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Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes.



Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how investigators crack cases, uncovering the psychology of killers, or following the twists of ongoing trials, you’ll get sharp, unfiltered insight every time.



Unlike recap shows, Hidden Killers Live! is true crime talk in real time — asking the tough questions, cutting through the noise, and giving listeners the context they need to understand today’s biggest cases.



If you crave smart, binge-worthy true crime content with expert commentary, emotional depth, and daily updates that keep you ahead of the story, this is the podcast for you.



Follow now on Apple Podcasts and join Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke inside Hidden Killers Live! — where the truth is always in the details.




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Kouri Richins has been convicted. The defense called zero witnesses, landed real hits on the prosecution's case, and still lost. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to ask where it fell apart.The coaching video. The no-fentanyl admission. The Carmen Lauber credibility attack. Zero witnesses. Bob Motta breaks down the defense strategy and where it came up short. Robin Dreeke examines how the jury read all of it. Did any of it come close — or was this verdict inevitable? Call in. Let's get into it.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.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsGuilty #EricRichins #TrueCrime #DefenseStrategy #ReasonableDoubt #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #UtahMurder
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski is joined live by defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to break down how the prosecution got a conviction without a murder weapon, a confirmed drug chain, or a death certificate that says anything other than undetermined.What landed with the jury? What does this conviction tell us about circumstantial cases? And what comes next? Call in. We're going live.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.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsGuilty #EricRichins #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #FentanylMurder #ProsecutionCase #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #UtahMurder
Three active criminal cases. Two former FBI agents. One extended live conversation that goes deeper than the headlines on all of them.Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer join Hidden Killers Live for a multi-part panel session covering the Kouri Richins murder trial, the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, and the Laken Snelling manslaughter case.Dreeke leads the behavioral analysis across all three. In the Richins case, he examines what the behavioral record — texts sent one month after Eric's death, memes pulled up the morning his body was found, and a defendant who chose not to testify — communicates about state of mind and awareness when read as a complete pattern rather than isolated incidents. In the Guthrie case, he examines the behavioral architecture of premeditation embedded in the alleged internet disruption, the specific targeting of a single home, and what forty-one days of silence from the people closest to the alleged perpetrator represents behaviorally. In the Snelling case, he examines what months of documented active concealment — tracked week by week, deleted afterward, running alongside a public life — reveals about awareness and intent, and where it sits on the recognized behavioral spectrum for neonaticide cases.Coffindaffer provides the investigative and procedural grounding for each. In Richins: the detective recording that played for the jury, the evidentiary gaps, and what the prosecution must accomplish in closing arguments. In Guthrie: the investigative pivot to digital forensics, what the internet disruption thread reveals, and what the case typically looks like from the inside when it's about to break. In Snelling: whether the first-degree manslaughter charge is legally durable, how the word "guessed" functions in a case with a born-alive determination, and what the prosecution's specific path to conviction requires.Three cases. The full picture. No shortcuts.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.#KouriRichins #NancyGuthrie #LakenSnelling #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillersLive #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #FBIAnalysis #TrueCrimePodcast
Laken Snelling didn't deny the pregnancy. She managed it. Tracked it week by week on her phone. Deleted the labor photos. Competed at nationals. Took what looked like maternity photos with her boyfriend. Posted a TikTok listing "be a mom" as a life goal. And gave birth alone at 4 in the morning without telling a single person.That is not denial. And Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — is precisely positioned to explain what it is.Dreeke joins Hidden Killers Live alongside retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to apply a rigorous behavioral analysis to the Laken Snelling case — a case where the most important evidence isn't what happened at 4 in the morning, but what the months leading up to it reveal about the behavioral architecture of the person who made those choices.Dreeke walks through the behavioral distinction between denial, dissociation, and active parallel construction — and where the documented record in this case places Snelling on that spectrum. He examines what the TikTok evidence means in a behavioral context, how sustained concealment of this kind is maintained psychologically, and what the phone record as a whole communicates about awareness and intent.He also addresses the jury challenge — the specific behavioral and perceptual problem that emerges when a 22-year-old competitive athlete with no record sits at that defense table. Juries build internal models of what a defendant in a case like this is supposed to look like. When the person doesn't match, Dreeke explains what that mismatch costs the prosecution — and how it's addressed.Coffindaffer grounds the analysis in the procedural record: the charge, the evidence threshold, and what the grand jury's specific finding of conscious disregard means as this case moves toward trial.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.#LakenSnelling #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #NeonaticideKentucky #FirstDegreeManslaughter #HiddenKillersLive #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #KentuckyTrueCrime #PregnancyConcealment
Sheriff Nanos believes he knows the motive. He says this person could strike again. He says they're definitely closer. And after forty-one days, forty thousand tips, and one of the largest FBI task forces deployed on a kidnapping in recent memory — there is still no arrest.Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — joins Hidden Killers Live alongside retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to examine the Nancy Guthrie case through a behavioral lens.Nanos' public statements are themselves strategic and behavioral signals. The decision to confirm a motive theory without disclosing it. The choice to warn the public they are not safe. The hedge on certainty at day forty-one. Dreeke breaks down what each of those choices communicates — about what investigators know, what they are trying to accomplish, and how those words are designed to move specific people.Then there is the silence. Forty thousand strangers called in tips. The people closest to the alleged perpetrator have not. Dreeke examines when that kind of silence transitions from fear to something investigators have to treat as a behavioral data point of its own — and what it implies about the social environment this person operates in.The behavioral architecture of premeditation is the central thread of this conversation. The alleged disruption of internet infrastructure before the abduction. The specific targeting of a single home. The timing and operational planning that a crime of this nature requires. Dreeke walks through what kind of behavioral pattern is consistent with this level of premeditation — and what it tells us about the profile investigators are working from.Coffindaffer provides the procedural layer: what this investigation looks like from the inside at day forty-one, and what typically precedes a break in a case built on this much accumulated forensic and digital work.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.#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #NancyGuthrieMissing #TucsonKidnapping #HiddenKillersLive #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #MissingPersons #FBIBehavioralAnalysis
Kouri Richins didn't testify. The defense didn't call a single witness. And the behavioral record accumulated over three weeks of prosecution testimony is now headed to the jury with no counter-narrative on record.Robin Dreeke — former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — joins Hidden Killers Live alongside retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to break down what the behavioral signals in this case actually mean before closing arguments begin.Dreeke's analysis starts where most coverage stops: not with what Kouri said in court, but with what she did in the weeks following Eric's death. One month after his body was found, she allegedly texted a boyfriend that she wanted him to be her husband someday. On the morning Eric was discovered, her phone showed a string of memes — one celebrating wealth, another of a woman wiping her eyes with money. These aren't isolated data points. Dreeke walks through the behavioral framework for reading them — what patterns of conduct following loss reveal when mapped against expected grief response, and what the absence of those expected responses signals to someone trained in this work.Then there's the decision not to testify. Dreeke explains why, from a behavioral standpoint, that choice communicates something distinct from legal strategy — and what a jury is likely to process from it regardless of what they're instructed.Coffindaffer addresses the investigative record: the detective recording that may define the prosecution's legacy in this case, the evidentiary gaps that survive into deliberations, and what it means for a victim's family to have to hire their own investigator to move a case forward.Before the jury gets this — Dreeke and Coffindaffer give it the behavioral autopsy it deserves.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.#KouriRichins #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #HiddenKillersLive #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #FBIAnalysis #UtahTrueCrime
Three weeks of trial. Both sides rested. Closing arguments coming. And our listeners have not stopped asking questions.Tonight we're going live with the full three-part listener Q&A breakdown — defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke answering everything the Hidden Killers audience has been asking about the Kouri Richins murder trial since day one.The behavioral evidence. The evidentiary holes. The defense strategy. The immunity deal. The forged signature. The statement that it would be better if Eric were dead. The silence of a defendant who never took the stand. We're going through all of it — live, with two of the sharpest minds we bring to this coverage — and your questions are welcome in real time.The verdict is coming. Join us before it does.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.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #UtahMurderTrial #RobinDreeke #BobMotta #CarmenLauber #WalkTheDogLetter #TrueCrime
It's happening live. The Kouri Richins defense has rested and we're breaking it all down in real time with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke.Kouri Richins did not take the stand. The defense closed without calling her. After three weeks of a murder trial that has captivated the true crime community — an affair, a forged insurance signature, a housekeeper buying fentanyl at a gas station, a ghostwritten children's grief book, and a letter found in a jail cell — the defense decided their best argument was already made.Tonight we're breaking down what that decision means, what the defense actually built over three weeks of cross-examination, and whether reasonable doubt is sitting in that jury room right now. Bob Motta gives us the inside view of the strategic calculus. Robin Dreeke breaks down what three weeks of watching Kouri at that defense table has communicated to the jury whether she testified or not.Bring your questions. Closing arguments are next. The verdict is coming. Join us live.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.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #DefenseRests #EricRichins #UtahMurderTrial #FentanylMurder #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #SummitCounty
Twelve people are about to deliberate a circumstantial murder case assembled over three weeks of testimony. Robin Dreeke — former FBI behavioral analyst and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — has spent a career understanding how people build conclusions under pressure, resist them, and defend them in groups. He joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of the Kouri Richins listener Q&A.Dreeke's focus here is the behavioral architecture of deliberation itself. What do jurors actually do with three weeks of accumulated testimony when they're finally alone? How do group dynamics shape individual judgments? And in a case built entirely on circumstantial evidence, how do twelve people find and hold consensus?He examines what closing arguments are actually designed to accomplish — and the behavioral reality of why final framing sticks in ways that defy the assumption that jurors simply weigh facts objectively. Closing arguments are narrative tools. Dreeke explains how each side needs to deploy them.The deliberation timeline question gets behavioral treatment. Short deliberations versus long ones. What each typically signals — and what the specific composition of this case suggests about which direction the Richins jury is likely to move and how quickly.He also maps the realistic not-guilty scenario in detail. It's not an impossibility: coached witness testimony with documented complications, uninvestigated alternate-source leads, missing forensic tests on key evidence. Dreeke walks through the version of events where those gaps accumulate into reasonable doubt — and explains what external signals would indicate deliberations are moving that direction.And he examines jury instructions — the document most trial observers ignore — and the behavioral gap between what legal standards require and what happens when twelve people try to apply them to feelings built over three weeks.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.#RobinDreeke #KouriRichins #HiddenKillersLive #BehavioralAnalysis #JuryDeliberations #TrueCrime #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #DeceptionDetection #MurderVerdict
The defense rested without calling a single witness. To most observers, that's a legal strategy. To Robin Dreeke — former FBI behavioral analyst and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — it's a behavioral data point worth examining on its own terms.Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for a listener Q&A on the Kouri Richins murder trial, dissecting three weeks of accumulated behavioral evidence and what it tells us about the person at the center of this case.He starts with the "Walk the Dog" letter — Richins' alleged jail correspondence directing family members on what lies to tell investigators — examined through a behavioral lens. What does coordinated deception, executed from behind bars, signal about someone's internal decision-making architecture? What does it say about how that person thinks about others, about risk, and about consequence?Carmen Lauber's testimony gets the same treatment. Eric Richins' obituary was reportedly pinned to her mirror. A detective allegedly told her she needed to provide "details that ensure Kouri gets convicted." Dreeke maps how those two facts interact in a jury room — and what they do to the behavioral picture Lauber's testimony was supposed to construct.He also addresses a detail that drew less attention than it deserved: Richins appeared on national television promoting a children's grief book she allegedly did not write — she had a ghost writer. What does that behavior — crafting and publicly projecting a narrative about grief — reveal about someone whose husband had just died under suspicious circumstances?And what does it mean, behaviorally, that she sat through three weeks of testimony against her, watched the jury absorb every word, and her team's response was silence?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.#KouriRichins #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersLive #DeceptionDetection #EricRichins #MurderTrial #FBIBehavioralAnalysis
Tonight we're going deep on the Kouri Richins murder trial with someone who's sat in both chairs — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live for the conversation that covers all of it.The defense said the fentanyl might not have come from Kouri. The judge blocked their evidence. The forensics disagreed with their theory. Does anything they've argued actually land with a jury?The prosecution's two most important witnesses both have immunity deals. Both changed their stories. A detective's own recorded words were played against the state in open court. Can a murder conviction survive that?And the record Kouri left behind — phone searches for fentanyl poisoning, a jailhouse letter coaching her family, a forged signature, deleted memes accessed while her husband's body was still in the house. Does she take the stand and face all of it — or stay silent and hope?Eric Faddis has real answers. Not cable news answers — real ones. And tonight he's giving them live.Get in the chat. Your questions are part of the show.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.#HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichins #EricFaddis #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrimeLive #MurderTrial #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #LivePodcast #TrueCrime
Kouri Richins has a deception problem — and it's documented, on tape, and already in front of the jury. Phone searches for fentanyl poisoning. Memes accessed minutes after first responders left. A letter from jail telling family members what to say. A forged signature on a life insurance policy.The question tonight is the one every trial watcher is asking: does she take the stand and try to explain it — or does she stay silent and hope the jury gives her the benefit of the doubt anyway?Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live to break it down. He's defended clients in situations like this. He knows what a jury does when someone stays silent after a record like Kouri's has been laid out for them. And he's not going to give you a sanitized answer.What do you think — should Kouri testify? Drop it in the chat. This is a live conversation and your questions matter.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.#HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrimeLive #MurderTrial #EricRichins #WillSheTestify #LivePodcast #TrueCrime #FentanylMurder
Two witnesses. Two immunity deals. One murder case.Carmen Lauber changed her story after being told she was facing federal time. Robert Crozier said one thing to investigators on video and the opposite on the stand. And a detective's own recorded words suggested the goal was getting Kouri convicted — not finding the truth.Tonight Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live to answer the question a lot of people watching this trial are already asking: can a jury convict someone of murder when every witness who could have gone to prison got a deal instead?Eric is a former felony prosecutor who now defends the accused. He's sat on both sides of immunity negotiations. He knows what these agreements look like from the inside — and tonight he's going to tell you what a jury actually does with all of this.Your questions and reactions are what make this live. Get in the chat.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.#HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #ImmunityDeal #TrueCrimeLive #MurderTrial #EricRichins #LivePodcast #TrueCrime #FentanylMurder
The defense said the fentanyl might not have come from Kouri. They suggested Eric had a drug history. The judge blocked their evidence. His business partner contradicted their theory to his face. And the toxicology report pointed straight to illicit street fentanyl.So the question for tonight's live discussion is direct: was this defense strategy ever going to work — or did it make things worse?Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski live to break down the Kouri Richins defense theory in real time. Eric is a former felony prosecutor who now sits on the defense side — he knows exactly how both sides of an argument like this play out in front of a jury. Tonight he pulls no punches.We want to hear from you. Do you think the "maybe Eric sourced it himself" theory creates any reasonable doubt? Does blaming the victim ever work with a jury? Drop your questions and reactions in the live chat — Eric and Tony will take them on.This is the kind of conversation that only happens live. Don't miss it.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.#KouriRichinsLive #HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrimeLive #MurderTrial #FentanylMurder #CriminalDefense #TrueCrime #LivePodcast
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for the complete psychological breakdown of the Kouri Richins case — the exploitation, the family's grief, and the cycle at the root of all of it.This live event covers the full scope across three connected conversations: the alleged pattern of instrumental exploitation the trial record has documented and why people inside it almost never see it coming, the experience of Eric's family and the psychology of fighting to be believed when you have instinct but not yet evidence, and the generational cycle that may explain how someone ends up here — and what five children are now living with as a result.Bring your questions. This is the deepest psychological dive Hidden Killers has done on this case.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.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.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichinsLive #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrimePsychology #EricRichins #UtahMurderTrial #GenerationalTrauma #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for the final part of this psychological series on the Kouri Richins case — the one that asks the hardest questions.Where does someone like Kouri Richins come from? What does a chaotic upbringing do to a person's decision-making decades later? And what are the five children at the center of this case now carrying — not by choice, but by circumstance? This live panel examines generational cycles, distorted thinking, the psychology of survival-based deception, and what the research says about children who grow up in the aftermath of something this extreme and this public.Bring your questions. This conversation goes to places most true crime coverage won't.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.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.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichinsLive #KouriRichinsTrial #GenerationalTrauma #TrueCrimePsychology #EricRichins #UtahMurderTrial #ChildTrauma #TrueCrimeLive
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke for a raw conversation about what Eric Richins' family experienced — from the moment they walked through that door to the years of fighting that followed.This panel examines the psychological reality of watching someone you love stay in a dangerous relationship, being unable to stop it, and then living with the confirmation of your worst fears. What does that gut instinct actually mean when a family reads a room immediately? What forces keep a person locked inside a relationship their whole family is screaming about? And what does surviving all of that look like?Join live and bring your questions.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.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.#KouriRichins #HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichinsLive #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrimePsychology #FamilyTrauma #UtahMurderTrial #GriefPsychology #TrueCrimeLive
Join Tony Brueski live with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke as they dig into one of the most documented behavioral patterns in the Kouri Richins trial — the alleged systematic use of the people closest to her.Testimony from this trial has named names and attached dollar amounts to the people prosecutors say were left behind. This live panel goes beyond the courtroom record and into the behavioral science: what this pattern looks like in real relationships, why it's so difficult to detect from the inside, and what the specific dynamics revealed through trial testimony tell us about how someone like this allegedly operates for years without being stopped.Bring your questions. This one goes deep.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This broadcast is commentary and opinion based on publicly available information.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.#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsLive #HiddenKillersLive #KouriRichinsTrial #TrueCrimePsychology #EricRichins #UtahMurderTrial #FBIBehavior #TrueCrimeLive #ManipulationPsychology
The full three-part live panel on the Kouri Richins murder trial with Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke. This is not a recap. This is a live discussion going straight at the questions that are going to define how this case is remembered.The defense strategy — mistrial motions, immunity witness problems, and whether this team is fighting the evidence or the optics. The jury psychology — what's actually sticking after forty witnesses, two explosive texts, and a retreat journal the defendant wrote about herself. And the bigger picture — what this case reveals about alleged domestic poisoning, the limits of circumstantial evidence, and whether the story everyone's been following is even the same story the jury is deciding.Live. Unfiltered. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke. All three segments in full.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to all charges in connection with the death of Eric Richins.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.#KouriRichinsLive #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #KouriRichinsVerdict #UtahMurderTrial #FentanylMurder #TrueCrime2026 #HiddenKillersLive #MurderTrial2026 #BobMotta
This is the segment where we stop talking about the courtroom mechanics and start asking the questions that actually matter. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke are live going wider on the Kouri Richins case — and where it points beyond this one trial.Eric knew. His family knew. A private investigator was already involved. He'd seen a divorce attorney. And he still ended up dead. Live discussion on what that failure of detection tells us about how this alleged category of crime operates — and what it takes to actually stop it.Plus the acquittal hypothetical nobody wants to sit with: if Kouri Richins walks, what does that verdict actually mean? Is there an honest argument that the system worked? And is the story the public has been obsessing over for three years even close to the case that jury is deciding? Live. Unfiltered. No easy answers.Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the death of Eric Richins.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.#KouriRichinsLive #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #KouriRichinsVerdict #UtahMurderTrial #FentanylMurder #TrueCrime2026 #HiddenKillersLive #DomesticPoisoning #BobMotta
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Maricelys Bonilla

The teen was not the 60 year old's grandson. His identity has not been shared.

Feb 12th
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Venke "Grace" Anderson

2 minutes of a podcast and the rest commercials? Seriously? Can't compare this to radio BECAYSE THEY WOULDN'T DO THAT!!!!

Jan 11th
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Mila Schneider

Oh my gosh what a show love it, not sure if the nomination stories will work as people might possibly start fabricating stories so it not be true stories

Sep 22nd
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