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Eighteen thousand tips. And the one that matters probably hasn't come in yet.
Someone out there knows something. A neighbor who saw something. A coworker who's noticed changed behavior. A friend who heard a conversation they've tried to forget. A family member protecting someone they love.
Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent his career getting people to talk. He ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He knows why people stay silent — and what finally makes them pick up the phone.
In this interview, Dreeke breaks down witness psychology. The person who doesn't realize their information matters. The person who's scared of getting dragged into something public. The person protecting someone at the cost of their own conscience. Each one requires a different approach.
The Guthrie family has released video pleas. They're talking to whoever took Nancy — but there's another audience. The people on the edges who know something. Does that public attention bring them forward or push them deeper into silence?
Dreeke speaks directly to whoever's out there with a piece of this. The neighbor. The coworker. The friend telling themselves it's probably nothing. What would it take to get them to call today?
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Two cases. One attorney who has prosecuted murder and defended against it. Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down the institutional failures in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation and the aggressive Supreme Court oral arguments in the Alex Murdaugh appeal.
In the Guthrie case, eleven days without a suspect have exposed a pattern of decisions by Sheriff Nanos that could compromise any future prosecution — from the premature crime scene release to the five-hour grounding of thermal imaging aircraft to ten days of calling critical footage permanently lost when the FBI found it in backend data. The family is communicating with the alleged kidnappers through Instagram rather than through law enforcement. The FBI released surveillance footage through Director Patel's personal X account. A man was detained in Rio Rico and released without charges. Faddis walks through the legal exposure on both sides — what the investigative failures mean for civil liability and what a prosecutor has to build a chargeable case from.
In the Murdaugh appeal, the South Carolina Supreme Court justices directed pointed questioning at the state. Becky Hill's perjury conviction has rewritten the jury tampering issue. The chief justice challenged the state on Rule 404(b) and the unchecked flow of financial crime evidence at trial. With no eyewitnesses, no weapons, and no biological transfer evidence, the defense argues the state's case may not survive if the financial testimony falls. Faddis reads the bench and identifies where this is heading.
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We live in the most surveilled moment in human history. Cameras on every doorbell. GPS in every phone. License plate readers on every highway. We're told if you commit a crime, you'll be caught.
Nancy Guthrie had a Nest camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. And she's gone. Twelve days. No vehicle of interest. No suspects. No trace.
Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He spent twenty-one years watching people try to move without being detected — and understanding how the gaps in our surveillance architecture get exploited.
In this interview, Dreeke breaks down how someone vanishes in 2026. What the blind spots actually look like. What an extraction like this would require. Why there's no confirmed transportation method. And what this case reveals about the difference between the security we assume we have and what actually exists.
The public believes surveillance protects us. This case challenges that assumption. Dreeke explains what we're missing — and what it should teach law enforcement about the vulnerabilities we don't see.
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When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn't been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today's oral arguments and what the bench's aggressive questioning of the state signals about the likely outcome.
Justice Few asked Creighton Waters directly how you can label someone "not completely credible" when her own guilty plea proves she's a liar. Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order never addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses "striking." The defense argues the wrong legal standard was applied — and from the bench, it appeared multiple justices agreed.
Kittredge also pressed hard on the financial evidence, telling Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and that the trial court couldn't seem to find a reason to keep anything out. Jim Griffin argued this case has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence. If the financial testimony falls, the state's case gets very thin.
Faddis reads the room and explains which of the three possible outcomes — affirm, new trial, or remand — today's hearing most strongly pointed toward.
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Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn't the egg juror allowed to testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing? From there, the hearing split into two phases that each delivered major moments. On the jury tampering issue, Dick Harpootlian argued that Becky Hill — the former Colleton County Clerk of Court now convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — had a financial motive to push for a guilty verdict. Chief Justice Kittredge told the state that Toal's ruling didn't even address the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled. Justice Few challenged Creighton Waters on the absurdity of calling Hill not completely credible while ignoring her perjury conviction. On the evidentiary side, Jim Griffin argued this was never an overwhelming evidence case — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence on Murdaugh. 
Kittredge hammered Waters on Rule 404(b), saying the gate to financial crimes evidence was left wide open and he couldn't find a single example of anything that was excluded. When Waters tried to reference the movie Fargo, Justice Few told him to get to the point. The court took the case under advisement. No decision today. Three possible outcomes remain: affirm, new trial, or remand. But what unfolded in that courtroom didn't look like a court preparing to uphold the status quo. This episode covers every key exchange and what it means going forward.
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