The affidavit is public. The autopsy reports are released. And the Michael McKee case just became one of the most forensically and psychologically layered murder prosecutions in Ohio. Spencer Tepe was shot seven times. Monique Tepe was shot nine times. Both had defensive wounds on their hands and arms — Read more…
Federal agents arrived at the home of Annie Guthrie and Tommaso Cioni with forensic extraction equipment. They were the last people to see Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, before she was taken from her Tucson residence. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence at the scene, and ransom Read more…
Eighteen thousand tips. And the one that matters probably hasn’t come in yet. Someone out there knows something. A neighbor who saw something. A coworker who’s noticed changed behavior. A friend who heard a conversation they’ve tried to forget. A family member protecting someone they love. Former FBI Special Agent Read more…
Two cases. One attorney who has prosecuted murder and defended against it. Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down the institutional failures in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation and the aggressive Supreme Court oral arguments in the Alex Murdaugh appeal. In the Guthrie case, eleven days without a suspect Read more…
We live in the most surveilled moment in human history. Cameras on every doorbell. GPS in every phone. License plate readers on every highway. We’re told if you commit a crime, you’ll be caught. Nancy Guthrie had a Nest camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. And she’s gone. Twelve days. Read more…
When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn’t been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today’s Read more…
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn’t the egg juror Read more…
The prosecution asked for time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while her lover Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was just sentenced to 10 years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected Read more…
Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m., something happened inside Nancy Guthrie’s home. The doorbell camera went offline at one end. The pacemaker lost Bluetooth connectivity at the other. That forty-one-minute window is the hardest forensic evidence in this case — and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis explains what it proves, Read more…
Everyone’s a behavioral analyst now. Eighteen thousand tips have flooded the Nancy Guthrie investigation — most of them wrong, many based on gut feelings from people watching family videos online. Reddit threads are dissecting body language. Comment sections are full of accusations. The entire country has become an amateur investigation Read more…