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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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23:21

Michael Jackson’s First Accuser: Extortion or Cover-Up?

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2026/05/05

The twenty-three million dollar settlement is the single most-cited fact in the Michael Jackson saga. His defenders say it proves nothing except that his team wanted the circus to end. His accusers say no innocent person signs that check. Both arguments have weight. And neither one settles the question.This episode takes you through the 1993 Chandler case with the kind of detail that forces you to grapple with both possibilities. The recorded phone call where Evan Chandler threatens to destroy

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18:46

Delphi: Richard Allen’s Investigators Recorded Over a...

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2026/05/05

The investigative record in the Delphi case contains gaps that Richard Allen’s defense team argues are not accidental. According to the reply brief filed with the Indiana Court of Appeals, investigators allegedly recorded over an interview with an alternative suspect. That individual’s weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. And the trial court ruled that presenting him as an alternative suspect was “speculative” — a characterization Allen’s attorneys challenge by asking how

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15:14

The Reiners Are Protecting Nick's Life. He's...

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2026/05/05

They cut off the money. They stopped the visits. They let the public defender take over. Insiders say they consider him "Satan incarnate." And yet the surviving Reiner siblings — Jake, Romy, and Tracy — are reportedly telling the DA's office not to seek the death penalty against the brother accused of stabbing their parents to death. Because Rob Reiner believed in something. And his children are carrying that belief forward even when it directly benefits the person accused of taking him away.That

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17:37

Greater Grace: Scripture Weaponized Against Abuse...

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2026/05/05

The investigation into Greater Grace World Outreach didn't just find alleged abuse. It found the reason nobody could stop it.Two teachings sat at the center of the silence. One took a mainstream Christian doctrine — the finished work of Christ — and twisted it until holding a leader accountable for harm was treated as a spiritual failure. The other labeled anyone who raised a concern as a carrier of "evil reports," someone so spiritually dangerous that just being associated with them could get you

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18:54

Bryan Kohberger’s Evidence Bag Was Allegedly Filled...

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2026/05/05

The physical evidence tying Bryan Kohberger to the King Road crime scene came down to one item: a Ka-Bar knife sheath carrying a single source of male DNA matched to Kohberger. It was the prosecution’s anchor. And according to a defense forensic scientist who reviewed the chain of custody documentation, it may have been vulnerable to a challenge that could have kept it out of trial entirely.Brent Turvey, a criminologist with a Ph.D. and testimony in over seventy trials, alleges the evidence bag was

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21:07

Prosecutors Say People Around D4VD Smelled It For Weeks

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2026/05/05

The forensic trail prosecutors outlined in the D4VD People’s Brief reads like a receipt of alleged premeditation. According to the filing, in the weeks following Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s alleged death on April 23, 2025, David Anthony Burke allegedly ordered a shovel through Postmates the following day. Then, prosecutors say, came two chainsaws. A body bag. Heavy-duty laundry bags. An inflatable pool. A burn cage. All allegedly ordered under the alias Victoria Mendez and delivered to his Hollywood

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21:20

Kouri Richins’ Entire Life Was a Lie. Now We Prove It.

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2026/05/05

She performed the role of successful entrepreneur, devoted wife, and grieving widow so convincingly that she landed a spot on local television to promote a children’s grief book she paid a ghostwriter $2,500 to write. But behind Kouri Richins’ carefully constructed image was a financial catastrophe — $7.5 million in debt, a business built on forged signatures and unauthorized credit lines, and a prenuptial agreement that turned her husband’s death into the only viable exit strategy. In part one of

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53:22

Inside D4VD's Nine-Page Prosecution Roadmap

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2026/05/04

The prosecution didn't just file charges against David Anthony Burke — they filed a blueprint. Nine pages detailing exactly what Deputy DA Beth Silverman plans to present at the preliminary hearing. The defense tried to seal it. The judge said no.What it describes is staggering. Prosecutors allege Burke texted Celeste Rivas Hernandez's phone after she was already dead. They detail a timeline of purchases — shovel, chainsaws, body bag, inflatable pool — all allegedly under a fake name. They describe

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21:07

Michael Jackson: Why Nobody Is Telling the Whole Truth

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2026/05/04

Millions of people watched the Michael Jackson biopic opening weekend and walked out smiling. Millions more read the allegations from his so-called second family and felt their stomachs drop. And almost nobody is holding both of those experiences in their hands at the same time. That’s what this series does.I’m launching a five-part investigation into the accusations against Michael Jackson. Not a condemnation. Not a defense. An evidence piece. Every debunked claim gets called out. Every legitimate

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18:59

What Made D4VD's Defense Team Change Course

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2026/05/04

One week they demanded speed. The next week they asked for time. David Anthony Burke's defense team reversed course in open court — and the prosecution didn't hide their frustration about it.Blair Berk pushed for a preliminary hearing within ten days at the arraignment, invoking California's "ten of ten" rule. She said she wanted the evidence tested publicly. But when the discovery started landing — wiretap results, three grand juries' worth of compelled testimony, forty terabytes of digital

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22:55

What Kohberger's Defense Expert Found — And Why...

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2026/05/04

The people who hired Brent Turvey to help defend Bryan Kohberger are now publicly condemning him. Not because he did bad work. Because he's talking about what the work revealed.Turvey is a forensic scientist — PhD in Criminology, three decades of casework, more than 70 trials as a qualified expert. Kohberger's defense team brought him in to analyze the crime scene at the King Road house where Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were fatally stabbed in November 2022. He

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29:32

Greater Grace World Outreach: Inside the Machine

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2026/05/04

It started with one man and a pond in rural Maine. Carl Stevens said God poured liquid waves of love over him — and that story became the foundation of Greater Grace World Outreach, a network of churches, schools, and missionary operations spanning more than seventy countries.Most people outside those walls never heard of it. That changed when a 172-page independent investigation dropped in late 2025, exposing a pattern of alleged abuse, institutional silence, and a culture engineered to make sure

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16:33

D4VD Was Told She Was Thirteen — Prosecutors Say He...

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2026/05/04

Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People's Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd bought — so he could stay in contact after her parents took hers away.The filing describes a pattern that prosecutors say started when Celeste was eleven

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18:29

What D4VD Allegedly Ordered the Day After Celeste Died

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2026/05/04

A shovel from Home Depot via Postmates. Two chainsaws from Amazon. A body bag, heavy-duty laundry bags, and a blue inflatable pool — all allegedly purchased under the fake name "Victoria Mendez."That's what prosecutors laid out in the People's Brief filed this week against David Anthony Burke. Not rumors. Not leaks. A nine-page filing signed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman, unsealed over the defense's objection, detailing the evidence the prosecution plans to present at the preliminary hearing.The

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97:33

Richard Allen: The Two Problems Indiana's Attorney...

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2026/05/04

The AG's ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen's appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and defense attorney Bob Motta starts there.Problem one: the van timeline. The defense obtained surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data suggesting the van prosecutors placed near the Monon High Bridge

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46:25

IBLP's Medical Arm Had No Licensed Doctors. Families...

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2026/05/03

The Medical Training Institute of America was IBLP's health authority. It issued guidance to families across the country on everything from childbirth to mental health. It operated without a single licensed doctor. Its publications replaced medicine with spiritual obedience — teaching that mental illness did not exist, that psychological suffering was a failure of faith, and that the body's problems were solved through submission to authority, not treatment by professionals.This was not fringe

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32:37

Caleb Flynn: What the Eleven-Count Indictment Tells...

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2026/05/03

The initial 911 call described a home invasion. A man sobbing, barely able to speak, telling a dispatcher someone had broken into his house and shot his wife. Signs of forced entry at the scene. Two gunshot wounds. Only Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and their two elementary-age daughters were inside the home on Cunningham Court in Tipp City, Ohio, when it happened.Three days later, Caleb was arrested. The eleven-count indictment that followed tells you where prosecutors believe this case actually

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83:30

Don Studey: Why the FBI Left Green Hollow After Three...

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2026/05/03

Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on that land — says they searched the wrong well. The property spans over four hundred and twenty acres. The investigation that was supposed to answer decades of allegations barely scratched the

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31:06

Sandra Birchmore: The Call That Should Have Saved Her...

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2026/05/03

On January 20, 2021, Sandra Birchmore's friend called the Stoughton Police Department and reported Matthew Farwell's relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. Eleven days later, Sandra was dead.That is the institutional failure at the center of this case — and everything that follows flows from it. Sandra was making plans. She believed Farwell was coming around. She had contacted lawyers. Prosecutors say she was building a child-support strategy and was

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43:02

Nick Reiner: One Brother Grieves, the Other...

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2026/05/03

Jake Reiner's Substack essay is the kind of writing that only comes from a place of absolute destruction. He described his parents — Rob and Michele Reiner — as guiding lights, confidants, heroes who supported their children unconditionally. He wrote about milestones stolen and a career they will never witness. He said he would trade every Dodger game and every Broadway show for one more hour with them. His words are grief put on a page by someone who has nothing left to protect.According to

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