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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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58:51

FBI Expert Decodes Every Duggar Jail Call, Email, and...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski work through every piece of communication from Joseph Duggar's time at Washington County. Jim Bob's email — comparing Joseph to King David, never mentioning the alleged victim. The first call — push-ups, Psalms, Bible translations, the "newspaper" moment, and tax logistics while Kendra collapses. The later calls — "don't trust anyone," the prayer closet, the boundaries devotional, Kendra saying she hasn't died yet.Robin identifies

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26:54

FLDS Fathers Gave Their Daughters to Bateman

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2026/04/07

The prosecutor put photographs on the screen. One by one. Each one a child. Each one identified by name. Some were nine years old when their own fathers handed them to Samuel Bateman as spiritual wives. That image — a federal prosecutor presenting child victims like evidence while their parents sat in the same courtroom backing the man who abused them — is the emotional center of this episode.Part 2 of the False Prophet series breaks open the operation that made Bateman's abuse possible. Not just

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13:41

FBI Expert Decodes Joseph Duggar's "Prayer Closet"...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down the later calls between Joseph and Kendra from Washington County. Kendra tells Joseph not to trust anyone and says she's boarding up the hatches. She describes being so weak she hasn't died yet and that's the bar. Michelle Duggar carries food upstairs and prays with her to stop the spiral.Joseph calls his cell a prayer closet. He's having breakthroughs with his Bible reading. He reads a devotional about boundaries — three

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16:55

Rex Heuermann and Valerie Mack: Gilgo's Twenty-Year...

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2026/04/07

Nobody reported Valerie Mack missing. She was 24, a mother, adopted into a family that chose her — and when she disappeared from Port Republic, New Jersey, in 2000, not a single person filed a report. Her dismembered remains were found in Manorville by a hunter's dog. She sat unidentified for two decades. Jane Doe Number Six. A case file with no name.Episode 2 of "The Seven." Valerie's story goes from Atlantic City to foster care to Philadelphia to the woods of Long Island. The evidence prosecutors

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34:03

The Duggar Family's Response to Joseph's Arrest...

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2026/04/07

The calls and emails from Washington County are public now. And they tell a story this family never wanted anyone to hear.Anna Duggar — wife of convicted federal inmate Josh Duggar — emails Joseph three days after his arrest and runs him through jail logistics like she's done it before. Because she has. She knows how commissary works, how to set up video visits, how to warn someone that prosecutors get the recordings. She never asks what happened. She never mentions the alleged victim. She signs

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22:46

FBI Expert Breaks Down Joseph and Kendra Duggar's...

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2026/04/07

Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski play back the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra from Washington County. Joseph is doing boot-camp workouts in solitary and comparing Bible translations. Kendra is collapsing — barely eating, barely walking, lost her laugh. He compares himself to the Biblical Joseph. She asks about his charges and he confuses them with a newspaper.They pivot to business logistics while a child navigates forensic interviews. Robin breaks down

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23:04

What an FBI Behavioral Expert Hears in Jim Bob's...

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2026/04/07

Jim Bob Duggar's email to his son Joseph has been obtained through public records from Washington County. Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski read it in full and break down every sentence.Jim Bob acknowledges "terrible decisions." Then he compares Joseph to King David and tells him prison can be ministry. He calls Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." He tells Joseph the family has rallied, the brothers are handling the business, and God is not finished with his life. The alleged

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26:52

Luigi Mangione and the Pain Behind the Numbness

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2026/04/07

A man is dead. A father of two. And millions of Americans couldn't bring themselves to feel what they were supposed to feel about it. That's not a political statement. That's a diagnosis. And the disease isn't in the people — it's in the system that broke them.Brian Thompson spent over twenty years at UnitedHealth Group. He grew up in Iowa, raised a family in Minnesota, and by every account lived the kind of life most people would call respectable. His wife is a physical therapist. His boys are

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61:29

Three Cases. Three Systems. Zero Excuses.

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2026/04/06

A missing woman whose investigation was reportedly compromised before it started. A family producing the same outcomes across generations while the doctrine that shaped them stays untouched. A serial murder case that sat cold for a decade while the agency responsible for solving it was itself mired in corruption.Nancy Guthrie remains missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. The initial investigative team reportedly lacked

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19:42

Bateman and the FLDS: How Cults Keep Making Predators

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2026/04/06

Warren Jeffs got life. His community fractured. And within a few years, another man stepped into the same role, used the same theology, and destroyed another generation of girls. This is how the FLDS prophet factory works — and why locking up the man at the top has never been enough to stop the cycle.Samuel Bateman went from borrowing twenty dollars to commanding fifty followers and more than twenty wives in roughly three years. He drove Bentleys. He paraded his wives on flatbed trailers through

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14:30

Gilgo Beach: The Blueprint, the DNA, and the Plea

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2026/04/06

Investigators found what prosecutors described as a planning document on Rex Heuermann's computer — checklists reportedly referencing how to limit noise, clean bodies, and destroy evidence. They recovered DNA connecting hair found on the remains of multiple victims not only to Heuermann but reportedly to his ex-wife and daughter. They linked his cellphone data to contact with victims before their disappearances. His defense fought to exclude the DNA. Fought to split the trials. Lost every motion

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16:58

Rex Heuermann and Sandra Costilla: Gilgo's Oldest...

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2026/04/06

Over three decades, Sandra Costilla's murder was assigned to the wrong man. Investigators circled John Bittrolff — a convicted killer from the area — and it never stuck. Prosecutors say the actual killer was hiding in plain sight. An architect. A commuter. A family man on Long Island. Rex Heuermann was 30 years old when Sandra was found in the woods of Southampton in 1993. If the prosecution's case holds, that makes her the very first in a pattern that wouldn't surface for another

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32:56

Michelle Duggar: When "Keep Sweet" Becomes a Weapon

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2026/04/06

For over a decade, Michelle Duggar's whisper was the defining sound of the Duggar brand — a breathy, childlike voice that signaled warmth, submission, and unwavering faith to millions of TLC viewers. Her niece Amy Duggar has said publicly that voice was deliberately cultivated. Michelle herself admitted it came from a Gothard "Wisdom Booklet" designed to suppress her anger. The doctrine didn't teach her to heal. It taught her to perform.In this Hidden Killers episode, Tony Brueski traces the

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26:39

Duggar Investigation: Active, Ongoing, and Expanding

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2026/04/06

The Tontitown Police Department used specific language when they described the status of this case: active and ongoing. That phrasing matters. Because charges have already been filed — and yet the investigation hasn't stopped.Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges in Florida for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and lewd and lascivious contact after allegedly admitting — according to the arrest affidavit — to molesting a nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation. He posted

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20:58

Nancy Guthrie: What the First Hours Revealed

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2026/04/06

Blood on the front porch. A back door propped open. A phone and cane left behind inside the home of an 84-year-old woman who needed daily medication to survive. And the team handling the initial response — according to sources inside the department — had reportedly never worked a homicide.Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona, since February 1st. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. The FBI is embedded. A task force is running. A $1

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30:53

Nancy Guthrie: The Compliance Loophole and the Life...

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2026/04/06

The no-confidence vote was 241 to zero. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke a state statute compelling sworn testimony. The recall campaign is active. And yet the legal mechanism that's supposed to force accountability may contain the very loophole that lets Sheriff Chris Nanos survive it.This week we look back at the most significant developments in the Nancy Guthrie case. The statute the Board invoked — Arizona Revised Statute § 11-253, a territorial-era provision — triggers

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34:56

Duggar Family: The Full Arc and the Final Accounting

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2026/04/05

The timeline of Josh Duggar's adult life reads like a case study in how systems protect people until they can't anymore. He leveraged his television fame into a political career lobbying Congress on behalf of conservative Christian family values. He was the executive director of FRC Action, the political arm of the Family Research Council. And the entire time, according to the federal case that eventually brought him down, something else was happening on his work computer.This week we look back at

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39:27

Lindsay Clancy: Thirteen Medications, Seventeen...

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2026/04/05

The numbers in this case tell a story the medical system apparently couldn't read while it was unfolding. Approximately thirteen medications prescribed in roughly four months. A psychiatric appointment lasting approximately 17 minutes on a video screen the day before three children died. A dosage increase at the end of that call. And a woman who had been asking for help — using the clinical vocabulary of her own profession — at every stop along the way.This week we look back at the most critical

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30:32

Duggar Family: The Doctrine, the Patriarch, the Pattern

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2026/04/05

The system came first. Then the family. Then the silence. Understanding what happened inside the Duggar household — across three generations — requires understanding the organization that shaped how they thought, how they raised children, and how they handled harm.This week we look back at the most critical examinations in our ongoing Duggar series. Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles in 1961 and led it for approximately six decades. He was never ordained. Never married

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40:04

Nancy Guthrie: Ransom Evidence vs. a Mother's Belief

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2026/04/05

A mother sits on national television and says she believes the ransom notes are real. The evidence says something different. That gap — between what a grieving daughter needs to believe and what the forensic record actually shows — is the most important tension in the Nancy Guthrie case right now, and it demands honest examination.This week we look back at the most compelling developments in one of the most closely watched missing persons investigations in the country. Savannah Guthrie told Hoda

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