Eric Faddis on Guthrie, Beallis & McKee: Legal Analysis Across Three Major Cases
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to break down three of the most followed cases in true crime—the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the Charity Beallis family deaths, and the newly unsealed McKee affidavit.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home. She's the mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Investigators confirmed forced entry, DNA evidence, and bitcoin ransom demands sent to media outlets. Pacemaker sync data may establish the timeline. No suspects have been identified. Faddis analyzes the legal landscape—cryptocurrency evidence, medical device data at trial, and how law enforcement's conflicting public statements become defense material.
Charity Beallis and her twins were shot to death December 3rd in Arkansas—one day after her divorce was finalized. Her father says she was shot twice. Two months, no arrest. The history includes a 2025 arrest for allegedly choking Charity, substantiated child maltreatment, and a prior wife dead in 2012 under similar circumstances. Faddis walks through what's causing the delay and what defense strategy emerges from this background.
The McKee affidavit documents alleged obsession spanning eight years. Surveillance footage shows Michael McKee in the Tepes' yard while they were away. Stolen plates on his vehicle. Years of threats. A phone that went dark during the murder window. Automatic weapon or silencer specifications. No forced entry. Faddis breaks down what the prosecution is building and identifies potential defense challenges.
Three cases. Three different evidence profiles. Three different stages of investigation and prosecution.
Eric Faddis provides the legal framework for understanding each—what prosecutors have, what they need, and what the people at the center of these investigations should be thinking about their exposure right now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.9 | Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of today's show host, Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her |
| 0:16.2 | Tucson home against her will. Investigators have confirmed forced entry DNA evidence belonging to |
| 0:23.1 | Nancy and purported ransom notes demanding Bitcoin sent to multiple media outlets. The chaos storm |
| 0:29.7 | is large right now. People saying this, people saying that, people saying this, people backing up |
| 0:35.2 | what they said, people backing away from what they've said. |
| 0:38.9 | It's the fog of war, as are so many of these cases. The FBI is involved. No suspects have been |
| 0:46.3 | identified to understand what a case like this looks like when it finally lands in the courtroom from |
| 0:52.6 | both the prosecution and the defense side, |
| 0:54.9 | we're joined by attorney Eric Fattis. |
| 0:57.5 | This is a case where I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around where to even begin talking about on it |
| 1:04.8 | because it is, it's just so breaking and so moving and it's not, I don't want to just do, |
| 1:09.7 | here's the latest, here's the breaking, but what's the angle not i don't want to just do here's the latest here's the breaking |
| 1:11.1 | but what's the angle how is this going to play out long term so i want to i want to talk about |
| 1:19.1 | some of the aspects of it that have begun to flow in we're going to start with talking about |
| 1:25.0 | the ransom notes that have come in sent to media. We don't know if these things are legitimate, |
| 1:31.7 | and we're going to take it from that angle of not knowing. TMZ, local Tucson stations, |
| 1:36.1 | say they've received these ransoms notes. It's not an unusual move. It's a little unusual |
| 1:41.2 | that they're getting them four days into this. |
| 1:50.9 | Eric, what does a choice tell you about the legal exposure a person is putting themselves into by sending out ransom notes whether they actually have her or not? This could be a rather |
| 1:58.7 | precocious place to put oneself if it's just for attention. |
| 2:03.4 | Oh, 100%. I mean, you know, a law enforcement has to assess the authenticity of these purported |
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