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The .40-caliber pistol prosecutors leaned on at the Delphi trial came out of the search of Richard Allen's home. If three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals rule that search was unconstitutional, the gun is gone. Permanently. The State cannot go back in time and undo it. The fruits of an illegal search are inadmissible by law — in this case and in any retrial. That single appellate ruling has...

The woman in charge of protecting Alex Murdaugh’s jury was the one who corrupted it. That is the finding of the South Carolina Supreme Court, which has unanimously reversed Murdaugh’s double murder convictions and ordered a new trial. Former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill made repeated comments to jurors urging them to reject the defense — to watch Murdaugh closely, not to be fooled, not to be c...

According to Richard Allen's appellate brief, the Indiana Department of Correction knew. They knew that solitary confinement could worsen Allen's Major Depressive Disorder. They knew it could cause psychosis. Their own written policy restricts inmates with serious mental illness to 30 days in solitary for exactly that reason. They held Richard Allen in solitary for 13 months. By April 2023, the ma...

Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. That is not a minor inconsistency. That is a confession that does not describe the murders. It is also one of the factual problems Indiana's response brief never directly answers in the Delphi appeal. The State leans on harmless error. The State lean...

Part 2 of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man , gets into the evidence from the night of the murders that was never put in front of the jury. SLED built a full timeline of Alex's activity on June 7th. But the version prosecutors showed the jury had names removed — men with criminal records who were in phone contact with Alex hours before the killings. Alex had deleted his cal...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for the complete session covering three of the most actively discussed cases in true crime — D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, and the Duggar family. Robin brings behavioral expertise that connects the alleged patterns of protection and failure across all three. The D4VD segment addresses the alleged accomplice th...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke applies behavioral expertise to the most unsettling element of the Joseph Duggar case — not the charges alone, but the alleged family response captured in recorded jail calls and emails. The alleged protection infrastructure around the Duggar family is what Robin dissects with precision. Joseph Duggar was charged with l...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke brings decades of federal investigative experience to the alleged institutional failures that may have defined the Nancy Guthrie case from its earliest hours. FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly stated publicly that the bureau was kept out for four days. Pima County disputes the characterization. What allegedly happened...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break apart the behavioral architecture prosecutors describe in the D4VD case — an alleged grooming operation that reportedly began when Celeste Rivas Hernandez was eleven years old and ended with her alleged murder at fourteen. Robin applies decades of behavioral expertise to what the evidence all...

James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and then for his new book The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh . What he found goes deeper than anything that came out at trial — and it starts long before the night at Moselle. The night of the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach, Alex was already in damage-control mode. While his injured son Paul...

Most people think the Nancy Guthrie case is a mystery about an unknown suspect. It’s actually three intersecting failures, and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer dissects each one. The suspect’s own behavior betrays them. The approach was composed, the concealment deliberate, the camera identified and tampered with. But the forensic trail survived. The digital exposure was enormous. C...

There’s a version of the Nancy Guthrie case the public has been sold: masked stranger, ransom demand, kidnapping for profit. And there’s the version the behavioral evidence actually supports — which looks nothing like it. The ransom communications were sent to media outlets. That’s not how real kidnappers operate. That’s how opportunists exploit a famous case. We’ve maintained from the beginning t...

Something broke inside the Nancy Guthrie investigation before the public ever knew to look for it. The FBI director’s public criticism of the case’s handling didn’t come from nowhere — it came after whatever was happening behind closed doors had already failed to produce alignment between the agencies responsible for finding an 84-year-old missing woman. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffinda...

The suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case doesn’t behave like someone who wandered up to a random house. The approach was allegedly calm, concealed, and targeted. The camera was identified and interfered with. That’s preparation. But the aftermath tells a completely different story — forensic exposure, digital evidence that allegedly survived, and post-crime chaos that spiraled far beyond anything a d...

On Valentine's Day, Eric Richins ate a sandwich his wife made him. Within hours he was gasping for air. He grabbed his son's EpiPen because it was the only thing within reach that might keep him alive. He survived. He told friends he believed Kouri was trying to end his life. Two weeks later, she handed him a Moscow Mule. This time the fentanyl dose was five times lethal. In this Hidden Killers We...

Her parents took the phone. It should have been over. Instead, prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke drove to Lake Elsinore and paid one of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a replacement — after deputies had already informed him during a welfare check that she was thirteen years old. In this Hidden Killers Week in Review, Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI Spe...

Everyone knows about the tape — a father recorded threatening to destroy Michael Jackson. It's been cited for decades as the clearest evidence of extortion. What most people don't know is that a lawyer had already obtained a psychiatrist's letter suggesting abuse two days before that recording was made. That timeline changes the entire framing of the 1993 Chandler case, and in this Hidden Killers...

The book's author says there's no smoking gun. The book's primary source has been disavowed by his own defense team clients. And the defendant the book is about already confessed. So what exactly is left? This week's review brings together the most pointed Kohberger case conversations — and we did something the book apparently didn't count on anyone doing. We checked every major claim against the...

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. Prosecutors allege she was reported missing multiple times before she was killed. They allege law enforcement spoke directly to David Anthony Burke during a welfare check and told him her age. According to the filing, he said he'd only met her once. Prosecutors say the sexual relationship had allegedly been ongoing since she was thirteen — and that h...

The Character First program was adopted by public schools across the country. It was marketed as character education — teaching kids values like responsibility, attentiveness, and obedience. What those schools didn't know was where it came from. The program was built on the same theological authority framework that powered Bill Gothard's IBLP — the system that shaped the Duggar family and thousand...

Nick Reiner has a documented history of schizoaffective disorder. He was previously placed under a conservatorship. He's now facing two counts of first-degree murder with death penalty eligibility for the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner in their Brentwood home. And every signal from the early proceedings suggests a mental health defense isn't just possible — it may be...

Bryan Kohberger confessed to killing four University of Idaho students. He's serving four consecutive life sentences. He waived his appeals. And now a forensic expert and a book author are publicly raising questions about evidence that was apparently not concerning enough for anyone to challenge before the plea was finalized. This week's review brings together the most critical Idaho murders conve...

He described a four-day kill cycle. He timed body disposals with a stopwatch. And when a therapist asked Rex Heuermann whether he recognized himself in the crime scene evidence, he said he didn't. One of the FBI's most respected behavioral profilers has called him a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopath who likely has victims he still won't acknowledge. This week's review brings together the...

Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis delivers a comprehensive legal analysis across three major cases — examining the legal frameworks, the strategic decisions, and the accountability gaps that define each one. In the Nancy Guthrie case, Faddis examines every legal avenue reportedly available to the family of the 84-year-old woman who has been missing from her Tucson-area home...

The evidence bag containing the Ka-Bar knife sheath allegedly had entries filled out twice — once on the bag itself with initials and a date written over the evidence tape, and again on a label affixed to the front with six recorded exchanges in what appeared to be similar handwriting with the same pen, spanning November 13 through November 16, 2022. That's the factual basis for the chain of custo...