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. The psychology of recovery. Who are you when the show is finally over? Shari Franke 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 legal segment. Three issues. Three conversations. Each one with real stakes. The defense’s drug use 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 figure out how to live in the aftermath of something that can never be fixed. 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 really rich.” A jailhouse letter coaching family on testimony. A forged signature on a life 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, no viable DNA profile, and a biological clock that has long since run out for 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 would not be testifying. This episode covers the full story of Day 13: Detective Jeff 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 changed her account of what drug she bought after federal charges appeared on the horizon. 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, has seen play out in courtrooms more times than he can count. The defense suggested 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 happens when you see abuse, report it, and nothing changes. Why systems designed to protect 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 it does to the people who love them, and where it all starts — that Read more…