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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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28:21

How Did Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Raise a Son Who...

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2026/06/05

A federal judge just found Josh Duggar’s sworn testimony not credible — for the second time. The first time, it was Jim Bob on the stand. Same judge. Same courtroom. Same word: not credible.Josh Duggar’s motion to vacate his conviction was denied on June 1 after Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that Josh’s account of how he mailed his appeal was “something akin to a magic bullet theory.” But the mailing failure is just the latest in a pattern that stretches back decades. Contraband phone in prison. Three

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58:31

The Crash: Did Anyone in the Mackenzie Shirilla Case...

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2026/06/04

The prosecution asked whether Mackenzie Shirilla intended to kill her boyfriend and his friend. A judge said yes. But a psychotherapist who has spent thirty years inside the minds of people who commit violence says the real question was never asked — and the answer might be something the legal system has no category for.Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, sits down for a full three-part psychological examination of the Shirilla case. She examines the personality the prosecution used

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58:57

What Will Murdaugh's Housekeeper Say Differently When...

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2026/06/04

Blanca Simpson testified for three hours in 2023. The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in three hours. A court clerk's misconduct erased all of it. And now Blanca is preparing to do something almost nobody in true crime history has had to do — go back to the stand with three additional years of knowledge, perspective, and clarity about what she saw.This three-part exclusive is the most comprehensive conversation Blanca has had since the conviction was overturned. She starts at Maggie's gravesite, where

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22:49

The Crash: What If Everyone in the Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/04

Dominic Russo's father says he needs the truth so he can grieve. But what if the truth he needs isn't the truth the evidence supports? What if grief has so completely fused with certainty that the family can't distinguish between what happened and what they need to believe happened?Mackenzie Shirilla says she has no memory of the crash that killed Dominic and Davion Flanagan. The families say she's calculated and cold. A fellow inmate says the remorseful woman in the documentary is performance. The

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14:55

What Did a Sorority Sister Find After She Saw Ted...

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2026/06/04

Florida had no Ted Bundy file. Florida had no idea he was coming.He arrived in Tallahassee on January 8, 1978, under the name Chris Hagen, with stolen credit cards and a room at a boarding house six blocks from the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. He spent a week at the disco next door. Sorority sisters reportedly noticed a man staring at them from the bar. Nobody thought anything of it.January 15, 3:00 AM. Nita Neary, returning from a date, sees a masked man on the stairs carrying

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17:50

Why Did It Only Take Three Hours for a Jury to...

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2026/06/04

Guilty on all counts. Unanimous. Three hours of deliberation for a case that took three weeks to present. And the defendant showed almost no reaction. A juror called her "like a statue."This episode examines the psychology behind that absence of emotion. Not stoicism. Not strategy. A system in overload — the circuit breaker that trips when a mind built on narrative control is forced into sustained silence while its constructed reality is dismantled in public.Three weeks of witnesses from Kouri

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15:07

The Crash: Was Mackenzie Shirilla the Only Toxic One...

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2026/06/04

The prosecution's version of the Mackenzie Shirilla case depends on a simple dynamic — she was the aggressor, Dominic Russo was trying to leave, and the crash was her final act of control. Netflix's The Crash leans into that framing. But psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent decades in domestic violence work, says the clinical reality of relationships like this one is almost never that neat.The couple broke up and got back together constantly. Family members described explosive fights

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21:19

The Crash: Is Mackenzie Shirilla a Calculated Killer...

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2026/06/04

The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough to plan a murder at seventeen. A judge agreed. But a psychotherapist who has treated both victims and perpetrators of violence for over thirty years reads the same evidence and sees a completely different clinical picture.Shirilla was convicted of four counts

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17:24

Why Did Rebecca Haro Plead Guilty At The Last Minute?

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2026/06/04

Rebecca Haro maintained her innocence for months. She told investigators a stranger had taken her seven-month-old son from a parking lot in Yucaipa. She gave television interviews with a visible black eye. She begged on camera for her baby to come home. After she was arrested and charged with murder, she pleaded not guilty. She sat in custody at the Robert Presley Jail on a million dollars bail and prepared to take her case to twelve jurors.The morning of her preliminary hearing, with prosecutors

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59:10

The Crash: Did Everyone Fail Mackenzie Shirilla —...

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2026/06/03

Her defense attorney failed to call the one expert who might have changed the verdict. The prosecution charged murder when the evidence arguably supported a lesser charge. The post-conviction system shut the door on new evidence over a single missed day. And then Mackenzie Shirilla herself made the decision to appear in a Netflix documentary that may have cemented the public perception the prosecution built. At every stage of this case, someone made a decision that made things worse.Criminal

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18:32

Was Someone Else Supposed To Be At Moselle The Night...

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2026/06/03

different things.Alex Murdaugh's attorneys told national television they have new information about other potential suspects. They're building a retrial strategy that points the finger away from Alex. Meanwhile, the woman who spent twenty years inside that household has her own theory about other people being involved — and it points directly back at him.Blanca believes Alex had a Plan A. Someone else was supposed to be at Moselle the night of June 7th, 2021. When that didn't materialize, Alex

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15:48

The Crash: Did the Netflix Documentary Make Things...

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2026/06/03

The Netflix documentary was supposed to be Mackenzie Shirilla's moment. The first time the public heard her voice since the conviction. A chance to tell her side. Instead, it may have been the worst decision she's made since the crash itself.She sat in front of cameras, composed and remorseful, maintaining she has no memory. A fellow inmate immediately contradicted her — described a different Mackenzie entirely, someone performing behind bars the same way she performs on camera. The pre-crash

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15:04

Why Did Colorado Give Ted Bundy a Law Library and No...

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2026/06/03

The State of Utah convicted Ted Bundy of kidnapping in March 1976. One count. Colorado charged him with one murder. That is what the system believed it was holding: a kidnapper and a single-count defendant.The actual man had killed at minimum sixteen women across five states by the end of 1975.That gap — between who the charge sheet said he was and who he actually was — is the reason he was able to act as his own attorney, get library access without restraints, and jump from a second-story window

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14:55

What Kouri Richins Was Doing From Her Jail Cell...

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2026/06/03

Most people, when arrested for murder, let their attorneys handle the case. Kouri Richins wrote a six-page letter hidden in an LSAT prep book with scripted testimony for her brother. She read other inmates' letters to her mother over recorded phone lines. She held up documents on video calls for her mother to photograph. And when the letter was found, she told her mother on a recorded call that it was part of a "fictional mystery book" about a Mexican prison.This episode examines the compulsion

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15:23

The Crash: How a Defense Attorney Would Have Torn...

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2026/06/03

The prosecution's case against Mackenzie Shirilla sounds devastating in a headline — surveillance footage, black box data showing full throttle and no braking, threatening texts, a prior incident treated as a rehearsal. But a criminal defense attorney who has spent his career cross-examining prosecution evidence sees something different: a case with real vulnerabilities that was never properly challenged.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed

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28:38

The Crash: Did Mackenzie Shirilla Ever Actually Get a...

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2026/06/03

A medical condition that could explain loss of consciousness — raised at trial but never supported with expert testimony. A post-conviction petition containing a neurologist's opinion — filed one day late. A key prosecution witness whose account was contradicted by text messages — never challenged by the defense. At what point does a defense stop being a defense?Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan

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20:31

Did Two Agencies Stop Talking Over Nancy Guthrie's Case?

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2026/06/03

On May 5, FBI Director Kash Patel went on a national podcast and said the Pima County Sheriff's Department did not initially cooperate with the bureau in the Nancy Guthrie investigation in the way the FBI expected. Sheriff Chris Nanos has publicly disputed Patel's characterization of the relationship between the two agencies. That on-record split has become one of the defining moments of the case.This Hidden Killers episode walks through the entire Nancy Guthrie timeline, beginning to now. The

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61:40

The Crash: Was Mackenzie Shirilla's Conviction Built...

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2026/06/02

The distance between "Mackenzie Shirilla did something catastrophically reckless that killed two people" and "Mackenzie Shirilla executed a premeditated mission of death" is enormous. The verdict says it was murder. The evidence lives somewhere between those two conclusions — and this conversation is about figuring out where.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan. Netflix's The Crash

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24:52

What Does Murdaugh's Housekeeper Know That Nobody...

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2026/06/02

Twelve and a half hours. That's how long prosecutors spent putting on financial crimes testimony in Alex Murdaugh's first trial. The Supreme Court said it was too much. Way too much. They told the state to cut it back in round two.Blanca Simpson testified for three hours. She covered the shirt, the towel, the pajamas, the car. But anyone who's listened to Blanca talk about that household knows there's a depth of knowledge that three hours barely scratched. She spent two decades learning the rhythms

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19:08

The Crash: What If Nobody in Mackenzie Shirilla's...

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2026/06/02

One of the fathers in Netflix's The Crash says something that stays with you. He says he needs the truth so he can grieve properly. It's a gut-level statement from a man who lost his child, and you feel it immediately. But it raises a question the documentary doesn't fully explore: what happens when someone's need for a specific answer becomes stronger than what the evidence actually supports?Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash that killed Dominic Russo and

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