True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

The legal fallout from the Pima County Sheriff's Department's handling of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is mounting. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to analyze the investigative decisions that a courtroom would scrutinize most heavily — and several of them trace directly to Sheriff Chris Nanos.
The crime scene was released prematurely and investigators returned multiple times to collect evidence they missed. The department's thermal imaging aircraft was unavailable for five critical hours because the sheriff had reassigned the pilot to patrol over a personal dispute. Doorbell camera footage the department spent ten days calling unrecoverable was ultimately found by the FBI in backend server data. The sheriff made a public statement to NBC News claiming Nancy was "taken from her bed" and retracted it the following day.
Faddis explains the legal weight of each decision. Chain of custody fractures from premature scene releases. The negligence threshold for failing to deploy your best search asset when the delay is tied to a documented personnel decision. The impact of ten days of investigative choices made without the case's most critical evidence. The legal risks when a lead investigator makes inaccurate public statements during a nationally covered case — both for investigation integrity and jury pool contamination.
The Guthrie family's actions add another layer. They've hired private security, released escalating public videos. Faddis reads that pattern as a former prosecutor and explains what it suggests about the family's relationship with the investigation — and whether it could carry legal consequences later.
If this case doesn't end with Nancy coming home alive, Faddis addresses the threshold for civil liability against a sheriff's department for a negligent investigation and whether these documented failures would meet it.
#NancyGuthrie #EricFaddis #SheriffChrisNanos #CrimeSceneRelease #ThermalImaging #NestCamera #FBIRecovery #TrueCrimeToday #GuthrieDisappearance #LegalAnalysis
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

New filing just dropped in the Mickey Stines case, and it raises more questions than it answers. The former Letcher County sheriff charged with murdering Judge Kevin Mullins is asking a court to declare him ineligible for the death penalty based on serious mental illness or intellectual disability. His attorneys cite Kentucky's 2022 statute barring execution for defendants with qualifying conditions. But the motion names no diagnosis, attaches no medical documentation, and offers no specifics about what condition Stines allegedly has.
Kentucky law requires one of four diagnoses — schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or delusional disorder — with a documented history and active symptoms at the time of the offense. The only time this law has ever been applied in a Kentucky courtroom, the defendant had a lifetime of institutional records and expert consensus backing the claim. The judge called it "not a close case."
We examine whether Stines can meet that bar. The defense has witness testimony describing paranoid behavior, a jail evaluation noting active psychosis days after the shooting, and Stines' own claims about California encephalitis. But the prosecution has the surveillance video, medical records where Stines denied any mental health symptoms the day before the killing, and the fact that no qualifying diagnosis has been made public. Plus, a sealed psychiatric evaluation from July 2025 that the defense hasn't been able to get into the record.
Is this a real mental health claim or a strategic play from a defense team running out of options? We break down the law, the precedent, and the evidence.
#MickeyStines #KevinMullins #TrueCrimeToday #KentuckyLaw #DeathPenalty #InsanityDefense #LetcherCounty #MentalIllnessDefense #CourthouseShooting #TrueCrime
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

We gave Robin Dreeke the footage, the operation, the contradictions, and the silence. We asked him everything.
Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program for 21 years. We asked him to apply his behavioral framework to the surveillance clips and tell us whether the man on Nancy Guthrie's porch matches the operation that unfolded around him — the target selection, the camera removal, the silent extraction of a mobility-limited 84-year-old woman from a remote home. We asked what the footage reveals about whoever planned this and what the gap between forensic concealment and improvised camera defeat tells us about the person behind the man at the door. We asked about the 41-minute timeline gap. We asked what happens when they identify him.
Then we asked him to read every public voice. The family's escalating videos. The FBI's social media release with no press briefing. The sheriff declaring footage permanently gone and then the FBI producing it ten days later. Ransom notes with insider details but no proof of life sent to media outlets instead of the family. The silence after the deadline passed. We asked who's communicating authentically and who's managing a narrative. We asked what the gaps reveal about where this case actually stands.
His answers across this full interview point somewhere nobody else in media is looking. You need to hear them.
#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #FBIBehavioral #FullInterview #DeceptionDetection #TucsonKidnapping #CatalinaFoothills #SavannahGuthrie #NestCamera
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Three collisions are happening at once in the Kouri Richins case, and they're all converging just as jury selection begins.
First, the venue fight is done. Judge Mrazik denied the defense's second motion to move the trial out of Summit County on February 2nd. The defense said only 72 viable jurors remained from a pool where 85 percent recognized the case. Prosecutors said 830 potential jurors were unfamiliar with it or hadn't followed it. The judge wasn't persuaded by the defense math — for the second time.
Second, Robert Crozier's recantation is hanging over the entire prosecution theory. The man who prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper Carmen Lauber now says under oath he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl. He says he was detoxing when he first told detectives otherwise. The defense says prosecutors knew about this since April 2025 and never disclosed it. The prosecution says the broader evidence still holds regardless of Crozier's credibility issues.
Third, allegations of witness intimidation are creating new problems. Text messages filed with the court show lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll allegedly threatening a witness with arrest and a "catch pole for the dog" after she declined to be prepped for testimony. A second witness says investigator Travis Hopper warned that their immunity deal could be pulled. The defense calls it blatant intimidation. Prosecutors say it was proper.
All of this lands in a courtroom with a hard March 27th deadline, over a thousand exhibits, and a defense team that says there's no scenario where this trial finishes on time.
Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
#KouriRichins #EricRichins #TrueCrimeToday #RobertCrozier #JeffODriscoll #WitnessIntimidation #FentanylPoisoning #JurySelection #SummitCountyTrial #WalkTheDogLetter
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

For ten days, authorities said the Nest camera footage was gone forever. Today it exists. We asked Robin Dreeke what that reversal means — and it's not the only thing we asked him about.
Dreeke spent 21 years at the FBI running the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. His career was determining whether people's communications matched what they actually knew. We put every public voice in the Nancy Guthrie case in front of him.
We asked him to read the family's four escalating videos and what the pattern reveals about what they believe is happening. We asked about the ransom notes — sent to media outlets with insider details but no proof of life and no response channel — and what that communication pattern says about the sender's actual relationship to Nancy's disappearance. We asked whether the sheriff's complete reversal on the footage fits genuine error or deliberate information management. We asked what the FBI releasing evidence through the director's personal X account with no press briefing tells us.
And we asked about the silence. The ransom deadline passed without follow-through. No contact. No proof of life. We asked Dreeke what the absence of action after a stated threat reveals about whether that threat was real — and what that means for where this case actually stands. His answers point somewhere nobody else in media is looking.
#NancyGuthrie #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeToday #DeceptionDetection #FootageReversal #RansomDeadline #FBIBehavioral #NarrativeControl #SavannahGuthrie #TucsonKidnapping
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.