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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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15:20

Alex Murdaugh’s Second Trial Won’t Be a Rerun: Who...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/15

The retrial of Alex Murdaugh resets the board for both sides. The defense enters with restricted evidence rules and a Supreme Court opinion documenting courthouse corruption. The prosecution enters with Murdaugh’s own testimony locked into the record and years of additional preparation. The question Eric Faddis answers is which side holds the stronger hand.Murdaugh’s decision to testify at the first trial is now a permanent strategic constraint. His answers are on the record. If he takes the stand

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19:47

Alex Murdaugh’s Second Trial: Which Evidence Comes...

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2026/05/15

The South Carolina Supreme Court didn’t just reverse Alex Murdaugh’s convictions — it told the next trial court that the prosecution’s evidence presentation was excessive and unfairly prejudicial. The financial crimes testimony that consumed nearly a third of the first trial has been flagged for restriction. The evidentiary issues the defense raised on direct appeal remain unresolved.Eric Fadds maps the retrial evidence fight from both sides. The court acknowledged the State’s motive theory — that

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19:59

Alex Murdaugh Gets a New Trial: How Becky Hill’s...

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2026/05/15

Before Alex Murdaugh ever took the stand in his own defense, the woman managing his trial had already told the jury what to think. The South Carolina Supreme Court found those comments went to the heart of the case and reversed his murder convictions unanimously.Eric Fadds — a defense attorney who previously served as a prosecutor — walks through the three-step legal test the court adopted to reach its decision. The framework, drawn from the Fourth Circuit’s Cheek ruling, requires the defendant to

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64:25

Alex Murdaugh: Missing Evidence, Hidden Patterns, and...

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2026/05/15

The complete interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh. Years of original reporting. Evidence the jury never saw. Psychology that's been documented for decades but never applied to this case.The book traces Alex's patterns back to the boat crash — where Morgan Doughty's first statement said Connor Cook was driving, before the story was rewritten. It surfaces deleted phone logs, backdated checks, and names prosecutors deliberately left off the

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61:45

The Real Reason They Stayed — Miller, Ellerup,...

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2026/05/14

Three parts. Four cases. Fifteen questions. One psychotherapist who has spent thirty years working with survivors of the dynamics most people think they would never fall for.This is the complete interview with Shavaun Scott. Part one uses the Mica Miller case to explore trauma bonding — why the good days do more damage than the bad ones. Part two uses Asa Ellerup and Eric Richins to examine how a person loses themselves one compromise at a time. Part three uses the Maggie Murdaugh case to confront

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20:09

What Was Happening Inside Maggie Murdaugh’s Brain the...

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2026/05/14

After years of managing someone’s moods and keeping the peace, compliance can become so automatic that you cannot override it — even when every instinct is telling you something is wrong. Two witnesses testified that Maggie Murdaugh did not want to drive to Moselle on June 7, 2021. She went because she was asked.This is the final installment of a three-part conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott about why intelligent people stay and what happens when they finally try to go. The research is

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15:20

Why Asa Ellerup Couldn’t See Who Rex Heuermann Was...

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2026/05/14

Twenty-seven years. That is how long Asa Ellerup shared a home with Rex Heuermann while he was killing women. For three years after his arrest she said they had the wrong man. She called him her hero on camera. Then on April 8, 2026, he pleaded guilty to eight murders — seven inside their home. He told Asa directly.The public asks how that is possible. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says the answer is not about intelligence or denial in the way people usually mean it. It is about how the brain

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26:55

Mica Miller Could See Everything JPM Was Doing — A...

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2026/05/14

It is not a decision. It is not weakness. It is your nervous system doing exactly what intermittent reinforcement trained it to do — clinging to the relief that follows the pain because the brain cannot tell the difference between the source of danger and the source of safety when they live in the same person.Mica Miller filed for divorce from Pastor John-Paul Miller in October 2023. According to court records, it was dismissed months later. She filed for spousal support in April 2024. She died

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16:50

Alex Murdaugh: What His Eyes Told the First Officer...

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2026/05/14

Part 3 of our interview with James Lasdun closes out the series with the question the trial couldn't answer — how does a man kill his own wife and son?The Family Man places Alex alongside documented family annihilators whose cases mirror his with disturbing specificity. Jean-Claude Romand — fake career, decades of financial fraud, killed his wife, children, and parents when the lies collapsed. Researchers categorize this type as "anomic" — men who equate family with status. When the status falls,

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61:03

What Three Judges Will See When They Open The Delphi...

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2026/05/13

Read Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal cover to cover and one thing becomes clear. The State of Indiana has stopped defending the trial. The State is defending a procedural firewall.Every excluded piece of evidence — harmless. Every blocked witness — harmless. Every claim of confession coerced from 13 months in solitary — waived, defaulted, or harmless. Every alternative suspect theory — speculative. Every procedural argument the State could file — filed. What is conspicuously

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15:43

Allen Sits 1000 Miles From The Courtroom Deciding His...

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2026/05/13

The .40-caliber pistol prosecutors leaned on at the Delphi trial came out of the search of Richard Allen's home. If three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals rule that search was unconstitutional, the gun is gone. Permanently. The State cannot go back in time and undo it. The fruits of an illegal search are inadmissible by law — in this case and in any retrial.That single appellate ruling has the power to take the State's central piece of physical evidence out of this case for good.And the

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25:07

Alex Murdaugh Gets a New Trial: Five Justices...

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2026/05/13

The woman in charge of protecting Alex Murdaugh’s jury was the one who corrupted it. That is the finding of the South Carolina Supreme Court, which has unanimously reversed Murdaugh’s double murder convictions and ordered a new trial.Former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill made repeated comments to jurors urging them to reject the defense — to watch Murdaugh closely, not to be fooled, not to be confused or thrown off by his attorneys. She told them the day he testified was “epic.” Someone from her

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14:27

Indiana Knew Solitary Could Break Allen Before The...

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2026/05/13

According to Richard Allen's appellate brief, the Indiana Department of Correction knew. They knew that solitary confinement could worsen Allen's Major Depressive Disorder. They knew it could cause psychosis. Their own written policy restricts inmates with serious mental illness to 30 days in solitary for exactly that reason.They held Richard Allen in solitary for 13 months.By April 2023, the man who would later confess to the Delphi murders weighed 45 pounds less than when he arrived at Westville

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31:33

The Delphi Call Where Allen Asked If He Was Still Sane

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2026/05/13

Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. That is not a minor inconsistency. That is a confession that does not describe the murders.It is also one of the factual problems Indiana's response brief never directly answers in the Delphi appeal. The State leans on harmless error. The State leans on procedural waiver. The State leans on the trial court's discretion. What the State does not do,

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16:36

Alex Murdaugh: Unidentified Tire Tracks at Moselle...

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2026/05/13

Part 2 of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man, gets into the evidence from the night of the murders that was never put in front of the jury.SLED built a full timeline of Alex's activity on June 7th. But the version prosecutors showed the jury had names removed — men with criminal records who were in phone contact with Alex hours before the killings. Alex had deleted his call log for that entire week. The book connects dots that remain officially unconnected.The defense wanted

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73:19

The Alleged Protection Failures Behind D4VD, Nancy...

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2026/05/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for the complete session covering three of the most actively discussed cases in true crime — D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, and the Duggar family. Robin brings behavioral expertise that connects the alleged patterns of protection and failure across all three.The D4VD segment addresses the alleged accomplice theories, the grooming timeline prosecutors have laid out, and why an entire circle of adults allegedly

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22:45

The Alleged Duggar Protection System Ran The Same...

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2026/05/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke applies behavioral expertise to the most unsettling element of the Joseph Duggar case — not the charges alone, but the alleged family response captured in recorded jail calls and emails. The alleged protection infrastructure around the Duggar family is what Robin dissects with precision.Joseph Duggar was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under twelve after a fourteen-year-old girl reportedly told

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19:08

The Alleged FBI Lockout May Have Cost Nancy Guthrie...

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2026/05/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke brings decades of federal investigative experience to the alleged institutional failures that may have defined the Nancy Guthrie case from its earliest hours. FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly stated publicly that the bureau was kept out for four days. Pima County disputes the characterization. What allegedly happened in that window — and what it may have cost — is the question Robin confronts directly.Robin addresses

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32:05

D4VD's Alleged Grooming Of Celeste Followed A Pattern...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/05/12

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break apart the behavioral architecture prosecutors describe in the D4VD case — an alleged grooming operation that reportedly began when Celeste Rivas Hernandez was eleven years old and ended with her alleged murder at fourteen.Robin applies decades of behavioral expertise to what the evidence allegedly reveals — the alleged accomplice theory behind the chainsaw and body bag purchases, the

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31:34

Alex Murdaugh Was Already Framing People the Night of...

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2026/05/12

James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and then for his new book The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh. What he found goes deeper than anything that came out at trial — and it starts long before the night at Moselle.The night of the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach, Alex was already in damage-control mode. While his injured son Paul was ranting at hospital staff, Alex was prowling the hallways trying to get into the rooms of every

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