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Six weeks before he took the stand, surgeons fused vertebrae in Todd Gabler's neck with titanium rods. He walked into court on a cane. He told the judge he'd taken a Tylenol that morning and nothing else — no prescribed pain medication — because he wanted absolute clarity for his testimony. Nobody asked him to do that. He chose it. That moment says everything about how this case got under his skin...

David Anthony Burke went from recording on an iPhone in his sister’s closet to touring internationally for Interscope Records in roughly two years. By twenty, prosecutors allege he’s responsible for the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and the alleged concealment of evidence that followed. He has pleaded not guilty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of...

Shauntel Hudson sits at the center of the Anna Kepner case in a position no one can fully comprehend. She is the biological mother of Timothy Hudson, the sixteen-year-old charged as an adult with first-degree murder in Anna’s death. She is the stepmother of Anna Kepner, the eighteen-year-old who was killed. And she shares a home and a marriage with Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner. Court filings...

The DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home is at the FBI lab in Quantico. Genetic genealogy is reportedly being run. And the person who allegedly took this eighty-four-year-old woman from her home months ago has no way of knowing when that process will produce a name — only that it eventually can. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of forensic mental health experi...

D4VD admitted in interview after interview that the emotions in his music weren’t real. He said they were constructed. Performed. Pulled from other people’s lives. We heard that as a charming origin story. According to prosecutors, it may have been something else entirely. This episode takes a hard look at who David Anthony Burke was before the allegations — not as a musician, but as a person shap...

Three cases. Three families. One attorney analyzing what happens when the system around a case starts breaking down. Bob Motta starts with Nancy Guthrie — what legal tools does the family have when the investigation has stalled, the sheriff's credibility is collapsing, and a retired detective believes the suspect's identity is already in the case files? Is there a legal mechanism to force an outsi...

Todd Gabler gave the Summit County Sheriff's Office everything he found. The phone records connecting Kouri Richins to a housekeeper with a drug history. The GPS surveillance data. The interview summaries from nearly 50 conversations. Two hard drives of evidence. He handed it all over. They shared nothing in return. Police agencies, he testified at trial, are "one-way streets." And that one-way st...

Every major pretrial ruling under Judge Ralph Wilson has gone the defense's way in Aaron Spencer's murder case. Wilson reversed the removed judge's restrictions on reputation witnesses. He allowed an FBI behavioral expert to testify. He left the door open on the defense's motion to dismiss based on law enforcement losing the dashcam SD card. And the June 22nd trial date is holding. Criminal defens...

How does a defense attorney build a case when the camera allegedly captured everything? Timothy Hudson is sixteen years old, charged as an adult with first-degree murder, facing life in federal prison. His trial was just pushed to September 8th. And he is reportedly on camera as the only person who entered and left that stateroom. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the behavioral and...

Sheriff Nanos just survived a vote to remove him from the Nancy Guthrie investigation. His deputies voted unanimously they have no confidence in him. The Board of Supervisors referred perjury allegations to the attorney general. A recall effort faces a steep signature threshold. And a retired Pima County detective publicly stated he believes the suspect's name is already in the case files. Crimina...

More than 100 days in, the Nancy Guthrie investigation is sitting on top of more evidence than the public realizes. Unknown contributor DNA recovered from inside her home. Thousands of hours of surveillance video already pulled. Vehicle sightings. Cellphone movement data. And a sheriff who keeps saying the case is "getting closer" without giving the public a clear sense of what that actually means...

Todd Gabler knocked on every door he could find. Over 34 years as a PI, he's conducted thousands of interviews. He talked to Eric's friends, Kouri's friends, business associates, family members — nearly 50 people in total. But when he reached out to Kouri's side of the family, every single one of them shut the door. Her mother. Her brother. Everyone connected to her. Not one conversation. That wal...

There's a theory making the rounds in the Nancy Guthrie investigation that frames the case as something far bigger than a single suspect operating alone. The theory is the Wrench Attack — organized crypto-extortion networks that recruit disposable operatives, target wealthy individuals or their relatives, and demand cryptocurrency ransoms paid through channels designed to be untraceable. Tony Brue...

There are thousands of hours of video sitting in the Nancy Guthrie case file. Intersection cameras. Doorbells. Home security systems. Private business feeds across the Tucson area. Sheriff Chris Nanos has said it himself — "thousands and thousands" of clips. The question is what's in them. And whether anyone has the capacity to actually find it. Tony Brueski sits down with retired FBI Special Agen...

The FBI is now the only voice talking to Nancy Guthrie's family. Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed it himself. The man who was once texting Savannah Guthrie and calling her siblings directly has stepped out of those conversations entirely. Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to ask the question Sheriff Nanos isn't answering: how did this happen? Did the Guthries quietly cut him out? Did the FBI t...

The state prosecutor who handled Becky Hill's criminal case said there wasn't enough evidence to charge her with jury tampering. Four months later, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that's exactly what she did. The state never treated her conduct as the constitutional violation the Supreme Court found it to be. It never followed the evidence wherever it led. So who's investigating...

Before Kouri Richins was sentenced, a message she wrote from jail ended up in the prosecution's filing. She promised to "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly instructed her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Her own thirteen-ye...

Retired FBI behavioral analysis chief Robin Dreeke has studied people who present one face to the world and allegedly operate from an entirely different place underneath. The behavioral picture emerging from inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility is the kind of contradiction his career was built to decode. Nick Reiner is reportedly described as almost childlike in custody — delusional, allegedly...

 Retired FBI counterintelligence behavioral analysis chief Robin Dreeke has spent decades studying how people allegedly manipulate, isolate, and control. The alleged patterns prosecutors describe in the D4VD case are the kind he's trained to decode — and the behavioral questions extend far beyond the defendant. According to prosecutors, Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen when she was allegedly k...

The defense asked for the delay. The prosecution didn't object. That alignment is the detail worth examining in the Anna Kepner case — because both sides agreeing to slow down a trial eighteen days before jury selection tells you something about where the case actually stands. This defense team moved at unprecedented speed for a federal case carrying two life sentences. Waived the transfer hearing...

The Attorney General reportedly put the death penalty on the table for Alex Murdaugh's retrial. The defense might actually welcome it. A capital case automatically triggers individual voir dire — every potential juror screened one on one — which is exactly the process Harpootlian demanded at the press conference. The prosecution may have armed the defense with their strongest jury selection mechan...

The behavioral question at the center of the Becky Hill lawsuit isn't whether she tampered with the jury. The Supreme Court already answered that. The question is whether she did it alone — and whether the people around her knew. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke examine the federal civil rights claim Murdaugh's defense team filed against Hill. The...

The behavioral contradiction at the center of the Kouri Richins sentencing is staggering. She stood at a podium and told her sons not to hold hate. Prosecutors say she spent the years leading up to that moment orchestrating attacks against every person connected to this case from inside her jail cell. The sentencing memo documents what prosecutors describe as a systematic campaign: a fake dating p...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson reportedly said all options are on the table for Alex Murdaugh's retrial — including the death penalty. The death penalty was never pursued at trial one. Wilson is running for governor. Every candidate for attorney general has reportedly promised to retry Murdaugh. One allegedly said he'd do it in two weeks. When the prosecutor who controls the most seve...

A mother on the Disney Magic watched her family's personal dining host get loaded into a white van in handcuffs — still in his blazer — forty-five minutes after he served them breakfast. For two weeks, the public assumed it was an immigration sweep. It was not. Operation Tidal Wave was a coordinated federal action. CBP and HSI boarded eight ships docked in San Diego and detained 27 crew members al...