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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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17:13

The Fitzsimmons Case — When the System That's...

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2026/03/20

She was a police officer. She had a baby. She was hospitalized for postpartum depression. She surrendered her weapons. And then, months later, her own colleagues showed up at her door to take her son and serve a restraining order obtained by the man she was engaged to — and one of them shot her. Now she's the defendant. Kelsey Fitzsimmons goes to trial March 23 in Lawrence, Massachusetts — and as of today, she's waived her right to a jury. A single judge will decide her fate. In this listener

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24:40

Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Texts Are In — And They Tell...

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2026/03/20

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial opens Monday in Lawrence Superior Court. No jury. Judge Jeffrey Karp decides alone. And this week the full text exchange between Fitzsimmons and Justin Aylaian was unsealed, admitted into evidence, and made public.On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski goes through those texts as a behavioral document — not a he-said-she-said, a document — and asks the question this case has been waiting for someone to ask directly.If every single one of those messages had come from him — the

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19:19

Courtney Clenney Trial: The Case That Has No Clean...

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2026/03/20

In April 2022, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney stabbed her boyfriend Christian Obumseli in their Miami high-rise apartment. That is the only fact both sides fully agree on. Everything else — who was the aggressor, what the wound proves, what the investigation was worth — is in dispute. Violently, documentably, and with evidence on both sides.Obumseli secretly recorded Clenney calling him racial slurs, screaming at him, demanding to hit him. Surveillance cameras caught her striking him in their

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18:58

The Nancy Guthrie Investigation — What the Silence Is...

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2026/03/20

It has been over six weeks since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson in the middle of the night. There has been no press conference in over a month. No named suspect. No arrest. And this week, newly recovered camera footage from her own property showed nothing. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke cut through what the official silence means — and what it doesn't. Investigators are asking neighbors about specific dates weeks before

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23:50

Guilty — But Here's What the Verdict Didn't Settle

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2026/03/20

A jury convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl. She's going to prison. And still — the questions that don't fit neatly inside a courtroom verdict keep coming. Listeners have been flooding in with what's still bothering them, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are working through the ones that matter most. Carmen Lauber gets immunity. The woman who sold Kouri the fentanyl that killed Eric walks free while Kouri heads to prison for

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12:03

Kouri Richins Children's Book: She Played the...

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2026/03/20

After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote "Are You With Me?" A children's book about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Played the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.Prosecutors say she caused it.This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the story.Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011, she wrote "How to Murder Your Husband." An essay discussing methods, weighing options. She wrote: "If the

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63:41

Kouri Richins: The Full Psychology of a Marriage...

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2026/03/19

The Kouri Richins case has been covered from every legal angle. This is the psychological one — and it's the angle that matters most to anyone who recognizes this story from the inside.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a wide-ranging conversation that uses the Kouri Richins case as a framework to examine the complete arc of a relationship with someone operating with narcissistic or borderline personality traits. From the first phase — the love bombing, the

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14:29

Alex Murdaugh: He Staged His Own Shooting — If You've...

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2026/03/19

On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report finding his wife and son shot to death.Three months later, he staged his own shooting on a rural roadside.Both were desperate attempts to maintain control. Both failed.Part 4 of "The Name" covers the full collapse — the murders, the staged shooting, the investigation that finally caught up with him, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in less than three hours.This episode explores what happens when a narcissist's world closes in

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13:44

Kouri Richins: When Losing Control Turns Deadly — How...

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2026/03/19

According to prosecutors, Eric Richins was quietly making moves toward freedom — consulting attorneys, adjusting his estate — before he died. If the prosecution is right, those moves set something in motion.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers to examine how relationships with narcissistic and borderline partners end — and why the ending is so often the most dangerous part. What triggers the final phase. How someone with this pattern responds to losing

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54:00

Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Officer Shot in Her Own Home...

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2026/03/19

On June 30, 2025, three North Andover police officers showed up at the home of their colleague Kelsey Fitzsimmons to serve a restraining order. One of them left having fired his weapon. She left in a medical helicopter.He says she pointed her service weapon at him and pulled the trigger. She says she was pointing it at herself. There is no body camera footage. There are two sworn accounts of the same moment and nothing in between.That's the case a Massachusetts jury is walking into this week — and

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12:29

Kouri Richins: The Invisible Abuse Nobody Can See...

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2026/03/19

It doesn't leave marks. There's no incident to report. From the outside, everything looks fine — a house, kids, a functioning life. And on the inside, you're disappearing.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers to examine what the middle phase of a relationship with a narcissistic or borderline partner actually does to the person on the receiving end. Using the Kouri Richins case as a framework, Scott unpacks the specific mechanics of coercive control —

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16:21

Kouri Richins: Nobody Marries a Monster — They Marry...

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2026/03/19

The question everyone asks about the Kouri Richins case isn't about poison or life insurance. It's the more basic one: how does something like this happen inside what looks like a normal marriage?Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to answer exactly that — starting at the beginning. Before the alleged fraud. Before the affair. Before prosecutors say Kouri told someone Eric would be better off dead. She starts at the part nobody talks about: how a relationship like this

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22:06

Kouri Richins: The Book Interview — Analyzed by a...

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2026/03/19

A jury has convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric. Before the arrest, before the trial, she sat down on camera to promote a children's grief book she didn't write — about the man prosecutors say she poisoned.Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to do what nobody did at the time: analyze that interview with the full picture in front of them. Shavaun Scott examines the psychological architecture of what Kouri was

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13:39

Kouri Richins Double Life: The $250K HELOC Eric Never...

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2026/03/19

Kouri Richins allegedly texted her boyfriend Josh Grossman while married to Eric: "If I was divorced right now and asked you to marry me tomorrow, you would?"She had a secret $250,000 HELOC. Prosecutors say she searched for fentanyl while Eric was alive.This is Part 3 of The Perfect Wife — examining the premeditated mind. Women living two complete realities. The wife their husbands knew. And someone else entirely.Melanie McGuire perfected this pattern. On April 28, 2004, she signed mortgage papers

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74:28

Kouri Richins Guilty: The Complete Trial Breakdown

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2026/03/18

Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the entire case — no shortcuts, no filler.What did the prosecution actually build that convinced this jury? Where did the defense land real hits and why weren't they enough? And what does the appellate record look like now that the verdict is in? Bob Motta goes through it call by call — the dead man's warning, the insurance timeline, the

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14:06

Alex Murdaugh: Gloria Satterfield Trusted Him — Her...

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2026/03/18

Alex Murdaugh didn't operate alone. He couldn't have.For decades, a system of lawyers, bankers, insurance adjusters, and community members chose not to see what they could have seen. Not because they were evil — because looking away was easier.Part 3 of "The Name" examines the machinery of complicity through Gloria Satterfield — the Murdaugh housekeeper who died in 2018, whose sons were promised a settlement, and whose four million dollars Alex stole completely.For three years, nobody asked

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23:17

Kouri Richins: The Conviction Is In — Now What Does...

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2026/03/18

Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Her defense team built an appellate record throughout this trial — rulings challenged, motions filed, issues flagged in real time. That record now matters more than ever.Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down what's actually in it. The coaching video and whether a jury convicting after seeing it strengthens or weakens a due process challenge. The hearsay ruling the defense

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14:33

What the McCasland Investigation Isn't Saying — And...

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2026/03/18

Three weeks into the disappearance of retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and FBI have confirmed two things: no evidence of foul play, and all possible scenarios remain on the table. What they have not confirmed is a direction, a sighting, a piece of forensic evidence, or an explanation for why a man who left his phone and glasses behind walked out with a loaded .38-caliber revolver.McCasland commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at

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34:05

Kouri Richins: Tearing Apart the Victim Narrative —...

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2026/03/18

The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial wants this jury to see a trapped woman. A wife overlooked by a controlling husband who never gave her a chance. In a recorded call made after Eric's death, Kouri told his best friend he never believed in her.In this episode, I'm giving you my opinion on what the documented record actually shows — and it is the opposite of that story.According to forensic accountant testimony, court records, charging documents, and civil filings, Kouri Richins allegedly

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26:17

Kouri Richins: How the Defense Fought — And Where...

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2026/03/18

The Kouri Richins defense team called zero witnesses and presented no affirmative case. They relied entirely on the damage done to the prosecution's evidence during cross-examination. A jury convicted her anyway.Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine what the defense actually accomplished and what the conviction tells us about where it wasn't enough. The investigator coaching video. The no-fentanyl admission from Detective

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