Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a deep examination of two major murder cases — the Brendan Banfield conviction and the Michael McKee arrest in the Tepe murders. We start with Banfield. The former IRS agent just got convicted of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Read more…
Michael McKee faces two counts of aggravated murder for the shooting deaths of Spencer and Monique Tepe. The evidence against him — according to court filings and police statements — includes surveillance footage, ballistics evidence, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, and years of documented threats Read more…
Michael McKee has been charged with murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband. The surveillance footage, the phone records, the witnesses claiming Monique said he’d threatened her for years — it all looks like an open-and-shut case. The public has already decided he’s guilty. But defense attorney Bob Motta Read more…
Randy Powell went to the morgue. He viewed his daughter’s body. And he’s telling Hidden Killers what he saw. According to Powell, Charity Beallis was shot twice — in the chest and between the eyes. If accurate, two gunshot wounds makes self-infliction essentially impossible. Two months after Charity and her Read more…
Life without parole. In Virginia, that’s not a figure of speech. There’s no parole board, no time off for good behavior, no path out. Brendan Banfield is 40 years old. Barring something extraordinary on appeal, he will die in a state prison. So what does “extraordinary” look like? Defense attorney Read more…
The crime scene at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home tells a story investigators are still trying to piece together. Blood at the front door. The back door left wide open. Multiple cameras smashed. And an 84-year-old woman who can’t walk 50 yards on her own, gone without a trace. Nancy Guthrie, Read more…
Nine hours. That’s all it took for twelve jurors to decide Brendan Banfield murdered his wife Christine and her lover Ryan. No compromises on the charges. No sympathy for the former federal agent who swore he didn’t do it. They believed the au pair — the woman who got murder Read more…
You’ve seen the clips. The bizarre pulpit announcement. The eulogy where he said he tried to raise her from the dead. The protests outside his church. But you haven’t heard the full story — until now. This episode goes back to the beginning. To a ten-year-old girl walking into Solid Read more…
Robin Dreeke spent thirty years in the FBI reading behavior, building cases, and getting people to reveal themselves. Today he tackles three major cases in one comprehensive interview. The Michael McKee case: the surgeon allegedly told his ex-wife Monique Tepe he could kill her “at any time” — eight years Read more…
This is the episode we’ve been waiting fifteen years to make. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has reportedly issued subpoenas to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Medical Examiner’s Office, and other agencies—including the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office that Josh Shapiro ran when the case sat Read more…