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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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61:29

Three Cases. Three Systems. Zero Excuses.

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2026/04/06

A missing woman whose investigation was reportedly compromised before it started. A family producing the same outcomes across generations while the doctrine that shaped them stays untouched. A serial murder case that sat cold for a decade while the agency responsible for solving it was itself mired in corruption.Nancy Guthrie remains missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. The initial investigative team reportedly lacked

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19:42

Bateman and the FLDS: How Cults Keep Making Predators

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2026/04/06

Warren Jeffs got life. His community fractured. And within a few years, another man stepped into the same role, used the same theology, and destroyed another generation of girls. This is how the FLDS prophet factory works — and why locking up the man at the top has never been enough to stop the cycle.Samuel Bateman went from borrowing twenty dollars to commanding fifty followers and more than twenty wives in roughly three years. He drove Bentleys. He paraded his wives on flatbed trailers through

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14:30

Gilgo Beach: The Blueprint, the DNA, and the Plea

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2026/04/06

Investigators found what prosecutors described as a planning document on Rex Heuermann's computer — checklists reportedly referencing how to limit noise, clean bodies, and destroy evidence. They recovered DNA connecting hair found on the remains of multiple victims not only to Heuermann but reportedly to his ex-wife and daughter. They linked his cellphone data to contact with victims before their disappearances. His defense fought to exclude the DNA. Fought to split the trials. Lost every motion

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16:58

Rex Heuermann and Sandra Costilla: Gilgo's Oldest...

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2026/04/06

Over three decades, Sandra Costilla's murder was assigned to the wrong man. Investigators circled John Bittrolff — a convicted killer from the area — and it never stuck. Prosecutors say the actual killer was hiding in plain sight. An architect. A commuter. A family man on Long Island. Rex Heuermann was 30 years old when Sandra was found in the woods of Southampton in 1993. If the prosecution's case holds, that makes her the very first in a pattern that wouldn't surface for another

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32:56

Michelle Duggar: When "Keep Sweet" Becomes a Weapon

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2026/04/06

For over a decade, Michelle Duggar's whisper was the defining sound of the Duggar brand — a breathy, childlike voice that signaled warmth, submission, and unwavering faith to millions of TLC viewers. Her niece Amy Duggar has said publicly that voice was deliberately cultivated. Michelle herself admitted it came from a Gothard "Wisdom Booklet" designed to suppress her anger. The doctrine didn't teach her to heal. It taught her to perform.In this Hidden Killers episode, Tony Brueski traces the

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26:39

Duggar Investigation: Active, Ongoing, and Expanding

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2026/04/06

The Tontitown Police Department used specific language when they described the status of this case: active and ongoing. That phrasing matters. Because charges have already been filed — and yet the investigation hasn't stopped.Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges in Florida for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and lewd and lascivious contact after allegedly admitting — according to the arrest affidavit — to molesting a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation. He posted

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20:58

Nancy Guthrie: What the First Hours Revealed

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2026/04/06

Blood on the front porch. A back door propped open. A phone and cane left behind inside the home of an 84-year-old woman who needed daily medication to survive. And the team handling the initial response — according to sources inside the department — had reportedly never worked a homicide.Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona, since February 1st. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. The FBI is embedded. A task force is running. A $1

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30:53

Nancy Guthrie: The Compliance Loophole and the Life...

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2026/04/06

The no-confidence vote was 241 to zero. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke a state statute compelling sworn testimony. The recall campaign is active. And yet the legal mechanism that's supposed to force accountability may contain the very loophole that lets Sheriff Chris Nanos survive it.This week we look back at the most significant developments in the Nancy Guthrie case. The statute the Board invoked — Arizona Revised Statute § 11-253, a territorial-era provision — triggers

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34:56

Duggar Family: The Full Arc and the Final Accounting

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2026/04/05

The timeline of Josh Duggar's adult life reads like a case study in how systems protect people until they can't anymore. He leveraged his television fame into a political career lobbying Congress on behalf of conservative Christian family values. He was the executive director of FRC Action, the political arm of the Family Research Council. And the entire time, according to the federal case that eventually brought him down, something else was happening on his work computer.This week we look back at

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39:27

Lindsay Clancy: Thirteen Medications, Seventeen...

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2026/04/05

The numbers in this case tell a story the medical system apparently couldn't read while it was unfolding. Approximately thirteen medications prescribed in roughly four months. A psychiatric appointment lasting approximately 17 minutes on a video screen the day before three children died. A dosage increase at the end of that call. And a woman who had been asking for help — using the clinical vocabulary of her own profession — at every stop along the way.This week we look back at the most critical

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30:32

Duggar Family: The Doctrine, the Patriarch, the Pattern

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2026/04/05

The system came first. Then the family. Then the silence. Understanding what happened inside the Duggar household — across three generations — requires understanding the organization that shaped how they thought, how they raised children, and how they handled harm.This week we look back at the most critical examinations in our ongoing Duggar series. Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles in 1961 and led it for approximately six decades. He was never ordained. Never married

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40:04

Nancy Guthrie: Ransom Evidence vs. a Mother's Belief

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2026/04/05

A mother sits on national television and says she believes the ransom notes are real. The evidence says something different. That gap — between what a grieving daughter needs to believe and what the forensic record actually shows — is the most important tension in the Nancy Guthrie case right now, and it demands honest examination.This week we look back at the most compelling developments in one of the most closely watched missing persons investigations in the country. Savannah Guthrie told Hoda

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44:32

Duggar Family: A Decade of Cameras and a Coverup...

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2026/04/05

The timeline is what makes this impossible to explain away. March 2002 — Jim Bob Duggar learns his teenage son is harming his daughters. He does not call police. He contacts church elders. July 2003 — after a labor program, not licensed treatment, Jim Bob takes Josh to a personal friend in law enforcement. The officer gives Josh a talk, files nothing, and makes no mandated report. That officer was later convicted on serious criminal charges and is serving 56 years in prison. December 2006 — police

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80:27

Delphi Murders & Richard Allen: Harmless Error or...

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2026/04/04

The State of Indiana has a phrase for everything that went wrong at Richard Allen's trial: harmless error. The composite sketch the jury never saw — harmless. The bullet comparison that initially came back without a match — harmless. The prison videos played without audio — harmless. The van timeline that doesn't align with the confession — harmless. In 94 pages, the Attorney General's office argues that even if individual rulings were wrong, the overall evidence was so overwhelming that none of it

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30:40

Joseph Duggar: The Admission, the Arrest, the Pattern

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2026/04/04

Two admissions. Two separate occasions. Both documented by law enforcement. According to the arrest affidavit from the Bay County Sheriff's Office, Joseph Duggar allegedly admitted to molesting a then-9-year-old girl — first when confronted by her father, and again when Tontitown detectives had the father call back with a detective on the line. That kind of documented admission doesn't happen by accident. It happens when someone wasn't prepared for the moment they'd have to answer for what they

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45:36

Rex Heuermann: Every Exit Closed Before the Plea

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2026/04/04

A man who allegedly kept checklists for murder — limiting noise, cleaning bodies, destroying evidence — is reportedly about to plead guilty to seven of them. But this expected plea didn't come from a moment of conscience. It came from a legal landscape that offered nothing left to fight for.This week we look back at the most critical developments in the Gilgo Beach case. Rex Heuermann, 62, a former architect from Massapequa Park, is reportedly expected to change his plea on April 8 in Suffolk

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50:59

Nancy Guthrie: Two Visits, No Arrest, No Answers

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2026/04/04

The suspect came to her door twice. Not once — twice. That single detail, revealed by Savannah Guthrie in her first extended public statement, transforms the profile of this abduction from opportunistic to methodical. Someone studied Nancy Guthrie's home, her routines, and her vulnerabilities before making a move. She was 84, in serious pain, and living alone. She left that house without shoes, without her heart medication, and without her phone. Getting her out required planning, familiarity with

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27:52

Courtney Clenney: The Hidden Recordings and What They...

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2026/04/04

Christian Obumseli was afraid of something. Or he was building something. Depending on which lawyers you listen to, the more than fifteen secret recordings he made of Courtney Clenney inside their Miami apartment are either the desperate documentation of a man being abused — or a calculated system of psychological control designed to manufacture leverage over a woman whose public career could be destroyed by what was on those tapes.On the recordings, Clenney is heard screaming, calling Obumseli

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56:47

LISK: Eric Faddis on the Gilgo Beach Killer Plea,...

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2026/04/03

Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders after nearly three years of fighting the charges. Every defense motion failed. The evidence was ruled admissible. And now, according to multiple sources, the accused LISK is ready to enter a plea.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me for an extended conversation covering the entire Gilgo Beach Killer case. We break down the

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17:56

The Duggar Reckoning: Two Brothers Charged, One...

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2026/04/03

In March 2026, Joseph Duggar was arrested on serious charges involving a minor, according to a Florida arrest affidavit. According to that affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old girl told investigators Joseph allegedly harmed her during a family vacation in 2020 when she was nine years old. According to the affidavit, he allegedly admitted to the conduct when confronted by the girl's father — and admitted again when the father called back with a detective on the line. Joseph has waived extradition and

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