The Cascio family spent 25 years as Michael Jackson’s most vocal defenders. They attacked other accusers. They called themselves his “second family.” Frank Cascio declared on Oprah and in his memoir that Jackson’s love for Read more…
The Nancy Guthrie investigation has no arrest, no named suspect, no person of interest. But that hasn’t stopped the destruction. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together expert analysis on both the investigation’s progress Read more…
Ruby Franke was arrested. The performance ended. But for her six children — raised as content for years — the work was just beginning. Part 5 of “The Good Mother” examines what comes after escape. Read more…
Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down with Tony Brueski for an extended Hidden Killers conversation that goes deeper into the Kouri Richins murder trial than anything you’ll hear in a standard Read more…
Lori Vallow still believes she’s chosen. In a 2025 Dateline interview, she maintained her innocence. She claimed Jesus showed her she’d be exonerated. She showed no remorse. Meanwhile, her surviving son Colby is trying to Read more…
Before the Kouri Richins jury ever decides whether she murdered her husband, they’ve already learned who she is. Phone searches for “fentanyl poisoning.” Deleted memes accessed minutes after first responders left — one saying “I’m Read more…
Forty days. No suspect. No arrest. Cadaver dogs stood down. The DNA has dead-ended twice. And the desert keeps its secrets. This isn’t pessimism — it’s the evidence. After forty days with no named suspect, Read more…
The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she Read more…
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution’s drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other Read more…
When you don’t have much, do you blame the victim? That’s the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it’s one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, Read more…
CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case. Three years later, Ruby’s children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt’s house. Part 4 of “The Good Mother” examines what Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what Read more…
Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive. She was Lori’s best friend. She heard Chad Daybell’s zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked Read more…
Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she’s leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own. Tony Brueski examines the full arc of Read more…
Detective Jeff O’ Driscoll, Summit Co. Sheriff’s Dept., takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly Read more…
You’ve seen the headlines about the Walk the Dog letter. Now hear it actually explained. Six handwritten pages. Written from jail. Titled by Kouri Richins herself as a destruction instruction — take vague notes, then Read more…
Day 12 of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered what the prosecution has been building toward for three weeks. Lead detective Jeff O’Driscoll took the stand as the state’s final witness and read aloud a Read more…
They walked through that door and something was already wrong. Eric Richins’ family felt it before anyone could prove it — and spent years, six figures, and close to a thousand hours of a private Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has given us something rare: a documented, witness-by-witness record of every person allegedly used along the way. A boyfriend. A best friend. A housekeeper. Friends who lost money. Each one, according Read more…
Jeff O’Driscoll, Summit County Detective, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
8 Passengers had a billion views. Six children filmed five days a week from birth. Milestones were content. Punishments were content. Worst moments got the most views. Part 3 of “The Good Mother” examines the Read more…
Jeff O’Driscoll, Summit County Detective, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
Three segments. Fifteen questions. Two of the sharpest people working this case. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke sit down for a full panel discussion on the Kouri Richins murder trial — and none of it Read more…
The last photograph of Tylee Ryan was taken at Yellowstone. September 8, 2019. She’s sixteen. She’s smiling. Within a day, investigators believe she was dead. Her remains were found nine months later — burned and Read more…
Carmen Lauber, Richins’ Former Housekeeper, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
The Kouri Richins murder trial isn’t just a courtroom story. It’s a case that forces hard questions about how this type of alleged crime operates, why it’s so difficult to catch, and what justice looks Read more…
Nick Reiner — son of legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner — pleaded not guilty on February 23rd, 2026 to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 14th, Read more…
Most coverage of the Kouri Richins trial focuses on the night Eric died. This episode focuses on everything that came before it — and everyone who was allegedly in the way. Trial testimony has produced Read more…
The courtroom evidence in the Kouri Richins trial is one thing. What the jury is actually absorbing is another. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the specific moments and pieces of testimony that are Read more…
Two mistrial motions. Forty prosecution witnesses. A case built entirely on circumstantial evidence. The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial hasn’t shown their full hand yet — but the moves they’ve already made are Read more…