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Asa and Victoria sat in the room while Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders. The woman running those sessions, Allison Winter, is now the one facing prison time, charged with practicing as a clinical social worker without a license for nearly three years. Legal analyst Eric Faddis returns to dig into whether that detail gives Heuermann's defense a real opening, starting with the theory that hi...

A new Hulu documentary just dropped on the D4VD case, and it's raising as many questions about the investigators as it is about the singer charged in fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to unpack what came out at the latest status conference, why the documentary could complicate jury selection, and whether the defense can use its aggressive framing...

 Asa and Victoria sat in the room while Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders. The woman guiding those family sessions, Allison Winter, is now the one facing prison time for allegedly running the whole arrangement without a valid license. We bring back legal analyst Eric Faddis to dig deeper into what this means, starting with a theory that could actually matter on appeal: did Heuermann plead g...

Rex Heuermann confessed privately to his own family in a room where an unlicensed therapist was sitting in. Allison Winter counseled Heuermann and his family for nearly three years inside the Suffolk County Jail, present around the time of that confession, and she's now facing eighteen felony charges for allegedly practicing without a license and billing insurance for more than sixty thousand doll...

The crime scene sails into port. Thousands of people walk off it. The ship is cleaned and reloaded with the next group of passengers within hours. Every piece of physical evidence that isn't recovered before the vessel turns around is gone. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines why a death at sea — like the killing of Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon...

Asa Ellerup heard her ex-husband admit to eight murders. She heard that women were strangled in the basement of the home they shared. And according to a documentary, she moved back into that basement — into the room where it happened — and says she sleeps there now to spiritually honor the victims. The reaction was swift and brutal. People called it proof she knew all along. This look back, with p...

Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke killed Celeste Rivas Hernandez on April 23, 2025. Two days later, he released his debut album. He launched a world tour. He stood on stages across the country performing for fans who, according to investigators, had no idea what was allegedly behind the scenes. Then on September 8, a tow-yard worker in Los Angeles called police about a foul odor from an impou...

The closest thing to being inside that house the night Eric Richins died isn't a witness — it's the data on Kouri Richins' phone. This look back examines the digital forensics and the first seventy-two hours, the evidence that gave the jury its clearest window into what the prosecution called a guilty conscience. The phones went quiet for hours. Then, prosecutors say, Kouri picked hers up around 3...

Kouri Richins' children asked a judge to lock her away forever. Minutes later, she stood up and effectively told them she's coming back. This look back breaks down both halves of that courtroom — the boys' statements and the mother's response — word by word. Three sons described what life inside that house had been like: locked bedroom doors, a mother they said was drunk almost daily, threats agai...

Under the conditions of his release, Timothy Hudson is not supposed to be alone with anyone underage. And yet two minors reportedly live in the very home where he's been placed. Prosecutors raised exactly that alarm in open court. The judge acknowledged that an adult facing these charges would almost certainly be behind bars — called this case a "different animal" — and still let Hudson walk free...

His attorney said it out loud: pleading guilty to killing eight women was a "sense of relief" for Rex Heuermann. Not sorrow. Not a reckoning. Relief — as if the admission freed him from something he'd been carrying rather than confronting what he'd done. This look back, with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, reads that word choice for what it reveals about the person inside the p...

He was allegedly on stage in Minneapolis the same night Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were found in the front trunk of a Tesla in Los Angeles. Months of performances. Interviews. Smiling for cameras. And according to prosecutors, he allegedly knew exactly what was behind him the entire time. This look back, with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, examines the psychology of carrying something this...

Statistically, the deadliest moment in a controlling relationship is the moment someone tries to leave. The Richins case appears to track that pattern exactly: according to prosecutors, Eric Richins had started consulting divorce attorneys and adjusting his estate before he died — and the prosecution's theory is that his quiet move toward the exit is when everything escalated. This look back bring...

There's a contradiction sitting at the center of the Reiner case, and it's the kind retired FBI behavioral chief Robin Dreeke was built to take apart. Reports describe Nick Reiner as almost childlike in custody — unable to fully grasp where he is or why. Yet other reports claim he's simultaneously plotting a revenge tell-all aimed at the family who tried for years to save him. Both can't be the wh...

The phone evidence in the Gilgo Beach case traces an exact route — from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan and back — between Rex Heuermann's home and his architecture office. It's the spine of two of the seven murder charges he pleaded guilty to, and this look back walks through how that digital trail connected Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Melissa Barthelemy to the man who admitted to killing th...

A child reported missing three times. A full school year with no enrollment. Eleven law-enforcement calls to her home. An alleged relationship with an adult that was visible on livestreams, in photos, and in matching tattoos. And not a single system stopped it. This look back, with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, examines how every layer of protection meant to keep a child safe failed Celeste Rivas...

Roughly eighteen months before he died, Eric Richins sat down with an estate attorney and quietly rewrote his will — telling the lawyer the reason was to protect his children from his wife. He saw it coming. He wrote it down. And he still ended up dead in that house. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines how that documented fear became one of the pillars of...

In months behind bars, sources say Nick Reiner has had exactly one visitor: his attorney. His siblings, Jake and Romy, have stepped away completely — not funding his defense, reportedly not planning to attend his trial. This segment digs into both the legal strategy ahead and the behavioral reality of a family that finally reached its limit. We start with the mechanics. The not guilty plea kept ev...

Timothy Hudson reportedly told people after Anna Kepner's death that he couldn't remember anything. But the crime scene told a different story: Anna was found under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets — deliberate concealment that requires conscious decision-making. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines how investigators read that contrad...

She called him her savior. Their daughter says she believes he most likely committed the killings. Same nightmare, opposite conclusions — and that split tells you everything about how denial works and where it breaks. This look back, with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, examines the psychology inside the Heuermann home after a guilty plea forced the collapse of everything a family believed was real...

Even if D4VD's defense creates doubt about who caused Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death, there's a second problem that may be harder to solve: explaining the condition in which her remains were found. This look back, with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, examines whether a defense can realistically separate those two questions in front of a jury — and what happens when they can't. Burke's attorn...

The verdict is in, the sentence is coming, and the behavioral questions are just getting interesting. This look back is a post-verdict listener Q&A with retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, focused on what's happening inside the mind of a convicted killer once the courtroom empties. Dreeke gives his professional read on the central question: does Kouri Richins actually believe s...

 "If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me." It's the sentence that keeps people in burning buildings — the thing said right before one more chance is requested. This segment uses the Reiner tragedy to examine why love, presence, and devotion sometimes don't change a trajectory at all. They just keep you standing in its path. Rob and Michele Reiner never walked away from their son. Repea...

Timothy Hudson reportedly told people after Anna Kepner's death that he couldn't remember anything. But the crime scene told a different story: Anna was found under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets — deliberate concealment that requires conscious decision-making. This look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, examines how investigators read that contrad...

Two women. Two locations forty miles apart. Eight years between discoveries. And forensic anthropology that connected the tool marks on their remains to the same type of instrument — the same characteristics, years apart. This look back examines the forensic thread that ties Valerie Mack and Jessica Taylor together in the Rex Heuermann case, and what it reveals about the pattern prosecutors built...