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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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40:53

Why Did Eric Richins Stay With Kouri Richins When He...

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2026/06/13

Eric Richins called his sister Katie from overseas years before his death and told her Kouri Richins had tried to harm him. He consulted a divorce attorney. He rewrote his will and restructured his estate to protect his three sons. He told family members that if anything happened to him, Kouri was responsible. He saw the threat clearly. And he still went home every night.Katie testified at sentencing that Eric made the decision to stay because he was afraid of what would happen to his boys if Kouri

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39:29

Are Mackenzie Shirilla's Parents Building A Case...

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2026/06/13

Steve Shirilla lost his teaching job after defending his convicted daughter on Netflix. Natalie Shirilla was recorded on a prison call telling Mackenzie that Dominic Russo's family are "evil people." Prosecutors decoded calls where mother and daughter spoke in a private made-up language to evade monitoring — and in one decoded exchange, Mackenzie allegedly asked if they could tell police she had a seizure before the crash. Those calls were introduced as evidence at trial.Eric Faddis examines

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24:13

Why Do Mackenzie Shirilla’s Parents Think She’s the...

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2026/06/13

Christine Russo lost her brother Dominic when Mackenzie Shirilla drove a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. Davion Flanagan, nineteen, died alongside him. In a published interview, Christine said it plainly about Mackenzie’s parents: “They created a monster — they’re monsters themselves.”Recorded prison calls between Mackenzie and her family show how the Shirilla household operates — before the crash and after. Mackenzie tells her mother Natalie she doesn’t need

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17:52

Why Did Nick Reiner's Trustee Quit After Four Months?

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2026/06/13

In this Nick Reiner case update, we follow the strangest thread in the entire trust fight: the man who was handed control of the money — and walked away months later.Paul Kanin took over Nick Reiner's trust after Rob and Michele Reiner were killed. According to the petition, his tenure was a wall of refusals, what Nick's lawyers call "a shifting series of excuses and justifications" — concerns about Nick's competence, questions about how the money would be used, and the looming possibility that

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48:07

Can Nick Reiner Even Mount A Defense Without His Money?

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2026/06/12

Strip away the famous name and the Nick Reiner case update comes down to a brutal structural problem: a man facing the most serious charges California can bring — two counts of first-degree murder in his parents' deaths, which he denies — says he cannot fund the defense he wants, while more than $1.5 million sits in a trust bearing his name.His petition argues every week of delay is a week his chosen counsel, Alan Jackson, cannot investigate or prepare — damage to his defense that can never be

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24:13

Why Is Alex Murdaugh's Defense Team So Quiet About...

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2026/06/12

Something unusual is happening in the Alex Murdaugh case, and almost nobody has noticed it: the fighting stopped. For three years, every development in this case triggered a war — motions, press conferences, accusations flying in both directions. Then South Carolina named the judge who will run the retrial, a woman with a documented professional history with Murdaugh's own lead defense attorney, and both sides went silent. Harpootlian declined to comment. The Attorney General's office offered a

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14:39

Should Alex Murdaugh Fear The Judge Who Sided With...

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2026/06/12

Everyone covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial is fixated on one half of Judge Debra McCaslin's story — her reported history with defense attorney Dick Harpootlian. This episode digs into the other half, and it's the half that should worry the defense.Before the South Carolina Supreme Court handed McCaslin exclusive control of the Murdaugh case — the motions, the evidentiary fights, and the retrial over the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh — she built a record on the bench described as tough,

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23:34

Is Nick Reiner Racing the Clock to Drain His Parents’...

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2026/06/12

A hundred and thirty-six pages. That is the length of the probate petition Nick Reiner just filed to force the release of over $1.5 million from the trust fund Rob and Michele Reiner created for their children. He wants the money for a high-powered defense attorney. He wants it for soap and socks. And he wants it before a conviction can trigger the one law designed to stop him.California’s slayer statute says if you intentionally and feloniously kill someone, you do not inherit from them. Not a

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21:48

Why Did Wichita Cops Lie To BTK Before His Arrest?

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2026/06/12

On January 8, 2005, the Wichita Police Department received a typewritten question from the BTK Killer. Dennis Rader had left it inside an empty cereal box in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He wanted the police to tell him, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to his computer. He asked them to be honest.They lied.In the fifth and final chapter of host Tony Brueski's Hidden Killers BTK investigation, the trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr built over the eleven

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16:15

Did Nick Reiner's Parents Lock In His Payout At Birth?

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2026/06/12

In the latest Nick Reiner case update, the fight over Rob and Michele Reiner's money turns on a document older than the internet: a trust established for Nick when he was an infant.That document is now the center of a probate war. According to Nick's petition, his parents didn't leave the payouts to anyone's discretion — they wrote "mandatory and unconditional" distributions into the trust itself, half due at age thirty, the rest at thirty-five. The filing argues this was a binding commitment, made

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17:06

How Was a Career Criminal Free to Allegedly Kidnap...

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2026/06/12

Coral Michelle Smith has been in and out of the Pima County criminal justice system for fifteen years — prison four times, probation revoked twice, a kidnapping charge dismissed through a plea deal — and on May 29th she was allegedly free to kidnap someone and commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at an intersection less than seven miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home. That proximity made this a national story. But the real story isn’t the seven miles.Authorities have said explicitly

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49:16

Jesse Ridgway Has Used Every Person in His Life and...

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2026/06/11

His fans cared enough to call the police a thousand times. He was never in danger. He let them worry for four years because it was making him rich. His creators trusted him enough to build on his platform. It collapsed and he sold it for parts. His wife went through the worst week of her life and he was on TMZ before she finished recovering. Every person who gets close to Jesse Ridgway becomes something he uses. And 4.3 million subscribers guarantee he’ll never run out of reasons to keep

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59:22

Christine Marie Says Samuel Bateman Never Saw Her Coming

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2026/06/11

All three parts of our interview with Christine Marie, woven together into one extended conversation — the cult psychologist and survivor who walked into Samuel Bateman's FLDS inner circle, fed the FBI the evidence that ended his freedom for fifty years, and is still living in Short Creek today doing the work nobody else will.She wasn't even supposed to be there for him. She and her husband Tolga came to that stretch of the Utah-Arizona border in 2016 to film a different story entirely. Then

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18:57

If You’ve Survived a Narcissist, Jesse Ridgway Looks...

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2026/06/11

A lot of the women listening to this have survived a relationship with someone like Jesse Ridgway. The manipulator. The performer. The partner who takes your worst day and makes it about them. And when a man like that shows up on your feed doing exactly the things the person in your life used to do, something in your brain says: I need to see this named. I need to watch someone call it what it is.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why that instinct is so powerful, what’s happening in the brain

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23:22

Eric Richins Told His Sister Kouri Richins Was ‘The...

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2026/06/11

Eric Richins told his sister Katie that Kouri Richins was the most evil person he had ever met. He told her he would live through hell every single day until his youngest son turned eighteen rather than risk a family court giving Kouri equal custody. Katie begged him to leave. His other sister Amy begged him to leave. He had already sat down with a divorce attorney. He had the legal groundwork and his family ready to catch him. He chose to stay.This episode is about that choice — not as a failure

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18:03

Why Are Cops Still Investigating BTK Cases Twenty...

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2026/06/11

In 2023, an Oklahoma sheriff named Eddie Virden announced a multi-state task force to investigate cold cases potentially connected to Dennis Rader during the years Rader was officially considered inactive. In August of that year, deputies excavated a property near Rader's former Park City, Kansas, home using cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar. In March of 2024, Missouri authorities officially ruled out one case, Shawna Beth Garber, and attributed it to a different man, Talfey Reeves, who had

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12:34

What’s Actually Driving Jesse Ridgway If It Isn’t...

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2026/06/11

The Psycho Series hit a billion views. The pregnancy announcement got seventeen million views on X alone. The outrage pays. But is the paycheck the engine, or is it something the paycheck can’t explain? Jesse Ridgway has been escalating for twenty years. Each stunt darker, each one pushing further into territory a normal person wouldn’t touch. That pattern — needing more extreme material to generate the same response — is what addiction looks like when the substance is other people’s

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18:25

Could Jesse Ridgway’s Pregnancy Announcement Be...

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2026/06/11

Ashley Ridgway is either a participant in a staged hoax or a real woman whose husband turned the worst week of her life into a media tour. Either way, a psychotherapist has something to say about the dynamic she’s living in. Jesse Ridgway has spent twenty years fabricating events and presenting them as real — staged family violence that generated a billion views and over a thousand 911 calls, a creator platform that reportedly collected a million users before being sold as an NFT. And now a

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24:41

Jesse Ridgway Can’t Stop Performing and Everyone...

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2026/06/11

Every woman listening to this knows this man. The partner who takes your worst day and makes it about them. The guy who starts every fire and tells everyone you’re the one who’s crazy. The person who backs you into a corner and acts stunned when you swing. Jesse Ridgway has been this person for twenty years. The faces change. The move never does.His fans cared about him enough to call the police over a thousand times. He was never in danger. He let them worry for four years because their fear was

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55:03

How Did Aaron Spencer Go From Murder Defendant to...

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2026/06/10

A father charged with murder. A case thrown out by a judge who found a “coverup.” A sheriff’s race won by the defendant. And a county that may not be done answering for what happened.This is the full three-part conversation with an outside legal analyst covering every dimension of the Aaron Spencer case after the dismissal.The ruling is the foundation. Judge Ralph Wilson spent 19 pages explaining why the case against Spencer couldn’t survive. He documented eleven failures by lead Detective Robbie

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