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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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23:42

Who Actually Benefits From Putting the Death Penalty...

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2026/05/19

Alan Wilson controls the prosecution of Alex Murdaugh. He also wants to be the next governor of South Carolina. He’s leading in the polls. And he just told reporters the death penalty is an option for the retrial—something that was never on the table in 2023.Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke tackle listener questions about where the line falls between prosecution strategy and campaign strategy. Wilson wants a speedy trial before he leaves office. Every AG candidate has

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29:02

Kouri Richin’s Tried To Get Revenge On Everyone...

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2026/05/19

Kouri Richins’ courtroom speech was forty minutes of love, forgiveness, and motherhood. The sentencing memo prosecutors filed tells the story of what she was actually doing from her jail cell — and when you put them side by side, a portrait emerges that’s hard to look away from.According to prosecutors, while Kouri rehearsed a speech about not holding hate, she was orchestrating attacks on every person connected to this case through proxies. A fake dating profile targeting the detective who

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54:45

Did Buster Murdaugh's Anger and Kouri Richins'...

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2026/05/18

Two interviews. Two families. Two courtrooms where the people who should matter most are being dragged back into it.Buster Murdaugh hasn’t spoken since the conviction was overturned, but sources say he’s angry, not relieved. He reportedly called his father a “selfish old man.” The defense needs his loyalty at retrial. The prosecution needs his anger. Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke break down why Buster’s survival may actually contradict the state’s family

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24:59

What Federal Agents Found on Cruise Workers’ Phones —...

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2026/05/18

Dharmi Mehta was on day four of a Disney Magic cruise when federal agents handcuffed her family’s dining host and loaded him into an unmarked van. Forty-five minutes earlier, he had served them breakfast. According to CBP, between April 23 and 27, officers boarded eight cruise ships in San Diego as part of CSAM enforcement. On April 28, HSI executed Operation Tidal Wave, acting on NCMEC intelligence. Combined total: 28 detained, 27 allegedly confirmed involved in exploitation material. Ten

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20:30

What Was Kouri Richins Really Saying When She Told...

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2026/05/18

Those boys couldn’t face their mother. They gave their words to therapists who read them in open court — locked doors, animals that died from neglect, a brother smuggling food to a sibling imprisoned in his own bedroom, and a childhood spent being afraid. Every one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her away.Kouri Richins responded with a forty-minute speech that never acknowledged a single word her children said. She announced an appeal, attacked the jury for deliberating less than

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15:04

Can Prosecutors Still Win After the Supreme Court...

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2026/05/18

The prosecution’s playbook for convicting Alex Murdaugh was just declared constitutionally excessive by the highest court in South Carolina. The state spent weeks building an emotional case around Murdaugh’s financial crimes before the first jury ever weighed the murder evidence. The Supreme Court said the state went far too deep and could have made the same argument with far less. What does that leave the prosecution working with?The core motive survives — Murdaugh’s financial empire was

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20:44

Why Were Word of Faith Members Told God Would Kill...

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2026/05/18

A former math teacher from rural North Carolina allegedly built a church where she controlled which couples could reproduce, which members could attend college, and who was allowed to speak to their own families. Jane Whaley and her husband Sam reportedly converted a shuttered steakhouse into the Word of Faith Fellowship in 1979. It grew, at its peak, to approximately 750 members in North Carolina and nearly 2,000 followers in affiliated churches worldwide. According to the Associated Press, the

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17:44

What Lead Did SLED Dismiss on the Day of the Murdaugh...

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2026/05/18

The financial crimes carried the first conviction. Twelve hours of stolen money, defrauded clients, and a pattern of lies so deep the jury only needed three hours to decide. The South Carolina Supreme Court just said none of that comes in this time. So what’s left?Creighton Waters now walks into a courtroom with the physical case — and only the physical case. A crime scene compromised by rain and foot traffic. No recovered weapon. No DNA on Alex Murdaugh. And a witness who says she told SLED about

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17:04

Did Buster Murdaugh Just Turn on His Own Father?

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2026/05/18

Buster Murdaugh defended his father at trial, told the jury Alex couldn’t have done this, and then went silent for three years. No interviews. Almost no prison visits. A quiet wedding. A deliberate distance. Now that the conviction is overturned, both sides are staring at the same person — and his loyalty is no longer a given.Sources close to the family say Buster is angry, not relieved. He reportedly called Alex a “selfish old man.” That changes the calculus for both the defense and the

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49:35

Does South Carolina Really Think They Can Win Alex...

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2026/05/18

The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't just reverse Alex Murdaugh's conviction. It overruled one of its own prior decisions to do it. The court formally adopted the Fourth Circuit's three-step Cheek test for evaluating juror tampering claims, replacing the standard Jean Toal relied on when she denied the new trial motion. That's not a routine correction. That's the court deciding its own precedent was wrong — and the Murdaugh case was significant enough to rewrite the law.Defense attorney Eric

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49:35

A Murdaugh Juror’s Doubts Scored Alex NEW TRIAL!!

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2026/05/17

A juror in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial had questions about his guilt. She voted to convict anyway — after the Clerk of Court told the jury not to be fooled by the defense. All five South Carolina Supreme Court justices just ruled unanimously that Becky Hill's conduct was unprecedented in the state's history and that her comments tainted the verdict. The court found Hill was motivated by a book deal that depended on a guilty verdict. She pled guilty to perjury in December 2025.The ruling

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64:17

Why Did Kouri Richins' 9-Year-Old Tell the Judge He'd...

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2026/05/17

He's nine years old. He couldn't stand at the podium himself, so a therapist read his words for him. His message to Judge Richard Mrazik was simple: "Once she is gone, I will feel happy." He was talking about his own mother. And his mother sat in that courtroom, watched therapists read the statements her three sons wrote, and scoffed. Rolled her eyes. Looked irritated that her children's pain was taking up time.Judge Mrazik sentenced Kouri Richins to life without the possibility of parole on what

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42:22

What Did It Cost to Allegedly Keep the FBI Out of the...

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2026/05/17

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly said publicly that the bureau was locked out of the Nancy Guthrie investigation during the most critical window. The Pima County Sheriff's Office disputes that characterization. What isn't disputed is that four days passed — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says digital evidence, biological material, and witness memory all degrade fastest in exactly that window. The alleged delay may have cost this case evidence it can never recover.Coffindaffer

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50:05

How Alex Murdaugh Asked His Housekeeper to Lie For Him!

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2026/05/17

Alex Murdaugh walked into the guest house pacing, shirt half untucked, rubbing his stomach in circles, holding a spit cup in one hand. He told Blanca Simpson to sit down. Then he asked her a question: do you remember what I was wearing that day? The Vineyard Vines shirt? She sat there and listened. In the back of her mind, she knew that wasn’t what he was wearing. She didn’t know he’d just come from a SLED interview. She didn’t know investigators were already looking at him.In this segment of her

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47:25

Why Is Indiana Unable To Defend The Delphi Evidence?

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2026/05/17

The defense raised FBI cell data that contradicted the van timeline. They raised a confession that named the wrong method. They raised an alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators. Indiana's answer: procedural default, waiver, harmless error. When a prosecution holding a 130-year conviction won't engage with the underlying record, three appeals judges have to ask themselves why.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to break down what Indiana's

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48:33

How The Murdaugh Boat Crash Story Changed After Alex...

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2026/05/16

Morgan Doughty's first written statement — given before Alex Murdaugh got to anyone — allegedly said Connor Cook took over driving the boat before the crash that killed Mallory Beach. By the next day, the story had changed. According to James Lasdun's new book The Family Man, a whispered conversation between survivors at the hospital happened while Alex was prowling the hallways, allegedly trying to force his way into patients' rooms and telling people what to say. The accepted narrative of who was

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58:10

Kendra Duggar Asked If Her (Alleged) Predator Husband...

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2026/05/16

In recorded jail calls obtained through FOIA, Kendra Duggar allegedly never asks about the nine-year-old girl at the center of the case against her husband. She doesn't ask about the allegations. She doesn't ask about the child who reportedly told investigators what happened. On a recorded line — knowing it would become public — her question is: do you still love me? That tells you everything about what this family allegedly prioritizes when one of its members faces felony charges involving a

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33:32

What Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnappers Knew About Her

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2026/05/16

The surveillance camera at Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home was allegedly targeted and concealed with weeds. That tells you the person planned ahead. But the footage apparently survived through cloud-based recovery — which tells you the person didn't plan far enough. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says that contradiction is the behavioral signature of this case: someone operating in a dangerous middle ground between preparation and competence, familiar enough with the neighborhood to

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41:26

What Alex Murdaugh’s Housekeeper Heard Him Say BEFORE...

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2026/05/16

Maggie Murdaugh told her housekeeper she would have sold everything — the house, the land, all of it — to settle the $30 million lawsuit and make things right for the families involved. Alex wouldn’t even give her a straight answer about where the money stood. Blanca Simpson heard both sides of that conversation because she’d spent fifteen years inside the Murdaugh home, trusted enough to be in the room when the walls started closing in.In this interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca opens up about the

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48:35

How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Own Children...

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2026/05/16

Three boys told a judge they’re terrified of Kouri Richins. They asked for one thing: never let her out. Her answer was a promise to come back for them — and it’s one of the most chilling things you’ll ever hear a convicted defendant say to her own children.Those boys didn’t speak for themselves. They couldn’t. Their therapists carried their words to the podium — words about locked bedrooms, starving animals, a brother smuggling food, and a woman prosecutors say was too drunk or too absent to

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