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The covert narcissist is the most dangerous kind. Because they don't look like what you'd expect.

Alex Murdaugh was charming. Generous. Beloved. He made everyone feel special. And the whole time, he was stealing millions, feeding an addiction, running fraud after fraud.

Part 2 of "The Name" explores how the mask works — and why Maggie was only just beginning to see through it when everything started closing in.

The boat crash. Mallory Beach's death. The lawsuits. Suddenly lawyers were looking at the books.

This episode is for anyone who's been gaslit by a charming liar. Who questioned their own perception because everyone else loved this person.

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Laken Snelling's phone told a story that months of public behavior was built to contradict. Deleted labor photos. Week-by-week pregnancy tracking. A documented record of concealment running alongside nationals competitions, a relationship, and a TikTok listing "be a mom" as a life goal. A grand jury saw all four levels of criminal homicide and landed on first-degree manslaughter — conscious disregard. Now the question is whether that charge holds.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers alongside Robin Dreeke to examine the Laken Snelling case from the inside — the evidence, the charge, the gaps, and where the prosecution and defense are each most exposed.

Coffindaffer works through the evidentiary record with precision. The phone documentation and what it legally establishes. The word "guessed" — the language Snelling used with hospital staff when asked whether her son was alive — and how prosecutors use hedged language in a case where the medical examiner has already established the child was born alive. The roommates who heard noise for an hour at 4 in the morning, accepted a fainting explanation, and went back to bed — and whether that peripheral behavior ever becomes something the prosecution has to actively account for at trial.

Dreeke addresses the behavioral layer: what the sustained parallel concealment documented on that phone reveals, how it differs from denial or dissociation, and where it sits on the behavioral spectrum of neonaticide cases. He also addresses the jury challenge — what it means to ask twelve people to hold a 22-year-old competitive athlete with no criminal record to a standard of conscious disregard when she doesn't match the assumptions most jurors carry into a case like this.

The charge is first-degree manslaughter. Up to 31 years. The evidence is compelling in places and complicated in others. This is where it gets examined honestly.

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Neo Langston thought he was posting to his Close Friends. He wasn't. On March 13th, screenshots of his private Instagram story flooded the internet — and what he wrote raised more questions than it answered.

He said he's legally fine. He said he has receipts. He called D4VD a dickhead. And in everything he wrote about how this situation has destroyed his reputation and betrayed his trust, he never once said the name Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski walks through every layer of this development — from the seven-officer arrest at Neo's mother's Montana home in January, to his 40-minute grand jury appearance in February, to the private Instagram meltdown that cracked the silence of D4VD's inner circle wide open for the first time.

Statement analysis expert Jack Fox reviewed Neo's exact wording and found deliberate vagueness throughout — language carefully constructed to avoid naming the crime, the victim, or the suspect. His verdict: Neo's prime concern in those posts was himself.

PI Steve Fischer went further. If you have a side of the story, Fischer wrote publicly, you were involved in the story.

Meanwhile D4VD's parents and brother are still fighting a Texas court battle to avoid testifying before the Los Angeles grand jury. The autopsy remains sealed. The cause of death is still undetermined. No charges have been filed.

Neo has receipts. The question is what he's done with them.

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Eight jurors. Three hours. Five guilty verdicts.

Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband Eric Richins. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski delivers the complete verdict breakdown — every detail, in sequence, with the full weight it deserves.

The hush puppy text the night before Eric died. The Valentine's Day poisoning attempt. The street fentanyl sourced by asking for "the Michael Jackson drug." The $4.5 million debt. The forged insurance signature. The Google searches. The ghostwritten grief book. The three boys left without both parents.

Prosecutors said she wanted Eric's money and a fresh start. The jury agreed. In three hours.

Sentencing is set for May 13th. Mandatory life in prison is on the table.

This is Hidden Killers. Nothing sanitized. Nothing left out.

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The verdict comes in from the jury.

Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most closely watched trials in Utah history. A children's book author. A grieving widow who wrote about "heaven" for kids while allegedly researching untraceable poisons. A husband who may have been killed in his own bed.

Hidden Killers brings you complete trial coverage with expert analysis—no sensationalism, just the facts as they unfold.

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The Nancy Guthrie investigation has shifted. Cadaver dogs are paused. Ground searches are scaled back. The operation is now concentrated on digital forensics and detective-led work. And Sheriff Nanos believes investigators know the motive — with a hedge that deserves scrutiny.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers alongside Robin Dreeke to break down what these investigative pivots actually signal at day forty-one — and whether the public's instinct to read them as lost momentum is accurate.

The digital forensic thread is central to this discussion. In early March — more than a month into the investigation — detectives were going door-to-door asking neighbors specifically about internet disruptions on the night Nancy disappeared. A damaged utility box near her home is part of the same investigative line. Coffindaffer examines what that sustained, specific focus tells us about how investigators believe this crime was planned and executed — and what kind of operational knowledge deliberately disrupting a neighborhood's network infrastructure before targeting a home would require.

There is also the Ring camera: a vehicle 2.5 miles from Nancy's home at 2:36 in the morning, confirmed active lead, the surrounding neighborhood canvassed to find it. Coffindaffer and Dreeke break down why distance and timing can matter as much as proximity — and what investigators are looking for when they anchor that much effort to a single frame of footage.

Over forty thousand tips have come in. One point two million dollars is available in reward money. The silence of anyone in the alleged suspect's immediate circle is addressed directly — what it means, and when investigators have to build around it rather than wait on it.

Forty-one days in. This investigation is very much alive. This is what the inside of it looks like right now.

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The Kouri Richins murder trial is heading to the jury. Three weeks. Nearly forty prosecution witnesses. Zero defense witnesses. And an evidence record that, despite all of it, still carries significant holes that both sides have to navigate.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Hidden Killers to do what the courtroom rarely makes room for — an honest accounting of what the evidence actually shows, what it doesn't, and where the gaps could matter most when deliberations begin.

The prosecution's case rests on circumstantial evidence and a star witness who accepted immunity. Carmen Lauber sits at the center of a serious problem: prosecutors' own detectives were recorded telling her she needed to provide details that would "ensure Kouri gets convicted of murder." That recording played for the jury. Coffindaffer examines how investigative conduct of that kind functions in a courtroom and whether the state's remaining evidentiary case is strong enough to carry it.

She also addresses the investigation's early failures — how this case nearly went cold until Eric Richins' family hired their own private investigator and found what law enforcement missed — and what that says about how the case was originally handled.

Dreeke works through the behavioral record: the text to a new boyfriend one month after Eric's death, the memes on Kouri's phone the morning his body was found, and the decision not to testify — what each signals independently and what the pattern reveals collectively.

No murder weapon. No recovered fentanyl. A star witness whose alleged supplier now says he never sold fentanyl. The defense rested without a word. The evidence deserves a harder look than it's gotten before the jury gets it.

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Prosecutors say Kouri Richins made Eric a Moscow Mule on March 4, 2022. His favorite drink. From his wife's hands.

Fentanyl inside, according to the charges. Dead within hours.

This is what the caretaker killer looks like. Not violence. Not rage. Just a drink, made with love, handed over with a smile.

Stacey Castor did the same thing to two husbands in Syracuse. Antifreeze in their beverages. Michael Wallace in 2000. David Castor in 2005. Both times she played the devoted wife — bringing them drinks, nursing them, watching them die.

She was the reason they were dying.

When investigators got close, Stacey tried to add a third victim: her own daughter Ashley. Drugged her with vodka and pills, typed a fake suicide confession, left her to die with the blame for both murders.

Ashley survived. The forensic evidence proved Stacey typed the confession. The judge gave her fifty-one years.

Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins follows the same pattern. The devoted wife. The favorite drink. The poison hidden inside. According to testimony, Eric got sick on Valentine's Day 2022 — one month before his death.

The caretaker doesn't look like a killer. She looks like exactly what you need when you're tired, when you're thirsty, when you want to relax at home with your wife.

That's the mask. That's the weapon.

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Brad Bloodworth gives the prosecution's rebuttal and Judge Mrazik gives the jury final instructions before deliberations.

Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

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The evidence is in. The witnesses are done. The jury is about to get the Kouri Richins case. Before they do, we spent three conversations answering every significant question our listeners have sent throughout this trial.

What does a forensic document examiner saying that wasn't Eric's signature actually prove? What does the Walk the Dog letter reveal about how Kouri sees the people around her? What does Carmen Lauber's immunity deal actually do to her credibility — and does the defense's attack on her hold up under scrutiny? What does the absence of physical drug evidence mean in a poisoning case built on circumstantial evidence? And what does it mean that Kouri Richins sat through five weeks of testimony and never once spoke directly to the people deciding her fate?

Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski across three listener Q&A segments for the most complete pre-verdict breakdown of this case. Every question comes directly from the Hidden Killers audience. Every answer goes somewhere real.

Closing arguments are next. The verdict window is open.

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