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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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18:02

Bryan Kohberger Never Had a Trial — and What His...

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2026/06/30

The Bryan Kohberger case cost more than eight million dollars in public money. He confessed. There was no trial. And the people who paid for it have never been shown the full bill. This is the story of what happens when real money gets treated like it belongs to nobody.Nearly five and a half million went to his defense — attorneys, experts, investigators — all on the public dime after he was ruled indigent. Prosecutors spent years pursuing the death penalty before it got dropped in a plea deal. A

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16:49

Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial May Come Down to Evidence...

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2026/06/30

The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction after ruling that court clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury. Now the defense is building the retrial around a piece of evidence the state never fully processed: DNA from an unknown male found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the audience’s hardest questions. Murdaugh has admitted stealing twelve million and lying to everyone close to him for years. His voice is on

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19:01

Maternal Instinct: What’s Unsettling About Taylor...

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2026/06/30

Ask people what disturbs them about the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct, and most will reach for something she said. But the truly unsettling thing on that tape isn't the words. It's the way she carries herself while the words come out.Consider the moment she's living through. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is in a hospital surrounded by police, the center of all of it. That is a situation that should overwhelm a person. And Parker's bearing through it — the

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13:15

What Nick Reiner Just Demanded From the Trust His...

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2026/06/30

Nick Reiner has been charged with stabbing his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, to death in their Brentwood home. He has pleaded not guilty. And from his jail cell, he has filed a petition demanding over a million dollars from the trust his murdered parents established — money he says he needs to hire private defense counsel.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down to take apart the listener questions driving the debate. The audience is split between two explanations: severe

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27:42

The FBI Reportedly Made Multiple Arrests Over Fake...

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2026/06/30

Sheriff Nanos told a local radio host that he thinks the FBI has made “a number of arrests” for fake ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case. The word that matters is “thinks.” The lead investigator is not certain what the FBI has done inside his own case. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take apart what that uncertainty reveals about the state of this investigation.Nanos dismissed the TMZ emailer as probably another fraud — but if he doesn’t know for sure what the FBI has arrested people for, how

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18:33

Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Spent Almost a...

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2026/06/30

Most coverage of the Taylor Parker case jumps straight to the hospital. But the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct can't really be understood without the year that came first. For months before any of this, Parker had been telling the people closest to her that she was pregnant — and none of it was true.Keeping a lie like that running takes a specific kind of person. You have to maintain it constantly, in front of people who love you, with no slip-ups. Parker did exactly that for the

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58:57

Nancy Guthrie's Case: Stalled for Good, or About to...

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2026/06/30

The Nancy Guthrie case pulls in two directions at once. The notes contradict each other. One set of reporting says the investigation is stuck; another says an arrest is near. Both can't be true. In this full conversation, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer works through all three fronts.The notes: a message reportedly saying the 84-year-old is "buried with nature," a separate TMZ tipster's "time is no longer of the essence," and a disputed apology. The stall: Air Mail's reporting that

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14:46

Maggie Murdaugh's Fingernails Held Something the...

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2026/06/29

Days before Alex Murdaugh returns to court for the first hearing of his retrial, his defense team filed three motions. Two are the kind of thing you'd expect. One could matter more than anything else in the case.The first asks to move the trial out of the entire Fourteenth Judicial Circuit — five South Carolina counties where, the defense argues, the Murdaugh name has been tied to the legal system for nearly a century, and where the documentaries and books that shaped public opinion were made. The

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18:58

Nancy Guthrie's 'Porch Guy' — How Close the FBI...

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2026/06/29

For months the Nancy Guthrie case looked stalled — until a retired FBI agent claimed it's about to break. On Megyn Kelly's show, Maureen O'Connell said her sources indicate investigators are closing in on "porch guy," the masked man filmed outside the 84-year-old's home the night she vanished. She put her confidence at 75 percent and said an arrest would open the floodgates.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer weighs whether that claim is solid. She explains how much a confidence level

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20:34

Maternal Instinct: Watch Taylor Parker Refuse the One...

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2026/06/29

Most people know the Taylor Parker story from the headlines. The version captured on the hospital bodycams in Maternal Instinct is so much worse. This breakdown starts at the beginning of that footage: the moment Parker arrives at the ER cradling a newborn and telling everyone she'd just given birth on the side of the road. She'd made the same claim minutes earlier on a 911 call, sobbing that she needed to reach a hospital where her husband was waiting. A state trooper pulled her over first and

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15:59

Did Nancy Guthrie's Investigators Already Lose Their...

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2026/06/29

The uncomfortable possibility in the Nancy Guthrie case is that nobody is close to anything. Howard Blum's reporting in Air Mail describes investigators who privately fear an early mistake already cost them the case — suspects cleared one after another, leads drying up, the task force forced back to the ransom notes for lack of anything better. Brian Entin's sources say the same: the person who took the 84-year-old vanished without a trace.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer confronts

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24:39

What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Put in That Note — and...

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2026/06/29

There is no single note in the Nancy Guthrie case. There's a contradicting pile of them. A message reportedly tied to the man who took the 84-year-old from her Tucson home claims she's "buried with nature." A separate sender was telling TMZ "time is no longer of the essence." And whether the kidnapper ever apologized depends entirely on which outlet you trust.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what investigators are actually working with. She explains how the bureau

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29:29

What Did the Caller Know About Nancy Guthrie That...

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2026/06/29

A caller provided information about what Nancy Guthrie was wearing. That detail narrows the universe of possible sources dramatically. Someone who knows what an abduction victim was wearing either saw her after she was taken, received a description from someone who did, or was part of the operation. The FBI has been fielding tips since February. This one carries a different weight.Separately, Nancy Guthrie’s involvement in pharmaceutical exposure litigation introduces a motive theory that hasn’t

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44:25

What Are Joseph and Kendra Duggar’s Children...

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2026/06/28

The Duggar family built a brand on the image of wholesome Christian parenting. Joseph and Kendra presented themselves as the clean branch — the ones who stayed out of the headlines, who smiled through depositions, who begged judges to seal documents. But their children are now describing what life looked like inside the household, and it maps directly onto the IBLP doctrine the family has never publicly renounced.Discipline structures. Isolation from outside influences. A curriculum that taught

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34:24

What Could Alex Murdaugh’s Longtime Housekeeper Mean...

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2026/06/28

Prosecutors asked Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. Three hours on the stand. But Blanca had been inside that household for twenty years. She knew things about the Murdaugh home that no crime scene technician could learn in a walkthrough — which drawers Maggie opened, how Alex’s routine shifted, what the house felt like when something was wrong.In her first extended interview since the reversal, Blanca goes where the trial testimony never reached. She addresses what

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43:47

What Did the Murdaugh Defense Find Under Maggie’s...

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2026/06/28

The kennel video destroyed Alex Murdaugh’s alibi at the first trial. Audio placed him at the dog kennels minutes before Maggie and Paul were shot. Multiple witnesses identified his voice. He admitted he lied. The jury convicted in three hours. Now Dick Harpootlian says his team has a strategy to counter it — and he won’t say what it is.On the prosecution side, the Supreme Court has ordered the financial crimes evidence sharply curtailed. Twelve and a half hours of stolen-money testimony carried the

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33:49

What Did an Anonymous Caller Claim About Where Nancy...

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2026/06/28

An anonymous tip pointed investigators toward a shallow grave south of the border. Nancy Guthrie’s home is less than seventy miles from Mexico. She was reportedly taken from her bed, without shoes or medication, in the middle of the night. The logistics required to move an eighty-four-year-old woman across an international border suggest planning, vehicles, and a destination — not a random crime.But the wrong-house theory raises a different possibility entirely. Google Maps pins Nancy’s home and

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69:41

Why Can Rex Heuermann Never Be Charged in the States...

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2026/06/28

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight Gilgo Beach murders. Three consecutive life sentences. A hundred years stacked on top. No appeal. The case is closed — in New York. But the judge who sentenced him said “eight that we know of,” and South Carolina and Nevada both have death penalty statutes and both have properties connected to Heuermann where women disappeared.Before the sentence, Heuermann agreed to cooperate with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. He confessed to killing Karen Vergata — a

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38:13

Did the Trust Nick Reiner’s Parents Created Become...

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2026/06/27

Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son when he was a baby. They wrote the terms. They chose the language — “mandatory and unconditional.” Half at thirty, the rest at thirty-five. No conditions. No discretion. No off switch. Nick turned thirty in September 2023. The money reportedly never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead.The 136-page probate petition his lawyers filed reads less like a trust dispute and more like a motive timeline. The new trustee, Jodi Montgomery —

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37:53

What Made Anna Kepner’s Judge Lock Up the Defendant...

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2026/06/27

Judge Edwin Torres released Timothy Hudson four months ago. He called the government’s case “a much closer call” and said he would not characterize it as strong. Then on June 10th, the same judge reversed himself, ordered Hudson detained, and said from the bench that he could “snap at any time” and that no conditions of release can protect the community. That reversal tells you something changed between the two hearings — and the prosecution hasn’t said publicly what it was.Meanwhile, the question

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