The Alleged Protection Failures Behind D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, And The Duggar Family
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for the complete session covering three of the most actively discussed cases in true crime — D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, and the Duggar family. Robin brings behavioral expertise that connects the alleged patterns of protection and failure across all three. The D4VD segment addresses the alleged accomplic...
1hr 13m May 12
1hr 13m
The Alleged Duggar Protection System Ran The Same Playbook From Josh To Joseph
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke applies behavioral expertise to the most unsettling element of the Joseph Duggar case — not the charges alone, but the alleged family response captured in recorded jail calls and emails. The alleged protection infrastructure around the Duggar family is what Robin dissects with precision. Joseph Duggar was charged wi...
23m May 12
23m
The Alleged FBI Lockout May Have Cost Nancy Guthrie The Window That Mattered Most
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke brings decades of federal investigative experience to the alleged institutional failures that may have defined the Nancy Guthrie case from its earliest hours. FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly stated publicly that the bureau was kept out for four days. Pima County disputes the characterization. What allegedly happen...
19m May 12
19m
D4VD's Alleged Grooming Of Celeste Followed A Pattern Nobody Stopped
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break apart the behavioral architecture prosecutors describe in the D4VD case — an alleged grooming operation that reportedly began when Celeste Rivas Hernandez was eleven years old and ended with her alleged murder at fourteen. Robin applies decades of behavioral expertise to what the evidence...
32m May 12
32m
Alex Murdaugh Was Already Framing People the Night of the Boat Crash
James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and then for his new book The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh. What he found goes deeper than anything that came out at trial — and it starts long before the night at Moselle. The night of the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach, Alex was already in damage-control mode. While his injured son Pa...
32m May 12
32m
The Nancy Guthrie Case Has Three Major Problems — None Are What You Think
Most people think the Nancy Guthrie case is a mystery about an unknown suspect. It’s actually three intersecting failures, and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer dissects each one. The suspect’s own behavior betrays them. The approach was composed, the concealment deliberate, the camera identified and tampered with. But the forensic trail survived. The digital exposure was enormou...
56m May 11
56m
Nancy Guthrie Case: The Evidence May Already Exist — Investigators May Not See It
There’s a version of the Nancy Guthrie case the public has been sold: masked stranger, ransom demand, kidnapping for profit. And there’s the version the behavioral evidence actually supports — which looks nothing like it. The ransom communications were sent to media outlets. That’s not how real kidnappers operate. That’s how opportunists exploit a famous case. We’ve maintained from the beginni...
23m May 11
23m
The Nancy Guthrie Investigation Hit a Wall — It Wasn’t Built by the Suspect
Something broke inside the Nancy Guthrie investigation before the public ever knew to look for it. The FBI director’s public criticism of the case’s handling didn’t come from nowhere — it came after whatever was happening behind closed doors had already failed to produce alignment between the agencies responsible for finding an 84-year-old missing woman. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coff...
12m May 11
12m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Too Organized to Be Random, Too Sloppy to Be Professional
The suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case doesn’t behave like someone who wandered up to a random house. The approach was allegedly calm, concealed, and targeted. The camera was identified and interfered with. That’s preparation. But the aftermath tells a completely different story — forensic exposure, digital evidence that allegedly survived, and post-crime chaos that spiraled far beyond anything ...
22m May 11
22m
What Kouri Richins Changed After Eric Survived Valentine's Day
On Valentine's Day, Eric Richins ate a sandwich his wife made him. Within hours he was gasping for air. He grabbed his son's EpiPen because it was the only thing within reach that might keep him alive. He survived. He told friends he believed Kouri was trying to end his life. Two weeks later, she handed him a Moscow Mule. This time the fentanyl dose was five times lethal. In this Hidden Killers...
38m May 10
38m
What D4VD's Associates Allegedly Smelled for Weeks After Celeste Rivas Hernandez Vanished
Her parents took the phone. It should have been over. Instead, prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke drove to Lake Elsinore and paid one of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a replacement — after deputies had already informed him during a welfare check that she was thirteen years old. In this Hidden Killers Week in Review, Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI ...
39m May 10
39m
A Psychiatrist's Letter Existed Two Days Before the Michael Jackson Extortion Tape
Everyone knows about the tape — a father recorded threatening to destroy Michael Jackson. It's been cited for decades as the clearest evidence of extortion. What most people don't know is that a lawyer had already obtained a psychiatrist's letter suggesting abuse two days before that recording was made. That timeline changes the entire framing of the 1993 Chandler case, and in this Hidden Kille...
45m May 10
45m
The Idaho Murders Book Falls Apart When You Check the Facts
The book's author says there's no smoking gun. The book's primary source has been disavowed by his own defense team clients. And the defendant the book is about already confessed. So what exactly is left? This week's review brings together the most pointed Kohberger case conversations — and we did something the book apparently didn't count on anyone doing. We checked every major claim against ...
50m May 10
50m
The D4VD Filing Revealed Something About Celeste Nobody Was Ready For
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. Prosecutors allege she was reported missing multiple times before she was killed. They allege law enforcement spoke directly to David Anthony Burke during a welfare check and told him her age. According to the filing, he said he'd only met her once. Prosecutors say the sexual relationship had allegedly been ongoing since she was thirteen — and tha...
40m May 10
40m
Bill Gothard's IBLP Duggar Program Infiltrated Public Schools — Nobody Noticed
The Character First program was adopted by public schools across the country. It was marketed as character education — teaching kids values like responsibility, attentiveness, and obedience. What those schools didn't know was where it came from. The program was built on the same theological authority framework that powered Bill Gothard's IBLP — the system that shaped the Duggar family and thous...
37m May 09
37m
The Detail in Nick Reiner's Past His Defense Can't Ignore
Nick Reiner has a documented history of schizoaffective disorder. He was previously placed under a conservatorship. He's now facing two counts of first-degree murder with death penalty eligibility for the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner in their Brentwood home. And every signal from the early proceedings suggests a mental health defense isn't just possible — it may...
31m May 09
31m
Bryan Kohberger's Idaho Evidence Claims Don't Survive Scrutiny
Bryan Kohberger confessed to killing four University of Idaho students. He's serving four consecutive life sentences. He waived his appeals. And now a forensic expert and a book author are publicly raising questions about evidence that was apparently not concerning enough for anyone to challenge before the plea was finalized. This week's review brings together the most critical Idaho murders c...
43m May 09
43m
Rex Heuermann Told His Daughter the Gilgo Victims Weren't Human
He described a four-day kill cycle. He timed body disposals with a stopwatch. And when a therapist asked Rex Heuermann whether he recognized himself in the crime scene evidence, he said he didn't. One of the FBI's most respected behavioral profilers has called him a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopath who likely has victims he still won't acknowledge. This week's review brings together ...
1hr 19m May 09
1hr 19m
Nancy Guthrie, D4VD, Kohberger — The Legal Angles Nobody Is Covering
Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis delivers a comprehensive legal analysis across three major cases — examining the legal frameworks, the strategic decisions, and the accountability gaps that define each one. In the Nancy Guthrie case, Faddis examines every legal avenue reportedly available to the family of the 84-year-old woman who has been missing from her Tucson-area ...
56m May 08
56m
What Was Actually Wrong With the Kohberger Evidence Bag
The evidence bag containing the Ka-Bar knife sheath allegedly had entries filled out twice — once on the bag itself with initials and a date written over the evidence tape, and again on a label affixed to the front with six recorded exchanges in what appeared to be similar handwriting with the same pen, spanning November 13 through November 16, 2022. That's the factual basis for the chain of cu...
18m May 08
18m
The Special Circumstances Prosecutors Are Using to Pursue D4VD
The special circumstances alleged against David Burke include murder of a witness, murder for financial gain, and lying in wait. Prosecutors have indicated they are considering the death penalty. That's the legal framework surrounding a case that just produced its most significant filing — and the defense team responded by abandoning the strategy they'd been running for weeks. Former felony pr...
19m May 08
19m
Psychotherapist Analyzes D4vd's Alleged Predatory Pattern With Celeste
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings her clinical expertise to an examination of the alleged behavioral patterns prosecutors have described in the case against David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd. Charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and mutilation of human remains, Burke has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys maintain he ...
22m May 08
22m
Psychotherapist Analyzes Kohberger and D4vd's Alleged Psychology
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott provides clinical analysis of two of the most psychologically significant cases in true crime — the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murders and the prosecution of David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, for the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In the Kohberger segment, Scott analyzes three never-before-published letters written from the La...
1hr 5m May 07
1hr 5m
Psychotherapist Examines Why D4vd's Circle Allegedly Failed Celeste
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott provides clinical analysis of the bystander and enabler psychology at work in the case surrounding David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, and the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Burke faces first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and mutilation charges. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors convened thr...
13m May 07
13m
What Arizona Law Actually Entitles the Guthrie Family to Demand
Arizona has victim rights protections on the books. The Guthrie family are the recognized victims in this case. The question is whether those protections give them the legal authority to demand answers — about how this investigation is being conducted, what information they're entitled to, and what recourse they have if they're allegedly being shut out of the process. Former felony prosecutor ...
23m May 07
23m
Greater Grace World Outreach: Everything We Uncovered
A global church network built by a man who claimed divine revelation at a pond. A 172-page investigation that says its top leaders need to go. Two survivors — one born inside, one who walked in freely — breaking down how all of it works. This is the full conversation on Greater Grace World Outreach, an organization that has operated across more than seventy countries for decades with churches,...
1hr 5m May 07
1hr 5m
Psychotherapist Decodes Kohberger's Never-Published Jail Letters
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott brings her expertise in mass killer psychology to a forensic analysis of newly published evidence in the Bryan Kohberger case. Three letters written from the Latah County Jail in October 2023 — never before made public — reveal a psychological profile that raises profound questions about detachment, narcissism, and the complete absence of empathy. Kohbe...
31m May 07
31m
Don Studey: How Green Hollow's System Failed Alleged Victims
Nearly two decades of allegations. A three-day federal investigation. A wife's reclassified death. Cadaver dog alerts that nobody can explain. And now, reportedly, an alleged accomplice speaking on camera. The Don Studey case is a collision of everything broken about how we investigate crimes against vulnerable people — and the Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders ...
58m May 06
58m
Don Studey: Will Green Hollow's Documentary Force a Reopening?
What does it take to force law enforcement back to a case they've already closed? Maybe millions of people watching. My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming on Paramount+ — a three-part documentary that reportedly delivers what nearly two decades of allegations haven't been able to produce on their own: new witnesses, previously unreported evidence, and the testimony of an alleg...
19m May 06
19m
Greater Grace Investigation: Where the Fight Stands Now
It started around a campfire. A group of former Greater Grace World Outreach members — calling themselves the Millstones — started comparing stories. What they found was bigger than any of them expected. Allegations spanning decades. What investigators would later describe as patterns consistent with a cover-up. A system allegedly built to silence the people it harmed. Their work led to a Balt...
19m May 06
19m
Don Studey: Green Hollow Dogs Alerted, Agencies Walked Away
Here's what reportedly happened in December 2022. Cadaver dogs alerted at multiple locations on a rural Iowa property where Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father buried dozens of women he allegedly killed. The FBI arrived. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation arrived. The Fremont County Sheriff's Office was on site. They drilled into a well. Spent parts of three days. Found nothing. Cl...
16m May 06
16m
Don Studey: The Green Hollow Story Nobody Believed
Everybody reportedly knew. Neighbors allegedly told their kids to stay out of Green Hollow. Law enforcement allegedly treated Don Studey's property as a danger zone. His own family members reportedly described him as someone who would take a life if you crossed him. And still, Donald Dean Studey lived to 75 and died without ever being charged in connection with a single homicide. His daughter ...
24m May 06
24m
D4VD, Kohberger, Delphi — What The Behavioral Patterns Reveal
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for an extended listener Q&A covering the D4VD People’s Brief, the Kohberger book revelations, and the Delphi appeal’s request for oral arguments. Dreeke brings his behavioral expertise to the alleged patterns across all three cases. In the D4VD case, prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke maintai...
58m May 05
58m
Delphi: Richard Allen Told His Wife the Confession Wasn’t Real
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the defense’s reply brief and motion for oral arguments in the Richard Allen appeal. Allen was convicted in 2024 of murdering thirteen-year-old Abby Williams and fourteen-year-old Libby German and is serving a hundred and thirty years. His appellate attorneys, Stacy Uliana and Mark Leem...
19m May 05
19m
Greater Grace: When Reporting Abuse Makes You the Enemy
Imagine going to your church leadership and telling them your child has been harmed. Now imagine their response isn't to call authorities or launch an investigation — it's to tell you that you're the one with the spiritual problem. That bringing this up means you don't understand grace. That you're carrying an "evil report." That people should distance themselves from you. That's what the inde...
18m May 05
18m
Kohberger Wrote Letters To His Dog and Signed Them ‘Brother’
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the revelations in Christopher Whitcomb’s Broken Plea and answer your questions about the Idaho student murders. Whitcomb, a retired FBI agent and former member of the Bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team, draws on previously unseen defense expert reports and Kohberger’s own jail writings to ar...
19m May 05
19m
D4VD Allegedly Kept Texting Celeste After She Was Already Gone
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to answer your questions about the D4VD case following the People’s Brief. The behavioral patterns prosecutors describe in this filing demand expert analysis — and your messages made clear you’re ready for it. According to the filing, David Anthony Burke allegedly maintained a sexual relationship ...
21m May 05
21m
D4VD: Premeditation, Grooming, and a Defense Unraveling
Three parts. Three angles. One case that gets more disturbing the deeper you go. The People's Brief filed against David Anthony Burke this week describes an alleged cover-up built on staged text messages, fake-name Amazon orders, and three midnight trips to a remote highway. It describes years of alleged exploitation of a child who was eleven when they met. And it triggered a defense reversal ...
53m May 04
53m
D4VD's Wiretap — What Investigators Were Listening To
Deputy DA Beth Silverman disclosed in court that investigators obtained a wiretap during the investigation of David Anthony Burke. That means a judge — at some point while this probe was still active — authorized real-time surveillance of Burke's communications. Getting a wiretap approved isn't easy. It requires showing a judge that other investigative methods have been tried or would fail. It...
19m May 04
19m
How Greater Grace Gets You In and Keeps You Quiet
Greater Grace World Outreach has been operating for decades across more than seventy countries. Churches, schools, missions, a Bible college, radio programs — a massive evangelical infrastructure built on the teachings of one man: Carl Stevens, a former appliance salesman from Maine who said God spoke to him at a pond. For the people inside, it was everything. For the people who got out, it wa...
30m May 04
30m
Every System That Should Have Saved Celeste From D4VD Failed
Reported missing twice. A welfare check conducted. Law enforcement called the suspect directly. And according to prosecutors, David Anthony Burke allegedly continued pursuing a thirteen-year-old girl anyway. The People's Brief describes what prosecutors say was a years-long exploitation of Celeste Rivas Hernandez — from the time Burke allegedly met her at age eleven, through a sexual relations...
17m May 04
17m
D4VD's Three Midnight Trips Prosecutors Just Exposed
One trip to a remote highway in the middle of the night could be anything. Three trips — on April 23, May 8, and May 31 — to the same isolated stretch off SR-154 near Lake Cachuma? Prosecutors say that's a pattern. The People's Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke describes an alleged cover-up that prosecutors say began within minutes of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's arrival at his Ho...
18m May 04
18m
Richard Allen: Why the State Keeps Calling Everything Harmless Error
The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal uses harmless error the way a contractor uses spackle — applied to every crack in the wall and meant to convince you the structure is sound. Defense attorney Bob Motta reads the ninety-four-page brief as a document designed not to defend the evidence, but to prevent the appeals court from ever reaching it. The procedural strateg...
1hr 37m May 04
1hr 37m
IBLP Built the Silence Before the Abuse Ever Happened
The system did not fail. It worked exactly the way it was designed to work. Before any abuse occurred inside IBLP families, the curriculum had already built the infrastructure of silence — booklet by booklet, teaching by teaching, year by year. Girls were taught their bodies were spiritual hazards. Wisdom Booklet 15 quizzed children on "eye traps" in women's clothing. Booklet 36 taught that vic...
46m May 03
46m
Caleb Flynn: The Life Insurance, the Indictment, and What the Family Did Next
Ashley Flynn's family did not wait for a verdict. They retained lawyers, went to court, and built legal protections for Ashley's two elementary-age daughters before the case had even reached a grand jury. According to court filings submitted by the family after the arrest, Caleb Flynn was the primary beneficiary on Ashley's life insurance policy. He had left ministry — after years as a worship ...
33m May 03
33m
Don Studey: What the Behavioral Evidence Tells the FBI About Green Hollow
Three of Don Studey's five wives are dead under circumstances that, when laid side by side, form a pattern no behavioral analyst would ignore. His wife Lucy reportedly died by hanging in 1970. His daughter Lucy McKiddy says her father told her for decades he choked her too hard or too long. His wife Charlotte reportedly died in Omaha in 1984 from a rifle shot to the head — she was five-two, not...
1hr 23m May 03
1hr 23m
Sandra Birchmore: Three Conversations That Allegedly Telegraphed What Was Coming
Matthew Farwell allegedly told three different people three different things — and all of them pointed in the same direction. He told one person that if Sandra Birchmore did not end the pregnancy, he would "take care of the problem himself." He told another he needed to "put crazy back in the bag." He told a third that "the problem was going to take care of itself." According to federal prosecu...
31m May 03
31m
Nick Reiner: Is the Tell-All Strategy or a Symptom?
Sources describe Nick Reiner as delusional and almost childlike inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility. He reportedly screams his innocence at night. He allegedly cannot process why he is incarcerated. He has a reported schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, a documented history of addiction spanning years of treatment and relapse, and sources indicate a medication change occurred roughly a mont...
43m May 03
43m
D4vd: What His Alleged Behavior After the Crime Tells the FBI
Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke killed fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez on April 23, 2025. Within days, he released an album. He launched a world tour. He performed on stages across the country. People in his circle reportedly believed the girl connected to him was a nineteen-year-old college student. She was a seventh grader who had been reported missing three times and had not...
34m May 02
34m
Kendra Duggar: The Woman Who Wasn't Born Into This System
Every other woman in the Duggar orbit grew up inside the machine. Raised in IBLP. Taught that male authority was absolute. Told that female submission was God's design and that leaving was, in their doctrine's own words, witchcraft. Kendra Caldwell was not one of them. She is the daughter of a Baptist pastor in Arkansas. She married Joseph Duggar at nineteen. And according to reporting, in the ...
47m May 02
47m