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Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns

Hidden Killers Podcast

Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how

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20:22

Is Elizabeth Siders a Defendant Or THIS Family's Victim?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/17

She was married off at fifteen. She gave birth to all sixteen children. She faces sixteen felony counts. And her own attorney says she might be a victim of the Siders family, not one of its architects. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the hardest legal question in this case: can Elizabeth Siders be a defendant and a victim at the same time, and what does that argument do to a prosecution trying to hold four people accountable for what happened inside one house?Four

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18:37

Nancy Guthrie's Sheriff Said NO To The FBI's Plane?

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2026/07/17

The FBI Director says he had an aircraft on the ground, fueled, ready to fly DNA evidence from the Nancy Guthrie scene to Quantico through the night. He says the Pima County Sheriff sent it to a private lab in Florida instead.The sheriff says the decision was made on scene, based on operational needs, and that the two labs have worked in partnership from the start. One of them is not telling the whole story.Tony Brueski goes through the full contradiction ledger in the disappearance of Savannah

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17:15

Did Nolan Wells' Friend Just Make a Fatal Mistake?

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2026/07/17

An eighteen-year-old went to Horn Island with friends. He never came back. And before the investigation was complete, one of those friends appeared on national television and then sat down with a national magazine to tell his version of what happened. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis weighs in on whether that decision helps the truth or buries it — and what it costs when a witness starts building a public record of statements while the evidence is still being processed.All three

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22:25

Did Nolan Wells' Sheriff Call It Before Evidence...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/17

The sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected before the autopsy was complete, before toxicology was processed, before the FBI examined the digital evidence, and before anyone resolved the contradiction between what the friends said and what the young woman on the island reportedly told investigators. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down exactly what a premature public call does to a case that hasn't been built yet — and whether an investigation can recover once

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15:55

Siders' 16 Kids: Ohio Came To That Door For WHAT?

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2026/07/17

The officers who found the Siders children came to that house for something else entirely.Sixteen kids in Hamden, Ohio. Deputies at the front door on a warrant that had nothing to do with any of them. Ohio's Attorney General has said flatly that nobody knew there would be children inside. No school record. No neighbor who knew. No caseworker who had ever been out.The oldest of the sixteen is eighteen years old, and investigators said she could not write her own name. Court records indicate she was

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59:09

16 Siders Kids: WHY Does This Happen And Keep Happening?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/17

Not how. Why. Why does a family build a sealed world around sixteen children? Why does a town of seven hundred people fail to notice twenty humans in a five-room house? And why will it happen again — somewhere else, to other children — no matter how loudly everyone says never again? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins live for the complete conversation.The full interview runs the whole arc. The architecture of the family: three generations, one arrangement, eighteen years of maintenance without a

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21:04

16 Siders Kids: The Lie Everyone Tells Themselves...

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2026/07/16

"I would have called." It's in every comment section, every conversation about the Siders case, every kitchen-table reaction to the news out of Hamden. And the research on actual bystander behavior says it's a lie — not a malicious one, but a lie we tell ourselves about who we are. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins live to close the gap between the person you believe you'd be and the person the data says you'd actually be.Scott walks through the real-time experience of the people around this

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18:32

16 Siders Kids: Can Any Of Them Come Back From This?

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2026/07/16

The youngest Siders child is eighteen months old. The oldest spent eighteen years inside that house. Between those two ages sits the most uncomfortable question in this entire case: where is the line — the age past which what was taken from a child can't fully be given back? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins live to answer it honestly, without the comforting version.Scott walks through what recovery actually looks like for children whose brains developed in total isolation. Some can't speak. Some

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20:12

16 Siders Kids: How Do Three Generations Build THIS...

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2026/07/16

Gary Siders Sr. is seventy-three. His wife Christina is sixty-seven. Their son is thirty-six. His wife is thirty-three. Four adults across two generations, all charged with the same sixteen felony counts, all allegedly participating in the same arrangement: sixteen children in one room, no school, no doctors, no outside world. Whatever happened in that house wasn't one person's pathology. It was a family project.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins live to work through how a multigenerational family

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25:23

16 Siders Kids: Twenty People Lived There And NOBODY...

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2026/07/16

Twenty human beings generate footprints. Trash. Grocery volume. Water usage. Noise through thin walls. Movement past windows. Twenty people in a five-room house next to railroad tracks produce evidence of themselves constantly, involuntarily, every hour of every day. And the official story out of Hamden, Ohio, is that for years, nobody registered any of it.Tony and Robin go live on the claim at the center of the Siders case. They walk through every touchpoint this family had with the outside world

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21:24

16 Siders Kids: A Senator Is Already Walking Back WHAT?

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2026/07/16

In 2023, Ohio's legislature stripped its homeschool oversight down to a notification — no proof of curriculum, no demonstration of qualifications, nothing but a form. In 2026, deputies found sixteen children who had never seen a classroom, some of whom can't read, one of whom can't write her own name at eighteen. And before a single indictment has come down, a senator who voted for the rollback is already telling reporters the law might need "revisiting." Tony and Robin go live on what that

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61:58

16 Siders Kids: Who Deserves The Most Blame For All...

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2026/07/16

Four adults are charged. But the blame in the Siders case doesn't stop at four — it spreads through a town that noticed and stayed silent, agencies that documented and never acted, a court that signed the license that started it, and a legislature that dismantled the one safeguard that might have caught it. Tony and Robin go live with the full conversation and put the question straight to the audience: rank the blame.Everything is on the board. Hamden's unanimous alibi and the details that shred

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15:46

16 Siders Kids: Does Your Silence Deserve A Free Pass?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/15

Right now, in Ohio and almost everywhere else, you can watch a child deteriorate in front of you for years — notice everything, suspect everything — and owe nothing. No call. No report. No consequence. Good Samaritan laws protect you if you step up; nothing touches you if you don't. Tony and Robin go live on whether that free pass survives the Siders case.The live conversation runs the argument both directions with the chat weighing in. One side: attaching legal duty to ordinary citizens turns

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61:10

Guthrie, Reiner, Heuermann: What Everyone Missed Live

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2026/07/15

This episode of Hidden Killers Live does something a little different: instead of one deep dive, the team moves through three cases back to back, Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Rex Heuermann, and takes listener questions on all three. Robin Drake, Todd Michaels, and Lisa Hale start with Nancy Guthrie, six months missing from her Arizona home, and answer listener questions about the note her family received and what it might mean. From there, the conversation moves to Nick Reiner, accused of

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18:07

Did Rex Heuermann's Therapist Break THIS Rule?

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2026/07/14

Rex Heuermann is behind bars for eight murders, but Hidden Killers Live spent this episode on a question listeners keep sending in: what was really going on with the therapist working closely with his family? Robin Drake, Todd Michaels, and Lisa Hale take listener questions directly on this one, starting with reports that the therapist wasn't licensed, and that she appeared on a Peacock special discussing details tied to her clients. The hosts talk through whether that could open the door to an

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20:22

Did Anyone See THIS Coming From Nick Reiner?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/14

Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their own home nine months ago, and Hidden Killers Live spent this episode answering the questions listeners can't let go of, starting with the one that stings the most: did anyone see this coming from their son, Nick? Robin Drake, Todd Michaels, and Lisa Hale take listener questions directly, starting with reports that Nick and his father fought at a holiday party hours before the killings, with other guests noticing his behavior and going home anyway. The

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23:18

Did Nancy Guthrie's Captor Really Write THIS?

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2026/07/14

Nancy Guthrie has been gone for six months, and Hidden Killers Live goes straight at the question the audience keeps asking: what does that ransom note actually say, and why won't the FBI just say it outright? She vanished from her own home in the middle of the night. Blood was found on her porch. A masked man showed up on her doorbell camera hours earlier. Her family has received multiple notes claiming responsibility, and investigators have quietly ruled some out while refusing to rule out at

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10:04

D4vd: The Song Name, the Album Name, and the Video...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/14

D4vd case final chapter — David Burke’s music catalog reads differently after the charges. His breakout hit. His album title. A music video that shows imagery mirroring what prosecutors allege. Whether California’s creative-expression protections keep any of it out of trial is an open question. What’s not open is how it looks from the outside.This episode covers the investigation timeline from September 2025 through the April 2026 arrest. Why did the LAPD take seven months? Why was the coroner’s

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55:24

What Just Happened In Nolan Wells And Nancy Guthrie's...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/14

Two cases we've been following closely — Nolan Wells and Nancy Guthrie — both moved forward this episode, and neither development is going to sit well with you. On the Nolan Wells side, the friend who left him behind on Horn Island turns out to be the son of a sitting Jackson County judge, and both the judge and the friend group have gone completely silent since that connection came out. We dig into the decision to ask for a voluntary phone surrender instead of a subpoena, and why that matters more

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10:40

D4vd: What He Allegedly Had Delivered While Planning...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/07/13

D4vd case: the day prosecutors say David Burke celebrated his debut album was also the day a Postmates driver reportedly delivered a shovel to his Hollywood Hills home. That was just the beginning. In the weeks that followed, according to the prosecution, Burke placed Amazon orders under an alias for items investigators say were used to carry out the mutilation charge — and shipped them all to his own address.Prosecutors say Burke went from an album release party to a Coachella-level tour while

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