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Three of Don Studey's five wives are dead under circumstances that, when laid side by side, form a pattern no behavioral analyst would ignore. His wife Lucy reportedly died by hanging in 1970. His daughter Lucy McKiddy says her father told her for decades he choked her too hard or too long. His wife Charlotte reportedly died in Omaha in 1984 from a rifle shot to the head — she was five-two, nothin...

Matthew Farwell allegedly told three different people three different things — and all of them pointed in the same direction. He told one person that if Sandra Birchmore did not end the pregnancy, he would "take care of the problem himself." He told another he needed to "put crazy back in the bag." He told a third that "the problem was going to take care of itself." According to federal prosecutor...

Sources describe Nick Reiner as delusional and almost childlike inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility. He reportedly screams his innocence at night. He allegedly cannot process why he is incarcerated. He has a reported schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, a documented history of addiction spanning years of treatment and relapse, and sources indicate a medication change occurred roughly a month b...

Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke killed fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez on April 23, 2025. Within days, he released an album. He launched a world tour. He performed on stages across the country. People in his circle reportedly believed the girl connected to him was a nineteen-year-old college student. She was a seventh grader who had been reported missing three times and had not be...

Every other woman in the Duggar orbit grew up inside the machine. Raised in IBLP. Taught that male authority was absolute. Told that female submission was God's design and that leaving was, in their doctrine's own words, witchcraft. Kendra Caldwell was not one of them. She is the daughter of a Baptist pastor in Arkansas. She married Joseph Duggar at nineteen. And according to reporting, in the mon...

Prosecutors say they can try a first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse case in seven days. The accused is sixteen years old. The victim was his eighteen-year-old stepsister. Her body was found concealed aboard a cruise ship. The surveillance reportedly shows no one else entered or exited the cabin. And the defense team — rather than fighting the adult transfer — requested it themselves, en...

Prosecutors say they have over forty terabytes of digital evidence against David Anthony Burke. They have a wiretap. They have exploitation material allegedly recovered from his phone. They have three grand juries' worth of witness testimony. And they still could not get an indictment. So what does that tell a former FBI behavioral analyst about how this investigation was actually built — and what...

Three cases. One extended conversation.  Eric Faddis — criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor who has stood on both sides of murder trials — joins Hidden Killers Live to break down the biggest developments across three of the most closely watched cases in the country.  Kohberger: his own defense expert is publicly contradicting the narrative, alleging the knife sheath evidence had...

Tupac Shakur was murdered on September 7, 1996. Almost thirty years later, his family is still fighting for accountability — and the legal weapon they just deployed could be the most powerful move anyone has made in this case. Mopreme Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Keffe D and one hundred unnamed co-conspirators, built not just to recover damages but to use civil discovery to force a...

Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder with death penalty eligibility for the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, inside their Brentwood home. He has pled not guilty. His public defender, Kimberly Greene, has not entered an insanity plea — but has not foreclosed one either. Nick's documented mental health history includes a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, a cou...

Four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds. The man who admitted to doing it is behind bars for life. And the case was supposed to be finished. But a forensic expert hired by Kohberger's own defense is now contradicting the narrative — alleging that the knife sheath carrying Kohberger's DNA had chain of custody problems serious enough to challenge at trial.  That expert,...

The Peacock documentary did something that nothing else in this case has been able to do — it showed us the human wreckage inside Rex Heuermann's own home.  Not the crime scenes. Not the evidence. The people. Asa Ellerup, the ex-wife who heard her husband confess to eight murders and still believes he loved her. Victoria Heuermann, the daughter who asked her father if he ever thought about her whi...

Rex Heuermann sits in his cell at Suffolk County Correctional Facility and looks at crime scene photos of the eight women he killed. He studies the dump sites. He looks at what was done to the bodies. And then he says something that should make every person following this case sit up straight — he says he can't connect the person who did those things to himself. He tries. He looks at the photos an...

He's a loving dad and a serial killer.  Victoria Heuermann said those words after sitting across from her father in a jailhouse room and hearing him confess to murdering eight women — including at least seven inside the home where she grew up. She didn't say it with sarcasm. She didn't say it with rage. She said it like someone trying to hold two truths that shouldn't be able to exist inside the s...

The family therapist who spent over two years working with Asa Ellerup said something in the Peacock documentary that should change the way every person following this case thinks about Rex Heuermann's ex-wife. She said for Asa, it wasn't denial — it was real. That distinction matters more than anything else that's been said about this woman.  Denial implies choice. It implies that somewhere insid...

Bob Motta has been sitting on this story for three years. He's telling it here first — and it's one of the wildest firsthand accounts in true crime. The criminal defense attorney drove to Green Hollow in the middle of the night, infiltrated an FBI dig in a rental car that looked like a cop cruiser, went viral on TikTok while local deputies watched his content in real time, and spent sixteen months...

One daughter has spent decades saying her father was the Green Hollow Killer — that Don Studey allegedly murdered dozens of women and buried them in wells in rural Iowa. The other daughter has spent just as long saying it's a lie. Bob Motta was caught in the middle.  During his sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case, Bob had Lucy Studey-McKiddy on one phone telling him where the bodies w...

Everybody in town had a story about Don Studey. And they'd been waiting for somebody to ask. When criminal defense attorney Bob Motta left the Green Hollow dig site and drove into the nearby towns of Tabor and Thurman, the floodgates opened.  People who had grown up in the shadow of the alleged Green Hollow Killer were reaching out by the hundreds through TikTok DMs — they wanted to meet, they had...

Picture this. It's pitch black. You're driving a rental car that looks like a cop cruiser into a remote Iowa hollow where a woman alleges her father buried dozens of bodies in wells. There are no lights. No street lamps. Nothing. Just dirt roads and the kind of darkness that makes you question your life choices. That's how Bob Motta's first night in Green Hollow started. The criminal defense attor...

Three active cases. Three distinct behavioral profiles. And a listener-driven Q&A that pushes past the headlines into the patterns, contradictions, and psychological dynamics driving each one. Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood home. Reports indicate he’s allegedly planning a revenge te...

Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges in Florida for alleged conduct involving a minor under twelve during a 2020 family trip. He and his wife Kendra, 27, also face four counts each of endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false imprisonment in Arkansas, charges reportedly connected to conditions discovered during a search of their home. Both have upcoming court appearances. Robin Dreeke...

David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd, faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, along with counts of continuous abuse of a minor under fourteen and mutilation of remains. He has pled not guilty. Prosecutors allege the killing was motivated by financial gain and say they’ve amassed forty terabytes of evidence...

Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. He’s pled not guilty and is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Reports have emerged that he’s allegedly planning a revenge tell-all from behind bars — and the behavioral profile that’s forming raises questions that go beyon...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — a veteran of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — provides comprehensive expert analysis across two major active cases that share a critical common thread: alleged systemic failure to protect the victims. In the David Anthony Burke case, Coffindaffer examines the unsealed autopsy findings documenting stab wounds, dismember...

Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke sits down with Amy Duggar King for a comprehensive examination of three generations of the Duggar family — from the alleged violence and predation of patriarch Jimmy Lee Duggar through the religious authoritarian system Jim Bob built under IBLP to the criminal charges now facing Joseph and Kendra Duggar. Amy is Jim Bob Duggar's niece, the...