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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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16:33

Sandra Birchmore: Inside the Crime Scene Evidence

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2026/04/30

At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene.The forensic evidence prosecutors have assembled is devastating. Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap used to

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59:54

Don Studey's Green Hollow Connected to Gacy and the Mob

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2026/04/29

This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he's telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground in Iowa. He made contact with Lucy Studey-McKiddy, the daughter who alleges her father was the Green Hollow Killer, and spent over a hundred hours vetting her claims. He drove to Green Hollow when the FBI moved on the property, arrived in the middle of the night, and

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18:25

Who Was Caleb Flynn Before the Indictment?

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2026/04/29

Before the arrest, before the 911 call, before the charges -- there was a man with a guitar and a public image built on faith, family, and music. Caleb Flynn grew up as a pastor's son in Braham, Minnesota. He drummed in his father's praise band as a child, played on state championship basketball teams, studied music ministry at Lee University, and spent over a decade leading worship at churches in Ohio and South Carolina.Then the trajectory shifted. He left ministry. Spent less than a year

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20:13

The Buried Car at Don Studey's Green Hollow Nobody...

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2026/04/29

Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Sixteen months of investigation. Boots on the ground in Green Hollow. And one question that still doesn't have a clean answer — is Lucy Studey-McKiddy telling the truth about the alleged Green Hollow Killer? Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta approached the Don Studey case the way he approaches every case — looking for the lie. He probed Lucy's stories for red flags. He looked for inconsistencies. He pushed for details that didn't match. What he found was a

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27:36

Joseph Duggar’s Jail Calls Prove He Feels Nothing

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2026/04/29

From inside solitary, Joseph Duggar has been performing the role of a man reborn. Bible readings. Hours of prayer. A new translation because the old one didn’t work anymore. He found the Book of Ruth and told Kendra it encouraged him — the story of an outcast restored by grace. He has cast himself as the character who deserves mercy.He never opened Matthew 18. The chapter where Jesus places a child in front of his disciples and says that anyone who causes harm to a little one would be better off

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23:15

IBLP’s Duggar Curriculum: What the Booklets Taught...

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2026/04/29

A five-year-old girl sits in front of Wisdom Booklet 36. She can’t fully read it yet. But the framework is already being installed: if something happens to you, the first question is what did you do wrong. The Duggar family curriculum taught girls that male lust was their fault to manage. Eye trap quizzes. Modesty frameworks built on Old Testament law. Biblical victims rewritten as cautionary tales. And a counseling document that assumed abuse survivors bore guilt until proven otherwise. Then the

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21:51

Why Green Hollow Parents Warned Their Kids About Don...

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2026/04/29

Parents in rural Iowa warned their children for decades — don't go back into the hollow, stay away from Don Studey. He was the boogeyman of Green Hollow. And when criminal defense attorney Bob Motta went into the small towns of Tabor and Thurman to start interviewing locals about the alleged Green Hollow Killer, he found out the legend ran deeper than anyone knew. A deputy on the fence line at the dig site casually mentioned that John Wayne Gacy's first known victim — Tim McCoy — was from Green

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20:48

What Don Studey's Green Hollow Search Missed in Three...

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2026/04/29

He wasn't invited. He drove six hours anyway. And he ended up closer to the Green Hollow dig than most of the local cops who were actually assigned to be there. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta had spent months investigating the allegations that Donald Dean Studey — the alleged Green Hollow Killer — buried dozens of women in wells on a remote Iowa property near Thurman in Fremont County. He'd been on the phone with Lucy Studey-McKiddy for over a hundred hours, vetting her story, probing for

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14:24

Sandra Birchmore Was Ready to Talk. Then Silence.

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2026/04/29

Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell was making different plans entirely.According to federal prosecutors, Farwell told one person that if Sandra didn’t end the pregnancy, he would “take care of the problem himself.” He told another he needed to “put crazy back in the bag.” He told

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51:15

Reiner’s Tell-All, Celeste’s Autopsy, Duggar’s Bond:...

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2026/04/28

Three cases. All of them active. All of them moving fast. And all of them driven by the same fundamental failure: the people closest to the victims are allegedly the ones responsible for the harm.Nick Reiner is being held without bail on two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances after allegedly stabbing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, inside their Brentwood home. He’s pled not guilty. And reports say he’s allegedly working on a revenge tell-all from his cell — not to seek

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15:52

Caleb Flynn: Inside the Night Everything Changed

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2026/04/28

On February 16, 2026, a 911 call came in from a quiet cul-de-sac in Tipp City, Ohio. A man, barely able to speak through sobs, reported that someone had broken into his home and shot his wife. She was in bed with two gunshot wounds to the head. Their two young daughters were asleep in another room. He said the garage door was wide open. He said he didn't know if the intruder was still there.What police found when they arrived at 932 Cunningham Court allegedly contradicted nearly every detail of

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11:16

The Duggar Arrest That Split a Family Wide Open

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2026/04/28

Joseph Duggar is home. Out on $600,000 bond. Charged in Florida with conduct involving a child under twelve. Facing separate charges in Arkansas alongside his wife Kendra for child endangerment and false imprisonment. And the family that built an empire on wholesome values and reality television is fracturing in real time.According to the arrest affidavit, a fourteen-year-old girl told investigators Joseph inappropriately touched her during a 2020 family trip when she was nine. Her father

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21:47

Jake Reiner’s Raw Grief Collides With Nick’s Reported...

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2026/04/28

Jake Reiner just did something most people in his position never find the courage to do. Four months after his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, he wrote about it — publicly, personally, and without a filter. He called it his living nightmare. He described the phone call from his sister that split his life in two. He wrote about parents who were his foundation, his guiding lights, the people he’d trade every privileged moment to spend one more

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23:01

IBLP’s Duggar Curriculum: The Fake Science Inside the...

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2026/04/28

Burn the Cabbage Patch dolls. Destroy the rock music. Pray away the depression. Investigate the sins of your adopted child’s birth parents. This was the health and science education inside the Wisdom Booklets and IBLP’s companion medical pamphlets — the same curriculum the Duggar family used. The Medical Training Institute of America issued guidance without a single licensed physician. It told families that dolls caused difficult childbirth, that mental illness was a character defect, and that

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19:32

Celeste Rivas Hernandez: The Autopsy That Changed...

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2026/04/28

For months, the autopsy was sealed. Three grand juries were convened in secret. And for nearly a year after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was last seen alive, the man prosecutors say is responsible for her death allegedly toured the country while her remains were reportedly hidden inside his vehicle.The singer known as D4vd — David Anthony Burke, 21 — now faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances, along with counts of continuous abuse of a child under fourteen and unlawful mutilation

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21:06

Nick Reiner’s Alleged Revenge Plot From Behind Bars

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2026/04/28

Nick Reiner is being held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility after allegedly stabbing both his parents — director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner — inside their Brentwood home. He’s pled not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. His original defense attorney withdrew under circumstances he’s declined to explain. A public defender has taken over. And now, reports say Nick is allegedly planning a revenge tell-all from his

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16:40

Sandra Birchmore: Groomed by the Men She Trusted

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2026/04/28

Sandra Birchmore wanted to be a cop. She walked into the Stoughton Police Explorers program at twelve years old full of admiration for the badge, looking for belonging, looking for guidance, looking for the kind of structure her difficult childhood hadn’t provided. What she found instead were predators wearing uniforms.Federal prosecutors allege that Matthew Farwell, an instructor in the program, began grooming Sandra almost immediately. By the time she was fifteen and he was twenty-seven, he had

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49:30

D4vd and Kepner Cruise Ship: Evidence and Failed Systems

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2026/04/27

Two cases. Two victims. And an identical question at the center of both: where were the adults?The unsealed autopsy of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez documents two stab wounds, a perforated liver, severed limbs with trace evidence embedded in the cut surfaces, and drugs in the system of a child who had been missing for over a year without triggering any meaningful intervention. David Anthony Burke — the musician known as D4vd — faces first-degree murder with special circumstances,

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61:31

Duggar Family Exposed: Amy King's Three-Generation...

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2026/04/27

The Duggar family built a public brand on faith, discipline, and devotion. Behind that brand, according to Amy Duggar King, operated a system of control, suppression, and silence that stretches back three generations — to a man the family decided never existed.Amy is Jim Bob Duggar's niece. In her memoir Holy Disruptor, she alleges that her grandfather Jimmy Lee Duggar was violent and predatory, that her mother was beaten nearly to death, and that protective measures inside the household were

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16:04

Kepner Cruise Ship: Warning Signs Prosecutors Won’t...

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2026/04/27

There is a gap in the Anna Kepner case that gets wider every time new information comes out. Prosecutors filed documents stating Timothy Hudson acted “without any warning” and despite an “apparent supportive family environment.” The public record increasingly contradicts both of those characterizations.Anna Kepner was eighteen, a senior at Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida, aboard a Carnival Horizon cruise with her blended family. Her sixteen-year-old stepbrother Timothy Hudson was

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