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The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today, and the state walked into a courtroom that wasn't friendly. The justices pressed prosecutor Creighton Waters on both tracks of the appeal — Becky Hill's jury tampering and the evidentiary errors at trial — and the ex

True Crime Today·Murdaugh Appeal

#555 · 32 min · 21 feb 2026

The FBI released surveillance footage. They're looking for multiple suspects. A man was detained in Rio Rico for eight hours and released. An imposter ransom demand led to a California arrest. And eighteen thousand tips are now competing with millions of amateur verdicts being rendered in comment s

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#554 · 30 min · 21 feb 2026

In March 2023, Kouri Richins appeared on television promoting a children's book she'd written. Are You With Me? featured her husband Eric as an angel-winged father watching over their sons. Two months later, she was arrested for his murder. Six months after that, prosecutors found a letter in her j

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#553 · 17 min · 21 feb 2026

Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis takes on two of the biggest criminal cases in the country in one comprehensive interview — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder trial and the Colin Gray parental accountability case.In the Richins case, the defense has won real pretrial battles: a recanting drug so

True Crime Today

#552 · 51 min · 21 feb 2026

Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies taken out without Eric's knowledge. A confrontation in 2020 when he discovered the financial fraud. An alleged failed attempt on Valentine's Day 2022. Then his death eighteen days later.FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent his career profiling i

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#551 · 21 min · 21 feb 2026

Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis disma

True Crime Today·Colin Gray Trial

#550 · 18 min · 20 feb 2026

The apology isn't coming. The ending won't make sense. The trial won't fix what's broken.Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Motions. Their brother's face across the room. And at the end of all that waiting — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead. Th

True Crime Today

#549 · 23 min · 20 feb 2026

The pretrial wins belonged to the defense. But the prosecution is walking into the Kouri Richins trial with a case they've spent four years constructing — and it starts with a prior poisoning attempt the jury will hear alongside the murder charge.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state'

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#548 · 13 min · 20 feb 2026

The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 23rd — and the defense has been quietly dismantling the prosecution's case for months. A recanting drug source who now says it wasn't fentanyl. A lead detective accused of threatening witnesses. Two excluded prosecution experts. And 26 financial crime

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins Trial Preview

#547 · 21 min · 20 feb 2026

Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder — not because he pulled a trigger, but because prosecutors say he put the weapon in his son's hands and ignored every warning that followed. His son, Colt Gray, allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on September 4, 2024 and op

True Crime Today·Colin Gray

#546 · 18 min · 20 feb 2026

The Nancy Guthrie case is a psychological event as much as a criminal investigation. The man on the doorbell footage planned for weeks and still made mistakes that suggest he'd never done anything like this before. His DNA produced no CODIS matches — a person capable of kidnapping an 84-year-old me

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#545 · 45 min · 20 feb 2026

Michael McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he would find her wherever she went. According to witnesses cited in an unsealed Franklin County affidavit, those threats were made during and after a marriage that allegedly included st

True Crime Today

#544 · 16 min · 20 feb 2026

Sheriff Chris Nanos stood at a podium and called the Guthrie family "victims, plain and simple." He said suggesting otherwise is cruel. He begged the media to report with compassion. That was yesterday — seventeen days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and only after weeks of online accusations, bod

True Crime Today

#543 · 16 min · 19 feb 2026

You knew. Somewhere underneath the hoping and the trying — you knew this wasn't going to end well.And you stayed anyway. Not because you were stupid. Because the truth was unsurvivable.Rob and Michele Reiner weren't naive. Rob directed films for forty years. He understood how stories telegraph thei

True Crime Today·Nick Reiner

#542 · 27 min · 19 feb 2026

Fake ransom notes. A federal arrest for a fraudulent text. A live-television detention that led nowhere. Sixteen contaminated gloves. A promising DNA lead that just collapsed. Fifty thousand tips and still no suspect. The Nancy Guthrie case has generated more noise in seventeen days than most inves

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie Case

#541 · 12 min · 19 feb 2026

Everyone is talking about the wrong DNA and the wrong theory. The glove found two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home dominated headlines this week when CODIS returned no match. But that glove DNA doesn't match the DNA found inside her property. Two profiles. Two people. The glove may be completely unc

True Crime Today

#540 · 22 min · 19 feb 2026

The man who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home prepared for weeks — and still made mistakes that could define the entire investigation. He surveilled the house. He masked his face. He brought a weapon and a backpack. But he dropped a glove, wore gear traceable to Walmart, and left behind DNA t

True Crime Today

#539 · 17 min · 19 feb 2026

Two versions of the same family. One told to a judge. One allegedly lived by the girl who's now dead.On November 7th, 2025, Anna Kepner—an 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida—was found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Wrapped in blankets. Covered with life vests. H

True Crime Today·Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Death

#538 · 15 min · 19 feb 2026

Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit.The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution's case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly release

True Crime Today·Defense Attorney Bob

#537 · 1 h 6 min · 19 feb 2026

The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children's book about grief. Case closed, right?Not even close.As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keep

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#536 · 31 min · 19 feb 2026

Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt.Robert Crozier—the man prosecut

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#535 · 22 min · 18 feb 2026

They're still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it.And you're not allowed to grieve them.Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th.

True Crime Today

#534 · 16 min · 18 feb 2026

Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means.Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it ho

True Crime Today·Anna Kepner Case

#533 · 13 min · 18 feb 2026

Eighteen days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, the evidence the nation was banking on just came back empty. DNA recovered from a black glove found two miles from Nancy's home produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI's national database o

True Crime Today

#532 · 21 min · 18 feb 2026

No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance—but defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution's case may already be damaged.The Pima County Sheriff's Office reportedly released the crime scene early. Journalists photographed what appeared to be blood droplets on the porch before it

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie Investigation

#531 · 32 min · 18 feb 2026

In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong.He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going

True Crime Today·Mickey Stines

#530 · 17 min · 18 feb 2026

A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed.

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#529 · 1 h 8 min · 18 feb 2026

The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no.Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwe

True Crime Today

#528 · 19 min · 18 feb 2026

The DNA from a glove matching the suspect's is going into CODIS. The FBI's cell tower team is mapping every phone near Nancy's home during the critical windows. Walmart records are being cross-referenced. Cheek swabs from people of interest already exist. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks throu

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie Case

#527 · 20 min · 17 feb 2026

Eighteen rehab stints. Millions of dollars. A guesthouse on the property. A movie made together about healing. Rob and Michele Reiner gave Nick everything for seventeen years.They never walked away. And they're dead.This episode isn't about blame — what happened is the responsibility of one person

True Crime Today

#526 · 27 min · 17 feb 2026

He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#525 · 20 min · 17 feb 2026

One glove. Unknown male DNA. And an investigation that just shifted beneath the surface.Sixteen days after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI confirmed that a glove found two miles away contains a DNA profile matching the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell foo

True Crime Today

#524 · 49 min · 17 feb 2026

The FBI asked Nancy Guthrie's neighbors for footage from two narrow windows — January 11th from 9 p.m. to midnight and January 31st from 9:30 to 11 a.m. — three weeks and hours before she was taken. That specificity tells you investigators already have digital evidence pointing to those moments. A

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#523 · 29 min · 17 feb 2026

We gave Robin Dreeke the entire Nancy Guthrie case and asked him to break down what no one else is covering.Three parts. Three angles.The Audience Problem: Eighteen thousand tips from amateur analysts who think watching videos makes them investigators. What mass observation does to a case — to the

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#522 · 50 min · 17 feb 2026

The most in-depth analysis of the Nancy Guthrie case anywhere. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers for an exclusive interview breaking down everything we know about the investigation.She analyzes the doorbell video frame by frame — what the suspect's equipment, move

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#521 · 54 min · 17 feb 2026

Five weeks of trial. Less than five hours of deliberation. Guilty on all counts.Paul Caneiro was convicted Friday of murdering his brother Keith, sister-in-law Jennifer, and their children Jesse and Sophia in their Colts Neck home in November 2018. The jury found him guilty on fifteen charges inclu

True Crime Today

#520 · 16 min · 17 feb 2026

Over eighteen thousand tips. A suspect detained and released. A glove found in the desert. FBI Director Kash Patel posting evidence from his personal account. Neighbors asked about trucks while the sheriff says no vehicle of interest exists.On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Age

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie Investigation

#519 · 23 min · 16 feb 2026

"I'm petrified of Nick. I think my own son can hurt me."Rob Reiner said that out loud. At a party. Hours before he was killed.This episode isn't about what Nick Reiner allegedly did. It's about the people left behind who saw something coming and couldn't stop it. The specific, isolating guilt of fo

True Crime Today·Nick Reiner

#518 · 20 min · 16 feb 2026

The FBI released the first visual evidence in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — six photos and three videos from her doorbell camera showing a masked, armed individual approaching her home the morning she disappeared.On this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer de

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie Video Breakdown

#517 · 16 min · 16 feb 2026

The biggest show of force in two weeks—and it produced nothing.Friday night: SWAT raid two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. Three detained. A "person of interest" questioned at a Culver's parking lot. His Range Rover searched and towed.Saturday morning: Everyone released. No arrests. Sheriff Nanos

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#516 · 36 min · 16 feb 2026

The South Carolina Supreme Court just held oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal—and it did not go well for the prosecution.On February 11, 2026, all five justices heard arguments on whether Murdaugh deserves a new trial for the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul. What unfolded was a master

True Crime Today·Alex Murdaugh Appeal

#515 · 2 h 25 min · 16 feb 2026

Federal sources say Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — a glove found inside the home and DNA samples routed to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. An FBI source called the decision "dumb" and "insane." Nanos says it's "not even close to

True Crime Today

#514 · 16 min · 16 feb 2026

The man on the porch is on camera. The question is whether the planning profile matches what you're looking at.Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was built on understanding the dynamic between the person who directs an operation and the person who

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#513 · 36 min · 16 feb 2026

The family says they received a message. The FBI says there's been no verified kidnapper contact. The sheriff said the footage was gone forever. Then it appeared.We asked Robin Dreeke to read every public voice in this case and tell us who's being straight. Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#512 · 35 min · 16 feb 2026

The DHS warning about Kouri Richins isn't just about her case. It's about what we're missing.America's autopsy rate has collapsed to 8.5%, with natural-looking deaths autopsied just 4.3% of the time. Death certificates are wrong roughly a third of the time. The January 2026 Department of Homeland S

True Crime Today·Kouri Richins

#511 · 41 min · 15 feb 2026

The FBI released surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera — six photos and three video clips showing a masked individual at her front door the morning she disappeared. He covered his face. He covered his hands. He covered nearly every inch of skin. Then he reached the front door, found

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#510 · 44 min · 15 feb 2026

Newly released text messages between the parents of Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother reveal what they were really focused on in the hours after her body was found — and it wasn't grief.According to court filings in an ongoing custody battle, the suspect's mother texted that her son "just

True Crime Today·Anna Kepner

#509 · 35 min · 15 feb 2026

The predator's greatest advantage has never been strength or speed. It's the fact that most people simply aren't paying attention.This episode is an evergreen examination of how predators operate before they strike — the surveillance phase most people never see, the target selection process that ru

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#508 · 38 min · 15 feb 2026

The ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case were supposed to be the roadmap. Three identical letters demanding six million dollars in Bitcoin. Grammatically perfect, according to Harvey Levin. Intimate knowledge of Nancy's home. Non-public details about her Apple Watch location, a destroyed floodlig

True Crime Today·Nancy Guthrie

#507 · 1 h 9 min · 15 feb 2026

Rob Reiner stood at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party reportedly telling friends his son could hurt him. He went home anyway. Hours later, he and Michele were dead. This episode doesn't ask why Nick Reiner allegedly killed his parents. It asks why they stayed.Eighteen rehab facilities. Sixty thousand

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#506 · 48 min · 14 feb 2026