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Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns

Hidden Killers Podcast

Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how

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13:11

Kouri Richins Verdict: What Broke the Defense and...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/23

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the Kouri Richins conviction with a specific analytical lens: not just what the jury decided, but what the evidentiary record required them to navigate — and what, if anything, in that record supports a viable appeal.The prosecution won this case without a recovered murder weapon. Its star witness — central to establishing Kouri Richins' access to fentanyl — faced significant credibility challenges during cross-examination that were visible

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21:11

Nancy Guthrie Missing: What a Compromised Lead...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/23

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has spent her career inside federal law enforcement. She knows what a functioning investigation looks like, and she knows what institutional dysfunction does to one. The Nancy Guthrie case — now 47 days in with no arrest — is raising questions that go directly to the structural integrity of the lead agency.The sheriff running this investigation was reportedly pushed out of a prior law enforcement position with a documented disciplinary history

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20:09

Kelsey Fitzsimmons: How a Postpartum Depression...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/23

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings a framework to the Kelsey Fitzsimmons case that goes beyond the courtroom question of guilt or innocence — she examines the institutional layers that converted a woman in documented mental health crisis into a criminal defendant.Coffindaffer spent decades inside federal law enforcement. She understands what protocols exist, what should exist, and where the gap between them becomes dangerous. In this case: what is the actual standard for how

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26:50

Alex Murdaugh: What the Dynasty Built — and What the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/23

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the behavioral and psychological framework underneath the Murdaugh case gets its most complete examination. The Name is a five-part series — and Parts 1 and 2 together form the foundation that every other piece of this story sits on.Part 1 starts where the case actually starts: 1920. For eighty-six years, three generations of Murdaughs held prosecutorial power in South Carolina's lowcountry. They built institutional control over who faced consequences

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32:43

Nancy Guthrie: Jennifer Coffindaffer and Robin Dreeke...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Nancy Guthrie investigation addresses what the public posture of this case is actually communicating — and what forty days of evidence buildup is quietly saying underneath it.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down where the investigation stands and what its current direction reveals. Sheriff Nanos went on national television stating investigators

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30:14

Kouri Richins: The Narrative She Built After Eric...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the behavioral analysis that matters most on the Kouri Richins case goes beyond the trial record and into the psychological architecture underneath it — the compulsion to perform grief publicly, and the documented history of victims who recognized what was being done to them and couldn't escape it anyway.After prosecutors say Kouri Richins killed her husband, she wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" A father who dies and becomes a firefly. She

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37:05

Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Kouri Richins case shifts to what happens after a conviction — and what the behavioral record underneath it reveals when examined alongside one of the most documented cases of spousal premeditation in American true crime.Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down the appellate record the defense preserved across three weeks of trial. The coaching video —

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60:31

Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on What the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert voices best positioned to explain the Kouri Richins guilty verdict break down both dimensions of the trial that defined it — the defense strategy that collapsed under a three-hour deliberation, and the financial pattern that gave the prosecution its most durable argument.Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to examine the defense's zero-witness approach with the honesty the verdict

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48:19

Kouri Richins: Coffindaffer, Dreeke, and Motta on the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert voices who analyzed the Kouri Richins trial before the verdict provide the clearest framework for understanding what the guilty verdict actually means. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and defense attorney Bob Motta each bring a distinct professional lens — and together they form the most complete picture of how this case was built, where it was vulnerable, and why eight jurors came back in

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68:02

Kouri Richins: Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke on the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis that matters most on the Kouri Richins verdict comes from two people who read the defense's position clearly before the jury ever left the room. Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down what the defense accomplished, what it didn't, and what the guilty verdict on all counts reflects about the choices made on both sides.The prosecution's case gets its full

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42:00

Laken Snelling: Jennifer Coffindaffer and Robin...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis on the Laken Snelling case goes where standard coverage won't. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down a case that sits at the intersection of behavior, law, and accountability in ways most prosecutions don't.The foundation: University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling gave birth alone at 4 a.m. on August 27, 2025. Her newborn son was found dead hours

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70:53

Kouri Richins: Eric Faddis Predicted Every Pressure...

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2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the most useful expert analysis of the Kouri Richins trial comes into sharper focus now that the verdict is in. Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — sat down with Tony Brueski before the jury returned and worked through exactly where this case would be decided. Three hours of deliberation and a guilty verdict on all counts later, his breakdown holds up as a precise map of what the jury was weighing.Faddis examined the defense's

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47:50

FBI Experts and a Psychotherapist Break Down Kouri...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the conversations that matter most on the Kouri Richins case aren't happening on the news. Former FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to examine what the documented record of Kouri Richins' background actually suggests about the pattern of alleged behavior prosecutors are now presenting to a jury.Dreeke brings the behavioral lens: what it looks like when deception becomes a

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59:23

Live Q&A — Kouri's Verdict, Nancy's Silence, and...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/20

Tonight Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke go live with listener questions across three cases — and nothing is off limits. Kouri Richins is convicted. Does the immunity deal for Carmen Lauber sit right? Does Robin think Kouri believes she did anything wrong? Nancy Guthrie has been missing 46 days with no arrest — investigators just pulled new footage from her property and got nothing. What does Robin's experience say about where this is actually heading? And Kelsey

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17:13

Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Is Days Away — Your...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/20

The trial of North Andover police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons starts March 23. She's charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. And today she waived her right to a jury — putting her entire fate in the hands of a single judge. The case is one of the most contested and emotionally complicated ones we've covered. A new mother. A documented mental health crisis. Her own colleagues arriving at her door. A shooting that both sides describe completely differently. Allegations from her legal team that

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18:58

Nancy Guthrie — Six Weeks In, and Your Questions...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/20

Six weeks since Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home in Tucson. No suspect. No arrest. And this week's news — more camera footage, nothing useful — isn't making it easier to stay hopeful. Tonight Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take listener questions live and don't dodge the hard ones. Why are investigators suddenly focused on specific dates weeks before the abduction? What do missed ransom deadlines tell you about the person behind this? Is the sheriff's

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23:50

Kouri Richins Convicted — Robin Dreeke & Tony Take...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/20

The verdict is in. Kouri Richins is going to prison for the fentanyl murder of her husband Eric — and listeners have been sitting on questions ever since the jury came back. Tonight, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take them live. What really happens the moment a verdict like this hits someone like Kouri? Does the behavioral mask hold, or does it finally crack? Did the immunity deals for Carmen Lauber and Robert Crozier serve justice — or just serve the

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63:41

Kouri Richins: Love Bombing to Lethal — The Full...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/19

Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for the most comprehensive psychological examination of the Kouri Richins case yet. Not the evidence. Not the verdict. The relationship — from the very first moment to the very last one.How someone like Eric Richins gets pulled in before he ever sees the trap. What the years of sustained control do to a person's identity, their judgment, their ability to reach for help. Why leaving is the most dangerous

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13:44

Kouri Richins: The Most Dangerous Moment — What...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/19

Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for the final conversation in this series on the psychology behind the Kouri Richins case: how these relationships end, and what it costs.Why is the exit the most dangerous moment? What does a narcissist's rage look like when it's quiet and controlled rather than explosive? How do you actually leave safely — not just emotionally, but physically and logistically? And what does the road back to yourself

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12:29

Kouri Richins: Trauma Bonding, Gaslighting & the Slow...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/03/19

Live on Hidden Killers — psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the part of the Kouri Richins story that gets the least attention: what was happening inside that marriage, day to day, long before prosecutors say things turned deadly.The emotional exhaustion. The gaslighting. The affair. The way someone can know something is deeply wrong and still not leave. Scott explains the psychological mechanisms behind all of it in plain language — no clinical jargon, no

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