The man who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home prepared for weeks — and still made mistakes that could define the entire investigation. He surveilled the house. He masked his face. He brought a weapon and a backpack. But he dropped a glove, wore gear traceable to Walmart, and left behind DNA that just came back with zero matches in the national database. This is someone who planned but couldn't execute cleanly. Someone who crossed the line into serious violence for what appears to be the first time.In this episode of Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers and a thirty-year veteran of forensic mental health work — analyzes the psychology behind the crime itself. Not the evidence. The choices. What does it mean when someone capable of kidnapping an 84-year-old medically fragile woman has no criminal history in CODIS? What does the gap between surveillance-level preparation and Walmart-level execution tell us about his psychological state on the night of February 1st? And what is happening inside his mind right now — two and a half weeks in, with helicopters overhead, his face on wanted posters, and the FBI closing in on every piece of gear he touched?Scott breaks down the dueling theories — planned kidnapping versus burglary gone wrong — from a clinical standpoint and explains why the answer matters far beyond this case. She examines what the decision to target a vulnerable elderly woman reveals about empathy, risk processing, and the psychological threshold this person crossed when he separated Nancy from her pacemaker, her medication, and everything keeping her alive.This is criminal psychology grounded in confirmed facts, built to hold up no matter where the investigation goes.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #GuthrieSuspect #CriminalPsychology #TucsonKidnapping #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #CODISNoMatch #PimaCountyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two versions of the same family. One told to a judge. One allegedly lived by the girl who's now dead.On November 7th, 2025, Anna Kepner—an 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida—was found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Wrapped in blankets. Covered with life vests. Her death was ruled mechanical asphyxiation. Her 16-year-old stepbrother, who shared that cabin, is now the sole suspect.Under oath, Anna's stepmother described the three teenagers sharing that room as "best friends" and "the Three Amigos." But Anna's ex-boyfriend told reporters a different story: he claims the stepbrother was obsessed with her. He alleges that nine months before the cruise, the stepbrother climbed on top of Anna during a FaceTime call and ran when confronted.Custody hearings revealed the stepbrother had been in therapy for over a year. A travel advisor recommended separate rooms for the step-siblings. That recommendation was apparently overruled. On the night before Anna's body was found, her ex-boyfriend alleges the youngest sibling in that cabin was locked out—and heard yelling, chairs thrown, and the stepbrother screaming at Anna.The adults' cabin was directly across the hall. Shauntel Hudson testified she last saw the teens at 7:30pm. Nearly sixteen hours passed before anyone checked on Anna.This episode examines the psychological traps of blended families—the pressure to present harmony, the confirmation bias that filters out concerning behavior, and why children often suppress their own distress to avoid breaking the family narrative. People outside the household allegedly saw patterns. The custody-battling father raised alarms. The ex-boyfriend reported obsessive behavior. But the family sailed off on vacation anyway.The stepbrother appeared in sealed federal juvenile proceedings on February 6th, 2026. Anna's father confirmed he was arrested and released to a guardian. He told reporters he was "pissed off."Anna was supposed to graduate in May. She planned to join the Navy. She got a night no one checked on her until it was too late.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipDeath #BlendedFamilyDynamics #FBIHomicide #TrueCrime #CustodyHearing #RedFlags #CarnivalCruise #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit.The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution's case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly released early. FBI allegedly wanted evidence processed at Quantico; it was sent to a private Florida lab. Fifteen of sixteen gloves collected were reportedly contamination from the search team. Bob explains how each failure translates into courtroom strategy.The Anna Kepner case is sealed under federal juvenile protection laws. Anna, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon—ruled homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Her stepbrother appeared in federal court three months later and was released to guardian custody. Bob explains what sealed proceedings look like, why the FBI kept the case federal, and what custody proceeding filings have revealed about potential defense strategies.The Kouri Richins trial begins February 23rd. Prosecutors allege she poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. But the alleged supplier, Robert Crozier, recanted. No fentanyl was recovered from the home. The judge excluded evidence that Eric was allegedly abusive. Bob analyzes what the defense is working with—including how to handle devastating Google searches and the "Walk the Dog" letter.He also addresses the shadow cast by Kouri's mother Lisa Darden, whose romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006 shortly after naming her as beneficiary.This is the comprehensive defense perspective across three major cases.#NancyGuthrie #AnnaKepner #KouriRichins #DefenseAttorney #ThreeCases #LegalStrategy #CrimeSceneEvidence #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children's book about grief. Case closed, right?Not even close.As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keeps shifting. The prosecution's key witness—the man who allegedly supplied the fentanyl—now says he never sold fentanyl at all. He claims he was detoxing during his original police interview and doesn't remember what he said. No pills were ever recovered from the Richins home.But that's not the hidden layer that haunts this case.Kouri's defense tried to introduce evidence that Eric was abusive—that he'd given her a black eye. The judge excluded it. A domestic violence expert was barred from testifying. Whatever truth exists about their marriage, the jury won't hear that side.Then there's Kouri's mother, Lisa Darden. In 2006, Darden's romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose—shortly after naming Darden as her estate's beneficiary. The detective investigating Eric's death wrote that it's "possible" Darden was involved in planning Eric's death. She was present the night he died. No charges have been filed.This episode breaks down what's hidden beneath the headlines: the recanted witness, the excluded evidence, the mother's shadow, and the financial desperation that may have driven everything. We examine both the prosecution's architecture and the defense's grenades.Eight jurors will decide Kouri's fate. But they won't have the full picture—and neither will you unless you hear what got left out.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillers #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #LisaDarden #WitnessRecantation #UtahMurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #ExcludedEvidence #SummitCountyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt.Robert Crozier—the man prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper—recanted in October 2025. He now says he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, and was "detoxing" during his original statement. The judge still denied bail, but that recantation matters at trial.No fentanyl was ever recovered from the Richins home. The only physical evidence is what was in Eric's body. Everything linking Kouri to the drug is testimony—and the defense will attack that testimony's credibility.The judge excluded evidence that Eric was allegedly abusive and barred a domestic violence expert from testifying. Bob analyzes what that exclusion costs the defense and whether alternative strategies exist.Prosecutors will present Kouri's Google searches after Eric's death: "lethal dose of fentanyl," "luxury prisons for the rich," "permanently delete information from iPhone." Bob explores whether any defense framing can survive that evidence.The "Walk the Dog" letter allegedly found in Kouri's jail cell appears to contain witness tampering instructions. The defense says it's fiction from a manuscript she was writing. The judge partially admitted it.And there's a shadow: Lisa Darden, Kouri's mother. Her romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006 after naming Darden as beneficiary. A detective wrote it's "possible" she was involved in Eric's death.This is the defense playbook before trial begins.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #UtahTrial #RobertCrozier #DefenseStrategy #WitnessRecantation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

They're still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it.And you're not allowed to grieve them.Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th. But there was no funeral. No acknowledgment. Just a slow-motion vanishing where the person they loved was replaced by someone they couldn't reach — and they had to keep pretending nothing had changed.This is what psychologists call ambiguous loss. When someone is physically present but psychologically absent. It's one of the most difficult forms of grief because there's no closure. No ending. Just an infinite middle where you're suspended between hope and despair, never allowed to fully mourn because they might still come back.That word — might — is a torture device.The Reiners made Being Charlie with Nick in 2015. Press tours about recovery. Father and son healing through art. But Nick admitted later he wasn't sober during any of it. The whole redemption arc was a performance. And Rob and Michele were in the audience believing it was real.Every time you think they've come back, the grief reactivates. Every glimpse of who they used to be makes the absence sharper when it disappears. You keep attending the same funeral without ever being allowed to bury the body.There's no bereavement leave for losing someone to addiction. No cultural framework that says you're allowed to mourn someone who's technically still alive. Just silence and the expectation that you'll keep hoping, keep funding, keep showing up — while carrying a grief nobody can see.The Reiners lived in this grief for almost two decades. They mourned Nick long before they mourned each other.You're allowed to grieve someone who's still breathing. The person you loved existed. Their absence is real. And you don't need a death certificate to acknowledge what you've lost.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #TrueCrime #AmbiguousLoss #GrievingTheLiving #AddictionFamily #InvisibleGrief #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means.Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly a bar hold restraint. Her 16-year-old stepbrother appeared in federal court on February 6th, 2025, three months after her death. Everything since has been sealed under federal juvenile protection laws.Bob walks through what actually happens in these sealed proceedings—the courtroom dynamics, the restrictions on information, why federal law treats juvenile defendants differently than adults. He addresses the family's contradictory public statements and explains how little information typically reaches families during federal juvenile cases.The FBI kept this case federal instead of turning it over to state prosecutors. That decision tells us something about how the government assesses the severity. Bob breaks down the factors that influence that jurisdictional call.Text messages from custody proceedings revealed the suspect reportedly claims no memory of the night Anna died. Testimony indicated he had ADHD and was on insomnia medication he allegedly hadn't taken for two nights on the cruise. Bob analyzes whether either factor could support a defense strategy—and the complications that arise.The family dynamic is extraordinary: the suspect's biological mother and the victim's father are married. They've jointly called for accountability. That creates unprecedented complications for defense and prosecution alike.This is what we know, what we can infer, and what comes next.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #SealedCase #FederalJuvenileCourt #CruiseShipDeath #MechanicalAsphyxiation #JuvenileDefense #LegalAnalysis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, the evidence the nation was banking on just came back empty. DNA recovered from a black glove found two miles from Nancy's home produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI's national database of over 26 million offender profiles. But the bigger problem isn't the miss — it's the fact that this glove was never the evidence everyone pretended it was.A generic disposable glove found on a desert roadside, visually compared to grainy black-and-white Nest camera footage, elevated to the centerpiece of a national investigation. And now we know the DNA on the glove doesn't even match the DNA found inside Nancy's home. Two separate unknown male profiles. Two dead ends. Meanwhile, the evidence Sheriff Chris Nanos himself says is more critical — biological material recovered from inside the residence — still hasn't been fully processed for database submission.The Pima County Sheriff's Department confirmed investigators are now pursuing genetic genealogy, the same technique that cracked the Bryan Kohberger case. But genealogy takes weeks, sometimes months. For an 84-year-old woman who requires daily medication and has a pacemaker, that timeline is a luxury she may not have.While the glove dominated headlines, a far more significant development went largely unnoticed. A Tucson gun store owner revealed that FBI agents visited his shop with printed pages showing 18 to 24 individuals — photographs and names — asking him to check firearm purchase records. The agent's list featured men with similar physical characteristics matching the suspect profile from the doorbell footage. Yet on Tuesday, Sheriff Nanos publicly denied that investigators have narrowed the suspect pool. The contradiction between what's happening on the ground and what's being said at press conferences tells its own story.Perhaps the most troubling revelation: investigators are only now asking Google to attempt recovery of footage from additional cameras on Nancy's property. The front door camera was recovered from backend systems within the first two weeks. A driveway angle showing a vehicle could change this case overnight. That request should have been made before dawn on February 1st, not discussed publicly as a hopeful possibility on day 18. Parsons Corporation has confirmed its BlueFly sensor technology has been scanning for Nancy's pacemaker signal since February 3rd — by air, by ground, on foot — with no results. Forty to fifty thousand tips. Multiple warrants. Zero arrests. The effort is there. Whether the urgency has matched the moment is a different question entirely.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #TucsonKidnapping #PimaCountySheriff #GeneticGenealogy #FBIInvestigation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance—but defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution's case may already be damaged.The Pima County Sheriff's Office reportedly released the crime scene early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood droplets on the porch before it was re-secured. Evidence that the FBI allegedly wanted processed at Quantico was sent to a private Florida lab instead. And of the sixteen gloves collected near the home, fifteen were reportedly contamination from the search team itself.These aren't minor procedural issues. They're the foundation of a defense strategy that could create reasonable doubt before opening statements conclude.Bob Motta walks us through how he would attack this case from the defense table. The jurisdictional fight over evidence handling. The contaminated evidence field. The early crime scene release. Each vulnerability represents a line of attack that any competent defense attorney will exploit.We also examine the Derrick Callella situation—charged with transmitting fake ransom demands after allegedly "trying to see if the family would respond." The Friday SWAT operation that detained four people, including a confirmed person of interest, only to release everyone by Saturday morning. And the heartbreaking medical reality that 84-year-old Nancy reportedly needs daily heart medication she hasn't had for over two weeks.Inside sources are reportedly telling media this looks like a burglary gone wrong rather than planned kidnapping. That theory changes everything about charging decisions and legal exposure.When an arrest finally comes, this interview will be essential viewing.#NancyGuthrie #GuthrieCase #DefenseStrategy #CrimeSceneErrors #PimaCountySheriff #FBIQuantico #KidnappingCase #TrueCrimeAnalysis #LegalBreakdown #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong.He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going to kill his wife and daughter. He made someone put a bulletproof vest on his wife. A local attorney warned the judge directly that Stines was "losing it." The police chief said he'd lost his mind.Three days before the shooting, Stines sat for a deposition in a federal lawsuit tied to allegations of sexual exploitation inside the judge's chambers. According to everyone in the room, he was a mess — taking ten breaks, unable to answer basic questions, at one point saying "I'm having an episode."Friends brought him to a doctor the day before. The diagnosis was acute stress. He was sent home. Twenty-four hours later, Kevin Mullins was dead.Today we examine this case through a psychological lens. Not to excuse what happened — nine bullets, seven fired while the judge was already on the ground — but to understand what was happening inside Mickey Stines' head. The defense claims he was in psychosis, that he believed his family was in imminent danger, that he lacked the capacity to intend what he did. The court will decide if that's valid. But the harder question might be this: when everyone can see someone falling apart, whose job is it to stop them?#MickeyStines #KevinMullins #LetcherCounty #KentuckySheriff #CourthouseShooting #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #MentalHealthCrisis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeNewsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed. Nancy's predictable routine and employed staff created multiple intelligence access points. Inside the investigation, the sheriff contradicted himself on crime scene handling, searchers contaminated the evidence field, DNA was routed away from Quantico over FBI objections, and investigators told reporters they can't identify a command structure. A male DNA profile from a matching glove is entering CODIS. Cell towers and Walmart records are being analyzed. But through fifteen days, two missed deadlines, and a family publicly offering to pay — no proof of life, no direct contact, no arrest. This interview covers every dimension of the case and asks the hardest questions.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #SheriffNanos #CODIS #FBIInvestigation #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonKidnapping #RobinDreekeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no.Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars, delivering instead the maximum sentence available under the plea agreement."You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done," Azcarate told Magalhães. "May it weigh heavily on your soul."The judge called this "the most serious manslaughter scenario this court has ever seen" and systematically dismantled any notion that Juliana was merely a passive participant in Brendan Banfield's scheme. She detailed how Juliana spent weeks messaging Joe Ryan, knowing she was luring him to his death. How she waited nearby and alerted Banfield when Ryan arrived. How she hung up when Christine Banfield begged her to call 911. And how she walked up to Joe Ryan as he lay moaning on the floor and shot him point blank in the heart."At any point for at least the month prior — or that day — you could have stopped this. The plan did not work without your full involvement."Joe Ryan's mother delivered a devastating victim impact statement, revealing she still hasn't taken down her Christmas tree since her son's murder — it stands behind the urn holding his ashes. "My son's life was used and thrown away, seen as worthless and utterly disposable."This episode features full analysis of the sentencing hearing, the judge's ruling, and what this means for cooperating witnesses in future cases.#JulianaMagalhaes #BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrime #Sentencing #JudgeAzcarate #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The DNA from a glove matching the suspect's is going into CODIS. The FBI's cell tower team is mapping every phone near Nancy's home during the critical windows. Walmart records are being cross-referenced. Cheek swabs from people of interest already exist. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through every active thread that could produce a name — and confronts what the ransom silence actually means. The first note to KOLD reportedly contained details only someone with inside knowledge would have. But every demand since has gone to media outlets. Two deadlines passed. The family offered to pay. No one collected. No proof of life in fifteen days. Pacemaker helicopters have found no signal in eleven days of searching. This interview asks the question the audience needs answered — what breaks this case and what does the silence tell us?#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #NancyGuthrieMissing #RansomNote #FBISearch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen rehab stints. Millions of dollars. A guesthouse on the property. A movie made together about healing. Rob and Michele Reiner gave Nick everything for seventeen years.They never walked away. And they're dead.This episode isn't about blame — what happened is the responsibility of one person alone. But it's about a question that haunts everyone who's ever loved someone dangerous: when does staying become its own form of destruction?We're taught that love means presence. That walking away is abandonment. That good people don't give up. But "unconditional love" got twisted somewhere into "unconditional proximity." They're not the same thing. You can love someone from a distance. You can love someone you'll never see again. You can love someone and still refuse to let them take you down with them.Nick reportedly told his parents that refusing their treatment plans meant homelessness. That was the line. But it never held. Every consequence dissolved. Every ultimatum evaporated. Some people never hit bottom because someone's always there to catch them — and your outstretched hands become the floor preventing the fall that might actually save them.The trap has three parts. Guilt weaponization: your departure becomes the cause of their destruction. Sunk cost: you've invested too much to walk away now. The final save fantasy: what if you leave right when they were finally ready?Rob Reiner brought Nick to a Christmas party because he was reportedly afraid to leave him home alone. A seventy-seven-year-old man couldn't attend a holiday event without his thirty-two-year-old son in tow. That's not supervision. That's hostage behavior.You're allowed to stop. Walking away isn't betrayal — it's the recognition that your presence isn't saving anyone. The Reiners stayed until there was nowhere left to stand.You don't have to.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #TrueCrime #Enabling #WalkingAway #AddictionFamily #Codependency #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told reporters they don't know who's in charge. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through fifteen days of contradictions and command failures in the Nancy Guthrie investigation — from the premature crime scene release and re-securing, to pool cleaners on an active scene, to a pacemaker helicopter delayed by a personal grudge, to DNA routed away from Quantico to a private Florida lab the FBI says it will likely need to retest. NewsNation's FBI source put it plainly: "This is dumb." This interview asks when the pattern crosses from friction into something that's costing Nancy Guthrie her life.#NancyGuthrie #SheriffNanos #PimaCountySheriff #NancyGuthrieMissing #FBIvsNanos #Othram #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InvestigationFailures #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

One glove. Unknown male DNA. And an investigation that just shifted beneath the surface.Sixteen days after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI confirmed that a glove found two miles away contains a DNA profile matching the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell footage. That profile is headed to CODIS — but there's no guarantee it returns a name. If the suspect has never been arrested and swabbed, the database returns nothing, and investigators are left with forensic genealogy timelines Nancy may not survive.The evidence handling has been a disaster. Federal sources say Sheriff Nanos blocked the FBI from processing the glove at Quantico. Nanos denies it. The forensic genealogy company Othram called the decision devastating. On Monday, the sheriff's department quietly redirected all evidence questions to the FBI.A CBS 5 reporter says an inside source believes this was a burglary gone wrong. Both agencies denied it. But Robin Dreeke has been reading amateur behavioral markers in the footage on this show for two weeks. Jeff Bennett raised the burglary theory on Day 4 of our coverage. The behavioral evidence was already there.Trump threatened the death penalty Monday. The family has been saying it's never too late to come forward. Those two messages cannot coexist.Helicopters are scanning the desert with signal sniffers trying to detect Nancy's pacemaker. It went silent at 2:28 AM on February 1st and hasn't reconnected. The family has been officially cleared. And the entire case may now ride on whether a glove on a roadside holds enough to identify the person who wore it.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #SheriffNanos #RobinDreeke #BurglaryTheory #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI asked Nancy Guthrie's neighbors for footage from two narrow windows — January 11th from 9 p.m. to midnight and January 31st from 9:30 to 11 a.m. — three weeks and hours before she was taken. That specificity tells you investigators already have digital evidence pointing to those moments. A retired FBI behavioral expert examines what those date-targeted requests reveal, what the suspect's exposed mistakes say about who they're looking for, and why Nancy's predictable weekly routine may be the key to understanding how this suspect gathered the intelligence he clearly had.Nancy employed a landscaper, pool crew, housekeeper, and regularly used Uber — all interviewed and DNA-swabbed. A January 23rd Ring video from a home six and a half miles away shows a man with facial hair that law enforcement is reviewing as a potential lead. The doorbell footage shows a suspect who knew enough to target the right house at the right time — but showed up with the wrong holster, cheap gear, no camera cover, and visible facial hair beneath his mask. Fifteen days in, no vehicle has been identified. This interview digs into the behavioral profile, the intelligence question, and what exposed identifying features mean for how quickly this case could break.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DoorbbellCamera #RobinDreekeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

We gave Robin Dreeke the entire Nancy Guthrie case and asked him to break down what no one else is covering.Three parts. Three angles.The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from amateur analysts who think watching videos makes them investigators. What mass observation does to a case — to the family, to witnesses, to the perpetrator watching themselves get dissected.The Architecture of Vanishing: How someone disappears in 2026 when cameras are everywhere and digital footprints track everything. The blind spots in surveillance we trust. What this case reveals about the security we assume we have.The People Who Don't Call: The witness who could break this case and hasn't picked up the phone. Why people stay silent. What finally makes them talk. A direct message to whoever out there knows something.Dreeke spent twenty-one years as an FBI Special Agent and served as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. This is the interview that changes how you see everything about this case.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIExpert #FullInterview #SavannahGuthrie #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #WitnessPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The most in-depth analysis of the Nancy Guthrie case anywhere. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for an exclusive interview breaking down everything we know about the investigation.She analyzes the doorbell video frame by frame — what the suspect's equipment, movement, and improvisation reveal about who they are. She goes inside the manhunt — how the FBI processes eighteen thousand tips, why suspects get detained and released, what the evidence trail looks like. She profiles the criminal operation — what the target selection, logistics, and ransom communication pattern reveal about whoever did this.Twelve days since Nancy Guthrie vanished. No suspect. No arrest. Her family has publicly offered to pay. Coffindaffer spent twenty-two years at the FBI taking down violent criminals. She knows how these cases work — and where they stall. This is the breakdown you haven't heard anywhere else.#NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #FBIBreakdown #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #TrueCrimePodcast #Manhunt #MissingPerson #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Five weeks of trial. Less than five hours of deliberation. Guilty on all counts.Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of murdering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia in their Colts Neck home in November 2018. The jury found him guilty on fifteen charges including four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated arson.The first thing jurors asked for after beginning deliberations was the surveillance footage of Caneiro's Porsche leaving his house and returning on the morning of the murders. Then they asked for the knife used to stab eight-year-old Sophia at least seventeen times. Hours later, they had their verdict.The forensic evidence was insurmountable. Both children's DNA on jeans hidden in Caneiro's basement. Ballistics matching the murder weapon to his home. His own cameras showing him shutting off surveillance at 1:27 AM. Recorded audio of Keith demanding to know where the missing money went — the day before he was killed.The defense blamed a third brother who was never charged. They introduced a two-person conspiracy theory in closing arguments that was never supported by evidence. The jury rejected all of it.Caneiro faces life without parole at his May 12 sentencing. After seven years, the Caneiro family finally has justice.#PaulCaneiro #CaneiroGuilty #ColtsNeckMansion #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #MansionMurders #NewJersey #KeithCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #QuadrupleMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Over eighteen thousand tips. A suspect detained and released. A glove found in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel posting evidence from his personal account. Neighbors asked about trucks while the sheriff says no vehicle of interest exists.On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes us inside the machinery of the Nancy Guthrie manhunt.She explains how the FBI actually processes thousands of tips — who answers the phones, how leads are prioritized, what gets followed up immediately versus what sits in a queue. She breaks down the Carlos Palazuelos situation: detained because his eyes resembled the masked suspect, questioned for hours, home searched under warrant, then released. What does that tell us about where investigators actually stand?Coffindaffer walks through the evidentiary process for the black glove recovered 1.5 miles from Nancy's home and what happens if DNA matches the suspect's profile. She explains why the week-long silence from the sheriff's department is either strategic or concerning. And she addresses the white tent that appeared at Nancy's front door for ninety minutes — then vanished without explanation.Nancy Guthrie has been missing for twelve days. The investigation is massive. But is it making progress?#NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #FBITips #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonArizona #Manhunt #KidnappingInvestigation #TrueCrimePodcast #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

"I'm petrified of Nick. I think my own son can hurt me."Rob Reiner said that out loud. At a party. Hours before he was killed.This episode isn't about what Nick Reiner allegedly did. It's about the people left behind who saw something coming and couldn't stop it. The specific, isolating guilt of foresight that fails to save anyone.Rob knew. He said it in front of witnesses. Danny Spilar, who roomed with Nick in rehab at fifteen, said he knew immediately who killed the Reiners the moment he heard the news. Multiple people close to the family had the same reaction. The danger wasn't hidden. It was discussed openly, documented over years, visible to everyone paying attention.And it didn't matter.We believe awareness is protection. That seeing danger clearly means we can prevent it. But seeing the train doesn't stop the train — especially when you're standing on the tracks because you love the person driving it.Rob Reiner spent forty years directing films. He understood narrative structure, how stories build toward inevitable endings. He saw exactly where this one was heading. Knowing didn't give him a rewrite. It just meant he watched it coming in slow motion.This is for everyone who's loved someone dangerous enough to see them clearly. Who warned people and watched them do nothing. Who stayed because leaving felt like abandonment. Who carries "I knew" like a confession instead of what it actually is — evidence you cared enough to pay attention when anyone else would have looked away.The person who didn't see it coming grieves cleanly. You grieve while drowning in "I should have." That's not justice. That's just cruelty.Your knowledge was not consent. Your inability to stop it was not permission. You didn't fail. You loved someone through an impossible situation.Put down the guilt. You've carried it long enough.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #TrueCrime #GuiltOfKnowing #SurvivorGuilt #AddictionFamily #LovingSomeoneDangerous #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — six photos and three videos from her doorbell camera showing a masked, armed individual approaching her home the morning she disappeared.On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers an exclusive tactical analysis of what the footage actually reveals. Not behavioral guessing — tactical breakdown. The loadout choices. The movement. The improvisation. The deliberate camera avoidance. What separates a trained operator from an amateur pretending to be one.Coffindaffer explains the eleven-day process of recovering video from Google's backend systems when the physical camera had been wiped. She breaks down the significance of authorities now requesting neighborhood footage from January 11 — three weeks before Nancy vanished. And she explains how FBI image analysts identified the backpack as an Ozark Trail Hiker Pack from Walmart using grainy black-and-white footage.Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four years old, has been missing for twelve days. Her daughter Savannah Guthrie has pleaded publicly for her return. The video is the biggest lead so far. What is it actually telling investigators?#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #FBIFootage #JenniferCoffindaffer #TucsonArizona #KidnappingCase #DoorballCamera #TrueCrimePodcast #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The biggest show of force in two weeks—and it produced nothing.Friday night: SWAT raid two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. Three detained. A "person of interest" questioned at a Culver's parking lot. His Range Rover searched and towed.Saturday morning: Everyone released. No arrests. Sheriff Nanos confirming "no sign of Nancy was found."Then Nanos told the New York Times finding her could take "years."An 84-year-old woman who needs daily heart medication. Missing for sixteen days. And the sheriff is measuring his timeline in years.This episode exposes the dysfunction: FBI and sheriff fighting over which lab processes DNA evidence. Sixteen gloves collected—fifteen discarded by the searchers themselves. The one glove that matters now entering CODIS.Inside sources say burglary gone wrong. The FBI says "myriad of theories." Nobody's on the same page.And Savannah Guthrie, speaking directly to whoever has her mother: "You're not lost or alone. It's never too late to do the right thing."That's an off-ramp for someone in over their head. The question is whether anyone's listening.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #MissingMom #TrueCrime #FBI #SWATRaid #CODIS #DNAEvidence #SheriffNanos #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The South Carolina Supreme Court just held oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal—and it did not go well for the prosecution.On February 11, 2026, all five justices heard arguments on whether Murdaugh deserves a new trial for the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul. What unfolded was a masterclass in appellate pressure. Chief Justice John Kittredge didn't mince words, calling former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill a "rogue clerk" and questioning how a court official could attempt to influence a verdict for personal gain. He pressed prosecutor Creighton Waters on why the state allowed "everything under the sun" when it came to financial crimes evidence, calling the scope "arguably problematic."Justice George James admitted he was "struggling with the logical connection" between Murdaugh's financial misdeeds and the murders. Justice Letitia Verdin pushed on the limits of motive evidence. And in one memorable moment, Waters tried to invoke the movie "Fargo" to explain Murdaugh's desperation—only for Justice John Few to cut him off: "I haven't seen 'Fargo'—get to the point."Defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian, Jim Griffin, and Phillip Barber argued that Hill's comments to jurors—telling them to "watch his body language" and not be "fooled"—violated Murdaugh's constitutional right to a fair trial. They also challenged the admissibility of cell phone data, a blue raincoat with gunshot residue never tied to Murdaugh, and the sheer volume of financial crimes testimony.The prosecution maintained the evidence was "overwhelming" and Hill's remarks were "fleeting." But the justices weren't buying it—at least not easily.There's no timeline for a decision. But after this hearing, the path forward for either side is anything but certain. This episode breaks down everything that happened in that courtroom—and what it means for Murdaugh's future.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughTrial #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #DickHarpootlian #CreightonWaters #MurdaughAppeal #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #HiddenKillers

Federal sources say Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — a glove found inside the home and DNA samples routed to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. An FBI source called the decision "dumb" and "insane." Nanos says it's "not even close to the truth." The FBI hasn't backed his account.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks it all down. The operational difference between Quantico and a contracted lab. What it means when a federal official publicly torches a local sheriff's evidence handling in a kidnapping case. Whether the FBI can force the issue or if they're stuck working under an agency they've accused of blocking access. And the jurisdictional reality — Pima County holds primary authority, and the bureau can only take over under narrow circumstances.Coffindaffer also reads the FBI's latest moves — the updated suspect description from doorbell footage forensics, the thirteen thousand tips, and a surveillance footage request going back to January 1st that suggests investigators believe the suspect may have been watching Nancy's home for weeks. Plus the question no one wants to ask on Day 13: after a contaminated crime scene and evidence the FBI can't touch, what can still be proven?#NancyGuthrie #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #ChrisNanos #SavannahGuthrie #PimaCounty #Kidnapping #TrueCrime #Tucson #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The man on the porch is on camera. The question is whether the planning profile matches what you're looking at.Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was built on understanding the dynamic between the person who directs an operation and the person who executes it. He knows what it looks like when someone acts independently and what it looks like when someone was sent with partial instructions.The footage shows an individual who followed a forensic checklist — mask, gloves, full skin coverage. But he didn't know there was a camera on the front door. His solution was a plant from the garden. We asked Dreeke what that gap reveals about the planning behind this operation. We asked what the sophistication of the operation itself — target selection, camera removal, silent extraction of an 84-year-old who can't walk fifty yards — tells us about whoever planned it, and whether that planning profile matches the person improvising with prairie brush.We asked about the 41-minute timeline gap and what it suggests about coordination during execution. And we asked the question that matters most: when they identify this man, what should investigators and the public watch for to know whether the trail ends with him or leads somewhere else?Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta then breaks down the ransom chaos — multiple notes sent to media outlets, a confirmed imposter already arrested, a family offering six million in Bitcoin, and a president publicly signaling that an arrest may be coming. Motta explains why the ransom landscape is now so contaminated that separating the real from the fake may be nearly impossible. He dissects the FBI's reward language — "and/or the arrest and conviction" — and what it signals about how the bureau views this case.The family says they will pay. The FBI says the decision is theirs. Total silence from the other side.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #SurveillanceVideo #BobMotta #NestCamera #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The family says they received a message. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. The sheriff said the footage was gone forever. Then it appeared.We asked Robin Dreeke to read every public voice in this case and tell us who's being straight. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining when communications are authentic, when they're managed, and when silence is the most important signal.We asked him to assess the family's four escalating videos and what the pattern reveals about what they believe is happening versus what's being communicated behind the scenes. We asked about the ransom notes — sent to media outlets, not the family, containing insider details but no proof of life and no way to respond. We asked whether the sheriff's complete reversal on the footage fits a genuine error or deliberate information management. We asked what the FBI releasing evidence through the director's personal X account with no press briefing tells us about their posture.And we asked about the silence after the ransom deadline. No follow-through. No proof of life. No verified contact. We asked Dreeke what that absence reveals about the reality of this situation.Both deadlines have passed. The Bitcoin wallet sits at zero. One ransom demand was already confirmed as a fraud — Derrick Callella of California admitted he sent fake texts just to see if they'd respond. He's been charged federally with no connection to the disappearance.The search radius is not expanding. Septic tank searches. Manholes behind the property. A vehicle towed from the garage. Hours inside the home of Nancy's daughter Annie. No suspects have been named and all individuals are presumed innocent. But the physical footprint tells its own story.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #DeceptionDetection #RansomNotes #FBIAnalysis #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #NarrativeControl #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The DHS warning about Kouri Richins isn't just about her case. It's about what we're missing.America's autopsy rate has collapsed to 8.5%, with natural-looking deaths autopsied just 4.3% of the time. Death certificates are wrong roughly a third of the time. The January 2026 Department of Homeland Security bulletin documented seventeen spousal poisoning cases since 2014 with at least eleven deaths — substances like cyanide, antifreeze, fentanyl, and common eye drops all chosen because they mimic natural illness. DHS specifically cited Richins' upcoming trial as part of this accelerating national pattern.This episode examines three convicted spousal poisoners — James Craig, Lana Clayton, and Stacey Castor — who each nearly escaped detection, and connects their cases to the Richins trial and the systemic failures that let poisoners walk free. The system didn't catch any of them. A person did every time.Richins is charged with aggravated murder in the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric in Kamas, Utah. Prosecutors allege she spiked his cocktail with five times the lethal amount after a failed attempt on Valentine's Day two weeks earlier. The alleged motive: her realty company owed at least $1.8 million while Eric's estate was worth roughly $5 million.The defense says publicity has poisoned the jury pool beyond repair. Judge Richard Mrazik disagreed, denying their second venue change motion after prosecutors pointed to 830 potential jurors who hadn't heard of the case or hadn't followed it. What makes this case so well-known isn't media coverage — it's the allegations themselves. A children's book about grief. A six-page jailhouse letter allegedly laying out fabricated testimony. A drug source who now says under oath he never sold fentanyl at all.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Trial begins February 23rd.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillers #SpousalPoisoning #DHSWarning #AutopsyCrisis #JamesCraig #LanaClayton #StaceyCastor #EricRichins #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera — six photos and three video clips showing a masked individual at her front door the morning she disappeared. He covered his face. He covered his hands. He covered nearly every inch of skin. Then he reached the front door, found a camera, turned around, and grabbed a plant from the garden to cover the lens.We brought that footage to Robin Dreeke — former FBI Special Agent and chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was built on reading people under pressure and predicting what they'll do based on how they move, react, and make decisions when the stakes are highest.Dreeke applies his behavioral framework to that sequence. What do the transition speeds reveal about stress and decision-making? What does the gap between forensic concealment and improvised camera defeat indicate about the person you're looking at? What does a penlight in the mouth instead of a headlamp tell a behavioral analyst? What do reflective jacket elements in a pitch-black community mean?The operation itself required a different level than what this footage shows. A specific target in a dark-sky community with no streetlights. An 84-year-old woman who can't walk fifty yards taken without a trace. Cameras disabled and physically removed. A 41-minute window of precision execution.The FBI released this footage without a timestamp despite a known timeline. The footage was supposed to be gone forever — no subscription, no retained video. It surfaces from residual backend data. Released by Director Patel personally on X with no press briefing. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker publicly questioned whether this is even a kidnapping.When they identify the man on that porch — and they will — pay attention. Watch whether the trail stops with him or leads somewhere else.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #SurveillanceFootage #NestCamera #TucsonKidnapping #BehavioralPrediction #MaskedSuspect #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Newly released text messages between the parents of Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother reveal what they were really focused on in the hours after her body was found — and it wasn't grief.According to court filings in an ongoing custody battle, the suspect's mother texted that her son "just keeps repeating over and over he can't remember anything." The messages show discussions about keeping things quiet, damage control efforts while an eighteen-year-old girl lay dead. A former sheriff's detective who reviewed the texts said the family ran their own PR department. Both of the suspect's parents have acknowledged in court documents that he is a suspect in the FBI investigation.Anna Kepner was found on November 7th, 2025, stuffed under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship, wrapped in a blanket and covered with life vests. Her death has been ruled a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Three months later, her stepbrother appeared at Miami's James Lawrence King Federal Justice Centre facing multiple federal charges. Anna's father told the Daily Mail he was "unable to confirm or deny" that the charges include murder and rape — directly contradicting preliminary November findings indicating no signs of sexual assault.Behavioral evidence has taken on new weight in light of the potential charges. Court documents reference allegations of obsession, prior physical incidents in the home, and skipped medication on the cruise. Anna's ex-boyfriend's father has stated she was scared of her stepbrother. Her family has publicly accused the suspect's father of interfering with the investigation. Subpoenas have targeted Temple Christian School and Florida DCF.Anna wanted to join the Navy. She went on a family vacation and never came home. Prosecutors reportedly intend to seek adult charges. If granted, the sealed records open.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #HiddenKillers #CruiseShipMurder #FamilyTexts #FBI #JusticeForAnna #HomicideInvestigation #CarnivalCruise #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or speed. It's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention.This episode is an evergreen examination of how predators operate before they strike — the surveillance phase most people never see, the target selection process that runs on cold risk-benefit analysis, and the insider threat pattern documented across hundreds of FBI cases. We walk through the TEDD framework the U.S. government uses to teach surveillance detection and break down the environmental tells and behavioral cues that precede targeted abductions.The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie provides a real-time case study. The timeline released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office reveals operational precision: doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM, a second camera detecting a person with no saved video at 2:12 AM, pacemaker app losing connection at 2:28 AM. Every security system at the property was systematically neutralized. The floodlight was destroyed. The doorbell camera was physically removed. Blood confirmed as Nancy's DNA was found on the front porch. All belongings remained inside.Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke applies his experience as former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program to the forensic questions shaping this investigation. What does the evidence pattern reveal about who committed this crime? What does the systematic targeting of every camera suggest about the perpetrator's knowledge of the property? What does the septic tank search signal about where investigators believe this case is headed?The scene was released after one day. Investigators returned four more times. A rooftop camera was missed for five days. Chain-of-custody breaks from the first week may define whether this case can ever be prosecuted.#NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #AttackCycle #RobinDreeke #FBI #SurveillanceDetection #TargetSelection #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrime #InsiderThreatJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case were supposed to be the roadmap. Three identical letters demanding six million dollars in Bitcoin. Grammatically perfect, according to Harvey Levin. Intimate knowledge of Nancy's home. Non-public details about her Apple Watch location, a destroyed floodlight, what she was wearing when she vanished. The FBI took them seriously. But these notes have become the case's central contradiction.Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, analyzed the behavioral profile of this communication. No phone number. No email. No encrypted channel. No way for the family to respond at all. The Monday deadline passed. Six million dollars demanded to no one.The family's posture shifted from demanding proof of life to "we will pay" — with no indication proof was ever provided. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe confirmed the Saturday video was FBI-crafted. CNN's Josh Campbell reported the public plea means there is no private line of communication with anyone claiming to hold Nancy. A second message arrived Friday from a different IP. No demands. No proof of life. KOLD won't even call it a ransom note.Dreeke breaks down what legitimate ransom communication looks like, why this case deviates from every known pattern, and what the behavioral profile suggests about who wrote these letters and why. Meanwhile, Fox Flight Team footage captured deputies probing a septic tank Sunday morning. Saturday night, three hours of forensic photography inside Annie Guthrie's home. Jennifer Coffindaffer called it "evidence extraction."Nancy's pacemaker disconnected February first. She has been without medication since. The official line says no suspects. The ground investigation says something else entirely.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBI #RansomNote #HiddenKillers #SavannahGuthrie #BitcoinRansom #BehavioralAnalysis #TucsonArizona #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob Reiner stood at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party reportedly telling friends his son could hurt him. He went home anyway. Hours later, he and Michele were dead. This episode doesn't ask why Nick Reiner allegedly killed his parents. It asks why they stayed.Eighteen rehab facilities. Sixty thousand dollars a month. Fifteen years of trying. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything addiction experts told them to do — until they stopped. When counselors warned that Nick was manipulating them, they initially complied. Then came a reversal that cost them everything. By 2015, both parents publicly apologized for trusting professionals over their son. They rebuilt reality around Nick being the victim.This is a clinical examination of how narcissistic manipulation and addiction hijack family systems. The morning threat assessments before coffee. The social isolation that happens so gradually you don't notice until everyone's gone. The psychological inversion where you raise legitimate safety concerns and end up apologizing for being unsupportive. Michele Reiner described exactly this pattern publicly. She and Rob came to believe the experts analyzing their son were the problem.We walk through the decision architecture that kept them in danger. The schizophrenia diagnosis that added another layer of complexity. Seventy thousand monthly for psychiatric care. Nick in the guesthouse a hundred feet away. A party full of people who reportedly saw what was coming while his parents saw a bad night, not a breaking point.This episode is essential for understanding how good people with unlimited resources and genuine love can be systematically disabled from protecting themselves. The manipulation mechanics are predictable. The outcomes don't have to be.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #HiddenKillers #NarcissisticControl #AddictionManipulation #TrueCrimePodcast #ReinerCase #PsychologicalAbuse #FamilyAnnihilationJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The affidavit is public. The autopsy reports are released. And the Michael McKee case just became one of the most forensically and psychologically layered murder prosecutions in Ohio. Spencer Tepe was shot seven times. Monique Tepe was shot nine times. Both had defensive wounds on their hands and arms — they were awake, aware, and fighting when they were killed in their bedroom while their children slept feet away. A full magazine emptied into two people. The violence stayed contained to one room but was explosive enough to exhaust every round. Forensic psychologists recognize that pattern. It's controlled rage — the kind associated with what experts call a "grievance collector," someone who catalogs perceived slights over years until action becomes inevitable. The affidavit supports that profile. Surveillance footage places McKee in the Tepe yard while Spencer and Monique were at the Big Ten Championship game, days before the murders. Witnesses describe threats stretching back through and beyond McKee's marriage to Monique. He allegedly told her he could "kill her at any time" and that she "will always be his wife." Stolen license plates were linked to his vehicle. A silver SUV with a distinctive sticker was tracked between McKee's address, his workplace, and the Tepe home. After arrest, fresh scrape marks appeared where the sticker had been — evidence prosecutors will frame as post-offense tampering. McKee's phone went silent from December 29th through the afternoon of December 30th, covering the estimated time of the murders at 3:50 a.m. The firearm specifications are charged in the alternative — automatic weapon or silencer-equipped firearm — a prosecutorial hedge that defense attorney Eric Faddis says reveals something about the investigation's current limits. McKee was a vascular surgeon licensed in four states. A decade of medical training. A professional who held lives in his hands daily. And according to prosecutors, a man who allegedly spent eight years building toward the night he emptied a magazine into his ex-wife and her husband. Faddis breaks down how prosecutors use historical threat evidence, where digital silence arguments hold up and where they fracture, how alternative firearm charges affect sentencing strategy, and what McKee's not-guilty plea with reserved bond arguments tells us about the defense approach. The autopsy reveals how they died. The affidavit reveals the alleged architecture behind it.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TepeAutopsy #McKeeAffidavit #LibertyTownship #ForensicPsychology #DomesticViolence #HiddenKillers #AggravatedMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Federal agents arrived at the home of Annie Guthrie and Tommaso Cioni with forensic extraction equipment. They were the last people to see Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, before she was taken from her Tucson residence. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence at the scene, and ransom notes demanding bitcoin — routed to media outlets rather than the family. The sheriff says no one is a suspect. No persons of interest have been named. More than a hundred investigators are assigned to the case. But the behavioral and legal landscape is far more complex than those statements suggest. The ransom delivery method — bypassing the family entirely and going to TMZ and local stations — creates significant legal exposure for whoever is responsible, whether or not they physically took Nancy. The DNA confirmed at the scene belongs to Nancy, but the sheriff won't specify whether it's blood. That distinction matters enormously. DNA establishing presence carries different legal weight than DNA establishing harm, and the type of biological evidence recovered shapes what charges prosecutors can bring. Pacemaker sync data is being used to establish that Nancy went out of range around 2 a.m. Medical device evidence in a kidnapping case is new legal territory, and how it gets introduced at trial — and where it's vulnerable to challenge — could define the prosecution's timeline. The sheriff initially told NBC that Nancy "was harmed at the home," then walked it back as a misstatement. Defense attorneys notice contradictions like that. They get used in court. The Guthrie family's video statement drew analysis from former federal law enforcement professionals who described it as heavily scripted and strategically directed by authorities. Savannah asked for proof of life and humanized her mother — every line serving an investigative purpose. Meanwhile, a fifty-thousand-dollar FBI reward is active, the president has pledged federal resources, and tips continue to flood in. Nancy requires medication the sheriff described as potentially fatal to miss. Her age, limited mobility, and medical needs elevate sentencing exposure under both state and federal guidelines. Robin Dreeke, former head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, breaks down how investigators behaviorally assess everyone in Nancy's orbit without premature conclusions. Defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what a kidnapping prosecution looks like from both sides and why the jurisdiction question between Arizona and federal courts carries dramatically different consequences.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RobinDreeke #EricFaddis #FBI #TrueCrime #Kidnapping #PimaCouny #CriminalDefense #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen thousand tips. And the one that matters probably hasn't come in yet.Someone out there knows something. A neighbor who saw something. A coworker who's noticed changed behavior. A friend who heard a conversation they've tried to forget. A family member protecting someone they love.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent his career getting people to talk. He ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He knows why people stay silent — and what finally makes them pick up the phone.In this interview, Dreeke breaks down witness psychology. The person who doesn't realize their information matters. The person who's scared of getting dragged into something public. The person protecting someone at the cost of their own conscience. Each one requires a different approach.The Guthrie family has released video pleas. They're talking to whoever took Nancy — but there's another audience. The people on the edges who know something. Does that public attention bring them forward or push them deeper into silence?Dreeke speaks directly to whoever's out there with a piece of this. The neighbor. The coworker. The friend telling themselves it's probably nothing. What would it take to get them to call today?#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #WitnessPsychology #TipLine #SavannahGuthrie #WhyPeopleDontTalk #MissingPerson #FBIExpert #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two cases. One attorney who has prosecuted murder and defended against it. Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down the institutional failures in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation and the aggressive Supreme Court oral arguments in the Alex Murdaugh appeal.In the Guthrie case, eleven days without a suspect have exposed a pattern of decisions by Sheriff Nanos that could compromise any future prosecution — from the premature crime scene release to the five-hour grounding of thermal imaging aircraft to ten days of calling critical footage permanently lost when the FBI found it in backend data. The family is communicating with the alleged kidnappers through Instagram rather than through law enforcement. The FBI released surveillance footage through Director Patel's personal X account. A man was detained in Rio Rico and released without charges. Faddis walks through the legal exposure on both sides — what the investigative failures mean for civil liability and what a prosecutor has to build a chargeable case from.In the Murdaugh appeal, the South Carolina Supreme Court justices directed pointed questioning at the state. Becky Hill's perjury conviction has rewritten the jury tampering issue. The chief justice challenged the state on Rule 404(b) and the unchecked flow of financial crime evidence at trial. With no eyewitnesses, no weapons, and no biological transfer evidence, the defense argues the state's case may not survive if the financial testimony falls. Faddis reads the bench and identifies where this is heading.#NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #EricFaddis #GuthrieCase #MurdaughAppeal #SheriffNanos #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #HiddenKillersPodcast #InstitutionalFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

We live in the most surveilled moment in human history. Cameras on every doorbell. GPS in every phone. License plate readers on every highway. We're told if you commit a crime, you'll be caught.Nancy Guthrie had a Nest camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. And she's gone. Twelve days. No vehicle of interest. No suspects. No trace.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He spent twenty-one years watching people try to move without being detected — and understanding how the gaps in our surveillance architecture get exploited.In this interview, Dreeke breaks down how someone vanishes in 2026. What the blind spots actually look like. What an extraction like this would require. Why there's no confirmed transportation method. And what this case reveals about the difference between the security we assume we have and what actually exists.The public believes surveillance protects us. This case challenges that assumption. Dreeke explains what we're missing — and what it should teach law enforcement about the vulnerabilities we don't see.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #SurveillanceGaps #FBIExpert #HowToDisappear #SavannahGuthrie #MissingPerson #CatalinaFoothills #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn't been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today's oral arguments and what the bench's aggressive questioning of the state signals about the likely outcome.Justice Few asked Creighton Waters directly how you can label someone "not completely credible" when her own guilty plea proves she's a liar. Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order never addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses "striking." The defense argues the wrong legal standard was applied — and from the bench, it appeared multiple justices agreed.Kittredge also pressed hard on the financial evidence, telling Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and that the trial court couldn't seem to find a reason to keep anything out. Jim Griffin argued this case has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence. If the financial testimony falls, the state's case gets very thin.Faddis reads the room and explains which of the three possible outcomes — affirm, new trial, or remand — today's hearing most strongly pointed toward.#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHillPerjury #MurdaughSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #EricFaddis #JusticeKittredge #Rule404b #JimGriffin #HiddenKillersPodcast #MurdaughNewTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn't the egg juror allowed to testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing? From there, the hearing split into two phases that each delivered major moments. On the jury tampering issue, Dick Harpootlian argued that Becky Hill — the former Colleton County Clerk of Court now convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — had a financial motive to push for a guilty verdict. Chief Justice Kittredge told the state that Toal's ruling didn't even address the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled. Justice Few challenged Creighton Waters on the absurdity of calling Hill not completely credible while ignoring her perjury conviction. On the evidentiary side, Jim Griffin argued this was never an overwhelming evidence case — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence on Murdaugh. Kittredge hammered Waters on Rule 404(b), saying the gate to financial crimes evidence was left wide open and he couldn't find a single example of anything that was excluded. When Waters tried to reference the movie Fargo, Justice Few told him to get to the point. The court took the case under advisement. No decision today. Three possible outcomes remain: affirm, new trial, or remand. But what unfolded in that courtroom didn't look like a court preparing to uphold the status quo. This episode covers every key exchange and what it means going forward.#MurdaughAppeal #AlexMurdaugh #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #404b #CreightonWaters #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #OralArgumentsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution asked for time served. The judge said no.Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while her lover Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was just sentenced to 10 years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars.This sentencing hearing delivered the emotional reckoning that many felt was missing from the trial itself. Deirdre Fisher, Joe Ryan's mother, read a victim impact statement that confronted Magalhães directly about the son she lost — an innocent man lured to his death through a fake fetish profile that Magalhães helped create. The Banfield family also addressed the court, acknowledging that Juliana was "a young woman in a foreign country, in love with her employer" while making clear that cooperation doesn't erase culpability.Magalhães spoke before sentencing, telling the court: "I know my remorse cannot bring you peace. I pray for forgiveness, and I have never forgave myself."But remorse wasn't enough.Judge Azcarate's decision sends a clear message: testifying against your co-conspirator doesn't automatically entitle you to leniency. Magalhães admitted to participating in a scheme that ended two lives. She admitted to pulling the trigger on a man who thought he was walking into a consensual encounter. Whatever her cooperation meant for the Banfield conviction, it didn't change what she did that night in February 2023.This episode features the full sentencing audio from the Fairfax County courtroom — including the victim impact statements, Juliana's allocution, and Judge Azcarate's ruling. If you followed the trial, this is the moment where consequences finally arrived.#JulianaMagalhaes #BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #JoeRyan #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrime #Sentencing #JudgeAzcarate #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m., something happened inside Nancy Guthrie's home. The doorbell camera went offline at one end. The pacemaker lost Bluetooth connectivity at the other. That forty-one-minute window is the hardest forensic evidence in this case — and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what it proves, what it doesn't, and what a prosecutor still needs to connect it to a defendant.The FBI released surveillance footage and says they're searching for more than one individual. Director Kash Patel posted it to his personal X account — no press conference, no briefing, no Q&A. A man was detained in Rio Rico for eight hours and released without charges. His family says the clothing doesn't match. An imposter ransom demand already led to a separate arrest in California. Investigators are now combing roadways near the Guthrie home for items that may have been discarded — eleven days after the disappearance.Faddis, who prosecuted first-degree murder before switching to criminal defense, walks through what a prosecutor is watching for at this stage. The ransom notes sent to media outlets with insider crime scene details create a legal tangle: separating genuine evidence from imposter noise becomes a central challenge, and the defense will exploit every piece of confusion. The Rio Rico detention gives the defense a narrative about misdirected investigators. Late-stage roadside recoveries face weather degradation and chain of custody attacks.Faddis identifies the single most important thing that needs to happen next for a viable prosecution — and the single biggest obstacle in the way.#NancyGuthrie #PacemakerEvidence #41MinuteWindow #EricFaddis #FBISurveillance #KashPatel #RioRicoDetention #RansomNotes #HiddenKillersPodcast #GuthrieCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Everyone's a behavioral analyst now. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded the Nancy Guthrie investigation — most of them wrong, many based on gut feelings from people watching family videos online. Reddit threads are dissecting body language. Comment sections are full of accusations. The entire country has become an amateur investigation unit.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He spent twenty-one years learning how to actually read people. In this interview, he explains what mass observation does to a case — and everyone caught in it.The Guthrie family knows they're being watched. Every video statement gets torn apart. Every pause analyzed. Every blink interpreted by people with no training. Dreeke breaks down the feedback loop: the public watches, the family becomes self-conscious, their behavior changes, and the public reads that change as suspicious. Innocent people start looking guilty — and investigators have to cut through all that noise to find the truth.Then there's the perpetrator. They're watching too. Seeing the theories, tracking the coverage, reading what people think they know. What does sustained mass observation do to someone trying to stay hidden?This is the conversation about what we're all doing when we obsess over a case like this — and whether the attention helps or makes everything worse.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIBehavioral #InternetSleuths #SavannahGuthrie #BodyLanguage #TrueCrime #MassObservation #TipLineJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

An FBI source told NewsNation it's "dumb" and "insane" — Sheriff Chris Nanos is allegedly blocking federal agents from accessing key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, routing a glove and DNA samples to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Nanos called the reports "not even close to the truth." But the documented history of this sheriff's credibility tells a very different story.From a 98.8 percent no-confidence vote by his own deputies, to an Arizona Attorney General investigation that flagged four policy violations, to placing his political opponent on leave weeks before an election he won by 481 votes — Nanos has spent years denying what the record confirms. And in the Guthrie case alone, he's admitted to releasing the crime scene early, contradicted himself publicly, grounded his best search aircraft over a personal dispute, and sat courtside at a basketball game while the family begged for Nancy's return.This episode lays out the full pattern — every claim sourced, every quote verified — and asks the only question that matters on Day 13 of this search: whose word has actually held up?#NancyGuthrie #ChrisNanos #FBI #PimaCountySheriff #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrime #Kidnapping #Tucson #HiddenKillers #ColdCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eleven days into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the Pima County Sheriff's Department is being questioned from every direction — by its own deputies' union, by county supervisors, and by the Guthrie family itself. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal damage created by a cascade of documented investigative decisions.The crime scene was released prematurely. Sheriff Nanos admitted it publicly. His department returned to the home multiple times after the initial release to collect additional evidence — each re-entry creating chain of custody problems that Faddis says any defense attorney would seize on at trial. Evidence recovered after a scene is released and potentially accessed by civilians carries a contamination question mark that never fully disappears.The department's thermal imaging aircraft, equipped to detect body heat across the Arizona desert, was grounded for five hours after Nancy was reported missing. The pilot had been reassigned to street patrol by the sheriff months earlier over a personal dispute. The union opposed the move. For an eighty-four-year-old woman potentially in the desert, that five-hour gap is not administrative — it's potentially catastrophic. Faddis explains the legal standard for negligence and whether this specific delay, tied to a specific decision by a specific official, could meet that threshold.The Nest doorbell footage that authorities spent ten days calling permanently unrecoverable was ultimately produced by the FBI from backend server data. Faddis walks through how a defense team would frame that ten-day blind spot — and what it means for every investigative choice made while the department believed its best evidence was gone.The sheriff told NBC News that Nancy was "taken from her bed" and retracted it the next day. Faddis addresses both the legal risks of inaccurate public statements by the lead investigator and what the family's decision to go around the department tells him about the state of this investigation.#NancyGuthrie #GuthrieCase #SheriffNanos #CrimeSceneError #EricFaddis #ThermalImaging #NestCameraFootage #PimaCountySheriff #HiddenKillersPodcast #TrueCrimeTodayJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Mickey Stines' defense team just filed a motion that could reshape the entire trajectory of this case. The former Letcher County sheriff, charged with shooting and killing District Judge Kevin Mullins inside his chambers in September 2024, is now claiming he has a serious intellectual disability or serious mental illness that should legally exempt him from execution under a 2022 Kentucky statute.But here's what the motion doesn't include: a diagnosis. No named condition. No medical records attached. Just a legal citation and a request for a hearing. Kentucky's HB 269 requires a documented diagnosis of one of exactly four conditions — schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or delusional disorder — with active symptoms at the time of the offense. The law has been used successfully one time in the state's history, in a case where the judge said the evidence of lifelong mental illness was overwhelming.We go deep on what that precedent looked like, what evidence Stines' defense has assembled so far — including witness accounts of paranoia, a jail evaluation describing active psychosis, and his claim of California encephalitis — and what the prosecution has ready to counter it. The doctor's visit the day before the shooting. The surveillance footage. The sealed psychiatric evaluation that nobody's talking about. And the broader question of whether this motion is about saving Stines from the needle or about building an insanity narrative before a jury is ever seated.This is the legal chess match underneath the case everyone's been watching. And the next move matters.#MickeyStines #ShawnStines #KevinMullins #LetcherCounty #KentuckyMurder #DeathPenaltyDefense #InsanityPlea #CourthouseShooting #HB269 #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

We brought Robin Dreeke the footage, the operation, the contradictions, and the silence. We asked him every question this case demands — and his answers are something you need to hear for yourself.Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. We asked him to apply his behavioral framework to every movement in the surveillance clips and tell us whether the man on that porch matches the operation that happened around him. We asked what the footage reveals about whoever planned this — the target selection, the camera removal, the silent extraction — and what the gap between what this man was told and what he clearly wasn't tells us about whoever was directing him. We asked about the 41-minute timeline gap. We asked what happens when they identify this man.Then we gave him the communications. The family's four escalating videos. The FBI's social media release with no press briefing. The sheriff's complete reversal on the footage. The ransom notes with insider details but no proof of life. The silence after the deadline passed.We asked Dreeke to read every public voice and tell us who's being straight, who's managing a narrative, and what the gaps between statements reveal about where this case actually stands. His answers reframe how you look at everything in this investigation.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIBehavioral #FullInterview #DeceptionDetection #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The headlines said Kouri Richins was fighting to move her trial. What they didn't tell you is that fight was already over.Judge Mrazik denied the defense's second venue change request on February 2nd — the same motion Fox News reported on five days later as though it were still pending. The defense argued 85 percent of prospective jurors recognized the case and the pool had shrunk to roughly 72 viable candidates. Prosecutors fired back with different numbers from the same data: 830 potential jurors who said they either hadn't heard of the case or hadn't followed it. The judge sided with the state. Again.But the venue motion may never have been about winning. Look at the defense's broader pattern heading into trial — Crozier's fentanyl recantation, the witness intimidation allegations against Detective O'Driscoll and investigator Hopper, the timeline objections, and now a second failed venue bid. Each motion builds a paper trail. Each denial becomes a potential appellate issue. The question isn't whether the defense expected to move the trial. The question is whether they're already building the record for what comes after a conviction.Meanwhile, the reason this case is famous isn't media hype. It's a children's grief book, a jailhouse letter prosecutors call witness tampering, nearly $2 million in alleged insurance fraud, and a drug chain that's falling apart on the witness stand before trial even begins.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Jury selection begins February 10th.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #VenueChangeDenied #WitnessIntimidation #JeffODriscoll #RobertCrozier #FentanylCase #SummitCounty #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The ransom deadline passed. No follow-through. No proof of life. No verified contact. We asked Robin Dreeke what that silence means — and it's not the only contradiction we put in front of him.Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was reading communications for authenticity and detecting when what people say doesn't match what they know. We asked him to assess every public voice in the Nancy Guthrie investigation.The family has released four escalating videos. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. Those two positions exist at the same time. Ransom notes arrived at media outlets with insider details — but no proof of life and no way for the family to respond. The sheriff said the Nest footage was permanently gone. Ten days later the FBI says private sector partners recovered it. The director released it on his personal X account with no press briefing.We asked Dreeke to read each of these. We asked which voices are communicating authentically and which are managing a narrative. We asked what the gaps between public statements reveal about what's actually happening. And we asked what the silence after the deadline tells a deception analyst about whether the ransom threat was ever real.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #RansomDeadline #HiddenKillers #DeceptionDetection #NarrativeControl #FBIBehavioral #RansomNotes #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released surveillance footage today from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera. Six photos. Three video clips. And the most important thing they reveal isn't who is on that porch — it's who isn't. A masked individual walks up to the 84-year-old's front door in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, reaches toward the camera, turns around, grabs a plant from Nancy's own garden, and covers the lens. He didn't bring tape. Didn't bring spray. His solution for the camera on the front door was whatever he could pull from the ground. Someone told him to cover his face, his hands, his body. Nobody told him what was six inches from the entry point.The operation around him tells a completely different story. A specific target in a dark-sky neighborhood with no streetlights. Cameras disabled and physically removed. An elderly woman who can't walk fifty yards taken without a trace. A 41-minute window between the camera going dark at 1:47 a.m. and Nancy's pacemaker losing its Bluetooth connection at 2:28 a.m. That operation required planning, coordination, and knowledge the man on the porch clearly did not have about the camera. The gap between his preparation and the operation around him is the detail this case turns on.The FBI released this footage without a timestamp despite a known timeline with a 41-minute gap at its center. The footage was declared unrecoverable for ten days before appearing today as residual data from backend systems. Director Kash Patel posted it personally on X with no press briefing scheduled. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker publicly questioned whether this is even a kidnapping. When they find the man on that porch — and they will — watch whether the investigation ends with him or continues past him. That answer tells you who actually matters in this case.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FBISurveillance #NestCamera #TucsonKidnapping #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CatalinaFoothills #KashPatel #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

He covered his face. He covered his hands. Someone made sure of that. But nobody told him about the camera on the front door. We asked Robin Dreeke what that tells us about whoever did.Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was understanding the relationship between the person who plans and the person who shows up. We brought him the Nancy Guthrie footage and asked him to read it not for who the man on the porch is — but for what the footage reveals about whoever put him there.We asked what the gap between forensic awareness and improvised camera defeat indicates about how this man was briefed and how much of the full picture he was given. We asked what the operation itself — target selection, schedule knowledge, camera removal, silent extraction of a mobility-limited 84-year-old — tells us about the planning profile behind it. We asked about the 41-minute timeline gap and what it reveals about coordination.And we asked Dreeke what happens when they put a name to the face under that ski mask. Does the investigation end with the man on the porch — or does it follow the trail to whoever actually planned what happened to Nancy Guthrie?#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #WhoGaveTheChecklist #FBIExpert #TucsonKidnapping #NestCamera #CatalinaFoothills #SurveillanceVideo #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Twelve days after Nancy Guthrie was allegedly abducted from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI has recovered its most significant physical evidence yet — a pair of black latex gloves found along a desert roadside less than two miles from her house. The gloves resemble those worn by the masked individual seen in doorbell camera footage released earlier this week and are now being tested for DNA and fingerprints.FBI agents spent Wednesday conducting an extensive ground search along roadways, washes, pulloffs, and culverts surrounding Nancy's neighborhood — terrain defined by thick desert brush, winding roads, and zero streetlights due to Pima County's dark-sky ordinances. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team has also been deployed to Tucson, a tactical unit reserved for scenarios involving potential hostage recovery operations.The doorbell footage is now undergoing advanced analytics including AI-enhanced facial geometry mapping — technology that attempts to identify facial features through the ski mask fabric. Investigators are also cross-referencing retail purchase records for every identifiable item in the footage across Tucson-area stores, building a purchase timeline that could lead to a name.New developments include a third note received by TMZ — not from the kidnapper but from someone claiming to know the kidnapper's identity and demanding one bitcoin for the information. The original ransom bitcoin wallet also showed its first activity since the case began.Meanwhile, the Pima County Sheriff's Department has not held a press briefing in nearly a week despite recovering physical evidence, deploying HRT, receiving over four thousand tips in twenty-four hours, and running advanced forensic analysis on the footage. Their stated threshold for a briefing — a "significant development" — raises serious questions about what this agency considers significant.Nancy Guthrie has a pacemaker, requires daily medication the sheriff has called potentially fatal to miss, and cannot walk fifty yards unassisted. Day twelve. No proof of life. No confirmed contact with whoever took her. And the lead agency won't step in front of a camera.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #PimaCountySheriff #FBISearch #CatalinaFoothills #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #NancyGuthrieKidnapping #ChrisNanosJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Six photos. Three video clips. A masked individual at Nancy Guthrie's front door. Everyone is looking at the ski mask. We asked Robin Dreeke to look at the hesitation.Dreeke spent 21 years as an FBI Special Agent and ran the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was reading people under pressure and predicting behavior based on how someone moves, reacts, and makes decisions in real time. We gave him the footage and asked the questions no one else is asking.The reach toward the camera. The stop. The turn. The plant from the garden shoved over the lens. We asked Dreeke what that sequence tells a behavioral analyst about this person's stress state, decision-making speed, and experience level. We asked what forensic concealment paired with improvised camera defeat typically indicates. We asked about the penlight in the mouth, the reflective jacket in a dark-sky neighborhood, the behavioral fractures visible across the clips.And we asked the question that should be driving this entire investigation: does the man on that porch match the operation that happened around him — an operation that required target selection, schedule knowledge, camera removal, and the silent extraction of an 84-year-old woman who can't walk fifty yards? Or does the footage tell you to keep looking?#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBIBehavioral #PorchVideo #HiddenKillers #SurveillanceAnalysis #BehavioralPrediction #TucsonKidnapping #NestCamera #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob and Michele Reiner didn't fit the profile of parents who looked the other way. They showed up. They sat in every therapy session. They wrote the checks. They flew to the facilities. They played frisbee with their son's rehab roommate. For more than fifteen years, they did everything the experts told them to do — and when that didn't work, they blamed the experts and tried something else.This episode traces the psychological architecture that two deeply intelligent, deeply loving parents built to survive life with an addicted and increasingly unstable adult son. From the early rehab years where counselors warned them Nick was manipulating them, to the stunning public reversal where Rob told the LA Times they should have been "listening to our son" instead of the professionals, to the schizophrenia diagnosis that reframed every red flag as a symptom instead of a warning — each new framework replaced the last, and each one kept Rob and Michele exactly where they started. In a house. With their son. Hoping the next variable would change the equation.The night before they were found dead, Rob reportedly brought Nick to Conan O'Brien's Christmas party because he and Michele were afraid to leave him alone. Guests described Nick as erratic and unsettling. A loud argument erupted. According to an account shared at the Reiners' memorial, Rob told friends he was "petrified" of his own son. And then he went home.This isn't about hindsight. It's about the mental gymnastics that families of addicts perform every single day to make their reality survivable — and how love, guilt, and hope can become a prison with no exit. Tony Brueski breaks down every turn in the Reiners' thinking, not from the outside looking in, but from inside the logic that made every choice feel like the right one.#RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #NickReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrime #BeingCharlie #Addiction #Enabling #BrentwoodMurder #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two cases. Two sets of problems the public is not being told about. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to break down the Nancy Guthrie investigation from a defense perspective and walk through what both sides are facing if the Alex Murdaugh conviction is reversed at oral arguments this week.In the Guthrie case, Motta reads between the lines of an investigation where the crime scene was processed, released, and re-entered at least four times. The Nest doorbell evidence has no video to support it. Deputies conducted forensic photography inside the home of Tommaso Cioni — the last person to see Nancy alive — while the sheriff tells the public there are no suspects. The ransom landscape has been contaminated by confirmed imposters. Multiple notes demanding Bitcoin were sent to media outlets. The family has posted four escalating video pleas and offered six million dollars. There has been no confirmed response. President Trump previewed a coming "solution." Motta explains what the investigation's actions, the ransom chaos, and the total silence tell a defense attorney about where this case really stands.On Murdaugh, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday with Becky Hill's perjury in the record and a legal standard dispute that could be dispositive. If the conviction falls, the defense has the full transcript while the prosecution faces exclusion of its motive evidence. The forensic gaps — no DNA, no prints, no blood — become even more exposed. And Murdaugh is already serving 67 combined years on financial crimes.Motta gives the defense attorney's read on both cases and explains what the public is missing.#NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #GuthrieCase #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #BitcoinRansom #TommasoCioni #DefenseAttorneyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The state has rested in the Paul Caneiro murder trial, and the defense has begun presenting its case in what has become one of the most closely watched trials in New Jersey history. After four weeks and fifteen days of prosecution testimony, jurors in Monmouth County have now heard from a medical examiner who detailed how eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro suffered stab wounds across almost her entire body — and was still alive when fire filled the house. Her carbon monoxide levels confirmed she breathed in the flames. Autopsy photographs were so graphic that a juror was individually questioned by the judge about whether he could still be impartial.Prosecutors presented DNA evidence linking both murdered children to clothing found in Paul Caneiro's basement, a contact-range execution shot through Keith Caneiro's hood, nearly eighty thousand dollars allegedly drained from a family insurance trust, and Keith's final phone calls demanding answers about missing money. The timeline, the forensics, and the financial motive were laid out methodically over the course of the trial's first month.The defense responded with character witnesses who painted Paul as gentle, loyal, and devoted to his brother — though every one of them admitted under cross-examination that they had no knowledge of the financial tensions that prosecutors say drove these killings. Paul's daughter Katie gave emotional testimony, calling the victims her second parents and describing her father's devastated reaction at the police station — an account that directly conflicts with investigators who said Paul was quiet that morning. The defense is also escalating its alternate suspect theory around Corey Caneiro, the youngest brother, who was living in Keith's basement months before the murders and whose DNA was never collected. A legal dispute over the scope of defense questioning halted court Monday, with the judge demanding both sides submit briefs by that night. This trial is entering its most critical stretch.#CaneiroTrial #PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SophiaCaneiro #CoreyCaneiro #MonmouthCounty #QuadrupleMurder #CourtTVJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Oral arguments Wednesday. Becky Hill's perjury in the record. The wrong legal standard potentially applied. And a defense team that now has the entire first trial transcript as a roadmap. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to explain what both sides are actually facing if the Alex Murdaugh conviction is reversed — and why the practical reality of a retrial may be worse for the prosecution than the appeal itself.The defense is invoking Remmer v. United States, arguing that once improper contact between a state actor and jurors is established, prejudice is presumed. Justice Toal applied what appears to be a higher standard — requiring the defense to prove a juror actually changed their vote. Motta explains how appellate courts typically treat the application of an incorrect legal standard and whether this distinction is enough to reverse a conviction where the evidence of guilt was strong.If reversal happens, the defense walks into court knowing everything. Every witness, every exhibit, every decision the prosecution made. Motta explains how much of an advantage that is and what changes in round two. The biggest variable is whether a new judge limits the financial crimes testimony — the prosecution's "gathering storm" motive theory that the defense called a trial within a trial. Without it, this becomes a purely circumstantial murder case with significant forensic gaps.Harpootlian has publicly stated there is no DNA, no fingerprints, no blood on vehicles, clothes, or in the house. The prosecution had Maggie's DNA on a shotgun receiver and the kennel video placing Murdaugh at the scene after he lied. Motta explains how a defense team with three years of preparation dismantles both.Then there is the question nobody wants to ask. Murdaugh is serving 27 state and 40 federal on financial crimes. Does the AG's office even retry?#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #BeckyHill #RemmerVUS #KennelVideo #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #DickHarpootlian #DefenseAttorneyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Both ransom deadlines have come and gone. The Bitcoin wallet sits at zero. One demand was a confirmed hoax. The Guthrie family offered to pay six million dollars on camera and nobody collected. For more than a week, the ransom gave this case a framework — pay the money, get her back. That framework is gone.Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four years old, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson since the early morning hours of February 1, 2026. Her blood was found on the porch. Her doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM. Her pacemaker went silent around 2 AM. Everything she owned was left behind. The sheriff says she was taken against her will. More than a week later, there is no suspect, no person of interest, and no proof of life.On this episode of Hidden Killers, we examine what this case looks like once the ransom is stripped away. Why the notes never behaved like a real kidnapping-for-ransom. What NCIC data and FBI case patterns tell us about missing persons cases that reach this stage. Why elderly stranger abductions are so rare they barely register statistically. And what the physical footprint of this investigation — septic tank searches, a vehicle towed from the property, hours of law enforcement activity at the home of Nancy's daughter — tells us about where the evidence is leading.No suspects have been named. All individuals are presumed innocent. But the data on cases with this profile demands an honest conversation, and Nancy Guthrie deserves that honesty.If you have information, contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI. $50,000 reward offered.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FBI #MissingPerson #BitcoinRansom #TucsonArizona #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CriminalInvestigation #DataDrivenCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Multiple ransom notes. A confirmed imposter. A family offering six million in Bitcoin. And absolute silence from whoever may have taken Nancy Guthrie. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to walk through what is actually happening in this case nine days after Nancy vanished from her Catalina Foothills home — and why the ransom situation may already be beyond salvageable for investigators.Ransom notes demanding millions in Bitcoin were sent to TMZ, KOLD, and KGUN. Harvey Levin confirmed the wallet address is real and called the note carefully crafted. But a man in Los Angeles was arrested for sending imposter texts to the Guthrie family referencing the same Bitcoin demand. A second email arrived at KOLD from a different IP using the same anonymous server type. Motta explains what happens to an investigation when the ransom channel has been infiltrated by copycats and the real signal is buried in noise.The family has posted four videos on Instagram — each more desperate than the last. They started asking for proof of life. They are now saying they are at an hour of desperation. CNN's Andrew McCabe says the tone suggests no contact has been made. Motta breaks down what the escalation in those videos and the complete absence of any response tells us about the reality of this case.President Trump told reporters Friday that investigators have "very strong clues" and that a "solution" — not a search — may be coming from DOJ or FBI. Motta explains what it means when a sitting president starts publicly narrating the trajectory of an active investigation.The family has offered to pay the full six-million-dollar ransom. The FBI says the call is theirs. Motta walks through Bitcoin traceability, whether the payment becomes evidence, and what the FBI's reward language — "and/or the arrest and conviction" — reveals about how this case is being framed behind closed doors.#NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #RansomNotes #BitcoinRansom #GuthrieFamily #FBIReward #TrumpGuthrie #RansomImposter #CatalinaFoothillsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The most visible operation of the entire Nancy Guthrie investigation collapsed in hours. A 27-year-old delivery driver was detained south of Tucson after allegedly being told he resembled the person in newly released doorbell footage. His mother-in-law's Rio Rico home was searched under warrant. FBI Evidence Response on scene. He told reporters his doors were broken down during the search. National media flooding a border community. He was released before sunrise. He told reporters he was terrified and had never heard of Nancy Guthrie. His mother-in-law said he was home that weekend, his van is broken, and he has no record. She was shown the surveillance images and said it wasn't him. The detention came after the FBI released recovered Nest footage that had allegedly sat on Google's cloud servers for ten days while the public was told no video existed. Google Nest transmits event data without a subscription. Google handles law enforcement requests routinely. The FBI has a cyber division. Nobody has explained the delay. The footage immediately split the expert community — some described experience and composure, others described a person who covered a camera with a garden plant, wore tennis shoes and oversized gloves, and carried a weapon in an ill-fitting holster. The ransom notes shaping the entire narrative have never been verified as connected to the alleged kidnapping. No proof of life. The theory the kidnapper is local because notes went to Tucson TV stations falls apart when identifying local media anywhere takes seconds online. Nancy Guthrie is 84, reportedly needs daily medication that could be fatal to miss, and remains missing. What's confirmed in this case and what's being treated as confirmed are two very different things.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #TucsonArizona #GoogleNest #FBIInvestigation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #RansomNote #PimaCountySheriffJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Alex Murdaugh's Supreme Court appeal heads to oral arguments on February 11, 2026. But while the legal world debates whether his double murder conviction will be overturned, almost no one is breaking down the most uncomfortable question in this case — what actually happens if he wins? Murdaugh doesn't walk free. He stays exactly where he is — behind bars, serving 27 years state and 40 years federal for stealing millions from his own clients. Those sentences are locked in. A federal appeal has already been dismissed. Even if the murder convictions vanish, Alex Murdaugh is a convicted thief doing decades in prison. His own attorney said he'd max out around age 75. So what would a retrial actually look like? Almost certainly a different county, a different judge, and a completely different evidentiary landscape. The defense is arguing that Judge Newman improperly allowed weeks of financial crimes testimony that poisoned the jury before they ever considered the murder evidence. If the Supreme Court agrees, the prosecution's entire "gathering storm" motive theory could be gutted. The state's case was always circumstantial — no DNA, no fingerprints, no murder weapon, no confession. The kennel video remains powerful, but the defense has had three years to prepare. And the biggest question — would the state even retry? Millions of dollars to prosecute a man already locked up for life, with aged witnesses and a defense team that now knows every move. The financial sentences were always the backstop. Wednesday determines whether South Carolina needs the moral statement of a murder conviction badly enough to risk doing it all over again.#MurdaughRetrial #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #SupremeCourt #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SouthCarolina #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Pima County Sheriff says there are no suspects in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. But deputies spent hours inside a family member's home conducting forensic photography and left with evidence bags. A vehicle was towed. The septic tank was searched. The FBI took over. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to explain what is really happening in this case — and why the distance between law enforcement's public statements and their investigative actions is the most revealing evidence of all.Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Catalina Foothills home in Tucson, Arizona nine days ago. Her blood was confirmed on the front porch. Her pacemaker went dark. Her Nest doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM, and at 2:12 AM the system reportedly detected a person — but there is no video because the family did not maintain an active subscription. Motta breaks down the forensic problems with that detection and explains how it would be challenged in a courtroom.The crime scene has been processed, released to the family, and re-entered by investigators at least four separate times — including FBI agents with canine units. Motta explains why that pattern threatens to undermine anything recovered after the initial release, because the chain of custody argument becomes nearly impossible for prosecutors to win once the scene was returned to civilian access.Tommaso Cioni, Nancy's son-in-law, was the last known person to see her alive. He told investigators he drove her home and made sure she got inside. Law enforcement later conducted forensic photography inside the home he shares with Nancy's daughter Annie Guthrie and departed with evidence bags. Motta walks through the legal rights of someone in that position and the critical mistakes people make when they believe cooperation will clear them.Sheriff Nanos's contradictory public statements are already building a defense file. Motta explains why every press conference becomes evidence.#NancyGuthrie #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TommasoCioni #AnnieGuthrie #PimaCountySheriff #FBICase #CrimeSceneIntegrity #TucsonArizona #DefenseAttorneyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

When Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother walked into a federal courthouse in Miami facing multiple charges stemming from her death aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship, the most telling detail came from Anna's own father. Christopher Kepner told the Daily Mail he was "unable to confirm or deny" that his stepson faces murder and rape charges. That carefully worded non-denial contradicts preliminary findings from ABC News in November indicating no signs of sexual assault — and raises the question of what the FBI uncovered during ninety days of total silence.Anna's death was ruled a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation — a bar hold across the neck that left two bruises on her throat. Her body was found hidden under a bed in the cruise ship cabin, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life vests, her fourteen-year-old brother sleeping feet away. Surveillance and key card data reportedly show the stepbrother was the only person to enter and exit the cabin during the critical window. Everything the public learned about this case came from a custody battle — text messages showing damage control, memory loss claims, obsession allegations, and testimony about chokeholds in the home. Anna's grandmother publicly accused the suspect's father of interfering with the investigation. The hearing was sealed, but prosecutors reportedly intend to seek transfer to adult court.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipDeath #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ChristopherKepner #JusticeForAnna #CarnivalCruise #FBIInvestigation #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The full interview with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke on the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. The ransom notes. The crime scene. The investigative trail. Every signal. Everything that doesn't add up.The ransom notes contained non-public details about Nancy's home but no communication channel, no proof of life, and a deadline with no one to collect. The crime scene was released in twenty-four hours then re-entered four times. A rooftop camera was missed for five days. Investigators searched a septic tank on Day Eight. A Cellebrite device was photographed at a family member's residence. A vehicle was impounded and initially denied. Two consecutive nights of documented forensic activity at a family member's home. A White House signaling imminent answers while locally the official position hasn't changed.No suspects have been named. All individuals are presumed innocent. But the investigative footprint is documented and observable. Dreeke reads every signal — the behavioral profile of the ransom demands, the forensic evidence pattern, the deny-then-confirm cycle, and the disconnect between local and federal messaging — and explains what decades of FBI experience tells him about where this case is headed.Robin Dreeke is a retired FBI Special Agent and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBI #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RansomNote #CrimeScene #Tucson #InvestigationJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two cases that demand expert behavioral analysis. One FBI veteran who's spent decades reading what most people miss.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who led the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—breaks down the Nancy Guthrie abduction and the McKee/Tepe double homicide in this comprehensive interview.The Guthrie case presents a puzzle. An 84-year-old woman taken in the middle of the night. Ransom notes sent to TMZ and news stations—not to the family—demanding bitcoin and containing details about her home. Robin decodes what these choices reveal about psychology, planning, and intent. He explains how investigators read family, staff, and witnesses when everyone is under scrutiny and false accusations are already circulating.The McKee/Tepe autopsy tells a brutal story. Sixteen gunshot wounds. Monique shot nine times, including once in the face at close range. Spencer shot seven times with defensive injuries suggesting he tried to protect his wife. Robin analyzes what the wound patterns reveal about the shooter's mental state—rehearsed execution versus rage—and how a surgeon's conditioning may have shaped the attack.We examine the "wound collector" profile. The affidavit alleges McKee spent eight years making threats, surveilling the Tepes, and telling Monique she would "always be his wife." Robin explains what sustains that fixation and what finally breaks the dam.McKee's phone went dark during the murder window. Stolen plates. Counter-forensic awareness. Can anything break someone who allegedly planned this for nearly a decade?Two very different crimes. The same behavioral principles at work. Robin Dreeke reveals what investigators see that the rest of us don't.#RobinDreeke #NancyGuthrie #KevinMcKee #TepeMurders #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #WoundCollector #DeceptionDetection #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CriminalPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

No suspects. That's the official line from the Pima County Sheriff's Department eight days into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. But retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke looks at the documented investigative activity — and says the gap between public statements and observable forensic actions is one of the most revealing elements of this case.A Cellebrite device photographed at a family member's home on Day Four. A vehicle impounded — denied initially, then confirmed. Ashleigh Banfield's source identifying a specific individual as a possible focus of the investigation. The sheriff calling that "reckless" with carefully chosen words that stop short of an actual denial. Two consecutive nights of documented forensic activity at a family member's residence. And a White House signaling that a "solution" and "definitive suspect" could come soon while locally the official position hasn't changed.Dreeke applies decades of FBI behavioral expertise to the investigative pattern — the Cellebrite deployment, the vehicle seizure, the deny-then-confirm communication cycle, and the disconnect between local and federal messaging. No suspects have been named. All individuals are presumed innocent. But the forensic trail is observable, and Dreeke reads what it means.Robin Dreeke is a retired FBI Special Agent and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBI #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #Investigation #Cellebrite #ForensicEvidenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Before Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the sheriff now leading the search had already built a record that reads like a case study in failed leadership. This episode pulls the full documented history of Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos — sourced from FBI investigations, federal court filings, the Arizona Attorney General's office, his own deputies' union, and his own public statements — and connects it directly to the failures in the Guthrie investigation.A $7.5 million surveillance aircraft grounded during the most critical hours of the search because the only available pilot had been reassigned to street patrol following a personal dispute with the sheriff. A second pilot moved out of the air unit months earlier. A crime scene released after one day, then re-entered four more times. A rooftop camera missed for five days. And a sheriff who told reporters he is not accustomed to accountability.That pattern did not start with Nancy Guthrie. Nanos's first term ended with an FBI investigation into roughly half a million dollars in misused funds. His chief deputy was indicted on seven felonies. A senior official took his own life. His second term brought a jail death rate exceeding Rikers Island — nearly sixty dead since 2017. The Arizona Attorney General identified four policy violations in how his department handled the sexual assault of a female deputy. His own rank and file voted 98.8 percent no confidence. His deputies arrested an NPR journalist on camera while she wore her press credentials. He placed his political opponent on leave days before an election he won by 481 votes. And his department deleted a public records tracking policy within a week of an ACLU request.Every scandal follows the same loop: an ego-driven decision, a systemic failure, denial, exposure, and retaliation against whoever spoke up. The pilot reassigned. The union president suspended. The opponent silenced. The journalist arrested. The records deleted. And every time, the person who paid the price was not Chris Nanos.Now the whole country is watching. And the people of Pima County deserve to know exactly who is in charge.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #ChrisNanos #PimaCountySheriff #HiddenKillers #FBI #NoConfidence #TrueCrime #Tucson #SheriffAccountabilityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI just released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera showing an armed masked individual at her front door the morning she disappeared — and there are details in this video that no one is pointing out. We break it down frame by frame with defense attorney Bob Motta. Ten days after the 84-year-old mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, four photos and two video clips show a person in a ski mask, gloves, khakis, sneakers, and a backpack with a holstered firearm at the waist.The detail that should stop everyone cold: the individual reaches toward the camera, then grabs a plant from Nancy's own yard to block the lens. He didn't bring tape. Didn't bring spray paint. Didn't plan for this camera at all. That's a massive behavioral tell about the level of preparation behind this abduction — and it contradicts the image of a calculated kidnapping operation demanding six million in bitcoin. A flashlight held in the mouth. A visible mustache through the mask. A jacket with distinctive reflective elements. No vehicle anywhere in frame despite targeting an 84-year-old woman who can't walk fifty yards unassisted.The footage was recovered from what the FBI calls residual data in backend systems — video authorities told us for ten days was permanently gone because Nancy didn't have a cloud storage subscription. That reversal came one day after the second ransom deadline passed with no resolution and no communication between the family and suspected kidnappers. Why ten days? Why did the FBI director release this personally on social media before any press briefing? Bob Motta walks us through what investigators are seeing that the public isn't, what a defense attorney picks up in this footage, and what these overlooked details actually mean for this case.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FBISurveillance #NestCamera #TucsonKidnapping #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CatalinaFoothills #KashPatel #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — examines how the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home was handled, what was missed, and what it means for the investigation going forward.Blood on the porch confirmed as Nancy's DNA. A doorbell camera physically removed. A floodlight destroyed. All belongings left inside. The scene was released to the family after one day. Sheriff Nanos said Tuesday the scene was "done." Then investigators came back four more times — Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. A camera on the roof was missed for five days. A Fox News analyst said anyone could have planted or removed evidence during the gaps. Nanos later admitted he "could have held off."On Sunday, Day Eight, drone footage showed investigators searching a septic tank and probing a manhole behind the property.Dreeke breaks down what the evidence pattern tells investigators, what the systematic targeting of every camera reveals about who committed this crime, what the septic tank search signals about the direction of the investigation, and whether early missteps in scene processing could undermine a future prosecution.Robin Dreeke spent twenty-one years as an FBI Special Agent and served as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CrimeScene #RobinDreeke #FBI #ChainOfCustody #TucsonArizona #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ForensicEvidenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Before the door opens at two in the morning, the crime has already been committed in everything but the final act. Every targeted abduction follows a predictable operational cycle — and the surveillance phase, the days or weeks of watching that precede the taking, is both the most critical stage and the one the public understands least.In this episode, we profile the pre-attack indicators in abduction cases that law enforcement and behavioral analysts have documented across decades of FBI research. We break down the attack cycle stage by stage — target selection, surveillance, planning, deployment — and examine how predators assess their targets through a deliberate risk-benefit calculation. Isolation. Predictable routines. Perceived vulnerability. Security infrastructure that looks present but functionally isn't.We walk through the TEDD surveillance detection framework used by the U.S. government and explain why most criminals are far worse at surveillance than people assume. We confront the insider threat — the documented pattern where abductors leverage someone with existing access to the victim. And we use the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as a real-time illustration.The Pima County Sheriff's timeline tells a story: doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 a.m., camera detection with no saved footage at 2:12 a.m., pacemaker app disconnect at 2:28 a.m. No suspects have been named. But the operational precision visible in that sequence is consistent with what behavioral analysts see in planned, targeted abductions — not crimes of impulse.This is an evergreen deep dive into how predators operate before they strike, what the warning signs actually look like, and why the predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or sophistication — it's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #WhenPredatorsWatch #PreAttackIndicators #TrueCrimePodcast #AttackCycle #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #AbductionPrevention #SurveillanceDetection #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — breaks down the behavioral profile of the ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and explains why the communication pattern doesn't match a legitimate kidnapping-for-ransom.Three identical letters sent to media outlets demanded millions in Bitcoin, referenced non-public details about Nancy's home, and provided zero way for the family to communicate back. No phone number. No email. No encrypted channel. The family has shifted from demanding proof of life to publicly saying "we will pay" — with no indication proof was ever provided. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CNN the FBI helped craft that statement. CNN's Josh Campbell confirmed the public plea means no private negotiation channel exists.A second message arrived Friday with no demands and no proof of life. KOLD won't call it a ransom note. The Monday deadline is here. Six million dollars. A threat on Nancy's life. And no one to pay it to.Dreeke applies decades of FBI behavioral expertise to the questions that matter. Why send a ransom to the press instead of the family? Why go silent after the first deadline? What does the level of interior knowledge suggest about authorship? And when the behavioral profile of a ransom demand doesn't match any known kidnapping pattern, what does it actually match?Robin Dreeke is a retired FBI Special Agent and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RansomNote #RobinDreeke #FBI #BitcoinRansom #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Tucson #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Ten days before jury selection begins in her aggravated murder trial, Kouri Richins' case appeared in a Department of Homeland Security intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement that domestic partners are increasingly using chemical and biological toxins to kill. The January 2026 bulletin documented seventeen cases since 2014 with at least eleven deaths, identifying substances like cyanide, antifreeze, fentanyl, and common eye drops — all chosen because they mimic natural illness. DHS specifically cited Richins' upcoming trial as part of this accelerating national pattern.Richins is charged with aggravated murder in the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric in Kamas, Utah. Prosecutors allege she spiked his cocktail with a fatal dose — five times the lethal amount found in his blood — after a failed attempt on Valentine's Day two weeks earlier. The alleged motive is financial, with prosecutors claiming her realty company owed at least $1.8 million while Eric's estate was worth roughly $5 million. She has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Trial begins February 23, 2026.But the DHS warning isn't just about the Richins case. It's about what we're missing. America's autopsy rate has collapsed to 8.5%, with natural-looking deaths autopsied just 4.3% of the time. Death certificates are wrong roughly a third of the time. Tony examines three convicted spousal poisoners — James Craig, Lana Clayton, and Stacey Castor — who each nearly escaped detection, and connects their cases to the Richins trial and the systemic blind spots that let poisoners walk free. The system didn't catch any of them. A person did every time.#KouriRichins #DHSPoisoningWarning #SpousalPoisoning #JamesCraig #LanaClayton #StaceyCastor #AutopsyCrisis #EricRichins #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice

Two massive investigations. One retired FBI Special Agent. Jennifer Coffindaffer — twenty-two years with the Bureau — analyzes both.In Tucson, Nancy Guthrie has been missing for five days. The FBI is jointly running the case. Ransom notes went to media outlets, not the family. No proof of life. No follow-up. The sheriff denied forced entry and contradicted media reports. The next day, investigators returned to the crime scene with canine units and evidence bags. The doorbell camera is empty.In Los Angeles, the D4VD grand jury is escalating. A close friend was arrested and compelled to testify. The label head was grilled for days. Outside forensic experts were brought in. The Tesla where Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were found was held for forty-eight hours. No charges filed.Coffindaffer reads between the lines on both — what the silence means in Guthrie, what the pressure means in D4VD, and where each investigation actually stands right now.#NancyGuthrie #D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #FBI #GrandJury #JenniferCoffindaffer #RansomNotes #LAPD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

What does an autopsy really say about motive when the victims never get to speak? In the McKee/Tepe case, the autopsy paints a brutal, almost surgical picture. Monique Tepe was shot nine times, including a close-range gunshot to the face. Spencer Tepe was shot seven times, with defensive wounds to his hand and arm suggesting he tried to shield his wife in their final moments. Both likely died within seconds to minutes. A full magazine was emptied. Two children slept just feet away. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down what these wound patterns can reveal about the shooter’s psychological state, and whether Michael McKee’s alleged eight-year fixation made this outcome feel inevitable. Why was Monique shot more times, and at closer range? Does a facial gunshot point to something personal, rage-driven, or symbolic? What do Spencer’s defensive injuries tell us about the sequence of events and his last attempt to intervene? Sixteen rounds fired into two people isn’t impulsive. Robin explains what that volume of fire suggests about mental rehearsal versus explosive emotion, and how professional conditioning may shape how violence is carried out. According to the affidavit, McKee allegedly told Monique over the years that he could “kill her at any time” and that “she will always be his wife.” Robin explores the so-called wound collector profile, someone who stockpiles perceived slights for years, feeding revenge fantasies until a final trigger pulls everything into motion. With a phone that allegedly went dark during the murder window, stolen plates on the SUV, and post-arrest attempts to alter identifying details, investigators point to counter-forensic behavior and operational awareness. But can anything crack someone who may have planned this for nearly a decade, and does the autopsy itself hold the key to breaking through that psychological armor? #MichaelMcKee #TepeAutopsy #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #RobinDreeke #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #WoundCollector #16Gunshots #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The D4VD grand jury investigation is ramping up. Neo Langston — a close friend of D4VD — was arrested by seven officers in Montana on an LAPD Robbery-Homicide warrant and compelled to testify as a witness. He was in front of the grand jury for roughly thirty to forty minutes. Label head Robert Morgenroth testified for multiple days and was allegedly grilled about why he never called police. Outside forensic experts have reportedly been brought in because of conflict between the DA's office and the LA County Medical Examiner.Five months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's dismembered remains were found in D4VD's Tesla, no charges have been filed. But multiple sources say an indictment is likely. Investigators have reportedly reconstructed D4VD's digital footprint down to the minute. The Tesla was held by LAPD for only forty-eight hours.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what compelled, short-duration witness testimony reveals about what prosecutors already know, how the forensic battles could affect the case, and whether this grand jury timeline signals strength or struggle.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #GrandJury #NeoLangston #LAPD #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobberyHomicide #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nine days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home, the gap between what investigators are saying and what they are doing has never been wider. Officially — no suspects, no persons of interest, no vehicles. On the ground — drone footage of deputies probing a septic tank on Nancy's property. Three hours of forensic work inside Annie Guthrie's home Saturday night with photography flashes through the windows and deputies leaving with evidence bags and latex gloves. Investigators pulling Circle K surveillance footage after an employee said they were looking for "a guy that got away." Topographic search grids photographed at a staging area and carried into headquarters. A crime scene released after one day, re-entered five times, with a rooftop camera missed for five days. The ransom notes that launched a thousand headlines contained no proof of life, no communication channel back to the sender, and produced zero follow-through when the first deadline passed. The family's "we will pay" video was FBI-directed, responding to a second note that asked for nothing. Sheriff Chris Nanos was photographed near the front row at a basketball game Saturday evening while his deputies were extracting evidence from a family member's home. His own union revealed he grounded the thermal-imaging Cessna by punishing its pilot and transferred the most experienced Search and Rescue deputy off the unit months before Nancy vanished. Nancy is 84. Her pacemaker went dark at 2:28 AM. She has been without life-sustaining medication for nine days. The investigation just went silent — no scheduled briefings. That is not a department with nothing. That is a department building toward something.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FBI #ChrisNanos #PimaCounty #MissingPerson #ForensicSearch #CrimeSceneJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sheriff Chris Nanos denied forced entry. Denied cameras were smashed. Called suspect reports reckless. But the next day, investigators returned to Nancy Guthrie's home with crime scene tape, canine units, evidence bags, and federal agents from multiple agencies — one day after the sheriff said the scene was fully processed.Standing at Thursday's press conference, the sheriff and FBI SAC Heith Janke delivered contradictory messages from the same podium. The sheriff said no suspects, no persons of interest. The FBI announced a reward, detailed ransom note contents, and warned imposters.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains what the sheriff's specific language is actually communicating, why the divergent messaging between agencies reveals tension in who controls the narrative, what triggers a second entry into a completed crime scene, and what canine units on that return visit were specifically searching for.The doorbell camera came back empty. Blood was confirmed as Nancy's on the porch. Five days in, no one has been named. Coffindaffer reads between the lines of what has — and hasn't — been made public.#NancyGuthrie #SheriffNanos #FBI #CrimeScene #JenniferCoffindaffer #CatalinaFoothills #PimaCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

There's a kind of destruction that doesn't leave marks. No blood. No crime scene tape. Just a slow, grinding disappearance of everything you used to be — your confidence, your judgment, your identity — until one day you realize your entire life has become a hostage negotiation with someone who's supposed to love you back.This episode examines what daily life reportedly looked like inside the Reiner household long before December 14th. Not the hospitalizations or the arrests or the blowups that made the news. The quiet stuff. The invisible control. The way a narcissistic, addicted personality allegedly bent an entire family's reality around his needs until two of the most accomplished people in Hollywood reportedly couldn't make a decision without first calculating how Nick would react.Rob Reiner directed some of the most iconic films in American history. Michele Singer Reiner was a photographer, an activist, a woman with purpose and fire. And by multiple accounts, their lives reportedly collapsed into a single orbit — managing their son's next crisis, absorbing his next outburst, adjusting their expectations downward one more time because confronting the truth was worse than living the lie.This isn't just reporting. This is education. This episode breaks down the mechanics of narcissistic control for anyone who's living it right now — the morning threat assessments, the reality erosion, the crisis cycles that masquerade as progress, and the moment you realize that the person you've been trying to save has made your survival feel like betrayal. Michele Reiner said publicly that professionals told them Nick was manipulating them. She and Rob reportedly came to reject that guidance. That's not bad parenting. That's the end stage of what this episode describes.If someone in your life is slowly erasing you, this one's for you.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #NarcissisticManipulation #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AddictionAndControl #CoerciveControl #ReinerCase #ToxicFamilyDynamicsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her Catalina Foothills home has escalated rapidly. The FBI is now jointly running the investigation with Pima County. More than a hundred investigators are working the case. A fifty-thousand-dollar reward has been posted. And ransom notes were sent not to the Guthrie family or to law enforcement — but to media outlets including TMZ and local Tucson stations.Those notes reportedly reference an Apple Watch and a floodlight, demand millions in bitcoin, and carry two deadlines. The FBI says there has been no proof of life and no follow-up communication. One person has already been arrested for filing an imposter ransom demand.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings twenty-two years of Bureau experience to break down what the ransom communications are actually telling investigators. She explains how the FBI coordinates a hundred-person operation, why sending demands to the press is a red flag for investigators, what the Bureau accepts as legitimate proof of life when AI can now fabricate video and audio, and what happens behind the scenes when ransom deadlines pass with nothing but silence.FBI SAC Heith Janke said in a normal kidnapping there would be contact by now. There hasn't been. Coffindaffer explains what that means.#NancyGuthrie #FBI #RansomNotes #JenniferCoffindaffer #Kidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #PimaCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Michael McKee strangled Monique Tepe during their marriage, forced unwanted sex on her, and told her he could end her life whenever he wanted. She divorced him in 2017 after seven months. No police report. No protective order. She told friends and family she was afraid—then got up every morning and lived her life anyway.What does it cost to function—to work, to fall in love again, to marry Spencer, to raise two children—while knowing someone has promised to kill you? That's the question that doesn't make headlines.Strangulation is one of the most significant predictors of future lethality in domestic violence research. If McKee did what witnesses allege, Monique was statistically in extreme danger from the moment she left. Rob Misleh said publicly the family didn't fully understand the threats were real until it was too late. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why there's so often a gap between what a victim communicates and what the people who love them actually hear—and what eight years of constant threat assessment does to someone psychologically.Scott has spent over thirty years working with survivors of intimate partner violence. She's also a survivor herself—her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce.Then there's McKee's response to being charged. He pleaded not guilty. Waived his bail hearing but reserved the right to revisit it. Chess move, not surrender. Scott analyzes defendants who treat courtrooms like arenas—not places of accountability, but stages to prove they're smarter than everyone else. Ted Bundy, Scott Peterson, Chris Watts. The theory: the detachment that lets someone sit calmly facing murder charges is the same detachment that allegedly let them pull the trigger.McKee has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ShavaunScott #DomesticViolence #Strangulation #CoerciveControl #DVSurvivor #ColumbusOhio #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Everyone already thinks Michael McKee is guilty. Surveillance footage allegedly linking his vehicle to the scene. A firearm from his Chicago condo matched through national ballistics databases. Witnesses describing years of alleged abuse—that he could "kill her at any time," that Monique would "always be his wife." His phone going silent during the murder window. The court of public opinion convicted him before he was arraigned.Defense attorney Bob Motta looks at cases like this and asks the questions nobody else wants to ask. That's how the justice system is supposed to work.The surveillance footage everyone treats as a smoking gun—how reliable is it really? Bob breaks down what people get wrong about video evidence. The hearsay testimony from friends claiming Monique said McKee threatened her—she's not alive to testify, so can prosecutors even use it? The phone going dark sounds damning, but digital evidence cuts both ways.Then there's the not guilty plea. McKee waived extradition immediately and his bail hearing while reserving future rights. Strategy, not desperation. Forensic experts call defendants who view their own prosecution as competition the "game player"—the pattern seen in Scott Peterson, Chris Watts, Ted Bundy. Men who faced overwhelming evidence but refused to fold.The same detachment that allows someone to treat a murder trial as an intellectual exercise may be the same detachment that enables the act itself. For the game player, other people aren't fully real. They're pieces on a board. The trial isn't punishment—it's the championship round.This is an aggravated murder charge. Prosecutors must prove premeditation—not just that he did it, but that he planned it. Eight years passed between the divorce and the murders. Bob Motta explains why that timeline works for the defense as much as the prosecution.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #BobMotta #DefenseStrategy #AggravatedMurder #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #GamePlayerPsychology #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four years old, and she didn't just go missing. She disappeared from inside her own home—where investigators found blood at the entry and inside the residence. From the first hours, law enforcement processed the scene as a crime. Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed this is being investigated as a kidnapping.According to law enforcement sources, Nancy's pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple Watch at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday. The device lost its Bluetooth connection when Nancy was physically moved out of range. The watch was left behind. Multiple cameras at the property were smashed. The back door was left wide open. Retired FBI agent Maureen O'Connell analyzed footage showing blood at the front door and said the round droplets suggest Nancy may have been carried out.Roughly thirty hours after the initial response, the scene was released. Tape came down. Activity slowed. Then—without public explanation—everything reversed. Crime scene tape went back up. Multiple agencies surged back in. Canine units arrived. Officers focused heavily on the garage. That pattern tells a story. Scenes don't get reopened without cause. Something changed.The investigation has turned toward family members as standard procedure. A vehicle belonging to Nancy's daughter Annie was towed and impounded. FBI agents spent two hours at Annie's home. Reports have emerged of ransom-style messages referencing cryptocurrency and claiming knowledge of crime scene details. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released an emotional plea—specifically requesting proof of life. That language signals concern about the credibility of communications the family may have received.Nancy cannot walk fifty yards unassisted. She requires daily medication that could be fatal if missed. She is past the seventy-two-hour mark. When asked if they believe Nancy is alive, Sheriff Nanos said: "We hope we are." Retired FBI agents were more blunt. One said the blood evidence "let the air out of my tires."#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TodayShow #Tucson #CatalinaFoothills #Kidnapping #MissingPerson #FBI #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Mica Miller called police fourteen times in her final months. She told officers she was afraid for her life. She told family members if she ended up with a bullet in her head, it wasn't by her—it was JP. Two days after serving her husband divorce papers, she was dead. Her death was ruled a suicide.Now the federal government has indicted Pastor John-Paul Miller. They allege he cyberstalked her for eighteen months—tracking her car, posting a nude photo of her online, contacting her over fifty times in a single day, and lying to investigators about all of it. He has pleaded not guilty.But this story doesn't start with Mica. It starts with JP's father—a man whose own ex-wife testified he exercised absolute control over his family and congregation. It continues through JP's first marriage, where his ex-wife alleges he confessed to sexual misconduct with underage church members. And it connects to Chris Skinner—a quadriplegic who drowned two weeks after allegedly confronting JP about sleeping with his wife. JP married that widow thirteen months after Mica died.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent thirty years treating survivors of coercive control, walks through how coercive controllers weaponize systems against their victims. In February 2024, Mica was involuntarily hospitalized. When she got out, her car was gone, her accounts were locked, and documents she'd collected about his abuse had allegedly been removed. JP told media Mica had "mental health struggles." Scott explains how abusers use these narratives to ensure no one believes their victims.Two civil lawsuits allege JP and his father sexually abused minors for decades. They deny everything. South Carolina still has no standalone coercive control law. Senate Bill 702 keeps stalling. This case shows exactly why.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #JohnPaulMiller #CoerciveControl #FederalIndictment #PastorAbuse #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #DomesticViolence #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

December 6th, 2025. Monique and Spencer Tepe are in Indianapolis watching the Big Ten Championship. According to court documents, Michael McKee was at their Columbus home that same day—captured on surveillance walking through their yard.Monique left the game at halftime. Upset about something involving her ex-husband.Did she somehow know he'd been there? Did she sense something? Three weeks later, she and Spencer were dead.This episode combines FBI behavioral analysis with a hard look at why victims of stalking so often don't report—even when they know they're in danger.Robin Dreeke, former head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, breaks down the psychology of McKee's alleged eight-year obsession. The threats witnesses say he made over the years. The alleged abuse during the marriage—strangulation, forced sex. The December 6th reconnaissance trip that allegedly preceded the killings by three weeks.Robin explains the behavioral distinction between threats made as manipulation and threats made as rehearsal. When someone says "I could kill you at any time" for eight years and then allegedly does it—what was happening psychologically during that timeline? What does it mean when the threats finally stop being words?We also examine the gap between knowing you're in danger and the system being able to help. What does Ohio law actually require for a protection order? What holds victims back from reporting? And what can the legal system do when someone is being stalked by a person who technically hasn't broken the law yet?This isn't victim blaming. It's understanding why the space between fear and action is so hard to cross—and what you can do if you're in that space right now.#MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #MichaelMcKee #RobinDreeke #December6th #DomesticViolence #Stalking #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhães testified that she watched Brendan Banfield stab his wife Christine. She admitted to helping stage the crime scene. She called 911 with him standing next to her.She walked out of court with time served on a manslaughter plea.Brendan Banfield is going to prison for the rest of his life.The jury deliberated nine hours. Guilty on every count. Aggravated murder. No compromises. No mercy. Twelve people heard the defense call Juliana bought and paid for—and convicted him anyway.Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what went wrong.The fundamental problem: the defense told jurors what didn't happen, but never told them what did. Banfield's DNA wasn't on the murder weapon. The digital forensics fight went nowhere. They attacked Juliana's credibility from every angle. But attacking a cooperating witness only works if you give the jury an alternative story.The defense never did.Then Banfield took the stand. A former IRS special agent who spent his career inside the system, apparently confident he could beat it. He told jurors that "no reasonable person" would kill their wife over a six-week affair with the au pair.They gave him life without parole.Bob identifies the moment this case was probably lost. He explains why putting Banfield on the stand may have sealed his fate. And he addresses the appeal grounds already taking shape—the cooperating witness deal, suppressed digital evidence, and a recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling that could matter.Prosecutors argued Banfield and Magalhães catfished Joseph Ryan through the fetish website FetLife, lured him to the house believing he was meeting Christine for a consensual violent encounter, then killed him and framed him for her murder.The jury believed every word.#BrendanBanfield #ChristineBanfield #BanfieldGuilty #JulianaMagalhaes #AuPairTestimony #BobMotta #DefenseStrategy #AggravatedMurder #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eric Richins had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. But no fentanyl was ever recovered. No pills. No forensic link tying Kouri Richins directly to the drugs. And now the witness who was supposed to prove where the fentanyl came from has recanted.Robert Crozier originally told investigators he sold fentanyl to the housekeeper in the alleged drug chain. Now he's signed a sworn affidavit saying it was OxyContin, not fentanyl—and that he was detoxing and "out of it" during the original interview.The defense says this eviscerates the prosecution's sourcing theory. If Crozier didn't provide fentanyl, the chain that supposedly put the murder weapon in Kouri's hands falls apart.But that's not the only bomb dropped before trial. A new motion alleges prosecutors are intimidating witnesses—threatening arrest and suggesting immunity could be revoked if witnesses don't cooperate with additional meetings.Defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what these developments mean. Is witness intimidation a legitimate concern or standard trial prep? Can prosecutors pivot on the drug sourcing without destroying their credibility? And what happens when your case depends on proving a poisoning you can't forensically connect to the defendant?We examine every pretrial ruling: the 26 financial fraud charges severed from the murder trial, the FBI profiler limited to rebuttal, the domestic violence expert blocked entirely, and the "Walk the Dog" letter allegedly found in Kouri's jail cell—prosecutors say it instructed her mother how to lie on the stand. The defense says it was fiction.80% of Summit County residents recognize this case. Eight jurors from that county will decide Kouri's fate.Trial begins February 23rd.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #WitnessRecants #WalkTheDogLetter #NoForensicLink #EricFaddis #UtahMurderTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

On the Dopey podcast, Nick Reiner admitted to throwing a rock through a window specifically to "prove he was crazy" and manipulate staff into giving him drugs. That wasn't speculation from a prosecutor. That was Nick, in his own words, explaining how he gamed the system.Now he's reportedly expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity for the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.This episode traces Nick Reiner's cognitive architecture across nearly a decade of interviews and podcast appearances. We examine how he convinced his parents to publicly apologize for listening to doctors. How he co-wrote a film—Being Charlie—that blamed his father for his failures, and got Rob Reiner to direct it. How he chose homelessness over following rules, knowing the safety net would always be there.Then we hear from Danny Spilar, who shared a room with Nick in a $60,000-a-month Malibu rehab when both were teenagers. According to Danny, the hatred was there from the beginning. Nick would stay up after lights out ranting about his parents. He was violent—attacking another teen, getting physical with Danny. And he blamed everything on his parents' fame.This wasn't after years of drug damage. This was the baseline.Danny says he knew exactly who killed Rob and Michele the moment he saw the headlines. He doesn't buy the insanity defense. And he thinks jurors won't either—not when they hear Nick's own admissions about manipulating treatment providers.Eighteen rehab stays. Two parents who never stopped trying. What happens when addiction becomes an identity and the people trying to save you become the enemy?For families living this nightmare right now—this one's for you.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #DannySpilar #DopeyPodcast #InsanityDefense #BeingCharlie #BrentwoodMurder #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique Tepe told friends what her ex-husband said to her. That he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he'd find her and buy the house right next to hers.Now she and Spencer Tepe are dead. Monique can't testify. And those three statements might be the most damaging evidence prosecutors have.This episode takes you inside both the investigation that caught Michael McKee and the defense strategy that will try to keep those words away from a jury.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains the forensic architecture: how investigators connected a surgeon in Chicago to a double homicide in Columbus in just 11 days. The surveillance footage. The NIBIN ballistics hit linking a gun in McKee's condo to shell casings at the crime scene. The 18-hour phone blackout during the murder window. The stolen plates from Ohio and Arizona—counter-surveillance moves that created their own trail.Then defense attorney Eric Faddis reveals what McKee's team is planning. The hearsay battle over Monique's statements to friends. The fight to exclude testimony about alleged abuse that was never reported to police. The innocent explanations they might offer for the phone gap, the surveillance footage, the vehicle tracking.McKee waived his bail hearing. That's not a small decision. Eric explains what that strategic choice signals about how his attorneys see this case.The indictment alleges either an automatic weapon or a suppressor—charged in the alternative. Why would prosecutors structure it that way? What are they holding back?If acquittal isn't realistic, what does a "win" look like for Michael McKee? Is there a path to lesser charges—or is his defense team just trying to avoid the worst possible outcome?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #HearsayEvidence #JenniferCoffindaffer #EricFaddis #FBIForensics #DefenseStrategy #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Newly unsealed court documents in the Monique Tepe and Spencer Tepe murder case reveal both the evidence prosecutors are building on and the psychology allegedly behind the killings.According to witnesses, Michael McKee made three statements to Monique during and after their marriage: that he could "kill her at any time," that he would "find her and buy the house right next to her," and that "she will always be his wife." Surveillance footage allegedly captured McKee walking through the Tepes' yard on December 7th, 2025—twenty-three days before the murders—while Spencer and Monique were at the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. Monique reportedly left that game early, upset about something involving her ex-husband.The affidavit reads like a prosecutor's blueprint: stolen license plates from two states, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, a vehicle tracked arriving before and leaving after. Witnesses told investigators that during the marriage, McKee allegedly strangled Monique and forced unwanted sex on her. Strangulation is the single greatest predictor of future lethality in domestic violence cases.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis analyzes the case through the prosecution's lens. He breaks down which evidence he'd build the entire case around, examines the hearsay problem with statements Monique allegedly made to friends about death threats, and explains whether prior abuse allegations never criminally charged can reach a jury. The firearm specifications—alleging either an automatic weapon or silencer—signal premeditation and transform how a jury perceives the crime.This case reveals the brutal reality that doing everything right—leaving, divorcing, rebuilding—doesn't always protect you from someone who never recognized your right to leave.Spencer and Monique Tepe were found shot to death in their Columbus home on December 30th, 2025. Their two young children were found unharmed. McKee has pleaded not guilty.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ColumbusOhio #UnsealedAffidavit #DomesticViolence #AggravatedMurder #WeinlandPark #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Neo Langston finally faced the grand jury investigating Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death on February 4, 2026—but his testimony lasted roughly 40 minutes, a fraction of the three days D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth spent answering questions. The stark contrast has raised immediate questions about what happened inside that Los Angeles courtroom.Langston, a close friend of singer D4VD, was arrested January 22 in Helena, Montana, after fleeing a subpoena. Police took him into custody at his mother's home, and he was transported to Los Angeles and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center before posting $60,000 bail. His brief testimony comes after prosecutors fought across state lines to secure his appearance.Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman, who has aggressively questioned witnesses throughout the proceedings, declined to comment as she entered the courthouse. Langston left without answering reporters' questions. The brevity of his appearance suggests he may have invoked Fifth Amendment protections, prosecutors already had what they needed, or cooperation is happening behind sealed doors.Private investigator Steve Fischer has publicly stated he's "certain" who moved D4VD's Tesla in late July 2025 based on surveillance footage—though he hasn't named the individual. Fischer also discovered an unopened burn cage incinerator and unused chainsaw at D4VD's former Hollywood Hills rental, raising disturbing questions about original disposal plans.LAPD has confirmed D4VD is a suspect and identified a second individual allegedly involved "before, during, and after" Celeste's death. TMZ reports murder charges are likely. The grand jury continues through February. No arrests have been made. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.#NeoLangston #D4VD #CelesteRivas #GrandJury #BethSilverman #LAPD #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #JusticeForCeleste #CelesteRivasHernandezJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down three of the most followed cases in true crime—the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the Charity Beallis family deaths, and the newly unsealed McKee affidavit.Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home. She's the mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence, and bitcoin ransom demands sent to media outlets. Pacemaker sync data may establish the timeline. No suspects have been identified. Faddis analyzes the legal landscape—cryptocurrency evidence, medical device data at trial, and how law enforcement's conflicting public statements become defense material.Charity Beallis and her twins were shot to death December 3rd in Arkansas—one day after her divorce was finalized. Her father says she was shot twice. Two months, no arrest. The history includes a 2025 arrest for allegedly choking Charity, substantiated child maltreatment, and a prior wife dead in 2012 under similar circumstances. Faddis walks through what's causing the delay and what defense strategy emerges from this background.The McKee affidavit documents alleged obsession spanning eight years. Surveillance footage shows Michael McKee in the Tepes' yard while they were away. Stolen plates on his vehicle. Years of threats. A phone that went dark during the murder window. Automatic weapon or silencer specifications. No forced entry. Faddis breaks down what the prosecution is building and identifies potential defense challenges.Three cases. Three different evidence profiles. Three different stages of investigation and prosecution.Eric Faddis provides the legal framework for understanding each—what prosecutors have, what they need, and what the people at the center of these investigations should be thinking about their exposure right now.#NancyGuthrie #CharityBeallis #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CriminalDefense #LegalAnalysisJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The South Carolina Supreme Court hears Alex Murdaugh's appeal February 11, 2026. The ground has shifted — because the woman who oversaw his jury just admitted to lying under oath about her conduct during the trial.Becky Hill, former Colleton County Clerk of Court, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct. The perjury conviction stems from false testimony at a January 2024 hearing before retired Chief Justice Jean Toal. Toal was evaluating whether Hill tampered with Murdaugh's jury. She asked Hill directly if she let media view sealed exhibits. Hill said no. According to prosecutors, that was a lie.Murdaugh's defense successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to add Hill's conviction to the appellate record. The justices will now evaluate jury tampering claims knowing the court official at the center is a convicted perjurer.The state's response called Hill's conduct "foolish and fleeting" and insisted Murdaugh was "obviously guilty." That was filed before Hill's guilty plea. The state's position depends on trusting a woman who has proven she cannot be trusted.Defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin argue Hill's conduct is structural error — that jury tampering by a state actor is presumptively prejudicial under federal precedent. They also challenge the week of financial crimes testimony they say turned the murder trial into character assassination.The court can affirm, reverse for a new trial, or remand. The ruling comes later, in writing. But the person the state relied on to dismiss these concerns can no longer be believed.#MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #HiddenKillers #SupremeCourt #CriminalJustice #MurdaughTrial #SouthCarolinaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The unsealed affidavit in the McKee case documents what prosecutors describe as nearly a decade of alleged obsession with Monique Tepe. Surveillance footage shows Michael McKee in the Tepes' yard days before the murders—while Spencer and Monique were out of town. Witnesses describe years of threats. Stolen plates. A phone that went dark during the killing window.Defense attorney Eric Faddis analyzes what this evidence means for the prosecution's case and where the defense might push back.The surveillance footage is central. McKee captured on camera walking through the victims' property while they attended the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. That's pre-offense reconnaissance, and Faddis explains how prosecutors use that to establish prior calculation and design.The threats span years. Witnesses told investigators McKee said he could "kill her at any time," would "find her and buy the house right next to her," and that Monique "will always be his wife." How does that historical evidence get introduced—and what threshold does the prosecution need to meet?Firearm specifications are charged in the alternative: automatic weapon or silencer. The weapon hasn't been recovered. Faddis walks through what those specifications signal and how they affect sentencing.Digital evidence creates circumstantial support. McKee's phone showed no activity from December 29th through noon on December 30th—covering the 3:50 a.m. estimated time of death. How do prosecutors frame silence as guilt?The vehicle evidence is layered. A silver SUV tracked to McKee appeared near the Tepe home displaying stolen plates. After arrest, scrape marks showed a distinctive sticker had been removed.No forced entry was found. The aggravated burglary charge suggests prosecutors have a theory about how McKee gained access.McKee waived extradition and pleaded not guilty. Eric Faddis breaks down what comes next.#MichaellMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TepeMurders #OhioMurder #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AggravatedMurder #LibertyTownshipJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is now focused on the people in her world as much as the crime scene itself. Agents with forensic extraction devices entered the home of Nancy's daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni, the last people to see her before she vanished. The Pima County Sheriff has confirmed no suspects and no persons of interest, and has called unverified media reports naming potential suspects reckless and potentially harmful to the case.The Guthrie family released a video statement described by former federal law enforcement analysts as carefully directed by authorities. Every line was strategic — from humanizing Nancy to asking directly for proof of life. Meanwhile, tips are flooding in, a fifty-thousand-dollar reward has been posted, and over a hundred investigators are working the case.In Part 2 of this interview, Robin Dreeke — former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — explains how investigators behaviorally assess everyone in a victim's orbit. How do you tell grief from guilt? What does a forensic device extraction really accomplish beyond recovering data? How do premature public accusations change the landscape for investigators, for the accused, and for whoever actually did this? And what happens to the behavioral dynamics if this case goes cold?#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #SavannahGuthrie #Kidnapping #TrueCrime #CellebriteForensics #PimaCountySheriff #TrueCrime2026Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Charity Beallis and her six-year-old twins were found shot to death December 3rd in Bonanza, Arkansas. Two months later, no arrest. Charity's father says he viewed her body and she was shot twice—chest and forehead. If accurate, that eliminates suicide. So what's taking so long?The timeline speaks for itself. Divorce finalized December 2nd. Joint custody awarded. Twins scheduled to return to Randall Beallis December 5th. One day before that transfer, Charity and the children were dead.Defense attorney Eric Faddis analyzes what's likely happening behind the scenes and what legal thresholds investigators might be trying to meet.The documented history is extensive. Randall was arrested February 2025 for allegedly choking Charity in front of their children. Charges were reduced to a misdemeanor. Child maltreatment was substantiated for both twins in July. His attorney says he's cooperating and was not responsible for the deaths.Then there's 2012. Randall's second wife Shawna was found dead with a gunshot wound to the forehead. Ruled suicide. The case was reopened in 2021 after statements to police, then closed because evidence had been destroyed by court order. Faddis explains what happens when a defendant has a prior death in their history that mirrors the current case.Three days after the bodies were found, investigators discovered family photos, children's artwork, and a necklace with the twins' names in a dumpster at an address connected to Randall through court records. No comment from law enforcement.Two months of silence. A mother reportedly shot twice. Two children dead. A custody battle that ended the day before the murders. A prior wife dead under strikingly similar circumstances.Eric Faddis breaks down what investigators need to make an arrest—and what defense attorneys are likely preparing.#CharityBeallis #BeallisTwins #RandallBeallis #BonanzaArkansas #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #DomesticViolence #TripleHomicide #ArkansasCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Law enforcement released the most precise timeline yet in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM. Software detected a person at 2:12 AM with no video available. Her pacemaker app disconnected at 2:28 AM. That is a forty-one-minute window — and it is the last digital record of Nancy in her own home.The Pima County Sheriff has now denied reports of forced entry and confirmed no cameras were smashed or destroyed. The camera was disconnected, sent to a technology company, and all recovery methods have been exhausted. Nancy had no paid subscription on the device, meaning there was no cloud backup to recover.Purported ransom notes were sent to media outlets demanding millions in bitcoin. The FBI confirmed no proof of life has been provided and no follow-up communication has occurred. One arrest has been made for a fake ransom demand. FBI Special Agent in Charge Heith Janke noted that in a legitimate kidnapping, contact would have been made by now.Robin Dreeke, former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins the show to conduct a behavioral breakdown of the crime. He examines what the pace of the intrusion reveals, what disconnecting versus destroying a camera tells investigators, why the ransom notes went to the press and not the family, and what five days of total silence means when the victim is an 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication to survive.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBIBehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillers #SavannahGuthrie #Kidnapping #TrueCrime #PimaCountySheriff #ProofOfLife #CrimeBehaviorJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy was taken from her Tucson home against her will. Forced entry confirmed. DNA evidence recovered. Ransom notes demanding bitcoin sent to media outlets including TMZ. The FBI is now involved, and no suspects have been publicly identified.Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what investigators and prosecutors are likely building behind the scenes—and what a defense would look like if charges are ever filed.The ransom strategy is unusual. Whoever sent those notes went to media, not family. That decision creates immediate legal exposure regardless of whether the sender is the abductor. The notes reportedly contain details about the inside of Nancy's home, raising questions about authentication and chain of custody if this reaches trial.Bitcoin as a ransom vehicle changes the investigative playbook. Cryptocurrency is traceable but presents unique challenges. Faddis explains how prosecutors approach digital currency evidence and where defense attorneys find vulnerabilities.The DNA recovered from the home belongs to Nancy—but the sheriff won't confirm whether it's blood. That distinction shapes what charges can ultimately be brought. Evidence of presence differs from evidence of harm under Arizona law.Pacemaker data may be key. Investigators are reportedly using sync records to establish when Nancy went out of range of her home devices. Medical device evidence is emerging legal territory, and Faddis explains how it gets introduced—and challenged.The sheriff's public statements have already created problems. He told NBC Nancy "was harmed at the home" then walked it back. Defense attorneys pay attention to contradictions like that.Nancy requires daily medication described as potentially fatal to go without. Her age, mobility limitations, and medical dependence all elevate sentencing exposure for whoever is eventually charged.Eric Faddis breaks down the prosecution and defense angles in one of the highest-profile kidnapping cases in recent memory.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #FBI #HiddenKillers #Kidnapping #BitcoinRansom #CriminalDefenseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 2026. She's charged with poisoning her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl, then writing a children's book about grief. The prosecution says she killed him for money. The defense says key witnesses have recanted and the state can't prove she ever had fentanyl in her hands.But there's one piece of evidence that could answer the most important question in this case — and nobody's publicly demanding it.Eric Richins' hair.Hair follicle analysis can detect fentanyl use going back ninety days or longer. More importantly, forensic labs can distinguish between chronic drug use and a single acute exposure. If Eric was secretly using fentanyl for weeks or months before his death, his hair would show it — supporting an accidental overdose theory. If his hair shows no prior exposure, that points directly to poisoning.The science exists. It's used in criminal cases worldwide. So why isn't anyone asking for it?In this episode, we break down exactly what hair analysis could reveal, the forensic science behind segmental testing, and why both the prosecution and defense may have strategic reasons to avoid this evidence entirely. We examine what's known about Eric's autopsy, the contested witness testimony, and what a jury deserves to know before deciding Kouri Richins' fate.This isn't about speculation. It's about asking why the most definitive evidence available might be sitting in the ground — if Eric was buried — while both sides fight over witnesses who keep changing their stories.Hair doesn't recant. Hair doesn't cut deals. Hair tells the truth.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to all charges. She is presumed innocent until proven guilty.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrime #FentanylPoisoning #ForensicScience #HairAnalysis #UtahMurder #MurderTrial #TrueCrimeYouTube #JusticeForEricJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

One woman allegedly endured eight years of death threats before she and her husband were killed in their Columbus home. The other made fourteen police reports, filed for divorce, and was dead two days later — ruled a suicide. Different states. Different circumstances. The same pattern running underneath: women who tried to survive, systems that failed them, and men who allegedly believed consequences were for other people.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent thirty years treating domestic violence survivors. She's also a survivor — her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce. She brings clinical expertise and lived experience to both cases. For the McKee-Tepe murders, she explains what it costs to function under direct threat for years, why Monique never filed a public report, and the forensic psychology of defendants who plead not guilty despite substantial evidence. For the JP Miller case, she breaks down how coercive controllers weaponize mental health systems, grooming, and institutional failures to isolate and discredit their victims until there's no escape route left.This is the full conversation — victim psychology, defendant psychology, and the systemic gaps that let both cases happen. Scott addresses what survivors actually face, what courtroom behaviors reveal about how defendants allegedly saw their victims, and why South Carolina still has no standalone coercive control law. Two women dead. Two systems that failed. The connection isn't coincidence — it's design.#MoniqueTepe #MicaMiller #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #MichaelMcKee #JPMiller #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolence #SystemFailure #MindsOfMassKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sixteen bullets. Two victims. Two children left crying in a house with their dead parents. The autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe are now public — and they paint a brutal picture of what happened inside that Weinland Park bedroom on December 30th. Every wound was to the upper body. Both victims had defensive injuries. The trajectories show they moved, turned, tried to escape. The shooting continued anyway.This episode breaks down the forensic signature of the crime and what it tells us about the psychology of the person accused of committing it. Michael McKee — Monique's ex-husband — allegedly waited eight and a half years after their divorce before allegedly executing her and her new husband. Court documents describe years of alleged threats, stalking behavior, and an obsession that never faded. He allegedly told her she would "always be his wife" and that he could "kill her at any time."Forensic psychologists call this pattern a "grievance collector" — someone who catalogs wounds to their ego and nurtures them for years until the grievance becomes justification. McKee's alleged behavior fits this profile precisely. The surveillance weeks before the murders. The stolen license plates. The phone going dark the night of the killings. The sticker scraped off his vehicle afterward.What makes this case uniquely disturbing is the combination of explosive violence and meticulous control. A full magazine emptied, but confined to the bedroom. Children left unharmed but orphaned. And a suspect who allegedly drove home and went back to work. That's not rage. That's architecture.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TepeCase #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #ForensicPsychology #GrievanceCollector #ColumbusHomicide #DomesticViolenceMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Mica Miller tried to leave. She filed for divorce. She called police fourteen times. She reported GPS trackers on her car. Slashed tires. Harassment. She told officers she was afraid for her life. Two days after serving JP Miller divorce papers, she was dead. Ruled a suicide.The federal indictment against Pastor JP Miller alleges a pattern that psychotherapist Shavaun Scott calls textbook coercive control: tracking devices, a nude photo posted online without consent, over fifty contacts in a single day, financial interference, and lies to federal investigators. People always ask why victims don't just leave. Mica did try to leave. Scott explains why the most dangerous time for a victim is often the escape attempt itself — and why every system designed to protect Mica failed her.Mica said JP "groomed" her starting at age ten. In February 2024, she was involuntarily committed for forty-eight hours. When she was released, her car was gone, accounts locked, and according to family, JP had removed evidence she'd been collecting. JP publicly called her mentally ill, said she needed lithium, told his congregation that sick people "don't know they're sick" and need to "trust people around them." Scott breaks down how abusers weaponize mental health narratives to make sure no one believes their victims. South Carolina still has no standalone coercive control law. This case shows why that matters.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #CoerciveControl #FederalIndictment #ShavaunScott #DomesticViolence #PastorAbuse #Grooming #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Charlie Adelson wasn't in the courtroom today. He's sitting in a South Dakota prison while his appellate attorneys argued that his murder conviction should be reversed. The hearing before Florida's First District Court of Appeal lasted 40 minutes and centered on one core question: Was the Tallahassee jury pool so poisoned by pretrial publicity that a fair trial was impossible? Defense attorney Michael Ufferman laid out the numbers. Of 130 prospective jurors questioned during voir dire, 54 had formed an opinion about the case. Fifty-three of them believed Charlie was guilty. Jurors were caught talking about the case after being instructed not to. Ufferman argued the fix was simple — strike the panel, move the trial, start over. Instead, the trial proceeded and Charlie was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the 2014 killing of his former brother-in-law, FSU law professor Dan Markel. The state pushed back forcefully. Assistant Attorney General Robert Charles Lee argued Charlie accepted the jury, never filed a written venue motion, and waived his right to complain. His blunt assessment: any jury in Florida would have reached the same verdict. The judges questioned both sides but issued no ruling. Charlie's mother Donna Adelson also has an appeal pending following her own conviction last year. The Markel case now moves into its final legal chapter.#CharlieAdelson #DanMarkel #AdelsonAppeal #TrueCrime #MurderForHire #DonnaAdelson #FloridaAppeal #AdelsonTrial #MarkelMurder #JusticeForDanJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee didn't negotiate. He didn't collapse. With surveillance footage, a ballistics match, and years of documented threats on the table, he pleaded not guilty and waived his bail hearing while reserving the right to revisit it. That's a chess move from a defendant who apparently thinks he can win.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of "The Minds of Mass Killers" — has spent three decades studying violent offenders. She explains the psychology of defendants who refuse to fold. Ted Bundy represented himself. Scott Peterson watched his trial like it was happening to someone else. Chris Watts tried to manipulate homicide detectives while his family's bodies were still being recovered. These aren't isolated behaviors — they're patterns.What is narcissistic grandiosity and where does it come from? Is it developed or innate? McKee completed over a decade of elite medical training as a surgeon. Scott analyzes whether that professional background — the ability to compartmentalize, to view complex situations as problems to be solved, to operate with precision under extreme pressure — potentially feeds into the kind of detachment we see in certain courtroom defendants. For someone like this, what does "winning" even mean if conviction is likely? And as this case moves toward trial, what courtroom behaviors would confirm we're dealing with this psychological profile?#MichaelMcKee #TrueCrimeToday #ShavaunScott #NotGuiltyPlea #TedBundy #ScottPeterson #ChrisWatts #NarcissisticGrandiosity #TepeMurders #ForensicPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nancy Guthrie vanished from her own home at eighty-four years old. She didn't wander. She didn't leave voluntarily. Investigators arrived to find blood at the entry and inside the house — and immediately treated the residence as a crime scene.Then came a sequence that defies easy explanation. The scene was released after roughly thirty hours. Activity stopped. And then investigators surged back. Crime scene tape went up a second time. Canine units deployed. Grid searches expanded. And attention locked onto the garage.You don't reopen a crime scene without new information forcing your hand. That reversal is one of the most significant signals in this case — and law enforcement hasn't publicly explained what triggered it.Nancy's children stepped forward with a public video plea. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings spoke about their mother with love and restraint, describing her faith, her resilience, and her bond with her grandchildren. But buried in that plea was a pointed request — proof of life. That phrase carries weight. It signals uncertainty about whether communications claiming to involve Nancy are legitimate.Reports of ransom-style messages have surfaced — references to cryptocurrency, claims about the crime scene, descriptions of clothing. Law enforcement acknowledges awareness but has verified nothing. The authenticity gap is wide, and it matters. Genuine kidnapping operations establish leverage fast. The timeline here doesn't track with a straightforward abduction.Federal resources have poured in. Specialized units handling digital forensics, communication tracing, and kidnapping dynamics are now involved. That escalation says everything about how seriously this is being treated.Nancy Guthrie depends on daily medication and lives with chronic pain. She is vulnerable in ways that make every passing hour more dangerous. Her family isn't asking for theories. They're asking for their mother back. Tony Brueski breaks down the full picture — the evidence, the patterns, and the questions that remain unanswered.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Strangulation during the marriage. Forced sex. Direct death threats. According to the unsealed affidavit, witnesses told investigators Monique Tepe experienced all of this — and divorced Michael McKee after just seven months. But she never filed a public police report. She never obtained a restraining order. She rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children, and kept carrying the weight of knowing someone had promised to kill her.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has worked with domestic violence survivors for over thirty years — in shelters, clinical settings, and courtrooms. She's also a survivor. Her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce. She knows what living under that kind of threat actually costs in ways clinical training alone cannot teach.People always ask why victims don't report. The answers don't fit into a news segment. Scott breaks down the actual reasons — the ones grounded in how the system works, how abusers manipulate, and how survival mode changes what's possible. She explains why strangulation is one of the most significant lethality predictors in DV research, what it means that Monique got out in just seven months, and why Rob Misleh said the family didn't fully understand the threats were real. The gap between what victims communicate and what loved ones hear is where cases like this fall through.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #HiddenKillers #DomesticViolence #ShavaunScott #Strangulation #CoerciveControl #TepeMurders #DVSurvivor #ProtectiveOrdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Breaking testimony from the Paul Caneiro quadruple murder trial. New Jersey State Police forensic analysts confirmed DNA from both Sophia Caneiro, age 8, and Jesse Caneiro, age 11, was found on clothing in their uncle Paul's basement. The children were stabbed to death fourteen miles away in Colts Neck. Sophia's blood appeared in three separate locations on a pair of jeans — shin, calf, thigh. Her DNA was also on a black surgical glove frozen to the denim. Jesse's DNA showed up as part of a mixed sample. Prosecutors argue Paul Caneiro wore those items when he allegedly killed his brother Keith's entire family, then brought them home. Sophia was stabbed seventeen times. Court findings suggest she may have still been breathing when the fire was set beneath her. Keith Caneiro was shot execution-style — a contact or near-contact wound through his hood while he lay face-down on his lawn. The night before, he'd confronted Paul about $77,000 missing from a trust account and demanded answers by 8 p.m. Prosecutors say what happened next was Paul's response. The defense is raising contamination questions, but the physical evidence linking Paul to the murders is now before the jury. The trial continues through mid-March.#PaulCaneiro #TrueCrimeToday #CaneiroTrial #ColtsNeckMurders #DNATestimony #QuadrupleMurder #KeithCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #JesseCaneiro #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/​Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a deep examination of two major murder cases — the Brendan Banfield conviction and the Michael McKee arrest in the Tepe murders.We start with Banfield. The former IRS agent just got convicted of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Christine and Ryan Banfield. The jury deliberated nine hours and came back guilty on everything. They believed the au pair — the woman who got murder dropped to manslaughter and walked free in exchange for her testimony. The defense hammered her credibility. It didn't matter.Bob breaks down exactly where the defense went wrong. The strategy of attacking the prosecution's story without offering an alternative. Banfield's decision to take the stand and tell the jury this whole thing was "absolutely crazy." The DNA that wasn't on the knife. The digital forensics fight that went nowhere. Every decision that led to this verdict.Then we examine the appeal. Life without parole in Virginia means exactly what it sounds like. Banfield is 40. Unless something changes, he dies in prison. Bob explains what his appellate team will argue — the coercive witness deal, the potentially buried evidence, the reassigned forensic investigator — and why most of it probably won't work.Finally, we shift to Michael McKee, charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband. Bob examines the surveillance footage, the hearsay testimony, and the phone evidence prosecutors are relying on. What looks like an open-and-shut case has complications a defense attorney will exploit.#BrendanBanfield #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #BobMotta #BanfieldAppeal #TepeMurders #AggravatedMurder #HiddenKillers #DefenseAttorney #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee faces two counts of aggravated murder for the shooting deaths of Spencer and Monique Tepe. The evidence against him — according to court filings and police statements — includes surveillance footage, ballistics evidence, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, and years of documented threats against his ex-wife Monique.He pleaded not guilty.This episode explores a psychological pattern that emerges in cases where evidence is overwhelming but defendants refuse to fold. Forensic psychologists call it narcissistic grandiosity with antisocial features. We call it the game player. These are defendants who view prosecution not as consequence but as competition — the final arena to prove they're the smartest person in the room.We examine the parallels to Scott Peterson's detached courtroom demeanor, Chris Watts treating investigators like marks he could con, and Ted Bundy transforming his trial into performance art. The common thread: a fundamental inability to view other people as fully real. Victims become obstacles. Murder becomes a move. Trial becomes the championship round.According to the unsealed affidavit, McKee allegedly told Monique he could "kill her at any time," that he would "find her and buy the house next to her," and that she would "always be his wife." If prosecutors' allegations are accurate, the game started long before December 30th, 2025.The same psychology that allows someone to treat their murder trial as a puzzle may be the same psychology that allowed them to allegedly commit the crime.McKee is presumed innocent until proven guilty. All claims are sourced from public records.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TrueCrimePodcast #ForensicPsychology #GamePlayer #ColumbusHomicide #DomesticViolenceMurder #CriminalPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/​Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee has been charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband. The surveillance footage, the phone records, the witnesses claiming Monique said he'd threatened her for years — it all looks like an open-and-shut case. The public has already decided he's guilty.But defense attorney Bob Motta looks at cases differently. His job is to examine evidence the way a courtroom will, not the way cable news does. And when he looks at this case, he sees questions that haven't been answered yet.The surveillance footage is one thing. Prosecutors are leaning hard on video showing McKee's car allegedly coming and going, him supposedly walking through their yard weeks earlier. Bob explains what people get wrong about video evidence — resolution issues, identification problems, the difference between "looks like" and "proof beyond reasonable doubt."Then there's the hearsay. Monique allegedly told friends that McKee threatened her. She's not alive to testify to that. Can prosecutors just use what other people say she said? Bob breaks down how hearsay exceptions work, when those statements get in, and what a defense attorney does to challenge them.The phone going silent during the murders sounds damning. But digital evidence is more complicated than prosecutors make it seem. Phones die. People leave them places. Bob explains the other side of that story.Eight years passed between the divorce and the murders. No restraining orders that we know of, no recent documented incidents. Does that gap help McKee or hurt him? Bob examines the timeline and what it means for proving premeditation.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #TepeMurders #BobMotta #DefenseAttorney #SurveillanceEvidence #HearsayTestimony #AggravatedMurder #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Randy Powell went to the morgue. He viewed his daughter's body. And he's telling Hidden Killers what he saw.According to Powell, Charity Beallis was shot twice — in the chest and between the eyes. If accurate, two gunshot wounds makes self-infliction essentially impossible. Two months after Charity and her six-year-old twins Eliana and Maverick were found dead in their Bonanza, Arkansas home, no one has been arrested. No official autopsy has been released.December 2nd, 2025: Charity's divorce from Dr. Randall Beallis is finalized. According to his attorney, joint custody was awarded and the twins were to return to their father December 5th. December 3rd: all three found dead.In February 2025, Randall Beallis was arrested and charged with aggravated assault involving choking, domestic battery, and two counts of child endangerment. Charity emailed the Arkansas State Medical Board three days later: "I had to call 911 on Sunday night for choking & beating me up. My two 6 year olds saw everything. We are traumatized."In July 2025, Arkansas State Police substantiated child maltreatment against Randall Beallis — finding "abuse with or without physical injury" for both children. In October, his charges were reduced and he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery. Suspended sentence.Three days after the bodies were found, family photos, children's artwork, and a necklace engraved with the twins' names were discovered in a dumpster at an apartment complex tied to Randall Beallis through court records.Randall Beallis has not been arrested or charged in connection with the deaths. His attorney Michael Pierce says he was not responsible and is cooperating fully with investigators.Someone knows what happened. Two months of silence.#CharityBeallis #BeallisTwins #RandallBeallis #BonanzaArkansas #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #ArkansasCrime #MurderInvestigation #DomesticViolence #TrueCrime2025Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Life without parole. In Virginia, that's not a figure of speech. There's no parole board, no time off for good behavior, no path out. Brendan Banfield is 40 years old. Barring something extraordinary on appeal, he will die in a state prison.So what does "extraordinary" look like? Defense attorney Bob Motta is here to explain what Banfield's appellate team is actually going to argue — and why most of it faces near-impossible odds.First, let's be clear about what appeals are and aren't. They're not about whether the jury got it wrong. Appellate courts don't retry cases. They look for legal errors — things the judge did that violated the defendant's rights or tainted the proceedings. Banfield's team will argue several things: that Juliana's deal was too coercive, that evidence was buried, that the digital forensics fight was mishandled.Bob breaks down each argument and its chances. The au pair deal is a tough sell — courts generally allow cooperating witness agreements as long as juries know about them, and this jury knew. The digital evidence angle is more interesting — the prosecution's own forensic guy got reassigned when his findings didn't match their theory. If the defense can prove something was withheld, that's a potential Brady violation. But proving it and getting a new trial are two different things.The biggest obstacle is "harmless error." Even when something goes wrong, courts routinely say the outcome would've been the same anyway. Getting past that barrier after a jury heard weeks of testimony is brutally hard. Bob doesn't sugarcoat the odds.#BrendanBanfield #BanfieldAppeal #LifeWithoutParole #VirginiaAppeals #BobMotta #ChristineBanfield #BradyViolation #CriminalJustice #HiddenKillers #AppellateProcessJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home tells a story investigators are still trying to piece together. Blood at the front door. The back door left wide open. Multiple cameras smashed. And an 84-year-old woman who can't walk 50 yards on her own, gone without a trace.Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing Sunday after she failed to show up for church. According to a law enforcement source speaking to journalist Ashley Banfield, the back door of her Catalina Foothills home was found wide open. When Banfield asked Sheriff Chris Nanos if Nancy was carried out the front door, he said, "I did not say the front door."Brian Entin of NewsNation walked up to the home Tuesday after it was released from crime scene status. He found blood still visible at the front door stoop — some red, some brown. The blood trail stops there. It doesn't continue to the driveway. Retired FBI agent Maureen O'Connell analyzed the footage and noted the droplets are round, falling from directly above. No bloody footprints. Her conclusion: Nancy may have been carried out and placed into a waiting vehicle.Banfield's source says multiple cameras were smashed by whoever did this. The source's assessment: "This is someone who knew where the cameras were. Somebody who was familiar with this home, this premises, this woman."The investigation has turned toward family as part of standard procedure. A vehicle belonging to Nancy's daughter Annie has reportedly been impounded. FBI agents visited Annie's home for two hours Tuesday. Banfield stressed this is routine and called her source's speculation "musings, not evidence."Nancy requires medication that could be fatal if missed. When asked if they believe she's still alive, Sheriff Nanos said: "We hope we are."#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonArizona #CatalinaFoothills #Kidnapping #CrimeScene #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #FBI #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nine hours. That's all it took for twelve jurors to decide Brendan Banfield murdered his wife Christine and her lover Ryan. No compromises on the charges. No sympathy for the former federal agent who swore he didn't do it. They believed the au pair — the woman who got murder dropped to manslaughter and walked out of jail the day she testified against him.Defense attorney Bob Motta is here to explain why. He breaks down the fundamental flaw in Banfield's defense strategy: they spent the entire trial telling jurors what didn't happen, but never gave them an alternative story to believe. You can attack a witness's credibility all day long. If you don't fill that void with something else, jurors fill it themselves.We dig into Banfield's decision to take the stand — a move that's almost always risky, and in this case may have been fatal to his defense. He told the jury this whole thing was "absolutely crazy," that no reasonable person would kill their wife over a six-week affair. Bob explains why that kind of testimony often backfires and what jurors actually hear when a defendant tries to explain away damning evidence.Then there's the DNA. Banfield's wasn't on the murder weapon. Only Christine's and Ryan's. The defense attorney argued the guy who brought the knife is the stabber. Sounds compelling. The jury didn't care. Bob explains why physical evidence doesn't always mean what we think it means — and why reasonable doubt isn't as powerful as defense attorneys wish it were.#BrendanBanfield #BanfieldGuilty #ChristineBanfield #RyanBanfield #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTrial #JulianaAuPair #VirginiaHomicide #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

You've seen the clips. The bizarre pulpit announcement. The eulogy where he said he tried to raise her from the dead. The protests outside his church. But you haven't heard the full story — until now.This episode goes back to the beginning. To a ten-year-old girl walking into Solid Rock Church and meeting a twenty-five-year-old married pastor who, according to her own police report, would spend years grooming her before making her his second wife. To a first wife who alleges JP confessed to hiring prostitutes and being sexually inappropriate with underage girls in his congregation. To a church that allegedly knew and did nothing. To a system that told Mica Miller — fourteen times — that there wasn't enough to help her.Two days after she served him divorce papers, Mica was dead. Her death was ruled a suicide. JP Miller has not been charged in connection with her death. But the federal government has now indicted him for allegedly cyberstalking her for eighteen months — tracking her every move, posting intimate photos without consent, and harassing her relentlessly until the day she died.And Mica isn't the only death connected to this man. Chris Skinner — a quadriplegic motivational speaker — drowned in a pool two weeks after allegedly confronting JP about an affair with his wife. JP married that woman thirteen months after Mica died. Armed guards protected the ceremony.Two civil lawsuits now allege JP and his father are serial predators who targeted minors for decades. They deny everything.This is the definitive breakdown. Every document. Every allegation. Every failure. The monster hiding behind the pulpit — fully exposed.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #SolidRockChurch #JusticeForMica #PastorExposed #CoerciveControl #ChrisSkinner #FederalIndictmentJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Robin Dreeke spent thirty years in the FBI reading behavior, building cases, and getting people to reveal themselves. Today he tackles three major cases in one comprehensive interview. The Michael McKee case: the surgeon allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could kill her "at any time" — eight years after their divorce. Robin explains the behavioral profile of possessive obsession and what the reconnaissance trip to her home signals. The Ellen Greenberg case: the feds are reportedly investigating whether people who handled her death committed crimes. Robin breaks down how corruption cases unfold and what makes people flip. The Brendan Banfield case: the defendant called the accusation "absolutely crazy" and then his alibi fell apart. Robin analyzes what the testimony, the letters, and the blood evidence reveal. Three different cases at three different stages — all examined through the lens of someone who's spent decades understanding how killers think, how institutions cover up, and how the truth eventually surfaces.#RobinDreeke #FBI #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #EllenGreenberg #BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #TrueCrime #BehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This is the episode we've been waiting fifteen years to make. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has reportedly issued subpoenas to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Medical Examiner's Office, and other agencies—including the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office that Josh Shapiro ran when the case sat on his desk for four years.Sources tell the Philadelphia Inquirer this isn't about how Ellen Greenberg died. It's about whether the people who handled her case committed federal crimes.Ellen was found with twenty stab wounds, ten to the back of her neck, a knife lodged four inches into her chest. The medical examiner ruled it homicide. Then police objected. Then the ruling changed to suicide. Then the crime scene was cleaned—with police permission—before detectives could process it. Then James Schwartzman, Samuel Goldberg's uncle and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, removed laptops and phones from the apartment. Those devices later became the basis for the official suicide narrative—even though the original report said no suicidal searches were found.Now federal prosecutors want to know what happened. The statutes they're working with carry penalties up to life in prison. Deprivation of rights under color of law. Evidence tampering. Obstruction. Conspiracy.Governor Shapiro has presidential ambitions. His former spokesperson now works for Philadelphia's mayor. Schwartzman sits on the bench as a Pennsylvania judge. None of them have been charged—but all of them may have to answer uncomfortable questions to people who can compel the truth.The Greenbergs waited fifteen years for someone outside Philadelphia to take this seriously. Someone finally is.#EllenGreenberg #FederalInvestigation #JoshShapiro #JamesSchwartzman #PhiladelphiaCorruption #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CoverUp #ObstructionOfJustice #JusticeForEllenJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield called the murder accusation "absolutely crazy." Then his alibi collapsed. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, breaks down the au pair affair murder case — what Banfield's testimony revealed, why his word choices matter, and what the full behavioral picture tells us. Banfield testified for two days, describing how he burst into the bedroom with his gun after hearing sounds that "changed." But prosecutors showed jail letters where he professed love to Juliana and picked out baby names for their future children. They showed a framed photo of him and the au pair on his nightstand eight months after Christine's death. And his own IRS supervisor came forward to contradict his claim about an important work meeting that morning. Robin explains what dismissive language like "absolutely crazy" reveals about a defendant's psychology, how blood pattern evidence suggesting staging aligns with behavioral markers, and what framework investigators use to separate truth from self-serving narrative when an accomplice flips. The defense says Juliana made it all up. The prosecution says Banfield orchestrated a double murder. Robin gives his honest read on what the evidence tells us.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #RobinDreeke #FBI #TrueCrime #FairfaxCounty #StagedCrimeScene #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob and Michele Reiner did everything right. Every treatment program. Every therapy session. They made a movie together as a family trying to heal. They publicly apologized for listening to professionals instead of their son. They let him live in their guest house even after he destroyed it in a drug-fueled rage.And according to prosecutors, Nick Reiner allegedly stabbed them both to death.This episode isn't about what failed Nick Reiner. It's about what Nick Reiner refused to let work. Through his own documented words — interviews with NPR, People Magazine, and multiple podcast appearances — we trace the psychological architecture of a man who turned every advantage into evidence of suffering, every intervention into an attack, and every person who tried to help him into an enemy.We examine the 2020 conservatorship that expired before it could save anyone. The medication change one month before the killings. The argument at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the night before. And the pattern of cognitive distortions that let Nick cast himself as the victim of a loving, successful family that never stopped trying.This is an editorial examination of documented facts — not speculation. And it's for every family out there watching someone they love construct the same victim identity, wondering if anything they do will ever be enough.Sometimes it won't be. And that's the hardest truth of all.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Addiction #MentalHealth #BeingCharlie #Parricide #HollywoodJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Subpoenas are going out. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is reportedly investigating whether people who handled Ellen Greenberg's case committed crimes — not whether she was murdered, but whether the investigation itself was corrupted. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and behavioral analysis expert, explains the federal playbook: what simultaneous subpoenas to multiple agencies signal, how investigators identify who's likely to flip first, and what behavioral patterns emerge when institutions are hiding something. The crime scene was cleaned before detectives could execute a warrant. A politically connected family member removed electronic devices. The medical examiner changed his ruling from homicide to suicide after police pressure — then recanted that ruling under oath fourteen years later. Josh Shapiro's Attorney General office held the case for four years before discovering an "appearance of conflict" with connected families. Robin breaks down what that language actually means, why institutional silence from every agency is telling, and what the Greenberg family's attorney calling this "a dream come true" reveals about where the investigation is headed.#EllenGreenberg #FederalInvestigation #RobinDreeke #FBI #Philadelphia #SamGoldberg #TrueCrime #CoverUp #JusticeForEllen #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

For eight years after their divorce, Michael McKee allegedly refused to let go. According to witnesses cited in court documents, he told Monique Tepe he could "kill her at any time." That he would "find her and buy the house right next to her." That she would always be his wife. She told friends. She moved on. She remarried. She had children. And according to investigators, he was watching the entire time.The unsealed affidavit in the Spencer and Monique Tepe murder case reveals a pattern of alleged stalking, threats, and obsession that preceded the December 30th killings by years—and intensified in the weeks before they were found shot to death in their Columbus home.On December 6th, while the Tepes were at the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis, surveillance video allegedly captured McKee entering their property. Monique left the game at halftime, upset about something involving her ex-husband. Three weeks later, she and Spencer were dead.This is the hidden killer profile that domestic violence experts warn about: the ex who won't accept the end. The one who sees rejection as theft. The one who believes ownership doesn't expire with a divorce decree. McKee allegedly exhibited every warning sign—and according to court records, Monique knew it. She told people. She was afraid.This episode examines the psychology of obsessive ex-partners, why restraining orders often fail, and what the Tepe case reveals about the limits of doing everything right when someone refuses to let you go.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #Stalking #ObsessiveEx #TrueCrime #ColumbusOhio #CoerciveControlJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could "kill her at any time" and that "she will always be his wife" — eight years after their divorce. Now the vascular surgeon is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the December 30th killings of Monique and her husband Spencer in their Columbus, Ohio home. Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins us to analyze the behavioral red flags in the unsealed affidavit — the language of ownership, the reconnaissance trip to their property while they were at a football game, and why someone with elite medical training allegedly made obvious investigative mistakes. Court documents reveal allegations of strangulation and sexual assault during the marriage, followed by years of threats that witnesses reported to investigators. Monique left the Big Ten Championship game at halftime because she was upset about "something involving her ex-husband." She sensed something. Robin explains how victims often know they're in danger before they can articulate why — and what this case teaches us about the limits of doing everything right when the person who wants to harm you refuses to let go.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #RobinDreeke #FBI #TrueCrime #Columbus #DomesticViolence #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Kouri Richins murder trial begins February 23rd, 2026, and the prosecution's case looks nothing like it did when she was arrested nearly three years ago. Robert Crozier — the man who allegedly sold fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper Carmen Lauber — has signed a sworn affidavit saying he never sold fentanyl at all. He now claims it was OxyContin, and that he was detoxing and "out of it" during his original police interview. The defense says this throws a grenade into the state's entire theory. Without Crozier confirming fentanyl, the chain connecting Kouri to the drug that killed her husband is broken. But Judge Richard Mrazik isn't buying it — he says there's still substantial evidence, and Kouri remains in jail without bail for the third time. Meanwhile, prosecutors lost their bid to introduce 26 financial fraud charges to the murder jury, their domestic violence expert was blocked entirely, and their FBI profiler can barely testify. The defense also got key statements from a 2022 search suppressed after detectives failed to read Kouri her Miranda rights. What's left? A housekeeper's testimony, a handwritten notebook prosecutors say details the night Eric died, and a letter found in Kouri's jail cell that looks a lot like witness tampering — unless you believe her claim it was fiction. After years of delays, appeals, and pretrial warfare, this case finally goes to a Summit County jury. We break down everything — the evidence that survived, the evidence that didn't, and what both sides need to prove when testimony begins.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrime #FentanylMurder #SummitCounty #UtahMurderTrial #WitnessRecants #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial2026Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down two cases where the warning signs were allegedly clear — and no one acted.The Michael McKee case: how investigators tracked a surgeon across state lines in eleven days using surveillance footage, ballistics databases, and digital forensics. Then the behavioral profile — eight years of alleged death threats, strangulation allegations, and pre-offense surveillance before Monique and Spencer Tepe were murdered.The WSU lawsuit: 13 formal complaints about Bryan Kohberger's stalking behavior in one semester. A professor's warning that he would become a predator. Female students creating their own protection systems. And an institution that allegedly had threat assessment protocols and didn't use them — until four students were dead.Coffindaffer analyzes what both cases reveal about how systems fail the people they're designed to protect.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #DomesticViolence #IdahoMurders #InstitutionalFailure #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

In 1975, a woman named Gloria Ladd killed her two teenage sons. Drugged them. Smothered them. She was charged with murder, pled insanity, and was committed to a state hospital. Then she inherited their money.The California Court of Appeal ruled that an insanity verdict does not trigger the Slayer Statute — the law designed to prevent killers from profiting off their crimes. The statute requires proof of "intentional" killing. Insanity negates intent. Gloria Ladd inherited from the sons she murdered. That case, Estate of Ladd, is from 1979. It's still good law. It's never been overruled.Now apply that to the Reiner case.Rob and Michele Reiner's estate is estimated at $200 million. Nick Reiner is charged with their murders. His former attorney declared him "not guilty of murder" under California law. Legal analysts expect an insanity defense. If Nick is found NGRI, he may still be entitled to inherit — potentially $50 million or more, depending on the estate plan.The only way to stop it? Jake and Romy Reiner would have to sue their own brother in probate court. They'd carry the burden of proving Nick acted intentionally — against an NGRI verdict that already found he lacked the capacity to form intent. They'd relive their parents' deaths in civil litigation while their brother potentially collects his share.That's the position California law creates. A 45-year-old loophole. A $200 million estate. And an impossible choice for the surviving family.This episode breaks down the legal mechanics, the precedent, and the financial incentive structure behind the insanity defense that nobody wants to talk about.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #SlayerStatute #EstateOfLadd #InsanityDefense #CaliforniaLaw #Inheritance #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield will die in prison. A Fairfax County jury convicted the former IRS special agent of aggravated murder Monday in one of the most disturbing domestic murder plots in recent memory. The 40-year-old federal law enforcement officer now faces mandatory life without parole for the February 2023 killings of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan — a stranger prosecutors say was lured to the family home and set up to take the fall.                    The prosecution's case hinged on testimony from Juliana Peres Magalhães, the family's 25-year-old Brazilian au pair who was having an affair with Banfield. She told jurors Banfield wanted to "get rid of" his wife so they could marry and have children together. According to her account, they created fake profiles on FetLife posing as Christine, catfished Ryan into believing he was meeting a willing woman for a violent sexual encounter, then executed him when he showed up.Magalhães testified she watched Banfield stab Christine seven times in the neck, then stage the scene — smearing his wife's blood on Ryan's body to frame him as the attacker. She admitted firing the second shot into Ryan herself. In exchange for her testimony, prosecutors reduced her murder charge to manslaughter with time served.The defense called her a liar who sold out her co-conspirator. They pointed to missing DNA evidence, challenged the digital forensics, and accused investigators of tunnel vision. Banfield took the stand and called the allegations "absolutely crazy." The jury deliberated nine hours and disagreed.We break down the conviction, the evidence, and the appeal that's coming.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #TrueCrime #MurderConviction #JulianaMagalhaes #FairfaxCounty #LifeWithoutParole #JosephRyanJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A professor warned colleagues that Bryan Kohberger would become a predator. Female students created informal warning systems to avoid being alone with him. At least 13 formal complaints were filed about his stalking, harassment, and predatory behavior in a single semester. And Washington State University allegedly did nothing.The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have taken their lawsuit against WSU to federal court. The allegation: the university had threat assessment protocols in place, received documented warnings from faculty and students, and allowed Kohberger to keep his position, housing, and salary until four people were dead.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes what this case reveals about institutional negligence — what it means when a community develops its own protective protocols because the institution won't act, how documented internal foreknowledge affects civil liability, and what discovery in federal court might expose.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #TitleIX #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Verdict was handed down today in Fairfax County, Virginia. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The forensic details from the Idaho student murders are finally public — and what they reveal about Xana Kernodle's final moments is both heartbreaking and remarkable.New court filings show the wound counts for all four victims: Kaylee Goncalves sustained 38 sharp-force wounds, Madison Mogen 28, Ethan Chapin 17, and Xana Kernodle 67. Xana took more wounds than the other three combined. But the autopsy findings go further. Kaylee, Maddie, and Ethan had no blood on their feet — they never stood up. Xana did. Blood on the bottoms of her bare feet proves she moved during the attack.Investigators found blood from the third-floor victims on the stairwell and bannister leading to the second floor. Since Kaylee and Maddie never stood, someone else carried that blood down. The evidence points to Xana encountering Kohberger upstairs, then fleeing — with him chasing her. Police documented defensive wounds between her fingers and cuts to the bones of her hand. She grabbed the blade. She fought until she couldn't anymore.Prosecutors believe her resistance is why Kohberger left behind the knife sheath that contained his DNA — the break that solved the case.We also cover Idaho State Police releasing nearly 2,800 crime scene photos last week, then pulling them hours later. The families had less than 15 minutes' warning — despite a court order already in place. What went wrong, and why hasn't anyone been held accountable?#BryanKohberger #XanaKernodle #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #EthanChapin #TrueCrime #Autopsy #CrimeScenePhotos #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee allegedly told Monique he could "kill her at any time." Witnesses described death threats spanning years. Court documents allege strangulation during their marriage — one of the strongest predictors of future lethality. Three weeks before the murders, surveillance footage allegedly captured him in her backyard while she was out of state.The divorce was 2017. The murders were 2025. No criminal charges. No restraining orders. No intervention.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the behavioral warning signs that went unaddressed for eight years. She analyzes what phrases like "she will always be his wife" reveal about obsessive fixation, why high-functioning professionals can hide this kind of violence, and how Monique's remarriage and children may have functioned as triggers for someone who never accepted the relationship was over.The hardest part: Coffindaffer explains what realistic options exist for someone in Monique's position — and where the system consistently fails.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #Stalking #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #IntimatePartnerViolence #Strangulation #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Court documents allege Michael McKee told Monique he could "kill her at any time." That he'd "find her and buy the house right next to her." That she would "always be his wife." Witnesses say he allegedly strangled her during their marriage. And according to the unsealed affidavit, surveillance cameras captured him at her property weeks before the murders — while she was 180 miles away at a football game. She left at halftime. Upset. Three weeks later, she and her husband Spencer were shot to death in their Weinland Park home. So why didn't she call police? Why didn't she get a protection order? This episode breaks down what Ohio law actually requires, why victims don't report, and whether anything could have stopped what allegedly happened. It's not victim blaming. It's the question nobody wants to ask — and the answer nobody wants to hear.#HiddenKillers #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #MichaelMcKee #DomesticViolence #Stalking #OhioMurder #TrueCrime #ProtectionOrders #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee allegedly drove 350 miles from Chicago to Columbus, executed his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer, and drove back — all while his cell phone showed zero activity for 18 hours. Investigators say he used stolen license plates from Ohio and Arizona. He allegedly kept the murder weapon in his condo for eleven days. And police still caught him.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down how investigators built this case from surveillance footage, digital forensics, and a national ballistics database match. We examine the multi-jurisdictional coordination between four law enforcement agencies and why this case moved from bodies discovered to suspect arrested faster than anyone expected.Coffindaffer explains what a phone "going dark" signals to investigators, how stolen plates complicate vehicle tracking, and what the firearm suppressor allegation tells us about the level of premeditation prosecutors believe they can prove. This is the forensic blueprint of the McKee investigation.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ColumbusOhio #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #DoubleHomicide #NIBINBallistics #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The final recorded phone call between Keith Caneiro and his older brother Paul was played for jurors this week—and it captures a man demanding answers hours before his murder. "Give me the f***ing login, Paul!" Keith is heard saying, giving his brother a deadline of 8 p.m. to provide access to a trust account. By the next afternoon, Keith, his wife Jennifer, and their two children—11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia—were dead. Prosecutors say Keith had discovered Paul was stealing from their shared businesses and was cutting him off from a $225,000 salary. A neighbor put a timestamp on the killing. Dennis Corpora testified he woke up around 3:20 AM on November 20th, 2018. "I heard the shots, and I said, 'Someone just got whacked.'" He told jurors it was a pistol. Prosecutors say Paul shot Keith four times in the head and once in the back outside the Colts Neck mansion, then went inside and stabbed Jennifer and the children.A detective testified that Sophia had a stab wound to her left eye. Trust account expert Lazaro Cardenas delivered testimony that changes everything: Keith's $3 million life insurance policy was structured so Paul would only benefit if all four family members were dead. According to prosecutors, this is why the children weren't spared. They were allegedly necessary casualties. Hours before the mansion fire, Paul allegedly set fire to his own Ocean Township home while his wife and daughters slept inside. The defense points to a third brother, Corey, claiming police never investigated him. But the murder weapon, silencer, night-vision scope, bloody jeans with the children's DNA, and a go-bag with a passport were all found at Paul's house. Paul Caneiro has been held without bail for over seven years.#PaulCaneiro #KeithCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #CaneiroTrial #JenniferCaneiro #MansionMurders #MonmouthCounty #FamilyMurder #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Newly unsealed court documents reveal the chilling psychology allegedly behind the murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe. According to witnesses who spoke with investigators, Michael McKee made three statements to Monique during and after their marriage: that he could "kill her at any time," that he would "find her and buy the house right next to her," and that "she will always be his wife." These aren't the words of heartbreak. They're the words of ownership. The affidavit also reveals that surveillance allegedly captured McKee at the Tepes' Columbus home on December 6th, 2025—three weeks before the murders—while Spencer and Monique were 200 miles away at the Big Ten Championship game. According to the Columbus Dispatch, video showed him going into the home and leaving "a few hours later." Monique found out. She left the game at halftime, upset about something involving her ex-husband. Twenty-four days later, she and Spencer were found shot to death in their second-floor bedroom. Their two young children were asleep in the house, unharmed. Witnesses told investigators that during the marriage, McKee allegedly strangled Monique and forced unwanted sex on her. Strangulation is the single greatest predictor of future lethality in domestic violence cases. Yet Columbus police confirmed there were no prior reports filed. No restraining orders. Nothing on paper. McKee has pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary. This episode examines what the unsealed documents reveal about the alleged planning behind these killings, and the brutal reality that doing everything right—leaving, divorcing, rebuilding—doesn't always protect you from someone who never recognized your right to leave.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #UnsealedAffidavit #DomesticViolence #TepeMurders #Strangulation #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Arkansas Supreme Court just removed Judge Barbara Elmore from Aaron Spencer's murder trial—and appointed a retired judge from the opposite end of the state to take over. This wasn't a close call. Three justices wanted Elmore gone since May, when the high court struck down her gag order as a "plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." Seven months later, she tried again—different restrictions, same constitutional problems. This time they didn't just reverse her. They pulled her entirely. Elmore is the same judge who released Michael Fosler on bond after he was charged with 43 felonies including alleged rape of a minor, sexual assault, and child pornography. Fosler is the man Aaron Spencer killed after, according to the defense, he showed up with Spencer's 14-year-old daughter in his vehicle at 1 a.m. Spencer told authorities he rammed Fosler's truck off the road and shot him after Fosler allegedly lunged at him. Now 14 Republican state legislators have filed a formal complaint with the Judicial Discipline Commission about fair trial concerns. The Supreme Court granted a Writ of Certiorari to review Elmore's prior rulings—potentially reopening decisions that shaped the entire pretrial process. Defense attorney Bob Motta was in that Arkansas courtroom when the news broke. He joins us to analyze what it takes for a state supreme court to remove a judge mid-case, what retired Judge Ralph Wilson brings to one of the most watched trials in the state, and whether the prosecution might finally reconsider charges that public sentiment has turned against. The dashcam footage that could have supported self-defense reportedly vanished. But the bodycam showing Spencer's grief when he learned about his daughter? Prosecutors want that in front of the jury.#AaronSpencer #JudgeElmore #ArkansasSupremeCourt #BobMotta #MichaelFosler #LononkeCounty #JudicialRemoval #DefenseOfOthers #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Diane Menashe is a 27-year veteran of criminal defense in Columbus who specializes in cases that look unwinnable. In 2022, she co-led the defense of Dr. William Husel, the Mount Carmel physician charged with murdering fourteen ICU patients through allegedly lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. Husel was acquitted on all fourteen counts. She also kept cop-killer Quentin Smith off death row. Now she's representing Michael McKee—the vascular surgeon accused of driving 325 miles in the middle of the night to execute his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe while their two young children slept nearby. McKee pleaded not guilty Friday to four counts of aggravated murder. The evidence police have described is staggering: ballistics allegedly matching a gun found at his property to shell casings at the scene, vehicle tracking from Ohio to Illinois, Ring camera footage, a firearm suppressor that screams premeditation, and no forced entry. So how does Menashe attack this case? Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down her likely strategy—the ballistics science that isn't as solid as prosecutors want juries to believe, the murky video identification, and the eight-year gap between McKee's divorce and the alleged murders that complicates the premeditation narrative. Menashe's philosophy is simple: she doesn't put on a defense case. She picks apart the prosecution's evidence piece by piece and lets it collapse under its own weight. McKee isn't fighting for freedom. He's fighting for degrees of punishment. And Menashe is the best in the business at finding daylight in the darkness. Two children lost their parents on December 30th. The man accused of making them orphans just hired Columbus's most formidable defense attorney.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DianeMenashe #WilliamHusel #BobMotta #AggravatedMurder #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Reiner family did everything right. They spent millions. They tried eighteen different rehab facilities—reportedly at $60,000 a month. Private yoga instructors. Family therapists. A guesthouse on a $13.5 million Brentwood estate where Nick could always come home. On December 14, 2025, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death. Their son Nick was arrested that night and now faces two counts of first-degree murder. This isn't just a story about one family's tragedy. It's an indictment of a $42 billion addiction treatment industry where 60% of patients relapse within 30 days of discharge. Where the 28-day program isn't based on neuroscience—it's based on what insurance agreed to pay in the 1970s. Where facilities have zero financial incentive to track whether their patients actually get better. A bed filled is a bed billed. We examine how patients learn to game the system—what to say at intake, how to perform recovery without doing the work—while luxury rehabs take family money and deliver nothing. We trace Nick's trajectory from childhood tantrums that derailed family yoga sessions to violent outbursts in rehab, from destroying his parents' guesthouse on meth to a 2020 mental health conservatorship, from allegedly terrorizing guests at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party to the murders less than 24 hours later. A rehab roommate said he "knew exactly who it was" when he heard the news. Nick made disturbing admissions on the Dopey podcast about violence, theft, and moral bankruptcy. The Reiner family pattern isn't unique. Parents bankrupted by hope. Kids cycling through treatment. And an industry that profits whether they live or die. This is the hidden killer nobody wants to name: the system itself.#RobReiner #MicheleReiner #NickReiner #AddictionTreatment #RehabFraud #ReinerMurder #BrentwoodMurder #SystemFailure #TrueCrimeToday #FamilyTragedyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Under current Idaho law, convicted killers like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow Daybell could potentially profit from book deals, streaming rights, and paid interviews within just five years. A judge in Kohberger's case confirmed it in November 2025, stating the statute "leaves open the potential for Defendant to receive money from media contracts in the future." Idaho's Son of Sam law hasn't been meaningfully updated since 1978—before streaming platforms, podcasts, or digital monetization existed. The Supreme Court gutted most of these laws in 1991, and Idaho never bothered to fix theirs. Until now. State Senator Tammy Nichols introduced legislation this week to modernize the statute, addressing the digital media landscape that didn't exist when the original law was written after David Berkowitz terrorized New York City and publishers lined up to pay him for his story. The bill unanimously advanced out of committee for a public hearing. For the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, this represents the bare minimum of accountability after losing their children to alleged violence. But Kohberger isn't the only case exposing Idaho's failures. Lori Vallow Daybell owes over $700,000 in restitution to the families of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan—money she'll never pay. Chad Daybell's self-published doomsday novels may still be generating income somewhere. In this episode, we break down the full history of Son of Sam laws, why the Supreme Court struck them down, how Idaho's current statute fails victims, and what the new legislation actually does. Idaho became America's true crime epicenter by accident. What they do next is a choice.#BryanKohberger #SonOfSamLaw #IdahoMurders #LoriVallowDaybell #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The grand jury investigating the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez is done playing nice. LAPD Robbery-Homicide just arrested Neo Langston—D4VD's close friend and fellow content creator known online as NeoTheAsian—at his mother's home in Montana for failure to appear as a witness. He's now sitting in an LA jail on $60,000 bail. Back in December, a female witness went into hiding and had to be threatened with a body attachment order to compel her testimony. Manager Robert Morgenroth spent days on the stand and was overheard saying his priority was keeping the tour going—not calling police. Prosecutors are making it clear: cooperate or get dragged in. Sources confirm the grand jury has full authority to indict. Prosecutor Beth Silverman reportedly believes D4VD was involved in Celeste's death and is building toward murder charges. Investigators have identified a second suspect who may have been involved "before, during, and after" the killing. Digital evidence from D4VD's Tesla allegedly shows two people may have been present during a mysterious late-night trip to a remote area of Santa Barbara County last spring. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to analyze what the physical evidence reveals. A chainsaw still in its protective sheath. A burn cage incinerator capable of 1,600 degrees—boxed, unopened. Both found inside the Hollywood Hills home where Celeste's dismembered body was discovered in D4VD's Tesla. Private investigator Steve Fischer's assessment: "Whatever happened here, this wasn't a finalized plan. She was not meant to be left in that Tesla. The plan got upended." Coffindaffer breaks down what unused disposal tools suggest about intent versus execution, and how circumstantial murder cases succeed or fail. D4VD has not been charged. He remains legally presumed innocent.#D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrandJury #LAPDRobberyHomicide #NeoTheAsian #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe. The evidence police have described is damning—ballistic analysis allegedly linking a firearm from his property to shell casings at the crime scene, surveillance footage reportedly capturing his vehicle at the scene, and a firearm suppressor. Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant called it a "targeted" and "domestic violence related attack." The couple was found shot to death in their Columbus home while their two young children were discovered unharmed inside. But here's the part that should terrify everyone: for eleven days after the alleged killings, McKee was still employed as a vascular surgeon at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. His Nevada medical license had expired in June 2025. Court records show he was added to a malpractice lawsuit just months before the murders. He allegedly provided fake addresses. Yet he was credentialed to operate on patients. How does this happen? In this episode, we expose the broken system of state medical boards that allows problem doctors to hop from state to state without disclosure. We dig into the National Practitioner Data Bank—a database Congress created specifically to catch doctors like McKee—that the public cannot access and many state boards don't even check. The data is staggering: over 500 doctors disciplined in one state are practicing elsewhere with clean records. More than 250 who surrendered their licenses are working in new states with zero consequences. There's no federal law requiring disclosure. No real accountability. Just a system built to protect physician mobility over patient safety. McKee faces life without parole if convicted. But how many other doctors just like him are operating right now?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #MedicalMalpractice #NPDB #StateMedicalBoard #DomesticViolence #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

How does a family go from calling the police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house with someone in apparent psychiatric crisis on December 13th, 2025? Rob Reiner wasn't stupid. He was a successful director, a public intellectual, a man with resources and connections. Michele wasn't naive. These were accomplished people who had access to the best treatment money could buy. Yet their son Nick is now charged with stabbing them to death in their Brentwood home. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent 21 years with the Bureau including serving as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us to analyze what happened inside that family over twenty years. But we also examine what may have happened that night. Harvey Levin at TMZ says sources describe the crime scene as "incredibly brutal"—disturbing even to seasoned medical examiner staff. He said publicly it had "all the markings of a meth murder." Nick was arrested near Exposition Park, an area known for drug activity. His documented history includes violent outbursts while "spun out on uppers," cocaine binges, heroin addiction, and destroying his parents' guest house while high on stimulants. The family says his medication was working—then doctors changed his prescription a month before the killings. Dreeke explains how trust gets exploited through reciprocity, vulnerability, and manufactured guilt. The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father—a movie about their relationship. That's extraordinary narrative control over the family story. What does that level of influence tell you about the power dynamics? And the question Dreeke can't stop thinking about: Could anyone have broken through to the Reiners?#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #ThreatBlindness #MentalHealth #DualDiagnosis #HollywoodTragedy #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The evidence against Michael McKee is staggering—ballistic matches linking a firearm from his property to shell casings at the scene, vehicle surveillance tracking his movements from Chicago to Columbus, a confirmed ID as the figure in the alley footage, and a firearm suppressor that prosecutors will argue proves premeditation. McKee allegedly drove 300 miles to execute his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe while their two young children slept nearby. Now the vascular surgeon faces four counts of aggravated murder carrying life without parole. Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, who spent years in the Special Victims Unit and has tried 45+ jury trials, joins us to break down exactly what the state needs to prove and where the defense might try to create doubt. We examine the forensic evidence, the alleged pre-murder stalking, and family testimony describing emotional abuse with no police reports to back it up. But this episode goes deeper than the prosecution's case. We analyze how a man who allegedly evaded a malpractice lawsuit nine times and fled his marriage after seven months will likely approach his own defense. Using the Dark Triad framework—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—we examine how these personality patterns typically manifest when someone faces consequences they cannot escape. The rationalization, projection, and denial that prevents certain defendants from ever accepting guilt. And the tragic irony that the same ego that allegedly drove McKee to murder may prevent him from taking a plea deal that could spare him from dying behind bars.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #EricFaddis #AggravatedMurder #DarkTriad #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Danny Spilar was 15 years old when he shared a room with Nick Reiner in a $60,000-a-month Malibu rehab. What he witnessed back then made him certain — the moment he saw the headlines about Rob and Michele Reiner's murders — exactly who was responsible.According to Danny, Nick would stay up after lights out ranting about how much he hated his parents. This wasn't after years of heroin abuse. This wasn't after a psychotic break. This was the baseline. A 15-year-old kid, only using marijuana at the time, seething with resentment toward the parents who showed up for every therapy session while other wealthy families sent handlers.Danny described violence too — Nick attacking another teen, getting physical with Danny himself, a tech having to intervene. And he said something chilling: Nick blamed all his problems on his parents' fame. Not the addiction. Not any mental illness. The fame.Now Nick Reiner is reportedly expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. But Danny doesn't buy it. And neither will the jury when they hear Nick's own words on the Dopey podcast — where he admitted to throwing a rock through a window specifically to "prove he was crazy" and manipulate staff into giving him drugs.This is the story of 17 years of warning signs that everyone saw coming.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #DannySpilar #RehabRoommate #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #BrentwoodMurders #HiddenKillers #BeingCharlieJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two Utah mothers. Both raised LDS. Both developed apocalyptic beliefs that destroyed their families. Ruby Franke tortured her children until her twelve-year-old escaped through a window. Elleshia Seymour allegedly took her kids to Croatia based on TikTok prophecies about nuclear winter. In both cases, the children figured out how to save themselves.And in both cases, the fathers say they had no idea.Kevin Franke told police he hadn't seen or spoken to his kids in over a year. His job was to "financially provide." That was his "only involvement." He trusted Ruby completely—while she was starving their children and binding them with rope.Kendall Seymour was following a custody arrangement when his ex-wife allegedly forged his signature and fled to Europe. His kids ended up in a Croatian orphanage. An eight-year-old told a stranger to Google his name and triggered his own rescue.Two doomsday moms. Two oblivious dads. Same church. Same state. Same defense: "I didn't know."When you grow up in a tradition where apocalyptic preparation is faithfulness and personal revelation is expected, how do you tell the difference between devotion and delusion? The kids could see it. Why couldn't the fathers?#RubyFranke #ElleshiaSeymour #KevinFranke #KendallSeymour #8Passengers #LDS #Mormon #CroatiaAbduction #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis delivers the definitive analysis of two murder cases dominating headlines: the Michael McKee case in Ohio and the Kouri Richins trial in Utah.On McKee: Eric examines the prosecution's case against Monique Tepe's ex-husband from both sides of the courtroom. The affidavit details surveillance footage, death threats spanning years, stolen plates, cell phone blackouts, and vehicle tracking. Which evidence is most critical? Where are the weaknesses? Then Eric flips to the defense perspective—the motions to exclude prior abuse allegations, the hearsay battles over statements Monique made to friends, and how to create reasonable doubt when the phone went dark and the car was tracked arriving and leaving.On Richins: Two weeks before trial, the prosecution is taking hits. The defense just alleged witness intimidation—investigators allegedly threatened witnesses with arrest and immunity revocation. Key sourcing witness Robert Crozier has recanted, saying he sold OxyContin, not the fentanyl that killed Eric Richins. Judge Mrazik limited the FBI profiler and excluded domestic violence evidence. The "Walk the Dog" letter is only partially admitted.No fentanyl was ever found. No pills. No forensic link. Five times the lethal dose—but how do you prove poisoning when your supply chain is broken?Eric Faddis spent years building cases like these—and he's spent years tearing them apart. This is the full breakdown of prosecution strategy, defense playbooks, and where both cases could still go wrong.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #KouriRichins #EricRichins #MurderCases #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #WitnessRecants #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Paul Caneiro trial just delivered some of its most disturbing testimony yet. A blood stain expert told jurors that eleven-year-old Jesse Caneiro was still moving - still bleeding - still trying to reach the front door when he died. The patterns don't lie. A handprint. A finger mark. Movement toward an exit he never reached.Prosecutors say Paul Caneiro killed his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children over money and a $3 million life insurance policy. But the defense is pointing at someone else entirely: Corey Caneiro, the third brother who was never investigated, never DNA tested, and who - according to a civil lawsuit - took control of the insurance money and bought a $1.8 million home less than a year later.Did Paul Caneiro commit the most brutal family murder in New Jersey history? Or was he the perfect patsy? We dig into the crime scene evidence, the timeline prosecutors are building, the questions the defense is raising, and what those blood patterns in Keith Caneiro's kitchen really tell us about the final moments of a family destroyed.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsMurders #MansionMurders #TrueCrime #MonmouthCounty #KeithCaneiro #JesseCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #MurderTrial #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Kouri Richins murder trial begins February 23rd. But two weeks out, the prosecution's case is taking hits from multiple directions.The defense just filed a motion alleging witness intimidation. Lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll allegedly texted a witness saying essentially: answer our calls so we can prep you, or next time I knock on your door, I'll have a warrant and a catch pole for your dog. Investigator Travis Hopper allegedly told another witness that their previously granted immunity "remains conditional upon continued cooperation"—and declining further meetings could put that immunity at risk.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis analyzes whether these allegations constitute actual witness intimidation under Utah law or aggressive but legal tactics.Then there's Robert Crozier. He was the state's key fentanyl sourcing witness. He originally said he sold fentanyl to the housekeeper allegedly in the supply chain. Now he says it was OxyContin, not fentanyl—and that he was detoxing and "out of it" during the original interview. The defense says this "eviscerates" the prosecution's theory. Eric breaks down whether the state can recover.We examine Judge Mrazik's pretrial rulings: limiting the FBI profiler, excluding domestic violence evidence, and partially admitting the "Walk the Dog" letter allegedly instructing Kouri's mother how to lie on the stand.No fentanyl was ever recovered. No pills. No forensic link. Eric Richins had five times the lethal dose in his system. How do you prove a poisoning case when your supply chain is broken and you have no murder weapon?#KouriRichins #EricRichins #UtahMurderTrial #WitnessIntimidation #RobertCrozier #FentanylPoisoning #WalkTheDogLetter #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #WitnessRecantsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two men. Two elite educations. Two alleged murder sprees months apart. Bryan Kohberger—criminology PhD, studied crime scene processing at the doctoral level—pled guilty to killing four Idaho students in November 2022. Michael McKee—vascular surgeon with more than a decade of surgical training—stands charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in December 2025. The methods allegedly used in both cases reveal a chilling pattern.Both men allegedly turned off or abandoned their phones during the murder window. Both allegedly surveilled their targets beforehand—Kohberger's phone pinged near the victims' house 23 times over four months; McKee allegedly spent hours on the Tepe property during a reconnaissance visit while the family was out of town. Both allegedly used vehicles that became key evidence despite countermeasures. And both allegedly believed their intelligence made them exceptions to the rule.The indictment against McKee includes a six-year specification for using a firearm suppressor. A silencer. That's why no neighbors heard shots. That's why no one called 911 until Spencer didn't show up for work the next morning. If the allegations are true, this was equipment procurement for murder. Professional-grade planning for a deeply personal crime.Kohberger left DNA on a knife sheath. McKee allegedly left a ballistics match through NIBIN. The smartest thing either could have done was the one thing obsession wouldn't allow: nothing. This episode breaks down the pattern of educated killers—what they get right, where they fail, and why intelligence becomes its own trap.#HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #MichaelMcKee #TepeFamily #IdahoMurders #EducatedKillers #Premeditation #CriminalPsychology #TrueCrimePodcast #DomesticViolenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

John Carroll, Defense Counsel for Brendan Banfield, presented closing arguments today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Jenna Sands, Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney for Fairfax County, presented closing arguments in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution laid out their case. Now the defense has to tear it apart. Michael McKee pleaded not guilty to the aggravated murders of Monique Tepe and Spencer Tepe. His attorneys are now preparing for the pretrial battles that could determine whether a jury ever hears the most damaging evidence against him.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks us through the defense's likely strategy. McKee waived his bail hearing—Eric explains why that's a calculated move, not a surrender. The real fight happens in motions.The affidavit includes allegations that McKee strangled Monique and forced unwanted sex on her during the marriage—abuse that was never reported to police or prosecuted. Eric breaks down the motion to exclude that testimony as prejudicial and unproven, and whether it has a realistic chance of succeeding.Then there's the hearsay problem. Witnesses say Monique told them McKee threatened to kill her, said he'd find her and buy the house next door, said she'd "always be his wife." But Monique is dead. The defense will argue those statements can't come in. Eric explains what exceptions might apply and how hard that fight will be.We also examine how the defense might reframe the cell phone going dark—the prosecution calls it consciousness of guilt, but what's the innocent explanation? How do you explain surveillance footage showing your client at the property three weeks before the murders? And if the vehicle evidence seems overwhelming, can the defense separate McKee from the car?If acquittal isn't on the table, what does a defense "win" look like?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DefensePlaybook #HearsayFight #ReasonableDoubt #CriminalDefense #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #OhioMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield told the jury his story. Now they have to decide if they believe it. Day two of Banfield's testimony gave the court his full account of February 24th, 2023 — the moment he says he walked into his bedroom, saw a stranger holding his wife with a knife, announced himself as police, and fired. He testified Christine spoke to him after the attack despite being stabbed seven times in the neck. According to Banfield, she said: "I'm bleeding out. I'm sorry. I love you."Prosecutor Jenna Sands went hard on cross-examination. She pressed him on the wound count — seven stabs, but Banfield claims he only witnessed one. She got him to admit he'd used a fetish-style site for a previous affair. She entered love letters Banfield wrote to au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães while she was incarcerated — fourteen pages discussing baby names and declaring his love. When asked if he professed "undying love" to Juliana, Banfield said: "Yes, it appears that I was, I was definitely in love with her."The prosecution's rebuttal ended with Banfield's own IRS supervisor testifying that the "important meeting" Banfield described never existed. Closing arguments are tomorrow. Brendan Banfield faces life in prison if convicted.#BrendanBanfield #ChristineBanfield #AuPairAffair #JulianaPeresMagalhães #BanfieldTestimony #DoubleMurder #TrueCrime #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #ClosingArgumentsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee sits in Franklin County jail charged with the aggravated murders of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The unsealed affidavit lays out surveillance footage, witness statements about years of alleged death threats, stolen license plates, cell phone data showing his phone went dark during the murder window, and vehicle tracking placing his SUV in Columbus before and after the killings.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us to break down the prosecution's case piece by piece. Which evidence is most damaging? What would he build the entire case around if he were lead prosecutor? And where could this seemingly airtight case still fall apart?We examine the hearsay complications with statements Monique allegedly made to friends—that McKee said he could "kill her at any time," that he'd "find her and buy the house right next to her," and that "she will always be his wife." Monique can't testify. How do prosecutors get those statements in front of a jury?The affidavit also includes allegations of prior strangulation and forced sex during the marriage—abuse that was never reported to police or prosecuted. Can that come in to establish pattern and motive, or will the defense succeed in keeping it out?Eric explains what firearm specifications alleging a silencer signal about premeditation, why circumstantial evidence can actually be stronger than eyewitness testimony, and the one thing prosecutors should be worried about that they might not see coming.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ColumbusOhioMurder #MurderEvidence #DefenseAttorney #TrueCrimePodcast #AggravatedMurder #HiddenKillers #OhioCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Kouri Richins murder case just took a sharp turn nobody saw coming — and it's not about the defendant. It's about how the prosecution has allegedly been treating its own witnesses.Defense attorneys filed a motion this week revealing text messages they say show lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll threatening a reluctant witness with arrest, jail, and a "catch pole for the dog" if she didn't comply with witness prep. A second witness with immunity was allegedly told by investigator Travis Hopper that their deal was conditional on continued cooperation — cooperation they say they already provided two years ago.This is the same Detective O'Driscoll whose credibility was challenged in January suppression hearings after the defense claimed he testified falsely about knowing Richins had an attorney. An outside investigation found no evidence of untruthfulness, but the questions remain.Meanwhile, the prosecution's key drug source — Robert Crozier — has recanted his statement that he sold fentanyl to Richins' housekeeper. He now claims it was OxyContin. Prosecutors argue the recantation doesn't hold up. The defense says it "throws a grenade" into the state's case.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and maintained her innocence since her May 2023 arrest. She's accused of fatally poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl in March 2022. Trial begins February 23rd.When state witnesses start asking the defense for help, something has gone sideways.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillers #WitnessIntimidation #EricRichins #UtahMurder #TrueCrimePodcast #FentanylMurder #DetectiveODriscoll #CriminalJustice #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two families. Two different kinds of catastrophic failure. One expert to help us understand both. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers — joins Hidden Killers for an extended examination of the psychology behind family annihilation and the systemic failures of America's addiction treatment industry.The Paul Caneiro trial continues in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Prosecutors allege Paul murdered his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia after Keith discovered Paul had stolen $78,000 from a trust account. The violence was staggering — Sophia was stabbed 17 times and allegedly still alive when the fire started. Shavaun explains what drives someone to kill everyone they love rather than face accountability, what overkill reveals about psychological state, and how experts distinguish genuine grief from performance.The Nick Reiner tragedy exposed the failures of addiction treatment. The Reiner family had resources most families can only dream of, and Rob and Michele Reiner are still dead. Shavaun examines the $42 billion industry where relapse is profitable, where insurance companies override clinical judgment, where outcome tracking doesn't exist. We identify who blocks reform and ask whether meaningful change is even possible. From the psychology of mass family killing to the financial incentives keeping broken systems in place — this is essential analysis of how institutions fail the people they're supposed to protect.#ShavaunScott #PaulCaneiro #NickReiner #RobReiner #KeithCaneiro #FamilyAnnihilation #AddictionCrisis #ColtsNeck #TreatmentFailure #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A judge just confirmed what victims' families feared most: under Idaho's current law, Bryan Kohberger could legally profit from telling his story. The same applies to Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. The statute that's supposed to prevent this hasn't been updated since 1978 — and it shows.This week, Idaho Senator Tammy Nichols introduced legislation to modernize the state's Son of Sam law after the Moscow student murders and the Daybell cult killings put Idaho in the national spotlight. The bill unanimously advanced out of committee. But why did it take this long? And will it actually work?The original Son of Sam laws were born in 1977 when serial killer David Berkowitz was offered a massive book deal within 24 hours of his arrest. New York passed legislation the very next day, and 42 states followed — including Idaho. But the Supreme Court gutted these laws in 1991, finding them too broad to survive First Amendment scrutiny. Most states never fixed the constitutional problems. Idaho was one of them.Today, the true crime industry generates hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Podcasts, streaming documentaries, and social media monetization didn't exist when Idaho's law was written. The five-year escrow period means convicted killers can potentially receive media profits if victims' families don't file civil lawsuits in time. Meanwhile, Kohberger received over $28,000 in jail donations while families argued in court over who should pay for their daughters' urns.We break down the full history, the Supreme Court decision that changed everything, and exactly what the new Idaho bill does — and doesn't — accomplish. For the families of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, Ethan, Tylee, JJ, and Tammy, this fight is far from over.#SonOfSamLaw #BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #LoriVallowDaybell #ChadDaybell #TrueCrimePodcast #VictimRights #MoscowIdaho #KayleeGoncalves #CriminalJusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The 28-day treatment model has been the standard since the 1970s. Relapse rates have stayed roughly the same. The approach hasn't fundamentally evolved. In almost every other area of medicine, fifty years of data showing 40-90% failure rates would have triggered a complete overhaul. So why hasn't that happened with addiction treatment? In Part 2 of our examination following the Nick Reiner tragedy, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott follows the money.A $42 billion industry where every relapse is another admission, another billing cycle. Facilities get paid whether treatment works or not. Insurance companies control treatment length through utilization review, overriding treating physicians and deciding when someone is "stable enough" for discharge regardless of clinical judgment. There's no standardized outcome tracking. No required reporting of success rates. Families can't comparison shop because the data doesn't exist.Shavaun examines the regulatory gap — in many states, the barrier to opening a treatment facility is shockingly low, with minimal oversight and no consequences for poor outcomes. We identify who pushes back when reform is proposed: treatment industry lobbyists, insurance companies, pharmaceutical interests. The research showing what works exists. Longer treatment. Integrated mental health care. Medication-assisted treatment. So what's blocking evidence-based care from becoming the norm? Is meaningful reform possible, or is this system too protected to change?#NickReiner #RobReiner #AddictionIndustry #RehabProfits #TreatmentReform #ShavaunScott #InsuranceCompanies #HealthcareCorruption #OpioidCrisis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Thomas Patrick Smith, Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigations, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Det. Stephen Augustine, Fairfax Co. Police Dept, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nick Barreiro, Audio/Video Forensic Analyst, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The unsealed affidavit in the Spencer and Monique Tepe murder case reveals what investigators believe was weeks of alleged planning before two people were shot to death in their Columbus home. According to court documents, surveillance captured Michael McKee walking through the Tepes' yard on December 7th—while the couple attended the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. Twenty-three days later, they were dead.But the documents reveal more than alleged reconnaissance. Witnesses told investigators that McKee made repeated threats to Monique during and after their marriage, including that he could "kill her at any time" and that "she will always be his wife." At least one witness reported that McKee allegedly strangled Monique and forced unwanted sex on her during the marriage—behaviors that domestic violence researchers identify as the strongest predictors of future lethality.The affidavit details how McKee allegedly used stolen license plates from Ohio and Arizona on his vehicle, how his cell phone went dark from December 29th until after noon on December 30th, and how his SUV was tracked arriving in Columbus before and leaving after the murders. After his arrest, investigators found fresh scrape marks where a distinctive window sticker had been removed.This is the anatomy of alleged premeditation. This is what "prior calculation and design" looks like when prosecutors lay it out. And this is the story of a woman who did everything right—left, divorced, rebuilt her life—and allegedly still couldn't escape someone who never accepted she had the right to leave.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #UnsealedAffidavit #DomesticViolenceAwareness #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhioMurder #Stalking #AggravatedMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Reiner family had resources. Access. The ability to pay for the best treatment money could buy. And we're still here — with Rob and Michele Reiner dead and their son Nick charged with their murders. So here's what nobody wants to answer: if money and access couldn't fix this, what could? Is the addiction treatment system broken — or is this just what addiction does?Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to examine whether the treatment industry is failing by design or facing a disease that breaks everything it touches. The numbers are brutal: 40-60% relapse rates within 30 days of discharge. For opioids, over 90% in the first year. The 28-day model has been the standard since the 1970s — not based on brain science, but on what insurance companies decided to cover. Is that setting people up to fail before they walk in the door?We dig into the co-occurring disorder problem — addiction almost never travels alone, but most facilities aren't equipped to treat the trauma, depression, and mental illness underneath it. Shavaun explains what evidence-based treatment actually looks like, why it's not the norm, and the uncomfortable reality of patients who learn to perform recovery without doing the work. This is the first part of an unflinching examination of an industry that takes billions while delivering dismal results.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #AddictionTreatmentFailed #RehabIndustry #ShavaunScott #SubstanceAbuse #MentalHealth #TreatmentCrisis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The moment everyone has been waiting for finally happened. Brendan Banfield took the stand in his own defense — and went straight at the prosecution's case.The former IRS criminal investigator, charged with orchestrating the murders of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan, told the jury there was never any plan to kill anyone. He admitted the affair with au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães. He said it started in August 2022 when his wife was out of town. But according to Banfield, he made it clear to Juliana from the start — this was just another affair. It wasn't going to change his marriage.When his attorney asked if he ever devised a plan with the au pair to "get rid of" Christine, Banfield didn't hesitate. He called the accusation absurd. He called it absolutely crazy. He said their relationship was barely two months old at that point — the idea that they were plotting murder was beyond belief.Banfield walked the jury through the morning of February 24th, 2023. The McDonald's stop. The stressed phone call from Juliana. The calls to Christine that went straight to voicemail. The ten-minute drive home. His version directly contradicts everything the au pair told prosecutors after she flipped.This trial now comes down to one question: which one of them is lying?Cross-examination begins Thursday. That's when the prosecutor gets their shot at him.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #ChristineBanfield #AuPairMurder #TrueCrimePodcast #VirginiaHomicide #JulianaPeresMagalhães #MurderTrial #TrialUpdate #TrueCrimeCommunityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Breaking: Sarah Grace Patrick was denied bond for the second time today. The judge cited flight risk, danger to the community, and a new bombshell — family members have signed documentary deals.But here's what the headlines are missing.Court records from 2022 show Sarah's mother Kristin was charged with trying to run over James Brock with a vehicle. A protective order was filed. Allegations included physical abuse, threats, and interference with 911 calls. Weeks later, it was dismissed. They married in 2023. By February 2025, both were shot dead in their bed.Testimony at the bond hearing revealed Sarah apologized for basic needs like eating and showering — classic trauma markers. Her best friend was never once allowed inside Sarah's home. And the prosecution's own filings state cameras in Sarah's bedroom were removed days before the shooting.Why was a 16-year-old's bedroom under camera surveillance?Sarah has been in solitary confinement for nearly seven months. Her trial is now August 2026. Research calls juvenile solitary "a form of child abuse." The UN calls it torture after 15 days.The prosecution says they have mountains of evidence. We're still waiting to see any of it.#SarahGracePatrick #CarrollCountyMurder #BondHearing #JamesBrock #KristinBrock #SolitaryConfinement #TrueCrime2026 #GeorgiaCrime #HiddenKillers #JuvenileJusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Paul Caneiro trial has exposed one of New Jersey's most disturbing alleged family annihilations. Prosecutors say Paul murdered his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children — 11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia — at their Colts Neck mansion in November 2018, then set the house on fire. The alleged trigger? Keith had just discovered Paul stole $78,000 from a trust account. Hours later, his entire family was dead.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to analyze the psychology driving family annihilation. Why does financial exposure sometimes trigger mass murder? What does the overkill violence — Sophia was stabbed 17 times including a wound to her eye and was allegedly still alive when the fire started — tell us about the perpetrator's psychological state? And how do family annihilators rationalize killing children they supposedly loved?We break down the prosecution's timeline, including surveillance footage of Paul disconnecting his cameras at 1:28 a.m., and examine testimony about his behavior after allegedly setting his own house on fire with his wife and daughters inside. Witnesses described Paul and his family sitting calmly in a Porsche outside the burning home. If someone had just survived what they believed was an attack, what would we expect to see emotionally? Shavaun explains what genuine trauma looks like versus performance — and what Paul's courtroom tears might actually mean.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeckMassacre #FamilyAnnihilation #KeithCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #JesseCaneiro #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeAnalysis #KillerPsychology #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The unsealed affidavit in the Michael McKee case reveals something prosecutors hadn't disclosed until now: McKee was at the Tepe home on December 6th — three weeks before he allegedly murdered his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer.The Tepes were at the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis that night. Two hundred miles away. House empty. According to the Columbus Dispatch, video showed McKee entering the home and leaving "a few hours later." WOSU reports he walked through the yard. What everyone agrees on: he was there, and Monique somehow knew. She left the game at halftime.This wasn't random. Witnesses told investigators McKee had allegedly threatened Monique for eight years — that he could "kill her at any time," that she would "always be his wife." A silver SUV with stolen plates had been spotted near their home multiple times. Fresh scrape marks on the window where a sticker used to be.No forced entry on December 6th. No forced entry on December 30th.December 6th was reconnaissance. A test run. Twenty-four days later, he allegedly came back with a silenced firearm and executed the plan. Spencer was shot multiple times. Monique took at least one round to the chest. Their children slept through it.McKee has pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison if convicted. But the question this affidavit raises isn't whether he did it — it's how Monique knew from 200 miles away that something was wrong. And why eight years of warnings still weren't enough.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #TepeMurders #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #Stalking #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrimePodcast #UnsealedDocumentsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for a two-part legal breakdown of the biggest murder case developments this week.First: Aaron Spencer. The Arkansas Supreme Court removed Judge Barbara Elmore from his second-degree murder trial—the second time they've reversed her on constitutional grounds in seven months. Spencer killed Michael Fosler, the man out on bond for allegedly raping his 14-year-old daughter. Now a retired judge is taking over, prior rulings could be reconsidered, and the defense has to figure out how to counter Rule 404(b) statements about what Spencer said he'd do if Fosler came near his daughter again.Second: Michael McKee. He pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. His lawyer is Diane Menashe—the same attorney who got Dr. William Husel acquitted of fourteen ICU patient murders by calling one witness. The prosecution has ballistics, surveillance, vehicle tracking, and a suppressor. Menashe doesn't present defenses. She dismantles prosecutions.Bob Motta breaks down both cases. What judicial removal means for Spencer. How defense-of-others works against premeditation evidence. Whether Menashe can replicate the Husel strategy against different evidence. Two murder trials. Two defense approaches. One expert analysis.#BobMotta #AaronSpencer #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #JudgeBarbaraElmore #DianeMenashe #MurderTrial #SelfDefense #HuselAcquittal #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Dr. Michael McKee is facing four counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Columbus home on December 30th. The prosecution has ballistics. Vehicle tracking. Video footage. A suppressed weapon. No forced entry.And McKee just hired Diane Menashe.If that name doesn't mean anything to you, it should. In 2022, Menashe co-counseled the defense of Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician charged with murdering 14 patients with fentanyl overdoses. The prosecution called 53 witnesses over six weeks. Menashe called one. Husel walked on every count.She also kept Reagan Tokes' killer Brian Golsby off death row when eight jurors wanted him executed. She saved cop-killer Quentin Smith from lethal injection.Diane Menashe doesn't do hopeless cases. She does cases everyone else thinks are hopeless — and finds the fractures in the prosecution's fortress.Today we analyze her potential defense strategy: attacking the NIBIN ballistics match that isn't as ironclad as it sounds, questioning the shadowy Ring camera identification, exploiting the missing motive, and potentially presenting McKee's documented spiral — malpractice suits, disappearing from colleagues, expired licenses — as evidence of psychological deterioration rather than cold premeditation.McKee isn't walking free. The evidence is too damning. But the difference between life with parole eligibility and life without parole? That's what Menashe fights for. That's what money buys.Two orphaned children. A thousand mourners. And the best defense attorney in Columbus.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #MoniquTepe #SpencerTepe #DianeMenashe #TrueCrime #MurderDefense #WilliamHusel #OhioMurder #DomesticViolenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee is now represented by the attorney who got Dr. William Husel acquitted of fourteen murder charges by calling one witness. Diane Menashe doesn't put on defenses. She tears apart prosecutions. She's said publicly that once defense attorneys start presenting evidence, they assume the burden of proving their client innocent—so she avoids it. She lets the state's case fall on its own weight.McKee faces four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The prosecution has ballistics through NIBIN linking a firearm from McKee's Chicago condo to shell casings at the crime scene. They have vehicle tracking data. Surveillance footage allegedly placing McKee in the alley behind the Tepe home. A suppressor specification carrying six additional years. No forced entry. And an eight-year gap between the divorce and the murders with no documented incidents between McKee and Monique.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to analyze how Menashe might attack each piece of evidence, whether the no-forced-entry problem actually helps the defense, and what the eight-year gap between divorce and murder means for both sides. We examine the prosecution's inexperience—Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor is trying her first felony case ever—and whether that creates openings for a 27-year defense veteran. This is how the McKee-Tepe case is going to be fought.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DianeMenashe #BobMotta #HuselAcquittal #AggravatedMurder #ColumbusOhio #NIBIN #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nick Reiner case has forced America to confront an uncomfortable truth: our addiction treatment system isn't designed to help people get better. It's designed to keep them coming back.In this episode, we pull back the curtain on a $42 billion industry built on failure. Relapse rates hover between 40-60% after treatment. For opioids, some studies push that number past 90%. And the industry has known this for decades. Nothing has changed — because failure is the business model.We break down how the arbitrary 28-day treatment window became standard — not because of science, but because of insurance spreadsheets. How utilization review allows people with no medical training to override clinicians and deny coverage to patients in crisis. How families mortgage their homes and drain retirement accounts chasing hope, while facilities cash checks whether treatment works or not.The Reiner tragedy didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened inside a system with no accountability, no outcome tracking, and no consequences for failure. A system where the people doing the actual work — counselors making $38,000 a year — burn out while the industry generates billions.This isn't about blaming addicts. This is about exposing the machine that profits from their suffering and leaves families holding the bill.What would a system actually designed to help people look like? And why won't anyone with the power to change it do anything?#NickReiner #RobReiner #RehabIndustry #AddictionTreatment #TrueCrime Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Aaron Spencer faces second-degree murder for killing Michael Fosler. The prosecution says it was purposeful killing. The defense says it was a father protecting his 14-year-old daughter from the man charged with raping her—a man out on $5,000 bond with 43 counts pending against him. Fosler should never have been free. He definitely should never have been with that child in his vehicle at 1 a.m. after she vanished from her bedroom.Spencer rammed Fosler's truck off the road. He says Fosler lunged at him with something in his hand. A confrontation followed. Fosler died. Now the prosecution has Rule 404(b) evidence—statements Spencer allegedly made three months earlier about what he'd do if Fosler came near his daughter again. That's their premeditation play. The defense has to counter it while arguing Spencer acted in lawful defense of his child.Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the legal framework for defense-of-others in Arkansas, what Spencer's legal team needs to prove, and how they neutralize prior statements that suggest planning. We examine how to use Fosler's extensive criminal history without making it look like vigilante justice, whether "you should have called 911" holds up when a child is in immediate danger, and what the political complications mean for jury selection. Spencer is running for sheriff. His opponent worked with the removed judge. This case has layers.#AaronSpencer #MurderDefense #BobMotta #SelfDefense #DefenseOfOthers #MichaelFosler #Rule404b #LononkeCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Four American children are trapped in a Croatian orphanage right now. Their father flew across the world to get them — and he's only allowed to see them two hours a day. The reason? Their mother, Elleshia Seymour, allegedly believed the apocalypse was coming. She loaded them onto a one-way flight to Europe, convinced that Salt Lake City was about to be destroyed and that COVID vaccines were turning people into zombies.Sound familiar? It should. Lori Vallow believed the same things. So did Spring Thibaudeau. Three "doomsday moms" in six years — all from the Mormon corridor, all with nearly identical beliefs, all leaving children traumatized or dead.The LDS Church calls these women "fringe." But when the same theology keeps producing the same tragedies in the same geography, at what point does it become an institutional problem? The Church teaches apocalyptic preparation as official doctrine. It allows members to claim "personal revelation" from God. It let Chad Daybell publish doomsday books and hold conferences for years before excommunicating him — after his stepdaughter's remains were found burned in his backyard.Meanwhile, the Church sits on $265 billion in assets. It paid $5 million in SEC fines for hiding its wealth. And it still hasn't addressed the radicalization pipeline operating within its own ecosystem.In this episode, we break down how Elleshia Seymour's case connects to a much larger pattern — and why the children of Mormon doomsday believers keep paying the price for an institution that won't police its own extremists.#ElleshiaSeymour #LoriVallow #ChadDaybell #DoomsdayMom #LDSChurch #MormonExtremism #ChildAbduction #CroatiaKidnapping #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Judge Barbara Elmore is off the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court removed her after finding her courtroom restrictions created constitutional problems for a second time in seven months. The first reversal came in May 2025 when the high court called her gag order a "plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." The second came now—after she limited the trial to 55 people, banned cameras, and refused overflow accommodations. Three justices have wanted her gone since the beginning. The majority finally agreed.Aaron Spencer faces second-degree murder charges for killing Michael Fosler—the man out on bond for allegedly raping Spencer's teenage daughter. The same daughter who disappeared from her bedroom after midnight and ended up in Fosler's vehicle. Spencer tracked them down, rammed the truck, and a confrontation ended with Fosler dead. Now a retired judge named Ralph Wilson is taking over, and the Supreme Court has granted a Writ of Certiorari to review prior rulings.Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what this judicial removal means, how rare it is for a state supreme court to take this step, and what changes when a new judge inherits a case this complicated. We examine Elmore's connection to Fosler's original sex crimes case, the letter fourteen Republican legislators sent to the Judicial Discipline Commission, and whether prior rulings could be reversed. This is the legal reality behind Arkansas's most divisive case.#AaronSpencer #JudgeBarbaraElmore #ArkansasSupremeCourt #BobMotta #MichaelFosler #JudicialRemoval #LononkeCounty #FairTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Fifteen years of silence. That's what the Greenberg family has received from Sam Goldberg and his relatives since Ellen was found dead with 20 stab wounds in their shared apartment. Now, with federal prosecutors issuing subpoenas and a corruption investigation underway, Ellen's parents are making one final request: help us understand.Sandee Greenberg's invitation was pointed but gracious: "We would like to invite Sam and his family members to come forward and explain to us things that have not been answered. I would think he would want to know exactly what happened to his beloved fiancée."That last line lands like a verdict wrapped in velvet.Sam Goldberg has never been named a suspect and has never been charged. But he's also never explained why his uncle removed Ellen's electronics before police secured them, why the crime scene was cleaned within 24 hours, or why his entire family refused to speak for the Hulu documentary. His one public statement in 15 years accused others of trying to "desecrate his reputation" — but offered nothing to help the Greenbergs find peace.Now the U.S. Attorney's Office is investigating whether Philadelphia authorities botched or corrupted this case from the start. The wait-it-out strategy is over. The questions are coming whether anyone volunteers answers or not.This is the full breakdown of why the Greenbergs' invitation is both the most generous offer Sam Goldberg will ever receive — and possibly his last chance to control his own narrative.#EllenGreenberg #SamGoldberg #FederalInvestigation #JamesSchwartzman #PhiladelphiaSuicide #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForEllen #DeathInApartment603 #ColdCaseUpdate #GreenbergFamilyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This week we're covering three cases that force the same devastating question: how do families know when a troubled relative has become genuinely dangerous? Nick Reiner is charged with stabbing his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. His attorney withdrew while insisting Nick is "not guilty of murder"—signaling a likely insanity defense based on his documented schizoaffective disorder and years of erratic behavior. Paul Caneiro is on trial in New Jersey for the 2018 murders of his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children at the family's Colts Neck mansion. Prosecutors say financial desperation drove him to kill after Keith discovered he was stealing from their shared businesses. Jurors heard the final phone call between the brothers—Keith demanding account access hours before his death. And Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon, has pleaded not guilty to killing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe in Columbus. Police call it a "targeted" domestic violence attack, with ballistic evidence allegedly linking McKee's gun to the scene. Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins us to examine what the escalation patterns in these cases reveal—and what families should watch for when love and accommodation are no longer enough.#NickReiner #PaulCaneiro #MichaelMcKee #RobReiner #KeithCaneiro #MoniqueTepe #FamilyMurder #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Breaking developments in the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court has removed Judge Barbara Elmore from the murder trial of the father who killed the man charged with raping his daughter. This is the second time the state's highest court had to intervene because of this judge.In May 2025, they struck down her gag order and called it "a plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." They warned her not to restrict public access without constitutional basis. Seven months later, she did it again — limiting courtroom attendance to 55 people with no overflow and no livestream.She refused to recuse. The Supreme Court removed her anyway.Now 14 Arkansas state legislators have filed a formal complaint with the Judicial Discipline Commission. Critical dashcam evidence has gone missing. The detective's testimony doesn't match how the camera actually works. And prosecutors want to use bodycam footage from three months before the shooting to argue premeditation.Aaron Spencer remains charged with second-degree murder. He's running for Lonoke County Sheriff against the man whose department arrested him. The primary is March 3rd.Judge Barbara Elmore faces no consequences. She's back on the bench Monday. The only person who's faced real accountability is the father who protected his daughter.#AaronSpencer #JudgeElmore #ArkansasSupremeCourt #LonokCounty #MichaelFosler #TrueCrime #JudicialAccountability #MurderTrial #Arkansas #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The warning signs in the Nick Reiner case stretch back decades. A yoga instructor who worked with the family described childhood tantrums she'd "never seen" anything like. At fifteen, Nick was physically aggressive with a rehab roommate. As an adult, he destroyed his parents' guesthouse on meth—multiple times—with what he later described as "no logic." He was in and out of rehab eighteen times by 2016. He was placed under a mental health conservatorship in 2020 for schizoaffective disorder. And hours before Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, Nick attended a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house, where witnesses say he approached guests with repetitive questions—"What's your name? Are you famous?"—stood and stared when asked to leave conversations, and wore a hoodie while everyone else was in formal attire. Sources say Nick had recently switched psychiatric medications due to weight gain, and the new medication made him more erratic. His arraignment has been delayed until February 23rd after defense attorney Alan Jackson withdrew from the case, insisting Nick is "not guilty of murder" under California law. Legal analysts expect a not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Nick faces life without parole or the death penalty if convicted.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #MentalIllness #Schizoaffective #BrentwoodMurder #HollywoodTragedy #BehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee entered his not guilty plea Friday. Silent. Stoic. His attorney did the talking. And if you want to understand what's coming in this case, you need to understand who that attorney is.Diane Menashe defended Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician accused of murdering fourteen ICU patients with lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. One. Husel walked on all fourteen counts. That's the playbook. That's who McKee hired.The prosecution team includes Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor, who has never tried a felony case in her career. She's third chair behind experienced prosecutors, but the optics are impossible to ignore. The heavyweight versus the newcomer. The doctor-defender versus the property code attorney.This episode goes deep on the legal chess match ahead. We break down Menashe's philosophy — why she believes presenting a defense shifts the burden to prove innocence. We examine what the suppressor allegation means for premeditation charges. And we dig into McKee's pattern of vanishing: fake addresses, expired licenses, process servers who couldn't find him for months before the murders.The evidence police have described sounds substantial. But Diane Menashe has beaten substantial before. The question now is whether she can do it again.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #HiddenKillers #DianeMenushe #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhio #DomesticViolenceMurder #WilliamHusel #MountCarmelJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The testimony in Paul Caneiro's quadruple murder trial has turned graphic. A Colts Neck detective told jurors that when eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro's body was removed from the burned mansion, he noticed she had stab wounds—including one to her left eye. Sophia's father Keith, mother Jennifer, and 11-year-old brother Jesse were also found dead inside the home on November 20, 2018. Paul Caneiro, Keith's older brother, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Paul shot Keith multiple times outside the mansion, then went inside and stabbed Jennifer and both children before setting the house on fire. Hours earlier, Paul allegedly set fire to his own Ocean Township home while his wife and daughters slept inside—a move prosecutors say was designed to make it look like the entire Caneiro family was being targeted. The motive, according to prosecutors: Keith had discovered Paul was stealing from their shared businesses and was preparing to cut him off from a $225,000 salary. Jurors heard the final phone calls between the brothers, including Keith demanding login credentials for a trust account. Paul's defense attorney says he's innocent and claims investigators never looked into a third Caneiro brother. Paul has been in jail without bail since his arrest the day after the murders—more than seven years ago.#CaneirioTrial #PaulCaneiro #KeithCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #MansionMurders #JenniferCaneiro #MonmouthCounty #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Jesse Butler thought he got away with it. The Stillwater, Oklahoma teen pled no contest to 11 felony charges — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation, violating a protective order — and avoided prison entirely. But attorney Rachel Bussett just filed a motion that could blow the whole thing up.Her argument: the plea was void from the start. According to court documents, victims weren't consulted before the deal was struck. Orders were filed without signatures. One victim was in surgery when the youthful offender certification was entered. The DA allegedly told a minor victim about the plea — and then told her not to tell her mother.On February 3rd, 2026, a Payne County court will decide whether this Marsy's Law challenge moves forward. If Bussett wins, Jesse Butler's plea deal could be thrown out and the case could restart as an adult prosecution.And that's not all. A federal lawsuit now names Stillwater Public Schools, Principal Walter Howell, the school resource officer, and Butler's own parents — including his father Mack Butler, former Oklahoma State football operations director — as defendants. The allegations include Title IX violations, civil rights violations, and claims the school refused to enter a protective order into their database because they didn't want to interfere with Butler's education.The system failed these girls. Now the families are fighting back on every front.#JesseButler #StillwaterOklahoma #MarsysLaw #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PayneCounty #JusticeForSurvivors #OklahomaState #YouthfulOffender #RachelBussettJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The ballistic match that prosecutors say connects Dr. Michael McKee to the murders of his ex-wife and her husband is now central to the case against him. McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe and Dr. Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot to death in their Weinland Park home on December 30th. Spencer had been shot multiple times; Monique sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. Their children, ages four and one, were in the home but physically unharmed. Columbus police say surveillance footage tracked McKee's vehicle to the neighborhood during the timeframe of the killings. When investigators seized firearms from his Illinois property, preliminary analysis through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network tied one weapon to three 9mm shell casings recovered from the Tepe residence. McKee is represented by defense attorney Diane Menashe, who previously represented Dr. William Husel in the Mount Carmel hospital deaths case. The prosecution team includes newly-elected Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor. Monique and McKee divorced in 2017. She married Spencer in 2019. A 911 call from April 2025 captured someone at the Tepe address saying she and her partner "got into it" before declining police assistance.#TepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ColumbusOhioMurder #DomesticViolenceHomicide #WeinlandPark #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForTepe #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Bryan Kohberger generated 13 formal complaints at Washington State University in a single semester. Nick Reiner had been through 18 rehab programs and a court-ordered conservatorship. In both cases, people saw something. In both cases, according to the evidence, nothing stopped what came next. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers for an extended analysis of institutional failure and family blind spots—two different mechanisms that allegedly allowed two tragedies to unfold despite abundant warning signs. Robin spent 21 years with the FBI, including as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he breaks down what these cases reveal about how threat assessment works—and doesn't. On Kohberger: The WSU lawsuit alleges faculty predicted he would sexually abuse students. Staff created their own "911" email alerts. Women needed security escorts. Robin explains what 13 complaints should operationally trigger and why universities choose perceived legal protection over safety. On Reiner: Nick was under LPS conservatorship oversight by a professional fiduciary—someone trained to not be fooled. It ended after one year. Robin analyzes what strategic compliance looks like, how someone becomes "institutionally fluent" enough to perform recovery, and how a family's ability to perceive danger erodes over two decades until they're sleeping in the same house with someone in crisis. Two cases, two failures, one conversation about what it takes to see the danger in front of you—and act on it.#HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #KayleeGoncalves #ThreatAssessment #InstitutionalFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Your questions have been flooding in on three of the most talked-about cases right now, and we're dedicating this episode to answering them. First: Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents Rob and Michele Reiner after years of addiction, schizophrenia, and a family that never gave up — until allegedly, it cost them their lives. Why did Alan Jackson walk away? How do you reconcile "Being Charlie" with this? Then: the WSU Kohberger lawsuit. The families of the four Idaho murder victims allege Washington State University received thirteen complaints about Bryan Kohberger and did essentially nothing. A professor warned he'd become a predator. Women needed escorts to their cars. And the institution allegedly protected itself instead of its students. Finally: Michael McKee and the Tepe murders. A surgeon who allegedly drove 300 miles to kill the ex-wife who'd moved on and the husband who loved her. Monique did everything right — she left, divorced, rebuilt — and she's still dead. We tackle enabling, institutional failure, coercive control, and the common thread running through all three: systems that should have protected people and didn't.#NickReiner #BryanKohberger #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #RobReiner #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #ListenerQuestionsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

By the time Nick Reiner was fifteen, he'd already learned a dangerous lesson: there is no bottom, because someone will always catch you. His parents—legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner—spent decades trying to save their troubled son. Eighteen rehab stints. Private wellness instructors. Family therapy. A guesthouse on their $13.5 million Brentwood estate that sources say he destroyed multiple times and they kept repairing.On December 14, 2025, Rob and Michele were found stabbed to death. Nick was arrested that night.In this Hidden Killers deep dive, we examine who Nick Reiner really was—not the redemption story from the 2015 film Being Charlie, but the darker reality hidden behind Hollywood privilege. A rehab roommate describes him as "a fucking pompous little punk" with "no sense of gratitude." A family yoga instructor recalls childhood tantrums so intense she'd "never seen a child like it." And Nick himself, on the Dopey podcast, admitted to destroying property with "no logic" and stealing medication from the elderly.We trace the path from entitled child to alleged killer—through a 2020 mental health conservatorship, a reported medication change weeks before the murders, and a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house where multiple guests saw a man in crisis and no one called 911. This is a story about what happens when money can't buy accountability and love becomes enabling.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HollywoodMurder #ReinerMurder #Parricide #Addiction #MentalHealthJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique's family said they "immediately knew" it was Michael McKee when they got the call. They knew. For eight years they watched her live in fear of a man she'd been married to for seven months. And nothing could be done. Michael McKee is now charged with two counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Ohio home while their children — a four-year-old and a one-year-old — slept down the hall. He allegedly drove 300 miles from New York, committed a double homicide, drove home, and kept the gun in his apartment. Your questions have forced us to confront the hardest parts of this case: What was Monique supposed to do? She did everything "right." She left. She divorced. She moved on. She built a beautiful life. And McKee allegedly destroyed it anyway. We examine the birthday cards signed "Your Husband" years after the divorce, his crumbling medical career, and whether his alibi was always meant to fail. This episode is about coercive control, the limits of restraining orders, and the question no one wants to answer — does a man like this feel like he won?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolenceAwareness #OhioMurder #StalkerKiller #HiddenKillers #RestrainingOrdersFail #TrueCrimePanelJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe in their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. But here's what should disturb you even more than the alleged crime itself: for eleven days after those killings, McKee was still employed as a vascular surgeon at an Illinois hospital. Credentialed. On staff. Working.How did he get that license in the first place? A malpractice attorney in Nevada had been trying to serve McKee for two years. The addresses McKee's surgical group provided didn't exist. His Nevada medical license had expired. And yet Illinois granted him credentials in 2024.This isn't just a McKee problem. This is a system problem. The National Practitioner Data Bank was created by Congress in 1986 specifically to stop doctors from hopping state lines to escape their past. But the public can't access it. And a USA Today investigation found that thirteen state medical boards didn't perform a single NPDB search in an entire year.Over 500 doctors disciplined in one state are practicing elsewhere with clean records. More than 250 who surrendered their licenses were able to practice in new states - a third with zero limitations. They call it "passing the trash" in education, and there's federal law against it for teachers. For doctors? Nothing.Tonight we examine the systemic failures that allowed Michael McKee to get licensed - and how many doctors just like him might be operating on patients right now.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MedicalMalpractice #StateMedicalBoard #PatientSafety #DoctorDiscipline #PassingTheTrashJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

They found him at his mother's house in Helena, Montana. Neo Langston — Twitch streamer, content creator, and close friend of D4VD — was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant for failing to appear as a witness. By Friday night, he was booked into LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center on $60,000 bail.The unit that tracked him down? LAPD Robbery-Homicide — the same division investigating the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The 15-year-old's remains were discovered in D4VD's Tesla last September, dismembered and decomposing, one day after what would have been her birthday.Neo isn't the only witness giving prosecutors problems. A female witness went into hiding in December and had to be threatened with arrest. D4VD's manager testified that his priority was the tour — not calling police. And D4VD himself hasn't said a word since the body was identified.Investigators have reportedly identified a second suspect involved "before, during, and after" Celeste's death. Tesla data allegedly shows two people present during a late-night trip to remote Santa Barbara County last spring. The question now: Is Neo that second suspect, or just a witness who knows too much?D4VD has not been charged. Neo faces only failure to appear charges. All individuals are presumed innocent. But the pattern is clear — everyone around David Anthony Burke is either silent, running, or being dragged into court.#HiddenKillers #D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #TrueCrime #GrandJury #LAPD #CelesteRivasHernandez #NeoTheAsian #JusticeForCelesteJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A professor allegedly told colleagues to "mark my words" — if they gave Bryan Kohberger a PhD, he'd eventually stalk and abuse students. Thirteen complaints filed in one semester. Women so scared they needed security escorts to their cars. And according to a new lawsuit, WSU's biggest concern was getting sued by the stalker, not protecting the students he was allegedly terrorizing. The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have filed a 126-page wrongful death suit against Washington State University, and the allegations are devastating. We're breaking down your questions: How do thirteen complaints result in nothing? What does Title IX actually require? Why was Kohberger finally fired right around the time of the murders — and what changed? The lawsuit reveals staff created secret email chains to warn each other when he was around. Students kept a tally board of his discriminatory comments. He was literally studying sexually motivated burglars while allegedly exhibiting predatory behavior himself. And four kids who didn't even attend WSU are dead because this university allegedly looked the other way. We discuss whether this case settles or goes to discovery, what Steve Goncalves is really fighting for, and whether lawsuits like this ever actually change institutional behavior.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #IdahoFour #WashingtonStateUniversity #HiddenKillers #InstitutionalFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution's catfishing theory just hit a wall. On Day 7 of the Brendan Banfield double murder trial, defense witness Harry Lidsky—a former DOJ digital forensics expert—testified that the data simply doesn't support the state's case.According to Lidsky, within the same minutes the FetLife account was created on Christine Banfield's laptop, her phone was searching a Lululemon sale. He believes the same person was on both devices. That's a problem for prosecutors who claim Brendan and Juliana secretly created the account while Christine was home and unaware.Lidsky also testified that Brendan Banfield and the au pair weren't always home when Christine's devices were accessing FetLife or messaging Joseph Ryan. If they weren't there, who was behind the keyboard?And then there's the 45-minute Telegram call. Joseph Ryan spoke with someone he believed was Christine for nearly an hour about their plans. The prosecution says it was Brendan or Juliana posing as Christine. But they can't prove it.The biggest news? Brendan Banfield will take the stand. His attorney announced it Friday morning. When he does, he'll face cross-examination from prosecutor Jenna Sands—and she's going to ask about everything. The blood. The affair. The gun he bought a month before his wife died. The daughter calling the au pair "Mommy" days after Christine's death.Banfield has pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison if convicted. Next week, we hear his side.One of them is lying. We're about to find out who.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #AuPairMurder #ChristineBanfield #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTrial #CatfishKiller #JulianaPeresMagalhães #FairfaxTrial #DoubleHomicideJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This week, a trust account expert told a Monmouth County jury something that reframes the entire Paul Caneiro case. Keith Caneiro's $3 million life insurance policy would only pay Paul if Keith, Jennifer, and both children were dead. All four of them. If any survived, they'd inherit instead. According to prosecutors, this explains why eight-year-old Sophia was stabbed seventeen times and left to die of smoke inhalation. Why eleven-year-old Jesse was stabbed in the kitchen and left to breathe smoke while bleeding out. They weren't witnesses. They were allegedly necessary casualties — their deaths required by the fine print of a policy their uncle was supposed to be protecting.A neighbor named Dennis Corpora heard the gunshots around 3:20 AM. His first thought? "Someone just got whacked." He called police. He knew it was a pistol. Meanwhile, prosecutors say Paul Caneiro had already disabled his security cameras at 1:28 AM, cut the power to his brother's house, disabled the backup generator, and waited in the dark for Keith to come outside. Shot once in the back. Four more times in the head.The defense wants to point at the third brother, Corey. But Corey's DNA isn't on bloody jeans in a basement. Corey's surveillance system wasn't disconnected at 1:28 AM. No murder weapon was found at Corey's house. The forensic trail leads to one address — Paul's. And every day of this trial, the evidence against him grows.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #KeithCaneiro #FamilyAnnihilator #MansionMurders #NewJerseyMurder #SophiaCaneiro #JesseCaneiroJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Seventeen rehab stints. A movie about his addiction. A guest house so they could keep him close. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything parents are supposed to do — and now they're dead, allegedly at the hands of the son they never stopped trying to save. You've been flooding us with questions, and we're answering the hardest ones. When does love become enabling? Why did Alan Jackson walk away from this case two weeks before arraignment? What really happened at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the night before? We dig into the schizophrenia diagnosis, the conservatorship that was reportedly in the works, the blood-covered hotel room, and what Jake and Romy Reiner are facing as they bury both parents while their brother awaits trial. Rob once said he had to "act" like a disciplinarian because tough love wasn't his nature. Michele said she regretted believing rehab counselors who called Nick a liar. The system failed this family at every turn — treatment programs, mental health intervention, the courts. And now we're left with questions that don't have satisfying answers. This episode is about sitting with the uncomfortable, working through the impossible, and trying to understand how a family with every advantage still ended up here.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #TrueCrime #Schizophrenia #AddictionAndMentalHealth #AlanJackson #BeingCharlie #CelebrityMurder #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

She lied for over a year. She wrote letters from jail promising to "take the blame" for Brendan Banfield. She told his mother she would "give my life for his." She only flipped after Banfield was arrested, after she was hospitalized from stress, and after his family stopped paying her legal bills. Now Juliana Peres Magalhães is negotiating with Netflix while media producers fund her commissary. In a letter to her mother: "We do deserve something."And she's the prosecution's entire case. The only person alive who was in that bedroom when Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan were killed.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent his career reading people and identifying deception as head of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes Juliana's credibility. What does her behavior on the stand tell us? How do you evaluate someone who lied for a year and then flipped? Does the Netflix deal destroy her credibility—or is it irrelevant to whether she's telling the truth? And what does her relationship with Banfield reveal about the psychological dynamics at play?The prosecution closed with their strongest forensic evidence. Blood stain pattern analyst Iris Dalley Graff testified that Joseph Ryan's body was moved after death and Christine's blood was deliberately placed on Ryan's hands and clothing to frame him. The transfer patterns were "finger-like in shape"—consistent with someone touching him with blood-covered hands. Blood droplets on his forearm suggested dripping from above.Defense attorney John Carroll moved to dismiss, arguing prosecutors never called a single homicide detective and relied too heavily on a cooperating witness with credibility problems. Judge Penney Azcarate denied the motion. The defense now presents their case. Banfield has pleaded not guilty.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaMagalhaes #RobinDreeke #FBI #ChristineBanfield #BloodEvidence #HiddenKillers #CrimeSceneStaging #AuPairAffair #CredibilityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house on December 13th, 2025? What did Rob and Michele Reiner stop being able to see? Two experts break down the psychological dynamics that may have led accomplished, intelligent parents to underestimate danger from their own son.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes how trust gets exploited through reciprocity, vulnerability, and shared identity. The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. How does manufactured guilt function as a manipulation tool? Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father—a movie about their own relationship. That's extraordinary narrative control. What does that level of influence over the family story tell you about who actually held power?Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott delivers a comprehensive three-part psychological analysis. Part one examines Nick's schizoaffective disorder and the medication change that reportedly destabilized him one month before the murders—plus the psychology of someone who admits killing his parents but believes his incarceration is a conspiracy. Part two breaks down how the family "grew used to" behavior that alarmed strangers, how Nick reportedly manipulated his way through 18-plus treatment facilities, and why Rob and Michele brought Nick to Conan O'Brien's party rather than leave him alone—where other guests considered calling 911. Part three exposes why the mental health system failed despite the Reiners doing everything families are told to do.Dr. Drew said 30-day programs were "almost meaningless" for Nick. Alexis Haines said he belonged in a hospital. Patient autonomy laws let him refuse treatment. The care he actually needed may not even exist.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #FBI #ThreatBlindness #HiddenKillers #FamilyDynamics #ManipulationJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

She left after seven months. Let him keep the house. Let him have the rings. Paid what she owed—with an interest penalty clause he demanded. Moved back to Ohio, rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children. Her family says Monique never said Michael McKee's name after the divorce. She only called him "her ex-husband." She talked about the emotional abuse. The torment. She was always worried. Eight years later, police say he drove 300 miles and killed her anyway.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the psychology of someone who allegedly holds onto that kind of rage for nearly a decade. She describes "deep-seated resentment and hate that just built up"—the behavioral profile of a grievance collector who catalogs every perceived slight, assigns permanent blame, and never moves on. For someone like this, watching an ex-spouse build a happy new family isn't closure. It's fuel.The divorce records tell their own story. McKee wanted the rings back from a marriage that lasted less than a year. The separation agreement required Monique to reimburse him with interest. Coffindaffer explains what these control dynamics reveal about ownership and entitlement. Someone who demands jewelry back from a seven-month marriage isn't negotiating a settlement. They're keeping score.Police labeled this a "targeted domestic violence attack." But there were no prior reports. No restraining orders. No documented threats. Monique's family says the arrest was "not a shock"—they'd suspected McKee from day one but stayed quiet to protect the investigation. The family knew. For eight years, they knew. And the system couldn't act until two people were dead and two children were orphaned.What does it mean when doing everything right still isn't enough to survive?#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrievanceCollector #HiddenKillers #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #TeepeMurders #IntimatePartnerViolenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house with someone in psychiatric crisis on December 13th, 2025? What did Rob and Michele Reiner stop being able to see? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes twenty years of family dynamics that may have led to tragedy.Dreeke explains how trust gets exploited through reciprocity, vulnerability, and shared identity. The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. How does manufactured guilt function as a manipulation tool? Rob was publicly saying by the end that they should have listened to Nick instead of the professionals. Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father—a movie about their relationship. That's extraordinary narrative control over the family narrative. What does that level of influence tell you about who held the power?But the system abandoned them too. Nick was under court-ordered conservatorship in 2020. A judge found him gravely disabled. A licensed fiduciary controlled his treatment decisions. He could be forced into a locked psychiatric facility. On paper, this is the system working. In reality, California's conservatorship expires after one year with no follow-up. Families can't petition for renewal. The state doesn't track outcomes.A California study found 83% of conserved patients remain stable while under conservatorship. After termination? Only 43% stay stable. That's a 57% relapse rate—and the state's response is that follow-up care is voluntary. Nick's conservatorship ended in 2021. For four years, no one was watching. When he moved back in with his parents in late 2024, when sources say he changed medications a month before December 14th—there was no legal mechanism for intervention. The system had declared victory and walked away.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #ThreatBlindness #Conservatorship #HiddenKillers #Manipulation #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eight years. That's how long Dr. Michael McKee allegedly waited after his divorce from Monique Tepe before he drove 300 miles from Illinois to Ohio and shot her and her husband Spencer dead in their home. Most people move on after a failed marriage. They heal. They rebuild. But according to FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, McKee may be what's called a "wound collector"—someone who doesn't let go of perceived injuries, who catalogs grievances and carries resentment for years until it explodes.Dreeke spent 32 years at the FBI, including heading the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He breaks down how wound collectors think, how they justify, and why high-functioning professionals like surgeons can mask dangerous resentment behind successful careers. We examine what triggers someone to finally act after years of stewing, how they flip the narrative to convince themselves they're the victim, and what watching an ex-spouse's happiness does to someone who never let go.But the forensic evidence raises its own questions. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the investigation—surveillance footage of McKee's vehicle arriving before the killings and leaving after, a preliminary NIBIN ballistics match, and a hooded figure walking through an alley at 3:52 AM. Police recovered the alleged murder weapon from McKee's Chicago penthouse eleven days after the crime. Why would a surgeon—someone whose career is built on precision—allegedly keep the gun in his own apartment?Coffindaffer examines the no-forced-entry mystery, the behavioral red flags that emerged months before the murders including a malpractice process server who tried nine times to locate McKee at addresses that didn't exist, and why waiving extradition might be the first move in a calculated legal strategy. McKee maintains his innocence and plans to plead not guilty to two counts of premeditated aggravated murder.#McKeeTepe #MichaelMcKee #WoundCollector #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #NIBIN #WeekInReviewJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A judge declared Nick Reiner "gravely disabled" in 2020. Licensed fiduciary Steven Baer took control of his treatment decisions. Nick could be forced into a locked psychiatric facility against his will. The Reiners obtained the most powerful legal tool California offers families dealing with severe mental illness. It lasted one year. Four years later, both parents are dead.Here's what the law actually does: if a family provides food, clothing, and shelter for a mentally ill loved one, that person may no longer qualify as "gravely disabled." The conservatorship can expire not because the patient improved—but because loving parents kept caring. The system forces families to choose between supporting their children and maintaining legal authority to force treatment. The Reiners appear to have been trapped by that impossible choice.We break down the full timeline: 2019 police calls to the Brentwood home. Nick's reported schizophrenia diagnosis around 2020. The conservatorship that ended after one year. The medication change approximately one month before the killings that sources say triggered a "complete break from reality." And we examine why former conservator Steven Baer will almost certainly testify—and what that means for both prosecution and defense strategies.But the Reiner case is a symptom of a sixty-year policy failure. Before California's 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, families could petition courts to hospitalize violent, psychotic relatives. That system is gone. Today, someone can be paranoid, delusional, and dangerous but still walk out the door if they can say where they're going to sleep. California went from 37,000 patients in state hospitals to fewer than 1,500 on involuntary conservatorships.The conservatorship didn't fail because the Reiners failed. It may have failed because the law worked exactly as designed. Two bodies later, the system finally has authority it wouldn't grant the people who loved him.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #LPSConservatorship #StevenBaer #Deinstitutionalization #MentalHealthLaw #HiddenKillers #CaliforniaLaw #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob Misleh said something on Good Morning America that stops you cold: "She just had to get away from him." He said Monique told him Dr. Michael McKee was emotionally abusive. That she was willing to do anything to escape. That many in the family knew about the torment. Misleh called McKee a monster, said Monique never spoke his name after the 2017 divorce—only "her ex-husband." She was always worried. But nobody thought he'd actually do it.Now look at the court records. No domestic violence allegations. No protection orders. No restraining orders. The divorce paperwork says "incompatibility." That's it. If you read those documents blind, you'd think this was the most amicable split in Ohio history. The family knew the truth. The legal system never did.Police just confirmed the murder weapon was recovered from McKee's Chicago penthouse. NIBIN matched shell casings from the Tepe bedroom to a firearm seized from his residence. His alibi collapsed before his arrest. ATF picked him up at a Chick-fil-A seven minutes from the hospital where he worked. Surveillance footage places him near the Tepe home during the murder window. He allegedly drove 300 miles to execute his ex-wife and her husband while their two children slept in separate rooms.Attorney Eric Faddis examines why so many victims choose not to document abuse in divorce proceedings—the fear that it makes things worse, the belief that staying quiet means staying safe. He breaks down how the legal system treats emotional abuse compared to physical abuse and whether it carries less weight in court. Then there's June 2025: eight years after the divorce, something brought McKee and Monique back into the court system. Six months later, she was dead. For anyone who recognizes their own situation in Monique's story, Eric offers guidance on what steps victims can take when the system wasn't built to see the threat coming.#MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #MichaelMcKee #EricFaddis #DomesticViolence #EmotionalAbuse #HiddenKillers #MurderWeapon #NIBIN #TeepeMurdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eight months after Christine Banfield was allegedly stabbed to death in her own bedroom, detectives returned to the home. What they found tells a story all by itself. The blood-soaked carpet? Gone. Fresh wood flooring in its place. New furniture throughout. And on the nightstand where wedding photos once sat? Pictures of Brendan Banfield with Juliana Peres Magalhães—the au pair who prosecutors say helped plan Christine's murder.Crime scene photographer Kenner Fortner showed the jury these before-and-after images during day three of testimony. Detective Terry Leach presented graphic photographs of Joseph Ryan's body—blood on his face, hands, chest, and arms. The murder knife wasn't in Ryan's hand as the defense claims it should have been. It was hidden under blankets on the floor. Christine's blood was found on Banfield's jeans. Prosecutors revealed he'd bought a gun weeks before the killings, took Juliana to a shooting range twice, and allegedly installed $30,000 worth of soundproof windows in the home.McDonald's surveillance captured the prosecution's timeline: Banfield in the parking lot at 7:37 AM, exiting the bathroom with his phone to his ear at the exact moment Juliana called. Her testimony says that call was the signal.But the central question remains: who manipulated whom? Robin Dreeke spent 32 years at the FBI, including leading the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program where he recruited spies and analyzed human behavior at the highest levels. He examines what Juliana's jailhouse letter reveals about her psychology—writing to her mother that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to Brendan, that she still loved him, but wanted to come home. Dreeke identifies the behavioral markers that distinguish genuine coercion from willing participation. The jury will watch Juliana testify against the man she allegedly loved. Dreeke tells you what to look for.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaMagalhaes #ChristineBanfield #RobinDreeke #FBI #AuPairMurder #CrimeSceneEvidence #HiddenKillers #Manipulation #FairfaxTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Police just connected the dots. Sixteen days after Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead in their Columbus home, investigators announced they've recovered multiple firearms from Dr. Michael McKee's property—and one of those weapons has a preliminary ballistic match to the murder scene through NIBIN, the federal database that links bullets to guns across the country.McKee allegedly drove from Illinois to Ohio to kill his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer while their two young children slept feet away. Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant called it what it was: a targeted domestic violence attack. The charges have been upgraded to premeditated aggravated murder—death penalty eligible. Attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what "prior calculation and design" requires prosecutors to prove, and why this upgrade signals investigators may know more than they've revealed.The family broke their silence too. Rob Misleh, Spencer's brother-in-law, appeared on Good Morning America and described eight years of watching Monique try to escape McKee's abuse. "She just had to get away from him." He said the family knew the torment she endured. They spent years looking over their shoulders. Now two children are orphans and the threat the family always feared has been confirmed.McKee was arrested at a Chick-fil-A in Rockford, Illinois on January 10th. He waived extradition but remains in Illinois—transfer to Ohio reportedly won't happen by week's end. His attorney indicated he'll plead not guilty. Chief Bryant says police are withholding evidence details to protect the prosecution's case.Eric Faddis examines the legal road ahead: what defense strategies exist against ballistics evidence, surveillance footage, and vehicle records placing McKee at the scene. Ohio has an execution moratorium, but McKee could still receive a death sentence. Over 1,000 mourners said goodbye to Spencer and Monique. The evidence keeps building.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #NIBIN #MurderWeapon #DomesticViolence #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #ColumbusOhio #TeepeMurdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

One of America's best defense attorneys just made the most unusual exit in recent legal memory. Alan Jackson told the court he was "legally and ethically prohibited" from continuing to represent Nick Reiner. Then he walked outside and told reporters: "Pursuant to the law in California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder." What circumstances force an attorney to withdraw while simultaneously staking his professional reputation on his client's innocence?The clues are buried in sealed documents. A confidential medical order. Ten subpoenas prosecutors aren't allowed to see. Three weeks of investigation that changed Jackson's entire approach—then ended with him handing the case to Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene.Nick faces death-eligible charges: two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. Sources confirm he was being treated for schizophrenia when his mother Michele Reiner and her partner were killed. He appeared in court wearing a suicide prevention smock. His medications reportedly aren't stabilized. At what point does mental health history become a formal competency challenge?Attorney Eric Faddis examines the evidence that's emerged—including gas station surveillance showing Nick calmly purchasing a drink hours after the murders. Prosecution sees consciousness of guilt. A defense signaling insanity sees something different entirely. Eric breaks down how both sides would use that footage, what Jackson's withdrawal signals about the defense strategy, and why DA Nathan Hochman remains "fully confident" in pursuing conviction despite everything.The arraignment is February 23rd. The sealed evidence remains locked. And Alan Jackson's public declaration hangs over this case like an unanswered question nobody in the courthouse is allowed to address.#NickReiner #AlanJackson #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #InsanityDefense #SealedEvidence #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CaliforniaCourtsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Murdaugh saga reaches its most critical moment yet. On February 11th, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Alex Murdaugh's appeal — and the stakes couldn't be higher.Becky Hill, the Colleton County Clerk of Court who managed the jury during Murdaugh's six-week murder trial, has pled guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice, and misconduct in office. She admitted to lying under oath at the January 2024 hearing where retired Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Murdaugh's request for a new trial. Now his defense team is asking the Supreme Court to consider that conviction as they decide whether the original trial was fair.In this episode, we break down both tracks of Murdaugh's appeal. First, the jury tampering allegations: what Becky Hill allegedly told jurors, what investigators found, and why her perjury conviction matters even though she was never charged with tampering. Second, the underlying trial errors: the defense's claim that Judge Clifton Newman allowed prejudicial financial crimes evidence that turned the trial into character assassination.We explain the federal vs. state standard debate that could determine everything. We walk through what the prosecution is arguing. And we address the uncomfortable reality that even if Murdaugh wins, he's still going to die in prison — he's already serving 27 years for stealing $12 million from his clients.This isn't about whether Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son. The evidence against him is substantial. This is about whether the trial that convicted him followed the rules. And when the clerk who ran that trial is now a convicted liar, that's a question the system has to answer. #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #BeckyHill #MurdaughAppeal #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #MurdaughFamily #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaughJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This week on Hidden Killers, we're examining two cases demanding legal accountability—one criminal, one civil—with former felony prosecutor turned defense attorney Eric Faddis. In Ohio, Dr. Michael McKee faces aggravated murder charges for allegedly executing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Richard Tepe in their Columbus home. Police say the murder weapon was recovered from McKee's Chicago apartment. His alibi reportedly collapsed. Family members describe eight years of obsession. Faddis analyzes what prosecutors must prove and where McKee's defense team will attack the evidence—from chain of custody issues to the fundamental problem of no eyewitnesses. In Washington, the families of Bryan Kohberger's victims have filed a 126-page lawsuit against WSU alleging the university ignored 13 formal complaints against Kohberger before he murdered Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Staff created their own warning systems. A professor allegedly predicted he'd abuse students. The families argue the murders were "foreseeable and preventable." Faddis breaks down the Title IX claims, what "deliberate indifference" means legally, and whether this lawsuit could set precedent for institutional liability nationwide. Two cases. Two paths to justice. One expert analysis.#TepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #KayleeGoncalves #MoniqueTepe #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #AggravatedMurder #TitleIXJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Reiners called police twice in 2019. A welfare check. A mental health call. That means at some point they perceived enough danger or dysfunction to bring in law enforcement. But by December 2025, they're sharing a home with Nick after watching him act erratically at a party. They went to bed. What happened to their threat calibration? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to analyze the long con—how a manipulative person reshapes family reality over two decades until danger becomes normalized. Robin spent 21 years with the FBI, including as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he specializes in understanding how trust gets exploited. Rob Reiner said publicly that he regretted listening to addiction specialists and professionals instead of his son. Robin explains what it looks like when someone has successfully trained their family to distrust outside expertise—and how long that takes. Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father in 2015, a movie about their own relationship and his addiction. That's extraordinary narrative control—he got to shape the public story of his illness with his father's collaboration. What does that level of influence tell you about the power dynamics? The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. Robin explains how manufactured guilt functions as a manipulation tool inside families—and why legitimate frustration with a broken treatment system becomes a vulnerability that can be exploited. The surviving children don't want the death penalty. Even now—protection. Robin weighs in on what that means.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #FamilyManipulation #ThreatBlindness #BeingCharlie #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nick Barreiro, Audio/Video Forensic Analyst, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Washington State University knew Bryan Kohberger was dangerous. That's what the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin are alleging in a devastating new lawsuit filed January 7th, 2026. The 126-page complaint details at least 13 formal complaints filed against Kohberger during his single semester as a graduate teaching assistant at WSU. Women were requesting security escorts to avoid him. Staff created informal "911" email alerts to warn each other when he was nearby. One supervising instructor allegedly expressed concern that removing Kohberger could expose the university to a lawsuit—choosing legal liability over campus safety. A professor reportedly told colleagues that if WSU gave Kohberger a PhD, they'd eventually hear about him harassing and sexually abusing students. The murders happened eight miles away in Moscow, Idaho. The families argue those murders were foreseeable and preventable. Former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down the legal claims: Title IX violations, gross negligence, wrongful death. What does "deliberate indifference" mean in court? How do families prove it? And what's WSU most afraid of having exposed during discovery? This lawsuit could set precedent for institutional liability nationwide.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #HiddenKillers #TitleIX #EricFaddis #Idaho4Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob and Michele Reiner were stabbed to death in their Brentwood mansion. Their son Nick - diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, fresh off a medication change - is charged with their murders. The family narrative focuses on mental illness. But the violence pattern tells a different story.Sources describe the crime scene as so brutal it disturbed veteran investigators. TMZ's Harvey Levin says it had "all the markings of a meth murder." Nick was arrested in a known drug area fifteen miles from home. And his own public statements document years of stimulant abuse - including violent rampages while high on cocaine.On Hidden Killers, we break down what forensic research says about overkill violence, what clinical literature reveals about the catastrophic intersection of schizoaffective disorder and stimulant use, and why the circumstantial evidence emerging from this case demands harder questions.Nick Reiner was under a court-ordered mental health conservatorship in 2020. He talked openly about heroin, crack, cocaine heart attacks, and destroying property during drug binges. His medication was changed a month before his parents died.Was this a psychiatric break? A meth-fueled rage? Or the catastrophic combination that dual diagnosis experts fear most?We examine the evidence, the research, and the questions the family narrative doesn't answer.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #RobReinerMurder #TrueCrimePodcast #MethPsychosis #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #BrentwoodMurders #ForensicPsychology #DualDiagnosis #HollywoodMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee is expected to plead not guilty to the aggravated murders of Monique Tepe and Richard Tepe. His defense team sees something prosecutors don't want jurors to notice. The murder weapon was allegedly found in McKee's Chicago apartment—but that's 300 miles from the crime scene in Columbus. There are no eyewitnesses placing him inside the Tepe home. The forensic evidence that seems airtight? Defense attorneys have ways to challenge it. Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis spent years as a felony prosecutor before switching sides. He's tried over 45 jury trials and knows exactly how defense teams dismantle cases that look strong on the surface. In this Hidden Killers interview, Faddis identifies where McKee's defense will attack: chain of custody issues with the weapon, potential search warrant problems, the difficulty of proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt when the evidence is entirely circumstantial. We examine whether McKee's reported statements to police can be suppressed or contextualized, how defense counters eight years of alleged obsession without letting their client testify, and what happens if prosecutors seek the death penalty. Juries tend to trust doctors. They also tend to believe forensic evidence is infallible. McKee's defense has to navigate both instincts. Eric Faddis explains how.#TepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #RichardTepe #HiddenKillers #DefenseStrategy #EricFaddis #ReasonableDoubt #MurderTrial #CriminalDefenseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The defense came out swinging on Day 7 of the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Homicide Detective Leah Smith testified she was pressured by supervisors to support the catfishing theory before evidence backed it up. She says she was told: "There are two theories and you need to get behind the right one." A forensic analyst was transferred off the case after suggesting Christine Banfield — not Brendan — may have been the one communicating with victim Joseph Ryan on FetLife.But then came testimony that stopped the room cold.Victim services officer Saly Fayez testified that an intel detective overheard Brendan's daughter Valerie approach au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães in a hotel lobby — hours after Christine's stabbing death — and ask, "Can I call you mommy now?" According to Fayez, Juliana said yes. Valerie then allegedly asked if Juliana would marry her daddy. The reported answer: "I wish."The prosecution isn't backing down. Lt. Giaccio testified Juliana's account only confirmed existing forensic evidence. Even Detective Smith admitted the arrest was evidence-based, not built on the au pair's cooperation.The judge is racing to finish before a major snowstorm hits the DC area. Court resumes Friday at 10 a.m.Brendan Banfield has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairMurderTrial #ChristineBanfield #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #FairfaxCounty #JulianaMagalhaes #FetLifeCatfish #JosephRyan #CourtRoomJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee allegedly drove 400 miles in the middle of the night carrying a suppressed firearm to murder his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer while their children slept down the hall. Now he sits in an Ohio jail facing four counts of aggravated murder — and based on everything we know about his behavioral patterns, he probably still believes he can beat this case.In this deep-dive opinion piece, I examine the psychology of a man who has demonstrated a lifelong pattern of avoiding accountability. A man who allegedly evaded service on a malpractice lawsuit nine times. A man whose colleague said simply "disappeared" when problems arose. A man who allegedly couldn't let go of a seven-month marriage for eight years — until it allegedly ended in murder.Using the Dark Triad framework that criminologists and forensic psychologists apply to cases like this, I break down how narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy may have shaped McKee's alleged actions and will likely shape his defense. I walk through every legal strategy available to him — attacking forensics, challenging surveillance, mental health defenses, self-defense claims — and explain why each one crashes into the wall of premeditation evidence.The silencer changes everything. You don't buy a suppressor for a spontaneous act.This is the story of a man whose ego allegedly drove him to kill — and whose ego may now prevent him from ever accepting a plea deal that could save him from life without parole. The narcissist's defense isn't really a defense at all. It's a slow-motion self-destruction. #HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #TepeMurders #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TrueCrimePodcast #DarkTriad #NarcissistKiller #ColumbusOhio #DomesticViolenceMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Before Michael McKee invoked his right to remain silent, he allegedly gave police a bogus alibi. That single decision may haunt him for the rest of his life. McKee, a Chicago vascular surgeon, is charged with aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Richard Tepe at their Columbus home. Police say the murder weapon was recovered from McKee's apartment nearly two weeks after the killings. But it's not just forensic evidence prosecutors will weaponize—it's what McKee reportedly said before he stopped talking. Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis has built cases exactly like this one. He knows how prosecutors turn a defendant's own words into the most damaging evidence at trial. In this Hidden Killers interview, Faddis explains the legal mechanics of the McKee prosecution: why charges were upgraded to aggravated murder, how a contradictory alibi gets presented to a jury, and what investigators look for when establishing premeditation across an eight-year timeline. We examine the family testimony alleging emotional abuse, the reported stalking behavior days before the murders, and the challenge of prosecuting a defendant with no criminal record who presents as educated and successful. The prosecution has a story to tell about the Tepe murders. Eric Faddis shows us how they'll tell it.#MichaelMcKee #TepeMurders #MoniqueTepe #RichardTepe #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #AggravatedMurder #OhioMurder #TrueCrimePodcast #FalseAlibiJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The judge who presided over Richard Allen's murder trial just announced her retirement from the bench. Frances Gull's press release is full of praise for her Drug Court work and her belief in "second chances, rehabilitation, and redemption." Conspicuously absent from that press release is any mention of the Delphi case—the trial that made her internationally known and is now under appellate review for alleged constitutional violations.Richard Allen was convicted and sentenced to 130 years. But the 113-page appellant's brief filed last month tells a different story than the one the jury heard—because according to the defense, the jury was prevented from hearing critical evidence at every turn.Gull excluded the composite sketch of Bridge Guy that looked nothing like Allen. She excluded a forensic metallurgist with nearly 300 cases of expert testimony who could have challenged the bullet evidence. She forced the defense to mute the audio on videos showing Allen's psychotic break in solitary confinement. She excluded evidence of alternative suspects connected to pagan rituals, the victim, and the crime scene location. She excluded evidence that investigators recorded over interviews and ignored credible tips.What did she let in? A Google search the State's witness conducted during trial to explain away defense evidence.The pattern documented in the appeal is stark. Ruling after ruling went against the defense. Now Gull gets to retire to her family and grandchildren while Richard Allen's family visits him through prison glass.The appeals court will decide her real legacy. Today we break down every ruling that put her there.#JudgeGull #FrancesGull #Delphi #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #AbbyAndLibby #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #DelphiTrial #WrongfulConvictionJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The perpetrator psychology. The victim experience. The shattered aftermath. One complete breakdown.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings over thirty years of experience in forensic settings, domestic violence work, and trauma recovery to examine every dimension of the Tepe murder case. She's the author of "The Minds of Mass Killers" — and she's a survivor herself.What allegedly happens inside someone who can't let go for eight years after a seven-month relationship? Michael McKee apparently never remarried. Prosecutors say he drove six hours, entered without forced entry, killed Monique and Spencer at 3:52 AM, and drove back. We examine the wound collector profile, the compartmentalized obsession, the internal narrative that allegedly justified years of fixation.Why didn't Monique report? Family says she talked about being terrified for eight years. She told people about the death threats. But there were no police reports, no restraining orders. We explore coercive control — what Laura Richards calls "murder in slow motion" — and why victims don't engage systems that consistently fail them.And the aftermath: two children orphaned, a community in grief, and the devastating reality that Monique did everything we tell victims to do. She recognized the danger. She left fast. She told people. She rebuilt her life. It wasn't enough. What could she have done differently? Maybe nothing. And that says everything about how broken the system is.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #DomesticViolence #WoundCollector #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #PsychologyLink to Shavaun Scott's Substack Discussing Dangerous Ex's:https://open.substack.com/pub/shavaun/p/when-leaving-is-the-most-dangerous?r=1fklc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Steven Baer is a licensed fiduciary. He does this for a living. He's not emotionally invested like family. He's seen manipulation before. And yet Nick Reiner's LPS conservatorship—which gave Baer the authority to force medication, to make treatment decisions, to place Nick in a locked facility if necessary—ended after just one year. It wasn't renewed. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to analyze what it takes to manipulate a professional gatekeeper. Robin spent his career recruiting spies—getting people to trust him who were trained to trust no one. He knows the mechanics of building credibility with skeptical professionals, and he breaks down how Nick may have exploited the very accountability structures designed to protect him. Here's the thing about conservatorship renewals: Baer—or a treating physician—would need to petition and present evidence that Nick was still gravely disabled. That creates a timeline. That creates a target. Robin explains what strategic compliance looks like in the months leading up to that renewal date—how you perform recovery, hit the right notes, check the right boxes. Nick had been through 18 rehab programs. He knew the language. He knew what progress looks like on paper. Is there a point where someone becomes too institutionally fluent to be accurately assessed? And once you've beaten the system—once you're free of oversight—what do the next four years look like before something like this allegedly happens? Baer will almost certainly be called as a witness. Robin explains what both sides will want him to say.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #StevenBaer #Conservatorship #RobinDreeke #FBI #LPSConservatorship #SystemManipulation #MentalHealthCrisis #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Miller, Detective with the Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two children, ages one and four, were in the home when their parents were allegedly killed. They're now orphans. Over a thousand people attended the funeral. A family will never be the same.And here's the question that won't leave me alone: Monique Tepe did everything right. She recognized the abuse. She left quickly. She told people about the threats. She moved on and built a beautiful life. She followed the playbook we give victims. And she's still dead.What does that mean?In Part 3 of our three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps us process the aftermath of the Tepe murders. Shavaun has spent over thirty years in trauma recovery and believes deeply in the possibility of healing. But she's also honest about the limits of what we can control.We examine how young children process loss they can't understand. We explore the survivor's guilt crushing a family that knew Monique was afraid. We ask what healing actually looks like — or if it's just learning to carry something that never gets lighter. And we confront the hardest question: if leaving isn't enough, if telling people isn't enough, if building a new life isn't enough — what actually protects victims?Sometimes there are no good answers. Only honest ones.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ShavaunScott #TraumaRecovery #DomesticViolence #Aftermath #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SheDidEverythingRightLink to Shavaun Scott's Substack Discussing Dangerous Ex's:https://open.substack.com/pub/shavaun/p/when-leaving-is-the-most-dangerous?r=1fklc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Saly Fayez, Victim Services Division of Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Lt. David Giaccio, Fairfax Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael McKee was a vascular surgeon trained at Ohio State, Virginia Tech, and the University of Maryland. He held medical licenses in multiple states. He worked at respected surgical practices. And according to two separate lawsuits filed in Nevada, he allegedly left destruction in his wake—then vanished before anyone could make him answer for it.The first lawsuit claims McKee's team left over eight inches of catheter inside a patient's body during a 2023 procedure, requiring emergency surgery. The complaint alleges the defendants concealed what happened and failed to provide truthful medical records. The second lawsuit is federal—a civil rights case claiming McKee sat on a prison medical panel and deliberately delayed an inmate's care until the man suffered permanent injury, including the loss of a testicle.McKee denies the federal allegations. In the state case, no attorney has even appeared on his behalf. And that's because when lawyers came looking for him, Michael McKee had already disappeared. Process servers documented fake addresses, a fax number instead of a phone, and colleagues who said he simply vanished. A judge had to grant permission to serve him by newspaper publication—a rare last resort.Six months after his Nevada medical license expired, McKee allegedly drove from Illinois to Ohio and shot his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe to death in their home. Their two young children were inside. He's been charged with aggravated murder and has indicated he'll plead not guilty.This is the story of a surgeon who couldn't be found—until he was arrested for double homicide.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #TepeFamily #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrimePodcast #MedicalMalpractice #DomesticViolenceAwareness #JusticeForMoniqueJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

John Brusch, Former Dept. Chief of the Administrative Support Bureau, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Leah Smith, Detective with the Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brian Ames, Sgt. with the Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique Tepe allegedly knew she was in danger. She talked about it for eight years. And she never called the police.Family members say Monique described Michael McKee as emotionally abusive. She told them about death threats during their brief marriage. She said she was terrified. She warned people. But when Police Chief Bryant was asked about prior reports of threats or concerns, she confirmed there were none.Why don't victims report? Why do women who clearly understand the danger stay silent when it comes to the system?In Part 2 of our three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explores the victim experience. Shavaun has over thirty years working in domestic violence shelters and trauma recovery — and she's a survivor herself. Her ex-husband died by revenge suicide after she asked for divorce. She understands what Monique may have been carrying in ways most people never will.We examine coercive control — the psychological abuse that leaves no bruises. We explore why victims hope distance and time will be enough protection. We ask what it does to someone to live in fear for years while building what looks like a happy life. And we dig into the heartbreak of Monique's wedding vows, where she talked about "waterfalls of tears" from her past.She told people. She just didn't tell the system.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #CoerciveControl #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #DomesticViolence #VictimSilence #HiddenKillers #WhyVictimsDontReportLink to Shavaun Scott's Substack Discussing Dangerous Ex's:https://open.substack.com/pub/shavaun/p/when-leaving-is-the-most-dangerous?r=1fklc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The defense is fighting back in the Brendan Banfield double murder trial, and today they brought the receipts.Day 6 opened with police body camera footage from the morning Christine Banfield died. The jury watched Brendan Banfield at the hospital, heard him ask about his daughter, heard the doctor tell him his wife's wounds were unsurvivable. And they watched him cry — both on the footage and again in the courtroom watching it back.But before any of that, defense attorney John Carroll tried to get Juliana Peres Magalhães' entire testimony thrown out. The judge shut it down cold. The au pair's words stay in the record.Then came the counter-attack. Defense blood spatter expert LeeAnn Singley disputed the prosecution's crime scene analysis and dropped a loaded statement: perpetrators sometimes self-inflict wounds. The implication hangs in the air. Digital forensics experts followed, building the case that Christine Banfield — not Brendan — may have been the one using FetLife.Child endangerment charges move forward. A snowstorm threatens to compress the trial timeline. And the jury has to decide whether Brendan Banfield's tears are evidence of innocence or the performance of a lifetime.We break down every moment from Day 6.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #AuPairMurder #ChristineBanfield #TrueCrimePodcast #FairfaxTrial #BloodEvidence #DefenseStrategy #JulianaPerezMagalhaes #DoubleHomicideJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

She called him "my ex." Never said his name. According to her family, Monique Tepe hated Michael McKee with the kind of intensity that only comes from real terror.But the woman who dated him right after the divorce? She called him "boring." Nice. Kind. Surface level. She said he had a wall she couldn't get past — and after a year, she walked away because something felt empty.Same man. Two completely different experiences. That's the split screen at the center of this case.In this episode, we go deep into the psychology of Michael McKee — the surgeon now charged with allegedly murdering his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer Tepe while their children slept down the hall. We examine what his ex-girlfriend observed, what his coworkers reported, and what Monique's family says she experienced during their seven-month marriage.The behavioral pattern that emerges maps onto what forensic psychologists call dark triad traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. The charm that disarms. The wall that conceals. The wound that never heals.According to family, Monique told people McKee threatened her life multiple times during their marriage. She fled so fast she took everything. And for eight years, she never stopped looking over her shoulder.This is the psychology of the hidden killer. The one who passes every test. The one who fools everyone — except the person who gets close enough to see what's really there.#HiddenKillers #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #PsychologyOfMurder #DarkTriad #NarcissisticAbuse #DomesticViolence #TrueCrimePodcast #CoerciveControlJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

What happens inside a mind that allegedly can't let go for eight years?Michael McKee and Monique Tepe were married for two years on paper but lived together for roughly seven months before she fled. Family members describe emotional abuse and death threats during those brief months together. Eight years later, prosecutors allege McKee drove six hours to Columbus, entered the Tepe home without forced entry, and shot Monique and her husband Spencer to death while their children slept nearby.In this episode — Part 1 of our three-part interview series — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology of the alleged obsessive ex-partner. With over thirty years of experience working with perpetrators and victims of violence, and as the author of "The Minds of Mass Killers," Shavaun brings clinical expertise to the questions this case raises.Why does someone allegedly nurse a grievance for nearly a decade over a relationship that lasted less than a year? How does a successful surgeon allegedly compartmentalize obsession while maintaining a high-functioning career? What role does the victim's visible happiness — a new marriage, children, a thriving life — play in allegedly triggering violence? And what's the internal narrative that allegedly justifies years of fixation?This is the psychology behind the headlines.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #WoundCollector #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #DomesticViolence #HiddenKillers #PerpPsychology #ColumbusLink to Shavaun Scott's Substack Discussing Dangerous Ex's:https://open.substack.com/pub/shavaun/p/when-leaving-is-the-most-dangerous?r=1fklc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Miller, Detective with the Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Seven months of living together. Eight years of alleged obsession. Two lives allegedly taken.Michael McKee was married to Monique Tepe for two years on paper, but family members say they only lived together for about seven months before she fled what they describe as emotional torture and death threats. She rebuilt her life, remarried dentist Spencer Tepe, had children, and appeared to thrive. Prosecutors allege McKee watched from a distance for eight years — then allegedly drove six hours to Columbus, entered their home without forced entry, and shot them both to death while their kids slept.Former FBI profiler Joe Navarro calls this type a "wound collector" — someone who nurtures grievances for years, unable to forgive or move on. Criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards describes it as "stalking in slow motion." In this episode, we apply these frameworks to the McKee case and explore what the research says about obsessive ex-partners who turn lethal.This one is heavy. But it matters. Because recognizing these patterns saves lives.McKee is charged with four counts of aggravated murder and awaits extradition to Ohio.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #WoundCollector #TrueCrime #DomesticViolence #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #OhioJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Harry Lidsky testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

One man fired 16 shots at the person accused of victimizing his 13-year-old daughter. The other allegedly used a silencer to make sure no one heard the shots that killed his ex-wife. Both are charged with murder. Both have defense attorneys preparing for trial. And both cases raise fundamental questions about what the law allows.Aaron Spencer found his daughter in Michael Fosler's truck at 1 AM — three months after Fosler posted bond on 43 felony charges for alleged crimes against her. Spencer rammed the truck and killed Fosler. Prosecutors say he'd been planning it for months. The defense says a man out on bond allegedly violated a no-contact order and took a child victim in the middle of the night. Under Arkansas law, justification is something the prosecution must disprove beyond a reasonable doubt.Dr. Michael McKee allegedly killed his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer while their children slept down the hall. The indictment says he used a suppressor. But prosecutors still haven't explained how he entered the home with no forced entry. There's no disclosed motive. No documented conflict in the years since the divorce. McKee gave police an alibi that didn't hold up — he only invoked silence after the arrest.Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes both cases: the prosecution's evidence, the defense strategies, and what each jury will have to decide. For Spencer, it's whether prosecutors can disprove justification. For McKee, it's whether the gaps in the case create reasonable doubt against evidence that includes an alleged suppressor.#AaronSpencer #MichaelMcKee #MichaelFosler #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #DefenseStrategy #MurderTrial #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

A faculty member at Washington State University allegedly looked at Bryan Kohberger and told colleagues: Mark my words—if we give this guy a PhD, we'll hear about him harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing students. That wasn't hindsight. That was foresight. And according to a new lawsuit filed by the families of the four murdered Idaho students, it was one of at least 13 formal complaints WSU allegedly ignored before Kohberger drove seven miles to Moscow and killed four people in their beds. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to analyze what this level of institutional awareness—and alleged inaction—means from a behavioral threat assessment perspective. Robin spent 21 years with the Bureau, including time as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he's seen what happens when warning signs get buried by bureaucracy. The lawsuit details staff developing their own informal "911" alert system to warn each other when Kohberger was nearby. Women needing security escorts to their cars. Students fleeing classrooms mid-lecture. A professor keeping a tally board of his discriminatory comments. Robin breaks down what these behaviors signal, how threat assessments are supposed to function, and why institutions so often choose perceived legal protection over actual safety. We'll discuss whether these murders were truly "foreseeable and preventable"—the exact language from the lawsuit—and what it takes to intervene before someone like Kohberger acts on what everyone around him allegedly saw coming. This is an essential conversation about accountability, institutional failure, and the cost of inaction.#BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #WSULawsuit #IdahoStudentMurders #KayleeGoncalves #ThreatAssessment #RobinDreeke #FBI #TitleIX #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution has surveillance footage. A ballistics match. An alleged suppressor. But if you're defending Michael McKee, the holes in this case are where you live.How did McKee allegedly enter the Tepe home with no forced entry? Prosecutors haven't explained it publicly. The aggravated burglary charge suggests they have a theory — but until they disclose it, that's a gap the defense can exploit.There's no disclosed motive. McKee and Monique divorced years ago. Police confirmed there were no prior reports from the Tepe address about McKee — no 911 calls, no restraining orders, no documented threats. No ongoing disputes. So why would a surgeon with everything to lose allegedly drive to Ohio and kill two people?Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the defense's options. McKee is a vascular surgeon. Intelligent. Educated. Trained in precision. The prosecution's theory requires him to allegedly commit premeditated murder, use a suppressor — and then keep the murder weapon in his own apartment. How does the defense reconcile that with the profile of a careful, calculating person?McKee "disappeared" in the months before the murders. Process servers couldn't find him. A colleague said he just vanished. The prosecution might call that consciousness of guilt. The defense might call it a man moving between jobs.Both Spencer and Monique were shot multiple times. Does the manner of the killings help or hurt the defense? Could they argue this looks more like rage than premeditation — even with the suppressor allegation? Motta breaks down the strategies available and what it would take for McKee to walk.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #DefenseStrategy #NoForcedEntry #ReasonableDoubt #CriminalDefenseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob and Michele Reiner did what most families cannot do. They got their severely mentally ill son into a court-ordered conservatorship—the most restrictive mental health intervention California allows. A judge found Nick gravely disabled beyond a reasonable doubt. A professional fiduciary was appointed. Nick could be forced into treatment against his will.And if the charges against him are true, it still wasn't enough to save their lives.Today on Hidden Killers, we walk through the seven specific failure points built into California's LPS conservatorship system. First: the threshold punishes families who provide support—if you're housing and feeding your mentally ill child, they may not legally qualify as "gravely disabled." Second: future danger doesn't count. California courts have ruled that "probabilistic pessimism" isn't grounds for conservatorship. Third: the one-year expiration with no safety net. Fourth: the cliff after discharge—only 9% of people leaving conservatorships get connected to follow-up care. Fifth: families cannot petition for conservatorship or force renewal. Sixth: the state doesn't track outcomes. Seventh: even if you qualify, there's a one-year wait for hospital beds.A California study found 83% of patients stay stable during conservatorship. After termination? Only 43%. More than half relapse—and the state says follow-up is voluntary.Nick's conservatorship ended in 2021. Four years later, his parents are dead. The system worked exactly as designed. That's the problem.We map every failure point onto the Reiner timeline and ask: what would it take to actually protect families from tragedies like this one?Nick Reiner is presumed innocent until proven guilty.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #ConservatorshipFailed #MentalHealthCrisis #TrueCrimePodcast #CaliforniaLaw #SystemicFailure #LPSConservatorshipJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

LeeAnn Singley, Forensic Scientist, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Jonathan Baumler, Officer with the Fairfax Co. Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Zachary Beckner, Fairfax Co. Police Officer, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The indictment against Dr. Michael McKee tells a story of alleged premeditation. Four counts of aggravated murder. One count of aggravated burglary. And the allegation that McKee used a firearm equipped with a suppressor to kill Monique and Spencer Tepe.A silencer changes this case. It's not impulsive. It's not rage. It's allegedly making sure no one would hear the shots while the victims' young children slept in another room.Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what this indictment reveals — and what it doesn't. Under Ohio law, "prior calculation and design" is an element prosecutors must prove for aggravated murder. The suppressor allegation helps them do that. But why four counts for two victims? Motta explains how Ohio structures murder charges and what each count requires.The aggravated burglary charge is significant. It doesn't necessarily mean theft — it suggests prosecutors have a theory about how McKee entered the home. Because there's still no public explanation for how he allegedly got inside with no forced entry.The NIBIN ballistics match linking a firearm from McKee's Chicago apartment to shell casings at the scene is still being called "preliminary." McKee gave police an alibi before his arrest. It didn't hold up. He only invoked his right to remain silent after the cuffs went on.Prosecutors have not filed capital specifications. They're not seeking the death penalty — at least not yet. Motta analyzes what that decision tells us: is it strategic, or does it suggest they see weaknesses in their case?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #Suppressor #AggravatedMurder #OhioLaw #ProsecutionCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Commonwealth has rested its case against Brendan Banfield — and the final witnesses may have sealed the prosecution's narrative. Blood stain pattern analyst Iris Dalley Graff delivered hours of testimony explaining why the forensic evidence at the crime scene doesn't match an interrupted home invasion. Instead, she told jurors, the blood patterns suggest deliberate staging.Graff testified that Joseph Ryan's blood flowed in multiple directions — indicating his body was moved after he was shot. Even more damning: Christine Banfield's blood appears to have been intentionally transferred onto Ryan's hands, pants, and forearm. Graff described "finger-like" transfer patterns and blood droplets consistent with someone dripping blood from above. This directly supports Juliana Peres Magalhães' testimony that Banfield moved Ryan's body and smeared his dead wife's blood on the man to frame him.Defense attorney John Carroll attacked Graff's conclusions and highlighted body cam footage showing Banfield with bloody hands on his wife's neck when police arrived — suggesting a husband attempting first aid, not a killer staging a scene. After the jury was dismissed, Carroll moved to strike all charges, calling the au pair an unreliable witness. Judge Penney Azcarate denied the motion.The defense now takes over with four to five witnesses planned. The question: can John Carroll fracture the prosecution's narrative enough to create reasonable doubt?#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #BloodEvidence #FairfaxCounty #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #JulianaMagalhaes #CrimeSceneAnalysis #DoubleHomicideJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Adrian Gonzales trial just took a devastating turn. Texas Rangers presented a 3D animation to jurors showing the former Uvalde CISD officer's movements during the Robb Elementary shooting, and what it allegedly reveals is damning. According to investigators, Gonzales arrived on scene before the gunman entered the building, drove past the shooter in the parking lot, parked his vehicle, radioed "shots fired," and then stood outside for approximately three minutes and forty seconds while 117 rounds were fired inside the fourth grade wing.Gonzales has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of child endangerment. His defense attorney Nico LaHood is mounting an aggressive counter-strategy, pointing to other officers who also failed to engage. During tense cross-examination, LaHood got Lieutenant Nick Hill to admit that Officer Juan Saucedo had an AR-15, saw the shooter, and didn't fire. Three other patrol cars drove away from the school while shots rang out inside. LaHood's argument: why is Gonzales the only one on trial?The courtroom has been filled with raw emotion. Velma Duran, sister of murdered teacher Irma Garcia, was removed after an outburst. Teacher's aide Melodye Flores testified she told Gonzales multiple times where the gunman was going. Her words: "He just stayed there." And Jennifer Garcia shared how her nine-year-old daughter Eliana wanted to come home early that day but stayed for a pizza party. She would have turned ten eleven days later.This is the second time in American history a police officer has faced charges for inaction during a school shooting. The first was acquitted.#AdrianGonzales #UvaldeTrial #RobbElementary #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #SchoolShooting #PoliceOnTrial #JusticeForUvalde #TexasCrime #AccountabilityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael Fosler was 67 years old. He was facing 43 felony charges including crimes against a minor and child exploitation. He posted $50,000 bond and got a no-contact order. Three months later, just after 1 AM, the 13-year-old victim was missing from her bed — and her father found her in Fosler's truck, heading toward Fosler's house.Aaron Spencer rammed the truck into a ditch. Fired 16 shots. Fifteen hit Fosler. Then Spencer called 911: "Michael Fosler is f---ing dead on the side of the road for trying to kidnap my daughter."Now Spencer faces second-degree murder charges. His trial begins in one week. And prosecutors just won a ruling that could change everything — they can introduce body cam footage from three months before the shooting where Spencer allegedly looked for Fosler's address and made statements about taking matters into his own hands.Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes what the prosecution has to prove and why Arkansas law may favor Spencer's defense. Under state statute, justification for defense of another person is an element the prosecution must disprove beyond a reasonable doubt. A man facing charges for crimes against a child, out on bond, allegedly violated a no-contact order and had the victim physically in his vehicle in the middle of the night.The dashcam footage from Fosler's truck never made it into evidence. The SD card sat in a detective's office for over a year. The defense is arguing spoliation — that potentially exculpatory evidence was lost. Deputy Prosecutor John Huggins wrote that Spencer's "understandable rage did not give him the legal right to kill Fosler." The prosecution is conceding the moral argument while trying to win the legal one.#AaronSpencer #MichaelFosler #ArkansasTrial #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #DefenseOfOthers #Spoliation #JustificationDefense #ChildExploitation #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This is the case that broke the system wide open. Ellen Greenberg — a 27-year-old first-grade teacher — was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment with 23 stab wounds, 10 of them to the back of her neck, a knife buried four inches into her chest. The official ruling? Suicide.For 15 years, her parents fought every institution in Pennsylvania. They were told their daughter did this to herself. Courts called the investigation "deeply flawed" but couldn't grant relief. The original medical examiner recanted. A new review found 20 additional bruises and 3 more stab wounds never documented. The city still said suicide.Now federal prosecutors have entered the case — and they're not investigating how Ellen died. They're investigating whether the people who handled her case committed crimes. Sources say the U.S. Attorney's Office has issued subpoenas to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Medical Examiner's Office, and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office — the office Governor Josh Shapiro ran when his team closed this case citing laptop searches found on devices that had been removed from the crime scene by Ellen's fiancé's uncle.The chain of custody was broken. The crime scene was cleaned in 24 hours. The doorman never accompanied anyone upstairs. And now, finally, someone with subpoena power wants to know why nobody in Pennsylvania seemed interested in finding the truth.#EllenGreenberg #JoshShapiro #FederalInvestigation #TrueCrime #JusticeForEllen #Philadelphia #Corruption #CoverUp #MedicalExaminer #TrueCrime2025Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for a comprehensive breakdown of three major cases making headlines right now. First: the investigation into Dr. Michael McKee, charged with the premeditated aggravated murder of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in Columbus, Ohio. Police have a preliminary ballistics match, surveillance footage, and video of a hooded figure in the alley at 3:52 AM. But they haven't explained how McKee allegedly got inside with no forced entry — or why a surgeon would keep the murder weapon in his apartment for eleven days. Second: the psychology of an eight-year grudge. Monique Tepe did everything survivors are told to do. She left after seven months. She didn't prolong the divorce. She moved home, rebuilt, remarried, had children. She never spoke McKee's name again. Her family says they suspected him from day one. They'd known for years he was a threat. And the system still couldn't act until she was dead. Coffindaffer explains the behavioral profile of a grievance collector who never lets go — and why escape sometimes isn't enough. Third: day three of the Brendan Banfield murder trial. McDonald's surveillance video confirms Juliana Peres Magalhães's timeline — Banfield received her call at 7:37 AM, the signal that Joseph Ryan had arrived. The murder knife was hidden under blankets, not in Ryan's hand. Christine's phone was tucked in a drawer. But Banfield's DNA wasn't on the knife because police allowed him to wash his hands before collecting samples. Coffindaffer analyzes what this evidence means and what the defense needs to do when it's their turn.#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #TepeMurders #BrendanBanfield #ChristineBanfield #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimePodcast #FBIAnalysis #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Caneiro brothers were supposed to be best friends. They were each other's best man. They talked every day. They built a business together. But prosecutors say one brother was bleeding the other dry — stealing from his life insurance trust, doctoring bank statements, living a $700,000 lifestyle funded by fraud. When Keith Caneiro finally demanded answers about missing money, prosecutors allege Paul responded by driving to his brother's Colts Neck mansion in the predawn darkness and executing the entire family.Keith was shot five times on the front lawn. Jennifer was shot and stabbed inside. The children — eleven-year-old Jesse and eight-year-old Sophia — were stabbed repeatedly. A detective testified that Sophia had a stab wound to her left eye. Prosecutors say both kids were still alive when the fire started. They died from smoke inhalation while bleeding out in their own home.Then, according to the state, Paul went home and set his own house on fire — with his wife and daughters inside — to make it look like both families were being targeted. When first responders arrived, the family was outside. Officers testified they were sitting in one of the family's cars, a Porsche. Calm. Composed. Giving statements.The evidence trail prosecutors have laid out is staggering: the murder weapon in his basement, DNA evidence on clothing, altered bank records, security footage showing him disabling cameras at 1:28 AM. This is a case about masks — the kind a man wears when he's pretending to be successful, and the kind that slips when the lie finally catches up.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #MansionMurders #FamilyAnnihilator #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #KeithCaneiro #NewJerseyMurder #SiblingRivalry #MonmouthCountyTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The prosecution's case against Brendan Banfield just got a major boost from a fast food parking lot. McDonald's surveillance video, presented on day three of the murder trial, shows Banfield waiting in the parking lot on the morning his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan were killed. At 7:37 AM, he's seen leaving the bathroom with his phone to his ear. Phone records confirm that's the exact moment Juliana Peres Magalhães called him. According to her testimony, that call was the signal — Joseph Ryan had arrived at the Banfield home. Detectives also revealed where the murder knife was found: hidden under blankets on the floor, not in Ryan's hand, not positioned to support the defense theory that Ryan was the attacker. Christine's cell phone was tucked away in a kitchen drawer while she slept — prosecutors say it was hidden so she couldn't call for help. But the forensic testimony wasn't all favorable for the prosecution. Brendan Banfield's DNA was not on the knife. The reason? Police allowed him to wash his hands before collecting samples. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to analyze how that kind of gap happens in a double homicide investigation, what the knife placement reveals about the crime, and whether Christine's blood on Brendan's jeans compensates for the missing DNA. We also examine the premeditation evidence — the firearm purchased less than a month before the murders, the gun range trips with Juliana, the alleged $30,000 spent on soundproofing windows. The defense has hammered Juliana's credibility. But day three brought video, phone records, and physical evidence that doesn't depend on her word. Can they recover?#BrendanBanfield #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #BanfieldTrial #MurderTrial #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrimePodcastJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Gary Benson, Christine Banfield's Father, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Iris Dalley-Graff, Forensics Analyst, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The state of California once declared Nick Reiner so mentally ill he couldn't make his own decisions. A judge signed off. A professional conservator was appointed. For one year, Nick could be forced to take psychiatric medication and placed in a locked facility against his will. Then the conservatorship ended in 2021—and it was never renewed.Today on Hidden Killers, we investigate the legal mechanism that was supposed to protect everyone in that Brentwood home and ask the hard question: why wasn't it enough?Under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, a person can only be conserved if they're "gravely disabled"—unable to provide for their own food, clothing, or shelter. But here's the catch: if family members are providing those things, the person may no longer qualify. The more you help, the harder it becomes to get the state to intervene.We break down the conservatorship timeline, the reported medication change one month before the murders, and what this means for Nick Reiner's defense strategy. Alan Jackson said Nick is "not guilty of murder" under California law before withdrawing from the case. The conservatorship history will be central to that argument—because it proves the state itself found Nick gravely disabled due to mental illness.Steven Baer, the licensed fiduciary who served as Nick's conservator, will almost certainly testify. What did he observe? Why didn't he petition for renewal? And what does California owe to families trapped between loving their children and getting them the treatment they need?The system worked exactly as designed. That's the problem.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #Conservatorship #TrueCrimePodcast #MentalHealth #CaliforniaMurder #LPSAct #TrueCrimeTodayJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Iris Dalley-Graff, Forensics Analyst, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Her family says they weren't shocked when police arrested Dr. Michael McKee. They'd suspected him from the moment Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer were found murdered in their Columbus home. They just couldn't say anything — they were protecting the investigation. But here's the part that should keep everyone up at night: Monique's family knew. They'd known for years that McKee was a threat. And the system still couldn't act until she was dead. There were no restraining orders on file. No 911 calls from the Tepe address. Police labeled this a "targeted domestic violence attack," but by the time they could do anything about it, two people were gone and two children were orphaned. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to examine the psychology of an eight-year grudge that allegedly ended in murder. Monique did everything you're supposed to do when you leave a dangerous situation. She got out after seven months. She didn't fight over assets. She moved back to Ohio, rebuilt her life, remarried, had children. She never said McKee's name after the divorce — only called him "her ex-husband." Her family says she talked about emotional abuse. About torment. That she was always worried about him. Coffindaffer explains the behavioral profile of a grievance collector who never lets go, how McKee's demand for the rings back and the interest penalty clause in the separation agreement reveal control dynamics, and why watching Monique build a new family may have been the trigger that escalated obsession into alleged violence. For anyone who recognizes these patterns in their own life, Coffindaffer shares the warning signs that someone may never move on — even years after a relationship ends.#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #TepeMurders #HiddenKillers #DomesticViolence #JenniferCoffindaffer #GrievanceCollector #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhio #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael David McKee knew how to vanish. When a Las Vegas attorney tried to serve him with a malpractice lawsuit, he encountered fake addresses, a fax machine instead of a phone number, and colleagues who had no idea where McKee had gone. "He just disappeared," one told the attorney in October 2025. Two months later, McKee allegedly resurfaced — driving 300 miles to Columbus, Ohio, where prosecutors say he shot and killed his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their home.The marriage ended in 2017 after just seven months. But according to family, McKee never accepted it. Monique's brother-in-law says McKee was emotionally abusive and threatened her life during the marriage. Reports indicate he allegedly sent birthday cards signed "Your Husband" after the divorce. Monique remained terrified of him for eight years — even after remarrying, even after building a beautiful life with Spencer and two children.McKee's professional life was unraveling in 2025. His Nevada medical license expired. Malpractice lawsuits were closing in. Meanwhile, Monique had just celebrated her fifth anniversary with Spencer. In her wedding vows, she spoke of "wrong relationships" and a "waterfall of tears" — a clear reference to her past with McKee.Police tracked McKee through surveillance footage and linked a firearm from his Chicago condo to shell casings at the scene. He was arrested at a Chick-fil-A. He faces life without parole if convicted. This is a deep dive into alleged obsession, evasion, and a surgeon who reportedly couldn't let go.#TepeMurders #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #MichaelMcKee #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #DomesticViolence #ColumbusOhio #SurgeonMurder #ObsessiveExJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Columbus police say they have their man. Dr. Michael McKee — a vascular surgeon who practiced in Chicago — is charged with the premeditated aggravated murder of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer. The preliminary ballistics match is in. The surveillance footage shows his vehicle at the scene. Police say he's the hooded figure in that alley at 3:52 AM. But there's a gap in this investigation that nobody has explained: there was no forced entry at the Tepe residence. No broken windows. No kicked-in doors. So how did he allegedly get inside? And why would a man trained in surgical precision keep the murder weapon in his penthouse apartment for eleven days after the killings? Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to break down the forensic evidence, the surveillance timeline, and the investigative questions that remain unanswered. We examine McKee's pattern of evasion in the months before the murders — a malpractice process server tried nine times to find him at addresses that turned out to be fake. His former colleague said he "just disappeared." Coffindaffer explains what this behavior suggests from a behavioral analysis standpoint and why McKee's pre-arrest statements — before he invoked his right to remain silent — could become critical evidence at trial. Police say they have no prior reports from the Tepe address about McKee. No 911 calls. No restraining orders. But they hedged when asked about communications between McKee and Monique in the weeks before the murders. What are investigators holding back? And what holes will the defense try to exploit?#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimePodcast #DoubleHomicide #ColumbusOhio #ForensicEvidence #DomesticViolenceMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two cases that refuse simple explanations. One FBI behavioral expert who's spent his career figuring out what people are really thinking.Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers for a comprehensive analysis of Nick Reiner and Brendan Banfield. Both involve killings. Both involve questions about accountability. But the behavioral evidence points in very different directions.Nick Reiner reportedly admits to killing his parents — then describes his incarceration as a "conspiracy." Robin explains why that framing is behavioral gold for analysts. We examine decades of treatment cycling, short-term compliance that functioned as pressure release rather than real change, and post-offense behavior that continues to raise questions. The aftermath didn't involve immediate collapse. There was time, movement, decision-making. Robin explains why analysts pay attention to that window — and why serious mental illness doesn't automatically eliminate awareness.Brendan Banfield was a federal agent who knew how investigations work. Prosecutors say he used that knowledge to orchestrate murder. But Robin asks the question nobody else is asking: does his behavior actually match someone who planned an elaborate killing? The framed photo left on the nightstand. The detailed 911 statement. The failure to destroy evidence. Robin breaks down what calculated killers actually look like — and whether Banfield fits.The prosecution's entire case depends on Juliana Peres Magalhaes. But who was manipulating whom? Robin examines the behavioral markers that separate genuine coercion from willing participation — and what her jailhouse letter reveals about her psychology. She wrote that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to Brendan. Then she testified against him to go home to Brazil.Patterns don't lie. This episode strips away narratives and focuses on behavior.#HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #NickReiner #BrendanBanfield #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #Manipulation #CriminalPsychology #JulianaPeresMagalhaesJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield was a trained federal agent. Prosecutors say he spent months building a murder plot designed to look like a home invasion — complete with a fake profile, a groomed stranger, and a staged crime scene. His star witness lied for a year before flipping. Now a jury has to decide if she's telling the truth or saving herself.Dr. Michael McKee was a successful vascular surgeon. According to police, he allegedly waited eight years after his divorce to drive hundreds of miles and kill his ex-wife Monique and her husband Spencer while their children slept down the hall. No threats. No criminal record. Just silence — and then violence.Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He's spent decades identifying dangerous personalities before they become dangerous. In this interview, he profiles both men and explains what their alleged behavior reveals about psychology, control, and the arrogance of people who think they're smarter than everyone else.We break down Banfield's 911 call, the framed photo on the nightstand, and the four-year-old left waiting in the basement. We analyze Juliana Magalhães — the au pair who admitted pulling the trigger on Joseph Ryan and is now negotiating with Netflix. Does her credibility survive the jail letters and the media deals?Then we dig into the concept of "wound collectors" — people who never let go of perceived injuries. Robin explains how professionals like McKee can mask resentment for years, what triggers them to finally act, and how they flip the narrative to make themselves the victim.Both men maintain their innocence.#HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #FBI #BrendanBanfield #MichaelMcKee #WoundCollector #AuPairAffair #TeepeMurders #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rex Heuermann's defense just made their biggest move yet. A 178-page motion filed January 12, 2026 demands the Sandra Costilla murder charge be dismissed — and points directly at another convicted killer who may have been responsible for deaths attributed to their client.Sandra Costilla was murdered in 1993. The prosecution's entire case linking Heuermann to her death rests on a single hair found on the outer layer of her shirt. Not on her skin. Not in his vehicle. Not in his home. Defense attorney Danielle Coysh called it insufficient: no eyewitnesses, no surveillance, no digital evidence, no phone records, no fingerprints, no confession, no murder weapon.The defense wants discovery from the John Bittrolff case. Bittrolff is already in prison for two Long Island murders — same era, same geography, same victim type. A former prosecutor previously said Bittrolff was "probably responsible" for Costilla's death. Now Heuermann's team is forcing that issue into the spotlight.And then there's Andrew Dykes — arrested in December for murdering "Peaches," Tanya Denise Jackson, whose remains were found along Ocean Parkway with the other Gilgo victims. For years, she was assumed to be part of Heuermann's alleged body count. She wasn't.Judge Mazzei set trial for September 2026. DA Ray Tierney has whole genome sequencing, nine hairs across six victims, and a computer planning document. But the defense is building a case that Long Island wasn't one killer's hunting ground — it was several. And reasonable doubt lives in that chaos.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #LongIslandSerialKiller #JohnBittrolff #SandraCostilla #TanyaDeniseJackson #Peaches #AndrewDykes #TrueCrime #SerialKillerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique Tepe left her first husband after seven months of marriage. She didn't fight. She didn't make a scene. She just got out. She rebuilt her life, married Spencer Tepe, had two children, and thought the nightmare was behind her.Eight years later, according to police, Dr. Michael McKee allegedly drove hundreds of miles in the middle of the night and killed both Monique and Spencer in their Columbus home. Their children were asleep down the hall.Why would someone wait eight years to act? How does a successful vascular surgeon with no criminal record become an alleged killer?Robin Dreeke, former FBI Special Agent and head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, says McKee fits the profile of a "wound collector" — someone who never forgives, never forgets, and carries perceived injuries like open wounds for years until something triggers them to act.In this interview, Robin explains: The difference between hurt and obsession. How wound collectors justify violence by making themselves the victim. Why professional success can mask dangerous resentment. What role social media and watching an ex's happiness plays in the spiral. What might have triggered McKee after eight years of silence. And whether there are warning signs that can be spotted before it's too late.McKee maintains his innocence and plans to plead not guilty to two counts of premeditated aggravated murder.This conversation won't bring Spencer and Monique back. But it might help someone recognize the danger before the next wound collector acts.#HiddenKillers #WoundCollector #MichaelMcKee #TeepeMurders #RobinDreeke #FBIBehavioral #TrueCrimePodcast #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #PsychologyOfKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob Reiner reportedly told friends he was "petrified" of his own son. Michele Reiner had allegedly grown increasingly worried about Nick's deteriorating mental state. They had money, connections, access to the best treatment in the world — and none of it mattered.Because in California, families cannot force treatment on an adult who refuses it. They can't initiate conservatorships. They can't compel long-term psychiatric care. All they can do is call 911, watch their loved one get held for 72 hours, and wait for them to be released.This episode traces how we got here. In 1967, California passed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, ending indefinite involuntary commitment and creating strict criteria for psychiatric holds. The law was a response to real abuses — families locking away "inconvenient" relatives, horrific conditions in state hospitals, patients warehoused for decades without treatment.But the community mental health centers that were supposed to replace the hospitals were never built. The funding was gutted. And within one year of the law taking effect, mentally ill people entering California's criminal justice system doubled.Today, fewer than 1,500 Californians are on LPS conservatorships. A 2020 audit found that in LA County, nearly 10,000 people had been placed on at least 10 psychiatric holds — but only 1 in 16 ever resulted in long-term care. The 72-hour hold became a revolving door. And families like the Reiners were left with impossible choices: abandon your sick child to the streets, or become their untrained caregiver and hope today isn't the day it all falls apart.We dismantled a flawed system and called the rubble progress. Rob and Michele paid the price.#HiddenKillers #RobReiner #NickReiner #MentalHealthCrisis #LPSAct #Deinstitutionalization #5150 #CaliforniaMentalHealth #TrueCrime #ReinerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

She lied for a year. She promised to protect Brendan Banfield. Then she flipped, took a plea deal, and testified against him in open court. Now she's negotiating with Netflix and media producers are paying her jail expenses.Juliana Peres Magalhães is the prosecution's star witness — and the defense is trying to destroy her credibility. Former FBI special agent Robin Dreeke joins me to break down what her behavior reveals. How do you evaluate a witness who changed her story after a year? Does financial incentive undermine testimony? And what does her relationship with Banfield tell us about manipulation and control?Banfield has pleaded not guilty. The trial continues in Fairfax County.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaMagalhaes #RobinDreeke #FBI #AuPairAffair #Credibility #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ChristineBanfieldJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

For eight years, Monique Tepe never said her ex-husband's name. She called him "her ex-husband." Like saying it would summon him. Her family called him a monster. Said she talked about emotional abuse, threatening behavior, that she was "willing to do anything to get out." She was always worried. But nobody thought he'd actually do it. On December 30th, 2025, Monique and her husband Spencer were found shot dead in their Columbus home. Their two children — ages 4 and 1 — were alive in separate rooms. No forced entry. Nothing stolen. Eleven days later, police arrested Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon, at a Chick-fil-A in Illinois. The murder weapon was allegedly found in his Chicago penthouse. NIBIN matched shell casings from the scene to a firearm seized from his residence. According to reports, McKee gave police an alibi that didn't hold up. He only went silent after the cuffs went on. At a press conference, Columbus police called this a "targeted domestic violence attack." A reporter asked if neighbors had seen McKee near the Tepe home days before the murders. Police didn't deny it. They're holding cards. The divorce was eight years ago. Seven-month marriage. No kids together. On paper, it looked amicable. But he wanted the rings back. She paid him reimbursement with an interest clause. She didn't know his finances. He controlled the money. Two counts aggravated murder. Prior calculation and design. Death penalty eligible. Court date January 23rd. The family finally exhaled when he was arrested — hours before Spencer and Monique's funeral.#HiddenKillers #TepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #DomesticViolenceAwareness #ExHusbandCharged #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForTepeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brendan Banfield was a trained federal agent. Prosecutors say he used that training to build a months-long murder plot — complete with a fake fetish profile, a groomed patsy, and a staged home invasion. If true, this was a law enforcement officer who believed he could outsmart the system.Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins me to analyze Banfield's alleged behavior — from the planning to the 911 call to the evidence left behind. What does this level of alleged premeditation tell us? And where did it start to unravel?Banfield has pleaded not guilty. The trial continues in Fairfax County.#BrendanBanfield #RobinDreeke #FBI #AuPairAffair #BehavioralAnalysis #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #ChristineBanfield #HiddenKillers #JosephRyanJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nick Reiner reportedly admits to killing his parents. That alone should end the conversation. But it doesn't — because what he says next reframes the entire case. Instead of focusing on the act, he reportedly describes his incarceration as a "conspiracy." And that single shift raises questions that can't be ignored.Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — who ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — breaks down the behavioral patterns emerging from publicly reported information in this case. This isn't about diagnosing mental illness or debating sympathy. It's about how people behave when consequences arrive.A critical focus is what reportedly happened after the killings. According to reports, there was calm movement, time, decision-making, and navigation — not immediate collapse. Nick reportedly checked into a hotel and moved through LA for 24 hours. Robin explains why analysts pay close attention to this phase, and why serious mental illness does not automatically eliminate awareness, planning, or accountability.The defense will likely invoke the M'Naghten rule — the same standard that freed David Carmichael, a father who planned his son's murder but was found not criminally responsible because a psychotic delusion changed what he believed he was doing. Carmichael's medication triggered his break. Nick's medication was changed one month before the killings.But Carmichael had no history of manipulation. Nick Reiner has 30 years of it. Experts repeatedly told the Reiner family he was "lying or manipulating them." More than 18 treatment facilities cashed checks and released him after 30 days.Robin explains how families don't ignore warning signs — they adapt to them. When instability lasts for years, chaos becomes routine. Intervention fatigue sets in. Boundaries soften. And that adaptation can quietly become dangerous.This episode doesn't ask for sympathy. It asks harder questions — about behavior, responsibility, and why words that redirect blame deserve scrutiny.#NickReiner #RobinDreeke #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #FBI #BehaviorAnalysis #InsanityDefense #DavidCarmichael #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He's spent his career studying manipulation, deception, and how predators operate. When he looks at the JP Miller case, he sees a textbook pattern of coercive control — and an indictment that only scratches the surface.According to federal charges, Miller tracked his estranged wife Mica with GPS devices, contacted her more than 50 times in a single day, posted intimate photos of her online without consent, and sabotaged her car — then lied to FBI investigators about it. Mica Miller died on April 27, 2024, just 48 hours after serving him divorce papers.But the indictment doesn't capture the years that came before.Sworn affidavits describe isolation, financial manipulation, threats, and constant surveillance. Mica told police JP had "groomed" her since she was ten years old. His first wife Alison filed an affidavit alleging he confessed to affairs, hiring prostitutes, and being "sexually inappropriate" with underage church members. She says she went to police in 2015. They told her no one would believe her.Two civil lawsuits now accuse Miller of sexually assaulting minors in the late 1990s. Both name his father as a co-defendant and allege their churches enabled abuse for decades.And then there's Chris Skinner — a quadriplegic Army veteran who drowned in a Myrtle Beach pool on Labor Day 2021. His widow Suzie is now JP Miller's third wife. According to Alison's affidavit, Chris confronted JP about an alleged affair with Suzie just two weeks before he died. JP officiated Chris's funeral.Miller pleaded not guilty in federal court, then slipped out a back door while seventy people waited. Robin Dreeke analyzes what the behavioral patterns reveal — and what it takes to stop someone like this.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #RobinDreeke #FBI #JusticeForMica #CoerciveControl #ChrisSkinner #HiddenKillers #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

California's insanity standard is different from what most people assume. You don't have to prove the defendant didn't know right from wrong. You only have to prove he didn't understand the "nature and quality" of his actions. TMZ's documentary cited the David Carmichael case — a father who methodically planned his son's killing but was found not criminally responsible because he was operating under a psychotic delusion. Could that same legal standard apply to Nick Reiner? Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to map out the road ahead. Nick is reportedly not competent to stand trial. His medication for schizoaffective disorder was changed approximately one month before the murders because he complained about weight gain. Sources say the medication still isn't working properly in jail. But here's the part that should stop everyone cold: Nick reportedly admits to killing his parents Rob and Michele Reiner. He's telling people he did it. But he allegedly doesn't understand why he's in jail. He believes his incarceration is part of a conspiracy against him.For 32 years, every system Nick touched conspired to protect him from consequences. More than 18 rehab facilities cashed checks and released him after 30 days. His family spent a fortune trying to save him. A family associate told the New York Times that the Reiners had "grown used to" his behavior.Now the conspiracy has flipped. Prosecutor Habib Balian — the man who handled the Menendez brothers and Robert Durst — is on the case. A new DA campaigned on being tough on crime. Nick's siblings reportedly oppose the death penalty, but that may not matter.Bob Motta breaks down the critical distinction between competency and legal insanity, what Alan Jackson's withdrawal signals, and whether Nick Reiner can beat the system one more time.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #InsanityDefense #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #CaliforniaLaw #Schizoaffective #TrueCrime #ReinerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

From a jail cell, Juliana Peres Magalhaes wrote to her mother that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to Brendan Banfield. She said she still loved him. But she wanted to go home.Now she's the prosecution's star witness — and on Day 1 of Banfield's murder trial, she delivered. Magalhaes described in graphic detail how Banfield allegedly shot Joseph Ryan in the head, then stabbed his wife Christine repeatedly in the neck while their 4-year-old daughter waited in the basement.Prosecutors allege Banfield and Magalhaes created a fake fetish website profile using Christine's identity to lure Ryan to the home for what he believed was a consensual sexual encounter. Instead, they say, he walked into an ambush.But Magalhaes spent a year in jail facing murder charges before she changed her story. Her plea deal gives her time served and a return to Brazil — but her sentencing is scheduled after Banfield's trial. That timing is deliberate. Her freedom depends on conviction.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has worked with cooperating witnesses throughout her career. She knows how to evaluate credibility — and she knows how prosecutors prepare a witness whose motivation is obvious. In this coverage, she examines what corroborating evidence prosecutors need, how defense attorneys will attack Juliana's credibility, and what jurors should watch for when testimony comes from someone with everything to gain.The defense argues digital forensics show Christine — not Brendan — was communicating with Ryan. They say investigators who contradicted the catfishing theory were removed from the case.Banfield faces four counts of aggravated murder. If convicted, he faces life without parole plus 13 years. The trial continues.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #AuPairMurder #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #CooperatingWitness #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Women on the Washington State University campus built survival systems to avoid Bryan Kohberger. A tally board tracking his comments. Emails with "911" in the subject line. Security escorts to their cars. A door strategy so no one would be trapped alone with him.According to a 126-page lawsuit filed by the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, at least 13 formal complaints were filed against Kohberger in just three months during fall 2022. A professor who worked with predators urged colleagues to cut his funding. She told them directly: "If we give him a Ph.D., that's the guy we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing his students."The university didn't act. Five days before four students were murdered, WSU held mandatory discrimination training for Kohberger's cohort — because of him. Less than two weeks before the killings, faculty met with him about his behavior. No decisive action was taken.Meanwhile, Bryan's sister Mel Kohberger has broken three years of silence in a New York Times interview. She describes Christmas 2022 — warning her brother about the "psycho killer on the loose" near his apartment, never imagining he was the suspect. She talks about his heroin addiction, his recovery, the childhood bullying that shaped him, and the heart she drew for him that tabloids called a "creepy drawing."The lawsuit alleges WSU calculated that a potential discrimination lawsuit from Kohberger was a bigger risk than the violence he might commit. The families of four murdered students are now demanding transparency, accountability, and reform.This wasn't a case of warning signs being missed. According to the lawsuit, they were documented and ignored.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #MelKohberger #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Officer Brendan Miller analyzed 60 devices. His conclusion contradicted the prosecution's entire theory. Then he was transferred out of digital forensics and told he'd never work another case in the unit.Miller's finding was straightforward: Christine Banfield — not her husband Brendan — appeared to control the FetLife account prosecutors claim was used to lure Joseph Ryan to the Banfield home on February 24, 2023. The University of Alabama peer-reviewed his analysis and confirmed it. The lead homicide detective who also disagreed with command staff was reassigned. The original prosecutor was removed after being cited for drinking at 8 a.m.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has seen investigations go wrong before. She's not holding back on this one.Christine Banfield, 37, was stabbed to death in her Herndon, Virginia home. Joseph Ryan, 39, was shot twice by two different guns. The Banfields' 4-year-old daughter was in the basement. Prosecutors allege Brendan Banfield and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhaes were having an affair and conspired to stage the murders as self-defense.But the timeline raises questions. Nineteen months to charge Banfield. Eight months before a key piece of evidence was collected. Twenty-four competing theories existed before the au pair changed her story. Juliana faced murder charges for a year before flipping. Her plea deal lets her walk free if she testifies against Banfield.Judge Penney Azcarate ordered prosecutors to turn over all communications related to Miller's transfer. The defense calls this case "a theory in search of facts."Coffindaffer examines what the FBI would have done differently from day one — and why the problems in this investigation were apparent long before a single witness took the stand.#BrendanBanfield #ChristineBanfield #BrendanMiller #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #FetLife #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DigitalForensics #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique Tepe bought her own engagement ring. She bought her own wedding ring. She listed both as "Separate Property" in her divorce from Michael McKee, writing "I paid" as the explanation. She never took his name. Seven months after they married in August 2015, she was done with him.Eight years later, she was dead. And her family says they saw it coming.Dr. Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, is charged with murdering Monique and her husband Spencer Tepe in their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. Both were shot — Spencer had multiple gunshot wounds, Monique at least one to the chest. Their children, ages 4 and 1, were found unharmed in another room.The divorce paperwork required Monique to reimburse McKee $1,281.59 with a 23% interest penalty if she didn't pay on time. That petty financial arrangement was apparently not the end of his interest in her. Court records show contact between McKee and Monique in June 2025. Experts believe it may have been legal stalking — a way to force response after years of silence.The timeline builds from there. June 2025: court contact and his Nevada medical license expires. September 2025: he buys a Chicago condo. October 2025: a colleague tells a process server McKee has "disappeared." December 30, 2025, 3:52 AM: Spencer and Monique are shot dead in the home where they'd married in 2020.Retired FBI agent Maureen O'Connell identifies McKee as a "grievance collector." Therapist Darby Fox believes the planning began when Monique filed for divorce. McKee had no criminal history beyond traffic tickets. His neighbor used to chat with him by the pool.He maintains his innocence. The charges are death penalty-eligible in Ohio.#TeepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #HiddenKillers #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #GrievanceCollector #DomesticViolence #WeekInReviewJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Rob Reiner's own words haunt this case. Experts repeatedly told the family that Nick was "lying or manipulating them." Eighteen rehab stays. Years of interventions. A fortune spent on dual-diagnosis treatment. And still, his parents couldn't figure out when to believe their son. Now a jury has to solve the puzzle they never could.Nick Reiner reportedly admits he killed his parents. He's not denying it. But according to TMZ sources, he doesn't understand why he's in jail. He allegedly believes his incarceration is part of a conspiracy against him. That's either genuine psychosis or the foundation of an insanity defense being laid in public before trial begins.The TMZ documentary "The Reiner Murders: What Really Happened" revealed critical details. Nick's schizoaffective medication was changed about a month before the murders because he complained about weight gain. Sources say the medication still isn't working properly in jail. When his family paid for treatment facilities, Nick would only stay 30 days — enough time to detox, not enough to treat the underlying illness.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down Nick's post-offense behavior. After the alleged killings, he checked into a Santa Monica hotel. The following night, he was wandering near USC. What does that pattern reveal about his mental state? Coffindaffer also examines why LAPD sought a court order to seal the autopsy reports and what investigators might be protecting.The murder weapon has not been found. The case won't see a courtroom for at least two years. The surviving Reiner siblings reportedly oppose the death penalty. Prosecutor Habib Balian — the man who handled the Menendez brothers and Robert Durst — is leading the prosecution.Nick Reiner is clearly mentally ill. The question is whether that illness explains the murders or whether he's spent decades learning exactly how to use it.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #InsanityDefense #Schizoaffective #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ReinerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Crime scene evidence presented in the Adrian Gonzales trial this week showed exactly how the Robb Elementary shooter killed children who were trying to hide. Former Texas Ranger Juan Torrez testified that investigators placed pink and yellow trajectory rods into bullet cavities throughout Room 111. The rods demonstrated the gunman fired downward — through the desks — at students sheltering underneath.Jurors saw photographs showing pools of blood on the classroom floor, drag marks where bodies were removed, dried bloodstains on desks and textbooks, and a child's tennis shoe covered in blood. Judge Sid Harle warned the gallery before the images appeared: "These photographs are going to be shocking and gruesome." No family members left. They passed tissues and watched in silence for more than an hour.Then came Arnulfo Reyes. The only surviving teacher from Room 111 told the jury he saw a "black shadow" appear in his doorway, watched fire come from the gun, took a bullet to his arm, and collapsed. He lay on the ground and listened as the shooter killed all eleven of his students. The gunman taunted him, splashed blood on his face, and shot him again in the back while he pretended to be dead. He waited 77 minutes for rescue.Defense attorney Nico LaHood confronted Reyes about the unlocked classroom door. Whose responsibility was it to lock that door? Reyes admitted it was his. The defense is building a case that failures extended far beyond Adrian Gonzales — to the school, to security protocols, to everyone involved that day.Texas Rangers also established what they called a "fatal funnel" — a hallway configuration with no cover that made tactical approach extremely dangerous. This trial is testing a question American courts have rarely answered: can an officer be criminally liable not for what he did, but for what he failed to do?#UvaldeTrial #AdrianGonzales #RobbElementary #ArnulfoReyes #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Uvalde #TexasTrial #WeekInReview #JusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Alan Jackson spent three weeks on the Nick Reiner case. Every waking hour, according to his own account. His team issued ten subpoenas — all now sealed by the court. Then he walked into a Los Angeles courtroom and told the judge he had "no choice" but to withdraw. Whatever he discovered, whatever those subpoenas revealed, he says he's legally prohibited from discussing.But Jackson did say one thing on the courthouse steps: Nick Reiner is "not guilty of murder" under California law. That's not a legal ruling. That's a preview of the insanity defense he was building before he left.Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene inherited the case with approximately thirty seconds of introduction time before the hearing. She told reporters she'd had no prior contact with the Reiner family. The LA County Public Defender's Office has a strong capital case record — between 2006 and 2015, only one of their clients received a death sentence out of thirty capital appeals. But Greene is walking into a case mid-construction, with sealed subpoenas she may or may not be able to access.Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to help their son. Eighteen rehab programs. Seventy thousand dollars a month in treatment. A guest house on the family property. When Nick was arrested for allegedly stabbing them to death, the resources that had always protected him became a question mark.Nick's arraignment is February 23rd. No plea entered. No bail. Alan Jackson knows something. He just can't tell anyone what it is.#NickReiner #RobReiner #AlanJackson #MicheleReiner #PublicDefender #ReinerMurders #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WeekInReviewJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Barry Morphew pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Monday in the death of his wife Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared Mother's Day 2020. This marks the second time he's faced these charges. The first case imploded in 2022 when DA Linda Stanley's office failed to meet discovery deadlines and withheld key evidence from the defense — including unknown male DNA found in Suzanne's vehicle. Stanley was later disbarred for misconduct. Suzanne's remains were found accidentally in September 2023 in a shallow grave near Moffat, Colorado. An autopsy revealed BAM — a tranquilizer used on large animals — in her bone marrow. Prosecutors say Barry Morphew is the only private citizen in the region who had access to that drug, and he admitted using it weeks before Suzanne vanished. Court documents describe a troubled marriage: Suzanne texted Barry "I'm done" four days before disappearing, confided in friends about abuse, and had been secretly planning to leave him for a man she'd been seeing for two years. Barry maintains his innocence and says investigators have "tunnel vision." His attorney says this case will end the same way the first one did. Trial is set for October 2026. We cover the full timeline, the affair, the forensic evidence, and what prosecutors need to prove this time around.#SuzanneMorphew #BarryMorphew #MorphewCase #TrueCrimePodcast #ColoradoMurder #ColdCaseSolved #WildlifeTranquilizer #MurderMystery #JusticeForSuzanne #TrueCrimeCommunityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Attorney Eric Faddis breaks down the legal landscape across two major cases — and exposes where the system works, where it fails, and what happens next.In the Nick Reiner case: Alan Jackson issued ten sealed subpoenas before withdrawing. He declared Nick "not guilty of murder" on the courthouse steps. There's a sealed medical order. Nick appeared in a suicide prevention smock. His medications aren't stabilized. Eric examines the competency question, what those subpoenas might reveal, and why the gas station surveillance footage showing Nick "calm" after the murders cuts both ways.In the Tepe case: Police announced a preliminary NIBIN ballistic link connecting a weapon from Dr. McKee's property to the murders. Surveillance footage captured a vehicle traced to McKee arriving before and leaving after. Charges were upgraded to premeditated aggravated murder — death penalty eligible. Eric breaks down what "preliminary" ballistic evidence means, whether it can be challenged, and what defense strategies remain.Then there's the domestic violence angle. Monique Tepe's family says she was emotionally abused. But the divorce records show no DV allegations, no protection orders — just "incompatibility." Eight years after the divorce, court activity brought McKee and Monique back together. Six months later, she was dead.Eric examines why victims choose not to document abuse, how the legal system treats emotional abuse versus physical abuse, and whether court filings can be weaponized to force contact with an ex-spouse.For anyone watching who recognizes their own situation in Monique's story, Eric offers legal advice on what steps victims can take to protect themselves — and where the system's limits are.#EricFaddis #NickReiner #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #HiddenKillers #InsanityDefense #Ballistics #DomesticViolence #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes wrote from jail that she was "heartbroken for doing this to Brendan" and that she still loved him. Then she testified against him to go home to Brazil. So who was manipulating whom?Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to break down the relationship at the center of the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Dreeke led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program and literally wrote the book on trust and manipulation. If anyone can decode this dynamic, it's him.The prosecution portrays Juliana as a young woman manipulated by an older, more powerful man. They say Brendan told her it was "too late to back out" and pressured her into participating. The defense says she's a liar who flipped to save herself. Dreeke examines the behavioral evidence to determine which version is closer to the truth.Juliana maintained the home invasion story for a full year before changing it. What causes someone to hold a lie that long? What causes them to flip? Dreeke explains the psychology of both.The affair began in August 2022. Juliana was living in the Banfield home, caring for Christine's daughter, sleeping with Christine's husband — all under the same roof. Dreeke analyzes what that arrangement reveals about power, control, and the dynamics between all three people.If Brendan and Juliana actually conspired to commit murder, that requires extraordinary trust. Dreeke explains what would need to exist for that kind of criminal partnership to form — and whether he sees evidence of it here.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #FBI #Trust #Manipulation #AuPairMurder #StarWitness #PsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eight years after their divorce was finalized, something brought Dr. Michael McKee and Monique Tepe back into the court system. We don't know who filed or what it was about. Six months later, Monique was shot dead.Attorney Eric Faddis examines whether someone can use the court system to force contact with an ex-spouse — and whether courts can prevent it.The divorce records from 2017 show no domestic violence allegations, no protection orders, no restraining orders. Just "incompatibility." But Monique's family tells a different story. Her relative Rob Misleh said McKee was "emotionally abusive" during their brief marriage. He said she "just had to get away from him." He said the family knew about the torment.Why do so many victims choose not to document abuse in divorce proceedings? Eric explains the risks of documenting versus staying silent — and why the legal system treats emotional abuse differently than physical abuse.Monique filed for divorce rather than dissolution. She hired a private judge to expedite the process. Eric breaks down what those choices typically indicate — and whether this is a pattern he sees with clients trying to exit dangerous marriages.If Monique was being harassed years after the divorce, what legal options did she have? Could she have sought a protection order based on emotional abuse without documented physical violence? And even when victims do get protection orders, how effective are they against someone determined to cause harm?Here's the hard truth: McKee had no criminal record. There were no documented DV allegations. No protection orders. The divorce listed "incompatibility." Eric examines whether the legal system could have done anything — or whether this was a threat that was never officially documented.#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #EricFaddis #DomesticViolence #CourtSystem #HiddenKillers #TeepeMurders #TrueCrime #ProtectionOrdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Forget the courthouse soundbite. Here's what matters: there's a sealed file in the Nick Reiner case that contains evidence significant enough to make Alan Jackson declare his client not guilty of murder—then immediately walk away from the case.What's in that file?Psychiatric evaluations we can't read. Medical records we can't access. Ten subpoenas targeting witnesses and documents the prosecution doesn't even know about. A confidential order signed by the judge relating to Nick's mental health. Sources confirming schizophrenia treatment—but zero details on what that treatment revealed.Jackson saw all of it. He investigated "top to bottom, back to front." And whatever he found was apparently damning enough—for the prosecution—that he felt confident making a public declaration before handing the case off.But here's the part that doesn't add up: if the insanity defense is airtight, why seal the evidence? If the psychiatric evaluations prove Nick didn't understand what he was doing, why hide them? If Jackson's so certain, why isn't he in the courtroom making the argument himself?Something doesn't fit. There's a piece of this puzzle we're not seeing—probably because someone decided we're not supposed to see it.The mainstream coverage is stuck on "will he plead insanity?" We're asking a different question: what's in the sealed file that nobody wants to talk about?#NickReiner #RobReiner #SealedEvidence #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CourtSecrets #InsanityDefense #WhatAreTheyHiding #PsychiatricEvaluation #TheRealStoryJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The charges against Dr. Michael McKee were upgraded from murder to premeditated aggravated murder. In Ohio, that distinction matters — it's the difference between serious prison time and death penalty eligibility.Attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what prosecutors need to prove "prior calculation and design" and what this upgrade signals about evidence police haven't released yet.Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant confirmed multiple firearms were recovered from McKee's property, with a preliminary ballistic link through NIBIN connecting one weapon to the crime scene. Eric explains what NIBIN is, how preliminary ballistic evidence works, and whether the defense can challenge it at trial.Police have connected McKee to surveillance footage showing a vehicle that arrived before the murders and left shortly after. That vehicle has been traced to McKee. Eric examines how strong this circumstantial evidence is and what the defense would likely argue to counter it.McKee waived extradition but remains in Illinois. Court records say his transfer to Ohio "will not be feasible" by the end of the week. His attorney says he plans to plead not guilty. Given the public evidence — ballistics, vehicle records, surveillance footage — what defense strategies might be available?Chief Bryant said police are withholding details to avoid jeopardizing conviction. Eric explains when the defense and public will start seeing more evidence — arraignment, preliminary hearing, or discovery.Spencer and Monique Tepe were found shot dead in their Columbus home on December 30, 2025. Their children — ages 4 and 1 — were found unharmed. McKee is Monique's ex-husband from a seven-month marriage that ended in 2017. Her family says they waited eight years for this arrest.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #EricFaddis #TeepeMurders #AggravatedMurder #HiddenKillers #ColumbusOhio #TrueCrime #DeathPenaltyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Day three of the Brendan Banfield double murder trial delivered explosive testimony from Fairfax County detectives who revealed that just eight months after Christine Banfield was stabbed to death in her own bedroom, au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães had moved into that same room. Crime scene photographs showed the blood-stained carpet had been replaced with new wood flooring, the furniture swapped out, and framed photos of Brendan and Christine replaced with images of Brendan and Juliana together.Prosecutors played McDonald's surveillance video showing Brendan Banfield waiting in the parking lot on the morning of February 24, 2023 — exactly as Juliana testified. Phone records confirmed she called him at 7:37 AM, allegedly signaling that Joseph Ryan had arrived at the house. Call logs also showed both Brendan and Juliana made calls to Christine's phone that morning — the same phone prosecutors say was hidden in a kitchen drawer while she slept.Forensic scientist Katherine Colombo testified that Brendan Banfield's DNA was not found on the murder knife, but noted police allowed him to wash his hands before samples were collected. Blood spatter on Banfield's jeans matched Christine's DNA. Fingerprint examiner Douglas Gudakunst said prints on the knife were inconclusive between Banfield and victim Joseph Ryan.Prosecutors also established that Banfield purchased a gun less than a month before the murders and took Juliana to a shooting range twice in the weeks prior. They alleged he spent over $30,000 on triple-pane windows to muffle sounds like gunshots from inside the home.The prosecution announced they have only a few witnesses remaining. Trial resumes Tuesday, January 20th after the MLK holiday weekend.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #JulianaMagalhaes #FairfaxCounty #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #JosephRyan #FetLife #DoubleHomicideJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

For the first time since the murders, Spencer Tepe's brother-in-law Rob Misleh went on national television and told the world what Monique Tepe was running from when she divorced Dr. Michael McKee eight years ago."She just had to get away from him."He said Monique told him McKee was emotionally abusive. That many in the family knew about the torment he put her through. That she was willing to do anything to escape.And she did escape. She filed for divorce after just seven months of marriage. She moved back to Ohio. She rebuilt her life. She married Spencer Tepe in late 2020 and had two children. In her wedding vows, she talked about "wrong relationships" and "waterfalls of tears" — but said it was all worth it because it led her to Spencer.Eight years later, according to police, the man she fled allegedly drove from Illinois to Columbus and shot both Monique and Spencer dead while their children slept nearby.Today, Columbus police confirmed this was a targeted domestic violence attack. They also revealed they recovered multiple firearms from McKee's property, with a preliminary ballistic link to the murders.Rob Misleh said over 1,000 people attended the funeral. He said the family just wants justice — for Monique, for Spencer, and especially for the two children left behind.McKee maintains his innocence and plans to plead not guilty to two counts of premeditated aggravated murder.She got out. She did everything right. It just wasn't far enough.#HiddenKillers #TeepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #EmotionalAbuse #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhio #SurvivorStoryJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nick Reiner appeared at his first hearing in a suicide prevention smock. He wasn't medically cleared to be transported initially. Reports say his medications still aren't stabilized. There's a sealed medical order from the judge that reportedly relates to his mental health treatment.At what point does this shift from "defendant has mental health issues" to a formal competency challenge? Attorney Eric Faddis explains what that process actually looks like in California — and what the sealed order might accomplish for the defense.Alan Jackson withdrew from the case under circumstances he's "legally and ethically prohibited" from explaining. But he didn't leave quietly. On the courthouse steps, he declared Nick Reiner "not guilty of murder" under California law. That's not a legal ruling — it's a preview of the insanity defense he was building before he walked away.Jackson's team issued ten subpoenas during their investigation. The judge sealed that list from prosecutors. Eric breaks down what kind of witnesses and records a defense building toward insanity would be subpoenaing — and why keeping that list sealed matters.Then there's the gas station surveillance video showing Nick calmly buying a drink hours after the murders. Legal experts say that footage "cuts both ways." Eric walks through how prosecution uses it versus how the defense might reframe it.Nick is charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. DA Nathan Hochman hasn't ruled out the death penalty, though surviving siblings have reportedly signaled they're not in favor. Eric examines how much victim family input actually influences that decision — and what factors typically push a DA toward death versus life without parole in a parricide case.#NickReiner #EricFaddis #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #AlanJackson #InsanityDefense #Competency #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ReinerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Paul Caneiro is on trial for the 2018 quadruple murder of his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children — 11-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Sophia — inside their million-dollar Colts Neck, New Jersey mansion. Prosecutors say greed drove Caneiro to slaughter his own family after Keith discovered he'd been stealing tens of thousands of dollars from their shared businesses. The most devastating detail: according to autopsy findings cited in a civil lawsuit, Sophia was stabbed 17 times across her 45-pound body and survived for approximately nine hours, dying of smoke inhalation after her uncle allegedly set the house on fire.The prosecution's evidence includes bloody clothing found in Paul's basement with DNA matching the children, a 9mm handgun, matching ammunition, and security footage showing Paul disconnecting his home cameras at 1:28 AM the night of the murders. Hours later, Paul's own house caught fire — prosecutors say he set it to create the "illusion" his entire family was being targeted.But the defense is pointing at someone else: Corey Caneiro, the third brother, who police never investigated and whose DNA was never collected. Corey stood to inherit $1.5 million from the same life insurance policy. A civil lawsuit alleges he took control of the insurance proceeds after the murders and bought a $1.8 million home less than a year later. He denies these allegations.Seven years after the murders, the trial is finally underway. Paul Caneiro faces life without parole if convicted.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeck #MansionMurders #TrueCrime #NewJersey #CanerioTrial #QuadrupleMurder #CourtTV #HiddenKillers #JusticeForSophiaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott's complete three-part breakdown of the Nick Reiner case—examining his individual psychology, the family dynamics that trapped the Reiners for 30 years, and the systemic failures that allowed tragedy despite unlimited resources.This comprehensive analysis covers Nick's schizoaffective disorder and medication destabilization, how families normalize dangerous behavior, why 18-plus rehabs weren't enough, and the impossible questions this case raises for other families dealing with severely mentally ill loved ones.The full Shavaun Scott interview on Hidden Killers.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MentalHealth #Psychology #FamilyDynamics #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

If Brendan Banfield planned an elaborate double murder, why did he leave a framed photo of himself and his mistress on the nightstand for police to find eight months later? Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to answer the question nobody else is asking: does Banfield's behavior actually match the prosecution's theory?Dreeke led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He's spent his career reading people, detecting deception, and understanding why criminals do what they do. He brings that expertise to a case built almost entirely on the word of a woman who flipped after a year in jail.Brendan Banfield was an IRS criminal investigator. He knew how cases are built. He understood evidence. Prosecutors say he used that knowledge to orchestrate murder and stage it as self-defense. But Dreeke examines the behavioral red flags that should appear if that's true — and whether they actually show up in this case.The prosecution claims Banfield spent months planning: creating fake FetLife profiles, luring Joseph Ryan to the house, coordinating with Juliana, buying a gun, taking her to the range. Then he called 911 and gave a detailed statement. Dreeke explains what investigators should have seen in that call if Banfield was lying — and what it means if they didn't see it.He also tackles the McDonald's detail prosecutors love: Banfield allegedly waited nearby so he could return quickly when Ryan arrived. Calculated staging? Or innocent behavior being reframed after the fact?This is the behavioral breakdown of Brendan Banfield you won't get anywhere else.#BrendanBanfield #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #AuPairMurder #Deception #CriminalPsychologyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why Nick Reiner cycled through 18-plus rehab facilities over 30 years without ever getting the treatment he actually needed.Dr. Drew said 30-day programs were "almost meaningless" for someone with Nick's history. Alexis Haines said he "belonged in a hospital, not residential treatment." The Reiners paid for the best dual-diagnosis facilities money could buy. None of it worked.Shavaun breaks down why the treatment model is broken, why patient autonomy laws let Nick walk out before psychiatric care could begin, and what "permanent custodial care" actually means for someone with schizoaffective disorder. The system failed. Here's how.From the full Shavaun Scott interview on Hidden Killers.#NickReiner #RobReiner #Rehab #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #Treatment #SystemFailureJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Madeline Crowley, Senior DNA Analyist, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Susan Greenspoon, Forensics Molecular Biologist at the Virginia Dept. of Forensic Science, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kathryn Colombo, Scientist at the Virginia Dept. of Forensics Science, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Cara McCarthy, Supervisor at the Virginia Dept. of Forensics Science, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

In 2004, David Carmichael crushed sleeping pills into his 11-year-old son's orange juice and strangled him to death. He planned it. He researched murder sentences. He expected prison. Two years later, he walked free. The reason? A legal test written in 1843 called the M'Naghten Rule—the same test that will likely determine Nick Reiner's fate.Nick Reiner is charged with murdering his parents, director Rob Reiner and philanthropist Michele Singer Reiner, in their Brentwood home. He reportedly admits to the killings but believes his incarceration is a conspiracy against him. His medication for schizoaffective disorder was changed approximately one month before the alleged murders. His defense attorney just withdrew from the case. He's now represented by a public defender.The M'Naghten Rule asks two questions: Did the defendant understand the nature and quality of the act? Did they know it was wrong? You only need to fail one test. Carmichael couldn't claim he didn't know killing was wrong—he planned for prison. But he succeeded on nature and quality because his delusion changed what he believed he was doing. He thought he was ending his son's suffering, not murdering a healthy child.Nick Reiner's post-offense behavior—checking into a hotel, navigating Los Angeles for 24 hours—suggests he knew something was wrong. That kills prong two. But can he argue his perception was so distorted he didn't understand the true nature of the act? That's the question. And the answer depends on what delusion, if any, distorted his reality that night.A rule from 1843 is about to collide with modern psychiatry. The outcome will determine whether Nick Reiner faces death row or a psychiatric facility.#NickReiner #RobReiner #InsanityDefense #MNaghtenRule #DavidCarmichael #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BrentwoodMurders #MentalHealth #CriminalJusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Douglas Gudakunst, Fingerprint Specialist with the Fairfax County Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Terry Leach, Detective with the Fairfax County Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kenner Fortner, Sgt. with the Fairfax County Police Department, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tackles the hardest question in the Nick Reiner case: At what point does supporting a severely mentally ill adult child stop being love and start being something else?The Reiners paid for 18-plus rehab stays. They housed Nick in their guest house. They brought him to parties because they were afraid to leave him alone. They "tried everything." And it ended with their deaths.Shavaun breaks down the psychology of families trapped in cycles they can't escape—and what other families dealing with similar situations need to understand.From the full Shavaun Scott interview on Hidden Killers. Subscribe for complete coverage of the Nick Reiner case.#NickReiner #RobReiner #FamilyDynamics #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Psychology #ShavaunScott #EnablingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Day 2 of the Brendan Banfield trial focused entirely on cross-examination of star witness Juliana Peres Magalhães. Defense attorney John Carroll attacked her credibility using jail letters in which she promised to protect Banfield and "take the blame for both of us."Magalhães admitted she's been in contact with Netflix and other producers about selling her story, and that media companies are now paying her jail expenses. When asked about a letter to her mother saying "we deserve something," she testified she believes her family deserves compensation.The prosecution says blood evidence will prove Banfield's guilt regardless of credibility questions. The defense says she's a liar who flipped to save herself. Banfield has pleaded not guilty.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #JulianaMagalhaes #Netflix #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ChristineBanfield #Day2Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Monique Tepe left her first husband after just seven months of marriage. She moved back to Ohio. She rebuilt her life. She married a dentist named Spencer, had two children, and said in her wedding vows: "I had quite a journey to get to you. Countless bad Bumble dates, wrong relationships, and waterfalls of tears."Eight years later, according to police, that first husband — Dr. Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon — allegedly drove from Illinois to Columbus and shot both Monique and Spencer dead in their home at 3:52 in the morning. Their children, ages 4 and 1, were found alive in the house.The family wasn't shocked. They told reporters they'd suspected McKee all along. Spencer's brother-in-law called McKee "emotionally abusive." Sources say Monique's parents helped her escape Virginia where she'd been living with him.New court records reveal activity on their 2017 divorce case in June 2025 — six months before the murders. What brought them back to court after eight years of silence? We don't know yet. But investigators and experts are building a profile of a man who never let go.McKee maintains his innocence and will plead not guilty. He faces two counts of aggravated murder — death penalty eligible in Ohio.This is the full breakdown: the relationship, the divorce, the eight-year gap that wasn't really a gap, and the night everything ended.#HiddenKillers #TeepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhio #DomesticAbuse #GrievanceCollector #DeathPenaltyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the disturbing psychological phenomenon at the center of the Nick Reiner case: a man who reportedly admits killing his parents but believes his incarceration is a conspiracy against him.How does someone hold those two realities simultaneously? Shavaun explains what's happening in the mind of someone with schizoaffective disorder when medication fails and delusion takes over. This isn't denial. This isn't claiming innocence. It's something far more complex—and it could be the key to Nick's defense strategy.From the full Shavaun Scott interview on Hidden Killers. Subscribe for complete psychological analysis of the Nick Reiner case.#NickReiner #RobReiner #Schizoaffective #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Psychology #ShavaunScott #ReinerMurdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kouri Richins is set to stand trial in February 2026 for the alleged fentanyl murder of her husband Eric Richins, and this week Judge Richard Mrazik handed down a cascade of pre-trial rulings that reshape everything. The prosecution wanted to paint Kouri as a woman who ran financial schemes for years before allegedly escalating to murder — but the judge just severed those fraud and forgery charges from the murder trial entirely. The jury won't hear them. The domestic violence expert prosecutors wanted to call? Barred. The FBI behavioral profiler? Severely limited. But the handwriting expert who says Kouri allegedly forged Eric's signature on insurance documents? He's in. The orange notebook containing what prosecutors call Kouri's firsthand account of the night Eric died? Conditionally admitted. The "Walk the Dog" letter found in her jail cell? Partially in. This episode breaks down every ruling from this week's hearings, what each one means for trial strategy, and how the battlefield has now been defined for both sides. We'll walk through the Valentine's Day sandwich allegation, the Moscow Mule, the $1.8 million debt versus the $5 million estate, the key witness who recanted, and why prosecutors are heading into this trial with a tighter case than they wanted. Jury selection begins February 10th. Five weeks of testimony starts February 23rd. Kouri Richins says she didn't do it. Twelve jurors will decide if they believe her.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrime #FentanylMurder #UtahMurder #MurderTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForEric #CourtTVJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, continued to be cross-examined on the stand today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.Banfield, a former IRS Criminal Investigation agent, faces four counts of aggravated murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and child abuse charges in the February 24, 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors allege Banfield and the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were having an affair and conspired to lure Ryan to their Herndon home using a fake profile on a sexual fetish website — then killed both victims and staged it as a home invasion.Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is cooperating with prosecutors in exchange for a recommendation of time served. The defense maintains that digital forensic evidence shows Christine Banfield controlled her own devices and that investigators who contradicted the catfishing theory were reassigned.If convicted on all counts, Banfield faces life in prison without parole plus 13 additional years. The trial is expected to last four weeks.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #BanfieldTrial #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #JulianaMagalhaes #FairfaxCounty #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two murder cases. Two very different defense strategies. One attorney who knows how to find the cracks.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a comprehensive breakdown of Nick Reiner's path to avoiding prison and the prosecution's mounting problems in the Brendan Banfield case. This is the defense perspective on two of the biggest trials in true crime right now.Alan Jackson walked out of the Nick Reiner case with 10 outstanding subpoenas. Nick is now represented by a public defender, reportedly not competent to stand trial, and facing a prosecutor who handled the Menendez resentencing and Robert Durst case. Bob breaks down the critical distinction between competency to stand trial and legal insanity at the time of the crime. California's standard doesn't require proving Nick didn't know right from wrong — only that he didn't understand the "nature and quality" of his actions. The Carmichael precedent could be key. But Nick's post-offense behavior — checking into a hotel, buying a drink at a gas station, navigating LA for 24 hours — creates problems. Bob explains how prosecutors will use that functionality against any insanity claim and what the defense must do to counter it.Then we turn to Brendan Banfield, where the prosecution's case is bleeding from multiple wounds. Their own forensics expert contradicted their catfishing theory and was transferred. The lead detective was reassigned. The original prosecutor was removed. Twelve homicide detectives had 24 different theories before the au pair flipped. Bob explains how you build reasonable doubt from investigative chaos — and how you make a jury see it.The star witness is the prosecution's entire case. Juliana Peres Magalhaes spent a year telling police the same story Brendan did. Then she got a deal: manslaughter, time served, deportation to Brazil. Her sentencing is after Banfield's trial to keep her cooperating. From jail, she wrote that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to Brendan. Bob explains how you frame a year-long lie for the jury, how you weaponize that letter on cross, and what happens if she falls apart on the stand.#HiddenKillers #BobMotta #NickReiner #BrendanBanfield #DefenseAttorney #InsanityDefense #ReasonableDoubt #StarWitness #CrossExamination #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nick Reiner case is often framed as sudden and shocking. But when you step back and examine the behavior being publicly reported, a different picture begins to emerge — one built over years, not moments.In this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the long behavioral pattern behind the case. We break down decades of instability, repeated rehab stays that ended before sustained psychiatric intervention, and how short-term compliance can sometimes function as a pressure release instead of real change.Robin explains how manipulation and mental illness can coexist — and why that combination is often misunderstood. We also examine the reported medication change shortly before the killings and what it can suggest about insight, priorities, and control when stability competes with convenience.One of the most revealing elements of this case is the reported framing after the killings. Acknowledging the act while framing incarceration as a “conspiracy” isn’t just a statement — it’s behavior. Robin explains why analysts pay attention to post-event narratives and how they differ from genuine psychotic collapse, where accountability often returns once stabilization occurs.The conversation also confronts family dynamics that rarely get discussed honestly. When instability becomes the baseline, families adapt. Social circles apologize, leave early, and reset expectations. Robin explains how normalization isn’t neglect — it’s exhaustion — and how that exhaustion can quietly pave the way for tragedy.This episode strips away excuses and focuses on patterns — because patterns don’t lie.#HiddenKillers #NickReiner #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeDiscussion #BehaviorAnalysis #FamilyTraumaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes is the only reason the prosecution has a case against Brendan Banfield. She's also a woman who lied for a year, flipped when she got a deal, and wrote from jail that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to the man she says she helped commit murder.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to explain how you tear apart a star witness whose credibility is already in shreds.Juliana's sentencing is scheduled after Banfield's trial — to ensure she continues to cooperate. She pleaded to manslaughter. She gets time served. She gets deported to Brazil. Motta explains how you make a jury understand what she bought with her testimony and what it cost her to say the words prosecutors needed to hear.The prosecution is framing Juliana as a reluctant participant who was told it was "too late to back out." Motta dismantles that narrative and explains what the defense should be highlighting instead.Juliana maintained the home invasion story for a full year before changing it. How do you frame that for jurors? Is she a liar who finally told the truth — or a liar who upgraded to a better lie when the price was right?Motta identifies the biggest mistakes defense attorneys make when cross-examining cooperating witnesses — and what Banfield's team needs to avoid. He explains how to weaponize the jailhouse letter and what happens to the prosecution's case if Juliana falls apart on the stand.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseAttorney #StarWitness #CrossExamination #AuPairMurder #PleaDeal #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, continues her testimony today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

If you're defending Brendan Banfield, where do you attack first? Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to identify exactly where the prosecution's case falls apart — and how reasonable doubt gets built in a courtroom.The state's own digital forensics expert concluded their catfishing theory was wrong. Officer Brendan Miller found Christine Banfield controlled the FetLife account, not her husband. His work was peer-reviewed by the University of Alabama and confirmed. Then he was transferred. Deputy Chief Brusch allegedly told him he'd never work another digital forensics case. The lead detective was reassigned. The original prosecutor was removed after being cited for drinking at 8 a.m.Motta explains how you weave all of that into a narrative of a flawed investigation that a jury can see and understand. Twelve homicide detectives. Twenty-four different theories. No consensus until the au pair gave her proffer after a year in jail.The prosecution is using Banfield's IRS criminal investigator background against him — arguing he knew how to stage a crime scene. Motta explains how the defense flips that narrative and makes it work for Banfield instead.The framed photo of Brendan and Juliana found eight months after the murders looks damning. Motta breaks down how you neutralize evidence the prosecution treats as a smoking gun.Judge Azcarate excluded the child's forensic interview. What does it mean when testimony from someone present during the crime gets blocked?This is what the defense sees when they look at this case.#BrendanBanfield #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #DefenseAttorney #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #AuPairMurder #ReasonableDoubt #CriminalDefense #MurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two men killed family members. One walked free after two years in a psychiatric facility. The other is sitting in a Los Angeles jail right now, facing the death penalty. The legal standard that saved the first could theoretically save the second. Tony Brueski breaks down the case that could define Nick Reiner's defense strategy.David Carmichael killed his 11-year-old son Ian in a London, Ontario hotel room in 2004. He'd researched murder charges. He expected prison. He planned the whole thing. But both prosecution and defense psychiatrists agreed—Carmichael was in a psychotic state triggered by the antidepressant Paxil. He believed his healthy son was brain-damaged and suffering. In his mind, he wasn't committing murder. He was ending suffering. Under the M'Naghten rule, he didn't understand the "nature and quality" of his actions. Verdict: not criminally responsible.California uses the same legal standard. Nick Reiner's medication was reportedly changed one month before he allegedly stabbed his parents to death. Sources say he admits to the killings but believes his incarceration is a conspiracy. The same defense could apply.But Carmichael had no history of manipulation. Nick has 30 years of it—18-plus rehab facilities, a lifetime of gaming systems. Carmichael didn't flee. Nick reportedly checked into a hotel and spent 24 hours moving through Los Angeles. The precedent exists. The legal pathway exists. But making it work requires something Nick Reiner has never had: credibility.#NickReiner #RobReiner #DavidCarmichael #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Podcast #ReinerCase #CriminalLaw #MentalHealthJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhães took the stand on Day 1 of the Brendan Banfield murder trial, describing in detail how Banfield allegedly executed the killings of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan in their Herndon, Virginia home in February 2023.Magalhães testified that Banfield shot Ryan in the head, then stabbed Christine repeatedly while she watched. Prosecutors allege the couple lured Ryan through a fake fetish website profile. The defense claims digital evidence shows Christine was communicating with Ryan herself — and that investigators who disagreed were reassigned.Banfield has pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder. Magalhães pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for her testimony.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #JulianaMagalhaes #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

JP Miller pleaded not guilty in federal court — then ducked out a back door while protesters filled the courthouse. The federal case against the former Myrtle Beach pastor has officially begun.Federal Magistrate Thomas E. Rogers III set bond at $100,000 with conditions that include an ankle monitor, no contact with victims or witnesses, surrender of his passport, no firearms, and no excessive drinking. Prosecutors told the court Miller is a flight risk and a danger to the community.The indictment paints a disturbing picture: tracking devices on Mica's car, over 50 contacts in a single day, a nude photo posted online in what JP himself called an attempt to "hurt" her, and a tire deflation device he purchased online then lied to investigators about. This wasn't a moment of anger. According to prosecutors, it was a pattern — one that lasted from November 2022 until Mica's death in April 2024.Mica Miller told police her husband had "groomed" her since she was ten. She was trying to escape. She filed for divorce. She sought a restraining order. She told officers she was "afraid for her life." Two days after JP was served divorce papers, she was dead.But the questions don't stop with Mica. Chris Skinner — a quadriplegic veteran — drowned in a Myrtle Beach pool in 2021. His widow Suzie married JP Miller in June 2025. According to a sworn affidavit from JP's first wife, Chris confronted JP about an alleged affair with Suzie just two weeks before his death.Two dead spouses. One federal indictment. An ankle monitor. And a trial that will finally put JP Miller's version of events to the test.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #JusticeForMica #ChrisSkinner #FederalIndictment #Cyberstalking #TrueCrime #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Defense attorney Bob Motta reacts to Nick Reiner's reported behavior after the alleged murders of Rob and Michele Reiner—and explains why it creates serious problems for an insanity defense.Sources say Nick checked into the Pierside hotel in Santa Monica after what allegedly occurred, then spent over 24 hours navigating Los Angeles before being found near USC. He reportedly bought a drink at a gas station. The defense will argue Nick didn't understand the "nature and quality" of his actions due to a psychotic break triggered by a medication change. But Bob explains how prosecutors will use that extended, functional post-offense behavior to argue Nick had presence of mind—and what the defense must do to counter it.California's insanity standard is more favorable to defendants than many states, but juries are skeptical. Bob breaks down the legal burden, the Carmichael precedent, and why the next few months of psychiatric evaluation will determine whether Nick Reiner spends his life in prison or a mental health facility.This clip is from a full interview available on Hidden Killers. Subscribe for complete coverage of the Nick Reiner case and expert legal analysis.#NickReiner #RobReiner #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseAttorney #ReinerMurders #CriminalLaw #BobMotta #LegalAnalysisJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Lori Vallow Daybell murdered her two children. A jury said so. Now she's arguing that her constitutional rights were violated and she deserves a new trial. Prosecutors in Idaho just filed a 59-page response that tears every single claim apart. Her attorney had an impossible conflict of interest — representing both Lori and Chad Daybell simultaneously while Chad paid the bills. She was found incompetent twice, accounting for nearly a year of delays she's now complaining about. The Arizona evidence she wanted excluded? It proved the entire pattern: Chad declares someone has a "dark spirit," Alex Cox kills them, and Lori collects the insurance money. That's not prejudicial — that's the blueprint. We go through each of her five claims and show you exactly why this appeal has no foundation. Seven-year-old JJ was found with a plastic bag taped over his head, his wrists and ankles bound. Sixteen-year-old Tylee was burned and dismembered. Their mother spent those months in Hawaii, collecting their Social Security checks and marrying Chad Daybell. And now, from a prison cell, she's still playing the victim. The Idaho Supreme Court hasn't scheduled oral arguments yet. But based on the state's devastating response, this appeal is going nowhere.#LoriVallow #ChadDaybell #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CultMom #JJVallow #TyleeRyan #IdahoSupremeCourt #Appeal #JusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Two cases. Two very different defenses. One retired FBI Special Agent breaking down what the evidence actually shows. Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to analyze the Brendan Banfield trial and the latest bombshells in the Nick Reiner case.In Virginia, the prosecution's own forensics expert concluded their catfishing theory was wrong. Officer Brendan Miller found Christine Banfield controlled the FetLife account, not her husband. The University of Alabama confirmed his work. Then he was told he'd never work another digital forensics case in the bureau. He was transferred. The lead detective was reassigned. Now the state's case depends entirely on an au pair who flipped after a year in jail — a woman who wrote from her cell that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to Brendan and that she still loved him. Her sentencing is scheduled after the trial to ensure she keeps cooperating.In Los Angeles, sources say Nick Reiner admits to killing his parents but claims he's the victim of a conspiracy. His schizoaffective medication was changed a month before the murders. The weapon hasn't been found. LAPD sealed the autopsy reports on Christmas Eve. Nick checked into a hotel after the alleged killings. His family spent a fortune on treatment facilities he'd leave after 30 days.Coffindaffer has evaluated cooperating witnesses and insanity claims throughout her FBI career. She explains what investigators look for, what the behavioral evidence reveals, and why both cases have serious problems that won't be resolved anytime soon.#BrendanBanfield #NickReiner #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #AuPairMurder #RobReiner #StarWitness #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhães, former Banfield au pair, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Dr. Meghan Kessler, Forensics Pathologist, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Michael Gibbons, Fairfax County Police Lt., testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Zachary Beckner, Fairfax Co. Police Officer, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nick Reiner reportedly believes he's the victim of a conspiracy. Sources say he admits to killing his parents but doesn't understand why he's in jail. He thinks the people who incarcerated him are conspiring against him.Tony Brueski breaks down why Nick is right—just not in the way he thinks.The conspiracy wasn't against Nick Reiner. The conspiracy was FOR him. For 32 years. More than 18 rehabs. Doctors who changed his medication because he didn't like gaining weight. A family so beaten down they'd "grown used to" behavior that scared strangers at parties. A guest house on his parents' property. Checks that kept coming no matter what he did.That was the conspiracy. And Nick was the beneficiary of every single day of it.But conspiracies only hold together when everyone's incentives align. On December 14th, Nick allegedly destroyed the two people who were running the whole operation. Rob and Michele Reiner were the center of it. They wrote the checks. They kept him housed. They kept believing love could fix what love had never fixed.Now the conspiracy has flipped. Now everyone is conspiring to hold Nick accountable for the first time in his life. And that probably feels like persecution to someone who's never faced a real consequence.This clip is from Tony Brueski's full monologue on the Nick Reiner case. Watch the complete episode for the full breakdown of why the insanity defense may be Nick's final manipulation.#NickReiner #RobReiner #Conspiracy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #Accountability #Murder #InsanityDefense #JusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes is the prosecution's star witness against Brendan Banfield. She's also a woman who wrote from jail that she was "heartbroken" for what she was doing to him — and that she still loved him. But she wanted to go home to her mother. So she took a deal. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer returns to Hidden Killers to break down the credibility of a cooperating witness whose freedom depends on conviction. Juliana told police the same story Brendan did for a year: Ryan was an intruder, they shot him in self-defense. Then she flipped. Now she says Brendan masterminded a murder plot and handed her a gun the morning of the killings. Her plea deal recommends time served and deportation to Brazil. Her sentencing is scheduled after Banfield's trial. Coffindaffer has evaluated cooperating witnesses throughout her FBI career. She knows the difference between someone finally telling the truth and someone saying whatever gets them out. In this interview, she explains what corroborating evidence prosecutors need to make Juliana's testimony stick, how the defense will attack her on cross-examination, and what the jury should be watching for. The prosecution says Juliana was a reluctant participant who was told it was "too late to back out." The defense says she's lying to save herself. Which version will the jury believe?#BrendanBanfield #JulianaPeresMagalhaes #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #AuPairMurder #FBI #StarWitness #PleaDeal #TrueCrimePodcast #WitnessCredibilityJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Justin Hugh, Detective with the Fairfax County PD, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

"Mark my word, I work with predators."That's what a Washington State University professor told her colleagues about Bryan Kohberger in the fall of 2022. She warned them. She urged them to remove him from the program. They didn't.Now, the families of all four Idaho murder victims — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — have filed a 126-page wrongful death lawsuit against WSU. The allegations paint a picture of institutional failure at every level.According to the complaint, 13 formal complaints were filed against Kohberger in just three months. The employee responsible for acting on those complaints reportedly never even spoke with him. Female students and staff built their own warning systems: tally boards, "911" emails, door strategies, security escorts. One undergraduate hid in a bathroom to avoid him.Five days before the murders, WSU held mandatory discrimination training because of Kohberger's behavior. Less than two weeks before, faculty confronted him directly. The lawsuit alleges a supervisor worried that removing Kohberger could expose WSU to a lawsuit — from him.They chose the wrong lawsuit to fear.This episode examines the full timeline, the documented red flags, and the families' fight for transparency and accountability. The murders, they argue, were "foreseeable — and, in fact, predictable."#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #TitleIX #TrueCrime #IdahoFourJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Alicia Dale, Custodian of Records in Fairfax County, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

When your own forensic expert contradicts your murder theory, what do you do? According to court testimony in the Brendan Banfield case, Fairfax County Police transferred him out of the unit. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to break down an investigation that raises more questions than answers. Officer Brendan Miller analyzed 60 devices and concluded Christine Banfield appeared to control the FetLife account — not her husband. The University of Alabama peer-reviewed his work and confirmed it. Deputy Chief Patrick Brusch allegedly told Miller he would never work another digital forensics case in the major crimes bureau. Miller was moved. Detective Kyle Bryant, the lead homicide investigator who also disagreed with command staff, was reassigned too. Now the prosecution's entire case rests on a woman who changed her story after a year in jail. Coffindaffer has built federal cases. She knows what a solid investigation looks like — and she knows what confirmation bias looks like. In this interview, she explains what the FBI would have done differently in the first 72 hours, why the 19-month timeline to charge Banfield is a red flag, and what it means when a judge orders prosecutors to hand over communications about an investigator's transfer. The defense calls this "a theory in search of facts." After watching this interview, you might agree.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderInvestigation #DigitalEvidenceJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Prosecution & Defense gave opening statements today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.#BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #Testimony #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #HiddenKillers #BreakingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Arnulfo Reyes heard a child in the next classroom call out for help. "Officer, come in here. We're in here." Then he heard more gunshots. He never heard that voice again. On January 12, 2026, Reyes — the only teacher to survive the massacre inside Robb Elementary's connected classrooms — testified in the trial of former Uvalde school district officer Adrian Gonzales. His account was unflinching. He described the gunman as a "black shadow" holding a weapon, fire coming from the barrel, the bullet that dropped him, and then the sound of his students being executed. The shooter came back to taunt him, smearing Reyes' own blood on his face while the teacher kept his eyes closed, pretending to be dead. It didn't matter. The gunman shot him in the back anyway. Reyes lay wounded on the floor of Room 111 for 77 minutes before Border Patrol agents finally breached. Every child in his class was killed. The prosecution is using this testimony to show what was happening inside while officers, including Gonzales, allegedly waited outside. But the defense struck back hard on cross-examination. Attorney Nico LaHood questioned Reyes about the culture of unlocked doors at Robb Elementary and got him to admit that locking his classroom door was his responsibility. The implication: there's plenty of blame to go around. Texas Rangers also testified about the "fatal funnel" officers faced — a hallway with no cover against rifle fire. This case is unprecedented. Gonzales faces 29 counts of child endangerment for allegedly failing to act. The question for the jury: who failed these children first?#HiddenKillers #UvaldeMassacre #GonzalesTrial #ArnulfoReyes #RobbElementary #TrueCrimePodcast #ChildEndangerment #CourtroomDrama #UvaldeTexas #JusticeForUvaldeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what Nick Reiner's reported "conspiracy" beliefs actually mean from a behavioral analysis standpoint. Sources say Nick admits to killing his parents Rob and Michele Reiner but doesn't understand why he's incarcerated—claiming those who put him behind bars are conspiring against him.Is this genuine psychosis from his schizoaffective disorder, or is this the same manipulation pattern Nick has used his entire life? Coffindaffer explains how investigators separate authentic mental illness from calculated behavior designed to build an insanity defense.The TMZ documentary revealed Nick's medication was changed about a month before the murders. His meds reportedly still aren't stabilized. But here's the question nobody wants to ask: if Nick truly didn't know what he was doing, why did he check into a Santa Monica hotel afterward? Why was he found wandering 15 miles away the next night?Jennifer Coffindaffer has seen this before. She explains the red flags, the investigative challenges, and what the FBI looks for when suspects claim they didn't understand the consequences of their actions.This clip is from our full interview breaking down the latest developments in the Nick Reiner case. Watch the full episode for Coffindaffer's complete analysis of the missing murder weapon, sealed autopsy reports, and what years of police wellness checks at the Reiner home reveal about the trajectory that led to this tragedy.#NickReiner #RobReiner #FBI #TrueCrime #Psychosis #InsanityDefense #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MentalHealth #MurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Brianna Aguilera was a 19-year-old Texas A&M student who fell 17 stories from a West Campus apartment in Austin on November 29, 2025. Austin Police ruled her death a suicide just five days later — before the autopsy was completed, before toxicology came back, and before a rape kit was even processed. But the family isn't buying it. And neither is the neighbor who heard everything through the walls that night.Dannah Rodriguez lived directly across the hall from the apartment Brianna was visiting. At attorney Tony Buzbee's January 2026 press conference, she described hearing loud arguing, a girl's voice fighting with multiple people, and screaming — the kind of scream you make when something goes wrong. Her father thought the arguing was coming from the balcony. Minutes later, Brianna was dead.According to the neighbor, the resident of that apartment vacated almost immediately after Brianna's death. And she claims police never entered the unit during their investigation. So what were they actually investigating?Brianna's parents have now filed a $1 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Austin Blacks Rugby Club and the UT Latin Economics and Business Association, alleging their daughter was illegally overserved alcohol at a tailgate earlier that evening. But attorney Tony Buzbee says the lawsuit is really about one thing: subpoena power. If police won't investigate, the family will do it themselves.The autopsy still isn't complete. The toxicology still isn't back. The witnesses in the apartment have allegedly been told not to talk. And a mother is demanding the Texas Rangers take over the case.This is the story of Brianna Aguilera — and the questions nobody in Austin seems willing to answer.#BriannaAguilera #TonyBuzbee #AustinTexas #TexasAM #WrongfulDeath #TrueCrime #ColdCase #JusticeForBrianna #HiddenKillers #CrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Two families saw it coming. Both had direct warnings. Both had the person who would kill them in their lives every single day. Neither survived.Rob and Michele Reiner knew their son Nick was deteriorating. Sources say his schizophrenia medication was changed weeks before the killings and he went off the rails. They watched him unravel at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party — the staring, the interruptions, the argument that sent them home early. Michele told friends they were at their wits' end. By December 14th, both parents were dead from multiple stab wounds in their Brentwood bedroom.Judge Kevin Mullins got a direct warning about Sheriff Mickey Stines from a lawyer who worked with both men. Said Stines was losing it. Said he needed a mental health evaluation. Mullins and Stines had worked together for years — Stines was his bailiff before becoming sheriff. They had lunch together the day of the shooting. Hours later, Mullins was dead in his own chambers.Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has built his career on understanding exactly this — how trust becomes vulnerability, why people dismiss threats from familiar faces, what makes someone invisible as a danger until they aren't. Today he examines both cases side by side. The behavioral red flags that were visible to everyone. The medication changes that may have destabilized Nick Reiner. The pressure that may have broken Mickey Stines. And the institutional failures that keep letting obvious warning signs go unanswered.#RobinDreeke #NickReiner #MickeyStines #HiddenKillers #FBI #RobReiner #KevinMullins #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #MentalHealthJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brendan Banfield's murder trial starts Monday, January 12th. He's accused of killing his wife Christine and a stranger named Joseph Ryan in an elaborate plot involving the family's Brazilian au pair and a sexual fetish website. But the prosecution has a problem they can't explain away.Their own digital forensics expert said the evidence doesn't support their theory.Officer Brendan Miller analyzed 60 devices and concluded Christine Banfield appeared to be the one controlling the FetLife account — not her husband. His report stated there was "no indication that Christine lost control of her devices." He found she was communicating with multiple people on the site. His findings were peer-reviewed by the University of Alabama and confirmed.Then Miller was told he would "never be doing another digital forensics case" in the major crimes bureau. He was transferred. The lead homicide detective who also disagreed was moved off the case.Defense attorney John Carroll called it "a theory in search of facts rather than a series of facts supporting a theory."Now the entire case depends on Juliana Peres Magalhaes — the au pair who changed her story after a year in jail and took a deal that lets her walk free if she testifies. She wrote to her mother from jail that she was "heartbroken" to be doing this to Brendan but wanted to come home.The lead prosecutor was removed after being found drinking at 8 a.m. The child's interview was excluded as evidence. And it took nearly three years to get to trial.Christine Banfield was a nurse who spent her career helping sexual assault survivors. Joseph Ryan was a man looking for connection who walked into a trap. Both are dead. Somebody is responsible. Starting Monday, a jury has to decide if it was Brendan Banfield.#HiddenKillers #BrendanBanfield #AuPairMurder #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #MurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #FetLifeMurder #CriminalJusticeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

A lawsuit tying both men to a sexual exploitation scandal. A deposition that pushed Stines to the edge. And fifteen months of silence on motive.Robin Dreeke knows how secrets work. He spent his FBI career studying compromise, leverage, and what happens when powerful people are entangled in something neither can afford to have exposed. This conversation goes where the headlines won't — into the pressure cooker that may have driven Mickey Stines to kill Kevin Mullins, and why nobody official is talking about why.#MickeyStines #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBI #KevinMullins #Leverage #TrueCrimePodcast #MissingMotiveJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Michael David McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon from Chicago, has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot dead inside their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. Their two young children — ages 4 and 1 — were discovered unharmed in another room. McKee and Monique were married in August 2015 but separated after just seven months. Divorce documents obtained through public records reveal she listed her engagement ring and wedding ring as "Separate Property," stating "I paid" as the reason. The separation agreement included a clause requiring her to pay McKee $1,281.59 with 23% interest if late. She filed on grounds of incompatibility and paid for a private judge to expedite the process. Eight years later, Monique had remarried Spencer Tepe, a dentist, and built a new life. Columbus detectives tracked McKee through surveillance footage showing a vehicle near the Tepe home before and after the killings. He was arrested without incident in Rockford, Illinois. No motive has been released. McKee had no prior criminal record. His neighbor told reporters she used to chat with him poolside — "and then he turns out to be a killer."#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #TepeMurders #ColumbusOhio #ExHusbandCharged #VascularSurgeon #OhioHomicide #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

TMZ just dropped a bombshell in the Nick Reiner case: sources say he admits killing Rob and Michele Reiner but believes his incarceration is a "conspiracy" against him. He genuinely doesn't understand why he's behind bars. If true, this is either devastating proof of how broken Nick's brain really is — or the most perfectly timed defense narrative leak we've seen in years. Maybe both. Nick Reiner has schizoaffective disorder. His medications were reportedly changed about a month before the murders and still aren't working properly. In active psychosis, the brain can know a fact without connecting it to consequences. You can acknowledge an action without understanding what it means. That's not denial — that's neurological dysfunction. And if Nick is experiencing that right now, he might genuinely meet California's insanity standard: that he didn't understand the "nature and quality" of his actions. But here's the problem. Nick also has a documented pattern of manipulation that spans nearly two decades. Eighteen rehab stays. Years of burning every bridge. His own father admitted the family was repeatedly told Nick was lying to them. The Reiners spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to help their son, and every time he stabilized, the cycle allegedly started again. So when Nick says he doesn't understand why he's in jail, is that the illness talking? Or is it the same play he's always run? This is the boy who cried wolf problem — and now his life depends on strangers believing him when his own parents couldn't figure out what was real. We break down the psychology, the legal strategy, and why this TMZ leak matters more than you think.#NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #Schizoaffective #MentalIllness #HiddenKillers #CrimePodcast #JuryPoolContaminationJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Someone told Kevin Mullins that Mickey Stines was falling apart. Told him directly. Said Stines "couldn't take the pressure." Advised Stines to get a mental health evaluation. And Mullins — the eventual victim — did nothing.Robin Dreeke spent twenty years at the FBI studying exactly this. Why people dismiss warnings about someone they know. Why familiarity breeds blind spots. Why the threat you trust is the threat you don't see.This conversation digs into the behavioral dynamics of the Stines case — the access, the history, the relationship that made everyone comfortable right up until it was too late.#MickeyStines #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #FBI #KevinMullins #TrueCrimePodcast #BehavioralAnalysis #CourthouseMurderJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872