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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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20:54

Celeste Rivas Hernandez: Dreeke Breaks Down the...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/20

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to answer your questions about one of the most disturbing cases in recent memory — the alleged grooming and killing of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered remains were found inside the Tesla of pop star D4vd.Robin brings decades of behavioral analysis expertise to the patterns emerging in this case — a twenty-one-year-old musician who allegedly began an online relationship with

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14:43

D4VD Arrest — What the Evidence Trail Exposes

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2026/04/20

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — former federal investigator with decades of case-building experience — sits down with Tony Brueski to dissect the arrest of D4VD in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case.LAPD didn't wait for a grand jury indictment. Detectives went to a judge and moved on their own — seven months after a 14-year-old girl's remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer David Anthony Burke. The defense has already responded, specifically stating Burke

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84:29

Heuermann's Plea, the Family Lawsuit, and the...

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2026/04/20

Asa Ellerup called Rex Heuermann her savior. Their daughter Victoria sat in a packed Suffolk County courtroom and watched him plead guilty to killing eight women. Asa has maintained she would have known if something was wrong. Victoria has publicly said she believes her father most likely committed the killings. A mother and daughter inside the same house, the same marriage, the same nightmare — arriving at opposite conclusions. That split is the story.Benjamin Torres — the son of victim Valerie

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42:17

IBLP: The Cost of Leaving and the Machine That Won't...

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2026/04/19

The survivors can't pick what to eat for dinner. Not because they're indecisive — because every decision they ever made was routed through a hierarchy that no longer exists. Their operating system crashed. That's what leaving the Institute in Basic Life Principles actually looks like. Not a dramatic escape through a gate. A slow, disorienting collapse of identity, faith, relationships, and basic life function that takes years — sometimes decades — to rebuild.They describe entering marriages through

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51:33

Anna Kepner: Federal Indictment, Warning Signs, and...

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2026/04/19

Anna Kepner was eighteen years old. She was found dead under the bed in her cruise ship stateroom, wrapped in a blanket and covered in life vests. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Security cameras showed her sixteen-year-old stepbrother Timothy Hudson was the only person who entered and exited the room that night. Her younger brother was outside and reportedly heard violent sounds from inside.For months, sealed juvenile proceedings shielded the details. The

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36:57

Heuermann's Calculated Plea and the Civil Lawsuit...

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2026/04/19

Rex Heuermann maintained his innocence for one thousand days. On the last one, he stood in a Suffolk County courtroom — calm, controlled, no visible emotion — and pleaded guilty to strangling eight women over seventeen years. His defense attorney called it a calculated pivot. Every pre-trial ruling had gone against the defense. Whole genome sequencing was in. Consolidation of all charges into one trial was in. There was nothing left to fight with.But this plea was engineered for more than damage

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60:07

Kendra's Open Letter and the Duggar System Under...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/19

Kendra Duggar cried on a recorded jail call and told Joseph the kids had to be her priority. She said she wasn't well. Could barely eat. Could barely stand. For one conversation, she sounded like a mother beginning to think for herself. Then the family filled her schedule. ATV rides. Worship music. Days surrounded by Duggar sisters-in-law. Joseph sending scripture from his cell — lyrics about spiritual warfare, not consequences. Her four children remain in state custody. She's under a no-contact

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57:37

Kendra Duggar's Open Letter and the Doctrine That...

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2026/04/19

The Caldwell family posted a portrait without Kendra in it. No statement. No explanation. Her father Paul launched a GoFundMe for displacement and housing costs. The family is reportedly being pushed out. And the system that built the world Kendra was raised inside is the same system now directing the choices being made for her.Kendra faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas after investigators searched her home and reportedly found locks on the exterior of bedroom doors. She's under a

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34:25

Nancy Guthrie: Investigative Failures and the Sheriff...

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2026/04/18

Sheriff Chris Nanos told the public Nancy Guthrie had been abducted — then reversed himself the next day. When reporters questioned the contradiction, he told them he wasn't used to being held accountable for what he says. An insider who spoke to a national outlet said the message inside the department during those early press conferences was simple: stop talking. He didn't.Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. Blood confirmed to be hers was found at the

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49:37

Duggar Jail Calls and IBLP: The Behavioral Patterns...

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2026/04/18

Every public statement from the Duggar siblings after Joseph's arrest hit the same notes — scripted, measured, on-brand. The private communications tell a completely different story. Jim Bob's first written message to his son focused on God's forgiveness. Kendra called it "disappointing." Anna Duggar — whose own husband Josh is serving federal time — put money on Joseph's books. Austin Forsyth warned Joseph about monitored calls in the same breath he praised God for their growing family bond.Joseph

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27:05

Heuermann's Family Fallout and the Calls That Haunted...

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2026/04/18

Someone used Melissa Barthelemy's phone to call her 15-year-old sister for five straight weeks after Melissa vanished. Always under three minutes. Always from crowded Manhattan streets. Always targeting the teenager — never the mother. The calls described what had been done to Melissa in detail no stranger should have known. The burner phone Melissa had connected with on the day she disappeared traveled the exact route between Rex Heuermann's Massapequa Park home and his Midtown office. Hours

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34:47

Heuermann Pleads Guilty — What the Evidence and the...

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2026/04/18

Rex Heuermann admitted to killing eight women. His defense attorney called it "relief." Not remorse. Not accountability. Relief. That single word tells you more about Heuermann's internal framework than the plea itself — and this week's panel digs into exactly why.A discarded pizza crust recovered from a Manhattan garbage can gave investigators the DNA match that broke this case open. That sample connected Heuermann to a male hair found in the burlap wrapping around Megan Waterman's remains. Megan

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49:02

Kepner Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach Civil Defense

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins for a full-episode analysis of two cases where the legal questions are converging on the same core issue — how much the people standing next to an accused knew, chose not to see, or gambled on.In the Anna Kepner federal case, Faddis examines why a sixteen-year-old’s defense team would sign off on a waiver volunteering him for adult prosecution on charges carrying a maximum of life in prison. He breaks down the evidentiary record — ship

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16:18

Asa Ellerup’s Civil Defense After the Guilty Plea

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2026/04/17

When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County Court, the criminal case reached its conclusion. But for his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, a different legal fight is just beginning.A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack alleges that Ellerup and her daughter Victoria either knew about, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning of the murders. The complaint also alleges unjust enrichment from a Peacock documentary that reportedly paid the family over a million

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24:02

Jesse Butler: The Clock Nobody Wanted To Stop

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2026/04/17

Fifteen minutes.That's how long a teenage girl had to understand that the boy she accused of nearly killing her was about to walk out of a Stillwater courtroom without a single day in prison. Fifteen minutes to process "no contest." Fifteen minutes to process "youthful offender." Fifteen minutes to realize the August birthday coming in four months would legally erase the whole thing.Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation,

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17:00

Anna Kepner: Can a Medication Defense Work Here

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2026/04/17

The physical evidence in the Anna Kepner case presents a compressed, specific set of facts that prosecutors believe can be tried in approximately one week. Ship surveillance showing no one else entering or exiting the cabin. A body allegedly concealed under a bed with deliberate covering. A cause of death — mechanical asphyxiation — that implies sustained physical contact.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether a medication-based argument has any realistic path in a case

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16:23

Anna Kepner Case: The Defense Gamble That Changes...

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2026/04/17

Unsealed federal court records in the Anna Kepner case have revealed a defense move that experienced criminal attorneys are calling highly unusual. The accused — a sixteen-year-old facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his eighteen-year-old stepsister — signed a written waiver requesting to be prosecuted as an adult. His defense counsel co-signed the document.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that waiver tells us

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63:26

LIVE: Full Panel — FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

The full panel, live and uncut. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony for a complete breakdown of the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — from how he built the cult, to what it did to the people inside, to whether Short Creek will ever stop producing predators who call themselves prophets.Robin spent two decades reading human behavior at the highest levels of federal law enforcement. Shavaun has

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19:46

LIVE: Is the FLDS Cycle Finally Breaking? | Part 3

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2026/04/16

The final segment of our live three-part panel on the Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. Parts 1 and 2 covered how he built it and what it did to the people inside. Now we're talking about what happens next — and whether "next" means healing or repetition.Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are back with Tony for the conversation about the future of Short Creek. The FLDS has survived everything the justice system has thrown at it

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24:03

LIVE: The Psychological Damage Inside Bateman's FLDS...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

Going live for Part 2 of our panel on the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. If Part 1 was about how Bateman built his cult, this one is about what it did to the people inside it — and the damage that's still unfolding.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are back with Tony for the conversation about the invisible wreckage. The children who wrote about their abuse in journals but couldn't say it out loud to a single adult

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