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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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51:04

Faddis on Richins and Gray: A Former Prosecutor...

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2026/02/21

Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis takes on two of the biggest criminal cases in the country in one comprehensive interview — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder trial and the Colin Gray parental accountability case.In the Richins case, the defense has won real pretrial battles: a recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed financial charges, and witness intimidation allegations against the lead detective. But the prosecution has an alleged prior poisoning attempt, a firsthand witness who says

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21:09

Kouri Richins: FBI Analyst Reveals the Behavioral Red...

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2026/02/21

Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies taken out without Eric's knowledge. A confrontation in 2020 when he discovered the financial fraud. An alleged failed attempt on Valentine's Day 2022. Then his death eighteen days later.FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent his career profiling individuals capable of sustained deception and violence. His "Life Arc" framework examines the pressures, patterns, and escalating behaviors that shape someone's trajectory toward harm. In this episode, we

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17:46

Colin Gray Trial: FBI Warnings, an Alleged Parkland...

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2026/02/20

Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis dismantles the case piece by piece.The alleged warning signs prosecutors presented span years. An alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad" on a school computer. FBI involvement over school shooting

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22:43

The Reiner Tragedy: Peace Without Resolution

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2026/02/20

The apology isn't coming. The ending won't make sense. The trial won't fix what's broken.Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Motions. Their brother's face across the room. And at the end of all that waiting — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead. The verdict gives an outcome. It doesn't give peace.That's the trap of waiting for external resolution. You make your healing contingent on something you can't control. The court. The apology. The moment of

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12:37

Kouri Richins: "The Michael Jackson Stuff" and the...

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2026/02/20

The pretrial wins belonged to the defense. But the prosecution is walking into the Kouri Richins trial with a case they've spent four years constructing — and it starts with a prior poisoning attempt the jury will hear alongside the murder charge.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state's strongest cards. Prosecutors allege Kouri laced Eric's sandwich with fentanyl on Valentine's Day 2022, months before his death. Two friends reportedly say Eric called them saying his wife tried to

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21:21

Kouri Richins Trial Preview: What the Defense Doesn't...

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2026/02/20

The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 23rd — and the defense has been quietly dismantling the prosecution's case for months. A recanting drug source who now says it wasn't fentanyl. A lead detective accused of threatening witnesses. Two excluded prosecution experts. And 26 financial crime charges the judge refused to let the jury hear.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the defense's strongest arguments heading into trial. Robert Crozier, the man

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18:09

Colin Gray: The Father Who Allegedly Armed a School...

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2026/02/20

Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder — not because he pulled a trigger, but because prosecutors say he put the weapon in his son's hands and ignored every warning that followed. His son, Colt Gray, allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on September 4, 2024 and opened fire, killing two students and two teachers and wounding nine others in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history. Colin Gray faces 29 felony counts and up to 180 years in prison.The

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45:03

Nancy Guthrie: The Suspect, the Chaos, and a Family...

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2026/02/20

The Nancy Guthrie case is a psychological event as much as a criminal investigation. The man on the doorbell footage planned for weeks and still made mistakes that suggest he'd never done anything like this before. His DNA produced no CODIS matches — a person capable of kidnapping an 84-year-old medically fragile woman who has apparently never been in the system. The investigation has been flooded with false ransom demands, contaminated evidence, dead-end leads, and fifty thousand tips that have

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16:00

Monique Tepe Did Everything Right — The System Still...

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2026/02/20

Michael McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he would find her wherever she went. According to witnesses cited in an unsealed Franklin County affidavit, those threats were made during and after a marriage that allegedly included strangulation, sexual violence, and sustained emotional abuse. Monique left. She divorced McKee in 2017, married Spencer Tepe in 2020, and built a life with two young children in Columbus, Ohio.On December

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16:04

Guthrie Family Cleared — But the Psychological Damage...

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2026/02/19

Sheriff Chris Nanos stood at a podium and called the Guthrie family "victims, plain and simple." He said suggesting otherwise is cruel. He begged the media to report with compassion. That was yesterday — seventeen days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and only after weeks of online accusations, body language analysis from strangers, and conspiracy threads targeting Savannah's sister Annie and her husband Tommaso for the simple fact that they were the last people to see Nancy alive.On Hidden

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27:21

Nick Reiner: The Lies His Parents Had to Believe

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2026/02/19

You knew. Somewhere underneath the hoping and the trying — you knew this wasn't going to end well.And you stayed anyway. Not because you were stupid. Because the truth was unsurvivable.Rob and Michele Reiner weren't naive. Rob directed films for forty years. He understood how stories telegraph their endings. These were not people who got fooled easily. And yet they built frameworks that kept them close to a son who was destroying them.First: trust the professionals. Then: the professionals are

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12:14

Nancy Guthrie Case: The Noise That Might Be Burying...

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2026/02/19

Fake ransom notes. A federal arrest for a fraudulent text. A live-television detention that led nowhere. Sixteen contaminated gloves. A promising DNA lead that just collapsed. Fifty thousand tips and still no suspect. The Nancy Guthrie case has generated more noise in seventeen days than most investigations produce in a year — and the psychological toll of that chaos is hitting everyone involved.On Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — who has spent three decades in forensic mental health

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22:16

Nancy Guthrie Day 19: Wrong DNA, Wrong Theory — What...

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2026/02/19

Everyone is talking about the wrong DNA and the wrong theory. The glove found two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home dominated headlines this week when CODIS returned no match. But that glove DNA doesn't match the DNA found inside her property. Two profiles. Two people. The glove may be completely unconnected to this crime.The DNA that matters came from inside Nancy's home. It doesn't belong to her or anyone close to her. Investigators believe it may belong to the suspect, and it's now going to

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17:25

Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper: What His Choices Reveal...

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2026/02/19

The man who took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home prepared for weeks — and still made mistakes that could define the entire investigation. He surveilled the house. He masked his face. He brought a weapon and a backpack. But he dropped a glove, wore gear traceable to Walmart, and left behind DNA that just came back with zero matches in the national database. This is someone who planned but couldn't execute cleanly. Someone who crossed the line into serious violence for what appears to be the first

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15:07

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Death: The Red Flags Her...

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2026/02/19

Two versions of the same family. One told to a judge. One allegedly lived by the girl who's now dead.On November 7th, 2025, Anna Kepner—an 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida—was found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Wrapped in blankets. Covered with life vests. Her death was ruled mechanical asphyxiation. Her 16-year-old stepbrother, who shared that cabin, is now the sole suspect.Under oath, Anna's stepmother described the three teenagers sharing that room as

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66:11

Defense Attorney Bob: Guthrie, Kepner, and Richins...

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2026/02/19

Three major cases. One extended legal breakdown. Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes the vulnerabilities in each—and what the defense will exploit.The Nancy Guthrie investigation is sixteen days old with no arrest—but the prosecution's case may already be compromised. Crime scene reportedly released early. FBI allegedly wanted evidence processed at Quantico; it was sent to a private Florida lab. Fifteen of sixteen gloves collected were reportedly contamination from the search team. Bob explains how

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30:38

Kouri Richins: What the Jury Won't Hear Changes...

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2026/02/19

The Kouri Richins case looks like an open-and-shut murder. A Utah mom allegedly poisons her husband with fentanyl, attempts to collect insurance money, writes a children's book about grief. Case closed, right?Not even close.As trial begins on February 23rd, the evidence that seems most damning keeps shifting. The prosecution's key witness—the man who allegedly supplied the fentanyl—now says he never sold fentanyl at all. He claims he was detoxing during his original police interview and doesn't

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21:30

Kouri Richins: What the Defense Is Working With...

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2026/02/18

Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd on charges she allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with fentanyl. The prosecution has over 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits. But defense attorney Bob Motta says this case has vulnerabilities that could create reasonable doubt.Robert Crozier—the man prosecutors say supplied fentanyl to Kouri's housekeeper—recanted in October 2025. He now says he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, and was "detoxing" during his original statement. The judge still denied bail, but

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15:43

The Reiner Tragedy: Mourning Someone Still Alive

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2026/02/18

They're still breathing. Still calling. Still showing up with the same face and a completely different person behind it.And you're not allowed to grieve them.Rob and Michele Reiner watched their son disappear over seventeen years. The Nick who existed at fourteen was gone long before December 14th. But there was no funeral. No acknowledgment. Just a slow-motion vanishing where the person they loved was replaced by someone they couldn't reach — and they had to keep pretending nothing had

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13:07

Anna Kepner Case: Inside the Sealed Federal Juvenile...

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2026/02/18

Sealed court. No public charges. A suspect released to guardian custody. The Anna Kepner case is unfolding almost entirely behind closed doors—and defense attorney Bob Motta explains what that means.Anna Kepner, 14, died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled it homicide by mechanical asphyxiation—reportedly a bar hold restraint. Her 16-year-old stepbrother appeared in federal court on February 6th, 2025, three months after her death. Everything since has been

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