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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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21:04

Adam Montgomery Was Offered a Deal to Bring Harmony...

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2026/06/15

Prosecutors made Adam Montgomery an offer at sentencing in the Harmony Montgomery case: reveal where you put your daughter’s remains, and we’ll recommend a lighter sentence. He sat in the courtroom and said nothing. He walked into his own jury selection smiling. He refused to attend most of his trial. And he has never once told anyone where Harmony is.That silence now sits alongside a unanimous New Hampshire Supreme Court decision reversing Montgomery’s second-degree murder conviction on procedural

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14:57

Why Did Lisa McVey Write a Suicide Note Hours Before...

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2026/06/15

Lisa McVey planned to die on November 3, 1984. She wrote the note before her shift at Krispy Kreme. She was seventeen, trapped in a home where her grandmother's boyfriend had been hurting her for three years. Then Bobby Joe Long grabbed her off her bicycle at two-thirty in the morning and threw her into a red Dodge Magnum. And somehow, in the back of a serial killer's car, the girl who wanted to die decided she wanted to live.What she did over the next twenty-six hours inside Long's apartment — the

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22:01

Who Knew Nancy Guthrie Lived Alone — and When the...

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2026/06/15

Nancy Guthrie was eighty-four, lived alone in the Catalina Foothills, and kept a routine that put a rotating cast of people inside her world on a predictable schedule. Caregivers. Service workers. Contractors. Delivery drivers. The pool route. The landscaper. People who could stand in front of that house without anyone looking twice.Investigators have publicly cleared her family. But the family is not the orbit — and the orbit is where this theory lives.Sixteen days before Nancy vanished,

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18:48

What Did Nancy Guthrie’s Mother’s Day Caller Actually...

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2026/06/15

He knew the arroyos. He described clothing. He identified a specific location near a stream in the desert west of Nogales, Sonora — roughly seventy miles south of Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home. And he bypassed over a million dollars in combined FBI and family reward money to deliver that information to a volunteer collective that searches for the missing in cartel territory.The anonymous caller reached Buscando Corazones Nogales on Mother’s Day. Fifteen volunteers went to the coordinates on May 16th

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29:07

Why Did The FBI Director Go Public Against The...

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2026/06/15

The FBI director publicly criticized how the Nancy Guthrie case was handled. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the Bureau and knows what it takes to push that kind of institutional conflict into the open. Private conversations failed first. Then the director went on record. That sequence tells you something specific about how badly the agency believes the early investigation was compromised.Coffindaffer walks through the operational difference between being notified about a case and having

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33:44

Why Did The Women Christine Marie Saved Walk Back To...

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2026/06/14

Christine Marie risked everything to get them out. Some of them walked right back in. Samuel Bateman is serving fifty years in federal prison. He still calls. The women still answer. Some of his adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the girls Christine helped pull out of his house have returned to his sphere. The conviction changed nothing about his hold on them. The sentence changed nothing. One phone call at a time, the certainty keeps flowing — what Christine describes as an IV of

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37:24

Is Jesse Ridgway A Fraud Or Something A...

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2026/06/14

A thousand people called 911 because they believed Jesse Ridgway was in danger. He'd staged family violence on YouTube for four years. When the truth came out, he said he "never lied." He didn't apologize to a single caller. He felt nothing but satisfaction that his show was working.That was a decade ago. The pattern has only escalated. A creator platform called StoryFire that burned through a million users before being sold as an NFT. His wife went through a medical procedure she described as the

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38:25

What Happened To The SD Card That Could Have Settled...

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2026/06/14

The dashcam in Michael Fosler's truck was the one piece of evidence that could have objectively recorded the final encounter between Aaron Spencer and the man Spencer says he killed to protect his thirteen-year-old daughter. Detective Robbie McCain pulled the camera off the windshield without photographing it. Removed the SD card and viewed it on his personal computer — violating department protocol confirmed by his own commanding officer. Stored the camera in an untaped envelope in his office

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54:15

What Recording Finally Forced The FBI To Move On...

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2026/06/14

Christine Marie brought tape after tape to local police. The sergeant believed every frame. He wouldn't move. Short Creek had spent decades looking the other way — polygamy was lifestyle, not crime — and the local department had stopped seeing what was in front of them long before Bateman declared himself a prophet.The recording that changed everything came in late 2021. Bateman, in his own voice, describing handing three of his wives to three of his men — one of them a minor. That tape crossed a

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41:52

How Did Samuel Bateman Build A Cult From Nothing In...

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2026/06/14

A broke, homeless man walked into a fractured religious community on the Utah-Arizona border. Three years later he was driving Bentleys, commanding fifty followers, and fathers were handing him their young daughters as spiritual wives. The behavioral question isn't whether he was evil. It's how he did it — and why every system that should have stopped him didn't.Robin Dreeke spent decades at the FBI studying exactly this kind of manipulation. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has worked in coercive

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50:01

Mackenzie Shirilla Drove That Same Dead-End Road Days...

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2026/06/13

The crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan wasn't the first time Mackenzie Shirilla drove to that dead-end road in Strongsville, Ohio. She'd been there days before the fatal night. The data recorder from her car captured the final run — accelerator at full capacity, zero braking, a straight line into a commercial building at close to a hundred miles per hour. Russo and Flanagan were dead at the scene. Shirilla survived.She never talked to police. She never testified. Investigators

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33:52

Anna Kepner's Cruise Ship Case: What 145 Pages Of...

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2026/06/13

The unsealed transcript from the February detention hearing in the Anna Kepner case runs a hundred and forty-five pages and lays out the prosecution's full theory for the first time. CCTV footage tracking Timothy Hudson's movements aboard the Carnival Horizon. Phone records. Snapchat activity showing Anna was still posting at 8:14 in the evening. Prosecutors say she and Hudson were alone in their shared cabin for roughly three hours before he was seen leaving. The transcript also confirmed a second

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40:53

Why Did Eric Richins Stay With Kouri Richins When He...

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2026/06/13

Eric Richins called his sister Katie from overseas years before his death and told her Kouri Richins had tried to harm him. He consulted a divorce attorney. He rewrote his will and restructured his estate to protect his three sons. He told family members that if anything happened to him, Kouri was responsible. He saw the threat clearly. And he still went home every night.Katie testified at sentencing that Eric made the decision to stay because he was afraid of what would happen to his boys if Kouri

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39:29

Are Mackenzie Shirilla's Parents Building A Case...

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2026/06/13

Steve Shirilla lost his teaching job after defending his convicted daughter on Netflix. Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a prison call telling Mackenzie that Dominic Russo's family are "evil people." Prosecutors decoded calls where mother and daughter spoke in a private made-up language to evade monitoring — and in one decoded exchange, Mackenzie allegedly asked if they could tell police she had a seizure before the crash. Those calls were introduced as evidence at trial.Eric Faddis examines

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17:52

Why Did Nick Reiner's Trustee Quit After Four Months?

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2026/06/13

In this Nick Reiner case update, we follow the strangest thread in the entire trust fight: the man who was handed control of the money — and walked away months later.Paul Kanin took over Nick Reiner's trust after Rob and Michele Reiner were killed. According to the petition, his tenure was a wall of refusals, what Nick's lawyers call "a shifting series of excuses and justifications" — concerns about Nick's competence, questions about how the money would be used, and the looming possibility that

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24:13

Why Do Mackenzie Shirilla’s Parents Think She’s the...

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2026/06/13

Christine Russo lost her brother Dominic when Mackenzie Shirilla drove a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. Davion Flanagan, nineteen, died alongside him. In a published interview, Christine said it plainly about Mackenzie’s parents: “They created a monster — they’re monsters themselves.”Recorded prison calls between Mackenzie and her family show how the Shirilla household operates — before the crash and after. Mackenzie tells her mother Natalie she doesn’t need

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48:07

Can Nick Reiner Even Mount A Defense Without His Money?

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2026/06/12

Strip away the famous name and the Nick Reiner case update comes down to a brutal structural problem: a man facing the most serious charges California can bring — two counts of first-degree murder in his parents' deaths, which he denies — says he cannot fund the defense he wants, while more than $1.5 million sits in a trust bearing his name.His petition argues every week of delay is a week his chosen counsel, Alan Jackson, cannot investigate or prepare — damage to his defense that can never be

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24:13

Why Is Alex Murdaugh's Defense Team So Quiet About...

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2026/06/12

Something unusual is happening in the Alex Murdaugh case, and almost nobody has noticed it: the fighting stopped. For three years, every development in this case triggered a war — motions, press conferences, accusations flying in both directions. Then South Carolina named the judge who will run the retrial, a woman with a documented professional history with Murdaugh's own lead defense attorney, and both sides went silent. Harpootlian declined to comment. The Attorney General's office offered a

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14:39

Should Alex Murdaugh Fear The Judge Who Sided With...

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2026/06/12

Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial is fixated on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin's story — her reported history with defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. This episode digs into the other half, and it's the half that should worry the defense.Before the South Carolina Supreme Court handed McCaslin exclusive control of the Murdaugh case — the motions, the evidentiary fights, and the retrial over the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh — she built a record on the bench described as tough,

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23:34

Is Nick Reiner Racing the Clock to Drain His Parents’...

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2026/06/12

A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for their children. He wants the money for a high-powered defense attorney. He wants it for soap and socks. And he wants it before a conviction can trigger the one law designed to stop him.California’s slayer statute says if you intentionally and feloniously kill someone, you do not inherit from them. Not a

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