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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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23:39

Cruise Ships Are Predatory Playground: Dozens of...

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2026/05/20

Master keycards that open every cabin. Youth centers without standardized staffing ratios. Background checks limited to whatever foreign governments provide. No international offender registry. No mandatory device screening. This is the access structure parents are not being told about — the gap between the safety the cruise industry markets and the screening that actually exists. According to a Congressional report, one-third of cruise ship assault survivors were minors. Maritime law firms confirm

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24:24

Why Was Unknown DNA Under Maggie Murdaugh’s...

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2026/05/20

The DNA evidence alone would be enough to change the shape of this case. Unknown male DNA beneath Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails, collected at the scene, and never run through the one database designed to identify it.Jim Griffin confirmed the defense has this evidence and intends to use it at the retrial. It is the kind of detail that raises questions not just about what happened at Moselle that night but about how the original investigation was conducted. CODIS exists precisely for this purpose

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18:16

How Are Murdaugh’s Lawyers Planning to Use the...

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2026/05/20

The defense team that lost the Murdaugh murder trial in six weeks has had three years to study exactly why. And the SC Supreme Court handed them something defense attorneys almost never get — a ruling that doesn’t just grant a new trial but tells them where the prosecution overstepped and how far the next judge should limit the state’s case. Harpootlian and Griffin walk into Trial 2 with a blueprint.Tony Brueski breaks down the defense’s advantage on every front. The financial evidence firewall

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18:09

Why Did a Mother Beg a Judge for Foster Care Over...

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2026/05/20

Former teacher Rebeca Melo told the Associated Press that inside the Word of Faith Christian School, children would turn on each other in the middle of class. One child would accuse another of having demons. The group would surround the accused. According to Melo, children were thrown to the ground and beaten. Teachers were allegedly told not to intervene. John Cooper, who worked as a teacher’s aide in Jane Whaley’s class, said Whaley reportedly encouraged the violence and warned students not to

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17:33

What Does the AG Know About Murdaugh Now That He...

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2026/05/20

That is the question Dick Harpootlian asked at the defense press conference — and it is the question Attorney General Alan Wilson has not answered.Five years ago, the state prosecuted Alex Murdaugh for murder and did not seek the death penalty. The evidence was what it was. The facts were what they were. Then Murdaugh won his appeal on jury tampering grounds, and suddenly Wilson announced the death penalty was on the table. Harpootlian wants to know what changed — because the evidence did not.The

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23:03

Why Did Murdaugh’s Defense Team File a Federal Civil...

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2026/05/20

A federal civil rights lawsuit against a former clerk of court. That is where the Murdaugh case stands right now — and the implications go far beyond one defendant.Murdaugh’s attorneys filed a Section 1983 claim against Becky Hill, the former Colleton County Clerk whose conduct during the original trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to order a new trial. The claim is straightforward: Hill deprived Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial by tampering with the jury. But the

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17:47

Why Did Anna Kepner’s Defense Suddenly Need 90 More...

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2026/05/20

Eighteen days before Anna Kepner’s federal trial was set to begin, the defense filed a motion asking for ninety more days. The prosecution didn’t fight it. The court granted it. September 8 is the new date.The Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial — Document 74 on the federal docket — landed May 13. It’s the first continuance request in the entire case. That detail matters because of everything the defense did before it. They waived the transfer hearing. They had their client sign a written request to

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54:43

How Did Three Bombshells in Five Days Reshape...

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2026/05/19

The Supreme Court overturned everything five days ago. Since then, the AG put the death penalty on the table while running for governor. Buster Murdaugh reportedly called his father selfish and won’t visit him. And the defense went on national television hinting at unnamed third parties.Three bombshells. One week. And the retrial hasn’t even been scheduled.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke pull together every thread from their listener Q&A in one conversation. Robin applies FBI behavioral analysis

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19:59

Why Documented Cruise Crime Cases Stay Buried -...

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2026/05/19

According to federal court filings, three crew members on a single Disney ship were charged in early 2024 — all allegedly carrying exploitation material on personal devices. A Royal Caribbean attendant pled guilty to secretly recording passengers including children as young as two inside their cabins. Sentenced to 30 years. On Celebrity, according to the FBI, a youth counselor allegedly targeted multiple children over four months while avoiding cameras. Two Princess crew members received a combined

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15:57

Was Someone Else Supposed To Be at Moselle the Night...

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2026/05/19

Jim Griffin said “third parties and potential motives” on national television. Dick Harpootlian said the reversal gives them subpoena power. Both said people have come forward with information since the 2023 trial. Neither would say another word.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke unpack the listener question underneath the defense’s cryptic statements: Was the plan always for someone else to be at Moselle that night? The evidence has always raised this question quietly. Two weapons. Two types of

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19:31

The Court Clerk Who Wanted to Be Famous and Destroyed...

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2026/05/19

Becky Hill wasn’t some rogue spectator who wandered into a courtroom. She was the elected Clerk of Court in Colleton County — chosen by the same community that filled the jury pool, entrusted with managing the evidence and protecting the process. And according to the SC Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, she used that position of trust to push Alex Murdaugh’s jury toward a guilty verdict so she could sell more copies of a book she was writing.Tony Brueski walks through what Hill did, why it mattered

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16:23

What Did Word of Faith’s ‘Prayer’ Abuse Members’ Bodies?

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2026/05/19

It started with screaming. According to the Associated Press, the Word of Faith Fellowship practiced something called blasting — groups of members surrounding a person and shrieking inches from their face for hours to allegedly drive out demons. Secret recordings captured the sound. Former members said it eventually was not enough. According to Rick Cooper, a Navy veteran who spent over two decades in the church, the practice escalated from vocal aggression to physical violence. Members were

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15:43

Why Has Buster Murdaugh Reportedly Stopped Visiting...

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2026/05/19

Someone close to Buster Murdaugh called Alex “a selfish, selfish old man” after the Supreme Court granted a retrial. That’s not the language of a family rallying behind a defendant. That’s the language of a family that’s done.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through listener questions about the distance between the 2023 family and the 2026 family. Buster testified for his father three years ago. Now he reportedly won’t visit him. The brothers who went on Good Morning America insisting Alex was

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23:42

Who Actually Benefits From Putting the Death Penalty...

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2026/05/19

Alan Wilson controls the prosecution of Alex Murdaugh. He also wants to be the next governor of South Carolina. He’s leading in the polls. And he just told reporters the death penalty is an option for the retrial—something that was never on the table in 2023.Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke tackle listener questions about where the line falls between prosecution strategy and campaign strategy. Wilson wants a speedy trial before he leaves office. Every AG candidate has

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29:02

Kouri Richin’s Tried To Get Revenge On Everyone...

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2026/05/19

Kouri Richins’ courtroom speech was forty minutes of love, forgiveness, and motherhood. The sentencing memo prosecutors filed tells the story of what she was actually doing from her jail cell — and when you put them side by side, a portrait emerges that’s hard to look away from.According to prosecutors, while Kouri rehearsed a speech about not holding hate, she was orchestrating attacks on every person connected to this case through proxies. A fake dating profile targeting the detective who

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54:45

Did Buster Murdaugh's Anger and Kouri Richins'...

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2026/05/18

Two interviews. Two families. Two courtrooms where the people who should matter most are being dragged back into it.Buster Murdaugh hasn’t spoken since the conviction was overturned, but sources say he’s angry, not relieved. He reportedly called his father a “selfish old man.” The defense needs his loyalty at retrial. The prosecution needs his anger. Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke break down why Buster’s survival may actually contradict the state’s family

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24:59

What Federal Agents Found on Cruise Workers’ Phones —...

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2026/05/18

Dharmi Mehta was on day four of a Disney Magic cruise when federal agents handcuffed her family’s dining host and loaded him into an unmarked van. Forty-five minutes earlier, he had served them breakfast. According to CBP, between April 23 and 27, officers boarded eight cruise ships in San Diego as part of CSAM enforcement. On April 28, HSI executed Operation Tidal Wave, acting on NCMEC intelligence. Combined total: 28 detained, 27 allegedly confirmed involved in exploitation material. Ten

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20:30

What Was Kouri Richins Really Saying When She Told...

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2026/05/18

Those boys couldn’t face their mother. They gave their words to therapists who read them in open court — locked doors, animals that died from neglect, a brother smuggling food to a sibling imprisoned in his own bedroom, and a childhood spent being afraid. Every one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her away.Kouri Richins responded with a forty-minute speech that never acknowledged a single word her children said. She announced an appeal, attacked the jury for deliberating less than

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15:04

Can Prosecutors Still Win After the Supreme Court...

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2026/05/18

The prosecution’s playbook for convicting Alex Murdaugh was just declared constitutionally excessive by the highest court in South Carolina. The state spent weeks building an emotional case around Murdaugh’s financial crimes before the first jury ever weighed the murder evidence. The Supreme Court said the state went far too deep and could have made the same argument with far less. What does that leave the prosecution working with?The core motive survives — Murdaugh’s financial empire was

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20:44

Why Were Word of Faith Members Told God Would Kill...

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2026/05/18

A former math teacher from rural North Carolina allegedly built a church where she controlled which couples could reproduce, which members could attend college, and who was allowed to speak to their own families. Jane Whaley and her husband Sam reportedly converted a shuttered steakhouse into the Word of Faith Fellowship in 1979. It grew, at its peak, to approximately 750 members in North Carolina and nearly 2,000 followers in affiliated churches worldwide. According to the Associated Press, the

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