Bryan Kohberger's DNA Was on the Knife — So Why Was Someone Else's at the Scene?

Why Elizabeth Siders' Attorney Calls Her a Victim Too

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen years old when she was married off in West Virginia. She became the biological mother of every child found in a twelve-by-twelve room in rural Ohio — sixteen kids, some of whom could not speak, living in conditions investigators compared to livestock. She now faces sixteen felony counts of child endangerment. Her own defense attorney has argued in filings that she is a victim of this family. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether the law supports holding both of those positions simultaneously. The case has taken several turns since the arrest. A gag order now covers every official who spoke publicly, filed by the defense after the AG used the phrase pure evil and the sheriff described conditions worse than the animals on the property. The seventy-three-year-old grandfather was released from custody because the county couldn't afford his medical bills, and his competency is being challenged. Faddis addresses whether this man's case ever makes it to trial. Faddis also examines the charge itself — whether child endangerment captures the scope of what happened — and the truancy complaints Gallia County filed in 2021 that were never served because the family couldn't be located. Sixteen children lived off the grid for nearly two decades, and the system that's supposed to prevent this had complaints in hand and couldn't find them. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today. — Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] 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. #SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

Kash Patel Contradicted HIMSELF About Nancy Guthrie?!

The FBI Director told a podcast audience that his agents were kept out of the Nancy Guthrie investigation for four days, and that it cost them. There is a problem with that. On the third of February, two days after she was reported missing, an FBI special agent stood at a press conference in Tucson beside Sheriff Chris Nanos. And that same day, Kash Patel went on national television and said the Bureau was on the ground there with them. That is the sentence he cannot take back. Tony Brueski walks the whole ledger. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Department issuing statements forty-five minutes apart in which each pointed at the other and neither claimed the lead. The Reuters report saying none of the ransom notes were genuine, contradicted publicly by FBI Phoenix a day later. A retired FBI agent who says there is genuine disagreement inside the Bureau about whether the evidence is even real. The plane Patel wanted credit for. The doorbell footage he wanted credit for. The glove that flew to Florida and back before anyone ran it. The partial DNA profile that cannot be run at all. And a sheriff answering for his own work history in the middle of the biggest case of his career. Cases like this rarely die because the offender was brilliant. They die because the people hunting him got distracted hunting each other. Nancy Guthrie has not been found. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #NancyGuthrie #ChrisNanos #TrueCrimeToday #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #SavannahGuthrie #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson

Why Nolan Wells' Friend Went Public Before Answers Came

Before the autopsy was finalized, before the FBI finished examining the digital evidence, before the investigation reached any conclusion, one of Nolan Wells' friends went on Good Morning America and then sat down with Rolling Stone to publicly tell his story. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis asks the question that matters: does an innocent person do a national media tour during an active investigation, or does that tell you something about what they're trying to control? The friends have attorneys. The family has Ben Crump. The family is running its own parallel investigation with private forensics examiners and a commissioned autopsy. And one detail that Crump has highlighted shifts the entire frame: the friends didn't voluntarily disclose that they had Nolan's phone and keys after his death. The family tracked the phone with Life360 and recovered it themselves. Faddis walks through every decision being made by every person connected to this case — what the friends should be doing if they genuinely want the truth, what the family's shadow investigation helps and hurts, and what everyone should be preparing for if the investigation ends without charges and a civil lawsuit follows. The Lauren Agee case provides the roadmap. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today. — Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] 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. #NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Why Nolan Wells' Sheriff Spoke Before the Evidence Did

A sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of an eighteen-year-old before the autopsy was finished, before toxicology existed, and before the FBI touched a single piece of digital evidence. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains exactly why that matters — and what it costs an investigation when the public call comes before the science. Nolan Wells went to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends. His body was found in the water two days later. The friends told investigators he chose to stay on the island to talk to a girl. The young woman reportedly told investigators something different. That contradiction has not been publicly reconciled, and a former prosecutor says the timeline on resolving it matters more than most people realize. Messages were allegedly deleted from Nolan's phone before the family recovered it. The FBI is examining the digital evidence now. Faddis addresses what the independent autopsy needs to show for the investigation to change direction, why the DA's commitment to a grand jury presentation may be the most significant signal in this case, and how an investigation built almost entirely on strangers' cell phone footage from a remote barrier island operates when the physical evidence barely exists. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today. — Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] 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. #NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Siders' 16 Kids: Why Did NOBODY Go Looking?

Nobody in the state of Ohio went looking for these sixteen children. Not one person, for years. They were found in a house in Hamden by deputies who were not there for them. The warrant was for something else. Ohio's Attorney General has said there was no expectation that any children were inside that home. The school district had no record. The neighbors had no idea. Investigators believe the family had moved across more than one Ohio county while generating almost none of the ordinary paperwork the rest of us leave behind. And the oldest of the sixteen, an eighteen-year-old, could not write her own name, according to investigators. Ohio has that name. The state issued her a birth certificate the year she was born and put it in a county drawer, where it has sat untouched while the young woman it belongs to grew up in that house. Tony Brueski traces this out of Vinton County and into the machine that produced it. A mandated-reporter system with a duty and no teeth. A single comparison from Washington, D.C., where four girls were found dead by marshals inside a system a federal judge had run for nineteen years. And a ten-billion-dollar funding structure built to open the moment a child is taken, and to pay nobody, ever, for going out to look. Four adults have pleaded not guilty to sixteen counts each of second-degree felony child endangering. No grand jury has returned an indictment. This was not a family that outsmarted the system. There was nothing to outsmart. End Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer 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. Hashtags #SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillers #VintonCounty #16Children #TrueCrime #OhioNews #ChildWelfare #GarySiders #TrueCrimePodcast