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Prosecutors wanted her released. The judge refused.Juliana Peres Magalhães, the Brazilian au pair who confessed to helping Brendan Banfield execute a double murder, was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison — the maximum available under her plea agreement. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation of time served, delivering a ruling that sends a clear message about the limits of cooperation."Your actions were deliberate, self-serving, and demonstrated a profound disregard for human life," Azcarate said. "You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done."Juliana's testimony was essential to convicting Brendan Banfield on two counts of aggravated murder. Her attorney argued that without her cooperation, prosecutors had only circumstantial evidence. But the judge made clear that being the star witness doesn't mean avoiding accountability — not when you helped plan the murder, lured the victim to his death, and fired the kill shot into a man already lying wounded on the floor."The plan did not work without your full involvement," Azcarate said. "This could have been a very different ending where Juliana saved two lives."The courtroom heard from Joe Ryan's mother, Deirdre Fisher, who described losing her son — the man Juliana helped lure to his death through a fake fetish profile. Fisher still hasn't taken down her Christmas tree since the murder. It stands behind the urn holding her son's ashes."My son's life was used and thrown away, seen as worthless and utterly disposable by those who plotted and executed his brutal murder."Despite the ten-year sentence, Juliana's attorney says she'll serve approximately four years with credit for time served and good behavior. Brendan Banfield faces mandatory life without parole at his May 8 sentencing.#JulianaMagalhaes #AuPairMurder #BrendanBanfield #TrueCrimeToday #FairfaxCounty #DoubleMurder #Sentencing #JosephRyan #ChristineBanfield #CourtTVJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI has a male DNA profile from a glove matching the suspect's — and it's going into CODIS. A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down what a match means operationally, what happens if there's no hit, and why existing cheek swabs from people of interest could produce a name before the national database search even finishes. Meanwhile, the ransom communication pattern is raising its own questions. The first note reportedly contained insider details. Every demand since has gone to media — never the family. Two deadlines expired. The Guthries offered to pay on camera. Nobody collected. No proof of life in fifteen days. Pacemaker searches have produced no signal. Nancy hasn't had her heart medication since January 31st. This interview asks what the evidence threads need to produce and what the silence is actually telling investigators about who they're dealing with.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #NancyGuthrieMissing #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #RansomNote #FBISearch #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

"If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me."Rob and Michele Reiner heard some version of that for seventeen years. And they stayed. Eighteen rehab programs. Tens of thousands a month in treatment. A guesthouse so Nick could live close. A film about recovery made together. Every door stayed open. Every line in the sand got erased.They never walked away. And now they're gone.This isn't about assigning blame for what happened — that responsibility belongs to one person. This is about the trap that keeps people standing in fires that are consuming them. The belief that presence equals protection. That love equals proximity. That walking away makes you the villain.It doesn't.Nick reportedly told his parents that refusing their suggested programs meant homelessness. That was the consequence. It never materialized. Every ultimatum softened. And some people will never hit bottom because someone's always there to prevent the fall. Your love becomes the cushion that keeps them from the crash that might actually wake them up.Three things keep you trapped. Guilt weaponization: "If you leave, I'll spiral" — making your departure the cause of their destruction. Sunk cost: you've given too much to quit now. And the fantasy of the final save: what if this was finally the moment they were ready, and you missed it?Rob brought Nick to a Christmas party because leaving him home alone felt too dangerous. A seventy-seven-year-old man couldn't go to a gathering without his adult son. That's not caregiving. That's captivity dressed as love.You're allowed to stop. You're allowed to set limits. You're allowed to survive.The Reiners stayed until there was nowhere left to stand. You don't have to make the same choice.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Enabling #WalkingAway #AddictionFamily #FamilyTragedyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Admitted releasing the crime scene early — then denied it. Routed DNA evidence to a private Florida lab over the FBI's objection. Searchers contaminated the evidence field with their own discarded gloves. A pacemaker helicopter was delayed because the sheriff demoted the pilot. Pool cleaners were escorted onto the active crime scene on Day 13. Investigators told reporters they don't know who's running the case. A retired FBI behavioral expert lays out every documented failure and contradiction in the Nancy Guthrie investigation and examines what the pattern means for the chances of finding an 84-year-old woman who hasn't had her heart medication in over two weeks. The Othram co-founder whose lab helped ID Bryan Kohberger called the DNA decision "devastating." The FBI's public statement reads like a formal objection. This is the interview that puts it all on the table.#NancyGuthrie #SheriffNanos #PimaCountySheriff #NancyGuthrieMissing #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Othram #InvestigationFailures #FBIvsNanos #TucsonKidnappingJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The Nancy Guthrie case just collided with presidential politics, forensic science, and an evidence-handling controversy that has exposed deep fractures between local and federal investigators.A black glove found two miles from Nancy's Tucson home contains DNA from an unknown male. The FBI says it matches the gloves worn by the masked suspect on doorbell footage from the morning she disappeared. That profile is being prepared for CODIS entry. A match could break this case. No match means forensic genealogy — and a timeline an 84-year-old woman without her medication cannot afford.President Trump told the New York Post Monday he would direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty if Nancy is found dead. The family has spent sixteen days telling the suspect it's never too late to do the right thing. Those messages are now directly at odds.The evidence war between Sheriff Chris Nanos and the FBI reached a turning point. After federal sources accused Nanos of blocking the FBI from processing the glove at Quantico and routing evidence to a private Florida lab, the sheriff's department on Monday told media to direct all DNA questions to the FBI. Othram, the forensic genealogy company behind the Bryan Kohberger identification, publicly called the evidence routing devastating.A CBS 5 inside source says investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong — not an intended kidnapping. Both agencies denied the report. But former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke has identified amateur markers in the porch footage across multiple interviews on this show. The behavioral evidence has been building toward this conclusion for two weeks.The family has been cleared as suspects. Helicopters with signal sniffers are scanning for Nancy's pacemaker. And this case now hinges on a DNA profile and a federal database.#NancyGuthrie #TrumpDeathPenalty #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #SheriffNanos #FBIInvestigation #BurglaryTheory #PimaCountySheriff #TrueCrimeTodayJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Investigators aren't guessing. The FBI flagged two precise windows — January 11th and January 31st — weeks before Nancy Guthrie was taken, requesting neighborhood surveillance footage from those exact time frames. A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down why that level of specificity signals investigators already have digital evidence they're working to visually confirm. The suspect knew the target and the timing but showed up with budget Walmart gear, the wrong holster, no camera cover, and facial hair visible beneath his mask. Nancy had a predictable weekly routine and employed staff with physical access to her property — all of whom have been interviewed and DNA-swabbed. A January 23rd Ring video from a home over six miles away shows a man with facial hair that investigators are actively reviewing. This interview examines the behavioral contradictions, the intelligence question, and what the suspect's mistakes reveal about how close investigators may actually be.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #DoorbbellCamera #PimaCountyJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Three angles no one else is covering. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — who ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — breaks down the Nancy Guthrie case from the ground up.The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from people who think watching videos makes them behavioral analysts. What happens when millions become amateur investigators — to the family under the microscope, to witnesses afraid of becoming targets, to the perpetrator watching the circus.The Architecture of Vanishing: How does someone disappear in 2026? Cameras everywhere. GPS tracking everything. And an eighty-four-year-old woman is gone without a trace. The blind spots we don't realize exist.The People Who Don't Call: Someone out there has information and hasn't picked up the phone. A neighbor. A coworker. A friend. Someone protecting someone they love. Dreeke explains why people stay silent — and what finally makes them talk.This is the interview that reframes everything.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #FBIExpert #FullInterview #SavannahGuthrie #BehavioralAnalysis #SurveillanceGaps #WitnessPsychology #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Twelve days since Nancy Guthrie vanished. The FBI has released video. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded in. A suspect was detained and released. Ransom deadlines passed in silence.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers the most comprehensive breakdown of this investigation anywhere.She analyzes what the doorbell footage actually reveals about the suspect — equipment, movement, improvisation. She explains how the FBI processes eighteen thousand tips, why Carlos Palazuelos was detained and released, what the evidence trail looks like. She profiles the criminal operation — what the target selection, logistics, and ransom communication tell us about whoever did this. And she addresses the critical question: what breaks this case?Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four years old, requires daily medication, and can barely walk. Her family has publicly offered to pay. The nation is watching. This is everything we know.#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIAnalysis #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #TrueCrime #Manhunt #MissingPerson #KidnapperProfileJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Guilty. All fifteen counts. Less than five hours.Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of the 2018 murders of his brother Keith Caneiro, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children Jesse and Sophia at their Colts Neck mansion. The jury deliberated for under five hours after a five-week trial — their first request was to rewatch surveillance of Caneiro's Porsche leaving and returning on the morning of the killings.The prosecution built an overwhelming case. DNA from both children on bloody jeans in Caneiro's basement. The murder weapon traced to his gun safe. Footage of him disabling his own security cameras at 1:27 AM. Recorded calls capturing Keith confronting Paul over stolen money the day before the murders.Keith Caneiro was shot five times on his front lawn. Jennifer was shot and stabbed inside. Both children were stabbed repeatedly — Sophia at least seventeen times — and left alive as the house burned. Medical examiners found soot in their airways.The defense blamed police tunnel vision and a third brother who was never charged. They introduced a two-person conspiracy theory during closing arguments without ever proving it. The jury rejected the defense entirely.Caneiro faces life without parole. Sentencing is scheduled for May 12. Seven years after the murders, justice has been delivered.#PaulCaneiro #CaneiroTrial #TrueCrimeToday #ColtsNeckMurders #MansionMurders #GuiltyVerdict #NewJerseyCrime #KeithCaneiro #FamilyMurder #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Eighteen thousand calls to the tip line. A delivery driver detained because his eyes resembled the masked suspect — questioned for hours, home searched, then released. A black glove recovered in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel bypassing official channels to post evidence himself.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains how the FBI is actually managing this investigation.She walks through how tip lines function at this scale — the categorization, the prioritization, the difference between actionable intelligence and noise. She breaks down what the Palazuelos detention reveals about where investigators stand. She explains the evidentiary chain for the recovered glove and what a DNA match would mean.Neighbors are being asked about trucks. The sheriff insists no vehicle of interest has been identified. No press briefing in a week. A tent appeared at Nancy's front door for ninety minutes with no explanation.Nancy Guthrie has been missing for twelve days. Her family is publicly offering to pay ransom. Is the investigation making progress — or running in circles?#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIInvestigation #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TipLine #TucsonKidnapping #Manhunt #TrueCrime #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

December 13th. A Christmas party. Rob Reiner tells a room full of people he's petrified of his own son. That he believes Nick could hurt him.One guest leaves the room in tears. And then — nothing. No intervention. No call to police. By Sunday afternoon, Rob and Michele Reiner are dead.This isn't another episode breaking down the crime or the upcoming trial. This is about something that millions of people living with someone dangerous understand in their bones: the specific torture of seeing an ending coming and being powerless to stop it.Rob Reiner knew. He said it out loud, with witnesses, hours before his death. Danny Spilar knew — he told reporters he identified Nick as the killer the second he heard the news. Multiple people close to the family said the same thing. The warning signs were everywhere. Discussed openly. Documented for years.None of it changed the outcome.We treat awareness like it's protection. Like vigilance is a force field. But knowing something terrible is coming doesn't give you the power to stop it. It just means you suffer twice — once in anticipation, once when it finally arrives.This episode is for the people who saw the red flags and stayed anyway. Who warned everyone and watched no one act. Who carry the crushing weight of "I knew" like it makes them complicit in what someone else chose to do.It doesn't. Your foresight was not consent. Your presence was not permission. Seeing the train doesn't make you responsible for the train.Your knowing was not a crime. You loved someone past the point where love made sense. And that doesn't make you guilty.It makes you human.#RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerCase #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #SurvivorGuilt #FamilyTragedy #AddictionFamily #LovingSomeoneDangerousJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — doorbell camera footage showing a masked individual with a holstered weapon approaching her Tucson home the morning she disappeared.On True Crime Today, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer delivers an exclusive tactical breakdown of what that footage actually reveals. The equipment choices. The movement. The improvisation at the camera. The deliberate attempt to avoid identification. Every frame contains data about who this person is and how they prepared.Coffindaffer explains how the FBI recovered this video from Google's backend systems — not from the camera itself, which had been wiped — and why that process took eleven days. She breaks down the significance of investigators now requesting footage from January 11, three weeks before Nancy vanished. And she walks through how the Bureau's image analysts identified the backpack as an Ozark Trail Hiker Pack from Walmart.Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for twelve days. The family has publicly offered to pay ransom. The video is the biggest lead investigators have released. What is it actually telling them?#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIVideo #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #MaskedSuspect #NestCamera #TrueCrime #MissingPersonJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Sixteen days missing. A SWAT raid that went nowhere. A sheriff who says it could take years.Friday night's operation looked like the breakthrough—federal warrant, tactical teams, a "person of interest" stopped in a Range Rover. By Saturday, everyone was released without charges.Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed: "No sign of Nancy was found."Then he told the New York Times the case could take "weeks or months or even years" to solve.Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old. She needs daily heart medication. She hasn't had it for over two weeks.The investigation is fracturing. The FBI wanted evidence sent to Quantico—Nanos sent it to a private Florida lab. An FBI source called it "insane." Investigators are now "leaning away" from everyone they've looked at: family, the Rio Rico detainee, Friday's target.DNA from a glove found two miles from the home is entering CODIS today. Experts say DNA from inside the home may be more significant.An inside source says investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong. The FBI won't commit to any single theory.And Savannah Guthrie addressed her mother's captor Sunday: "It's never too late to do the right thing."This is where the case stands Monday morning.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #MissingPersons #FBI #CODIS #TucsonArizona #Kidnapping #SheriffNanos #BreakingNewsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Alex Murdaugh's fight for a new trial just reached South Carolina's highest court—and the justices came with hard questions.On February 11, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murdaugh's appeal of his double-murder conviction. The hearing split into two phases: first, the alleged jury tampering by former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill; second, whether the trial itself was fair given the evidence admitted against him.Chief Justice John Kittredge set the tone early, calling Hill a "rogue clerk" and pressing prosecutor Creighton Waters on the scope of financial crimes evidence. "The granular detail and the expansiveness of which everything under the sun was allowed is arguably problematic," Kittredge said. Justice George James questioned the "logical connection" between Murdaugh's financial crimes and the murders of Maggie and Paul.Waters attempted to frame Murdaugh's financial desperation as the boiling point—at one point invoking the movie "Fargo" to illustrate his argument. Justice John Few wasn't having it: "I haven't seen 'Fargo'—get to the point."Defense attorneys Harpootlian, Griffin, and Barber argued that Hill's comments to jurors—including "watch his body language" and warnings not to be "fooled"—constituted jury tampering that denied Murdaugh a fair trial. They also challenged cell phone evidence, a blue raincoat with gunshot residue, and the overwhelming emphasis on financial crimes as prejudicial.The state maintained the conviction was based on "overwhelming evidence" and that Hill's remarks were "fleeting" and "largely neutral." But the justices pushed back repeatedly.No decision was issued from the bench. The court will deliberate privately with no deadline for a ruling. This episode covers the full hearing—what was argued, how the justices reacted, and what comes next.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MurdaughAppeal #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #CreightonWaters #MurdaughCase #TrueCrimePodcast #LegalAnalysis

The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance has a new problem — and it may be bigger than any single piece of evidence. Federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Reuters, Fox News Digital, and NewsNation that Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from a glove and DNA samples described as "basically all the evidence" in the case. He sent it to a private Florida lab. The FBI wanted Quantico. Nanos denies the entire story. The FBI hasn't confirmed his denial.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins True Crime Today to explain what this actually looks like from inside the bureau. She walks through the real-world difference between Quantico's capabilities and a private contracted lab, what the FBI loses operationally when it can't access primary evidence in a kidnapping case, and what it takes for a federal source to go public and call a local agency's handling "dumb" and "insane."She also tackles the jurisdictional question most people are asking — can the FBI simply take this case over? The answer is more complicated than the public wants it to be, and Coffindaffer explains why.Beyond the dispute, she analyzes the bureau's latest investigative moves — an updated suspect description from forensic video analysis, a reward doubled to a hundred thousand dollars, and a request for surveillance footage going back a full month before Nancy vanished, including a specific three-hour window on January 11th. What that tells a trained investigator about where this case is heading, and whether the damage already done — a released crime scene, contaminated evidence chain, and an interagency relationship in open conflict — can be overcome in time to bring an 84-year-old woman home.#NancyGuthrie #FBI #SheriffNanos #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #Tucson #ArizonaJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

President Trump told reporters investigators have "very strong clues" and previewed something "definitive" from DOJ or FBI, specifically calling it a "solution" rather than a search. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta explains what happens to an investigation when the executive branch starts publicly signaling outcomes.The ransom landscape in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance has spiraled in ways nobody anticipated. Notes demanding millions in Bitcoin were sent to TMZ, KOLD, and KGUN. Harvey Levin confirmed the Bitcoin address is real and described the note as carefully crafted. But a man in Los Angeles has already been arrested for sending imposter texts to the Guthrie family referencing the same demand. A second email arrived from a different IP address using the same type of anonymous server.Motta explains why the ransom situation is now so contaminated that separating the real from the fake may be nearly impossible. The family says they will pay. The FBI says the decision is theirs. Motta walks through Bitcoin traceability and what happens once that money moves. He also dissects the FBI's reward language — "and/or the arrest and conviction" — and what it signals about how the bureau views this case.The Guthrie family has posted four escalating videos on Instagram. They started by asking for proof of life. They are now declaring an hour of desperation. CNN's Andrew McCabe says the tone suggests they have heard nothing back.Meanwhile, Robin Dreeke analyzed the surveillance footage and what it reveals about the planning behind this operation. The man on camera followed a forensic checklist but didn't know there was a camera on the front door. His solution was a plant from the garden. Dreeke explains what that gap tells us and whether the planning profile matches the person improvising with prairie brush. When they identify the man on that porch, watch whether the trail ends with him or leads somewhere else.#NancyGuthrie #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #BitcoinRansom #TrumpGuthrie #RobinDreeke #SavannahGuthrie #FBIReward #RansomImposter #CatalinaFoothillsJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The family says they received a message. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. The sheriff said the footage was gone forever. Then it appeared. Someone isn't being straight.Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining when communications are authentic, when they're managed, and when silence is the most important signal. We asked him to assess every public voice in this case.The family's four escalating videos — what does the pattern reveal about what they believe is happening versus what's being communicated behind the scenes? The ransom notes sent to media outlets instead of the family — insider details but no proof of life and no way to respond. The sheriff's complete reversal on the footage — from permanently gone to recovered from backend data. The FBI releasing evidence through the director's personal X account with no press briefing.Both ransom deadlines have passed. The Bitcoin wallet demanding six million dollars sits at zero. No one collected. No one proved they have Nancy. One ransom demand was already confirmed as a fraud — Derrick Callella of California admitted he sent fake texts to the family just to see if they'd respond. He's been charged federally and has no connection to the disappearance.The Guthrie family went on camera and publicly offered to pay. The response was silence.We examine NCIC missing persons data, the statistical rarity of elderly stranger abductions, and what the FBI's own December 2025 bulletin about fake ransom scams tells us about cases like this one. The search radius is not expanding. Septic tank searches. A vehicle towed from the garage. Hours spent inside Annie Guthrie's home. No suspects have been named. But the investigation's physical footprint raises questions the public deserves to examine.Dreeke's answers are something you need to hear.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillersLive #DeceptionDetection #RansomNotes #FBI #SavannahGuthrie #NarrativeControl #TucsonArizona #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Kouri Richins' defense says publicity has poisoned her jury pool beyond repair. But there's a detail the headlines missed — the judge already denied that motion days before the story even broke.Judge Richard Mrazik rejected the defense's second attempt to move the trial out of Summit County, finding that a fair and impartial jury can still be seated despite widespread awareness of the case. Prosecutors pointed to 830 potential jurors who said they hadn't heard of the case or hadn't followed it — nearly half the questionnaire pool. The defense's argument that only 72 viable jurors remain didn't hold up.What makes this case so well-known isn't reckless media coverage. It's the nature of the allegations themselves. A children's book about grief — written after her husband's death and before her arrest. A six-page jailhouse letter allegedly laying out fabricated testimony. Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies. And a drug source who now says under oath he never sold fentanyl at all.Richins is charged with aggravated murder in the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric in Kamas, Utah. Prosecutors allege she spiked his cocktail with a fatal dose — five times the lethal amount found in his blood — after a failed attempt on Valentine's Day two weeks earlier. Her realty company allegedly owed at least $1.8 million while Eric's estate was worth roughly $5 million.Her case also appeared in a January 2026 DHS intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement about domestic partners using chemical and biological toxins to kill — seventeen documented cases since 2014 with at least eleven deaths.The defense wants this to be a story about an unfair system. But trace the notoriety back to its source and every thread leads to the same place. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Trial begins February 23rd.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrimeToday #VenueChangeDenied #SummitCountyTrial #FentanylPoisoning #WalkTheDogLetter #JurySelection #RobertCrozier #UtahMurderTrialJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera. Six photos. Three video clips. A masked individual at her front door. And a gap that tells you more than any press briefing ever will.He covered his face, his hands, nearly every inch of skin. He understood forensic concealment. The FBI describes him as armed. But when he reached the front door and found a camera six inches from his face, he turned around, walked to the yard, and grabbed a plant from Nancy's garden to cover the lens. No tape. No spray. Prairie brush was his solution.The operation itself required a different level entirely. A specific target in a dark-sky community with no streetlights. An 84-year-old woman who can't walk fifty yards taken without a trace. Cameras disabled and physically removed. A 41-minute window between the camera disconnecting at 1:47 AM and Nancy's pacemaker losing Bluetooth connection at 2:28 AM.Robin Dreeke — former FBI Special Agent and chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — applies his behavioral framework to this footage. What do the transition speeds reveal about stress? What does a penlight in the mouth instead of a headlamp tell an analyst? What do reflective jacket elements in a pitch-black community mean? What does the gap between forensic concealment and improvised camera defeat indicate about who you're looking at?The footage was supposed to be gone forever — no subscription, no retained video. It surfaces from residual backend data. Released by Director Patel personally on X with no press briefing. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker publicly questioned whether this is even a kidnapping.When they identify the man on that porch, watch whether the trail stops with him or leads somewhere else. That tells you everything.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #FBIVideo #RobinDreeke #SurveillanceFootage #NestCamera #BehavioralAnalysis #TucsonKidnapping #MaskedSuspectJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Nearly everything the public knows about Anna Kepner's death aboard the Carnival Horizon emerged not from the FBI — which maintained complete silence for ninety days — but from a custody dispute between the suspect's divorced parents.Those court filings revealed text messages showing the parents focused on damage control within hours of Anna's body being found hidden under a bed. The suspect's mother texted that her son "just keeps repeating over and over he can't remember anything." A former sheriff's detective who reviewed the messages said the family ran their own PR department while an eighteen-year-old girl lay dead. Discussions about keeping things "hush hush" while both parents acknowledged in court documents that their son is a suspect in an FBI homicide investigation.Three months after Anna's death was ruled a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation, her sixteen-year-old stepbrother appeared at Miami's James Lawrence King Federal Justice Centre facing multiple federal charges. Anna's father Christopher Kepner told the Daily Mail he was "unable to confirm or deny" that the charges include murder and rape — a statement that directly contradicts preliminary November findings from ABC News indicating no signs of sexual assault.Disturbing allegations have emerged: Anna's ex-boyfriend's father stated she was scared of her stepbrother and that he was obsessed with her. Court documents reference prior physical incidents in the household and skipped medication on the cruise. Subpoenas have targeted Temple Christian School and Florida DCF. Anna's family has publicly accused the suspect's father of interfering with the investigation. Her grandmother announced the surrender on Facebook. Her uncle posted about watching a suspect walk free for months.Prosecutors reportedly intend to seek adult charges. If the transfer is granted, the sealed records open and the public finally learns what the FBI built in silence.#AnnaKepner #CarnivalHorizon #TrueCrimeToday #CruiseShipMurder #FBI #FederalCharges #JusticeForAnna #CustodyBattle #HomicideInvestigation #CarnivalCruiseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.