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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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20:07

How Did the Only Woman Who Escaped Ted Bundy's...

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2026/06/02

Ted Bundy crossed a state line in September 1974 and became a new person. Washington had his name. Washington had his composite. Washington had two hundred thousand tips. None of it followed him to Utah.He arrived in Salt Lake City as a first-year law student with clean plates and a clean record. Between October 1974 and August 1975, he moved across Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. Nancy Wilcox, sixteen, vanished in Holladay. Melissa Smith, seventeen, the police chief's daughter, was found in a canyon

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16:18

How Did Nobody See Through Kouri Richins for 14 Months?

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2026/06/02

A children's book called "Are You With Me?" with a father in angel wings on the cover. Published one year after Eric Richins' death. Promoted on local television by the woman convicted of killing him.The prosecution called it deflection. And it was. But this episode argues it was something far more psychologically complex: Kouri Richins building the version of reality she needed to inhabit. Not a mask over the truth — an alternate truth she constructed and moved into. And in that constructed

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21:03

The Crash: Did the Investigation Against Mackenzie...

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2026/06/02

The case against Mackenzie Shirilla was prosecuted as murder. Not manslaughter. Not reckless homicide. Four counts of murder for a car crash. That charging decision carries enormous weight — it's the difference between a reckless teenager who caused a catastrophe and a calculated killer who executed a plan. And the evidence has to clear a much higher bar.Shirilla drove her Toyota Camry into a building in Strongsville, Ohio at nearly a hundred miles per hour, killing Dominic Russo and Davion

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22:08

The Crash: Does Being a Toxic Girlfriend Make...

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2026/06/02

Mackenzie Shirilla's text messages were ugly. "My way or the highway — watch your back, your house, your car, your life." She was controlling, explosive, and by every account a difficult person to be in a relationship with. But ugly texts and a bad personality aren't the same thing as premeditated murder — and the question nobody in Netflix's The Crash fully confronts is where that line actually falls.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder after driving her car into a building in

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22:45

Why Did Anna Kepner’s Stepbrother Smash Her Phone and...

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2026/06/02

For months, almost everything about the death of eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise was locked behind a sealed court file. Now that file is open — and what’s inside is chilling.On this episode of Hidden Killers, we dig into the evidence prosecutors unveiled against Anna’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother, now charged as an adult in her death. The centerpiece, for me, is the phone. Anna’s cellphone allegedly disappeared the night she died, was carried through the ship, and turned up

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56:04

What Does The Evidence Really Show In Guthrie, Kepner...

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2026/06/01

What does the evidence actually show in three of the most talked-about cases in the country right now? Tony Brueski brings in former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to go case by case through the physical and digital trails in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Anna Kepner cruise-ship death, and the reopened Alex Murdaugh murder case.In the Guthrie case, the evidence is mostly machine-made and unsettling in its precision: a doorbell camera offline at 1:47 a.m., a person detected at 2:12,

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18:45

What Did Murdaugh's Housekeeper Say At Maggie's Grave...

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2026/06/01

The South Carolina Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction, and Blanca Simpson didn't pick up her phone. She drove to Maggie's grave and sat in silence.For twenty years, Blanca wasn't just cleaning the Murdaugh house — she was holding its secrets. She was the person Maggie trusted enough to pull into a room and shut the door. The person who heard Maggie say she'd give everything she had to make the thirty-million-dollar lawsuit disappear. The person who knew, just by looking at a

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15:57

Why Were The Guns That Killed The Murdaughs Never Found?

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2026/06/01

Here's a fact in the Alex Murdaugh case that never stops being strange: the two guns used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were never recovered. Not the shotgun. Not the rifle. Two weapons, two victims at the family's dog kennels, and to this day neither one has been found. With the South Carolina Supreme Court having overturned Murdaugh's convictions and ordered a new trial, every piece of physical evidence is about to get a second look — and the missing weapons are near the top of the list.Former

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17:34

How Did Ted Bundy Walk Up to 40,000 People at Lake...

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2026/06/01

Before the country learned his name, before the trials, before the cameras — there was a year in Seattle where young women kept disappearing and nobody could connect them to each other.Karen Sparks, beaten in her own bed with a metal rod from the bed frame, survived with brain damage and no memory of the man who did it. Lynda Healy vanished from a basement bedroom that somebody had quietly made up behind her. Donna Manson left her dorm for a concert in Olympia and never arrived. Susan Rancourt

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20:57

What Was Kouri Richins Doing for 17 Days While Eric...

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2026/06/01

Valentine's Day 2022. Kouri Richins gave her husband a fentanyl-laced sandwich. He got violently sick. He called friends and told them he thought he was dying. He survived. Seventeen days later, she put five times the lethal dose in a Moscow Mule. He didn't survive.Most people can't get past the horror of the act itself. But the seventeen-day window between the first attempt and the second is the most psychologically revealing piece of evidence in this case. Because normal fear, normal guilt,

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18:01

Why Did Anna Kepner's Phone Keep Pinging After It...

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2026/06/01

The Anna Kepner case has a detail that sounds almost too clean to be true: the phone that may help convict her accused killer is the same phone he allegedly tried to make disappear. According to unsealed court records, after the 18-year-old was found dead aboard the Carnival Horizon, her phone was carried out of the cabin — pinging the ship's Wi-Fi the entire way — before it turned up smashed in a trash bin, where a crew member found it.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony

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22:45

Why Won't Anyone Release Nancy Guthrie's 911 Call?

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2026/06/01

The Nancy Guthrie case has a piece of evidence the public still hasn't been allowed to hear: the 911 call that started everything. The family walked into her Tucson home around midday, realized she was gone, and was on the phone with dispatch within minutes. That recording is the front edge of the entire investigation — and to this day it's still locked away.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to dig into the evidentiary spine of this case: the doorbell camera that

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42:21

Which Systems Allegedly Failed D4VD Before Celeste...

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2026/06/01

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent more than thirty years in forensic mental health. She doesn't start with the crime prosecutors allege. She starts with the trajectory — and traces every system that allegedly broke down along the way.David Anthony Burke was homeschooled in Houston. The only music allowed in his home was gospel until he was thirteen. His mother was his teacher, his entire social world, and the person who reportedly encouraged him to start making music. There was no

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42:13

What Happened To Richard Allen In Thirteen Months Of...

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2026/05/31

Before solitary, Richard Allen wouldn't break. According to defense filings, Detective Holeman lied to him for over an hour during the arrest interrogation. Allen's response: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Five months in the most restrictive solitary cell in a maximum-security prison changed that.IDOC's own policy imposed a thirty-day limit for inmates with Allen's mental health diagnosis. He was held for thirteen months. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He was confusing

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45:22

Does The Wrench Attack Theory Actually Fit The Nancy...

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2026/05/31

A wrench attack is an organized crypto-extortion operation. The networks running them recruit disposable operatives, use cryptocurrency payment channels that are nearly impossible to trace, and protect the architects behind layers of cutouts. They've been documented in cases across the country. CertiK, a leading blockchain security firm, placed Nancy Guthrie's name on its official 2026 wrench attack case list. The question is whether the evidence supports the classification.On January 31st — the

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42:48

What Did Todd Gabler Find In The Richins Home That...

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2026/05/31

Law enforcement released the Richins home and moved on. Todd Gabler went in with body cameras and stayed for days. The 34-year defense investigator hired by Eric's family on a civil matter had already crossed a line he'd never crossed before — and what he documented inside that house added to a growing body of evidence the Sheriff's Office didn't have.By fall 2022, the criminal investigation had stalled. Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged it under oath at trial. Gabler had already identified the woman

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37:34

What Were People Warning About Before Anna Kepner's...

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2026/05/31

Anna Kepner's ex-boyfriend's father has publicly claimed he tried to warn the family. Timothy Hudson was allegedly fixated on Anna. He reportedly wanted to date her despite being her stepbrother. He was allegedly seen climbing on top of her while she slept during a FaceTime call. He reportedly always carried a large knife. Anna's aunt said Anna didn't want to go on the cruise. Anna was afraid of him.Despite all of that, Anna was placed in a cabin with Hudson aboard the Carnival Horizon. No parents

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39:12

What Did The Delphi Search Warrant Allegedly Leave...

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2026/05/31

The search warrant that launched the entire case against Richard Allen rested on a probable cause affidavit written by Detective Tony Liggett. According to the appellant's brief, that affidavit allegedly misrepresented what witnesses told investigators and omitted the details that would have undermined the connection between Allen and Bridge Guy.Betsy Blair described the man on the bridge as young, in his twenties, with poofy brown hair. Allen was 44 with a crew cut. The defense says Liggett

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56:58

What Did Todd Gabler Find In The Richins Home That...

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2026/05/30

Law enforcement released the Richins home and moved on. Todd Gabler went in with body cameras and stayed for days. The 34-year defense investigator hired by Eric's family on a civil matter had already crossed a line he'd never crossed before — and what he documented inside that house added to a growing body of evidence the Sheriff's Office didn't have.By fall 2022, the criminal investigation had stalled. Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged it under oath at trial. Gabler had already identified the

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39:30

Why Did DNA In The Nancy Guthrie Case Go To Multiple...

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2026/05/30

Unknown DNA from an unidentified contributor was recovered from inside Nancy Guthrie's home. That sample has been routed through multiple federal and state labs instead of going directly to the FBI's laboratory at Quantico. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years as an FBI Special Agent and knows how lab routing decisions affect timelines — and she walks through whether this one is helping or hurting the investigation.The DNA is one of two massive evidence pools in this case. The other is digital —

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