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An eighteen-year-old high school senior is allegedly killed by her sixteen-year-old stepbrother inside their shared cabin on a Carnival cruise ship. Her body reportedly concealed under a bed. Ship surveillance allegedly showing only one person entering and exiting. A federal indictment for first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. A not guilty plea. And a teenager currently living with a relative under GPS monitoring instead of sitting in federal detention.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis brings both sides of the courtroom to this case. He has prosecuted homicides and defended them, and he does not...

Going live for the full Eric Faddis segment. We are running all three packages back to back. The D4vd inner circle. The D4vd felony complaint. The Anna Kepner not guilty plea.

Chat stays open across the whole thing. Bring your questions on accessory liability, the death penalty theory, Blair Berk's play, the "C.K." cellphone data, the seven-day trial estimate, and anything else you have been sitting on.

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Going live with Eric Faddis on the Anna Kepner case. Her stepbrother just pleaded not guilty to her murder in federal court. He is sixteen, out on GPS, and his defense team is making very specific strategic choices. We are going through all of them live. The plea procedure. The judge request. The trial length estimate. The "C.K." cellphone data.

Chat open. Bring your questions on juvenile transfer, federal court procedure, discovery, and what happens next.

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Going live with Eric Faddis to walk through the felony complaint against David Anthony Burke and the defense strategy already in motion. Three special circumstances. The financial-gain theory. Blair Berk's ten-day preliminary hearing push. The grand jury that did not indict. The forty-plus terabytes of discovery. The now-unsealed autopsy. And the carefully worded "not the cause of her death" defense line.

Chat stays open for your questions on the death penalty path, the discovery battle, and what Berk is really building toward at trial.

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Going live with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis to break down the one question the D4vd case keeps raising. If prosecutors say David Anthony Burke did not dispose of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains alone, why is he the only one charged?

We're walking through the cooperation language in Neo Langston's attorney statement, the grand jury testimony from Robert Morgenroth, the attorney conflict question with Evan Jenness appearing to represent multiple witnesses, and the Burke family's failed fight against their Texas grand jury subpoenas. Eric will take your questions live on accessory liability, immunity, and what the...

Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke and Amy Duggar King — Jim Bob's niece and author of Holy Disruptor — sit down for a forensic examination of the information suppression system Amy says has operated inside the Duggar family and its religious community for generations.

Robin Dreeke brings his expertise in behavioral analysis and institutional deception to examine the patterns Amy describes: how families inside these circles allegedly handle disclosures of abuse internally rather than contacting law enforcement, how information gets controlled before it reaches the public, and what the behavioral indicators of institutional suppression look like from...

Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Amy Duggar King for the final installment of their three-part series — a direct address to Kendra Duggar, the twenty-seven-year-old mother at the center of one of the most consequential family crises in the Duggar saga.

Kendra married Joseph Duggar at nineteen. Unlike the women who grew up inside the Duggar-IBLP system from birth, Kendra came from a separate Baptist family led by her father, Pastor Paul Caldwell. She had a life, a community, and a support structure before the Duggars.

Joseph is now out on $600,000 bond on...

The complete three-part interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott on the D4VD case — all in one place.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 13 when she was first reported missing. She was 14 when she was allegedly last seen alive at David Anthony Burke's Hollywood Hills home. Her dismembered remains were found months later in his Tesla. Burke was on a world tour. His inner circle was silent. And his biggest song was called "Romantic Homicide."

Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with over 30 years in forensic mental health and violence psychology — examines this case from every psycho...

A song called "Romantic Homicide." An unreleased track reportedly naming a girl called "Celeste." A music video dripping with dark-haired girls and blood. An album titled "Withered." And now, charges that read like the art came to life — first-degree murder with special circumstances, sexual abuse of a child, and the alleged destruction of her remains.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the final installment of a three-part deep dive into the psychology of the D4VD case. Part 3 takes on the hardest lane: Is this a young man who panicked, or is this someone whose art wa...

The grand jury had to drag witnesses in. Neo Langston ran to Montana. Burke's parents fought subpoenas in Texas. The manager testified over multiple days. And for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were allegedly found in David Burke's Tesla, the people closest to the accused reportedly said nothing while a grieving family waited for answers.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of a three-part psychological examination of the D4VD case. This installment focuses on the silence — and what it reveals. How does someone allegedly carry knowledge of extreme violence and continue functioning publicly? Wh...

Before there were charges. Before a body was found in a trunk. Before a famous musician was arrested. There was a 13-year-old girl who kept running away from home — and a series of adults, systems, and platforms that let her vanish.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly connected to David Anthony Burke through his Discord server as early as 2022, when she was approximately 12 years old. By 2024, she was reportedly living in his Hollywood Hills rental. She carried fake IDs. His friends thought she was a college student. And nobody asked the right questions.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Sc...

Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke sits down with Amy Duggar King — Jim Bob Duggar's niece, author of Holy Disruptor, and one of the only family members willing to speak publicly — to dissect the generational behavioral patterns inside the Duggar family.

Amy alleges in her memoir that the family's patriarch, Jimmy Lee Duggar, was violent and predatory. She says Jim Bob witnessed this firsthand and then built his own system of family control using the religious framework of IBLP. The question Robin Dreeke examines with her: was Jim Bob trying to protect his family from what...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for comprehensive legal analysis of two major active prosecutions: the D4VD first-degree murder case and the Joseph Duggar molestation and endangerment charges.

On D4VD: Motta examines the prosecution’s decision to file first-degree murder with three special circumstances, the financial gain and witness-killing theories, the defense’s emerging strategy as previewed by lead counsel Blair Berk, the mutilation charge as an independent evidentiary obstacle, and the strategic impact of a pending death penalty determination.

On the Duggars: Motta analyzes dual-jurisdiction prosecution across Flor...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to analyze the compounding legal exposure facing Joseph Duggar, who is simultaneously defending against a life felony in Florida and misdemeanor charges in Arkansas.

The Florida charges stem from alleged repeated molestation of a 9-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation to Panama City Beach. The Arkansas charges—eight counts of child endangerment and false imprisonment for both Joseph and his wife Kendra—arose from a home search that reportedly revealed exterior-mounted locks on the couple’s children’s bedroom doors. Their four children are currently in state cu...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to analyze the defense strategy available to D4VD following the filing of first-degree murder charges with three special circumstances, continuous sexual acts charges, and mutilation of human remains.

Defense attorney Blair Berk’s prior statement—that David Burke “was not the cause of her death”—is examined as a potential indicator of the defense’s theory, particularly in light of the now-unsealed medical examiner findings. Motta analyzes what alternative explanations that language could support and the evidentiary requirements for making them credible before a jury.

The pan...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to analyze the charges filed against D4VD in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez—the most serious charges a California DA’s office can bring.

David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder with three special circumstances: lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and killing a witness. Additional charges include continuous sexual acts with a minor, lewd acts with an individual under 14, and mutilation of human remains. DA Nathan Hochman stated the death penalty remains a possibility, with that determination to come later.

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Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for an extraordinary listener Q&A spanning three of the most closely watched cases in true crime — each one featuring a man who allegedly weaponized his public persona to harm the people closest to him.

Robin applies his behavioral framework to the patterns across all three cases. With D4vd, he examines the alleged grooming timeline and predatory targeting of a vulnerable child. With Joseph Duggar, he analyzes the psychology behind the reported double confession and the family culture that allegedly enables repeated abuse. With Ca...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to dissect the behavioral evidence in the Caleb Flynn murder case — starting with the 911 call that investigators say was part of a staged performance.

Robin applies his decades of behavioral analysis to the key elements your listener questions are focused on: What does the 911 audio reveal about whether Caleb’s distress was genuine or manufactured? What behavioral patterns emerge in someone who allegedly maintains a public persona of devotion — worship leader, American Idol contestant professing love for his wife on national television — while prosecutors allege he was p...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break down the behavioral indicators in the Joseph Duggar case — including the extraordinary detail that the accused allegedly confessed twice before being arrested.

According to the arrest affidavit, Joseph Duggar admitted to molesting a nine-year-old girl when confronted by the victim’s father. He then allegedly admitted a second time during a monitored phone call with Arkansas detectives listening. Robin dissects what those admissions reveal through his behavioral framework — why certain individuals confess when confronted, what the psychology of repeated admission looks like, and what i...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — former federal investigator with decades of behavioral analysis and case-building experience — joins Tony Brueski for a full-episode deep dive into the two biggest cases in the country right now.

In the D4VD case, LAPD bypassed a grand jury that declined to indict and arrested David Anthony Burke on suspicion of the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Coffindaffer dissects the defense team's statement — which denied causation rather than involvement — and examines the witness behavior pattern: a manager who allegedly testified for three days, a witness who went into hiding, and an assoc...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — who spent decades building federal cases and who has publicly called for the bureau to pay the bitcoin ransom and trace the wallet — sits down with Tony Brueski for an analytical breakdown of the Nancy Guthrie investigation.

Coffindaffer addresses the central tactical question: the FBI has recovered cryptocurrency ransoms before, including in the Colonial Pipeline case. The latest note in the Guthrie case splits the demand into two payments, giving investigators two blockchain transactions to follow. At roughly $34,000, Coffindaffer argues the cost is negligible compared to the investigative value of identifying whoe...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — with decades of experience building federal cases and reading witness behavior — joins Tony Brueski to analyze the next phase of the D4VD case and what the defense team's public statement actually reveals.

Burke's attorneys specifically stated he "was not the cause" of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death. Not that he was uninvolved. Not that he didn't know her. Coffindaffer dissects the legal architecture of that denial — what it concedes, what it protects, and how prosecutors will have to work around it.

She also examines the witness pattern: a manager who al...

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — former federal investigator with decades of case-building experience — sits down with Tony Brueski to dissect the arrest of D4VD in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case.

LAPD didn't wait for a grand jury indictment. Detectives went to a judge and moved on their own — seven months after a 14-year-old girl's remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer David Anthony Burke. The defense has already responded, specifically stating Burke "was not the cause of her death" — not that he wasn't involved, not that he didn't know her. Coffinda...

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to answer your questions about one of the most disturbing cases in recent memory — the alleged grooming and killing of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered remains were found inside the Tesla of pop star D4vd.

Robin brings decades of behavioral analysis expertise to the patterns emerging in this case — a twenty-one-year-old musician who allegedly began an online relationship with a girl as young as twelve through Discord, who reportedly moved her into a rental property, and who according to investigators maintained this relationship whil...

Asa Ellerup called Rex Heuermann her savior. Their daughter Victoria sat in a packed Suffolk County courtroom and watched him plead guilty to killing eight women. Asa has maintained she would have known if something was wrong. Victoria has publicly said she believes her father most likely committed the killings. A mother and daughter inside the same house, the same marriage, the same nightmare — arriving at opposite conclusions. That split is the story.

Benjamin Torres — the son of victim Valerie Mack, who was six when his mother vanished in 2000 — has filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming both women...

The survivors can't pick what to eat for dinner. Not because they're indecisive — because every decision they ever made was routed through a hierarchy that no longer exists. Their operating system crashed. That's what leaving the Institute in Basic Life Principles actually looks like. Not a dramatic escape through a gate. A slow, disorienting collapse of identity, faith, relationships, and basic life function that takes years — sometimes decades — to rebuild.

They describe entering marriages through courtship systems that blocked independent choice. Educations so narrow they couldn't pass standardized tests. A faith crisis deeper than leaving a church — question...

Anna Kepner was eighteen years old. She was found dead under the bed in her cruise ship stateroom, wrapped in a blanket and covered in life vests. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Security cameras showed her sixteen-year-old stepbrother Timothy Hudson was the only person who entered and exited the room that night. Her younger brother was outside and reportedly heard violent sounds from inside.

For months, sealed juvenile proceedings shielded the details. The public was told there was no evidence of assault beyond the asphyxiation. Then a federal grand jury returned a...

Rex Heuermann maintained his innocence for one thousand days. On the last one, he stood in a Suffolk County courtroom — calm, controlled, no visible emotion — and pleaded guilty to strangling eight women over seventeen years. His defense attorney called it a calculated pivot. Every pre-trial ruling had gone against the defense. Whole genome sequencing was in. Consolidation of all charges into one trial was in. There was nothing left to fight with.

But this plea was engineered for more than damage control. During a confidential proffer session, Heuermann raised Karen Vergata — uncharged — and her killing was folded into the...

Kendra Duggar cried on a recorded jail call and told Joseph the kids had to be her priority. She said she wasn't well. Could barely eat. Could barely stand. For one conversation, she sounded like a mother beginning to think for herself. Then the family filled her schedule. ATV rides. Worship music. Days surrounded by Duggar sisters-in-law. Joseph sending scripture from his cell — lyrics about spiritual warfare, not consequences. Her four children remain in state custody. She's under a no-contact order. And the people around her are reinforcing that any moment of clarity isn't hers — it's God's grace working thro...

The Caldwell family posted a portrait without Kendra in it. No statement. No explanation. Her father Paul launched a GoFundMe for displacement and housing costs. The family is reportedly being pushed out. And the system that built the world Kendra was raised inside is the same system now directing the choices being made for her.

Kendra faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas after investigators searched her home and reportedly found locks on the exterior of bedroom doors. She's under a no-contact order with her own four children. On a monitored jail call, she told Joseph he was...

Sheriff Chris Nanos told the public Nancy Guthrie had been abducted — then reversed himself the next day. When reporters questioned the contradiction, he told them he wasn't used to being held accountable for what he says. An insider who spoke to a national outlet said the message inside the department during those early press conferences was simple: stop talking. He didn't.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. Blood confirmed to be hers was found at the scene. Her pacemaker disconnected from its app in the early morning hours. Surveillance fo...

Every public statement from the Duggar siblings after Joseph's arrest hit the same notes — scripted, measured, on-brand. The private communications tell a completely different story. Jim Bob's first written message to his son focused on God's forgiveness. Kendra called it "disappointing." Anna Duggar — whose own husband Josh is serving federal time — put money on Joseph's books. Austin Forsyth warned Joseph about monitored calls in the same breath he praised God for their growing family bond.

Joseph Duggar faces Florida charges of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under twelve, tied to allegations from a 2020 family vacation in Pan...

Someone used Melissa Barthelemy's phone to call her 15-year-old sister for five straight weeks after Melissa vanished. Always under three minutes. Always from crowded Manhattan streets. Always targeting the teenager — never the mother. The calls described what had been done to Melissa in detail no stranger should have known. The burner phone Melissa had connected with on the day she disappeared traveled the exact route between Rex Heuermann's Massapequa Park home and his Midtown office. Hours later, Melissa's own phone followed that route back.

Melissa was a licensed cosmetologist from Buffalo who came to New York chasing a...

Rex Heuermann admitted to killing eight women. His defense attorney called it "relief." Not remorse. Not accountability. Relief. That single word tells you more about Heuermann's internal framework than the plea itself — and this week's panel digs into exactly why.

A discarded pizza crust recovered from a Manhattan garbage can gave investigators the DNA match that broke this case open. That sample connected Heuermann to a male hair found in the burlap wrapping around Megan Waterman's remains. Megan was 22 years old, a mother from Maine who called her three-year-old daughter every single day. When those calls stopped in...

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins for a full-episode analysis of two cases where the legal questions are converging on the same core issue — how much the people standing next to an accused knew, chose not to see, or gambled on.

In the Anna Kepner federal case, Faddis examines why a sixteen-year-old’s defense team would sign off on a waiver volunteering him for adult prosecution on charges carrying a maximum of life in prison. He breaks down the evidentiary record — ship surveillance, alleged concealment of the victim’s body, mechanical asphyxiation as cause of death...

When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County Court, the criminal case reached its conclusion. But for his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, a different legal fight is just beginning.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack alleges that Ellerup and her daughter Victoria either knew about, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning of the murders. The complaint also alleges unjust enrichment from a Peacock documentary that reportedly paid the family over a million dollars. Ellerup’s attorney has called the suit reckless and maintained that neither woman had any knowledge of or...

Fifteen minutes.

That's how long a teenage girl had to understand that the boy she accused of nearly killing her was about to walk out of a Stillwater courtroom without a single day in prison. Fifteen minutes to process "no contest." Fifteen minutes to process "youthful offender." Fifteen minutes to realize the August birthday coming in four months would legally erase the whole thing.

Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation, violation of a protective order. Faced seventy-eight years. Received youthful offender status and no jail time. On...

The physical evidence in the Anna Kepner case presents a compressed, specific set of facts that prosecutors believe can be tried in approximately one week. Ship surveillance showing no one else entering or exiting the cabin. A body allegedly concealed under a bed with deliberate covering. A cause of death — mechanical asphyxiation — that implies sustained physical contact.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether a medication-based argument has any realistic path in a case carrying charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. The accused’s mother has confirmed he takes medication for ADHD and insomn...

Unsealed federal court records in the Anna Kepner case have revealed a defense move that experienced criminal attorneys are calling highly unusual. The accused — a sixteen-year-old facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his eighteen-year-old stepsister — signed a written waiver requesting to be prosecuted as an adult. His defense counsel co-signed the document.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that waiver tells us about the defense’s strategy, why it may signal confidence rather than surrender, and what it means for the trajectory of this case. Faddis...

The full panel, live and uncut. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony for a complete breakdown of the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — from how he built the cult, to what it did to the people inside, to whether Short Creek will ever stop producing predators who call themselves prophets.

Robin spent two decades reading human behavior at the highest levels of federal law enforcement. Shavaun has spent thirty years treating trauma survivors and grew up inside religious extremism herself. Together, they br...