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The man who took Nancy Guthrie tore vines off the front of her house to cover the camera. That clump was lying on an enclosed porch next to her blood when deputies arrived — and Jennifer Coffindaffer says nobody bagged it. The retired FBI agent flew to Tucson, stood in front of that house, and came back asking what the rest of the scene looks like if the porch was worked that way. She also tore apart the sheriff's claim that the case isn't cold because he flew a team to his Florida lab. That's the lab the FBI pulled the hair out of in April. The hair had no DNA. The department solved a separate 1975 murder in May, and Coffindaffer suspects the trip was about that. The only DNA left is a mix of up to four people. She joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke.
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Jennifer Coffindaffer has covered the Nancy Guthrie case on air since the first week. In October she flew to Tucson and stood on Nancy's street after midnight with her car lights off. Everyone had been told the Catalina Foothills are too dark for cameras — that's why nobody has ever shown a getaway car. Coffindaffer says she could see twenty yards. Porch lights and landscape lighting on every block. Her camera couldn't record it, but she could see Nancy's door frame from the street. She drove the exit routes through lit roads, past a school, a church, and a CVS. The only car ever captured is a Ring clip from two and a half miles away, still unidentified eight months later. Coffindaffer lays it out with Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on this edition of True Crime Today.
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Meanwhile Lori's own Idaho murder convictions are now before the state Supreme Court. Her appeal argues that the trial judge improperly removed Mark Means, the lawyer she wanted, after a conflict involving Means's earlier work for Chad Daybell. The state argues the removal was proper. Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Robin Dreeke to explain why attorney choice matters, why conflicts matter too, and what a court must decide before any retrial could occur. Oral arguments are scheduled for November 2, 2026. There is no appellate ruling yet.
Brandon Boudreaux testified that Melani looked to her aunt Lori Vallow as a mother figure. That matters because this story starts long before a court argument about an attorney. Melani had lost her mother as a child, and Lori occupied an enormous place in the family. When beliefs around Lori began changing, Melani's marriage and her sense of who to trust changed with them.
In testimony at the Chad Daybell trial, Melani Pawlowski described meeting Chad in November 2018. He was presented as someone who could identify light and darkness in people. Brandon told jurors Melani began attending religious gatherings without him and said he was not welcome. Melani testified she eventually began referring to Lori and Chad as Mom and Dad. It is one thing to follow an aunt's advice. It is another when that aunt and her new husband become the people defining what reality looks like.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke help Tony Brueski examine the influence, the changing boundaries, and how a familiar family relationship can make extraordinary claims feel trustworthy. That is behavioral analysis, not a diagnosis or proof of criminal involvement. Melani has denied involvement in the shooting at her former husband, Brandon, and has not been charged in that shooting.
A mother's loss, an aunt who became a guiding authority, a new religious circle, and a Supreme Court appeal about a disqualified lawyer: these facts sit in different chapters of the case. Put together, they show just how many different kinds of influence investigators, families, and judges were being asked to sort out.
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The Sandra Birchmore case is back at a question federal prosecutors raised long before Matthew Farwell's trial: what did he mean by the note he allegedly wrote to his closest friend in June 2024? The government says the former Stoughton police officer asked his friend to step in for his wife and children and said they would meet “on the other side.” News had just broken that a private pathologist believed Birchmore was killed.
Prosecutors cited the note in detention filings as a reason to be concerned about flight risk. They did not claim it was a murder confession, and they acknowledged Farwell stayed put. The defense says that the evidence does not overturn the suicide explanation. The competing interpretations require careful separation from the note's actual words.
In court, William Farwell testified under immunity that Matthew later told him he had wiped phone data after Birchmore's death. The prosecution presented its own reconstruction of what happened in her apartment in February 2021. The defense continues to challenge that reconstruction. Matthew Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal counts concerning Birchmore and her unborn child.
On October 28, 2026, prosecutors rested after 38 witnesses, and the defense began calling its own. Conviction could expose Farwell to life in federal prison. Because he once served as a police officer, security and protective placement would be important questions for the Bureau of Prisons if he were sentenced. Nobody can know a future housing decision from his job history alone.
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to test the government's reading of the note, explore the limits of behavior-based inference, and examine what former-officer status could mean inside federal custody. The central question remains whether the jury finds the murder charge proven.
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There are two courtrooms in the story of Lori Vallow’s niece Melani Boudreaux: the custody dispute over her four children and the criminal trials that later examined Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s circle. Between them sits a whirlwind November 2019 wedding, a written warning attributed to her new husband, and persistent questions about what Melani believed while JJ and Tylee were missing.
Melani moved next door to Lori in Rexburg and quickly married Ian Pawlowski. Ian testified that Lori and Chad held enormous influence in her life. Alex Cox, Lori’s brother, reportedly served as a witness to the wedding. In a documented account attributed to Ian, he expressed concern that Melani had heard beliefs under which Brandon Boudreaux and perhaps the missing children were considered threats that needed to be removed. His account must be understood as reported concern rather than independent proof of a plot.
After Lori was arrested on February 20, 2020, Brandon continued pressing allegations in Arizona family court that Melani knew more about the attack on him and the missing children. Melani disputed those allegations through counsel and said she did not know the children’s whereabouts. She has not been charged in the Brandon shooting. She went on to testify for the state at Chad Daybell’s trial.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to examine how people make choices under intense family loyalty, and why testimony, legal claims, and psychological interpretation should not be blended into one asserted fact. This is the story of a family crisis that outlasted an arrest and followed Melani into court.
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