharged victim all point to a defendant managing his exposure rather than accepting responsibility. Heuermann spent nearly three years maintaining his innocence while his legal team filed motion after motion, each one denied. When the jud...
18m Apr 15
18m
Gilgo Beach: Asa Ellerup Lawsuit Defense Breakdown
A defense attorney examines the civil lawsuit filed against Rex Heuermann's ex-wife and daughter — and explains why the complaint may not survive its first legal challenge. Benjamin Torres, the adult son of Gilgo Beach victim Valerie Mack, has sued Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann alongside the now-convicted killer, alleging they knew about the murders, concealed evidence, and collected over ...
19m Apr 15
19m
Nancy Guthrie and the Duggars: FBI Connects the Pattern
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to both of the stories dominating the national conversation — and draws the investigative line between them. In the Nancy Guthrie case, Coffindaffer maps every documented failure from crime scene handling to evidence disputes to the structural problems that predate Nancy's disappearance, and explains why the cumulative...
59m Apr 14
59m
Duggar Investigation: Family System Under FBI-Level Scrutiny
The criminal case against Joseph Duggar has expanded beyond a single allegation into a multi-state investigation that's raising questions about systemic patterns of alleged abuse and concealment inside one of America's most publicly visible families. Joseph faces two life felony charges in Florida. He and his wife Kendra face eight combined misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. Investigators report...
26m Apr 14
26m
Nancy Guthrie Case: The Calculation Keeping Nanos in Power
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her experience investigating law enforcement leaders who clung to power under pressure to the Pima County crisis — where Sheriff Chris Nanos faces a unanimous no-confidence vote, a board threatening removal under oath, multiple federal lawsuits, and a recall effort, and still refuses to resign while overseeing the Nancy Guthrie investigatio...
16m Apr 14
16m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Exposed What the Sheriff Missed
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to the documented investigative failures in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance — a case where the lead agency's own deputies have unanimously voted no confidence in their sheriff. Coffindaffer examines what it means when local law enforcement declares evidence unrecoverable and the FBI produces it days later. She analyzes...
18m Apr 14
18m
FBI Behavioral Expert: Duggars, FLDS Cults, and Chosen Silence
Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, provides extended expert analysis across three interconnected investigations — applying decades of behavioral expertise to the Duggar family's private crisis communications, the family system that produced two sons facing charges or convictions involving children, and the psychological control mechanisms o...
1hr 2m Apr 13
1hr 2m
FBI Behavioral Expert Analyzes FLDS Cult Leader Samuel Bateman
From a behavioral analysis perspective, the Samuel Bateman case presents a concentrated example of cult control mechanics operating at their most extreme — a man with no institutional backing, no financial resources, and no prior following who constructed a system of total psychological dominance within a few years. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysi...
19m Apr 13
19m
FBI Expert: The Duggar Family System That Produced Repeated Harm
Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies decades of behavioral expertise to the structural question at the center of the Duggar family's unraveling: how does one household, operating under one parenting philosophy, produce two sons facing charges or convictions involving the abuse of children — and what does that pattern reveal about the ...
13m Apr 13
13m
FBI Behavioral Expert Decodes Duggar Family Crisis Communications
When the private communications of a family in crisis become public, a trained behavioral analyst sees what casual observers miss — the word choices, the omissions, the gap between private reality and public performance. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies decades of expertise in reading human behavior under pressure to the Duggar fa...
31m Apr 13
31m
Heuermann's Guilty Plea and the Victim Who Changed the Timeline
Rex Heuermann pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder in Suffolk County Court and admitted to killing Karen Vergata as an eighth victim. He has agreed to cooperate with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. The sentence: life without parole. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer provides the investigative analysis. She examines what a pl...
32m Apr 13
32m
Defense Attorney and Psychotherapist Examine Kendra's Charges and Michelle's Pattern
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta assesses the legal exposure radiating outward from Joseph Duggar's arrest. Kendra Duggar faces eight misdemeanor counts in Arkansas — four for second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four for second-degree false imprisonment — stemming from a home investigation that reportedly discovered locks on the exterior of children's bedroom doors. She reta...
37m Apr 12
37m
Heuermann Guilty Plea — The Psychology of Denial and the Failed Defense
Rex Heuermann pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder in Suffolk County Court. He also admitted to killing Karen Vergata — an eighth victim not formally charged — as part of the plea agreement. Sentenced to life without parole. He has agreed to cooperate with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides the le...
42m Apr 12
42m
Defense Attorney and Psychotherapist Examine the Duggar Case From Both Sides
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides a practitioner's assessment of the legal landscape facing Joseph Duggar. According to investigators, Joseph allegedly admitted to the abuse twice before counsel was present — once when confronted by the victim's father, and again during a phone call monitored by Tontitown detectives. Motta examines what a defense strategy looks like when the prosecut...
51m Apr 12
51m
FBI Behavioral Chief Decodes Duggar Jail Calls and Caldwell Evidence
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Chief Robin Dreeke — former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program — provides behavioral analysis of the later calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County. Joseph has reframed solitary confinement as a prayer closet. He reports a breakthrough in Bible study. He reads Kendra a devotional about boundaries — Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh and the...
45m Apr 12
45m
FBI Behavioral Chief Decodes the Duggar Jail Call — And the Doctrine Behind It
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Chief Robin Dreeke — former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program — applies his analytical framework to the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from the Washington County Detention Center. Joseph is in solitary confinement, reading Psalms, doing push-ups, comparing himself to the Biblical Joseph. Kendra has stopped eating, can barely walk...
56m Apr 12
56m
FBI Behavioral Expert Decodes Jim Bob Duggar's Email to Joseph in Jail
Jim Bob Duggar emailed his son Joseph in the Washington County Detention Center. The email — obtained through public records — compares Joseph to King David and the Biblical Joseph, frames prison as potential ministry, acknowledges "terrible decisions," and tells him God isn't finished with his life. He calls the charges against Kendra "ridiculous." The alleged victim — the child at the center ...
50m Apr 11
50m
FBI Agent Breaks Down the Nancy Guthrie Investigation Failures
Nancy Guthrie remains missing. The 84-year-old mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson in February. Blood confirmed as hers on the porch. An armed, masked figure captured on doorbell camera footage. No suspect publicly named. No arrest. The investigation is in its third month under a sheriff whose own deputies have voted unanimously that they have...
38m Apr 11
38m
Inside the Duggar Case — Charges, Failed Systems, and Who's Talking
Joseph Duggar faces charges in two states. In Florida, the charges are classified as a life felony — mandatory minimum of 25 years if convicted. According to the Bay County arrest affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old girl reported that Joseph allegedly harmed her during a family vacation when she was nine. The affidavit states he allegedly admitted to the conduct twice — once when confronted by t...
38m Apr 11
38m
Former Prosecutor Breaks Down Rex Heuermann's Path to a Guilty Plea
Rex Heuermann pled guilty to the murders of seven women and admitted to killing an eighth — Karen Vergata — after nearly three years of maintaining his innocence. The sentence: life without parole. But what actually drives a defendant from adamant denial to a guilty plea when the evidence becomes insurmountable? Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor who has both prosecute...
37m Apr 11
37m
Rex Heuermann’s Plea and the Duggar Pattern: A Panel Breakdown
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis bring fundamentally different professional frameworks to the same set of facts — and what they see doesn’t always overlap. That’s what makes this panel work. Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea in the Gilgo Beach case — admitting to eight killings over seventeen years w...
56m Apr 10
56m
Duggar Family’s Legal and Behavioral Crisis Fully Examined
Eric Faddis has prosecuted cases and defended clients. Robin Dreeke spent over two decades at the FBI studying how institutions, families, and individuals protect harmful behavior through structures of authority and silence. The Duggar family presents one of the most publicly documented examples of that dynamic playing out across multiple cases and multiple generations of harm. Joseph Duggar f...
23m Apr 10
23m