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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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18:25

Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Erased in One Night

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2026/05/11

December 6, 1991. Four teenage girls walk into a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. By midnight, all four are dead, and the building is on fire. What investigators find in the wreckage is almost nothing — a crime scene deliberately torched to erase every trace of the killer. Almost every trace.Amy Ayers was 13. Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas were 17. Sarah Harbison was 15. They were employees and friends gathered at the shop on an ordinary Friday night. The crime committed against them was

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18:15

Why Yellow Deli Workers Can’t Walk Away From 12 Tribes

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2026/05/11

There are at least thirty-three Yellow Deli locations worldwide. The reviews are glowing. The atmosphere is warm. And according to former members, cult researchers, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, every single one of them is allegedly a recruitment center for the Twelve Tribes — a group classified as a Christian fundamentalist cult.In this episode, Tony Brueski pulls back the curtain on the Yellow Deli pipeline. Former members describe a process that starts with a sandwich and ends with total

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11:51

Nancy Guthrie’s Case May Have Been Damaged by the...

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2026/05/11

The Nancy Guthrie investigation didn’t just face an unknown offender. It faced internal conflict between the agencies responsible for solving it. The FBI director went on record with public criticism of how the case was handled — an extraordinary step that signals the kind of frustration that doesn’t develop over minor procedural disagreements.Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, breaks down the operational reality behind that public conflict. There’s a critical difference between a

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21:31

The Nancy Guthrie Suspect Came Prepared — But Left a...

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2026/05/11

There’s a behavioral gap in the Nancy Guthrie case that doesn’t get talked about enough. The suspect allegedly arrived at her Tucson home with concealment, a weapon, and enough awareness to interfere with the doorbell camera. That’s not a crime of pure opportunity. But the same person apparently left behind massive forensic and digital exposure — the kind of trail that suggests someone who thought they were smarter than the evidence.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer sits down to

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62:07

What Bryan Kohberger's Own Defense Attorneys Said...

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2026/05/11

The criminologist behind the biggest new book on the Idaho murders has been publicly disavowed by the defense team that hired him. Ann Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow said they are "appalled" by Brent Turvey's media appearances and that he is violating his confidentiality agreement. They said he was hired solely for crime scene analysis and is now speaking on topics outside his expertise. Meanwhile, the book's author told NewsNation there is "no smoking gun" and "no secret evidence" in the

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37:47

What Eric Richins Found Out About Kouri's Prenup...

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2026/05/10

Eric Richins survived the first attempt. He knew what was happening to him. He told people close to him that he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And then Kouri Richins handed him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in it. This Hidden Killers Week in Review brings together two deep-dive episodes covering every dimension of the Richins case — the financial motive, the secret affair, the insurance fraud, and the murder itself.Tony Brueski reconstructs the two

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38:39

What D4VD Allegedly Ordered Under a Fake Name After...

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2026/05/10

Eleven when they allegedly met. Thirteen when the relationship allegedly became sexual. Fourteen when she was reportedly dead. The People's Brief in the D4VD case lays out a progression that prosecutors call a years-long pattern of sexual exploitation — and according to the filing, law enforcement directly told David Anthony Burke that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a minor before the worst of it allegedly occurred. This Hidden Killers Week in Review brings together two episodes featuring retired FBI

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44:37

Why Michael Jackson Paid $23 Million After Jordan...

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2026/05/10

Jordan Chandler told a private investigator that Michael Jackson never did anything to him. Then his father was caught on tape threatening to destroy Jackson. Then a twenty-three-million-dollar check was written. Then the boy vanished — from the case, from both parents, from public life entirely. This Hidden Killers Week in Review pulls together two full episodes on the Jackson allegations — the complete 1993 Chandler case and the biopic-era revelations that keep reshaping the narrative more than

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50:12

Bryan Kohberger's Defense Team Just Turned on Their...

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2026/05/10

The man behind the biggest claims in the new Idaho murders book has been publicly disavowed by the people who hired him. Criminologist Brent Turvey — the primary source for Christopher Whitcomb's book — was called out by Ann Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow in a statement saying they are "appalled" by his media appearances. They said he was retained solely for crime scene analysis and is now speaking on subjects beyond his scope. They accused him of violating his confidentiality agreement

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39:46

What D4VD Allegedly Did the Morning After Celeste Was...

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2026/05/10

According to prosecutors, the morning after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly stabbed to death, David Anthony Burke ordered a shovel from Home Depot. Then chainsaws. Then a body bag. Then an inflatable pool — all allegedly under the fake name "Victoria Mendez." Then he allegedly gave a radio interview. That evening, he allegedly attended a party for his debut album. The album dropped two days later.This week's Hidden Killers review brings together the most critical D4VD case conversations — the

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37:15

What the Duggar Family Curriculum Did to the Kids Who...

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2026/05/09

They memorized every booklet. They followed every rule. They submitted to every authority figure above them in the chain. And when the adults who went through the Duggar family's IBLP curriculum finally stepped outside the system, they discovered that the education they spent their entire childhood receiving was worth almost nothing.This week's Hidden Killers review brings together the most critical conversations from our series on the IBLP — what the curriculum actually taught, how it infiltrated

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30:31

Nick Reiner Said One Word in Court — But Someone Else...

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2026/05/09

Nick Reiner stood in front of a judge, was asked if he understood his rights, and said "Yeah." That was the hearing. Minutes. One word. Meanwhile his brother Jake had just published an essay so raw it reached tens of thousands of readers — about their father's bad jokes, Dodger games, and the fear both parents must have felt before they were allegedly killed.This week's Hidden Killers review brings together the most critical Reiner case conversations — the legal stall, the family fracture, and the

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43:03

Bryan Kohberger Confessed — Now His Own Team Is...

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2026/05/09

Bryan Kohberger admitted to killing four people. He took the deal. He waived his appeals. And now the people who were supposed to defend him are publicly fighting each other over evidence claims that didn't matter enough to pursue when the case was still active.This week's Hidden Killers review pulls together the most pointed conversations from the Idaho murders — focused on why the post-plea noise doesn't hold up under scrutiny.Brent Turvey went public alleging chain of custody problems with the

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79:44

What Rex Heuermann's Gilgo Beach Plea Was Designed to...

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2026/05/09

The guilty plea made headlines. What happened in the room before it didn't. Rex Heuermann didn't just confess — he negotiated. He brought up Karen Vergata, a woman prosecutors never charged him with killing, and got her case folded into a deal that blocks any future prosecution. The cooperation agreement with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit reportedly has no enforcement mechanism if he refuses to participate or provides false information.This week's Hidden Killers review pulls together the most

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16:03

What the Prosecutor Said That Destroyed Kouri...

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2026/05/09

Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth stood in front of eight jurors and said: “Kouri Richins wanted to murder Eric Richins, thus took out an insurance policy on his life to get money for murdering Eric Richins. Then she murdered Eric Richins, and then she submitted a claim to get the money.” The jury needed less than three hours. In the final episode of our definitive five-part series, we break down the trial that ended Kouri Richins’ performance for good — the thirteen days of testimony, the more than forty

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55:51

Nancy Guthrie, D4VD, Kohberger — The Failures That...

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2026/05/08

Every case covered here has an investigation that's failing somebody. The question is who — and what the law says can be done about it.In the Nancy Guthrie case, the FBI and local law enforcement are publicly fighting over how the investigation was handled. Content creators have allegedly built platforms off defaming the cleared family. Media outlets ran hoax ransom demands. An 84-year-old woman has been missing for over three months with no arrest and no publicly identified suspect. Former felony

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26:20

Michael Jackson: The Pattern That Won’t Stop Growing

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2026/05/08

Step back from any single case and look at the full picture. Chandler in 1993: settled for millions. Arvizo in 2005: acquitted, family destroyed on the stand. Francia: initially denied abuse, then changed his story, family settled. Robson and Safechuck: defended Jackson under oath, reversed after death, suing for hundreds of millions. Cascios: defended him publicly for decades, accepted millions in settlement payments, now suing for more. Every accusation has a financial transaction attached to it

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17:56

The Kohberger Claim That Even the Defense Team Called...

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2026/05/08

The central allegation in "Broken Plea" is that the Ka-Bar knife sheath — the prosecution's key piece of physical evidence linking Bryan Kohberger to the murders through DNA — allegedly had chain of custody problems serious enough to be challenged at trial. It's the kind of claim that sounds explosive on a book jacket. There's one problem: the expert making it didn't include it in his own filed report.Brent Turvey, a criminologist and forensic scientist hired by Kohberger's defense, says he

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20:41

Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Cop a $5,000 Check After the...

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2026/05/08

A Yemassee police chief named Greg Alexander was at the Moselle crime scene the night Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. One month later, Alex Murdaugh wrote him a personal check for $5,000 and backdated it to March. The chief said it was a loan for his parents. He never explained the backdating. He did post on his reelection Facebook page: "I'm not a cat. I don't cover up no doo-doo." That's one of dozens of findings in James Lasdun's new book The Family Man that never made it into the trial —

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15:47

What Kohberger Secretly Wrote From His Prison Cell...

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2026/05/08

For years, Bryan Kohberger gave the world nothing. He sat silent through court hearings. He showed zero emotion while the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin confronted him at sentencing. When the judge asked if he wanted to speak, he said three words — "I respectfully decline." Then, from a maximum security cell, he finally opened up. Not to a reporter. Not to a judge. To his dog.Kohberger's prison letters have now surfaced, and for the first time since his

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