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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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34:25

Nancy Guthrie Is Still Missing — And the Sheriff...

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2026/04/18

The doorbell camera footage from the night Nancy Guthrie vanished was declared unrecoverable by the Pima County Sheriff's Department. The FBI produced it roughly ten days later. That single detail tells you everything about how this investigation has been run — and who's been running it.Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. Blood was found at the scene. Her pacemaker disconnected from its app in the early morning hours. A masked figure was captured on

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49:37

Duggar Family Communications Exposed — And the...

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2026/04/18

The private messages coming out of the Duggar family tell a different story than the public statements. Jim Bob's first written communication to Joseph after his arrest on child molestation charges centered on God's forgiveness — not the alleged victim. Kendra described herself as "disappointed" on a monitored jail call. Anna Duggar, whose husband Josh is serving a federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material, put money on Joseph's books. Austin Forsyth cautioned Joseph about

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27:05

Heuermann's Phone Trail, Taunting Calls, and a Family...

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2026/04/18

A burner phone traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan on July 12, 2009 — the exact route between Rex Heuermann's home and his office. Hours later, Melissa Barthelemy's phone traveled that same route in reverse. Melissa had told a friend she was meeting a man. She never came back. For the next five weeks, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda — describing the killing in graphic detail. Always under three minutes. Always from crowded Manhattan locations. Always

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34:47

Heuermann's Guilty Plea and the DNA That Made It...

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2026/04/18

Investigators followed Rex Heuermann for months through Manhattan before a discarded pizza crust gave them everything. That abandoned sample — recovered legally from public garbage — produced a DNA match to a male hair found wrapped in burlap around Megan Waterman's remains on Ocean Parkway. One connection. That match generated the warrants for Heuermann's home, his devices, and the digital trove prosecutors say reveals the most meticulously documented serial killing case investigators have

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49:02

Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach: The Evidence...

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2026/04/17

Two active federal-adjacent cases are moving through courtrooms on opposite coasts, and in both, the evidentiary record is reshaping what accountability looks like for the people standing closest to the accused.In the Anna Kepner case, unsealed federal records reveal that the accused — her sixteen-year-old stepbrother — signed a written waiver requesting adult prosecution on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. His defense counsel co-signed. Ship surveillance reportedly shows

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19:03

Five Years Later and No Trial for Larry Millete

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2026/04/17

Maricris Drouaillet stood in a Chula Vista courtroom on January 28, 2026, and told Judge Enrique Camarena that her parents wake up every morning still waiting for justice for their daughter. She begged him not to grant another continuance. The defense cited personal family losses. The judge granted it. Again.This is Episode 5 of a five-part Hidden Killers series on the Larry Millete case. It covers every delay between the October 2021 arrest and the current trial date of May 11, 2026 — the

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16:18

Asa Ellerup: Willful Blindness and the Heuermann...

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2026/04/17

The civil lawsuit filed against Asa Ellerup does not accuse her of murder. It accuses her of something a jury may find just as difficult to forgive: choosing not to know.Benjamin Torres — who was six years old when his mother Valerie Mack was allegedly killed and dismembered by Rex Heuermann in 2000 — has filed a wrongful death complaint naming Heuermann, Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria. The suit alleges that one or both women knew of, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning material facts

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24:02

Jesse Butler: The Wall Built Around These Two Victims

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2026/04/17

There were two people in the room when the Jesse Butler plea was finalized. Butler's defense team. And the Payne County DA's office.Everyone else — the victim, her mother, her attorney, a tribal victim services advocate assigned to the case — was outside the wall. And this week, over three days of sworn testimony in a Stillwater evidentiary hearing, every one of them took the stand to say it.Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts last year — among them attempted rape, rape by

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23:26

The IBLP Machine Is Still Running and No One Stopped It

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2026/04/17

Bill Gothard didn't build a church. He built an infrastructure for political and cultural influence — and it's still functioning.His plan was called the Joshua Generation. Take the best children from his homeschool network, train them inside his system from birth, and deploy them into government to reshape America. This wasn't aspirational. It was operational. Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, and Sonny Perdue all appeared at IBLP events or publicly supported Gothard. A congressman chaired

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26:50

D4VD Behind Bars: The Evidence LAPD Couldn't Wait On

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2026/04/17

David Anthony Burke — the TikTok star and recording artist known as D4VD — was arrested on April 16 by LAPD Robbery-Homicide for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's being held without bail. No indictment. No criminal complaint. A probable cause warrant signed by a judge before the DA ever weighed in.For seven months, the case stalled on one question: how did she die? Celeste's remains were found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke — decomposed, placed in cadaver bags,

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17:00

Anna Kepner: Surveillance, Concealment, and the...

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2026/04/17

The evidentiary picture in Anna Kepner’s case is narrow and deeply specific. Ship surveillance reportedly shows no one other than the accused entering or exiting the cabin. Anna’s body was allegedly found concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets. The alleged concealment itself is a significant evidentiary detail — it suggests awareness of what had occurred and a deliberate attempt to delay discovery.Prosecutors have framed this as a crime that emerged without warning

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16:23

Anna Kepner: What the Unsealed Federal Records Reveal

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2026/04/17

The federal case against Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother is now unsealed — and the details inside those records raise questions that go well beyond what happened in that cruise ship cabin.A federal grand jury indicted the accused as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. Court documents confirm that the accused signed a written waiver requesting adult prosecution. His defense team co-signed it. That is not a routine move. Defense attorneys do not let a

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17:30

Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 4 | Adam Walsh:...

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2026/04/17

In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn't. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that evidence from the very first moment were equipped for the responsibility. The Adam Walsh case is what happens when they aren't. And it's the most devastating evidence failure in modern American criminal history.In

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63:26

The Bateman Panel: How He Built It, What It Broke,...

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2026/04/16

This is the conversation we've been building toward since we started covering the Samuel Bateman case. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony for a full panel discussion timed to Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — covering the behavioral mechanics, the psychological damage, and the question of whether Short Creek can ever break the cycle.We go move by move through how a broke, homeless man turned a fractured religious community into his

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18:10

Larry Millete Never Searched — The Family Did

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2026/04/16

The investigation into Maya Millete's disappearance produced sixty-seven search warrants and eighty-seven interviews. Her family organized volunteer searches at the Glamis sand dunes, Anza-Borrego Desert, Lower Otay Lake, and locations across Southern California. For nine months, they showed up every weekend. Larry Millete — the man whose wife was missing — never showed up once.This is Episode 4 of a five-part Hidden Killers series. In it, we cover the full arc from the missing persons report on

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19:46

Can Short Creek Break Free? The Final Conversation |...

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2026/04/16

Bateman is in prison. Bistline got life. The case is over. But every time someone asks whether this is finished, the answer keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable truth — the FLDS has survived every attempt to dismantle it for nearly a century. Warren Jeffs is still reportedly running operations from a Texas cell. The One Man Rule doctrine that created the vacancy Bateman filled hasn't changed. And somewhere in Short Creek, children are growing up under the same conditions that produced the

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42:30

Rex Heuermann’s Family Sued Over Valerie Mack — Gilgo...

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2026/04/16

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth. That should have been the end of the legal battle. It wasn’t. The son of Valerie Mack — one of the victims Heuermann admitted to killing — has filed a sweeping civil lawsuit that goes after the people who were closest to the convicted killer: his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann.The allegations in this complaint are staggering in their scope. Wrongful death. Aiding and abetting. Civil

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18:41

They Escaped IBLP and Had to Rebuild Everything From...

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2026/04/16

Leaving IBLP isn't walking out a door. It's dismantling the only framework you've ever had for understanding yourself — and then trying to build a new one with tools you were never given.Survivors describe the immediate disorientation of life outside the system. They can't make simple decisions because every choice was previously filtered through a hierarchy. They have no transferable education, no professional skills, and no social connections outside the movement. Women who entered marriages

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24:03

Inside the Wreckage: The Minds Bateman Destroyed |...

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2026/04/16

Samuel Bateman called them "atonement ceremonies." Federal prosecutors called them organized child sexual abuse. Bateman wrapped the acts in religious language, framed them as commandments from God, and told his followers — including children — that participation was the path to salvation. When abuse gets dressed in that kind of authority, can a victim even identify what's happening to them as wrong?Part 2 of this three-part panel goes inside the psychological damage. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott,

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20:16

Bateman's Playbook: How a Nobody Built a Cult in...

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2026/04/16

You've heard what Samuel Bateman did. Twenty wives. Children as young as nine. Fifty years in federal prison. But the part the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet can only gesture at is the how — the behavioral mechanics that turned a man with nothing into a prophet with total control over fifty people's lives, finances, and children.This is Part 1 of a three-part panel discussion with former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, psychotherapist and true crime consultant Shavaun Scott,

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