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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Nancy Guthrie Investigation: The Internet Outage, the Escalation Decision, and What the FBI Is Really Doing

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The details in the Nancy Guthrie case that aren't getting enough attention are precisely the ones that matter most to understanding what happened and who's responsible. Hidden Killers brings you a deep-dive listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski — going beyond the press conference talking points and into the evidence.

The night Nancy vanished, the internet in her neighborhood went out. Was that a coincidence? Was it targeted? And if someone cut it deliberately, what does that level of pre-operational planning tell investigators about who they're looking for? Robin Dreeke walks through what that detail means from a behavioral profiling standpoint.

There's also the question of escalation — the moment this became a kidnapping instead of a burglary. That decision happened in real time, in someone's head, under pressure. Robin breaks down the psychological framework of that choice: what drives it, what it reveals about criminal sophistication, and what it tells us about the ongoing danger to Nancy.

The FBI returned to Nancy's neighborhood and knocked on doors again — a full month after the initial canvass. Investigators don't do that without a reason. Tony and Robin analyze what a second-round canvass signals about where the investigation stands and what information may have shifted.

And then there's the psychological weight of the perpetrator's silence. Someone in this person's life almost certainly suspects something. Robin explains what's keeping that person quiet — and what would have to change for them to come forward.

This is the investigative conversation the case deserves.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drey.

0:09.4

Surprise.

0:10.9

There's not a whole lot that's happened over the weekend of the Nancy Guthrie case.

0:15.0

But you guys have a lot of questions about it.

0:18.1

And we have a lot of answers because we're Radio Shack. We bought the rights

0:22.4

to them and we're now actually running a radio shack along with doing true crime. No, but that there

0:28.1

are a lot of questions and a lot of things that we talk about on the show that I go through our

0:32.8

question section sometimes and go, yeah, it's a good one. We should discuss that. So we're going to try and do that today.

0:39.0

We're going to try and get through a bunch of questions that you guys have written in. I grabbed a bunch of

0:42.9

them. Me and Robin are going to discuss them. Robin Drake with us, as always. Retired FBI special

0:48.1

agent, former chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program. And be sure to give us your

0:53.2

questions as well as we do this live today as well.

0:56.3

We'll try and hit some of those. But this is what we're going to do. We're going to do some Nancy

1:01.0

Guthrie. We're going to talk about Corey Richens a little bit as well, but we're going to start with

1:04.4

Nancy and dive into this. Because there's a lot of interesting new little nuggets that that have been coming out one of them

1:13.5

involving the internet and i want to get to this one right away i'm curious there's no robin you

1:20.2

saw this over the week and i'm curious what you found on this uh this is the first uh question where you

1:24.6

guys i keep hearing that the internet in Nancy's

1:29.2

neighborhood went out the night she disappeared. Nobody's really talking about that. Is that a

1:33.3

coincidence? Or did somebody cut it on purpose? And if they did, what does it tell us about what we're

1:39.1

dealing with? So, I mean, it starts with this allegations. I believe a neighbor said they thought

1:43.4

their internet went out.

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