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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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42:13

Why Did Richard Allen Go From "I Didn't Do It" To...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/31

The behavioral shift is the center of the Delphi appeal. Before solitary confinement, Richard Allen sat across from Detective Holeman during the arrest interrogation and — according to defense filings — was lied to for over an hour. Allen's answer: "I am not going to say something I did not do." That was the man who walked into Westville.Thirteen months later, he was a different person. IDOC's own policy limited solitary for inmates with his mental health diagnosis to thirty days. Allen was held in

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45:22

What Does A Former FBI Agent See When She Tests The...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/31

Jennifer Coffindaffer has 28 years of FBI experience and has worked the kinds of organized crime operations that wrench attack proponents believe may explain what happened to Nancy Guthrie. She takes the theory seriously enough to examine it honestly — and seriously enough to name where the evidence stops.A wrench attack is a physically violent crypto-extortion operation run by organized networks. Disposable operatives get recruited, directed through encrypted communications, and sent to force

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42:48

Why Did The Kouri Richins Investigation Stall Until A...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/31

Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged on the stand that the criminal investigation into Eric Richins' death had stalled by fall 2022. Meanwhile, Todd Gabler — a private investigator with 34 years exclusively on the defense side — was already ahead of the people with badges.Gabler had identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl. He'd flagged her criminal history. He was handing evidence to the Sheriff's Office that they didn't have. He searched the Richins home for days after law enforcement

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37:34

What Did The FBI See In The Pattern Before Anna...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/31

Prosecutors say Timothy Hudson killed Anna Kepner "without any warning." Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the FBI and wants to know why they'd use that language when the public record suggests something very different.Anna's ex-boyfriend reportedly told investigators Hudson tried to climb on top of her during a FaceTime call. He was allegedly fixated on her. He reportedly wanted to date her despite being her stepbrother. He allegedly always carried a large knife. Anna's aunt said Anna was

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39:12

Why Did An ISP Trooper Get Shut Down When He Flagged...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/31

According to the defense's appellate filings, an ISP Trooper found "concerning similarity" between the Delphi murders and a suspect who had been flagged repeatedly by tipsters for posting images of dead girls with sticks over their bodies on social media. He pushed for further investigation. His superiors said no.This same suspect, according to the filings, sat across from investigators four days after the murders and admitted to practicing pagan rituals involving bloodletting. He owned a .40

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56:58

Why Did The Kouri Richins Investigation Stall Until A...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/30

Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged on the stand that the criminal investigation into Eric Richins' death had stalled by fall 2022. Meanwhile, Todd Gabler — a private investigator with 34 years exclusively on the defense side — was already ahead of the people with badges.Gabler had identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl. He'd flagged her criminal history. He was handing evidence to the Sheriff's Office that they didn't have. He searched the Richins home for days after law

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39:30

Was The Nancy Guthrie Investigation Ever Set Up To...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/30

An 84-year-old woman allegedly stolen from her own bed in the middle of the night — and almost immediately, the investigation meant to find her started falling apart from the inside.The crime scene was released too early. A thermal imaging plane sat grounded because its pilot had been reassigned over a personal grudge. The lead sergeant on the initial response reportedly had no homicide experience. Experienced detectives had already been sidelined. The doorbell camera footage? The sheriff's

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32:46

What Does It Mean When The FBI Takes Over...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/30

In 28 years at the FBI, Jennifer Coffindaffer has seen what happens between local sheriffs and the Bureau when an investigation is running well — and what happens when something has broken down. The communication shift in the Nancy Guthrie case tells her something specific.Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed he's no longer speaking directly with Nancy Guthrie's family. The FBI is now the sole point of contact. That transition — in a case where an 84-year-old woman has been missing for over three months

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45:31

Why Did A Career Defense Investigator Start Building...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/30

Todd Gabler had spent 34 years working one side of the courtroom — every case for the defense. Then Eric Richins' family called about a civil matter and the phone records pulled in the first few weeks made staying in that lane impossible.Constant contact between Kouri Richins and a housekeeper with a criminal record and active drug court failures — in the months surrounding Eric's death. Law enforcement hadn't reached those records yet. Gabler flagged the pattern and kept going. Nearly 50

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54:57

Kepner, Adelson, Birchmore: Why Does The System Keep...

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2026/05/29

What does it take for the justice system to actually hold someone — and why does that bar seem to move from case to case? We put three of the most talked-about cases in true crime in front of a defense attorney and former prosecutor and asked him to connect them.In Anna Kepner's case, our guest explains how a judge can concede that an adult would be jailed and still leave a young defendant free, and what the conditions of that release really require. In the Dan Markel case, he breaks down why two

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58:24

What Was Todd Gabler Finding While Police Were Doing...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/29

The Sheriff's Office investigation stalled. Todd Gabler's didn't. While law enforcement sat on a case that wasn't moving, Gabler was the one pulling phone records before they knew where to look. He was the one tracking vehicles while the investigation gathered dust. He was the one searching the home for days after police released it. And he did all of it while operating under rules that gave him access a detective would need a judge to get.In this complete three-part interview, Gabler holds nothing

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18:30

Is Farwell's Defense Already Losing The Birchmore Case?

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2026/05/29

When a defense team loses every major motion before trial even starts, what does that tell you about where the case is headed? In the prosecution of former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, we asked an attorney and legal analyst to read the signs.Sandra Birchmore, twenty-three and pregnant, was found dead in 2021 in a death first ruled a suicide. Prosecutors say Farwell killed her and staged it, to cover up a relationship they allege began when she was a teenager. The defense built its case on

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21:44

Could Wendi Adelson's Own Testimony Get Her Charged?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/29

Wendi Adelson took the stand in the Dan Markel murder case more than once, and every time she did, she had a safety net: limited immunity. So could the very testimony meant to protect her become the thing that finally exposes her? We asked a defense attorney and former prosecutor to break it down.The Markel case is one of the most-watched murder-for-hire sagas in the country. An FSU law professor shot dead in his garage in 2014. A decade of investigation. Five convictions, including Wendi's brother

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15:22

What Did The Judge Admit About Anna Kepner's Accused...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/29

What does it actually take to convince a court that a defendant is too dangerous to be free? In Anna Kepner's case, a federal judge said out loud that an adult facing these charges would almost certainly be jailed — and then declined to order it. We brought in a criminal defense attorney to explain what that contradiction really signals.Anna, eighteen, died aboard a Carnival cruise while traveling with her blended family. Her sixteen-year-old stepbrother, now indicted as an adult, stands charged in

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58:32

What Psychological Thread Runs Through the Guthrie,...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent more than thirty years in forensic mental health studying what creates the conditions for violence — not just the act, but the accumulation of failures that allegedly precede it. On Hidden Killers Live, she applies that expertise to three cases simultaneously. In the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, she examines the perpetrator’s mind — what months of silence, the near-miss psychology of potentially being named in fifty thousand tips, and the advancing threat of

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22:09

Why Did Todd Gabler Skip His Pain Meds to Testify in...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

Six weeks before he took the stand, surgeons fused vertebrae in Todd Gabler's neck with titanium rods. He walked into court on a cane. He told the judge he'd taken a Tylenol that morning and nothing else — no prescribed pain medication — because he wanted absolute clarity for his testimony. Nobody asked him to do that. He chose it.That moment says everything about how this case got under his skin. This wasn't a paycheck. This wasn't routine. Gabler logged over a year on this case — the phone

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16:24

Did D4VD’s Isolation Create the Conditions for What...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

David Anthony Burke went from recording on an iPhone in his sister’s closet to touring internationally for Interscope Records in roughly two years. By twenty, prosecutors allege he’s responsible for the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the alleged concealment of evidence that followed. He has pleaded not guilty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of forensic mental health expertise to Hidden Killers Live for an analysis of the psychological conditions

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19:02

Is Anna Kepner’s Stepmother Acting Out of Grief or...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

Shauntel Hudson sits at the center of the Anna Kepner case in a position no one can fully comprehend. She is the biological mother of Timothy Hudson, the sixteen-year-old charged as an adult with first-degree murder in Anna’s death. She is the stepmother of Anna Kepner, the eighteen-year-old who was killed. And she shares a home and a marriage with Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner. Court filings from the custody battle between Shauntel and her ex-husband Thomas Hudson paint a picture of a mother

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23:45

What Is Genetic Genealogy Doing to Nancy Guthrie’s...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

The DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home is at the FBI lab in Quantico. Genetic genealogy is reportedly being run. And the person who allegedly took this eighty-four-year-old woman from her home months ago has no way of knowing when that process will produce a name — only that it eventually can. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of forensic mental health experience to Hidden Killers Live for a deep psychological analysis of the person at the center of this case

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25:48

Why Did Nobody Around D4VD See Who He Allegedly Was?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/28

D4VD admitted in interview after interview that the emotions in his music weren’t real. He said they were constructed. Performed. Pulled from other people’s lives. We heard that as a charming origin story. According to prosecutors, it may have been something else entirely.This episode takes a hard look at who David Anthony Burke was before the allegations — not as a musician, but as a person shaped by isolation. Homeschooled from seventh grade. No peer social environment. A digital world that came

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