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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover

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14:24

Maureen Brainard-Barnes: The Gilgo Four Mother...

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2026/04/09

Maureen Brainard-Barnes was a songwriter. An artist. A mother of two fighting to keep her kids. And on the night of July 9, 2007, she walked out of a Midtown Manhattan hotel to meet a client and never came home. She was 25 years old, four feet eleven, and desperate enough to take the train from Connecticut to the city because the eviction notice was real and the custody hearing was coming.Episode 4 of "The Seven." Maureen was the first of the Gilgo Four to disappear and the last to be formally

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24:06

The Law May Finally Reach Jim Bob Duggar

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2026/04/09

Jim Bob Duggar has spent two decades on the protected side of expired statutes and managed silence. That position is no longer guaranteed. When his son Joseph was arrested on allegations of molesting a child during a 2020 family vacation — and allegedly confessed twice — it didn't just expose Joseph. It reopened the question of what the patriarch knew and when. The documented record from the Josh era is damning on its own terms: church elders consulted instead of police, a family friend in law

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23:43

Kendra Duggar Charges: The Psychology of Religious...

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2026/04/09

Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges in Bay County, Florida, of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under twelve and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person eighteen or older — stemming from an alleged 2020 incident during a family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to the arrest affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old victim disclosed that Duggar allegedly molested her when she was nine. The victim's father confronted Duggar, who allegedly admitted to the abuse. Detectives reportedly monitored

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23:16

Rex Heuermann Plea: Psychology Behind Asa Ellerup's...

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2026/04/09

Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with seven counts of murder in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings — women who vanished between 1993 and 2010 along Long Island's south shore. He is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea, which, if accepted by the court, would result in a sentence of life without the possibility of parole and eliminate the scheduled September trial entirely.The legal resolution, however, leaves the case's most psychologically complex question unanswered: how did Asa

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16:40

Nancy Guthrie Investigation Follows a Terrifying...

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2026/04/09

The Nancy Guthrie case has drawn national scrutiny — not just for the disappearance of an 84-year-old woman from her Tucson home, but for mounting questions about whether the investigation was compromised from the start by the leadership overseeing it.Tony Brueski pulls the lens back and places the Guthrie case alongside four of the most notorious law enforcement failures in modern American history. A Long Island police chief convicted of federal crimes who kept the FBI away from the Gilgo Beach

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67:06

Duggar Felony Defense and Heuermann Plea: Legal...

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2026/04/08

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides precision legal analysis on two major cases in a single episode.Joseph Duggar faces Florida felony charges of lewd and lascivious behavior — molestation of a victim under twelve — after allegedly confessing to the abuse before retaining counsel. According to the Bay County arrest affidavit, Duggar admitted to the conduct when the victim's father confronted him and again during a monitored phone call. He filed a written not-guilty plea, posted $600,000

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16:23

How Two Civilians Took Down FLDS Prophet Bateman

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2026/04/08

The FBI couldn't get inside. Police had questioned Bateman twice and left empty-handed. The FLDS community was built over a century to resist outside scrutiny, and it was working. The formal institutions designed to protect children had failed to penetrate the wall. So two people who weren't part of any institution did it instead.Christine Marie is a cult researcher who moved to Short Creek with her filmmaker husband Tolga Katas in 2016. They came to help — Christine started a nonprofit supporting

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18:25

Heuermann's Expected Gilgo Beach Plea Analyzed

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2026/04/08

Rex Heuermann, 62, the former Massapequa Park architect charged with seven counts of murder in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings, is reportedly expected to change his plea from not guilty at his next scheduled court appearance. Sources familiar with the case indicate victims' families and Heuermann's own family have been notified. The expected sentence is life without the possibility of parole.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides legal analysis of the plea's strategic

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16:38

Jessica Taylor: The Surgical Drape Linking Heuermann...

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2026/04/08

A surgical drape. Found underneath the body of a 20-year-old woman in the woods of Manorville, Long Island. A hair on that drape matched Rex Heuermann's DNA profile, according to prosecutors. That single forensic detail tells you something critical about what prosecutors allege happened to Jessica Taylor — this wasn't impulsive. Someone came prepared.Episode 3 of "The Seven." This one centers on the planning document — the all-caps digital file prosecutors say they found on a hard drive in

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31:11

Joseph Duggar's Arrest and the Caldwell Family...

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2026/04/08

Kendra Duggar's own parents are crowdfunding for legal representation and emergency housing. The home they'd been living in — once transferred to them by Joseph and Kendra — was quietly deeded back months before the arrest made headlines. From a jail phone, Kendra confirmed her family's move-out timeline. And Paul Caldwell, the Baptist pastor who officiated Joseph and Kendra's wedding, went from family patriarch to a man asking the public for help keeping his children housed.The alleged victim in

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22:40

Duggar Family Statements Fuel Prosecution's Record

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2026/04/08

The legal exposure in the Duggar case extends well beyond the defendant. Kendra Duggar, 27, faces separate misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment — filed after a home investigation reportedly discovered exterior locks on the children's bedroom doors. She retained independent counsel and was released on $1,470 bond.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides precision legal analysis of the

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26:40

Joseph Duggar's Felony Defense Meets Alleged Confessions

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2026/04/08

Joseph Duggar faces Florida felony charges of lewd and lascivious behavior — molestation of a victim under twelve — stemming from allegations during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to the arrest affidavit filed by the Bay County Sheriff's Office, the victim disclosed the abuse through a forensic interview after her father confronted Duggar directly. Law enforcement states Duggar admitted to the conduct during that confrontation and again during a subsequent phone call

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15:21

Three Juries All Agreed — Lori Vallow Daybell Is Guilty

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2026/04/08

She's been convicted three times. In two states. By three different juries. She's serving seven life sentences. And Lori Vallow Daybell is still trying to find a way out.Her Idaho appeal is now fully briefed and sitting before the state Supreme Court. Five constitutional claims. A fifty-nine-page prosecution response. And a reply brief that tries to repackage the same arguments the state already dismantled. The defense says the court took her lawyer, violated her rights while she was incompetent,

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58:51

FBI Behavioral Expert Analyzes All of Joseph Duggar's...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down every piece of communication from Joseph Duggar's time at Washington County across a three-part series.Jim Bob's email compares Joseph to King David and edits the alleged victim out entirely. The first call reveals Joseph doing workouts and comparing Bible translations while Kendra can barely function — and confusing his legal papers with a newspaper. The later calls reveal Kendra warning to trust no one, Joseph calling his

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26:54

How FLDS Parents Became Bateman's Supply Chain

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2026/04/07

In most child abuse cases, parents are the first line of defense. In Samuel Bateman's case, they were the first line of supply. Fathers voluntarily gave their underage daughters to a man they knew was having sexual contact with minors — and when police came asking questions, those same fathers lied to protect the operation.This episode examines the human infrastructure behind Bateman's abuse. Moroni Johnson, who gave six of his daughters to Bateman, ages nine to seventeen. Ladell Bistline Jr., who

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13:41

FBI Behavioral Expert Catches What Everyone Missed in...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down the later calls between Joseph and Kendra from Washington County. Kendra warns Joseph to trust no one. She's physically collapsing — IVs, fragments of sleep, telling Joseph she hasn't died yet. Michelle Duggar prays with her to stop the spiral.Joseph calls his cell a prayer closet. He's having breakthroughs. He reads a devotional about boundary failures and finds it "really interesting" — while facing charges that allege he

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16:55

Valerie Mack: Rex Heuermann Charged in LISK Jane Doe...

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2026/04/07

She was 24 years old when she was killed. She sat unidentified for twenty years. And when genetic genealogy finally gave her back her name in 2020, her own son — now an adult — was the one whose DNA confirmed it. Valerie Mack's story is one of the most devastating in the Gilgo Beach case.Episode 2 of "The Seven." Valerie was born in Atlantic City, placed in foster care, adopted by the Mack family, estranged from her son by her early twenties. She was working as an escort in Philadelphia when she

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34:03

Inside Joseph Duggar's Jail: Calls, Emails, and a...

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2026/04/07

Public records from Washington County have blown the doors open on what happened inside the Duggar family while Joseph sat in solitary confinement facing allegations of harming a child.Anna Duggar — whose husband Josh is serving twelve and a half years for federal charges involving child sexual abuse material — emailed Joseph and walked him through jail logistics with the precision of someone who has been through this before. Money on books. Call costs. Commissary timing. She praised Kendra's

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22:46

FBI Behavioral Expert Hears What You Missed in Joseph...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County. Joseph is doing workouts in solitary and comparing Bible translations while Kendra can barely walk. He tells her the Biblical Joseph reminds him of himself. She asks about his charges and he thinks she means a newspaper.They move to business — taxes, ChatGPT projections, power of attorney — while a child navigates the justice system. Robin decodes

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23:04

Jim Bob Duggar's Letter to Joseph Decoded by FBI...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski go through Jim Bob Duggar's email to his son Joseph line by line. Joseph sits in solitary facing allegations of harming a child. Jim Bob tells him he's made terrible decisions — then compares him to King David who found redemption and the Biblical Joseph who turned prison into purpose.He calls Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." He tells Joseph the family has pulled together. He says God has already forgiven him. The alleged victim — a girl who

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