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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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20:16

LIVE: FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on How Bateman...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

We're going live with a conversation you're not going to want to pause. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony to break apart the Samuel Bateman case in real time — starting with the question everyone who watched the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet keeps asking: how did a broke, homeless man get fifty people to hand him their children, their money, and their obedience in three years?Robin spent two decades at the FBI

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55:32

Gilgo Beach Plea, Ellerup Suit, Anna Kepner Case:...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/15

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski for a wide-ranging conversation that covers Rex Heuermann's guilty plea, the civil lawsuit against his family, and the federal adult indictment in the Anna Kepner case — bringing both legal strategy and behavioral expertise to bear on each story.Motta opens with the defense perspective on Heuermann's plea. He explains what it means when a defense team loses every

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19:17

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Defense Challenges...

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2026/04/15

A defense attorney breaks down the federal indictment against Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother — and examines the significant challenges facing both the prosecution and the defense in a case that involves a minor charged as an adult, contradictory early reporting, and a family splintering across multiple courtrooms.The conversation begins with the most striking element of the indictment: the aggravated abuse charge. Early public reporting stated there was no indication of assault beyond

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17:40

Rex Heuermann: Why He Pleaded Guilty and What He Avoided

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2026/04/15

A defense attorney walks through the strategic calculus behind Rex Heuermann's guilty plea — and explains why the timing, the terms, and the inclusion of an uncharged victim all point to a defendant managing his exposure rather than accepting responsibility. Heuermann spent nearly three years maintaining his innocence while his legal team filed motion after motion, each one denied. When the judge ruled whole genome sequencing admissible and ordered all seven charges tried together, the defense had

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19:07

Gilgo Beach: Asa Ellerup Lawsuit Defense Breakdown

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2026/04/15

A defense attorney examines the civil lawsuit filed against Rex Heuermann's ex-wife and daughter — and explains why the complaint may not survive its first legal challenge. Benjamin Torres, the adult son of Gilgo Beach victim Valerie Mack, has sued Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann alongside the now-convicted killer, alleging they knew about the murders, concealed evidence, and collected over a million dollars from a documentary while showing callous disregard for the victims' families.The legal

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59:38

Nancy Guthrie and the Duggars: FBI Connects the Pattern

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2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to both of the stories dominating the national conversation — and draws the investigative line between them.In the Nancy Guthrie case, Coffindaffer maps every documented failure from crime scene handling to evidence disputes to the structural problems that predate Nancy's disappearance, and explains why the cumulative weight of those failures may already have compromised a future prosecution. She addresses the behavioral

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26:01

Duggar Investigation: Family System Under FBI-Level...

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2026/04/14

The criminal case against Joseph Duggar has expanded beyond a single allegation into a multi-state investigation that's raising questions about systemic patterns of alleged abuse and concealment inside one of America's most publicly visible families.Joseph faces two life felony charges in Florida. He and his wife Kendra face eight combined misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. Investigators reportedly found exterior-mounted locks on bedroom doors during a search of their home. Court records in the

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16:15

Nancy Guthrie Case: The Calculation Keeping Nanos in...

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2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her experience investigating law enforcement leaders who clung to power under pressure to the Pima County crisis — where Sheriff Chris Nanos faces a unanimous no-confidence vote, a board threatening removal under oath, multiple federal lawsuits, and a recall effort, and still refuses to resign while overseeing the Nancy Guthrie investigation.Coffindaffer analyzes the behavioral indicators of a leader whose self-preservation instinct has

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18:00

Nancy Guthrie: FBI Exposed What the Sheriff Missed

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2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to the documented investigative failures in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance — a case where the lead agency's own deputies have unanimously voted no confidence in their sheriff.Coffindaffer examines what it means when local law enforcement declares evidence unrecoverable and the FBI produces it days later. She analyzes the behavioral indicators behind a sheriff who publicly contradicts himself, shares operational details

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62:36

FBI Behavioral Expert: Duggars, FLDS Cults, and...

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2026/04/13

Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, provides extended expert analysis across three interconnected investigations — applying decades of behavioral expertise to the Duggar family's private crisis communications, the family system that produced two sons facing charges or convictions involving children, and the psychological control mechanisms of FLDS cult leader Samuel Bateman.The behavioral throughline is chosen silence — how families, religious

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19:27

FBI Behavioral Expert Analyzes FLDS Cult Leader...

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2026/04/13

From a behavioral analysis perspective, the Samuel Bateman case presents a concentrated example of cult control mechanics operating at their most extreme — a man with no institutional backing, no financial resources, and no prior following who constructed a system of total psychological dominance within a few years. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies his expertise in behavioral influence and manipulation to examine how Bateman achieved

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12:47

FBI Expert: The Duggar Family System That Produced...

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2026/04/13

Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies decades of behavioral expertise to the structural question at the center of the Duggar family's unraveling: how does one household, operating under one parenting philosophy, produce two sons facing charges or convictions involving the abuse of children — and what does that pattern reveal about the system rather than the individuals?The analysis moves beyond the criminal allegations against Joseph

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30:44

FBI Behavioral Expert Decodes Duggar Family Crisis...

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2026/04/13

When the private communications of a family in crisis become public, a trained behavioral analyst sees what casual observers miss — the word choices, the omissions, the gap between private reality and public performance. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies decades of expertise in reading human behavior under pressure to the Duggar family's jail calls, emails, and public statements following Joseph Duggar's arrest on child molestation

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31:38

Heuermann's Guilty Plea and the Victim Who Changed...

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2026/04/13

Rex Heuermann pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder in Suffolk County Court and admitted to killing Karen Vergata as an eighth victim. He has agreed to cooperate with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. The sentence: life without parole.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer provides the investigative analysis. She examines what a plea reversal signals when a defendant has spent nearly three years fighting every evidentiary challenge — and

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37:30

Defense Attorney and Psychotherapist Examine Kendra's...

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2026/04/12

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta assesses the legal exposure radiating outward from Joseph Duggar's arrest. Kendra Duggar faces eight misdemeanor counts in Arkansas — four for second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four for second-degree false imprisonment — stemming from a home investigation that reportedly discovered locks on the exterior of children's bedroom doors. She retained separate legal counsel and bonded out the day of her arrest. Motta examines why independent

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41:50

Heuermann Guilty Plea — The Psychology of Denial and...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/12

Rex Heuermann pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder in Suffolk County Court. He also admitted to killing Karen Vergata — an eighth victim not formally charged — as part of the plea agreement. Sentenced to life without parole. He has agreed to cooperate with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides the legal analysis. Every pre-trial motion filed by Heuermann's defense was denied. Whole genome sequencing —

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50:32

Defense Attorney and Psychotherapist Examine the...

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2026/04/12

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides a practitioner's assessment of the legal landscape facing Joseph Duggar. According to investigators, Joseph allegedly admitted to the abuse twice before counsel was present — once when confronted by the victim's father, and again during a phone call monitored by Tontitown detectives. Motta examines what a defense strategy looks like when the prosecution reportedly holds the defendant's own admissions captured by law enforcement. He walks through the

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45:02

FBI Behavioral Chief Decodes Duggar Jail Calls and...

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2026/04/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Chief Robin Dreeke — former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program — provides behavioral analysis of the later calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County. Joseph has reframed solitary confinement as a prayer closet. He reports a breakthrough in Bible study. He reads Kendra a devotional about boundaries — Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh and their respective boundary failures — and describes it as "really interesting." Dreeke identifies the complete

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55:51

FBI Behavioral Chief Decodes the Duggar Jail Call —...

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2026/04/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Chief Robin Dreeke — former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program — applies his analytical framework to the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from the Washington County Detention Center. Joseph is in solitary confinement, reading Psalms, doing push-ups, comparing himself to the Biblical Joseph. Kendra has stopped eating, can barely walk, tells him she's lost her laugh. She asks about his charges. He interprets the question as being about a

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49:53

FBI Behavioral Expert Decodes Jim Bob Duggar's Email...

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2026/04/11

Jim Bob Duggar emailed his son Joseph in the Washington County Detention Center. The email — obtained through public records — compares Joseph to King David and the Biblical Joseph, frames prison as potential ministry, acknowledges "terrible decisions," and tells him God isn't finished with his life. He calls the charges against Kendra "ridiculous." The alleged victim — the child at the center of the case — is not mentioned in the email.Retired FBI Counterintelligence Chief Robin Dreeke, who led

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