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This week we're covering three cases that force the same devastating question: how do families know when a troubled relative has become genuinely dangerous? Nick Reiner is charged with stabbing his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. His attorney withdrew while insisting Nick is "not guilty of murder"—signaling a likely insanity defense based on his documented schizoaffective disorder and years of erratic behavior. Paul Caneiro is on trial in New Jersey for the 2018 murders of his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their two children at the family's Colts Neck mansion. Prosecutors say financial desperation drove him to kill after Keith discovered he was stealing from their shared businesses. Jurors heard the final phone call between the brothers—Keith demanding account access hours before his death. And Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon, has pleaded not guilty to killing his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Dr. Spencer Tepe in Columbus. Police call it a "targeted" domestic violence attack, with ballistic evidence allegedly linking McKee's gun to the scene. Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins us to examine what the escalation patterns in these cases reveal—and what families should watch for when love and accommodation are no longer enough.#NickReiner #PaulCaneiro #MichaelMcKee #RobReiner #KeithCaneiro #MoniqueTepe #FamilyMurder #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Breaking developments in the Aaron Spencer case. The Arkansas Supreme Court has removed Judge Barbara Elmore from the murder trial of the father who killed the man charged with raping his daughter. This is the second time the state's highest court had to intervene because of this judge.In May 2025, they struck down her gag order and called it "a plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion." They warned her not to restrict public access without constitutional basis. Seven months later, she did it again — limiting courtroom attendance to 55 people with no overflow and no livestream.She refused to recuse. The Supreme Court removed her anyway.Now 14 Arkansas state legislators have filed a formal complaint with the Judicial Discipline Commission. Critical dashcam evidence has gone missing. The detective's testimony doesn't match how the camera actually works. And prosecutors want to use bodycam footage from three months before the shooting to argue premeditation.Aaron Spencer remains charged with second-degree murder. He's running for Lonoke County Sheriff against the man whose department arrested him. The primary is March 3rd.Judge Barbara Elmore faces no consequences. She's back on the bench Monday. The only person who's faced real accountability is the father who protected his daughter.#AaronSpencer #JudgeElmore #ArkansasSupremeCourt #LonokCounty #MichaelFosler #TrueCrime #JudicialAccountability #MurderTrial #Arkansas #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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 warning signs in the Nick Reiner case stretch back decades. A yoga instructor who worked with the family described childhood tantrums she'd "never seen" anything like. At fifteen, Nick was physically aggressive with a rehab roommate. As an adult, he destroyed his parents' guesthouse on meth—multiple times—with what he later described as "no logic." He was in and out of rehab eighteen times by 2016. He was placed under a mental health conservatorship in 2020 for schizoaffective disorder. And hours before Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, Nick attended a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house, where witnesses say he approached guests with repetitive questions—"What's your name? Are you famous?"—stood and stared when asked to leave conversations, and wore a hoodie while everyone else was in formal attire. Sources say Nick had recently switched psychiatric medications due to weight gain, and the new medication made him more erratic. His arraignment has been delayed until February 23rd after defense attorney Alan Jackson withdrew from the case, insisting Nick is "not guilty of murder" under California law. Legal analysts expect a not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Nick faces life without parole or the death penalty if convicted.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #MentalIllness #Schizoaffective #BrentwoodMurder #HollywoodTragedy #BehavioralAnalysis #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Michael McKee entered his not guilty plea Friday. Silent. Stoic. His attorney did the talking. And if you want to understand what's coming in this case, you need to understand who that attorney is.Diane Menashe defended Dr. William Husel — the Mount Carmel physician accused of murdering fourteen ICU patients with lethal fentanyl doses. She called one witness. One. Husel walked on all fourteen counts. That's the playbook. That's who McKee hired.The prosecution team includes Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor, who has never tried a felony case in her career. She's third chair behind experienced prosecutors, but the optics are impossible to ignore. The heavyweight versus the newcomer. The doctor-defender versus the property code attorney.This episode goes deep on the legal chess match ahead. We break down Menashe's philosophy — why she believes presenting a defense shifts the burden to prove innocence. We examine what the suppressor allegation means for premeditation charges. And we dig into McKee's pattern of vanishing: fake addresses, expired licenses, process servers who couldn't find him for months before the murders.The evidence police have described sounds substantial. But Diane Menashe has beaten substantial before. The question now is whether she can do it again.#MichaelMcKee #SpencerTepe #MoniqueTepe #HiddenKillers #DianeMenushe #TrueCrimePodcast #ColumbusOhio #DomesticViolenceMurder #WilliamHusel #MountCarmelJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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 testimony in Paul Caneiro's quadruple murder trial has turned graphic. A Colts Neck detective told jurors that when eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro's body was removed from the burned mansion, he noticed she had stab wounds—including one to her left eye. Sophia's father Keith, mother Jennifer, and 11-year-old brother Jesse were also found dead inside the home on November 20, 2018. Paul Caneiro, Keith's older brother, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Paul shot Keith multiple times outside the mansion, then went inside and stabbed Jennifer and both children before setting the house on fire. Hours earlier, Paul allegedly set fire to his own Ocean Township home while his wife and daughters slept inside—a move prosecutors say was designed to make it look like the entire Caneiro family was being targeted. The motive, according to prosecutors: Keith had discovered Paul was stealing from their shared businesses and was preparing to cut him off from a $225,000 salary. Jurors heard the final phone calls between the brothers, including Keith demanding login credentials for a trust account. Paul's defense attorney says he's innocent and claims investigators never looked into a third Caneiro brother. Paul has been in jail without bail since his arrest the day after the murders—more than seven years ago.#CaneirioTrial #PaulCaneiro #KeithCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #MansionMurders #JenniferCaneiro #MonmouthCounty #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Jesse Butler thought he got away with it. The Stillwater, Oklahoma teen pled no contest to 11 felony charges — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation, violating a protective order — and avoided prison entirely. But attorney Rachel Bussett just filed a motion that could blow the whole thing up.Her argument: the plea was void from the start. According to court documents, victims weren't consulted before the deal was struck. Orders were filed without signatures. One victim was in surgery when the youthful offender certification was entered. The DA allegedly told a minor victim about the plea — and then told her not to tell her mother.On February 3rd, 2026, a Payne County court will decide whether this Marsy's Law challenge moves forward. If Bussett wins, Jesse Butler's plea deal could be thrown out and the case could restart as an adult prosecution.And that's not all. A federal lawsuit now names Stillwater Public Schools, Principal Walter Howell, the school resource officer, and Butler's own parents — including his father Mack Butler, former Oklahoma State football operations director — as defendants. The allegations include Title IX violations, civil rights violations, and claims the school refused to enter a protective order into their database because they didn't want to interfere with Butler's education.The system failed these girls. Now the families are fighting back on every front.#JesseButler #StillwaterOklahoma #MarsysLaw #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PayneCounty #JusticeForSurvivors #OklahomaState #YouthfulOffender #RachelBussettJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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 ballistic match that prosecutors say connects Dr. Michael McKee to the murders of his ex-wife and her husband is now central to the case against him. McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, pleaded not guilty on January 23rd to four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe and Dr. Spencer Tepe. The couple was found shot to death in their Weinland Park home on December 30th. Spencer had been shot multiple times; Monique sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. Their children, ages four and one, were in the home but physically unharmed. Columbus police say surveillance footage tracked McKee's vehicle to the neighborhood during the timeframe of the killings. When investigators seized firearms from his Illinois property, preliminary analysis through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network tied one weapon to three 9mm shell casings recovered from the Tepe residence. McKee is represented by defense attorney Diane Menashe, who previously represented Dr. William Husel in the Mount Carmel hospital deaths case. The prosecution team includes newly-elected Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor. Monique and McKee divorced in 2017. She married Spencer in 2019. A 911 call from April 2025 captured someone at the Tepe address saying she and her partner "got into it" before declining police assistance.#TepeMurders #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #ColumbusOhioMurder #DomesticViolenceHomicide #WeinlandPark #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForTepe #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Bryan Kohberger generated 13 formal complaints at Washington State University in a single semester. Nick Reiner had been through 18 rehab programs and a court-ordered conservatorship. In both cases, people saw something. In both cases, according to the evidence, nothing stopped what came next. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers for an extended analysis of institutional failure and family blind spots—two different mechanisms that allegedly allowed two tragedies to unfold despite abundant warning signs. Robin spent 21 years with the FBI, including as Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he breaks down what these cases reveal about how threat assessment works—and doesn't. On Kohberger: The WSU lawsuit alleges faculty predicted he would sexually abuse students. Staff created their own "911" email alerts. Women needed security escorts. Robin explains what 13 complaints should operationally trigger and why universities choose perceived legal protection over safety. On Reiner: Nick was under LPS conservatorship oversight by a professional fiduciary—someone trained to not be fooled. It ended after one year. Robin analyzes what strategic compliance looks like, how someone becomes "institutionally fluent" enough to perform recovery, and how a family's ability to perceive danger erodes over two decades until they're sleeping in the same house with someone in crisis. Two cases, two failures, one conversation about what it takes to see the danger in front of you—and act on it.#HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #KayleeGoncalves #ThreatAssessment #InstitutionalFailureJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Your questions have been flooding in on three of the most talked-about cases right now, and we're dedicating this episode to answering them. First: Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents Rob and Michele Reiner after years of addiction, schizophrenia, and a family that never gave up — until allegedly, it cost them their lives. Why did Alan Jackson walk away? How do you reconcile "Being Charlie" with this? Then: the WSU Kohberger lawsuit. The families of the four Idaho murder victims allege Washington State University received thirteen complaints about Bryan Kohberger and did essentially nothing. A professor warned he'd become a predator. Women needed escorts to their cars. And the institution allegedly protected itself instead of its students. Finally: Michael McKee and the Tepe murders. A surgeon who allegedly drove 300 miles to kill the ex-wife who'd moved on and the husband who loved her. Monique did everything right — she left, divorced, rebuilt — and she's still dead. We tackle enabling, institutional failure, coercive control, and the common thread running through all three: systems that should have protected people and didn't.#NickReiner #BryanKohberger #MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #RobReiner #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #ListenerQuestionsJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

By the time Nick Reiner was fifteen, he'd already learned a dangerous lesson: there is no bottom, because someone will always catch you. His parents—legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner—spent decades trying to save their troubled son. Eighteen rehab stints. Private wellness instructors. Family therapy. A guesthouse on their $13.5 million Brentwood estate that sources say he destroyed multiple times and they kept repairing.On December 14, 2025, Rob and Michele were found stabbed to death. Nick was arrested that night.In this Hidden Killers deep dive, we examine who Nick Reiner really was—not the redemption story from the 2015 film Being Charlie, but the darker reality hidden behind Hollywood privilege. A rehab roommate describes him as "a fucking pompous little punk" with "no sense of gratitude." A family yoga instructor recalls childhood tantrums so intense she'd "never seen a child like it." And Nick himself, on the Dopey podcast, admitted to destroying property with "no logic" and stealing medication from the elderly.We trace the path from entitled child to alleged killer—through a 2020 mental health conservatorship, a reported medication change weeks before the murders, and a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house where multiple guests saw a man in crisis and no one called 911. This is a story about what happens when money can't buy accountability and love becomes enabling.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HollywoodMurder #ReinerMurder #Parricide #Addiction #MentalHealthJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Monique's family said they "immediately knew" it was Michael McKee when they got the call. They knew. For eight years they watched her live in fear of a man she'd been married to for seven months. And nothing could be done. Michael McKee is now charged with two counts of aggravated murder for allegedly killing Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer in their Ohio home while their children — a four-year-old and a one-year-old — slept down the hall. He allegedly drove 300 miles from New York, committed a double homicide, drove home, and kept the gun in his apartment. Your questions have forced us to confront the hardest parts of this case: What was Monique supposed to do? She did everything "right." She left. She divorced. She moved on. She built a beautiful life. And McKee allegedly destroyed it anyway. We examine the birthday cards signed "Your Husband" years after the divorce, his crumbling medical career, and whether his alibi was always meant to fail. This episode is about coercive control, the limits of restraining orders, and the question no one wants to answer — does a man like this feel like he won?#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolenceAwareness #OhioMurder #StalkerKiller #HiddenKillers #RestrainingOrdersFail #TrueCrimePanelJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Michael McKee is charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer Tepe in their Columbus, Ohio home on December 30, 2025. But here's what should disturb you even more than the alleged crime itself: for eleven days after those killings, McKee was still employed as a vascular surgeon at an Illinois hospital. Credentialed. On staff. Working.How did he get that license in the first place? A malpractice attorney in Nevada had been trying to serve McKee for two years. The addresses McKee's surgical group provided didn't exist. His Nevada medical license had expired. And yet Illinois granted him credentials in 2024.This isn't just a McKee problem. This is a system problem. The National Practitioner Data Bank was created by Congress in 1986 specifically to stop doctors from hopping state lines to escape their past. But the public can't access it. And a USA Today investigation found that thirteen state medical boards didn't perform a single NPDB search in an entire year.Over 500 doctors disciplined in one state are practicing elsewhere with clean records. More than 250 who surrendered their licenses were able to practice in new states - a third with zero limitations. They call it "passing the trash" in education, and there's federal law against it for teachers. For doctors? Nothing.Tonight we examine the systemic failures that allowed Michael McKee to get licensed - and how many doctors just like him might be operating on patients right now.#MichaelMcKee #MoniqueTepe #SpencerTepe #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MedicalMalpractice #StateMedicalBoard #PatientSafety #DoctorDiscipline #PassingTheTrashJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

They found him at his mother's house in Helena, Montana. Neo Langston — Twitch streamer, content creator, and close friend of D4VD — was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant for failing to appear as a witness. By Friday night, he was booked into LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center on $60,000 bail.The unit that tracked him down? LAPD Robbery-Homicide — the same division investigating the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The 15-year-old's remains were discovered in D4VD's Tesla last September, dismembered and decomposing, one day after what would have been her birthday.Neo isn't the only witness giving prosecutors problems. A female witness went into hiding in December and had to be threatened with arrest. D4VD's manager testified that his priority was the tour — not calling police. And D4VD himself hasn't said a word since the body was identified.Investigators have reportedly identified a second suspect involved "before, during, and after" Celeste's death. Tesla data allegedly shows two people present during a late-night trip to remote Santa Barbara County last spring. The question now: Is Neo that second suspect, or just a witness who knows too much?D4VD has not been charged. Neo faces only failure to appear charges. All individuals are presumed innocent. But the pattern is clear — everyone around David Anthony Burke is either silent, running, or being dragged into court.#HiddenKillers #D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #TrueCrime #GrandJury #LAPD #CelesteRivasHernandez #NeoTheAsian #JusticeForCelesteJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

A professor allegedly told colleagues to "mark my words" — if they gave Bryan Kohberger a PhD, he'd eventually stalk and abuse students. Thirteen complaints filed in one semester. Women so scared they needed security escorts to their cars. And according to a new lawsuit, WSU's biggest concern was getting sued by the stalker, not protecting the students he was allegedly terrorizing. The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have filed a 126-page wrongful death suit against Washington State University, and the allegations are devastating. We're breaking down your questions: How do thirteen complaints result in nothing? What does Title IX actually require? Why was Kohberger finally fired right around the time of the murders — and what changed? The lawsuit reveals staff created secret email chains to warn each other when he was around. Students kept a tally board of his discriminatory comments. He was literally studying sexually motivated burglars while allegedly exhibiting predatory behavior himself. And four kids who didn't even attend WSU are dead because this university allegedly looked the other way. We discuss whether this case settles or goes to discovery, what Steve Goncalves is really fighting for, and whether lawsuits like this ever actually change institutional behavior.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #IdahoFour #WashingtonStateUniversity #HiddenKillers #InstitutionalFailureJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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 prosecution's catfishing theory just hit a wall. On Day 7 of the Brendan Banfield double murder trial, defense witness Harry Lidsky—a former DOJ digital forensics expert—testified that the data simply doesn't support the state's case.According to Lidsky, within the same minutes the FetLife account was created on Christine Banfield's laptop, her phone was searching a Lululemon sale. He believes the same person was on both devices. That's a problem for prosecutors who claim Brendan and Juliana secretly created the account while Christine was home and unaware.Lidsky also testified that Brendan Banfield and the au pair weren't always home when Christine's devices were accessing FetLife or messaging Joseph Ryan. If they weren't there, who was behind the keyboard?And then there's the 45-minute Telegram call. Joseph Ryan spoke with someone he believed was Christine for nearly an hour about their plans. The prosecution says it was Brendan or Juliana posing as Christine. But they can't prove it.The biggest news? Brendan Banfield will take the stand. His attorney announced it Friday morning. When he does, he'll face cross-examination from prosecutor Jenna Sands—and she's going to ask about everything. The blood. The affair. The gun he bought a month before his wife died. The daughter calling the au pair "Mommy" days after Christine's death.Banfield has pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison if convicted. Next week, we hear his side.One of them is lying. We're about to find out who.#BrendanBanfield #HiddenKillers #AuPairMurder #ChristineBanfield #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTrial #CatfishKiller #JulianaPeresMagalhães #FairfaxTrial #DoubleHomicideJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

This week, a trust account expert told a Monmouth County jury something that reframes the entire Paul Caneiro case. Keith Caneiro's $3 million life insurance policy would only pay Paul if Keith, Jennifer, and both children were dead. All four of them. If any survived, they'd inherit instead. According to prosecutors, this explains why eight-year-old Sophia was stabbed seventeen times and left to die of smoke inhalation. Why eleven-year-old Jesse was stabbed in the kitchen and left to breathe smoke while bleeding out. They weren't witnesses. They were allegedly necessary casualties — their deaths required by the fine print of a policy their uncle was supposed to be protecting.A neighbor named Dennis Corpora heard the gunshots around 3:20 AM. His first thought? "Someone just got whacked." He called police. He knew it was a pistol. Meanwhile, prosecutors say Paul Caneiro had already disabled his security cameras at 1:28 AM, cut the power to his brother's house, disabled the backup generator, and waited in the dark for Keith to come outside. Shot once in the back. Four more times in the head.The defense wants to point at the third brother, Corey. But Corey's DNA isn't on bloody jeans in a basement. Corey's surveillance system wasn't disconnected at 1:28 AM. No murder weapon was found at Corey's house. The forensic trail leads to one address — Paul's. And every day of this trial, the evidence against him grows.#PaulCaneiro #ColtsNeckMurders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #KeithCaneiro #FamilyAnnihilator #MansionMurders #NewJerseyMurder #SophiaCaneiro #JesseCaneiroJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

Seventeen rehab stints. A movie about his addiction. A guest house so they could keep him close. Rob and Michele Reiner did everything parents are supposed to do — and now they're dead, allegedly at the hands of the son they never stopped trying to save. You've been flooding us with questions, and we're answering the hardest ones. When does love become enabling? Why did Alan Jackson walk away from this case two weeks before arraignment? What really happened at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the night before? We dig into the schizophrenia diagnosis, the conservatorship that was reportedly in the works, the blood-covered hotel room, and what Jake and Romy Reiner are facing as they bury both parents while their brother awaits trial. Rob once said he had to "act" like a disciplinarian because tough love wasn't his nature. Michele said she regretted believing rehab counselors who called Nick a liar. The system failed this family at every turn — treatment programs, mental health intervention, the courts. And now we're left with questions that don't have satisfying answers. This episode is about sitting with the uncomfortable, working through the impossible, and trying to understand how a family with every advantage still ended up here.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #TrueCrime #Schizophrenia #AddictionAndMentalHealth #AlanJackson #BeingCharlie #CelebrityMurder #HiddenKillersJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

She lied for over a year. She wrote letters from jail promising to "take the blame" for Brendan Banfield. She told his mother she would "give my life for his." She only flipped after Banfield was arrested, after she was hospitalized from stress, and after his family stopped paying her legal bills. Now Juliana Peres Magalhães is negotiating with Netflix while media producers fund her commissary. In a letter to her mother: "We do deserve something."And she's the prosecution's entire case. The only person alive who was in that bedroom when Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan were killed.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent his career reading people and identifying deception as head of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes Juliana's credibility. What does her behavior on the stand tell us? How do you evaluate someone who lied for a year and then flipped? Does the Netflix deal destroy her credibility—or is it irrelevant to whether she's telling the truth? And what does her relationship with Banfield reveal about the psychological dynamics at play?The prosecution closed with their strongest forensic evidence. Blood stain pattern analyst Iris Dalley Graff testified that Joseph Ryan's body was moved after death and Christine's blood was deliberately placed on Ryan's hands and clothing to frame him. The transfer patterns were "finger-like in shape"—consistent with someone touching him with blood-covered hands. Blood droplets on his forearm suggested dripping from above.Defense attorney John Carroll moved to dismiss, arguing prosecutors never called a single homicide detective and relied too heavily on a cooperating witness with credibility problems. Judge Penney Azcarate denied the motion. The defense now presents their case. Banfield has pleaded not guilty.#BrendanBanfield #JulianaMagalhaes #RobinDreeke #FBI #ChristineBanfield #BloodEvidence #HiddenKillers #CrimeSceneStaging #AuPairAffair #CredibilityJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house on December 13th, 2025? What did Rob and Michele Reiner stop being able to see? Two experts break down the psychological dynamics that may have led accomplished, intelligent parents to underestimate danger from their own son.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who served as Chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—analyzes how trust gets exploited through reciprocity, vulnerability, and shared identity. The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. How does manufactured guilt function as a manipulation tool? Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father—a movie about their own relationship. That's extraordinary narrative control. What does that level of influence over the family story tell you about who actually held power?Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott delivers a comprehensive three-part psychological analysis. Part one examines Nick's schizoaffective disorder and the medication change that reportedly destabilized him one month before the murders—plus the psychology of someone who admits killing his parents but believes his incarceration is a conspiracy. Part two breaks down how the family "grew used to" behavior that alarmed strangers, how Nick reportedly manipulated his way through 18-plus treatment facilities, and why Rob and Michele brought Nick to Conan O'Brien's party rather than leave him alone—where other guests considered calling 911. Part three exposes why the mental health system failed despite the Reiners doing everything families are told to do.Dr. Drew said 30-day programs were "almost meaningless" for Nick. Alexis Haines said he belonged in a hospital. Patient autonomy laws let him refuse treatment. The care he actually needed may not even exist.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #FBI #ThreatBlindness #HiddenKillers #FamilyDynamics #ManipulationJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.

She left after seven months. Let him keep the house. Let him have the rings. Paid what she owed—with an interest penalty clause he demanded. Moved back to Ohio, rebuilt her life, married Spencer, had two children. Her family says Monique never said Michael McKee's name after the divorce. She only called him "her ex-husband." She talked about the emotional abuse. The torment. She was always worried. Eight years later, police say he drove 300 miles and killed her anyway.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the psychology of someone who allegedly holds onto that kind of rage for nearly a decade. She describes "deep-seated resentment and hate that just built up"—the behavioral profile of a grievance collector who catalogs every perceived slight, assigns permanent blame, and never moves on. For someone like this, watching an ex-spouse build a happy new family isn't closure. It's fuel.The divorce records tell their own story. McKee wanted the rings back from a marriage that lasted less than a year. The separation agreement required Monique to reimburse him with interest. Coffindaffer explains what these control dynamics reveal about ownership and entitlement. Someone who demands jewelry back from a seven-month marriage isn't negotiating a settlement. They're keeping score.Police labeled this a "targeted domestic violence attack." But there were no prior reports. No restraining orders. No documented threats. Monique's family says the arrest was "not a shock"—they'd suspected McKee from day one but stayed quiet to protect the investigation. The family knew. For eight years, they knew. And the system couldn't act until two people were dead and two children were orphaned.What does it mean when doing everything right still isn't enough to survive?#MoniqueTepe #MichaelMcKee #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrievanceCollector #HiddenKillers #SpencerTepe #DomesticViolence #TeepeMurders #IntimatePartnerViolenceJoin 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/tonybpodListen 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.