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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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49:48

What Happens When The Defense Runs Maggie Murdaugh's...

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2026/05/24

Jim Griffin confirmed at the defense press conference that unknown male DNA was recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and never run through CODIS. Physical evidence from the person who was fatally shot, documented in the investigation, sitting unmatched in an evidence file. The defense has plans for it at retrial.That revelation sits alongside a catalog of alleged SLED investigative failures the defense intends to weaponize in front of a second jury. Tire tracks at the crime scene that

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41:29

Why Is Murdaugh's Defense Using A Federal Lawsuit To...

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2026/05/24

The defense team didn't file this lawsuit just to hold Becky Hill accountable. They filed it to investigate her. Civil discovery gives them tools the state never used — subpoenas, depositions, sworn testimony under penalty of perjury — and the complaint makes clear they intend to use every one of them.The Section 1983 claim alleges Hill deprived Alex Murdaugh of his constitutional right to a fair trial before an untampered jury. The South Carolina Supreme Court already found her conduct warranted

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61:15

What Did The Sentencing Memo Reveal About Kouri...

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2026/05/24

The sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case reads like an operational log. Prosecutors documented what they describe as a sustained campaign from inside a jail cell targeting every person connected to the prosecution — and it didn't stop until sentencing day.A fake dating profile created for the lead detective and posted online. What prosecutors characterize as false DCFS reports filed against the family raising her children. Retained counsel to pursue criminal charges against her sister-in-law

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41:35

Why Didn't SLED Track Down The Vehicle Near...

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2026/05/24

Strip away twelve hours of stolen-money testimony and the Alex Murdaugh case has to stand on its physical evidence for the first time. What's left is a crime scene that sat in the rain, family members who walked through it, no recovered weapon, no DNA on the defendant, and an investigative lead that reportedly went nowhere.Blanca Simpson, the Murdaugh housekeeper, told investigators about a suspicious white vehicle parked near the property close to where Paul kept firearms on the day of the

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45:07

How Did 27 Crew Members Pass Screening Before...

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2026/05/24

Federal agents had names before the ships docked. Operation Tidal Wave targeted 27 crew members across eight cruise ships in San Diego based on intelligence from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. CBP and HSI coordinated the boarding. Every one of the 27 was detained. Every one was deported. Not a single charge was filed. KPBS confirmed federal prosecutors in both San Diego and Los Angeles had no record of prosecution as of their reporting. One passenger on the Disney Magic

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75:24

Why Did Kouri Richins Blame The Jury Instead Of...

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2026/05/23

Three boys wrote impact statements describing locked bedrooms, animals dying from neglect, a sibling sneaking meals to a brother who'd been shut away, and a childhood defined by fear. Their therapists read the words in open court because the children cannot be in the same room with Kouri Richins. Every one of them asked the judge to keep her locked up forever. They said they finally feel safe.Kouri's response was a forty-minute allocution that never once referenced what her children wrote. She told

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71:43

Why Is Buster Murdaugh Furious About His Father's...

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2026/05/23

Buster Murdaugh testified for the defense at his father's murder trial and told a jury Alex wasn't capable of killing Maggie and Paul. Then Alex was convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence. Barely any prison calls. A quiet marriage. A life built at distance. Now the South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the convictions, the retrial is approaching, and sources say Buster isn't relieved — he's reportedly angry, allegedly calling Alex a "selfish old man."Jennifer

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80:48

What Were Kouri Richins' Kids Too Afraid To Say In...

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2026/05/23

Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins' children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on paper.The details are specific. One child woke to sirens and felt powerless. Another took on the role of caretaker — getting his younger brother to the bus, making sure he had food. The youngest described a pattern: locked inside his room, dependent on a sibling for meals, watching animals

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40:06

What Did Maggie Murdaugh's Divorce Lawyer Already Know?

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2026/05/23

Two threads of the Murdaugh case worth pulling on — what was already in motion before June 7, 2021, and what the prosecution may not get to use at a second trial.Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. She was living apart from Alex. June 7 was a day she did not want to spend at Moselle, and two witnesses testified to exactly that. She went anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — who writes about separation danger on her Substack, Spotlight on Psychology — walks through the

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18:58

Was Becky Hill Acting Alone — Or Did Someone Help Rig...

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2026/05/23

Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial trail and the network of connections that surrounded this verdict, and the lone-wolf explanation is getting harder to defend. Hill was planning a book deal before the trial started. A colleague testified Hill said a guilty verdict would sell more copies. The

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57:57

What Do Kouri Richins And Alex Murdaugh Tell Us About...

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2026/05/22

In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she'll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her "picked the wrong one."In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose murder convictions were just thrown out by the Supreme Court responds by suing the court clerk who allegedly corrupted his jury — not for the money, but for the subpoena power to find out who else

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23:38

The Cruise Industry Spent $70 Million Blocking Laws...

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2026/05/22

The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how the rules stay the way they are. Foreign-flag registration shields the industry from U.S. taxes and jurisdiction simultaneously. The CVSSA created a reporting floor and nothing else. The industry fought even that. This final episode of Cruising with

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15:43

What Does Alex Murdaugh's Federal Lawsuit Against...

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2026/05/22

Alex Murdaugh's defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill in federal court in Charleston — five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder convictions based on what the justices called "shocking jury interference." The complaint seeks six hundred thousand dollars in compensatory and punitive damages, but Jim Griffin told reporters none of it would go to Murdaugh personally.Eric

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14:27

What Do We Owe Maggie and Paul Murdaugh If the State...

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2026/05/22

The question people keep asking has a simple answer. Yes, Alex Murdaugh is serving 40 years federal. Yes, he’ll die in prison regardless of what happens in a retrial. And no, that is not a reason to walk away from the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Tony Brueski makes the case for why the retrial isn’t a choice — it’s the only path to justice.Maggie was 52 years old. Paul was 22. They were killed on their family’s property. The Supreme Court’s ruling wiped the slate clean — the guilty verdicts

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17:45

Why Did “Word of Faith” Members Give Over $85,000 to...

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2026/05/22

Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was the only time the legal system came close to holding her personally accountable. Five years of appeals later, it was overturned. And according to former members, the church learned it could outlast the courts. The pattern repeated across decades. More than forty former members testified to investigators in the 1990s — no charges. Inside Edition aired an investigation in 1995 — the church survived and allegedly used the coverage to deepen members’ distrust

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27:32

How Do You Legally Protect Yourself From Kouri...

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2026/05/22

The prosecution's sentencing memo included a message Kouri Richins wrote before the judge even ruled. She said she'd "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She wrote "they picked the wrong one" and "they haven't seen anything yet." This isn't speculation about what she might do — it's what she already put in writing from a jail cell.Eric Faddis breaks down the legal architecture of protection available to the witnesses, the Richins family, the prosecutors

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15:21

What Legal Ammunition Does Kouri Richins Actually...

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2026/05/22

Kouri Richins told her three sons at sentencing that she'd appeal her conviction and fight "no matter how long it takes." Her defense attorneys got the deadline to file a motion for a new trial extended from fourteen days to twenty-eight and told the judge they need to retain a new expert. The question nobody in the courtroom answered is whether any of it matters.Eric Faddis breaks down every potential appellate lane — the alleged prosecutorial access to attorney-client jail calls, the Crozier

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24:48

Was D4vd Building Himself Out Of Other People's...

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2026/05/22

The D4vd case keeps getting framed as a celebrity scandal. In this one, Tony Brueski goes somewhere harder. The death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the charges against David Anthony Burke, sit next to a body of work that now reads very differently than it did when teenagers were streaming it a billion times.Start with the name on the album: Withered. The shelved deluxe edition carried a subtitle, Marcescence — the botanical word for dead leaves that refuse to fall off the branch. He

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56:24

How Did Kouri Richins Expose Herself at Her Own...

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2026/05/21

Before she opened her mouth, Kouri Richins had already told the room everything. The eye rolls during her children's statements. The disgust during Eric's sisters' grief. The immediate tears the moment her own family proclaimed her innocence. Every reaction was a data point, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott reads them all.This three-part conversation on Hidden Killers Live covers the full arc of the sentencing: the contempt phase, the emotional flip, and the 45-minute speech that told three boys

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19:04

600 Crimes, 7 Convictions — How the Cruise Industry...

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2026/05/21

Why were zero charges filed after Operation Tidal Wave? Why does the New York Times find only 13 prosecutions in a decade? Why do settlements come with NDAs? This is the architecture of the justice gap: foreign-flag registration placing ships under jurisdictions that do not investigate. Private security teams with inherent conflicts of interest conducting the first investigation. A federal law requiring reporting but not prosecution. An enforcement default that deports crew without charges —

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