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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover

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23:42

Why Is Every Politician in South Carolina Trying To...

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2026/05/19

David Pascoe says he’d convict Murdaugh in two weeks. Stephen Goldfinch took a swipe at Pascoe’s ties to the defense while pledging his own retrial. Alan Wilson is leading the governor’s race and just said the death penalty is on the table. South Carolina’s entire political class is building their campaigns around one defendant.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the listener questions that cut to the bone: What happens to a retrial when every politician in the state is competing over who’s

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29:02

Did Kouri Richins File False Reports Against the...

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2026/05/19

Prosecutors’ sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case reveals a pattern of retaliation that went far beyond the courtroom — and every target was someone connected to her children, her case, or the man she was convicted of killing.According to the memo, Kouri filed what prosecutors describe as false DCFS reports against her sister-in-law Katie Benson while Katie was raising Kouri’s three sons. She hired a lawyer to pursue Katie’s criminal prosecution. She had family members pursue federal firearms

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54:45

What Do Buster Murdaugh's Fury and Kouri Richins'...

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2026/05/18

Two cases where the people left behind are still fighting to be heard.Buster Murdaugh sat behind his father at the first trial and told a jury Alex wasn’t capable of this. Three years of silence later, sources say he’s furious about the retrial. He reportedly called Alex a “selfish old man.” Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke break down what that means for both legal teams, why Buster’s survival may break the state’s own motive theory, and the critical question of what

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24:59

27 Cruise Workers Had Illegal Material on Their...

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2026/05/18

A family’s personal dining host on the Disney Magic served them breakfast, then was loaded into a federal van in handcuffs forty-five minutes later. The passenger who filmed it had no idea what was happening — and neither did anyone else for two weeks. According to CBP, Operation Tidal Wave detained 27 crew members across eight cruise ships in San Diego, all allegedly connected to exploitation material. NCMEC intelligence drove the operation. Ten reportedly worked for Disney. Four from Holland

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20:30

Why Didn't Kouri Richins Acknowledge a Word Her...

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2026/05/18

Her children had therapists read their words because they couldn’t be in the room with her. They described locked doors, dead animals, a brother sneaking food to a sibling confined to his bedroom. They described fear. All of them asked for the same thing: keep her away.Kouri Richins stood up after hearing all of that and didn’t address one word of it. She announced an appeal. She told the judge this courtroom couldn’t get justice right. She told a jury that spent less than three hours convicting

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15:04

The Prosecution’s Playbook for Convicting Murdaugh...

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2026/05/18

Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions were overturned unanimously by the SC Supreme Court — and the ruling didn’t just vacate the verdict. It told the prosecution exactly where their case went wrong. The court said weeks of financial crimes testimony was excessive, prejudicial, and unnecessary to prove motive. That testimony was the engine of the first conviction. Without it, the state has to rebuild from the ground up.The motive theory itself remains. Murdaugh was facing simultaneous exposure of

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20:44

Did Word of Faith Ministers Really Hand Out Birth...

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2026/05/18

Jane Whaley had no seminary degree, no ordination, and no formal ministry credentials. She was a former high school math teacher from rural North Carolina. And according to former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship, she allegedly controlled which of her followers could date, marry, have intimate relations with their own spouses, and have children. The church reportedly started in a converted steakhouse in Spindale in 1979 and grew into an organization with hundreds of members and affiliations

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17:44

Why Is Dick Harpootlian Threatening Subpoenas Before...

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2026/05/18

The first jury heard twelve hours of financial crimes testimony before they ever weighed the physical evidence. Three-hour conviction. The Supreme Court just said that can’t happen again. Round two is a fundamentally different trial.Creighton Waters has to convict on what SLED actually found — and what they didn’t find. No weapon. No DNA on Alex Murdaugh. A crime scene degraded by weather and contaminated by family access. And a housekeeper who says she reported an unidentified vehicle near the

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17:04

Why Would Buster Murdaugh Call Alex a 'Selfish Old Man'?

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2026/05/18

He was the loyal son. He sat in the courtroom, testified for the defense, told a jury his father wasn’t the man prosecutors claimed. Then Alex Murdaugh got convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence, almost no prison visits, and a life rebuilt at arm’s length from the Murdaugh name.Now the conviction is gone, the retrial is coming, and Buster reportedly isn’t relieved. He’s furious. He called Alex a “selfish old man.” That’s a very different Buster than the one who took the

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49:35

Why Do The “Rules” Keep Changing Around Alex...

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2026/05/18

Former Chief Justice Jean Toal sat individual jurors down and asked them whether Becky Hill's comments changed their votes. The South Carolina Supreme Court said she had no right to do that. Rule 606(b) protects the privacy of jury deliberations — you can ask whether external contact happened, but you cannot ask jurors how they voted or why. Toal crossed that line, and the Supreme Court corrected it by overruling one of its own prior decisions that had allowed broader inquiry.Defense attorney Eric

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49:35

Supreme Court Says Alex Murdaugh Gets A New Trial!

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2026/05/17

Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Alex Murdaugh's motion for a new trial by requiring him to prove the Clerk's comments actually harmed his case. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that she had it backwards. Under federal law, the burden falls on the State to prove there is no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced. All five justices found the State couldn't meet that standard. Toal also improperly questioned jurors about whether the comments changed their

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64:17

Why Did Kouri Richins Tell Her Sons to 'Be Like’ The...

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2026/05/17

Kouri Richins stood up in a Park City courtroom and spoke for forty minutes. She looked at her three sons and told them to "be like your dad." Eric Richins. The man she was convicted of poisoning with a lethal dose of fentanyl. The man whose forty-fourth birthday fell on the same day the judge sentenced her to life without the possibility of parole. She told her boys to emulate the father she took from them — and in the same breath, told them their memories of what happened in that house were "an

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42:22

Why Did the Person on Nancy Guthrie's Porch Try to...

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2026/05/17

The person on Nancy Guthrie's porch allegedly tried to conceal the doorbell camera using foliage ripped from her own yard. Not professional equipment. Not a signal jammer. Weeds from the garden. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says that detail tells you more about who this person is than almost anything else in the case — someone who understood enough to try, but not enough to succeed. The cloud backup apparently survived. The footage allegedly persists. And the behavioral gap

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50:05

Who Staged The Murdaugh Murder Crime Scene?

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2026/05/17

Maggie Murdaugh’s pajamas were laid out in the laundry room doorway when Blanca Simpson walked into the house twelve hours after the murders. Underclothes were set out with them. Blanca knew immediately — Maggie never wore underclothes to bed. In fifteen years of cleaning that home, washing those clothes, knowing that routine inside and out, Blanca says she recognized the setup for what it was. Someone who didn’t know Maggie’s habits tried to make the scene look normal and got it wrong.In this

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47:25

EVERYTHING The Jury Never Heard In The Delphi Murder...

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2026/05/17

In a recorded jailhouse call, Richard Allen asked his own father how much longer he could stay lucid. That call was excluded from trial. The jury that convicted him on a 130-year sentence never heard it. But three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record — including the calls the jury didn't get and the confessions that don't match the forensic evidence.Allen told a prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner determined they were

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48:33

How Did Alex Murdaugh Go From 'A Loving Family Man'...

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2026/05/16

Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called "anomic" — men who see their families as symbols of their own success and destroy them when the facade collapses. James Lasdun's new book The Family Man places Alex Murdaugh alongside documented cases that mirror his almost exactly. The most disturbing constant: in every single one, the people closest to the killer described him as a loving family man. Nobody saw it coming. Nobody believed it was possible.The book profiles Jean-Claude

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58:10

Anna Duggar Is the “Stand By Your Predator” Template...

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2026/05/16

Anna Duggar used the monitored jail system to send Josh private photos and messages while he served a federal sentence for possessing child sexual abuse material a Homeland Security agent described as among the worst he'd examined. He asked for more. She engaged. Days before sentencing, he was allegedly writing about "taking things up a notch." She never left. She never confronted anyone publicly. She vented in private messages and performed in public. And when Joseph Duggar was arrested on felony

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33:32

Why 84-Year-Old Nancy Guthrie - With Medical Needs...

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2026/05/16

Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old, medically vulnerable, and requires medication. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says she is not a rational target for a kidnapping-for-profit operation — the risk-to-reward math doesn't work. The ransom communications that surfaced after her disappearance from her Tucson home are what Hidden Killers has consistently called opportunistic noise: someone trying to capitalize on a crime they didn't commit. Which forces the question nobody has publicly

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41:26

Paul Murdaugh Kept Mallory Beach’s Obituary in His...

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2026/05/16

Paul Murdaugh kept Mallory Beach’s obituary tucked into the door frame of his truck. Every time he climbed in, it was right there. Blanca Simpson saw it because she’d been inside the Murdaugh home for fifteen years and knew things about that family the cameras and courtrooms never captured. In this interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca tells the story of who the Murdaughs actually were behind the front door — and why the public version doesn’t match what she witnessed.She goes back to the beginning —

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48:35

Why Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Terrified Children...

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2026/05/16

Her children begged a judge to keep her locked away forever. Kouri Richins responded by telling them she’s coming home — and everything she said in between is worse than you think.Minutes after therapists read the handwritten words of three boys into the court record — words describing locked rooms, neglect, dead animals, and a childhood spent in fear — Kouri stood and delivered a fifteen-minute statement that never once acknowledged what those kids lived through. She didn’t mention the locked

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