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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, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, 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, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels inside Hidden Killers Live! — where the truth is always in the details.

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    JAN 22

    HOW TO LISTEN to PREMIUM PLUS AD-FREE, ADVANCE Episodes!

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    1 min
  2. Kouri Richins Trial: The Defense Just Landed Real Blows

    5H AGO

    Kouri Richins Trial: The Defense Just Landed Real Blows

    The Kouri Richins murder trial begins February 23rd in Summit County, Utah — nearly four years after Eric Richins was found dead with more than five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. Prosecutors say Kouri mixed it into a Moscow Mule and watched her husband die. The defense says the state's case has been bleeding out before it even reaches a jury. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down what might be the defense's strongest hand heading into trial — and it starts with the man who was supposed to be the state's key link in the drug supply chain. Robert Crozier, the alleged fentanyl source, has now signed a sworn affidavit saying he sold OxyContin — not fentanyl — to housekeeper Carmen Lauber. He claims he was detoxing and disoriented during his 2023 police interview. The pills were never recovered. They were never tested. Prosecutors dropped their drug distribution charges in October 2025 after that recantation. For the defense, that's not just a win — it's a hole in the murder weapon theory that may never be filled. But it doesn't stop there. Weeks before jury selection, the defense released text messages allegedly showing lead Detective Jeff O'Driscoll threatening a witness with arrest and bringing "a catch pole for the dog" if she didn't cooperate. A second witness reportedly said investigator Travis Hopper warned their immunity could be revoked if they didn't meet with prosecutors again. If those allegations stick in jurors' minds, the credibility of the entire investigation could be in play. Then there's what the jury won't hear. Judge Mrazik excluded the prosecution's domestic violence expert and limited FBI profiler Molly Amman's testimony after defense criminologist Bryanna Fox called the "pathway to violence" framework disconnected from science. The judge also denied — twice — the prosecution's attempts to bring Kouri's 26 separate financial crime charges into the murder trial to prove motive. That means the jury won't hear about mortgage fraud, money laundering, or bad checks unless the prosecution finds another door. Eric Faddis walks through every one of these rulings and explains what they mean for reasonable doubt, jury perception, and the defense's ability to keep this trial laser-focused on one question: can the state prove Kouri Richins poisoned her husband beyond a reasonable doubt? With 85 percent of Summit County residents saying they'd heard of this case, jury selection wrapped in two days instead of five, and the defense lost two venue change motions. Faddis breaks down whether rapid jury selection in a media-saturated county helps or hurts Kouri — and what the defense's single biggest card is heading into opening statements. #KouriRichins #EricRichins #RichinsTrial #FentanylMurder #SummitCounty #RobertCrozier #ReasonableDoubt #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    21 min
  3. Nancy Guthrie: The Psychology of a Case That Has No Answers

    14H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie: The Psychology of a Case That Has No Answers

    Seventeen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home, the case sits at a psychological crossroads that touches everyone connected to it — the perpetrator, the investigation, the family, and the millions of people watching. There is no named suspect. There is no confirmed motive. The DNA recovered from a glove found miles from the scene just came back with zero CODIS matches. And the family that's been living through the worst experience of their lives just had to be publicly defended by a sheriff who called the internet's accusations "cruel." In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers and a clinician with more than thirty years of experience in forensic mental health, trauma recovery, and violence prevention — delivers one of the most comprehensive psychological analyses of the Guthrie case to date. Scott begins with the mind behind the crime. The suspect surveilled the home for what appears to be weeks, masked his face, carried a weapon — and then made mistakes a professional never would. She examines what the gap between preparation and sloppiness reveals clinically, what the decision to take a medically vulnerable elderly woman says about empathy and consequence processing, and what the CODIS miss means: a person with no criminal record who escalated directly into one of the most high-profile crimes in the country. She then turns to the noise that has overwhelmed the investigation. Fabricated ransom demands from people with no connection to the case. Evidence contaminated by the searchers themselves. A promising DNA lead that collapsed. Fifty thousand tips, contradictory theories leaking from inside the investigation, and a public that cycles through hope and deflation with every headline. Scott analyzes what drives people to exploit a stranger's crisis, what evidence contamination does to investigator confidence, and when the volume of public participation crosses from helpful to harmful. Finally, she examines the psychological toll on the Guthrie family — the ambiguous loss of not knowing their mother's fate, the compounding trauma of being publicly suspected while privately grieving, the helplessness of watching institutional mistakes unfold in real time, and the hard clinical truth that public exoneration does not undo the damage of public accusation. She confronts the question the family is living with every hour: whether it's possible to sustain this level of uncertainty, scrutiny, and grief without being permanently changed by it. This is not speculation about who took Nancy Guthrie. This is a clinical examination of what this case is doing to every person it touches. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #GuthriePsychology #CriminalMind #FamilyTrauma #CaseChaos #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ForensicPsychology 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    45 min
  4. The Guthrie Family Was Grieving — Then the Internet Put Them on Trial

    18H AGO

    The Guthrie Family Was Grieving — Then the Internet Put Them on Trial

    For seventeen days, the Guthrie family has lived inside a psychological nightmare with no exit. Their mother — 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie — was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. They don't know if she's alive. They don't know who took her. And while they've been navigating that impossible uncertainty, strangers on the internet have been dissecting their grief, analyzing their body language, and publicly accusing them of involvement in their own mother's disappearance. Annie Guthrie and her husband Tommaso Cioni dropped Nancy off at 9:50 p.m. on January 31st. Hours later, she was gone. That single fact — being the last to see her — turned them into targets of online suspicion before investigators had named a single person of interest. It took seventeen days for Sheriff Chris Nanos to publicly state what the family already knew: they are victims, not suspects. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the layered psychological trauma the Guthrie family is enduring. Scott has spent thirty years working with trauma survivors and victims of violence, and she explains what ambiguous loss — the experience of losing someone without knowing their fate — does to the human mind over the course of weeks. She addresses the specific cruelty of being publicly suspected while privately grieving, the psychological cost of watching the investigation fumble in real time with no power to intervene, and whether public exoneration can actually repair the damage that public accusation inflicts on a person's sense of self. She also explores what happens psychologically to someone like Savannah Guthrie — whose professional identity is built on composure and control — when both are stripped away simultaneously, in front of millions of people. And she confronts the hardest question of all: whether the family can emerge from this kind of sustained psychological siege without permanent damage, regardless of how the case ends. This is not speculation about the case. This is a clinical examination of what the case is doing to the people at its center. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #GuthrieFamily #AmbiguousLoss #FamilyTrauma #PublicSuspicion #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #GriefUnderScrutiny 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    16 min
  5. The Guthrie Case Is Drowning in Noise — And It Might Be Costing Nancy Her Life

    22H AGO

    The Guthrie Case Is Drowning in Noise — And It Might Be Costing Nancy Her Life

    Seventeen days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the case has produced an extraordinary volume of activity — and almost none of it has brought investigators closer to finding her. Multiple ransom communications surfaced, including at least one confirmed fake that led to a federal arrest. A person of interest was detained near the Mexican border on live television and released. A SWAT team descended on a home two miles from the crime scene with no result. Sixteen gloves were collected from the search area — most belonging to the searchers themselves. The one glove that generated the most hope was sent to a Florida lab, sent back to Arizona for retesting, run through CODIS, and came back with no match to anything in the database or even to the DNA found at Nancy's property. Fifty thousand tips have poured in. The investigation is massive. And Nancy Guthrie is still gone. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the psychology of noise — the false leads, the fraudulent ransom demands, the contaminated evidence, the public spectacle, and the sheer volume of information flooding the case from every direction. Scott has spent thirty years working in forensic mental health and understands how psychological chaos affects everyone involved: the investigators trying to find signal in an ocean of noise, the public cycling through hope and deflation with every headline, and the family watching dramatic action produce no results day after day. She analyzes what drives people like Derrick Callella to fabricate ransom demands in a stranger's crisis. She explains the clinical impact of evidence contamination on investigator confidence and public trust. And she addresses the hardest question: when a case generates this much visible effort with this little visible progress, does the activity itself become a form of psychological torment for the people waiting for an answer? This is an analysis of how noise, distraction, and dysfunction can become the biggest obstacles standing between a missing person and the truth. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #GuthrieCaseNoise #FakeRansom #ContaminatedEvidence #TucsonKidnapping #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InvestigationFailures 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    12 min
  6. Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper: What the Crime Reveals About the Mind Behind It

    1D AGO

    Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper: What the Crime Reveals About the Mind Behind It

    Seventeen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home, investigators still cannot answer the most fundamental question in the case — why. The masked man captured on her doorbell camera carried a weapon, wore a backpack, and appeared to know where the camera was positioned. But he also dropped a glove, wore gear traceable to a single retailer, and left behind DNA that produced zero matches when entered into the national CODIS database. He prepared, but he was sloppy. He planned, but he made mistakes that a professional never would. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers and a clinician with more than thirty years of experience working with violent offenders in forensic settings — breaks down what the crime itself reveals about the person who committed it. Not the investigation. Not the evidence chain. The choices. What does it mean psychologically when someone conducts weeks of apparent surveillance but executes the crime with amateur-level gear from Walmart? What does the decision to take a medically fragile 84-year-old woman — someone dependent on a pacemaker and daily medication — tell us about how this person processes risk and consequence? And what does it mean that the DNA left behind belongs to someone with no prior criminal record? Scott examines the psychological gap between preparation and execution, the clinical significance of targeting a vulnerable victim, and what the timing of the crime — between 2 and 2:30 in the morning — reveals about the perpetrator's mental state. She also addresses the dueling investigative theories: was this a planned kidnapping or a burglary that went sideways in real time? From a psychological standpoint, those are fundamentally different crimes committed by fundamentally different minds — and the answer changes everything about who investigators should be looking for. This is an analysis of criminal psychology grounded entirely in confirmed case facts, designed to hold up regardless of how the investigation develops. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping #GuthrieCaseSuspect #CriminalPsychology #CODISDna #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PimaCounty 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    17 min
  7. LIVE: Defense Attorney on Guthrie, Kepner, and Richins Cases

    1D AGO

    LIVE: Defense Attorney on Guthrie, Kepner, and Richins Cases

    Three cases. One extended live session. Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the legal landscape across the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the sealed Anna Kepner federal juvenile case, and the Kouri Richins murder trial. The Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest. Crime scene reportedly released early. Evidence sent to a private lab over FBI objection. Massive evidence contamination. Bob explains how these failures become defense weapons when charges finally come. The Kepner case is almost entirely sealed. Anna, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon—ruled homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Her stepbrother was released to guardian custody after a federal court appearance. Bob explains what sealed juvenile proceedings actually look like, why the FBI kept the case federal, and what custody filings have revealed. The Richins trial opens February 23rd. Prosecutors allege she poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The alleged supplier recanted. No fentanyl was recovered. Abuse evidence was excluded. Bob analyzes prosecution vulnerabilities, defense strategy, the devastating Google searches, the "Walk the Dog" letter, and the shadow cast by Kouri's mother Lisa Darden. We take your questions across all three cases and provide real-time legal analysis. #NancyGuthrie #AnnaKepner #KouriRichins #LiveLegalAnalysis #DefenseAttorney #HiddenKillersLive #ThreeCases #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #LegalBreakdown 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    1h 6m
  8. LIVE: Kouri Richins Trial Preview — Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Case

    1D AGO

    LIVE: Kouri Richins Trial Preview — Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Case

    The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 23rd. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins us live to break down what the defense is working with—and where the prosecution is vulnerable. Kouri Richins is charged with allegedly poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl in a Moscow Mule on March 4th, 2022. The prosecution has 100+ witnesses and over 1,000 exhibits. But the defense has ammunition. Robert Crozier, the alleged fentanyl supplier, recanted in October 2025. He now says he sold OxyContin and was "detoxing" when he made his original statement. The judge denied bail anyway—but that recantation creates doubt at trial. No fentanyl was recovered from the home. The chain linking Kouri to the drug is testimony, not physical evidence. The defense will attack credibility at every turn. The judge excluded evidence that Eric was allegedly abusive and barred a domestic violence expert. Bob analyzes what that costs the defense. Prosecutors will present Kouri's Google searches: "lethal dose of fentanyl," "luxury prisons," "permanently delete iPhone info." Bob explores whether any defense framing survives that. The "Walk the Dog" letter allegedly containing witness tampering instructions was partially admitted—despite the defense arguing it's fiction from a manuscript. Bob breaks down damage control. Lisa Darden, Kouri's mother, has her own shadow: her romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006 after naming her as beneficiary. A detective wrote she may have been involved in Eric's death. We take your questions and preview the trial in real time. #KouriRichins #RichinsTrialLive #EricRichins #FentanylPoisoning #DefenseAttorney #TrialPreview #UtahMurderTrial #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #LegalAnalysis 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 This 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.

    22 min
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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, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, 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, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels inside Hidden Killers Live! — where the truth is always in the details.

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