True Crime Today examines the legal and investigative dimensions of two active cases that, together, raise pressing questions about institutional accountability in American law enforcement.

On the Nancy Guthrie investigation: Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills, Arizona home since February 1, 2026. The FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department are conducting a joint investigation. No arrest has been made. No suspect has been publicly identified. DNA recovered from the scene has produced no CODIS matches. Investigators have been requesting footage from January 11, several weeks prior to the disappearance, though the significance has not been publicly confirmed. The lead official — Sheriff Chris Nanos — is simultaneously subject to a unanimous deputies union no-confidence vote, a Board of Supervisors compliance directive with review scheduled for April 7, and an active recall effort requiring 122,000-plus signatures by July 10. These proceedings follow the emergence of undisclosed disciplinary records from Nanos' El Paso PD tenure that directly contradict sworn testimony he provided. Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke provides professional assessment of Nanos' documented behavioral record and the case's current investigative conditions.

On the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial: Former North Andover, Massachusetts officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons faced a single count of assault with a dangerous weapon before Essex Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp. She has pleaded not guilty. The incident occurred June 30, 2025, when fellow officer Patrick Noonan shot Fitzsimmons during a restraining order service at her home. The prosecution alleges she aimed the weapon at Noonan; the defense contends she was in mental health crisis and raised it only to her own temple. Trial testimony has concluded. Closing arguments are complete. Verdict is pending.

Both cases examined in full.

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In premeditated targeted violence cases, the research is consistent: there are almost always people in the periphery who held information, observed behavior, or carried a feeling they couldn't name that, in hindsight, was a warning sign.

Someone knew something was wrong before Jared Bridegan was killed on February 16th, 2022.

Part 5 — the finale of One Mile From Home — examines why that knowledge didn't produce intervention. Tony Brueski breaks down probability discounting and the social cost of naming a threat — the documented cognitive and social mechanisms that cause people to systematically underweight danger from people they know, and to choose the path of least resistance over the discomfort of saying something that might turn out to be wrong.

He examines Henry Tenon as the final link in a chain that had interruption points above it — a chain that required multiple people to either participate or fail to stop it. And he closes the series with the question that connects the case to every listener who has ever watched someone escalate and not known what to do with what they were seeing.

95% of the time, naming it makes you feel foolish. 5% of the time, it's the only thing that would have mattered.

The series that started with a tire on a road ends here — with the only knowledge this case leaves us with that is genuinely useful. It would be a waste not to use it.

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The bench trial of former North Andover, Massachusetts police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons concluded arguments before Essex Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp, with a decision expected imminently.

Fitzsimmons, 29, faces a single count of assault with a dangerous weapon. She has pleaded not guilty. The charge stems from an incident on June 30, 2025, in which North Andover officer Patrick Noonan shot Fitzsimmons during the service of a restraining order at her home, obtained by her then-fiancé, Justin Aylaian.

Prosecution's theory: Fitzsimmons raised her service weapon, aimed it at Noonan's face, and pulled the trigger. The weapon did not discharge — the chamber was empty. Fitzsimmons then attempted to load the weapon, at which point Noonan fired twice, striking her in the chest.

Defense's theory: Fitzsimmons was in acute mental health crisis and raised the weapon to her own temple. The physical location of the firearm after the incident — found under her leg — is, per defense argument, inconsistent with the trajectory of a weapon pointed at Noonan. Fitzsimmons elected to testify, denying under oath that the weapon was aimed at anyone but herself.

Key evidentiary record: Noonan acknowledged under cross-examination that he may have referred to Fitzsimmons as a "f---ing whack job" to a neighbor; that neighbor's testimony under oath confirmed the statement. Noonan provided two materially different accounts of the firing sequence, acknowledged the inconsistency, and stated both versions were accurate to his recollection. No body camera footage of the incident exists. Fitzsimmons had a documented involuntary psychiatric commitment in March 2025 for postpartum depression; at least one responding officer had knowledge of this prior to entry. A defense-requested site visit at the residence, approved by the court, was subsequently withdrawn by the defense without stated reason.

Fitzsimmons waived her right to a jury trial. The case is before Judge Jeffrey Karp alone. Maximum exposure on the charge is five years in state prison.

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Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz — a fellow Democrat — used three words to describe Sheriff Chris Nanos's 42-year career in Pima County: fruit of a poison tree. The argument is straightforward and damning. If Nanos omitted a forced resignation and eight suspensions from his 1984 Pima County job application — and the records now suggest he did — then the career built on that application was compromised from the start. Everything above it is tainted.

His deputies agree. Two hundred and forty-one voted no confidence. Zero voted to continue. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke a state statute requiring Nanos to submit sworn statements or face removal. And a December deposition — in which Nanos was asked under oath whether he'd ever been suspended and said no — is now at the center of a public question about whether his answer was truthful.

Nanos says he interpreted the question as applying only to his Pima County career. His El Paso file — obtained by the Arizona Republic — shows eight suspensions totaling thirty-seven days, a suspect who ended up in the intensive care unit, a grand jury, and a resignation submitted in lieu of termination.

He's said he'll comply with the board's order. Whether that compliance is enough to keep him in office — or whether it simply closes the door on the only removal mechanism currently available — is what county attorneys are working to determine right now.

Nancy Guthrie is still missing. The full picture, laid out plainly, is here.

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A California civil jury has delivered the largest judgment Bill Cosby has ever faced. Here's how a case from 1972 made it to a Santa Monica courtroom in 2026 — and what the verdict actually means legally.

On March 23, 2026, jurors found Cosby liable for the sexual battery and assault of an intoxicated person under California civil law, awarding plaintiff Donna Motsinger $17.5 million in past non-economic damages, $1.75 million in future damages, and — following a separate punitive phase the same afternoon — $40 million in punitive damages, for a total of $59.25 million. The punitive award required the jury to find that Cosby acted with malice, oppression, or fraud, a legal threshold they met after deliberating on pattern evidence and Cosby's own prior deposition testimony.

The case was filed in 2023 under California's lookback window legislation, signed by Governor Newsom in 2022, which temporarily suspended the civil statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims. Without that law, Motsinger's suit would have been time-barred decades ago. Motsinger had previously appeared as an anonymous witness — Jane Doe Number 8 — in the 2005 Constand civil case, which resolved in a private settlement before reaching trial.

At the Motsinger trial, the court admitted testimony from Andrea Constand, Victoria Valentino, and Janice Baker Kinney under California's common plan or design evidentiary standard, allowing the jury to consider a documented pattern of alleged conduct. Closing arguments included excerpts from a Cosby deposition in which he acknowledged prescribing himself Quaaludes with the stated purpose of giving them to women and admitted he did not evaluate whether those women could give meaningful consent.

Cosby's legal team has announced an appeal. Whether Motsinger will collect on the judgment depends on Cosby's actual assets and the outcome of that appellate process — both of which remain contested.

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The legal and investigative dimensions of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance have grown increasingly intertwined, and True Crime Today examines what the current conditions mean for the active case.

From an investigative standpoint: Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills, Arizona home since early February. The FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department are co-leading the investigation. DNA recovered from the crime scene and from gloves found in the vicinity has produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI-managed national genetic database. Investigators have been requesting footage specifically from January 11, several weeks prior to the abduction, suggesting evidence of possible pre-operational activity. No suspect has been publicly identified or charged.

From an institutional standpoint: The lead law enforcement official, Sheriff Chris Nanos, is simultaneously subject to a unanimous no-confidence vote from his deputies union of more than 300 officers, a Board of Supervisors order requiring sworn departmental reporting — with the draft language set for review at a board meeting on April 7 — and an active recall effort requiring 122,000-plus signatures by July 10. These developments stem from the emergence of undisclosed disciplinary records from Nanos' El Paso PD tenure, records that directly contradict sworn testimony he provided.

The question of whether command-level institutional disruption affects the quality of active investigative work, and what conditions would be required to advance this case toward resolution, is addressed directly by retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke in this episode.

The investigation continues. No arrest has been made.

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The legal picture surrounding Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has sharpened considerably, and the implications for the Nancy Guthrie investigation are significant.

Under sworn testimony, Nanos stated he had never been suspended during his law enforcement career. Documented records from his tenure with the El Paso Police Department indicate otherwise, revealing a history of suspensions and conduct issues. When the discrepancy emerged publicly, Nanos' office clarified that his sworn statement pertained specifically to his Pima County career.

The distinction matters legally. And it did not go unnoticed.

The union representing more than 300 Pima County Sheriff's deputies voted unanimously no confidence and called for Nanos to resign immediately. The Board of Supervisors has directed its legal counsel to draft language requiring Nanos to provide reports under oath regarding his department — language set for review at a board meeting on April 7. Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz stated publicly that Nanos' 42-year Pima County career "seems to be based on fraud."

Nanos, who has three years remaining in his term after winning election by 481 votes, stated within hours of the compliance directive that he would comply. Legal observers have noted that compliance under these specific circumstances effectively forecloses the procedural pathway to removal.

A recall effort is underway, requiring more than 122,000 signatures by July 10 to place the matter before voters in 2027. No arrest has been made in the Nancy Guthrie case. No suspect has been publicly identified.

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke provides professional assessment of what the documented behavioral record of Nanos' conduct reveals — grounded in publicly available facts, not opinion.

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The characteristics assembled around Bryan Kohberger after his arrest — socially awkward, intensely focused, isolated, preoccupied with dark subject matter — describe an enormous population of people who have never harmed anyone and never will. And nobody is talking about what it costs those people when a profile like this gets built.

True Crime Today presents Part Four of The Shape of Him from Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski — the most uncommon episode in the series, and possibly the most necessary. It examines what it actually feels like to live inside a behavioral description that was assembled around someone else's alleged act. The experience of knowing you are being monitored without being able to address it directly. The impossible trap of a concern you cannot disprove because it was never based on anything you did. The exhaustion of it.

This episode makes the case clearly: fitting a profile is not evidence. The behavioral overlap between people who match this description and people who actually pose risk is enormous. The false positive rate is not a small problem — it is the structural reality of behavioral profiling. And the cost of treating it otherwise falls on real people who carry it quietly with no acknowledgment.

It also speaks directly to the true crime audience about their own relationship to this content — and what that relationship actually reflects. Part four of five. New episodes weekly.

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