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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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51:47

What Nolan Wells' Friends Wiped Before Anyone Called...

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2026/07/18

Nolan Wells didn't drown on Horn Island so much as he disappeared into a story nobody can quite make add up. Three friends went out with him on the Fourth of July. Three friends came back. His phone turned up later at the boat owner's house — both Snapchat accounts scrubbed, no call to his mother to say it had been found. The official reason Nolan got left behind is that the boat was taking on water, a claim that a marine mechanic could confirm or blow apart with a look at the bilge pump — a look

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18:18

Siders 16 Kids: Officials Were Told To Stay Quiet

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2026/07/18

The attorney general called it pure evil. The sheriff said livestock lived better. A judge just ordered both of them — along with the prosecutor, the clerk, and all defense counsel — to stop talking about the Siders case publicly.The gag order was requested by Gary Siders Junior's attorney after officials described what they found inside a Hamden, Ohio, home: sixteen children in a twelve-by-twelve-foot room, covered in filth, some barely able to speak. The stated purpose is protecting the jury pool

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59:23

What Went Wrong For Both Nolan Wells AND Siders' 16 Kids

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2026/07/18

In Mississippi, a sheriff declared no foul play in the death of Nolan Wells before the autopsy was complete, before toxicology was in, and before the FBI examined the phone. In Ohio, a county had truancy complaints on the Siders children five years before sixteen of them were found in a single room by officers executing an unrelated warrant. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down for an extended conversation covering both cases — and the institutional failures that connect

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34:13

What Nolan Wells' Family Went Looking For On His Phone

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2026/07/17

The story of Nolan Wells has produced a dozen theories and almost no confirmed facts — and the gap between those two things is exactly where this breakdown lives.It opens where the family's doubt began: with a phone. Nolan photographed everything, so when his mother went through it after his death, what she found — and what she couldn't find — became the detail his family keeps coming back to. That's the thread we pull.Here's the Nolan Wells case, start to finish, as it actually stands. An

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20:22

What Elizabeth Siders' Own Attorney Is Saying About Her

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2026/07/17

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen when she married into the family whose house would eventually hold sixteen children in a single room in rural Ohio. She gave birth to every one of them. She now faces sixteen felony counts. And her own defense attorney has argued in court filings that she may be a victim of this family — not a willing participant, but someone closer to the seventeenth person trapped inside those walls. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through whether that

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56:47

Nolan Wells: What His Mother Found On His Phone

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2026/07/17

Nolan Wells' case has a phone at the center of it — and whatever his mother found when she opened it after his death sits at the heart of everything unresolved here. This is the Nolan Wells timeline laid out plainly, without the version the internet already decided on.The 18-year-old football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi went to Horn Island with friends over the Fourth of July. His friends made it home. He didn't. His body was pulled from the water two days later, and the accounts of his

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18:37

Nancy Guthrie's Sheriff Emailed A Reporter THIS

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2026/07/17

A reporter emailed Sheriff Chris Nanos about discrepancies in his official work history. The man leading the search for Nancy Guthrie wrote back one line, and it was not an answer.Tony Brueski lays out every contradiction the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI have put on the record in the Nancy Guthrie case, and the picture they form is not a mystery. It is a collapse.Two public statements released forty-five minutes apart, the FBI saying local authorities are the lead and the Sheriff's

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17:15

Nolan Wells' Friend Made THIS Move With the Case Open

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2026/07/17

While the investigation into Nolan Wells' death was still active, one of his friends appeared on Good Morning America with his voice altered and then sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to publicly tell his version of events. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that decision does to a case — whether it helps the truth or locks a public narrative into place before the evidence can speak for itself.Every friend from the boat has an attorney. The family has Ben Crump,

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22:25

Nolan Wells' Sheriff Told the Country THIS Before Day...

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2026/07/17

Before the toxicology came back, before the FBI examined his phone, before anyone reconciled the contradictions in the witness statements, the Jackson County Sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of Nolan Wells. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains what that kind of premature public declaration does to the trajectory of an investigation — not in theory, but in the concrete mechanics of how cases get built or buried.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old

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15:55

Siders' 16 Kids: Who Was Ever Supposed To Find Them?

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2026/07/17

Ask the simple question and the whole thing falls apart. Whose job was it to find the Siders children?Sixteen kids were living in a house in Vinton County, Ohio. Not one school district had a record of them. Not one neighbor knew they were there. Not one caseworker had ever knocked on that door. And when officers finally walked in, they were not there for the children. They were serving a warrant on an entirely unrelated matter, and the Attorney General has said nobody had any expectation that

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59:09

16 Siders Kids: How Every Mind In This Case Failed Them

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2026/07/17

Sixteen children were failed three times — by the minds that confined them, by the development that confinement stole from them, and by every mind outside that chose comfortable blindness over one phone call. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins for the complete three-part conversation tracing all of it.Inside the house: how a family system spanning two generations of adults organized itself around confinement, how a man ran two airtight realities for years, and how a woman married off at fifteen —

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28:56

Is Charlie Kirk's Shooter Taking The Fall?

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2026/07/16

The theory that Tyler Robinson is taking the fall for someone else has traveled further than almost any other claim about Charlie Kirk's death. Candace Owens has pushed it across dozens of episodes. And once you hear the pieces it's built on — an inconclusive bullet, a missing casing, a second round on another rooftop — you can understand why so many people believe it.This episode walks straight through it. Tony takes the patsy theory and the second-shooter theory and sets each one against the

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21:04

16 Siders Kids: Why Your Mind Refuses To See Families...

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2026/07/16

A man lived three doors from twenty people for six years and says he never saw a single child. He wasn't lying to reporters. That's what makes it worse. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains how a human mind can genuinely fail to register what's in front of it — when registering it would demand a phone call, a confrontation, an accusation against a neighbor in a town of seven hundred people.This conversation is about the psychology of everyone who orbited the Siders house. The store employees who

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24:07

Nolan Wells' Case Could Be Cracked Open With THIS One...

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2026/07/16

There's a single piece of paper that could freeze every digital answer in the Nolan Wells case exactly where it sits. Federal law allows any law enforcement agency — including a county sheriff running a death investigation — to send a one-page preservation demand to Snapchat, Life360, Apple, Google, and the cell carriers. It requires no warrant, no judge, and no probable cause. It doesn't let anyone read a single message. It just stops the deletion clock. Whether Jackson County ever sent those

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18:32

16 Siders Kids: What 'Feral' Actually Means For Them

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2026/07/16

"Almost feral." That's how Ohio's Attorney General described sixteen children when deputies pulled them out of a house in Hamden. The word ran in every headline. Some heard an honest description of catastrophic neglect. Others heard sixteen children being branded as animals in the national press on the worst day of their lives. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott takes the word apart — what Wilson was actually seeing, what the clinical picture behind it looks like, and whether the label follows these

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20:12

16 Siders Kids: Their Father Lived TWO Lives Every...

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2026/07/16

Every morning, Gary Siders Jr. left a house where sixteen children were confined to a single room and went to work delivering food to strangers. He had a phone. A car. Customer ratings. Small talk at restaurant counters. Then every night he drove back to Ohmer Street and walked into the other reality. He held both, simultaneously, for years — and never cracked in public.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the compartmentalization that makes that possible, and what it says about the minds inside

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27:30

What Nolan Wells' Friends Did After They Left Him Behind

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2026/07/16

Three friends left Nolan Wells on an uninhabited barrier island and came home with his phone. Their version of what happened doesn't match the only other witness. And every detail that's surfaced since points the same direction — people protecting themselves, not a teenager who chose to stay behind.The phone was at the house of the family that owned the boat. Both Snapchat accounts were wiped. The Life360 data didn't match the Snapchat locations his friends were showing that night. A video went

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61:58

16 Siders Kids: From The First Lie To The Last Free Pass

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2026/07/16

Every stage of the Siders case runs on something unspoken. The town runs on a story that can't survive its own details. The agencies run on the hope that nobody audits eighteen years of missed obligations. And the aftermath runs on the oldest free pass in American life — the one that lets every person who noticed something say nothing and owe nothing. Tony and Robin trace the whole chain in this complete conversation.It opens in Hamden with the claims that don't add up: a store employee's years of

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20:39

How Charlie Kirk's Prosecutor Damaged His Own Case

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2026/07/15

The death-penalty prosecutor in the Charlie Kirk case got himself held in contempt of court — and the trial hasn't even started. Tyler Robinson faces aggravated murder charges for the September 2025 shooting that killed Kirk at Utah Valley University. By every measure, the prosecution's case should be overwhelming. Alleged confessions in a handwritten note, text messages, and a Discord post. DNA evidence linking Robinson to the rifle. Surveillance footage placing him on the rooftop. A voluntary

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15:46

16 Siders Kids: Why Prevention Never Wins Until It's...

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2026/07/15

Every child protection reform in American history has a body count behind it. The laws get named after the kids they failed to save — passed in grief, funded briefly, and forgotten by the next budget cycle. The Siders case is about to generate its own round of them, and Tony and Robin open this conversation with the uncomfortable pattern: prevention never wins the funding fight until after it's already lost.The Vinton County numbers make the case better than any argument. A county too poor to jail

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