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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Nancy Guthrie, Nanos, and Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Full Investigation

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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3.3907 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers two active cases, three distinct conversations, and one recurring theme across all of them: what does accountability actually look like when the institutions built to deliver it are part of the problem?

Parts one and two: Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke responds to listener questions on Sheriff Chris Nanos and the Nancy Guthrie investigation. The documented El Paso PD record, hidden for over 40 years. The sworn testimony that conflicts with that record. The unanimous rejection from the deputies who work alongside him daily. The compliance move timed precisely to close the legal door on removal. Robin applies behavioral analysis frameworks to each of these data points — not as opinion, but as professional assessment grounded in what is publicly documented.

Because Nancy Guthrie is still missing.

Abducted from her Catalina Foothills home in the early hours of February 1, blood confirmed as hers found at the scene, ransom notes distributed to media, DNA evidence producing no CODIS matches, investigators requesting footage specifically from January 11, and a suspect on camera who has not been identified. Nearly two months. No arrest. The investigation continues under conditions that have become a national story for reasons that have nothing to do with Nancy.

Then part three: listener questions on the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial. Former North Andover officer. Shot by a colleague, Pat Noonan, during a restraining order service. Documented postpartum depression and a prior involuntary commitment — known to officers before they entered. No mental health professional on scene. Noonan's testimony produced two contradictory accounts. A neighbor testified under oath to the way he characterized Kelsey. The trial is before Judge Jeffrey Karp, arguments complete, verdict expected.

Full investigation. All three segments. No easy answers — because there aren't any.

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0:30.5

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0:35.1

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0:39.5

featuring in-depth sessions with investigators, creators and the families impacted by crime. With just

0:45.0

200 attendees, you'll also share breakfast and lunch with the speakers, giving you the chance to spend

0:49.9

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0:55.4

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1:02.2

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

1:09.2

All right. We got a lot to get through today and it's's your questions, and we got answers, again, because we're Radio Shack. We bought the rights to it, and we're also selling AA batteries right back over here in case you need any. They're really overpriced, and they're not going to last you very long, but the Radio Shack. Anyway, we are here. We're going to break down the latest in the Nancy Guthrie case.

1:30.5

It's becoming about the Sheriff Nanos case.

1:33.2

It's like two separate things at this point, but all intertwined.

1:36.9

So leave us your questions in the comment section for that, and we're going to try and

1:40.6

answer them live here during this discussion.

1:45.4

And we'll also, of course, continue the conversation off the year after the fact.

1:49.4

And we're also going to be talking about the ladies in the Kelsey Fitzsimmons case.

1:52.4

Let's start out with Nancy Guthrie.

1:54.4

You've been sending in the questions, not about the suspect, not about the evidence,

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