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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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48:07

What Does Nick Reiner's New Trustee Want To Ask Him...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/12

Somewhere in Los Angeles, a meeting is being arranged that could shape the entire Nick Reiner trust fund war: the incoming trustee — Jodi Montgomery, the fiduciary who spent years as Britney Spears' conservator — has reportedly asked to sit down with Nick in custody. What gets asked in that room, and how Nick answers, may matter as much as anything filed in court.Eric Faddis — former felony prosecutor, veteran defense attorney — joins us live for the complete picture of the fight, both sides, no

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14:39

Will Murdaugh's New Judge Bury The Money Evidence?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/12

The single biggest unknown in the Alex Murdaugh retrial isn't a witness, a weapon, or a verdict — it's a ruling that hasn't happened yet. The first jury sat through hours upon hours of testimony about Murdaugh's financial crimes, the stolen client money, the gathering storm the State built its motive on. The South Carolina Supreme Court said that went too far, and ordered any retrial to sharply limit it. The person who decides where that limit falls: newly assigned Judge Debra McCaslin.Eric Faddis

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17:52

Why Is Nick Reiner's Bigger Family Fortune Already...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/12

Buried in the Nick Reiner trust fund fight is a detail that tells you how the people who actually control the Reiner money see this case: the much larger family trusts — where Nick is reportedly a full and equal beneficiary alongside his siblings — have already been frozen until the criminal case is over. Locked. Untouchable. So why is the smaller trust, the one his parents built just for him, the one he can still fight over?Eric Faddis — former felony prosecutor, veteran defense attorney, and our

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16:15

Could A Judge Hand Nick Reiner $1.5M Without A Hearing?

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/12

There's a procedural detail in the Nick Reiner trust fund battle that almost nobody is talking about — and it could end this fight before it starts. According to one legal expert, if no one formally opposes Nick's probate petition, a judge could grant it without ever holding a hearing. No arguments. No testimony. More than $1.5 million, released to a man awaiting trial for his parents' killings.Eric Faddis — a former felony prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney who has stood on both sides of

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49:16

Jesse Ridgway Is Never Going to Stop and the Audience...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/11

Every view validates the behavior. Every click fuels the compulsion. Every headline — including the outraged ones, including the ones calling him a fraud — gives Jesse Ridgway’s brain exactly what it’s looking for. He has spent twenty years fabricating crises for attention and every year the stunts get darker because the brain builds a tolerance. Staged family violence. A failed platform. Now a pregnancy announcement that may be the biggest hoax of his career.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins for

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59:22

Christine Marie Confesses What Taking Down Samuel...

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2026/06/11

The complete three-part conversation, all in one extended sit-down. Christine Marie — the cult psychologist who walked into Samuel Bateman's FLDS world with a camera and a hidden agenda — sits down with me to tell the whole story from start to finish.Christine and her husband Tolga moved to Short Creek in 2016 with a completely different project in mind. Then Samuel Bateman rose out of the post-Warren Jeffs FLDS community, declared himself the new prophet, took "spiritual wives" — some of them

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18:57

Are the People Clicking on Jesse Ridgway Part of the...

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2026/06/11

Every click validates the behavior. Every comment fuels the next stunt. Every share tells Jesse Ridgway’s brain that what he’s doing is working. Seventeen million people saw his pregnancy announcement. If Jesse is sick, the audience is the IV drip. Research shows that expressing outrage online fires the same dopamine reward pathways as direct social validation — and like any drug, you build a tolerance. You need something more extreme to feel the same hit.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott looks at the

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12:34

Jesse Ridgway’s Stunts Keep Getting Darker and Nobody...

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2026/06/11

Staged family violence. A failed platform. Now a pregnancy crisis involving a Down syndrome baby. Each stunt Jesse Ridgway pulls pushes further into territory the last one didn’t reach. That’s how tolerance works — the brain needs a bigger dose to feel the same thing. And with 4.3 million subscribers validating every escalation, the feedback loop has no off switch.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott looks at whether Jesse Ridgway is a troll who found a formula or something the troll label doesn’t cover

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18:25

What Does a Psychotherapist Hear When Jesse Ridgway...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/11

On a livestream, Jesse Ridgway said, “I’m glad my dad didn’t terminate me, but I’m normal.” That sentence — delivered in the middle of a firestorm about his unborn child — tells a psychotherapist something very specific. Jesse Ridgway has staged events for attention his entire career. Four years of fake family violence. A platform that burned through a million users. And now a pregnancy announcement that may or may not be real, from a man whose record is built entirely on making people believe

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55:03

What’s Really Behind the ‘Coverup’ Ruling That Ended...

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2026/06/10

“Appearance of a coverup.” “So egregious.” Those are a judge’s words in a signed order. And they didn’t just end a murder case. They cracked open questions about an entire county’s law enforcement apparatus.This three-part conversation with an outside legal analyst covers the ruling, the sheriff’s race, and the institutional pattern that made this case inevitable.Judge Wilson’s 19-page order is methodical. He catalogued eleven failures by the lead detective handling a dashcam from the night of the

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13:49

Christine Marie Says Samuel Bateman Still Runs His...

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2026/06/10

He's locked up. He's still calling. And his wives are still picking up.In this third and final part of a three-part interview, Christine Marie walks me through the part of the Samuel Bateman story that doesn't fit on a true crime documentary's ending card. The arrest didn't free those women. The fifty-year sentence didn't free them. The conviction didn't free them. A number of the people Christine risked everything to get out have walked right back to him by their own choice, the same way Warren

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24:04

Who in Lonoke County Is Trying to Escape...

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2026/06/10

The detective got fired. The sheriff issued a statement. The prosecutor’s office went quiet. And the question hanging over all of it is whether any of these people will face real consequences for what a judge described as “egregious” conduct.Judge Wilson’s ruling focused on one detective and one piece of evidence. But the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office’s problems with evidence didn’t start with Aaron Spencer. In 2021, a deputy killed seventeen-year-old Hunter Brittain during a traffic stop

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12:37

How Does Aaron Spencer Run the Agency That Lost the...

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2026/06/10

Aaron Spencer is about to become the sheriff of Lonoke County. The same county that charged him with murder. The same department whose detective lost the evidence that got the case thrown out. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s the trajectory.Spencer won the Republican primary with 53.5 percent of the vote in a three-way race, beating the thirteen-year incumbent whose office investigated him. The county favors Republicans. The general election math points in one direction.Inside that building are

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19:02

Why Did a Judge Call Evidence Handling ‘So Egregious’...

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2026/06/10

A circuit court judge just called law enforcement’s conduct “so egregious” that he threw out the murder case against an Arkansas father. That language doesn’t show up in rulings often. When it does, it means something went profoundly wrong.Judge Ralph Wilson’s 19-page order found that Detective Robbie McCain — the lead investigator on the Aaron Spencer case — committed eleven separate violations of department policy while handling a dashcam recovered from the truck of Michael Fosler. Fosler was the

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54:12

How Did the Elijah Vue Investigation Go From a...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/09

On February 20, 2024, Jesse Vang called 911 and reported that three-year-old Elijah Vue had walked away from his Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment. What started as a missing child case became a homicide investigation that uncovered surveillance footage, deleted photographs, coordinated text messages, DNA evidence inside a donated suitcase, and forensic findings of injuries that had been happening for weeks. This interview covers the full arc.It starts with the people. Katrina Baur once told police

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30:03

What Christine Recorded That Locked Up Samuel Bateman

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2026/06/09

Late 2021. Christine Marie's camera was rolling. Samuel Bateman started talking. And what he said in his own voice on that recording finally became the thing the FBI couldn't ignore.In this second part of our three-part interview, Christine tells the story of building a case against a man the local police would not touch. Short Creek — the FLDS community on the Utah-Arizona border where Bateman built his sect — had spent decades training itself not to notice what was happening to its own children

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19:55

What Did the Fractures on Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue’s...

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2026/06/09

When three-year-old Elijah Vue’s remains were found in a wooded area three miles from Jesse Vang’s Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment, investigators noted something about the material found near the remains. Sand and gravel recovered at the site reportedly matched sand and gravel found in buckets near Vang’s home. The defense is now challenging that evidence — and a hearing is pending that could determine whether the jury ever hears about it.If the sand and gravel evidence is excluded, it removes a

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18:10

Why Did Hundreds of Strangers Search for...

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2026/06/09

For seven months, the city of Two Rivers, Wisconsin searched for a three-year-old boy named Elijah Vue. The FBI came. The Wisconsin Department of Justice came. Hundreds of community volunteers showed up with flashlights and search dogs. They combed through landfills, dove into storm drains and the West Twin River, and searched private property across Manitowoc County. Volunteers even searched the Avery family salvage yard. A $40,000 reward was posted. Elijah’s grandmother wept at a press conference

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16:45

Why Was Elijah Vue Sent to a ‘Boot Camp’ Run by a...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/09

When investigators interviewed Katrina Baur about the adults in her son’s life, she used a word that stopped them: “structure.” She described Elijah’s biological father, Jimmy Vue, as “the alpha” over Jesse Vang. Jimmy Vue was incarcerated at the time. Vang was the man Baur placed her three-year-old with — a convicted felon still on federal supervised release. And Baur had once told police that Vang had trafficked her.The dynamic between these adults is central to understanding how Elijah Vue ended

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15:33

Is the Culture That Failed Sandra Birchmore Still...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/06/09

Sean Goode resigned from the Canton Police Department amid an internal affairs investigation. Michael Proctor was fired from the Massachusetts State Police. Four officers connected to the Sandra Birchmore case have been decertified or permanently barred from law enforcement. And a lawsuit alleges that the documented record of misconduct between Proctor and Goode stretches back more than ten years — a decade of messages that, according to the complaint, include racial slurs, antisemitic statements,

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