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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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45:41

Were Nick Reiner's Doctors Right About Him All Along?

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2026/07/04

For years, the Reiner family publicly pushed back on the professionals treating their son — at one point even siding with Nick over the counselors who warned that he was lying and manipulating them. This segment makes the case that the experts may have been right, and that the tragedy wasn't a system that failed so much as a patient who allegedly wouldn't let it work.Nick Reiner had elite care: a facility reportedly costing tens of thousands a month, doctors managing his schizophrenia, and a family

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30:58

What Does Every Defense Move In The Anna Kepner Case...

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2026/07/04

The defense team in the Anna Kepner case has made a series of choices that, taken together, tell you a great deal about where they believe this case is headed. They reportedly requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered the not guilty plea without their client in the room. They're asking for the same judge who released him in February to decide the detention question again. This look back, with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis, reads each of those moves for what it

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31:37

How Did Sandra Costilla's Case Change The Entire Rex...

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2026/07/03

Before prosecutors linked Sandra Costilla to Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach killings were understood to begin around 2007. Sandra's death in 1993 pushed the timeline back by fourteen years — and changed everything about the scope of what investigators believe Heuermann did. This look back examines the case of the earliest known victim and what her connection to the investigation reveals.Sandra Costilla was twenty-eight years old when her remains were found in the woods of Southampton, Long Island

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30:10

What Does D4VD's Defense Statement Actually Tell You?

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2026/07/03

Burke's attorneys didn't say he was innocent. They didn't say he didn't know Celeste Rivas Hernandez. They said he "was not the cause of her death." That phrasing is specific. It's surgical. And this look back, with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, breaks down exactly what it tells you about where the defense is planting its flag.The statement doesn't deny the relationship. It doesn't deny the car. It makes two very specific denials — that he was the killer and that he caused her

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60:30

What One Decision Cost Kouri Richins' Defense The...

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2026/07/03

The Kouri Richins defense did real damage on cross-examination — and still lost on every count. This look back, with defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, examines a strategy that exposed genuine weaknesses in the state's case and asks why it wasn't enough.The cracks were there. The jury saw video of investigators pressing the prosecution's central witness, housekeeper Carmen Lauber, for details that would help convict — before her account changed. The

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64:41

What Did The Reiners' Counselors Warn Them About...

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2026/07/03

Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick. They sent him to treatment seventeen times. They let him live close to them. They even made a film together about his struggles. And at one point, when professionals warned them that Nick was lying and manipulating them, they pushed back on that advice — publicly siding with their son over the experts.That choice sits at the center of this story. Now Rob and Michele are dead, allegedly killed by Nick the night after a

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35:49

What Does The Federal Indictment In The Anna Kepner...

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2026/07/03

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in connection with her death aboard the Carnival Horizon. First-degree murder requires proof of intent. The additional charge tells investigators found evidence that goes beyond the asphyxiation. This look back examines what the indictment structure reveals about the prosecution's theory.The reported evidence is substantial

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37:06

Which Piece Of Evidence Made Rex Heuermann Plead Guilty?

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2026/07/02

Prosecutors recovered a deleted Word document from Rex Heuermann's hard drive — described as a planning document for the killings. They matched his DNA to evidence found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, a technology admitted in a New York courtroom for the first time. And the original DNA connection came from a pizza crust recovered during surveillance. This look back, with defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines the evidence that reportedly

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43:05

What Did Neo Langston's Posts Reveal About The D4VD...

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2026/07/02

When Neo Langston — D4VD's closest friend and frequent collaborator — posted privately that he's legally clear and has receipts, the posts leaked within hours and became the first real crack in D4VD's inner circle. But a statement analyst who reviewed every word found something more telling than what Neo said: the careful, deliberate absence of any reference to the crime, the person involved, or the fourteen-year-old girl who died.This look back examines Neo's role in the investigation at the time

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48:56

How Did Prosecutors Convict Kouri Richins With No...

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2026/07/02

Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud — and the jury needed only about three hours to get there. But the case against her was built almost entirely on circumstance. This look back lays out exactly how the state assembled it, piece by piece.The evidence the prosecution stacked up was staggering in its breadth even as the physical proof stayed thin: a boyfriend's reported text that he'd blacked out after consuming something Kouri

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29:32

What Was Nick Reiner's "Not Guilty" Plea Actually...

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2026/07/02

When Nick Reiner's public defender entered a not guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder, it sounded like a denial. It wasn't. Under California law, that plea is a strategic placeholder — and understanding why reveals exactly where this case is headed.He's charged in the stabbing deaths of his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, with a special-circumstance allegation that makes the case eligible for the ultimate penalty. But the defense is sitting on a documented

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19:00

Maternal Instinct: The Question Taylor Parker’s...

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2026/07/02

Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It's what kind of person is capable of doing it.That's the question this part of the series refuses to look away from. Set aside the evidence and the timeline and look at the person. A woman who faked a pregnancy for the better part of a year. Who took a baby from a young woman who was killed for it. Who could then sit in a hospital full of

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66:09

Nancy Guthrie, Alex Murdaugh — WHAT Just Surfaced?!

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2026/07/02

A defense attorney’s read on two cases that just shifted in the same week. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the contents of a second note from the alleged kidnappers were made public months after it was sent — claiming Nancy died shortly after being taken. Investigators reportedly consider it legitimate. Bob Motta evaluates whether the note functions as a confession and what it means for a prosecution that still has no named suspect.In the Alex Murdaugh retrial, the first hearing exposed a defense

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20:16

Alex Murdaugh: What the First People at the Scene Said

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2026/07/01

Dick Harpootlian arrived at Alex Murdaugh’s first retrial hearing carrying transcripts of interviews with the first people to arrive at Moselle after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead. What’s in those transcripts, according to Harpootlian: differing accounts that suggest other individuals were present at the property that night. Accounts that don’t align. And a defense team that is now asking questions about whether every lead generated by the original investigation was actually pursued.The

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15:31

Alex Murdaugh: Can the State Still Prove WHY He Did It?!

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2026/07/01

The prosecution’s motive theory rested on financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court called excessive. Twelve and a half hours of it. Ten days of witnesses describing Murdaugh stealing from clients and loved ones. The court said the trial judge allowed the state to go “far too long and far too deep.” That testimony shaped how the first jury saw the defendant before they evaluated a single piece of murder evidence.Now it’s limited. And the underlying motive faces its own challenge: the financial

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23:33

Maternal Instinct: How Taylor Parker Handles the...

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2026/07/01

Stripped to its essentials, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a duel. Trained investigators sit on one side of the room. On the other sits a woman who had already spent the better part of a year proving she could keep the truth from everyone she knew.This part of the series watches that duel from start to finish. Tony treats the interrogation as the back-and-forth it actually is — the questions, the pressure, the openings the investigators try to create, and the way Parker

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14:37

Alex Murdaugh Was Denied WHAT Before His Retrial?!

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2026/07/01

The defense asked for a laptop so Alex Murdaugh could review discovery from prison. The judge denied it after the warden said no inmate gets one. The compromise leaves Murdaugh dependent on his attorneys to bring their own devices to a conference room. With a trial date set for April 2027 and the defense claiming they need six months just to get eight new expert witnesses up to speed, the logistics of preparing a capital-eligible murder defense without digital access to evidence becomes a strategic

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36:40

Nancy Guthrie: Is the Death Note Actually a Confession?!

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2026/07/01

The second note sent after Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping said she died shortly after being taken. Investigators called it a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappers. Not a hoax. Not one of the fakes that the FBI has been arresting people for. If that assessment holds, the people who took an 84-year-old grandmother from her home left behind a written admission that she died in their custody.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta evaluates the legal significance of that note. Whether it

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26:14

Maternal Instinct: The Thing You Never See Taylor...

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2026/07/01

Everyone who watches the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct comes away unsettled, and most of them can't quite say why. This part of the series names it: it's not what she does on the tape. It's the thing you never see her do, across the entire interrogation.Look at the situation she's in. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is in a hospital, surrounded by police, at the center of all of it. A moment like that should draw something out of a person, even one who's

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57:07

Murdaugh’s DNA, Reiner’s Trust, Guthrie’s Ransom —...

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2026/07/01

Three cases the audience has been fighting about. Three details nobody’s giving a straight answer on. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover them all in one full-length discussion — Nancy Guthrie, Nick Reiner, and Alex Murdaugh — and challenge the conclusions the comments have already reached.The Guthrie sheriff only “thinks” the FBI arrested people for fake notes — he doesn’t know. The Reiner case has split listeners between mental illness and money, and both explanations have holes. The Murdaugh

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