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Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns

Hidden Killers Podcast

Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s

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51:20

Trauma, Fear, and Accountability: Shavaun Scott on...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/01

When Ajike Owens was killed through a closed door, her four children lost their mother — and a nation faced the consequences of unchecked paranoia.In this exclusive episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the mental chain reaction behind that fatal moment. Scott explores how chronic resentment, fear scripting, and entitlement converge in what she calls “justified aggression”—the mind’s way of excusing harm under the guise of

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70:03

15 People Saw Laci Peterson Alive!! NONE Were Heard...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/01

Imagine fifteen people—five of whom personally knew Laci Peterson—telling police they saw her alive, walking her golden retriever, after her husband had already left for his solo fishing trip. Now imagine every single one of them ignored. That’s the picture painted by the LA Innocence Project in its new 600-page petition for a new trial. The filing lists more than a dozen witnesses who saw a pregnant woman matching Laci’s description between 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. on Dec 24 2002, right in the

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69:18

Letters from the Dark: Donna Adelson’s Prison Plea &...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/01

In this full episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels take you inside the minds of two of America’s most notorious convicted murderers — Donna Adelson and Chad Daybell — through the words they wrote themselves.Segment 1: Donna Adelson’s Prison Letter From a Florida jail cell, Donna Adelson wrote a 2024 letter to her husband Harvey describing how her heart “breaks” over missing her grandsons’ first day of school. What could have been a rare glimpse of remorse

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18:51

The Abby Zwerner Trial: The Price of An Americas...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/31

A six-year-old brought a gun to class. Four adults sounded the alarm. The assistant principal said the boy’s pockets were too small to hold a gun. Hours later, teacher Abby Zwerner was bleeding on a classroom floor. The bullet came from a child’s hand — but the failure came from the adults who didn’t listen.In this episode, Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis dig into The Price of Ignorance — the $40-million civil trial that exposes how bureaucracy, denial, and institutional cowardice

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33:48

Bryan Kohberger: Profiting Off Murder | When Infamy...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/31

Bryan Kohberger can’t leave his cell — but his story can. In the state of Idaho, there’s no Son of Sam law, meaning that a convicted murderer can legally make money from the story of his crimes. Books. Documentaries. Interviews. Royalties. In this episode, Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis expose how one of the most horrifying modern murder cases has collided with one of America’s oldest constitutional blind spots: the First Amendment’s protection of speech — even when that speech turns

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52:18

When Justice Fails | Bryan Kohberger’s Profits & The...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/31

Two stories. One broken system.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger could legally make money off his own murders. In Virginia, a first-grade teacher named Abby Zwerner was shot after four separate warnings were ignored. Both stories show how America’s justice system has traded accountability for excuses — and how law, morality, and bureaucracy keep collapsing under their own contradictions. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis connect these cases in one of their most morally charged episodes yet

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25:53

The Perfect Neighbor Delusion: Psychotherapist on How...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/30

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to unpack the warped psychology behind The Perfect Neighbor case — where “fear” became justification for a killing.For two years, Susan Lorincz saw danger in ordinary life: neighborhood kids, laughter, noise. That chronic hyper-vigilance — mixed with grievance and entitlement — built a narrative that only she believed. Scott explores how paranoia and cognitive distortion feed on isolation, turning imagined threat into

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25:42

Fear or Fury? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott on the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/30

A mother is dead. A neighbor claims fear. But what really drove Susan Lorincz to pull the trigger through a closed door?In this exclusive conversation, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski. Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the psychology behind The Perfect Neighbor case — where paranoia, entitlement, and grievance collided in one deadly moment. Scott unpacks the behavioral descent that transforms everyday irritation into lethal certainty. Was Lorincz truly afraid, or was

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51:15

Trauma, Fear, and Accountability: Shavaun Scott on...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/30

When Ajike Owens was killed through a closed door, her four children lost their mother — and a nation faced the consequences of unchecked paranoia. In this exclusive episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the mental chain reaction behind that fatal moment. Scott explores how chronic resentment, fear scripting, and entitlement converge in what she calls “justified aggression”—the mind’s way of excusing harm under the guise of

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32:38

The Doctor Who Helped Convict Scott Peterson Now Says...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/29

At Scott Peterson’s 2004 trial, one expert witness sealed his fate. Dr. Terry D’Vor told jurors that baby Connor’s fetal measurements proved Laci Peterson died on or before Christmas Eve 2002—the same day Scott went fishing.Jurors called his testimony “the nail in the coffin.” Now, in 2024, D’Vor has recanted. After reviewing modern NIH and WHO fetal-growth studies, he signed an affidavit admitting the old 1990s charts he used were scientifically obsolete. The updated data show Connor’s

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37:41

Scott Peterson: The Evidence Police Destroyed and...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/29

It’s one of the most shocking allegations to ever surface in a high-profile murder case: that detectives in the Laci Peterson investigation met behind closed doors to discuss discovery—and the very next day, marked key evidence for destruction.According to the new 600-page LA Innocence Project petition, internal Modesto Police logs show that on May 6 2003, investigators gathered to decide what to hand over to the defense. By May 7, they’d ordered the destruction of two critical items: the

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69:58

15 People Saw Laci Peterson Alive!! NONE Were Heard...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/29

Imagine fifteen people—five of whom personally knew Laci Peterson—telling police they saw her alive, walking her golden retriever, after her husband had already left for his solo fishing trip. Now imagine every single one of them ignored. That’s the picture painted by the LA Innocence Project in its new 600-page petition for a new trial. The filing lists more than a dozen witnesses who saw a pregnant woman matching Laci’s description between 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. on Dec 24 2002, right in the

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31:20

Chad Daybell’s “Ghost Letter”: Inside the Mind of a...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/28

In this chilling segment of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski reads and dissects Chad Daybell’s Letter #7 — a rambling, supernatural account written years before the doomsday murders that would make him infamous.In the letter, Daybell claims that while working as the sexton of a Utah cemetery, he was haunted by the ghost of a petty thief named Eddie — a spirit that supposedly opened gates, picked locks, and moved padlocks onto pegs. He writes that he eventually told Eddie to “go toward the

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38:12

Donna Adelson’s Narcissistic Prison Letter: “If I...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/28

In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels take listeners inside a letter that shocked everyone who followed the Dan Markel murder case — a 2024 note written by convicted killer Donna Adelson from her jail cell. It begins with a mother’s lament — the pain of missing her grandsons’ first day of school — but quickly morphs into something darker. “If I don’t get out, then hopefully I die soon so that no one remembers me in prison garb behind bars.” The words

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69:13

Letters from the Dark: Donna Adelson’s Prison Plea &...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/28

In this full episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels take you inside the minds of two of America’s most notorious convicted murderers — Donna Adelson and Chad Daybell — through the words they wrote themselves. Segment 1: Donna Adelson’s Prison Letter From a Florida jail cell, Donna Adelson wrote a 2024 letter to her husband Harvey describing how her heart “breaks” over missing her grandsons’ first day of school. What could have been a rare glimpse of remorse

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26:08

The FBI, Epstein, and the Psychology of Silence, The...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/27

Power protects itself. That’s the unspoken rule inside elite institutions — and it’s what former FBI agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski expose in this gripping episode of Hidden Killers. From Jeffrey Epstein’s library of blackmail tapes to the Department of Justice’s locked files, the evidence is there — and yet, nothing happens. Why? Because predators protect predators. In this extended, unsparing interview, Robin and Tony go beyond the headlines to uncover the psychology of protection: how

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33:19

Ret FBI Chief Robin Dreeke On Why Predators Protect...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/27

“I don’t know anyone who protects a predator… other than a predator.” That single line cuts to the core of this conversation. In this Hidden Killers exclusive, Tony Brueski sits down with former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke to dissect one of the darkest truths in human behavior — why predators don’t just act alone. They build networks. They build protection systems. They build institutions that mirror their pathology. This isn’t just about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, or Virginia

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59:07

Predators, Power & Protection: Ret FBI Chief On Why...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/27

The most dangerous thing to a predator isn’t exposure — it’s a survivor who refuses to stay silent. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and former FBI Behavioral Expert Robin Dreeke break down the psychology of predators protecting predators, through the lens of Virginia Giuffre’s life and legacy. Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl isn’t just a story — it’s an indictment. Behind every abuser stood an army of protectors: lawyers, politicians, academics, and agents who looked the

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59:12

Predators, Power & Protection: Ret FBI Chief On Why...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/26

The most dangerous thing to a predator isn’t exposure — it’s a survivor who refuses to stay silent. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and former FBI Behavioral Expert Robin Dreeke break down the psychology of predators protecting predators, through the lens of Virginia Giuffre’s life and legacy. Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl isn’t just a story — it’s an indictment. Behind every abuser stood an army of protectors: lawyers, politicians, academics, and agents

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53:48

What Happened To Kada Scott, Inside DA Larry...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/10/26

Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner promised reform. Instead, he’s delivered a revolving door for violent offenders. From Officer James O’Connor IV to Kada Scott, lives keep ending the same way — with suspects his office already had, and already let go. In this explosive interview, former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski and Stacy Cole to expose how ideology, ego, and neglect turned Philadelphia into a test lab for failed justice: • Why Krasner’s violent-crime conviction rate

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