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Nothing about the Duggar arrests makes sense in isolation. One brother in federal prison. Another facing felony charges. A wife charged with endangerment and false imprisonment. Understanding how a single family produces this pattern requires examining the organization that designed their world — and the generational history that predates all of it. This week's review of the most significant stori...

What do you do when a grieving daughter's conviction contradicts the forensic record — and the agency responsible for resolving that contradiction is imploding? That's where the Nancy Guthrie investigation sits right now, and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her expertise in complex kidnapping cases to examine both fractures. This week's review of the most significant stories...

A family that spent a decade on national television presenting an image of faith and wholesome values. Adult children who say that image came at a cost they're still calculating. And a documented coverup timeline that raises questions no one with investigative authority has formally answered. This week's review of the most significant stories features Parts 2 and 3 of Hidden Killers' examination o...

Ninety-four pages. Every defense argument countered. Every contested ruling defended. And one glaring omission that defense attorney Bob Motta identifies as the central weakness in the State's position: the man whose confessions built this case told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot. This week's review of the most critical stories features Motta's full three-part analys...

What kind of person allegedly admits to molesting a child — not once, but twice — and still has to be arrested? That question sits at the center of the Joseph Duggar case, and two retired FBI veterans with decades of experience in behavioral analysis and criminal investigation examine what the documented admissions reveal about his psychology, his environment, and the family structure that may hav...

When investigators told Rex Heuermann at booking that his watch wasn't in his belongings, he reportedly said "I guess I won't be needing that" — and didn't react. Calm. Documented. That single moment tells retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke more about what's driving this expected guilty plea than any legal filing. This week's review of the most significant stori...

When an investigation goes quiet, it means one of two things — either they're closing in, or they've stalled. In the Nancy Guthrie case, two retired FBI veterans with decades of combined experience in counterintelligence, behavioral analysis, and complex kidnapping investigations weigh in on which one it is. This week's look back at the most critical stories features the Nancy Guthrie abduction en...

The accused Long Island Serial Killer is reportedly expected to plead guilty. After nearly three years, after every failed defense motion, Rex Heuermann — the man charged as the Gilgo Beach Killer — is apparently done fighting. Eric Faddis joins me live for the full breakdown. We cover the plea dynamics — what drove the decision, what the defense has left to negotiate, what the judge's role is. We...

Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty to seven murders. But the Gilgo Beach Killer case has always involved more victims than one defendant can account for — and a plea doesn't resolve the rest. Eric Faddis joins me live to examine what's left on the table. We talk about the remaining LISK victims whose cases have never been charged to Heuermann. We dig into the Bittrolff reversal — prosecutor...

Two pillars of evidence reportedly made Rex Heuermann's LISK case unwinnable — a deleted planning document recovered from his hard drive and DNA linking the accused Gilgo Beach Killer to multiple victims through a technology never before admitted in a New York courtroom. Eric Faddis joins me live to break both down with the precision of someone who's prosecuted and defended murder cases. We walk t...

Rex Heuermann's LISK defense lost every major pretrial battle — DNA admissibility, trial separation, the omnibus motion. Now reports indicate the accused Gilgo Beach Killer is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women found on Long Island. Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins me live to break this down in real time. We walk through the prosecution's...

Three parts. Three angles nobody else is covering. One psychotherapist who has spent thirty years in the field and grew up inside a fundamentalist system herself. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski for the complete live series with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — the most in-depth psychological examination of the Duggar family available anywhere. Part 1 breaks down the family's reported witch h...

She knew Josh was abusing her daughters in 2002. She knew again in 2003. She admitted Josh never got real counseling. She wrote a parenting article for a national magazine two months later. She built a brand on television around motherhood. She told Fox News her daughters didn't understand what Josh had done to them. Sworn testimony contradicted her. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live with...

Locks on the outside of bedroom doors. A documented method of striking infants to break their will. Both parents arrested. Four children under eight caught in the middle. And seven more being raised by a mother whose husband is in federal prison. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for Part 2 of their three-part conversation on the Duggar family — this tim...

Joseph Duggar has been arrested on charges involving a child. His wife faces separate child endangerment charges after investigators reportedly found locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. And according to sources close to the family, some members are calling this a witch hunt — persecution for following Christ. Join Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shava...

We're going live with the complete three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal — and we're taking your questions throughout. Indiana filed 94 pages calling this conviction "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages they never explain why the man who confessed got the cause of death wrong. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his psychiatrist he shot the girls. Abby Williams an...

We're going live for the final session of our three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal — and this one looks forward. The State has filed. The defense reply brief is coming. Three appellate judges will decide whether the trial that convicted Richard Allen of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German was constitutionally sound. They won't be deciding guilt or innocence. They'll be deciding whethe...

We're going live — and this session is about the two factual problems at the center of the Richard Allen case that Indiana's 94-page response brief simply does not solve. The first is the van. The prosecution called it the detail only the killer would know. According to the defense's brief, surveillance footage and FBI cell phone analysis show that van arriving significantly after Libby German's p...

We're going live — and this conversation is about what the Indiana Attorney General's response to the Richard Allen appeal says, what it doesn't say, and what the difference between those two things means. The State filed 94 pages calling the evidence against Richard Allen "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages, they never address one documented detail from the defense's appeal brief: tha...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke is one of the most credentialed behavioral analysts in the country. Today he's taking listener questions across three of the most significant active true crime cases — and the questions you've sent in are exactly the kind that make this conversation worth having. Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty on A...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has spent decades analyzing how dangerous individuals operate within family and community structures — and how those structures enable, conceal, and perpetuate harm. Today he's sitting with me to examine the Duggar cases through that lens, using the documented record and your listener questions as the frame. Josh Duggar...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke is one of the most experienced behavioral analysts in the country. Today he's sitting with me to examine the Nancy Guthrie abduction through the lens of behavioral science — and specifically, to answer the questions listeners have been asking about both the person responsible and the investigation tasked with finding he...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke has spent his career building behavioral profiles of the most dangerous people on the planet. Today he's sitting down with me to go through your listener questions on one of the most disturbing cases in recent American crime history — Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach killings. Multiple sources are reporting that Heuerm...

When Savannah Guthrie finally sat down to talk, she didn't just describe the pain. She described the operational details — and they matter. A suspect who came twice before the night Nancy vanished. A brother with military training who identified this as a targeted ransom operation in real time. An investigative theory that places a second person inside that house. FBI canvassing now focused on spe...

Two brothers from the same home. Two sets of child sexual abuse allegations, years apart. One family that spent years living out loud on national television while, according to investigators and court records, something very different was allegedly happening behind closed doors. Joseph Duggar's arrest on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 12 — and his wife Kendra's separate a...