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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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80:48

What Were Kouri Richins' Kids Too Afraid To Say In...

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2026/05/23

Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins' children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on paper.The details are specific. One child woke to sirens and felt powerless. Another took on the role of caretaker — getting his younger brother to the bus, making sure he had food. The youngest described a pattern: locked inside his room, dependent on a sibling for meals, watching animals

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40:06

What Did Maggie Murdaugh's Divorce Lawyer Already Know?

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2026/05/23

Two threads of the Murdaugh case worth pulling on — what was already in motion before June 7, 2021, and what the prosecution may not get to use at a second trial.Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. She was living apart from Alex. June 7 was a day she did not want to spend at Moselle, and two witnesses testified to exactly that. She went anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — who writes about separation danger on her Substack, Spotlight on Psychology — walks through the

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18:58

Was Becky Hill Acting Alone — Or Did Someone Help Rig...

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2026/05/23

Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial trail and the network of connections that surrounded this verdict, and the lone-wolf explanation is getting harder to defend. Hill was planning a book deal before the trial started. A colleague testified Hill said a guilty verdict would sell more copies. The

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57:57

What Do Kouri Richins And Alex Murdaugh Tell Us About...

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2026/05/22

In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she'll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her "picked the wrong one."In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose murder convictions were just thrown out by the Supreme Court responds by suing the court clerk who allegedly corrupted his jury — not for the money, but for the subpoena power to find out who else

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23:38

The Cruise Industry Spent $70 Million Blocking Laws...

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2026/05/22

The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how the rules stay the way they are. Foreign-flag registration shields the industry from U.S. taxes and jurisdiction simultaneously. The CVSSA created a reporting floor and nothing else. The industry fought even that. This final episode of Cruising with

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15:43

What Does Alex Murdaugh's Federal Lawsuit Against...

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2026/05/22

Alex Murdaugh's defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill in federal court in Charleston — five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder convictions based on what the justices called "shocking jury interference." The complaint seeks six hundred thousand dollars in compensatory and punitive damages, but Jim Griffin told reporters none of it would go to Murdaugh personally.Eric

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14:27

What Do We Owe Maggie and Paul Murdaugh If the State...

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2026/05/22

The question people keep asking has a simple answer. Yes, Alex Murdaugh is serving 40 years federal. Yes, he’ll die in prison regardless of what happens in a retrial. And no, that is not a reason to walk away from the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Tony Brueski makes the case for why the retrial isn’t a choice — it’s the only path to justice.Maggie was 52 years old. Paul was 22. They were killed on their family’s property. The Supreme Court’s ruling wiped the slate clean — the guilty verdicts

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17:45

Why Did “Word of Faith” Members Give Over $85,000 to...

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2026/05/22

Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was the only time the legal system came close to holding her personally accountable. Five years of appeals later, it was overturned. And according to former members, the church learned it could outlast the courts. The pattern repeated across decades. More than forty former members testified to investigators in the 1990s — no charges. Inside Edition aired an investigation in 1995 — the church survived and allegedly used the coverage to deepen members’ distrust

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27:32

How Do You Legally Protect Yourself From Kouri...

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2026/05/22

The prosecution's sentencing memo included a message Kouri Richins wrote before the judge even ruled. She said she'd "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She wrote "they picked the wrong one" and "they haven't seen anything yet." This isn't speculation about what she might do — it's what she already put in writing from a jail cell.Eric Faddis breaks down the legal architecture of protection available to the witnesses, the Richins family, the prosecutors

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15:21

What Legal Ammunition Does Kouri Richins Actually...

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2026/05/22

Kouri Richins told her three sons at sentencing that she'd appeal her conviction and fight "no matter how long it takes." Her defense attorneys got the deadline to file a motion for a new trial extended from fourteen days to twenty-eight and told the judge they need to retain a new expert. The question nobody in the courtroom answered is whether any of it matters.Eric Faddis breaks down every potential appellate lane — the alleged prosecutorial access to attorney-client jail calls, the Crozier

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24:48

Was D4vd Building Himself Out Of Other People's...

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2026/05/22

The D4vd case keeps getting framed as a celebrity scandal. In this one, Tony Brueski goes somewhere harder. The death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the charges against David Anthony Burke, sit next to a body of work that now reads very differently than it did when teenagers were streaming it a billion times.Start with the name on the album: Withered. The shelved deluxe edition carried a subtitle, Marcescence — the botanical word for dead leaves that refuse to fall off the branch. He

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56:24

How Did Kouri Richins Expose Herself at Her Own...

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2026/05/21

Before she opened her mouth, Kouri Richins had already told the room everything. The eye rolls during her children's statements. The disgust during Eric's sisters' grief. The immediate tears the moment her own family proclaimed her innocence. Every reaction was a data point, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott reads them all.This three-part conversation on Hidden Killers Live covers the full arc of the sentencing: the contempt phase, the emotional flip, and the 45-minute speech that told three boys

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19:04

600 Crimes, 7 Convictions — How the Cruise Industry...

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2026/05/21

Why were zero charges filed after Operation Tidal Wave? Why does the New York Times find only 13 prosecutions in a decade? Why do settlements come with NDAs? This is the architecture of the justice gap: foreign-flag registration placing ships under jurisdictions that do not investigate. Private security teams with inherent conflicts of interest conducting the first investigation. A federal law requiring reporting but not prosecution. An enforcement default that deports crew without charges —

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15:29

Why Did Kouri Richins Use Her Sentencing Speech to...

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2026/05/21

She said it multiple times. "Be like your dad." The father a jury found she poisoned with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. She said it to three boys who had just finished describing, through their therapists, a childhood of locked doors and threatened animals and a mother they no longer call by any title other than her first name.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to break down the 45-minute speech Kouri delivered at her sentencing. The admission of infidelity paired with the

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21:31

Why Is the State Racing to Retry Alex Murdaugh for...

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2026/05/21

Speed versus delay. That’s the framework for understanding every pre-trial decision in Alex Murdaugh’s retrial. The AG promised to retry aggressively and as soon as possible. The defense will engineer the opposite. And the wild card decisions made in chambers before a single witness is sworn may matter more than anything said in front of a jury.Tony Brueski breaks down why the clock is the real weapon. Wilson’s office built the original case. His prosecutors know every witness, every weakness,

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15:35

Did Word of Faith Really Seize Passports from...

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2026/05/21

The Word of Faith Fellowship did not just operate in Spindale, North Carolina. According to the Associated Press, it maintained affiliated churches in Brazil, Ghana, Scotland, Sweden, and other countries. Brazil was reportedly the biggest source of foreign labor. The AP’s investigation found that the church allegedly used its Brazilian congregations to recruit young people with promises of religious or educational opportunities in America. They arrived on tourist and student visas. Many spoke

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15:33

Why Did Kouri Richins Start Sobbing the Moment Her...

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2026/05/21

For hours, Kouri Richins sat stone-faced through her own children's pain. Then her brother Ronney stepped to the podium, started crying about missing Eric's "stupid finger dance" and Christmas mornings with the boys — and Kouri fell apart. Tears streaming. Full sobbing. The first visible emotion she'd shown all day.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to explain what that flip means clinically. Why does validation unlock emotion when pain doesn't? Why did Kouri's mother, sister, and

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26:02

What Was Kouri Richins Mouthing to Her Lawyers While...

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2026/05/21

Three therapists read three letters from three boys under fourteen. The children described locked bedrooms, threatened pets, a mother "drunk almost daily," and a night one boy believes he was drugged because he woke up shaking and couldn't speak. Not one of them called her "mom." They used her first name. Every one of them asked for life without parole.Kouri Richins responded by making faces of disgust and whispering to her defense team.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to decode

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25:14

Why Did Alex Murdaugh’s Defense Just Sue Becky Hill?

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2026/05/21

The Murdaugh defense filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Becky Hill before the retrial has even been assigned a judge. They told reporters it’s about accountability and investigation. It is both of those things. It’s also a calculated move to arm themselves for the murder retrial with tools no criminal defendant normally gets this early.The lawsuit gives the defense subpoena power and deposition authority over Hill before the criminal case goes back to a jury. Everything they uncover in

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64:29

What Did Murdaugh’s Defense Reveal About the Federal...

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2026/05/20

Three major developments from one press conference. A federal lawsuit against Becky Hill. An accusation that the Attorney General is playing politics with the death penalty. And DNA evidence the first jury never knew existed.The Section 1983 lawsuit targets Hill for depriving Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial. The defense is using it as an investigative vehicle — civil discovery to determine exactly what Hill did during the original trial and whether anyone assisted her. The

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