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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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36:07

Can Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Be Fair When the Judge...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/21

During her path to the bench, Judge Debra McCaslin reportedly sat before state lawmakers and named the attorneys who shaped her legal career. One of three names she gave was Dick Harpootlian — Alex Murdaugh’s lead defense lawyer. As a young attorney, she reportedly rented office space from him. Now she holds exclusive jurisdiction over every proceeding tied to the retrial on charges that Murdaugh killed his wife Maggie and son Paul.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines

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37:45

What Nancy Guthrie’s Caller Knew About Her Clothing —...

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2026/06/20

Before anyone picked up a shovel, the caller had already crossed a line that separates a vague tip from something investigators take seriously: he described what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. Not a guess. Specific clothing. He described landmarks in the Mariposa arroyos west of Nogales, Mexico — a stretch of desert seventy miles from her Tucson home. He gave a location precise enough for fifteen volunteers to walk to a spot and start digging. And then he provided something else: details about the

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37:07

Are Mackenzie Shirilla’s Parents Still Defending Her...

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2026/06/20

A convicted killer with thirty-six institutional conduct violations — guilty on thirty-two — and a family that still insists she doesn’t belong there. Mackenzie Shirilla was found guilty of killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan after driving her car into a building at close to a hundred miles an hour in Strongsville, Ohio. Every court that has reviewed the case has upheld the conviction. And her parents have not accepted a single word of it.Her car’s data recorder told investigators everything

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39:01

Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Judge Has Ties to His Lawyer...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/20

Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial jumped on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin's story — her reported connection to defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. She rented office space from him. She named him as one of three lawyers who shaped her career. She worked a case alongside him. She presided over another where he defended an accused killer and reportedly denied the state's motion to hold his client before trial.But the half that should keep Murdaugh up at night is the one almost nobody is

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34:17

Nick Reiner’s Parents Called His Trust ‘Mandatory’ —...

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2026/06/20

Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was an infant. They chose the word “mandatory.” They chose the word “unconditional.” Three decades later, those two words may be the strongest weapon in a probate petition filed from a Los Angeles jail cell — by the man accused of killing them both.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us live for the full fight. He opens with the document at the center: a trust that, according to the petition, required half

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50:31

Rex Heuermann’s Sentencing Let Him Walk Away From More

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2026/06/19

Three life sentences. A hundred years. No appeal. And he still walked away from a murder confession without a charge, an ex-wife’s civil exposure, and property in death penalty states where women disappeared.Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing looked like the end. The judge’s words — disgusting, coward, not a man at all — gave the families something they had waited years to hear. But the legal architecture of the plea deal reveals gaps that the sentencing spectacle papered over.Karen Vergata’s

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17:40

Rex Heuermann Bought Property Where Women Disappeared

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2026/06/19

Four lots in Chester, South Carolina. A timeshare in Las Vegas. And women who vanished near both.Rex Heuermann’s property records map a geographic footprint that extends well beyond Long Island. A woman disappeared twenty miles from his South Carolina property. An escort vanished in Las Vegas two weeks after he purchased a timeshare there. The timelines are circumstantial. They are also the kind of circumstantial evidence that launches investigations.The judge who sentenced Heuermann to three

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17:42

Asa Ellerup Cashed In While the Families Sued Her

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2026/06/19

She made the documentary. She collected the check. And the families filed the lawsuit.Asa Ellerup reportedly earned over a million dollars from a Peacock documentary about Rex Heuermann — her ex-husband, the man who pleaded guilty to murdering eight women. While she was filming, Valerie Mack’s son was preparing a wrongful death suit that names Asa as a co-conspirator.The lawsuit does not accuse Asa of missing clues. It accuses her of actively concealing what Rex Heuermann was doing inside their

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15:48

Rex Heuermann Called From a Dead Woman’s Phone

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2026/06/19

The phone rang and Melissa Barthelemy’s sister picked it up. On the other end was the man who had just killed her sister — calling from Melissa’s own phone, describing what he had done.That testimony came out during Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing. It was not the only thing the courtroom heard that the public barely noticed.Heuermann confessed to killing Karen Vergata — a murder he was never charged with. Her family was present. The judge did not order a charge. His defense team spent three

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50:19

Did Asa Ellerup Know What Rex Heuermann Was Doing in...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/18

That is the question that sits underneath everything in this case. Prosecutors say the murders happened when the family was away. The wrongful death lawsuit from Valerie Mack's son says the family knew or deliberately avoided knowing. Asa's attorney says she had no knowledge or involvement. Victoria says she believes her father most likely did it. Asa may never get there.This is a live airing of the full three-part conversation between psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and Tony Brueski. The first

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48:52

What Does Eric Bland Think Happens Next for...

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2026/06/18

Eric Bland helped bring down Alex Murdaugh's financial empire. He represented the families Murdaugh stole from. He watched the prosecution turn his work into a motive theory that convicted Murdaugh of double murder. And then the Supreme Court overturned everything — and told prosecutors they'd gone too far with the very evidence Bland helped assemble.Now Bland is watching the retrial take shape from a position nobody else has. He knows the financial records. He knows what was presented and what was

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17:36

Asa Ellerup Says the Nightmares Will Follow Her for...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/18

That is what she told the Peacock documentary crew. Every night. For the rest of her life. And she is saying this from inside the house where Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women in the basement — a basement she gutted, rebuilt, and moved into.Asa chose not to attend sentencing. Her attorney said the day belongs to the families. Valerie Mack's son has filed a lawsuit alleging Asa and her daughter Victoria knew about or avoided knowing about the killings and profited from a documentary

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15:47

Did Rex Heuermann Feel Anything When He Admitted to...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/18

In court, Rex Heuermann said strangulation in the same tone every time the DA asked how each woman died. He answered yes and no and eight and nothing else. He did not turn around. He did not acknowledge the families. His attorney described the plea as bringing a huge sense of relief.He ran a double life for seventeen years — architecture firm by day, murders timed to the family vacation calendar. People around him called him respectful and normal. Every woman he killed was someone whose absence the

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17:35

Did Rex Heuermann Really Confess That He Killed Seven...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/18

He did. In a supervised jailhouse visit, Rex Heuermann told his ex-wife Asa Ellerup that he killed eight women — and that seven of them died in the basement of the Massapequa Park house where they raised their children. He timed the killings for when the family was away on vacation.Asa's reaction to the confession is captured in the Peacock documentary The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets. She addressed him as Mr. Heuermann — not Rex — when she asked him to confirm the number. Their daughter

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54:20

What Happens When Adam Montgomery Goes Back on Trial...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/17

Adam Montgomery’s murder retrial in the Harmony Montgomery case will look nothing like the first trial. The assault evidence is out. The independent witnesses who corroborated the pattern are excluded. What’s left is a murder charge that depends on Kayla Montgomery — a witness who did prison time for lying to investigators — and a cover-up timeline that the Supreme Court says only proves what happened after Harmony died.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta (Defense Diaries) joins Tony Brueski for

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14:01

What Does Eric Bland Know About Stephen Smith That He...

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2026/06/17

Eric Bland has represented Sandy Smith since 2023 and has been publicly careful about what he shares regarding her son's unsolved death. But he's also dropped specific claims that suggest he knows more than he's saying. He told this show that the Murdaugh family may have known something about Stephen's death. He's hinted at relationships Stephen may have had with someone powerful. And he's been pressing SLED for information about what triggered the reopening of the case during the Murdaugh murder

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17:42

Does Adam Montgomery’s Murder Retrial Even Matter If...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/17

Adam Montgomery will die in prison. The math is done. Over forty-three years on the convictions that survived the Supreme Court reversal, plus thirty-two and a half years on firearms charges. The murder retrial won’t add meaningful time. So why does the Harmony Montgomery case demand a second trial?Because the murder conviction was supposed to be the one that said what happened to a five-year-old girl and who did it. Without it, the record says Adam Montgomery tampered with evidence, lied to

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17:26

What Does the Prosecution Need to Change to Convict...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/17

The prosecution got its conviction the first time — the jury took less than a day. The Supreme Court said the conviction couldn’t hold because of how the trial was structured. So what changes? The Harmony Montgomery murder retrial will look fundamentally different from the first trial, and the prosecution has to build a case that survives on its own.The assault evidence and its independent witnesses are out. Kayla Montgomery’s testimony — the only direct account of the fatal night — has to carry

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19:51

What Does ‘Conviction Overturned’ Actually Mean for...

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2026/06/17

People hear “conviction overturned” and assume Adam Montgomery beat the system. That’s wrong — but understanding why requires walking through the legal mechanics that most coverage skips entirely. The Harmony Montgomery case update has left families and followers furious, and they deserve an explanation that respects their intelligence.The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed the second-degree murder conviction on procedural grounds: the trial court allowed the murder charge and a separate assault

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51:59

Nancy Guthrie and Anna Kepner: Two Families, Two...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/16

Pima County has acknowledged it has never dealt with a wrench attack. If the crypto kidnapping theory is correct, the investigation has been structured for a conventional crime while the actual architecture — overseas handlers, encrypted recruitment, disposable operatives, cryptocurrency — operates on a level that local law enforcement has no experience with.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for an extended analysis. She examines the wrench attack

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