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Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers

True Crime Today

Welcome to Mind Behind The Crime, the authoritative podcast that grants you exclusive access to the profound insights of respected psychologists, psychotherapists, and mental health experts as they delve into the most captivating true crime stories of our time. Hosted by Tony Brueski, this enthralling series takes you on an intellectual journey through the intricate workings of the human mind and its connection to the darkest realms of criminal behavior. In each episode, the vaulted doors of the

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105:27

Kohberger’s “Mom Text” & Donna’s Grand Piano How...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/07

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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10:31

When Mom (Donna Adelson) Lives in Your Head...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/07

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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12:09

Donna Adelson's Scapegoats & Loyalty: Why Wendy...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/06

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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11:11

Understanding The Adelsons’ Roots, Culture &...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/06

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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11:06

Donna Adelson’s High-Stakes Loyalty Scripts,...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/06

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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25:55

Prison Life is Breaking Bryan Kohberger — Full...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/05

Prison Life is Breaking Bryan Kohberger — Full Psychological Analysis Prison isn’t built for fragile egos. And Bryan Kohberger — the man convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students — is already proving that point. From the moment he entered Idaho’s maximum-security facility, Kohberger began unraveling. His letters and complaints are almost surreal: begging for different vegan meals, obsessing over food portions, writing about harassment through the vents, and demanding to be moved

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11:01

Donna Adelson’s High-Stakes Loyalty: Scripts,...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/05

Donna Adelson’s High-Stakes Loyalty: Scripts, Cover-Ups & Prison Future What happens when enmeshment doesn’t just ruin relationships—but pulls a family into crime? In this segment, Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott dive into the Adelsons’ darkest dynamics, where loyalty has crossed into cover-ups, scripts, and manipulation. We explore why some family members are willing to risk everything, even prison, to protect the family unit. Why does one sibling cross the line into

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10:26

When Mom (Donna Adelson) Lives in Your Head:...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/04

The impact of enmeshed families doesn’t end in childhood—it follows people into every adult relationship. In this segment, Tony Brueski, Stacy, Todd, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explore how toxic loyalty and control spill into marriages, friendships, and self-identity. From mandatory Sunday dinners to overbearing in-laws, the conversation highlights how enmeshed families suffocate independence—even decades later. Stacy shares her own jaw-dropping story about an ex-mother-in-law who tried to

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25:15

Bryan Kohberger’s Broken Brain: Control, Family &...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/04

Bryan Kohberger’s Broken Brain: Control, Family & Obsession The story of Bryan Kohberger isn’t just about four lives stolen in Moscow, Idaho. It’s also about a lifetime of obsessions, failures, and fractured psychology that built the man accused of those crimes. From his teenage years, Kohberger described himself as numb, detached, incapable of empathy. He filled journals and online posts with accounts of feeling unreal, seeing the world through “visual snow,” and struggling to connect with

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11:05

Understanding The Adelson's: Roots, Culture & Control

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/04

Understanding The Adelson's: Roots, Culture & Control Families that look “close” on the outside can actually be suffocating on the inside. In this segment, Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott, along with Stacy and Todd, to unpack the roots of enmeshed families—the kind where loyalty becomes control. We dig into cultural influences, from Jewish and Asian traditions that normalize family loyalty, to the rise of helicopter parenting. We explore how narcissistic

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105:24

Kohberger’s “Mom Text” & Donna’s Grand Piano: How...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/04

Kohberger’s “Mom Text” & Donna’s Grand Piano: How Loyalty Turns Criminal Today’s full Hidden Killers Live digs into two explosive storylines and a deep psychological dive that ties them together. First, we unpack a new detail in the Bryan Kohberger case: the night-after exchange with his mother, including a link she sent describing the victim’s bruises and fight back. Was it innocent true-crime chatter between a mom and her criminology-student son—or something far more unsettling in hindsight

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10:36

Bryan Kohberger’s Prison Meltdown: Complaints,...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/03

Bryan Kohberger’s Prison Meltdown: Complaints, Control & Collapse Bryan Kohberger once carried himself like the smartest man in the room — the criminology PhD student who thought he could outthink investigators, classmates, maybe even the law itself. But the mask has slipped, and the picture we’re seeing from inside Idaho’s maximum-security prison is one of collapse. Within weeks of being placed in J-Block, Kohberger began flooding staff with handwritten complaints. He demanded “full trays” of

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26:46

Donna Adelson’s Kids Just DESTROYED Her in Court —...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/09/02

Donna Adelson’s Kids Just DESTROYED Her in Court — Full Breakdown It was the moment Donna Adelson feared most: her own children stepping into the courtroom and turning the spotlight directly on her. Robert and Wendy Adelson both testified — and together, they may have just delivered the most devastating blow to their mother’s defense. Robert’s words were blunt and powerful. He described Donna as controlling, manipulative, the one who dictated family life. Wendy’s testimony was more complicated —

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14:31

Judge Kevin Mullins EXPOSED S-for-Favors Scandal...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/31

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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15:40

Jail Guard Speaks Out: Judge Mullins Invited Me to...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/31

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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22:47

Donna & Wendi Adelson EXPOSED: What Turned Wendi...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/30

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news.This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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17:33

Donna Adelson DEMANDS To Testify Her Innocence In Dan...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/30

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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16:15

Sheriff Stines BREAKING POINT: Murder of Judge...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/30

Welcome to the "Week in Review," where we delve into the true stories behind this week's headlines. Your host, Tony Brueski, joins hands with a rotating roster of guests, sharing their insights and analysis on a collection of intriguing, perplexing, and often chilling stories that made the news. This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news

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32:52

Sheriff Stines & Judge Mullins EXPOSED Murder &...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/30

Sheriff Stines & Judge Mullins EXPOSED Murder & Corruption REVEALED This is the full breakdown of one of the most shocking scandals in recent memory: the murder of Judge Kevin Mullins by Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines — and the avalanche of allegations that followed. On September 19th, 2024, Stines shot Mullins inside his chambers, just minutes after sharing lunch. The killing was caught on courthouse surveillance. But the story didn’t end there. It only began. In the aftermath, women came

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18:39

Wendy Adelson’s “I Don’t Remember” Strategy: Trauma...

Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers ·

2025/08/29

Wendy Adelson’s “I Don’t Remember” Strategy: Trauma or Cover-Up? While Robert Adelson took the stand with blunt force, Wendy Adelson chose a very different strategy — and it has the courtroom buzzing. Over and over again, her answers leaned on selective memory: “I don’t remember.” But what does that really mean? Is Wendy’s forgetfulness a trauma response after years of stress, manipulation, and family chaos? Or is it a carefully measured way to protect herself — and maybe her mother — from saying

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