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You get out. The divorce is final. You're physically safe. And then one morning you're standing in your kitchen and a thought hits you that you weren't expecting: Who am I?
Not "what do I do now." This is deeper. What do I actually like? What do I actually think? What do I actually want — not what keeps the peace, not what avoids punishment — what do I want? For someone coming out of coercive control, those questions can feel impossible. Because the person who entered that relationship has been systematically disassembled.
True crime coverage talks about the abuse. The escape. The arrest. It almost never talks about what comes after — the healing, the identity work, the daily act of becoming yourself again after someone spent years trying to erase you.
This episode honors what Monique Tepe built after her marriage to Michael McKee. She chose Spencer. She chose parenthood. She chose joy while carrying fear. And she did it knowing — according to family — that the threat had never fully gone away.
We cover what recovery actually looks like: the identity excavation, the role of therapy and its accessibility barriers, the shame that doesn't belong to survivors, and the community of people carrying the same silence. This episode speaks directly to anyone still rebuilding after what happened to them.
You are not what happened to you. You are what you build after.
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The Kouri Richins trial brings Robert Crozier, Former Drug Dealer, to the stand in this segment.
The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maintains Eric died from accidental drug use.
True Crime Today delivers real-time trial coverage as it happens—key testimony, critical cross-examinations, and the moments that matter. No waiting for nightly recaps. Watch the case unfold live.
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Two of the most-watched cases in the country are reaching critical moments.
The Kouri Richins murder trial is a battle between devastating motive evidence and investigative gaps. Prosecutors say she killed her husband for $4 million and a fresh start—pointing to five times the lethal fentanyl dose, a forged insurance policy, a boyfriend, internet searches about lethal doses, and Eric's alleged statement two weeks before his death: "I think my wife is trying to poison me."
The defense counters with what's missing. The Moscow mule cups were never tested. The kitchen wasn't secured. White specks on Eric's nightstand went unanalyzed. The medical examiner says manner of death remains "undetermined." After ten searches over four years, there's no physical evidence connecting Kouri to the act itself.
Which argument wins?
Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie has been missing for twenty-five days. The doorbell footage shows a masked man who cased the house, came back, and didn't know about the camera until he was standing in front of it. If this was a burglary that ended in an unintended death, Arizona's felony murder statute doesn't offer mercy. Intent is irrelevant.
Defense attorney Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor, explains the difference between walking into a police station now and getting caught through genetic genealogy later. The person who hid Nancy also hid the evidence that could support their own defense. That clock is running.
Two cases. Two legal reckonings. The walls are closing.
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The Kouri Richins trial brings Anna Isbell, Acquaintance of Kouri Richins, to the stand in this segment.
The Kouri Richins murder trial continues in Utah as the state prosecutes the children's book author for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric Richins with fentanyl. Prosecutors allege she killed him for insurance money after secretly increasing his policy to $1.9 million. The defense maintains Eric died from accidental drug use.
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The criticism isn't coming from cable news pundits or political opponents. It's coming from inside the house.
Nearly four weeks after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home, the sheriff leading the investigation is facing public accusations from his own former command staff. Richard Kastigar, a 46-year department veteran and former Chief Deputy, says Sheriff Chris Nanos has "great disdain" for the FBI stemming from a decade-old investigation—and that Nanos is "still pissed" about it. Richard Carmona, another former Chief Deputy, told reporters he's "disappointed at the level or lack of leadership."
The president of the deputies' union put it more bluntly: "It is a common belief in this agency that this case has become an ego case for Sheriff Nanos."
Nanos disputes everything. He says the FBI relationship is strong. He says the evidence decisions were about lab consistency. He says the criticism is political noise.
But actions speak. The crime scene was released too early—he admitted it. DNA went to a private lab, not Quantico, and now faces "challenges" that could take months. A search helicopter pilot was reportedly reassigned during the active investigation. And the sheriff told reporters: "I'm not used to everyone hanging onto my every word and then holding me accountable."
An 84-year-old woman remains missing. Her family just offered a $1 million reward—more than three weeks after they reportedly wanted to announce it. And the man running the investigation says everyone questioning him is the problem.
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