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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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75:20

Nick Reiner’s Trust Called the Payout ‘Mandatory and...

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2026/06/21

The language in Nick Reiner’s trust reportedly leaves no room for interpretation. Half of the fund was due on his thirtieth birthday. The trust itself calls it “mandatory and unconditional.” That birthday was September 14th, 2023 — more than two years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed. Nick has pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder. And the money his parents’ own trust document said he was owed has never been paid.Everyone citing California’s slayer statute assumes it settles this. It

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46:33

Nancy Guthrie: The Person at Her Door May Not Even...

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2026/06/21

The man on Nancy Guthrie’s porch covered the doorbell camera with weeds. He improvised. That tells investigators he’d never been to the property before. But whoever planned the operation knew the eighty-four-year-old lived alone, kept a routine, and couldn’t fight back. That level of detail comes from inside a person’s life.Sixteen days before Nancy vanished, eighty-three-year-old Gail Crane was taken from her Kentucky home by a recently fired caregiver. Found a hundred miles away. Injured. The

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36:07

What Evidence Will Make It To The Next Alex Murdaugh...

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2026/06/21

The first jury sat through more than twelve hours of financial crimes testimony. The South Carolina Supreme Court said that was excessive and ordered any retrial to sharply limit it. Now one judge — Debra McCaslin — decides where the line falls. That single ruling could shape the verdict before a witness takes the stand.McCaslin was given exclusive jurisdiction over every Murdaugh proceeding, including the retrial on charges that he killed his wife Maggie and son Paul. She reportedly rented office

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37:45

Did Nancy Guthrie’s Anonymous Caller Lead Volunteers...

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2026/06/20

He called once. Gave coordinates. Described clothing. Fifteen volunteers searched the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona-Mexico border and found nothing. Then he called back. New directions. A second search. Still nothing. A third search was scheduled. And through all of it, this anonymous man never contacted the FBI, never contacted Pima County, and never reached for the million-dollar-plus reward that has been sitting unclaimed since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home.The persistence

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37:07

Mackenzie Shirilla’s Mother Told Her Rehab Is for...

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2026/06/20

Natalie Shirilla told her daughter on a monitored prison call that rehabilitation programs are for “actual criminals.” Her daughter was convicted of driving a hundred miles an hour into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal. And the family is still operating as though this was a misunderstanding.Investigators didn’t need Mackenzie Shirilla to talk. Her vehicle’s data recorder captured accelerator at

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39:01

Did Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Judge Once Rent Office...

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2026/06/20

The woman now controlling every motion, every evidentiary fight, and the retrial itself in the Alex Murdaugh double murder case once shared an office with the man defending him. Judge Debra McCaslin reportedly rented space from Dick Harpootlian — Murdaugh's lead attorney — when both were in private practice. They worked a class-action together. And in a separate murder case where Harpootlian represented the defendant, McCaslin was the judge who reportedly denied the state's request to revoke

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34:17

Can Nick Reiner Be Stopped From Spending His Parents’...

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2026/06/20

A 136-page petition now sitting in a Los Angeles probate court makes one of the most uncomfortable legal arguments in recent memory: Nick Reiner, charged with killing both his parents, says the trust they created for him when he was born owes him more than $1.5 million — and he wants it to mount his defense against their murders.The case turns on four words inside the trust itself: “mandatory and unconditional.” According to the filing, Rob and Michele Reiner locked in the distribution schedule

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20:24

Anna Kepner’s Parents Put Three Teens in One Room —...

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2026/06/20

Three teenagers who weren’t raised together. One stateroom on a Carnival cruise ship. Parents sleeping across the hall. Anna Kepner was eighteen. Her stepbrother, now charged with her murder, was sixteen. Her biological brother was thirteen. And no adult checked on that room for hours.That’s the setup behind the most-asked question in the Anna Kepner case: can the parents be charged? A family member has now gone public demanding exactly that. Timothy Hudson’s own step-grandmother told CBS News that

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50:31

What Did Rex Heuermann’s Plea Deal Actually Protect?

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2026/06/19

Not as much as you think.Rex Heuermann’s sentencing delivered the version the families needed: three life terms, a hundred years, a judge who called him disgusting, officers removing him while the gallery cheered. But the plea agreement underneath that spectacle contains concessions, omissions, and open doors that most coverage never examined.He confessed in open court to killing Karen Vergata. No charge. Her family present. His defense team spent three years fighting to suppress the DNA evidence

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14:32

Gilgo Beach Killer Rex Heuermann’s Sheriff: ‘He’s a...

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2026/06/19

Rex Heuermann has been locked in a cell at the Riverhead Correctional Facility for over a thousand days. The Gilgo Beach killer. The LISK. The man who admitted to killing eight women across Long Island over seventeen years. And according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, in all that time, Rex Heuermann has never once shown a change in emotion. No despair. No discomfort. Nothing.The sheriff, who has spent more than four decades in law enforcement, said he’s never seen an inmate like this. His

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17:40

How Many Women Did Rex Heuermann Really Kill?

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2026/06/19

The judge answered that question with five words: eight that we know of.Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County. He is serving three consecutive life terms plus a hundred years with no right to appeal. By every legal measure, the Gilgo Beach case is over. But the judge who handed down the sentence made sure the courtroom understood he was not convinced the number was final.Heuermann purchased four lots in Chester, South Carolina. A woman disappeared twenty miles from that

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18:15

Nick Reiner's Trust Was Written When He Was a Baby —...

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2026/06/19

Nick Reiner case — a trust document written for an infant in 1993 is now reportedly the reason a judge may release more than $1.5 million in the middle of a murder case. And nobody updated it for thirty-two years.Rob and Michele Reiner allegedly created individual trusts for each of their children, funded separately from the larger family estate. The terms for Nick's trust reportedly required mandatory payouts at age thirty and thirty-five — fixed dates, no discretion, no conditions attached. When

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13:47

Why Didn't the LAPD Tell Anyone About the Grim...

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2026/06/19

By 1988, the LAPD had the ballistics. They had the pattern. Same .25 caliber weapon. Same ten-block radius in South LA. Same profile of women being killed. They knew a serial killer was responsible. They told nobody.Not the public. Not the families. Not Enietra Washington — the only woman who survived an encounter with Lonnie Franklin Jr. and could have identified him. For twenty-five years, multiple LAPD chiefs kept the Grim Sleeper a secret while Franklin continued killing. The families didn't

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17:42

How Much Did Asa Ellerup Make From the Rex Heuermann...

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2026/06/19

Over a million dollars. That is what Asa Ellerup reportedly earned from a Peacock documentary about her ex-husband — the man who pleaded guilty to killing eight women, seven of them inside the house they shared for twenty-seven years.The families of those women are suing her. Valerie Mack’s son filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Asa, her daughter Victoria, and Rex Heuermann. The claim is civil conspiracy — not that Asa failed to notice what was happening, but that she actively concealed it. The

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15:48

Why Did Rex Heuermann Use His Victim’s Phone to Call...

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2026/06/19

She answered the phone and heard the voice of the man who had just killed her sister. Melissa Barthelemy’s sister told a Suffolk County courtroom that Rex Heuermann called her from Melissa’s phone and described what he had done.That detail sat buried in the sentencing coverage. It should not have.Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing delivered the scene the families had waited for: three consecutive life sentences, a hundred years added on top, a judge who called him disgusting and ordered

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22:47

Did Mackenzie Shirilla’s Parents Spend 17 Years...

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2026/06/19

Mackenzie Shirilla was thirteen years old when she started dating a sixteen-year-old. Her parents allowed it. No conditions, no conversations about what that meant for a freshman in high school. By seventeen she had moved into her boyfriend’s family home. Each line the Shirilla household refused to draw became the starting point for the next boundary that didn’t exist.The assistant prosecutor described what the school records revealed: incident after incident of disrespect toward teachers and other

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50:19

Did Rex Heuermann's Confession Destroy His Own Family?

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2026/06/18

Victoria Heuermann says she believes her father most likely killed eight women. Asa Ellerup's attorney says Asa may never believe it. Same confession. Same evidence. Same house — a house Asa refuses to leave, where she rebuilt the basement and moved into the room where Heuermann told her seven of the murders took place.This is the full three-part conversation between psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and Tony Brueski. It covers the jailhouse confession — how Asa called him Mr. Heuermann and he said

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48:52

How Did Eric Bland End Up Inside Every Corner of the...

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2026/06/18

Nobody else in the Murdaugh case occupies Eric Bland's position. He's the attorney who built the financial crimes case that became the prosecution's motive theory. He represents the Satterfield family whose testimony the Supreme Court just called prejudicial. He represents Sandy Smith in the Stephen Smith investigation. And he's been inside this machinery since before the first trial began.In this full interview, Bland takes on the Supreme Court ruling, the retrial landscape, and the Stephen Smith

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17:36

Did Asa Ellerup Really Renovate Rex Heuermann's...

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2026/06/18

She did. Asa Ellerup gutted the basement where Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women — new floor, new walls, new doors — and moved into it. She sleeps where investigators believe the killings happened. She told a documentary crew the nightmares are constant and permanent.She chose not to attend sentencing. Valerie Mack's son, who was six when his mother was killed, has filed a lawsuit alleging Asa and her daughter Victoria either knew about the crimes or deliberately avoided knowing — and

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20:55

Nancy Guthrie: Every Viral Theory Helps Her Suspect...

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2026/06/18

The person who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home has not been identified. And right now, the internet is making that job harder. Every viral theory that circulates — every fabricated lead, every comment-section accusation, every “gait analysis” from a grainy nighttime doorbell clip — generates tips that investigators are obligated to process. Tens of thousands of them. That’s tens of thousands of hours spent on noise while the actual forensic trail — the DNA, the backpack sales records, the

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