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🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast, bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski, we go beyond the headlines, featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal

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12:44

What Did Mackenzie Shirilla's Car Record in the...

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2026/06/08

The data recorder inside Mackenzie Shirilla's Toyota Camry captured a story she never told anyone. The accelerator was at full capacity. There was no attempt to brake. The car was aimed in a straight line at a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, traveling close to a hundred miles per hour. Dominic Russo, twenty, and Davion Flanagan, nineteen, were dead when first responders arrived. Shirilla survived.She never spoke to investigators. She never took the stand. The entire case was built on what the

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16:01

Did Investigators Deliberately Destroy the Key...

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2026/06/08

A dashcam SD card that was most likely recording during the final moments of the Aaron Spencer case disappeared from police custody. Investigators handled it in violation of their own department's procedures. A judge reviewed the evidence — or what was left of it — and concluded the pattern of failures gave "the appearance of a coverup."That language came from the court, not the defense. Special Judge Ralph Wilson found that law enforcement conduct was "so egregious" that the second-degree murder

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43:25

What Do The Three Timestamps In The Nancy Guthrie...

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2026/06/08

Three machine timestamps anchor the Nancy Guthrie disappearance in facts that can't be disputed. Her doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Twenty-five minutes later, the software detected a person at the door. At 2:28 a.m., the pacemaker monitoring her heart lost its signal — with her phone still inside the house she never re-entered. Forty-one minutes. That's the window.The FBI released the doorbell footage on February 10. A man in a ski mask, gloves, a jacket, and a holstered handgun

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32:55

What Does The Letter Kouri Richins Hid In An LSAT...

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2026/06/07

Deputies found a six-page letter inside an LSAT prep book in Kouri Richins' jail cell while she was being treated for a medical episode. The letter scripted her brother's testimony. When confronted, she didn't deny writing it. She said it was part of a fictional novel about a Mexican prison.That explanation is the psychology in miniature. Every threat Kouri Richins faced produced a story. Not a careful lie — an automatic narrative, generated under pressure the way a reflex fires before conscious

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37:58

What Relationship Dynamics Did The Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/07

The prosecution built its case on a breakup — Dominic Russo was leaving, Mackenzie Shirilla couldn't handle it, and she drove into a building at nearly a hundred miles per hour. Netflix's The Crash reinforced that framing. But a psychotherapist who has spent three decades in domestic violence and forensic mental health says the relationship between Mackenzie and Dominic was far more complicated than either the trial or the documentary allowed.Constant breakups and reconciliations. Explosive fights

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37:17

What Does A Psychotherapist See In Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/07

The prosecution called Mackenzie Shirilla cold and calculated. A judge called her "hell on wheels." The public split into two camps after Netflix's The Crash — she's a monster or she's innocent. But a psychotherapist who has spent three decades inside the minds of people who harm others sees a clinical picture that's messier than either side wants it to be.Shavaun Scott is a licensed psychotherapist, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, and has worked in domestic violence shelters, forensic

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43:34

What Does Blanca Simpson Know About The Morning After...

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2026/06/07

The South Carolina Supreme Court stripped away twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony. What fills that gap at retrial may depend on the kind of evidence that didn't get its full day in court the first time — and Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson has had three years to sit with what she saw versus what prosecutors actually asked her about.She testified for three hours in 2023. The jury heard about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. But Blanca knew that household in a way no investigator could

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47:55

Why Didn't Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Call The One...

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2026/06/07

The defense raised a medical condition that could have explained the Strongsville crash. Then they never called an expert to testify about it. No medical records entered. No testimony. The prosecution's intent narrative went unchallenged on the point that could have introduced reasonable doubt — and a jury never heard an alternative explanation for why the car hit that building at nearly a hundred miles per hour.After Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash that

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34:52

Is Blanca Simpson The Same Murdaugh Witness She Was...

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2026/06/06

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent twenty years inside the Murdaugh household. She fixed Alex's collar the morning of June 7th, 2021. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She was the person Maggie cried to when Alex's finances were collapsing and nobody would explain why. She told all of it to a jury that convicted him in three hours. Then the Supreme Court erased the convictions — and Blanca drove straight to Maggie's grave without calling anyone first.In her

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37:25

What Made Kouri Richins Escalate From Valentine's Day...

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2026/06/06

The Valentine's Day attempt failed. Eric Richins survived — gasping for air, reaching for his son's EpiPen. He told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And for seventeen days, Kouri Richins lived inside the same house, shared meals with the same children, and arrived at a second plan with five times the lethal dose.The psychological architecture behind that seventeen-day gap is the center of this breakdown. The gap between the image Kouri projected and the financial reality she

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33:32

What Evidence Did The FBI Unseal In The Anna Kepner...

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2026/06/06

Unsealed court records in the Anna Kepner case lay out what the FBI has assembled: security footage tracking the defendant's movements aboard the Carnival Horizon the night Anna was killed, a phone that ended up smashed in a trash bin, and DNA testing that reportedly points in one direction. Anna was found beneath a bed in the cabin she shared with her stepbrother — concealed on a ship in international waters, which placed the case in federal jurisdiction.Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years as an

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41:17

What Does The Prosecutorial Silence Mean For Wendi...

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2026/06/06

After Donna Adelson was convicted, the State Attorney told reporters that decisions regarding additional charges in the Dan Markel conspiracy were coming in the coming weeks. Months have passed. No charges. No grand jury announcement. No public movement of any kind. For a case where prosecutors have repeatedly labeled Wendi Adelson and her father Harvey as unindicted co-conspirators — in open court, in front of judges, across multiple trials — that silence demands interpretation.A defense attorney

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37:08

How Did Mackenzie Shirilla Get 36 Prison Violations...

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2026/06/06

Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident.The record starts quiet. Months without a single citation after arriving in August 2023. Then a steady escalation: unauthorized medication belonging to another inmate, photographs depicting drug use, repeated alterations to prison-issued clothing, concealed contraband, disturbances, violations of

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56:19

Mackenzie Shirilla's Recorded Calls Are Building a...

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2026/06/05

Two cases. Two different kinds of evidence problems. Mackenzie Shirilla's own family is building the record against her on monitored prison calls — while in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case, the DNA points one direction and a federal judge just said the prosecution's case isn't strong enough. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines where both cases stand.Shirilla has thirty-six conduct violations in under three years at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, guilty on thirty-two. On

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21:53

Why Was Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue Sent to a Convicted...

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2026/06/05

Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with conspiracy to commit human trafficking — with the alleged victim being the same woman who later placed her three-year-old son in his care. He had a federal drug conviction. He was still on supervised release when Katrina Baur drove her son Elijah Vue two and a half hours across Wisconsin and left him in Vang’s apartment for what she called “disciplinary reasons.” She told investigators she wanted

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17:39

What Does the DNA Actually Prove in the Anna Kepner...

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2026/06/05

The DNA odds are 120 sextillion to one pointing at Timothy Hudson. But an FBI agent admitted on the record that he is unaware of any DNA evidence directly connecting Hudson to Anna Kepner's cause of death. That admission — buried inside a hundred and forty-five pages of unsealed transcript — may be the single most important sentence heading into a September trial. Defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what the evidence can and cannot establish.Anna Kepner was eighteen when she was found dead

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14:59

Why Did Ted Bundy Make Sure the Country Would Never...

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2026/06/05

Ted Bundy spent ten years on death row making absolutely sure of one thing: that the country would never get the why.The Chi Omega trial in Miami, summer 1979 — the first criminal trial broadcast nationally on American television — was his stage. He fired his attorneys. He rehired them. He fired them again. He cross-examined witnesses, including Nita Neary, the woman who had seen him on the stairs. The bite mark evidence cut through all of it. Guilty. Sentenced to death.Judge Edward Cowart called

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17:21

Was Kouri Richins Recruiting Her Own Sons From the...

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2026/06/05

Eye rolls during victim impact statements. Smirks while therapists read her children's words. Then tears — real tears — when her own family called her the glue of the family.Pain aimed at her: contempt. Praise aimed at her: emotion. That behavioral split tells you everything about the wiring we've been breaking down in this series. And then she spoke. For forty-five minutes. To three boys who'd asked the court to lock her away forever.She told them the verdict was an absolute lie. She admitted the

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18:10

What Are Mackenzie Shirilla's Parents Saying on...

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2026/06/05

Natalie Shirilla called the Russo family "evil people" on a recorded prison line. Steve Shirilla's teaching contract was not renewed after he appeared on a Netflix documentary defending a convicted killer — his daughter. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what this family is doing to Mackenzie Shirilla's case from the outside.Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted in 2023 of killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend Davion Flanagan after driving into a brick building at

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21:10

What Is Mackenzie Shirilla's Prison Record Telling...

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2026/06/05

Thirty-six conduct violations. Guilty on thirty-two. Recorded calls where she refuses rehabilitation, calls herself the third victim, and tells her mother she plans to become a life coach. Mackenzie Shirilla's institutional file at the Ohio Reformatory for Women is growing — and defense attorney Eric Faddis says the parole board will read every page of it.Shirilla was convicted in 2023 of killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan after deliberately driving her car into a brick building in

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