Heuermann and Duggars: Expert Breakdown of Family Denial
Rex Heuermann is charged with seven murders. Joseph Duggar is charged with molesting a child. Michelle Duggar reportedly knew about abuse in her own home for over two decades. And at the center of all three situations — a woman who either couldn't see, wouldn't see, or wasn't given the tools to see what was happening around her. Heuermann, 62, is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea in t...
1hr 1m Apr 09
1hr 1m
Michelle Duggar: Expert Examines Decades of Maternal Denial
Michelle Duggar reportedly knew about Josh's abuse of her own daughters as early as 2002. She and Jim Bob reportedly sent him to manual labor for a family friend rather than professional treatment. Weeks later, she wrote a national parenting magazine article about how well her family functioned. She went on to star in a television show selling the image of a faithful, harmonious household. Afte...
15m Apr 09
15m
Kendra Duggar: Psychotherapist Analyzes a Conditioned Wife
Joseph Duggar, 31, is charged in Florida with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under twelve — prosecutors allege he abused a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation and allegedly admitted to it twice, once to the victim's father and once on a detective-monitored call. He has pleaded not guilty and was released on a six-hundred-thousand-dollar bond. Kendra Duggar, 27, faces e...
24m Apr 09
24m
Rex Heuermann: Psychotherapist Unpacks Asa Ellerup's Denial
Rex Heuermann is charged with murdering seven women over a span stretching from 1993 to 2010 — and is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea. But the question that haunts this case isn't just about what he allegedly did. It's about who was standing right next to him while he allegedly did it. Asa Ellerup, Heuermann's ex-wife, has maintained she would have known if something was happening. ...
23m Apr 09
23m
Bob Motta on Duggar's Confessions and Heuermann's Expected Plea
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, provides expert legal analysis on two of the most significant cases moving right now. In the Duggar case, Motta examines the defense challenges created by Joseph's alleged pre-counsel admissions, Kendra's separate charges and independent representation in Arkansas, recorded jailhouse communications in prosecutors' hands, and the fam...
1hr 7m Apr 08
1hr 7m
Inside Rex Heuermann's Expected Guilty Plea Decision
After nearly three years of maintaining innocence and a defense strategy that challenged everything from DNA admissibility to case consolidation, Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to change his plea in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, provides expert analysis of what drives that decision and what it means for every party invol...
18m Apr 08
18m
The Duggar Family's Expanding Legal Crisis Explained
The Duggar case isn't one defendant's problem anymore — it's a family-wide legal exposure event. Kendra Duggar faces her own misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. Recorded jailhouse communications are in prosecutors' possession. Family members are issuing public statements from every direction. And criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, questions whether anyone in this family'...
23m Apr 08
23m
Joseph Duggar's Defense Strategy Under the Microscope
Joseph Duggar reportedly admitted to child molestation twice before a defense attorney was in the room — once to the victim's father, and again on a call monitored by law enforcement. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, a veteran trial lawyer and host of Defense Diaries, breaks down what any defense team faces when the prosecution reportedly holds your client's own admissions as their stronges...
27m Apr 08
27m
FBI Expert Joins Tony to Break Down Every Duggar Jail Recording Live
Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski go through all of it live — Jim Bob's letter, the first jail call, the later calls. Every email. Every moment. Every silence where the alleged victim should have been mentioned and wasn't. Robin reads these recordings the way he spent a career reading people. Tony brings the editorial. You bring the questions. Three parts. One stream...
59m Apr 07
59m
FBI Expert Reacts Live: Joseph Reads About Boundaries in His Prayer Closet
We're playing back the later calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar with Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke breaking it down live. Kendra says don't trust anyone. She's boarding up the hatches. She tells Joseph she hasn't died yet. Joseph calls his cell a prayer closet, says he had a really good time, and walks Kendra through a devotional about boundaries like he's reviewing a podcast....
14m Apr 07
14m
FBI Expert Reacts Live to Joseph and Kendra's First Jail Call
We're playing back the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County with Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke reacting in real time. He's reading Psalms and working out. She can't eat and has lost her laugh. He confuses his charges with a newspaper. They pivot to tax research and power of attorney. Robin hears things in these moments that change how you un...
23m Apr 07
23m
FBI Expert and Tony Brueski Read Jim Bob's Letter to Joseph Live
Jim Bob Duggar emailed his son Joseph in jail. The full text is now public. Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to read the letter live, break it apart in real time, and decode what every word reveals. Jim Bob compared Joseph to King David. He compared him to the Biblical Joseph making lemonade in prison. He called Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." He told his son God wa...
23m Apr 07
23m
FBI Veterans Coffindaffer and Dreeke on Guthrie, Duggar, and Gilgo Beach
Two retired FBI veterans — Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — sit down for one of the most wide-ranging episodes in Hidden Killers Live history, covering three active investigations that each expose a different kind of systemic failure. Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities believe sh...
1hr 1m Apr 06
1hr 1m
Gilgo Beach: FBI Agent on What a Plea Means for the Families
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has spent her career building cases against violent offenders — and she knows what happens to families when a case that was supposed to go to trial suddenly doesn't. Rex Heuermann, 62, has been held without bail since his July 2023 arrest in connection with the murders of seven women linked to the Gilgo Beach investigation on Long Island. Accordi...
14m Apr 06
14m
Duggar Case: FBI Experts on What Investigators Find Next
Two retired FBI veterans — Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — sit down to examine the Duggar investigation from the inside out. Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested after allegedly admitting to molesting a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family trip to Panama City Beach, Florida. According to the arrest affidavit, he admitted to the...
27m Apr 06
27m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Agent Exposes Response Failures
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has spent a career evaluating how agencies respond to high-stakes investigations — and what she sees in the Nancy Guthrie case concerns her. Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona, since February 1st. Blood confirmed as hers was found on the front porch. Her back door was propped open. Her phone ...
21m Apr 06
21m
Nancy Guthrie: A Statutory Loophole, a Recall Timeline, and the Person Behind the Case
The legal path to removing Sheriff Chris Nanos may be narrower than the headlines suggest — and the investigative consequences of that gap are real for the Nancy Guthrie case. This week's review of the most critical stories examines the institutional crisis from a procedural standpoint. The Pima County Board of Supervisors unanimously invoked Arizona Revised Statute § 11-253 — a territorial-er...
31m Apr 06
31m
Duggar Family: From Federal Conviction to Full Systemic Accounting
Josh Duggar went from lobbying Congress on family values to a federal courtroom where an investigator testified the material on his work computer included images of children as young as eighteen months old. Joseph Duggar allegedly admitted to molesting a 9-year-old — twice — and was arrested on felony charges. And the system that produced both of them has never been charged with anything. This...
35m Apr 05
35m
Lindsay Clancy: The Medical System, the Missed Diagnosis, and the Trial Ahead
A labor and delivery nurse who knew the language of her own crisis. A medical system that, according to civil lawsuits now filed in the case, prescribed approximately thirteen medications in roughly four months without coordinating care, without adequately assessing her history, and without involving the family watching her disappear. And a prosecution that is now using one of those allegedly i...
39m Apr 05
39m
Duggar Family: How a System Builds Silence Across Generations
Nothing about the Duggar arrests makes sense in isolation. One brother in federal prison. Another facing felony charges. A wife charged with endangerment and false imprisonment. Understanding how a single family produces this pattern requires examining the organization that designed their world — and the generational history that predates all of it. This week's review of the most significant s...
31m Apr 05
31m
Nancy Guthrie: When Belief and Evidence Collide in a Broken System
What do you do when a grieving daughter's conviction contradicts the forensic record — and the agency responsible for resolving that contradiction is imploding? That's where the Nancy Guthrie investigation sits right now, and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her expertise in complex kidnapping cases to examine both fractures. This week's review of the most significant sto...
40m Apr 05
40m
Duggar Family: Inside the System That Protected the Brand
A family that spent a decade on national television presenting an image of faith and wholesome values. Adult children who say that image came at a cost they're still calculating. And a documented coverup timeline that raises questions no one with investigative authority has formally answered. This week's review of the most significant stories features Parts 2 and 3 of Hidden Killers' examinati...
45m Apr 05
45m
The State of Indiana has a phrase for everything that went wrong at Richard Allen's trial: harmless error. The composite sketch the jury never saw — harmless. The bullet comparison that initially came back without a match — harmless. The prison videos pla
Ninety-four pages. Every defense argument countered. Every contested ruling defended. And one glaring omission that defense attorney Bob Motta identifies as the central weakness in the State's position: the man whose confessions built this case told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot. This week's review of the most critical stories features Motta's full three-part an...
1hr 20m Apr 04
1hr 20m
Joseph Duggar: FBI Experts Break Down the Psychology of Admission
What kind of person allegedly admits to molesting a child — not once, but twice — and still has to be arrested? That question sits at the center of the Joseph Duggar case, and two retired FBI veterans with decades of experience in behavioral analysis and criminal investigation examine what the documented admissions reveal about his psychology, his environment, and the family structure that may ...
31m Apr 04
31m
Rex Heuermann: FBI Behavioral Expert Decodes the Gilgo Plea
When investigators told Rex Heuermann at booking that his watch wasn't in his belongings, he reportedly said "I guess I won't be needing that" — and didn't react. Calm. Documented. That single moment tells retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke more about what's driving this expected guilty plea than any legal filing. This week's review of the most significant s...
46m Apr 04
46m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Experts Decode the Investigation's Silence
When an investigation goes quiet, it means one of two things — either they're closing in, or they've stalled. In the Nancy Guthrie case, two retired FBI veterans with decades of combined experience in counterintelligence, behavioral analysis, and complex kidnapping investigations weigh in on which one it is. This week's look back at the most critical stories features the Nancy Guthrie abductio...
51m Apr 04
51m
Gilgo Beach Killer LISK: Rex Heuermann's Plea Broken Down Live with Eric Faddis
The accused Long Island Serial Killer is reportedly expected to plead guilty. After nearly three years, after every failed defense motion, Rex Heuermann — the man charged as the Gilgo Beach Killer — is apparently done fighting. Eric Faddis joins me live for the full breakdown. We cover the plea dynamics — what drove the decision, what the defense has left to negotiate, what the judge's role is...
57m Apr 03
57m
LISK Unanswered: Eric Faddis on the Gilgo Beach Killer Gaps
Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty to seven murders. But the Gilgo Beach Killer case has always involved more victims than one defendant can account for — and a plea doesn't resolve the rest. Eric Faddis joins me live to examine what's left on the table. We talk about the remaining LISK victims whose cases have never been charged to Heuermann. We dig into the Bittrolff reversal — prosec...
20m Apr 03
20m
Gilgo Beach Killer Evidence: Eric Faddis Breaks It Down Live
Two pillars of evidence reportedly made Rex Heuermann's LISK case unwinnable — a deleted planning document recovered from his hard drive and DNA linking the accused Gilgo Beach Killer to multiple victims through a technology never before admitted in a New York courtroom. Eric Faddis joins me live to break both down with the precision of someone who's prosecuted and defended murder cases. We wa...
16m Apr 03
16m
Gilgo Beach Killer Plea: Eric Faddis Breaks It Down Live
Rex Heuermann's LISK defense lost every major pretrial battle — DNA admissibility, trial separation, the omnibus motion. Now reports indicate the accused Gilgo Beach Killer is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women found on Long Island. Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins me live to break this down in real time. We walk through the prosecutio...
21m Apr 03
21m
LIVE SERIES: The Complete Duggar Psychology Breakdown With Shavaun Scott
Three parts. Three angles nobody else is covering. One psychotherapist who has spent thirty years in the field and grew up inside a fundamentalist system herself. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski for the complete live series with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — the most in-depth psychological examination of the Duggar family available anywhere. Part 1 breaks down the family's reported wit...
59m Apr 02
59m
LIVE: Michelle Duggar Knew — The Psychology of the Mother Who Stayed
She knew Josh was abusing her daughters in 2002. She knew again in 2003. She admitted Josh never got real counseling. She wrote a parenting article for a national magazine two months later. She built a brand on television around motherhood. She told Fox News her daughters didn't understand what Josh had done to them. Sworn testimony contradicted her. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live ...
16m Apr 02
16m
LIVE: Behind Locked Doors — The Duggar Children Nobody Is Talking About
Locks on the outside of bedroom doors. A documented method of striking infants to break their will. Both parents arrested. Four children under eight caught in the middle. And seven more being raised by a mother whose husband is in federal prison. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for Part 2 of their three-part conversation on the Duggar family — this...
19m Apr 02
19m
LIVE: The Duggars Call It a Witch Hunt — A Psychotherapist Responds
Joseph Duggar has been arrested on charges involving a child. His wife faces separate child endangerment charges after investigators reportedly found locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. And according to sources close to the family, some members are calling this a witch hunt — persecution for following Christ. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist S...
26m Apr 02
26m
We've been on this case from the beginning. We read the defense's appeal brief. We read the State's 94-page response. And now we're going through all of it — three sessions, one complete picture — with defense attorney Bob Motta. Here's what frames everyt
We're going live with the complete three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal — and we're taking your questions throughout. Indiana filed 94 pages calling this conviction "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages they never explain why the man who confessed got the cause of death wrong. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his psychiatrist he shot the girls. Abby William...
1hr 2m Apr 01
1hr 2m
Delphi LIVE: Richard Allen Appeal — What the Next Move Means
We're going live for the final session of our three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal — and this one looks forward. The State has filed. The defense reply brief is coming. Three appellate judges will decide whether the trial that convicted Richard Allen of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German was constitutionally sound. They won't be deciding guilt or innocence. They'll be deciding wh...
17m Apr 01
17m
Delphi LIVE: Richard Allen — The Confession That Got the Facts Wrong
We're going live — and this session is about the two factual problems at the center of the Richard Allen case that Indiana's 94-page response brief simply does not solve. The first is the van. The prosecution called it the detail only the killer would know. According to the defense's brief, surveillance footage and FBI cell phone analysis show that van arriving significantly after Libby German...
25m Apr 01
25m
Delphi LIVE: Richard Allen Appeal — Inside Indiana's Response Brief
We're going live — and this conversation is about what the Indiana Attorney General's response to the Richard Allen appeal says, what it doesn't say, and what the difference between those two things means. The State filed 94 pages calling the evidence against Richard Allen "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages, they never address one documented detail from the defense's appeal brief:...
21m Apr 01
21m
Robin Dreeke Takes Your Questions on Rex, Nancy Guthrie, and the Duggars
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke is one of the most credentialed behavioral analysts in the country. Today he's taking listener questions across three of the most significant active true crime cases — and the questions you've sent in are exactly the kind that make this conversation worth having. Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty ...
1hr 8m Mar 31
1hr 8m
FBI Expert Robin Dreeke on What the Duggar Pattern Actually Reveals
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has spent decades analyzing how dangerous individuals operate within family and community structures — and how those structures enable, conceal, and perpetuate harm. Today he's sitting with me to examine the Duggar cases through that lens, using the documented record and your listener questions as the frame. Josh Du...
17m Mar 31
17m
FBI Expert Robin Dreeke on the Nancy Guthrie Investigation's Critical Gaps
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke is one of the most experienced behavioral analysts in the country. Today he's sitting with me to examine the Nancy Guthrie abduction through the lens of behavioral science — and specifically, to answer the questions listeners have been asking about both the person responsible and the investigation tasked with finding...
26m Mar 31
26m
FBI Expert Robin Dreeke Decodes Rex Heuermann's Hidden Psychology
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has spent his career building behavioral profiles of the most dangerous people on the planet. Today he's sitting down with me to go through your listener questions on one of the most disturbing cases in recent American crime history — Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach killings. Multiple sources are reporting that He...
27m Mar 31
27m
Nancy Guthrie, Sheriff Nanos Crisis & Duggar: Coffindaffer's Complete Analysis
When Savannah Guthrie finally sat down to talk, she didn't just describe the pain. She described the operational details — and they matter. A suspect who came twice before the night Nancy vanished. A brother with military training who identified this as a targeted ransom operation in real time. An investigative theory that places a second person inside that house. FBI canvassing now focused on ...
52m Mar 30
52m
Duggar Arrests: FBI Expert Examines the System That Failed These Children
Two brothers from the same home. Two sets of child sexual abuse allegations, years apart. One family that spent years living out loud on national television while, according to investigators and court records, something very different was allegedly happening behind closed doors. Joseph Duggar's arrest on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 12 — and his wife Kendra's separa...
14m Mar 30
14m
Nancy Guthrie: FBI Expert on the Sheriff Who Shouldn't Be Leading This
When the lead law enforcement official on a major kidnapping case is simultaneously facing a unanimous no-confidence vote from his own deputies, a board of supervisors compelling sworn testimony under threat of removal, a recall campaign, and allegations that his entire career history may rest on undisclosed disciplinary records — what does that do to the investigation? That's the question Reti...
13m Mar 30
13m
Nancy Guthrie: Coffindaffer Breaks Down Savannah's New Revelations
Savannah Guthrie's first public interview since her mother's disappearance didn't just bring emotional weight — it brought investigative detail that reframes what we think we know about how this abduction was planned. The suspect came to Nancy's door on two separate nights before she vanished. Investigators are working the theory that the man visible on doorbell camera footage may have been fun...
25m Mar 30
25m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: Motta and Dreeke on the Trial, the Testimony, and the System That Failed
The single count is assault with a dangerous weapon. The single question is whether that weapon was ever pointed at Officer Patrick Noonan — or whether it never left Kelsey Fitzsimmons's own temple. A judge will decide. And that decision may hinge on a specific sequence, a single word, and what trained officers perceived under extreme stress in a matter of seconds. Fitzsimmons took the stand i...
50m Mar 30
50m
Nancy Guthrie: Robin Dreeke on the Nanos Crisis and What It Signals
The institutional breakdown surrounding Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is now fully documented — 241-0 no-confidence vote, unanimous Board of Supervisors action invoking a state removal statute, a December deposition Supervisor Heinz called "disqualifying," and a 42-year career one supervisor has described as "fruit of a poison tree." And yet: Nanos said he'll comply with the board's order. Un...
35m Mar 29
35m
Kouri Richins: Shavaun Scott on the Psychology Behind the Perfect Wife
What does a thirty-year clinician who specializes in trauma and violent behavior see when she looks at the Kouri Richins case — not the evidence, not the verdict, but the psychological architecture underneath it? This week on Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski brings together psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for the psychological deep dive tha...
1hr 18m Mar 29
1hr 18m
Duggar Family IBLP Exposed — What Total Control Produces
How does an organization get total control over millions of families? What does absolute submission doctrine actually produce in the people living inside it? And why does accountability almost never reach the people who built the system? This week on Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski brings together two of the most qualified voices on this subject anywhere: Robin Dreeke — retired Chief of the ...
46m Mar 29
46m