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Rex Heuermann received consecutive life sentences for the murders of eight women he strangled over a seventeen-year span. The judge called him disgusting. Called him a coward. Told officers to get him out of the courtroom. Families cheered and chanted as he was led away.
But one piece of testimony from that sentencing tells you more about who Heuermann is than the sentence itself. A family member of one of the victims described a phone call Heuermann made after the murder. It was not a threat. It was not a warning. It was something else entirely — and it reveals the kind of person the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is about to spend hours sitting across from.
Heuermann agreed to full cooperation with the BAU as part of his plea deal. He is required to be truthful and complete. He will describe how he chose them, how he killed them, how he hid in plain sight for nearly two decades. And former FBI agents believe the real number of victims goes well beyond eight. Jennifer Coffindaffer, contributor to Hidden Killers, walks through what that phone call tells investigators and what the BAU sessions may uncover.
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An eighty-four-year-old woman with no known cryptocurrency was allegedly taken from her home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Tucson. A six-million-dollar Bitcoin ransom was demanded. A two-billion-dollar cybersecurity firm called it a wrench attack by proxy — a classification that raises a question nobody else has asked publicly.
What if the attackers had the wrong house? What if someone else in Catalina Foothills — someone with the kind of crypto holdings that draw a six-million-dollar demand — was the intended target? And what if Nancy Guthrie, who answered her door that night, was never supposed to be part of this at all?
CertiK used the term proxy target selection. Volunteers in Mexico have turned up twenty-five unmarked graves in the border region. Retired FBI agents have identified the reservation as a plausible route south. DNA evidence is at the FBI lab. The sheriff is facing a recall. And if the wrong-house theory holds, the person the attackers were actually looking for may still be living in that neighborhood. Jennifer Coffindaffer, contributor to Hidden Killers, breaks it all down.
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The prosecution’s case for how five-year-old Harmony Montgomery died on December 7, 2019, depended almost entirely on the testimony of Kayla Montgomery — Adam Montgomery’s estranged wife. Kayla served a sentence for lying to investigators about Harmony’s whereabouts before she agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. The corroborating evidence — DNA in a ceiling vent, a co-worker’s testimony about a restaurant freezer, a friend who witnessed Adam pacing and repeating that he had made a mistake — supported Kayla’s account of what happened after Harmony’s death. It did not corroborate her testimony about how the child died.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court identified this evidentiary disparity as the foundation for its unanimous reversal of the murder conviction. The July 2019 second-degree assault charge, tried alongside the murder, was supported by three independent witnesses who observed documented injuries. The court concluded that trying both charges together created a significant risk the jury relied on the strength of the assault evidence to bridge the gap in the murder case. The trial court’s denial of the defense’s severance motion was determined to be an unsustainable exercise of discretion.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides analysis of the ruling’s legal mechanics, the practical meaning of prejudicial joinder, the unusual procedural posture in which the defense argued both for and against severance at different stages, and the trial court’s obligation to independently evaluate the risk of unfair prejudice. Montgomery’s convictions for second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence, witness tampering, and desecrating remains were affirmed. He carries a separate thirty-two-and-a-half-year firearms sentence. Prosecutors have announced their intention to retry the murder charge. Harmony Montgomery’s remains have not been recovered.
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Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson served as the Murdaugh family’s housekeeper for approximately twenty years. She observed the defendant’s operational pattern across that period: the consistent use of intermediaries in financial transactions, the delegation of exposure to associates, the construction of deniability through layered relationships. Curtis Eddie Smith’s documented role — cashing approximately four hundred thirty-seven checks totaling roughly two point four million dollars — is one component of a broader infrastructure Simpson observed firsthand.
Simpson presents a specific theory of the crime. She posits that the defendant maintained a Plan A involving another individual’s presence at Moselle the night of the killings, and when that arrangement failed, executed the plan independently and constructed a post-hoc narrative implicating the boat crash families. Her basis is the defendant’s documented behavioral history of using others as instruments. Simpson directly addresses the defense’s third-party suspect strategy, arguing that the defendant’s established pattern of operating through intermediaries makes a solely independent act inconsistent with his behavioral record.
Attorney Eric Bland provides the retrial analysis. Bland constructed the financial fraud case prosecutors relied upon for their motive theory and represented the Satterfield family. The Supreme Court’s ruling directs that financial crimes evidence be substantially curtailed at any retrial. Bland identifies what evidence survives, what does not, and whether the prosecution’s case can sustain the loss. He addresses the defense’s assertion of new DNA evidence and third-party culprit claims, the AG’s consideration of capital charges and the defense’s vindictive prosecution response, and the question of whether the defendant should testify again. Bland predicts a high probability of reconviction but acknowledges a meaningful possibility of a hung jury, and identifies the juror profile most likely to produce that outcome.
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The question at the center of the Anna Kepner case has shifted from the accused to the adults who allegedly put her in harm’s way. Timothy Hudson’s own step-grandmother publicly stated on CBS that the parents should be held accountable and described the family cruise as “a recipe for disaster.” Anna’s ex-boyfriend has stated she was afraid of her stepbrother and took steps to avoid being alone with him. Three teenagers who had not been raised together were assigned to a single cabin aboard the Carnival Horizon.
The Crumbley precedent — in which both parents of the Oxford High School shooter were convicted of involuntary manslaughter for ignoring documented warning signs — has dominated public discussion. But the jurisdictional framework differs fundamentally. The Carnival Horizon is a Panamanian-flagged vessel. The alleged crime occurred in international waters, outside any state’s jurisdiction. No federal contributing-to-the-delinquency-of-a-minor statute applies in this context. If no applicable law exists, the comparison to the Crumbley prosecution lacks a statutory foundation.
Separately, Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres reversed his own pretrial release decision on June 10 after receiving sealed evidence filed two days earlier. His detention order states that Hudson’s alleged conduct suggests “a level of psychopathy and lack of remorse” and that he could “snap at any time.” Hudson surrendered to U.S. Marshals and is being held at Citrus County Jail pending transfer to Miami-Dade’s Metro West Detention Center. Trial remains set for September.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke examine the jurisdictional obstacles, the legal shift from juvenile to adult detention rules, and what the sealed evidence likely contains.
Timothy Hudson, sixteen, is charged as an adult with first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty and is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
A look back at the most compelling stories of the week.
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