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Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns

Hidden Killers Podcast

Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how

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17:58

Maternal Instinct: Taylor Parker's Boyfriend Went...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/25

Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — everybody watching the Netflix documentary has an opinion about Wade Griffin. Some people see a man who got played by a con artist so skilled that no one could have seen through her. Other people see a man who took an eight-million-dollar check to his bank, watched his mother's gifted car get repossessed, had multiple people tell him the pregnancy was impossible, and still chose the version of reality where Taylor Parker was telling the truth.Psychotherapist

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22:15

Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker's Friends...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/25

Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct — her friends watched her fake a stroke on video, and they bought it. They watched her claim cancer, MS, a brain tumor, and they believed every word. Long before the fake pregnancy, Taylor Parker was already deep into a pattern of fabricated emergencies — and the people around her never suspected a thing.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology of someone who lies at this scale. Not one lie. Not a single moment of desperation. A sustained campaign of

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23:38

Alex Murdaugh: What Prosecutors Just Lost Before the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/25

The prosecution’s most powerful storytelling tool just got taken away. Twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony painted Alex Murdaugh as a desperate thief who would do anything to keep his world from collapsing. The South Carolina Supreme Court said it was too much, too inflammatory, and went far beyond what was needed to establish motive. The retrial has to be “efficient” with no inflammatory detail of limited probative value.That changes the entire shape of the case. The

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18:58

Asa Ellerup Told the Cameras Something About Rex...

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2026/06/25

After Rex Heuermann confessed to the Gilgo Beach murders, Asa Ellerup did not walk away. She visited him. She talked to him on the phone. She told cameras she wanted to understand “this other side of Rex.” And then she said something about their phone calls that reveals who is still running this relationship — even with Rex behind bars.The family therapist said for Asa, it was never denial. It was real. Whatever Rex told her became her operating reality. He built the world she lived in. And now

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61:39

Alex Murdaugh: What’s Really Being Built on Both...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/25

The Alex Murdaugh retrial is shaping up to be a completely different case than the one the first jury saw. The defense is openly signaling its strategy — a plan for the kennel video, new forensic experts challenging the timeline, unknown DNA evidence that was never checked, a federal lawsuit designed to find out whether Becky Hill acted alone. The prosecution just watched its most powerful narrative tool get stripped by the Supreme Court.Bob Motta is a criminal defense attorney who has been inside

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18:41

Was Becky Hill Really the Only One Who Got to the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/24

Becky Hill told jurors to “watch his body language” and “don’t be fooled.” She wanted a guilty verdict because she was writing a book. She pleaded guilty. She got probation. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction. That chapter is closed. But the defense opened a new one.Five days after the ruling, Jim Griffin asked publicly whether Hill was a “lone wolf.” Then the defense filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against her for six hundred thousand dollars. A federal suit gives the defense

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19:59

Murdaugh Defense Said WHAT About the Kennel Video...

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2026/06/24

Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorney went on national television and did something defense lawyers almost never do — he told the public his team has a plan for the prosecution’s strongest evidence. The kennel video captured Alex’s voice at the Moselle property minutes before the murders. It destroyed his alibi. It forced him to admit he lied under oath. And now Harpootlian says the defense is ready for it.That’s not the only weapon the defense is loading. New forensic cell phone experts are being

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64:15

Nancy Guthrie, Rex Heuermann, Mackenzie Shirilla —...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/23

Listener-driven. Evidence-grounded. Three cases the audience won’t let go of — and the questions that cut through the noise.On Nancy Guthrie, the audience found something investigators haven’t addressed: a neighbor with a vault full of gems and minerals, and a Google Maps pin that overlaps with Nancy’s home. The wrong-house theory has been circulating for months. Robin Dreeke, retired FBI behavioral analyst, examines what a mistaken-target home invasion actually looks like and whether forty-five

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17:23

Mackenzie Shirilla’s Mom Said WHAT About the Russo...

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2026/06/23

Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a jail phone line. What she said about the family of the boy her daughter killed is on the public record now — released by Strongsville police and reported by Cleveland media. It is not what a mother says when she understands what happened. It is what a mother says when she has decided her daughter is the victim.That call is one piece of a pattern the audience has been watching for months. Mackenzie and Natalie created a coded language to evade prison call

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21:19

Rex Heuermann’s Said WHAT In New Gilgo Beach...

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2026/06/23

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders. His ex-wife and children reportedly received over a million dollars from a Peacock documentary about the case. The families of the women he killed received nothing. New York has a Son of Sam law. It doesn’t apply here — because the current version only covers the convicted person, not their family. Lawmakers have pushed to close that gap since 2023. The bills have not passed.That’s one of the questions the audience brought. The others go deeper. Asa

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26:12

Nancy Guthrie’s Neighbor Had a Gem Vault — Was That...

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2026/06/23

The audience went looking for answers in the Nancy Guthrie case. They found something law enforcement hasn’t publicly addressed. A neighbor of Nancy’s in the Catalina Foothills reportedly runs a YouTube channel showing a walk-in vault stocked with high-value gems and minerals. Google Maps pins both properties at the same location. Five months after Nancy’s alleged abduction, the audience wants to know: did they go to the wrong house?Robin Dreeke spent decades analyzing behavior for the FBI’s

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52:41

Heuermann Sentenced, Kepner’s Stepbrother Locked Up,...

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2026/06/22

Three of the most followed cases in the country moved at the same time. Rex Heuermann stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and heard the judge call him disgusting, despicable, and a coward before handing down the maximum sentence. His plea deal includes FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit cooperation — and a phone call he allegedly made to one of his victims’ family members after the murder tells you what kind of person the FBI is about to sit across from.Timothy Hudson, the sixteen-year-old charged in

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14:13

What a Judge Called Anna Kepner's Accused Killer...

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2026/06/22

For four months, the sixteen-year-old charged with killing Anna Kepner lived with a relative under electronic monitoring. A federal judge approved that arrangement when Hudson was charged as a juvenile. When the case moved to adult court, the same judge took another look at the evidence — and used language in his detention order that signals something beyond ordinary concern about flight risk.The order describes what the evidence suggests about Hudson’s character in terms that go far beyond the

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19:00

Rex Heuermann Did WHAT After He Killed Melissa...

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2026/06/22

Melissa Barthelemy was twenty-four years old when Rex Heuermann strangled her to death. Her remains were found near Gilgo Beach on Long Island. And according to testimony delivered at Heuermann’s sentencing, what Heuermann did after the murder may tell investigators more about him than the killing itself.Heuermann was sentenced to consecutive life terms. Judge Mazzei asked if he was even a little bit sorry. Called him a coward. Ordered him removed from the courtroom. The families chanted ogre as he

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20:07

Nancy Guthrie: What a $2 Billion Cyber Firm Found...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/22

CertiK is backed by Tiger Global and Coinbase. They classified Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abduction as a wrench attack by proxy and referenced a six-million-dollar Bitcoin ransom demand. Their report used the phrase proxy target selection — language that implies the attackers may not have found the person they were looking for.Nancy Guthrie is eighty-four. She has no known crypto holdings. She lives in Catalina Foothills, a neighborhood where the houses and the people inside them are worth targeting

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41:04

Did a Single Decision by Harmony Montgomery’s Trial...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/22

The defense asked the trial judge to separate the charges. The judge said no. Five New Hampshire Supreme Court justices — unanimously — said that decision denied Adam Montgomery a fair trial and reversed the second-degree murder conviction in the killing of his five-year-old daughter Harmony.The problem was the evidence gap between the two charges. The July 2019 assault had multiple witnesses, documented injuries, and no dispute. The December 2019 murder rested on Kayla Montgomery — Adam’s

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35:35

Did Alex Murdaugh Plan for Someone Else to Be at...

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2026/06/21

The defense says “other suspects.” Alex Murdaugh’s own housekeeper of twenty years agrees there were other people in the picture — and her reading of it is the opposite of what the defense intends. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson believes Alex had a Plan A that involved another person being at Moselle the night Maggie and Paul were killed. When that plan collapsed, she says, he carried it out himself and built a narrative around the boat crash families to explain what happened.Blanca’s theory comes from

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28:59

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Her Family Knew She...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/21

Anna Kepner’s ex-boyfriend says she was scared of her stepbrother. She slept at friends’ houses to avoid being around him. Hudson’s own step-grandmother went on national television and called the family cruise “a recipe for disaster” — and said the parents should be held accountable. Three teenagers who weren’t raised together were put in a single cabin on a ship in international waters.The question everyone is asking is the one the Crumbley case made possible: can parents be held criminally

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75:20

What Nick Reiner’s Lawyer Declared About Coming Back...

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2026/06/21

Alan Jackson walked away from the Nick Reiner murder defense when the money collapsed. His firm has now filed a declaration in a Los Angeles probate case stating they are “ready, willing, and able” to return — the moment more than $1.5 million is released from the trust Rob and Michele Reiner built for their son as a baby. The loyalty of the most high-profile defense attorney this case has seen is, by his own filing, conditional on the check clearing.Eric Faddis has been a felony prosecutor and a

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46:33

Nancy Guthrie: Did a Crypto Crime Ring Take Savannah...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/21

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer called it a “huge breakthrough.” CertiK, one of the world’s leading blockchain security firms, has formally classified what happened to Nancy Guthrie as a wrench attack by proxy — a crypto-related kidnapping where the victim isn’t the crypto holder. The target is someone they love.The model has a documented structure. Handlers buy stolen financial data, identify targets through open-source intelligence, and recruit ground-level operatives through

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