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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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37:48

FBI Agent Breaks Down the Nancy Guthrie Investigation...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/11

Nancy Guthrie remains missing. The 84-year-old mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson in February. Blood confirmed as hers on the porch. An armed, masked figure captured on doorbell camera footage. No suspect publicly named. No arrest. The investigation is in its third month under a sheriff whose own deputies have voted unanimously that they have no confidence in his leadership.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the

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37:45

Inside the Duggar Case — Charges, Failed Systems, and...

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2026/04/11

Joseph Duggar faces charges in two states. In Florida, the charges are classified as a life felony — mandatory minimum of 25 years if convicted. According to the Bay County arrest affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old girl reported that Joseph allegedly harmed her during a family vacation when she was nine. The affidavit states he allegedly admitted to the conduct twice — once when confronted by the girl's father, and again when the father called back with a detective monitoring the line. Joseph

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37:07

Former Prosecutor Breaks Down Rex Heuermann's Path to...

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2026/04/11

Rex Heuermann pled guilty to the murders of seven women and admitted to killing an eighth — Karen Vergata — after nearly three years of maintaining his innocence. The sentence: life without parole. But what actually drives a defendant from adamant denial to a guilty plea when the evidence becomes insurmountable?Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor who has both prosecuted and defended murder cases — brings the analytical framework to answer that question. Faddis dissects the

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55:48

Rex Heuermann’s Plea and the Duggar Pattern: A Panel...

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2026/04/10

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis bring fundamentally different professional frameworks to the same set of facts — and what they see doesn’t always overlap. That’s what makes this panel work.Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea in the Gilgo Beach case — admitting to eight killings over seventeen years while maintaining a family life — presents one of the most documented cases of serial offender

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23:12

Duggar Family’s Legal and Behavioral Crisis Fully...

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2026/04/10

Eric Faddis has prosecuted cases and defended clients. Robin Dreeke spent over two decades at the FBI studying how institutions, families, and individuals protect harmful behavior through structures of authority and silence. The Duggar family presents one of the most publicly documented examples of that dynamic playing out across multiple cases and multiple generations of harm.Joseph Duggar faces Florida felony charges after allegedly confessing — to the victim’s father and to detectives on a

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12:47

Rex Heuermann’s Family Fallout: Psychology and Legal...

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2026/04/10

Robin Dreeke has studied the behavioral profiles of people who maintain double lives at the highest levels of deception — from foreign intelligence operatives to serial offenders. Eric Faddis has sat on both sides of the courtroom and knows what a guilty plea sets in motion legally. Together, they’re examining what comes after Rex Heuermann’s admission.Heuermann’s guilty plea confirmed what the evidence had been building toward. His ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria sat in the

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20:24

Rex Heuermann’s Guilty Plea: What the Admission...

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2026/04/10

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis bring two fundamentally different professional lenses to the same courtroom moment — and what they see in Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea doesn’t entirely overlap.Heuermann pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder and admitted to killing an eighth victim, Karen Vergata, as part of a plea agreement. The killings span seventeen years. The evidence includes a digital

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61:00

Heuermann and Duggars: Expert Breakdown of Family Denial

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2026/04/09

Rex Heuermann is charged with seven murders. Joseph Duggar is charged with molesting a child. Michelle Duggar reportedly knew about abuse in her own home for over two decades. And at the center of all three situations — a woman who either couldn't see, wouldn't see, or wasn't given the tools to see what was happening around her.Heuermann, 62, is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. His ex-wife Asa Ellerup has maintained she would have known. Prosecutors

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14:40

Michelle Duggar: Expert Examines Decades of Maternal...

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2026/04/09

Michelle Duggar reportedly knew about Josh's abuse of her own daughters as early as 2002. She and Jim Bob reportedly sent him to manual labor for a family friend rather than professional treatment. Weeks later, she wrote a national parenting magazine article about how well her family functioned. She went on to star in a television show selling the image of a faithful, harmonious household. After Josh's federal conviction for possessing child sexual abuse material, she wrote the sentencing judge

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23:43

Kendra Duggar: Psychotherapist Analyzes a Conditioned...

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2026/04/09

Joseph Duggar, 31, is charged in Florida with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under twelve — prosecutors allege he abused a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation and allegedly admitted to it twice, once to the victim's father and once on a detective-monitored call. He has pleaded not guilty and was released on a six-hundred-thousand-dollar bond.Kendra Duggar, 27, faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts of child endangerment and four counts of false

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23:16

Rex Heuermann: Psychotherapist Unpacks Asa Ellerup's...

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2026/04/09

Rex Heuermann is charged with murdering seven women over a span stretching from 1993 to 2010 — and is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea. But the question that haunts this case isn't just about what he allegedly did. It's about who was standing right next to him while he allegedly did it.Asa Ellerup, Heuermann's ex-wife, has maintained she would have known if something was happening. Their daughter Victoria has publicly said she believes her father most likely committed the killings

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67:06

Bob Motta on Duggar's Confessions and Heuermann's...

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2026/04/08

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, provides expert legal analysis on two of the most significant cases moving right now.In the Duggar case, Motta examines the defense challenges created by Joseph's alleged pre-counsel admissions, Kendra's separate charges and independent representation in Arkansas, recorded jailhouse communications in prosecutors' hands, and the family-wide cascade of public statements. He addresses the documented pattern of exterior bedroom door locks in

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18:25

Inside Rex Heuermann's Expected Guilty Plea Decision

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2026/04/08

After nearly three years of maintaining innocence and a defense strategy that challenged everything from DNA admissibility to case consolidation, Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to change his plea in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, provides expert analysis of what drives that decision and what it means for every party involved.Motta examines the prosecution's evidentiary arsenal — whole genome sequencing admitted for the first

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22:40

The Duggar Family's Expanding Legal Crisis Explained

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2026/04/08

The Duggar case isn't one defendant's problem anymore — it's a family-wide legal exposure event. Kendra Duggar faces her own misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. Recorded jailhouse communications are in prosecutors' possession. Family members are issuing public statements from every direction. And criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, questions whether anyone in this family's orbit understands how much damage they may be doing.Motta provides detailed legal analysis of Kendra's

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26:40

Joseph Duggar's Defense Strategy Under the Microscope

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2026/04/08

Joseph Duggar reportedly admitted to child molestation twice before a defense attorney was in the room — once to the victim's father, and again on a call monitored by law enforcement. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, a veteran trial lawyer and host of Defense Diaries, breaks down what any defense team faces when the prosecution reportedly holds your client's own admissions as their strongest evidence.Motta examines the tactical decisions already visible in this case: the written not-guilty plea

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58:51

FBI Expert Joins Tony to Break Down Every Duggar Jail...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski go through all of it live — Jim Bob's letter, the first jail call, the later calls. Every email. Every moment. Every silence where the alleged victim should have been mentioned and wasn't.Robin reads these recordings the way he spent a career reading people. Tony brings the editorial. You bring the questions. Three parts. One stream. The full picture of how the Duggar system operates when nobody's watching — except the recorders at

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13:41

FBI Expert Reacts Live: Joseph Reads About Boundaries...

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2026/04/07

We're playing back the later calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar with Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke breaking it down live. Kendra says don't trust anyone. She's boarding up the hatches. She tells Joseph she hasn't died yet. Joseph calls his cell a prayer closet, says he had a really good time, and walks Kendra through a devotional about boundaries like he's reviewing a podcast.Robin catches what most people miss. We're reacting in real time and we want your takes. What do you

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22:46

FBI Expert Reacts Live to Joseph and Kendra's First...

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2026/04/07

We're playing back the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County with Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke reacting in real time. He's reading Psalms and working out. She can't eat and has lost her laugh. He confuses his charges with a newspaper. They pivot to tax research and power of attorney.Robin hears things in these moments that change how you understand the entire call. We're breaking it down live and taking your reactions.Join Our SubStack For

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23:04

FBI Expert and Tony Brueski Read Jim Bob's Letter to...

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2026/04/07

Jim Bob Duggar emailed his son Joseph in jail. The full text is now public. Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to read the letter live, break it apart in real time, and decode what every word reveals.Jim Bob compared Joseph to King David. He compared him to the Biblical Joseph making lemonade in prison. He called Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." He told his son God wasn't done with him. He never mentioned the alleged victim.Robin reads this letter the way he spent a career

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61:29

FBI Veterans Coffindaffer and Dreeke on Guthrie,...

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2026/04/06

Two retired FBI veterans — Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — sit down for one of the most wide-ranging episodes in Hidden Killers Live history, covering three active investigations that each expose a different kind of systemic failure.Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities believe she was abducted. Sourced reporting has revealed that the initial response team reportedly lacked homicide

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