What Did The Masked Man At Nancy Guthrie's Door Want?
Two former FBI agents look at the same forty-one minutes and see something most people miss. In the Nancy Guthrie case, a masked figure approached the front door of an 84-year-old woman's Tucson home in the dead of night and appeared to tamper with her camera. At 1:47 a.m. the doorbell feed died. At 2:12 the software still caught a person there. By 2:28, the pacemaker inside her chest had lost ...
23m Jun 01
23m
What Does A Forensic Psychologist See In D4VD's Path To The Celeste Rivas Hernandez Case?
Shavaun Scott doesn't start where most people start with this case. She starts in a closet in Houston — where a homeschooled teenager with no peer socialization and no music in the house except gospel was recording tracks that would reach millions. She works forward from there because the forensic psychology question isn't what allegedly happened to Celeste Rivas Hernandez. It's what allegedly ...
42m Jun 01
42m
Why Did Richard Allen Go From "I Didn't Do It" To Sixty Confessions In The Delphi Case?
The behavioral shift is the center of the Delphi appeal. Before solitary confinement, Richard Allen sat across from Detective Holeman during the arrest interrogation and — according to defense filings — was lied to for over an hour. Allen's answer: "I am not going to say something I did not do." That was the man who walked into Westville. Thirteen months later, he was a different person. IDOC'...
42m May 31
42m
What Does A Former FBI Agent See When She Tests The Wrench Attack Theory On Nancy Guthrie?
Jennifer Coffindaffer has 28 years of FBI experience and has worked the kinds of organized crime operations that wrench attack proponents believe may explain what happened to Nancy Guthrie. She takes the theory seriously enough to examine it honestly — and seriously enough to name where the evidence stops. A wrench attack is a physically violent crypto-extortion operation run by organized netw...
45m May 31
45m
Why Did The Kouri Richins Investigation Stall Until A PI Stepped In?
Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged on the stand that the criminal investigation into Eric Richins' death had stalled by fall 2022. Meanwhile, Todd Gabler — a private investigator with 34 years exclusively on the defense side — was already ahead of the people with badges. Gabler had identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl. He'd flagged her criminal history. He was handing evidenc...
43m May 31
43m
What Did The FBI See In The Pattern Before Anna Kepner Was Killed On A Cruise Ship?
Prosecutors say Timothy Hudson killed Anna Kepner "without any warning." Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the FBI and wants to know why they'd use that language when the public record suggests something very different. Anna's ex-boyfriend reportedly told investigators Hudson tried to climb on top of her during a FaceTime call. He was allegedly fixated on her. He reportedly wanted to dat...
38m May 31
38m
Why Did An ISP Trooper Get Shut Down When He Flagged A Delphi Suspect?
According to the defense's appellate filings, an ISP Trooper found "concerning similarity" between the Delphi murders and a suspect who had been flagged repeatedly by tipsters for posting images of dead girls with sticks over their bodies on social media. He pushed for further investigation. His superiors said no. This same suspect, according to the filings, sat across from investigators four ...
39m May 31
39m
Why Did The Kouri Richins Investigation Stall Until A PI Stepped In?
 Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged on the stand that the criminal investigation into Eric Richins' death had stalled by fall 2022. Meanwhile, Todd Gabler — a private investigator with 34 years exclusively on the defense side — was already ahead of the people with badges. Gabler had identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl. He'd flagged her criminal history. He was handing eviden...
57m May 30
57m
Was The Nancy Guthrie Investigation Ever Set Up To Succeed?
An 84-year-old woman allegedly stolen from her own bed in the middle of the night — and almost immediately, the investigation meant to find her started falling apart from the inside. The crime scene was released too early. A thermal imaging plane sat grounded because its pilot had been reassigned over a personal grudge. The lead sergeant on the initial response reportedly had no homicide exper...
39m May 30
39m
What Does It Mean When The FBI Takes Over Communication With Nancy Guthrie's Family?
In 28 years at the FBI, Jennifer Coffindaffer has seen what happens between local sheriffs and the Bureau when an investigation is running well — and what happens when something has broken down. The communication shift in the Nancy Guthrie case tells her something specific. Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed he's no longer speaking directly with Nancy Guthrie's family. The FBI is now the sole point...
33m May 30
33m
Why Did A Career Defense Investigator Start Building The Case Against Kouri Richins?
Todd Gabler had spent 34 years working one side of the courtroom — every case for the defense. Then Eric Richins' family called about a civil matter and the phone records pulled in the first few weeks made staying in that lane impossible. Constant contact between Kouri Richins and a housekeeper with a criminal record and active drug court failures — in the months surrounding Eric's death. Law ...
46m May 30
46m
Kepner, Adelson, Birchmore: Why Does The System Keep Failing?
What does it take for the justice system to actually hold someone — and why does that bar seem to move from case to case? We put three of the most talked-about cases in true crime in front of a defense attorney and former prosecutor and asked him to connect them. In Anna Kepner's case, our guest explains how a judge can concede that an adult would be jailed and still leave a young defendant fr...
55m May 29
55m
What Was Todd Gabler Finding While Police Were Doing Nothing on the Kouri Richins Case?
The Sheriff's Office investigation stalled. Todd Gabler's didn't. While law enforcement sat on a case that wasn't moving, Gabler was the one pulling phone records before they knew where to look. He was the one tracking vehicles while the investigation gathered dust. He was the one searching the home for days after police released it. And he did all of it while operating under rules that gave hi...
58m May 29
58m
Is Farwell's Defense Already Losing The Birchmore Case?
When a defense team loses every major motion before trial even starts, what does that tell you about where the case is headed? In the prosecution of former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, we asked an attorney and legal analyst to read the signs. Sandra Birchmore, twenty-three and pregnant, was found dead in 2021 in a death first ruled a suicide. Prosecutors say Farwell killed her and staged...
18m May 29
18m
Could Wendi Adelson's Own Testimony Get Her Charged?
Wendi Adelson took the stand in the Dan Markel murder case more than once, and every time she did, she had a safety net: limited immunity. So could the very testimony meant to protect her become the thing that finally exposes her? We asked a defense attorney and former prosecutor to break it down. The Markel case is one of the most-watched murder-for-hire sagas in the country. An FSU law profe...
22m May 29
22m
What Did The Judge Admit About Anna Kepner's Accused Killer?
What does it actually take to convince a court that a defendant is too dangerous to be free? In Anna Kepner's case, a federal judge said out loud that an adult facing these charges would almost certainly be jailed — and then declined to order it. We brought in a criminal defense attorney to explain what that contradiction really signals. Anna, eighteen, died aboard a Carnival cruise while trav...
15m May 29
15m
What Psychological Thread Runs Through the Guthrie, Kepner, and D4VD Cases?
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent more than thirty years in forensic mental health studying what creates the conditions for violence — not just the act, but the accumulation of failures that allegedly precede it. On Hidden Killers Live, she applies that expertise to three cases simultaneously. In the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, she examines the perpetrator’s mind — what months of silence...
59m May 28
59m
Why Did Todd Gabler Skip His Pain Meds to Testify in the Kouri Richins Trial?
Six weeks before he took the stand, surgeons fused vertebrae in Todd Gabler's neck with titanium rods. He walked into court on a cane. He told the judge he'd taken a Tylenol that morning and nothing else — no prescribed pain medication — because he wanted absolute clarity for his testimony. Nobody asked him to do that. He chose it. That moment says everything about how this case got under his ...
22m May 28
22m
Did D4VD’s Isolation Create the Conditions for What Happened to Celeste Rivas?
David Anthony Burke went from recording on an iPhone in his sister’s closet to touring internationally for Interscope Records in roughly two years. By twenty, prosecutors allege he’s responsible for the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the alleged concealment of evidence that followed. He has pleaded not guilty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades ...
16m May 28
16m
Is Anna Kepner’s Stepmother Acting Out of Grief or Self-Preservation?
Shauntel Hudson sits at the center of the Anna Kepner case in a position no one can fully comprehend. She is the biological mother of Timothy Hudson, the sixteen-year-old charged as an adult with first-degree murder in Anna’s death. She is the stepmother of Anna Kepner, the eighteen-year-old who was killed. And she shares a home and a marriage with Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner. Court filin...
19m May 28
19m
What Is Genetic Genealogy Doing to Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapper Right Now?
The DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home is at the FBI lab in Quantico. Genetic genealogy is reportedly being run. And the person who allegedly took this eighty-four-year-old woman from her home months ago has no way of knowing when that process will produce a name — only that it eventually can. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of forensic mental health exp...
24m May 28
24m
Why Did Nobody Around D4VD See Who He Allegedly Was?
D4VD admitted in interview after interview that the emotions in his music weren’t real. He said they were constructed. Performed. Pulled from other people’s lives. We heard that as a charming origin story. According to prosecutors, it may have been something else entirely. This episode takes a hard look at who David Anthony Burke was before the allegations — not as a musician, but as a person ...
26m May 28
26m
Do the Guthrie, Kepner, and Spencer Families Have Any Legal Options Left?
Three cases. Three families. One attorney analyzing what happens when the system around a case starts breaking down.Bob Motta starts with Nancy Guthrie — what legal tools does the family have when the investigation has stalled, the sheriff's credibility is collapsing, and a retired detective believes the suspect's identity is already in the case files? Is there a legal mechanism to force an out...
58m May 27
58m
Why Was One PI Outpacing an Entire Sheriff's Office on the Kouri Richins Case?
Todd Gabler gave the Summit County Sheriff's Office everything he found. The phone records connecting Kouri Richins to a housekeeper with a drug history. The GPS surveillance data. The interview summaries from nearly 50 conversations. Two hard drives of evidence. He handed it all over. They shared nothing in return. Police agencies, he testified at trial, are "one-way streets." And that one-wa...
19m May 27
19m
Is Aaron Spencer's Murder Case Falling Apart Before It Reaches a Jury?
Every major pretrial ruling under Judge Ralph Wilson has gone the defense's way in Aaron Spencer's murder case. Wilson reversed the removed judge's restrictions on reputation witnesses. He allowed an FBI behavioral expert to testify. He left the door open on the defense's motion to dismiss based on law enforcement losing the dashcam SD card. And the June 22nd trial date is holding.Criminal defe...
15m May 27
15m
Can Timothy Hudson's Defense Survive Anna Kepner's Cruise Ship Murder Trial?
How does a defense attorney build a case when the camera allegedly captured everything? Timothy Hudson is sixteen years old, charged as an adult with first-degree murder, facing life in federal prison. His trial was just pushed to September 8th. And he is reportedly on camera as the only person who entered and left that stateroom.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the behavioral an...
21m May 27
21m
Can Nancy Guthrie's Family Force an Outside Review of This Investigation?
Sheriff Nanos just survived a vote to remove him from the Nancy Guthrie investigation. His deputies voted unanimously they have no confidence in him. The Board of Supervisors referred perjury allegations to the attorney general. A recall effort faces a steep signature threshold. And a retired Pima County detective publicly stated he believes the suspect's name is already in the case files.Crimi...
22m May 27
22m
Where Will The Nancy Guthrie Break Finally Come From?
More than 100 days in, the Nancy Guthrie investigation is sitting on top of more evidence than the public realizes. Unknown contributor DNA recovered from inside her home. Thousands of hours of surveillance video already pulled. Vehicle sightings. Cellphone movement data. And a sheriff who keeps saying the case is "getting closer" without giving the public a clear sense of what that actually me...
55m May 26
55m
Why Did Every Member of Kouri Richins' Family Refuse to Talk to the PI?
Todd Gabler knocked on every door he could find. Over 34 years as a PI, he's conducted thousands of interviews. He talked to Eric's friends, Kouri's friends, business associates, family members — nearly 50 people in total. But when he reached out to Kouri's side of the family, every single one of them shut the door. Her mother. Her brother. Everyone connected to her. Not one conversation. That...
18m May 26
18m
Is The Nancy Guthrie Theory Pointing To A Crypto Crime Network?
There's a theory making the rounds in the Nancy Guthrie investigation that frames the case as something far bigger than a single suspect operating alone. The theory is the Wrench Attack — organized crypto-extortion networks that recruit disposable operatives, target wealthy individuals or their relatives, and demand cryptocurrency ransoms paid through channels designed to be untraceable. Tony ...
23m May 26
23m
What's Hiding In Thousands Of Nancy Guthrie Surveillance Tapes?
There are thousands of hours of video sitting in the Nancy Guthrie case file. Intersection cameras. Doorbells. Home security systems. Private business feeds across the Tucson area. Sheriff Chris Nanos has said it himself — "thousands and thousands" of clips. The question is what's in them. And whether anyone has the capacity to actually find it. Tony Brueski sits down with retired FBI Special ...
21m May 26
21m
Did Savannah Guthrie's Family Push Sheriff Nanos Out?
The FBI is now the only voice talking to Nancy Guthrie's family. Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed it himself. The man who was once texting Savannah Guthrie and calling her siblings directly has stepped out of those conversations entirely. Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to ask the question Sheriff Nanos isn't answering: how did this happen? Did the Guthries quietly cut him out? Did the F...
11m May 26
11m
How Did Alex Murdaugh End Up Being The One Investigating His Own Trial?
The state prosecutor who handled Becky Hill's criminal case said there wasn't enough evidence to charge her with jury tampering. Four months later, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that's exactly what she did. The state never treated her conduct as the constitutional violation the Supreme Court found it to be. It never followed the evidence wherever it led. So who's investiga...
30m May 26
30m
Can Kouri Richins Still Hurt Her Family From Behind Bars?
Before Kouri Richins was sentenced, a message she wrote from jail ended up in the prosecution's filing. She promised to "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly instructed her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Her own thirteen...
43m May 25
43m
How Does The FBI Read Nick Reiner's Behavior Behind Bars?
Retired FBI behavioral analysis chief Robin Dreeke has studied people who present one face to the world and allegedly operate from an entirely different place underneath. The behavioral picture emerging from inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility is the kind of contradiction his career was built to decode. Nick Reiner is reportedly described as almost childlike in custody — delusional, alleg...
43m May 25
43m
What Do D4VD's Alleged Grooming Patterns Reveal To The FBI?
 Retired FBI counterintelligence behavioral analysis chief Robin Dreeke has spent decades studying how people allegedly manipulate, isolate, and control. The alleged patterns prosecutors describe in the D4VD case are the kind he's trained to decode — and the behavioral questions extend far beyond the defendant. According to prosecutors, Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen when she was alleged...
46m May 25
46m
Why Did Both Sides Want The Kepner Trial Delayed?
The defense asked for the delay. The prosecution didn't object. That alignment is the detail worth examining in the Anna Kepner case — because both sides agreeing to slow down a trial eighteen days before jury selection tells you something about where the case actually stands. This defense team moved at unprecedented speed for a federal case carrying two life sentences. Waived the transfer hea...
40m May 25
40m
Did The Death Penalty Threat Just Hand Murdaugh's Defense Their Best Tool?
The Attorney General reportedly put the death penalty on the table for Alex Murdaugh's retrial. The defense might actually welcome it. A capital case automatically triggers individual voir dire — every potential juror screened one on one — which is exactly the process Harpootlian demanded at the press conference. The prosecution may have armed the defense with their strongest jury selection mec...
50m May 24
50m
Could Becky Hill's Deposition Blow The Murdaugh Case Wide Open?
The behavioral question at the center of the Becky Hill lawsuit isn't whether she tampered with the jury. The Supreme Court already answered that. The question is whether she did it alone — and whether the people around her knew. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke examine the federal civil rights claim Murdaugh's defense team filed against Hill....
41m May 24
41m
Why Did Kouri Richins Preach Forgiveness After Targeting Every Witness?
The behavioral contradiction at the center of the Kouri Richins sentencing is staggering. She stood at a podium and told her sons not to hold hate. Prosecutors say she spent the years leading up to that moment orchestrating attacks against every person connected to this case from inside her jail cell. The sentencing memo documents what prosecutors describe as a systematic campaign: a fake dati...
1hr 1m May 24
1hr 1m
Is Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Being Shaped By A Governor's Race?
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson reportedly said all options are on the table for Alex Murdaugh's retrial — including the death penalty. The death penalty was never pursued at trial one. Wilson is running for governor. Every candidate for attorney general has reportedly promised to retry Murdaugh. One allegedly said he'd do it in two weeks. When the prosecutor who controls the most s...
42m May 24
42m
Why Is Deport-And-Forget The Default For Crimes On Cruise Ships?
A mother on the Disney Magic watched her family's personal dining host get loaded into a white van in handcuffs — still in his blazer — forty-five minutes after he served them breakfast. For two weeks, the public assumed it was an immigration sweep. It was not. Operation Tidal Wave was a coordinated federal action. CBP and HSI boarded eight ships docked in San Diego and detained 27 crew member...
45m May 24
45m
Why Can't Kouri Richins Stop Controlling The Story Even Now?
The behavioral collision in that courtroom was devastating. Kouri Richins' children had their therapists read statements describing locked rooms, dead animals, a sibling sneaking food to a brother shut away in his bedroom, and a father erased from every milestone ahead. Every one of them asked the judge to keep her away forever. They said they feel safe for the first time. Kouri responded with...
1hr 15m May 23
1hr 15m
What Does Buster Murdaugh's Silence Actually Tell Us?
Buster Murdaugh spent the entire first trial projecting loyalty — sitting behind Alex every day, testifying that his father wasn't capable of killing Maggie and Paul. Then three years of near-total silence. Now that the South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the convictions and a retrial looms, the behavioral picture has shifted completely. Sources say Buster is reportedly furious, allegedly...
1hr 11m May 23
1hr 11m
Why Did Kouri Richins Ignore Everything Her Children Said?
The behavioral story in that courtroom wasn't just what Kouri Richins said — it was everything she didn't. Her three sons wrote impact statements and gave them to therapists to read because they cannot be in the same room with her. What they described is a childhood stripped to survival: one boy feeding his brother and walking him to the bus because no one else would. Another locked inside his...
1hr 20m May 23
1hr 20m
What Made Maggie Murdaugh Override Her Own Instincts?
Looking back at the Murdaugh case through the behavioral lens, because two separate conversations keep circling back to the same question — what was actually happening inside that family before June 7, 2021? Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly consulted a divorce attorney and was living apart from Alex. On the day of the killings, two witnesses testified she did not want to go to Moselle. She went ...
40m May 23
40m
Why Won't The System Stop Either Kouri Richins Or Becky Hill?
One convicted murderer is threatening people from a jail cell. Another convicted murderer is the only person using legal tools to investigate the court official who corrupted his trial. And in both cases, the system that's supposed to handle this isn't handling it. Eric Faddis spent years as a felony prosecutor and now defends people facing the same charges. He examines both the Kouri Richins ...
58m May 22
58m
Your Kids Aren’t Safe On A Cruise Ship: Here’s Why
The revolving door. The lobbying. The foreign flags. The NDAs. This final episode follows the money and names the machine that keeps the cruise industry insulated from accountability. A former FBI Deputy Director started at Royal Caribbean three days after retiring. A former Coast Guard officer joined the industry’s trade group. Over $70 million spent lobbying Congress since 1997. The CVSSA was...
24m May 22
24m
Was Becky Hill Really A Lone Wolf In The Murdaugh Jury Tampering?
Dick Harpootlian stood at a press conference podium and asked out loud whether Becky Hill acted alone. He didn't have to say it. He's been litigating high-profile cases for decades. When a defense attorney with that experience floats a question like that on day one of a federal lawsuit, it's not casual — it's a signal. Eric Faddis breaks down what Harpootlian is doing strategically and who the...
16m May 22
16m
Why Is Kouri Richins Still Threatening People After Getting Life?
"They picked the wrong one." That's what Kouri Richins wrote before she was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of her husband Eric. She told someone outside the jail she'd expose the county, the prosecution, the judge, and the entire Richins family. She said they "haven't seen anything yet." Then she stood in court, looked at her sons, and said "don't give up on me." Eric Faddis h...
28m May 22
28m