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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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22:29

Epstein’s Web, Fear’s Grip: Robin Dreeke Breaks Down...

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2025/11/03

What happens when the grooming starts long before the predator ever arrives? Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl traces that timeline—from a chaotic childhood to the psychological capture engineered by Epstein and Maxwell. Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, Todd Michaels, and retired FBI behavioral chief Robin Dreeke dissect the emotional architecture of trafficking: the grooming cycles, the normalization tactics, and the moment victims become complicit just to survive. Dreeke breaks down why fear—not money or

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11:46

Why D4vd Can’t Speak — The Impossible Tightrope...

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2025/11/03

In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we dig deep into one of the most complex and misunderstood stories in music right now — the silence of D4vd. When fifteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead in a Tesla registered to the rising artist, the headlines erupted. Fans demanded answers. Social media exploded. But from D4vd himself? Nothing. No interviews. No statements. Just total, deliberate silence. To some, that silence looks cold. To others, it looks calculated. But

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22:04

Ignored Warnings: Inside Abby Zwerner Trial — How a...

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2025/11/03

A six-year-old walked into class with a 9mm pistol. His teacher, Abby Zwerner, left on a stretcher — shot in the chest and hand while protecting her students. Now, in a Virginia courtroom, that day is being dissected hour by hour. The $40 million civil trial of Abby Zwerner v. Ebony Parker has become a national referendum on what happens when warnings are ignored — when fear, policy, and denial outweigh basic human instinct. In this episode, Tony Brueski takes you inside the courtroom where

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30:41

Groomed by Fear: Inside Virginia Giuffre’s Final...

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2025/11/03

Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl isn’t just another Epstein chapter—it’s a psychological case study in how fear becomes control. In this raw episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski sits down with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, the former Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, to unpack how predators like Epstein and Maxwell systematically identify and break their targets. Giuffre’s memoir lays bare every step—from her father’s early betrayal to

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13:06

Diddy’s “Speedy Appeal” Is the Most Delusional Thing...

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2025/11/03

Sean “Diddy” Combs wants a speedy appeal. You heard that right — after just over a year behind bars for his federal conviction on prostitution-related charges, Diddy’s lawyers are now begging the appeals court to fast-track his case. The same man who built an empire on control, intimidation, and grandiosity still can’t handle one thing: waiting his turn. In this episode, Tony Brueski breaks down the audacity of Diddy’s request — and what it reveals about the man’s psychology. From his “spiritual

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52:49

Predators, Power & the Machinery of Silence |...

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2025/11/03

Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl doesn’t just tell a story—it indicts an entire system built on power, grooming, and silence. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sits down with FBI veteran Robin Dreeke to map out how the Epstein-Maxwell machine turned trauma into obedience and money into immunity.Dreeke unpacks every psychological layer: how parental betrayal created lifelong vulnerability, how Maxwell’s “female reassurance” normalized

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27:58

Florida Court Overturns $213 Million “Take Care of...

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2025/11/03

A Florida appeals court has overturned the $213.5 million verdict once awarded to Maya Kowalski and her family — the same case that inspired the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya. In 2016, Maya Kowalski, then just ten years old, was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital for complications related to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare and debilitating pain condition. Her mother, Beata Kowalski, a registered nurse, had been pursuing aggressive ketamine treatments to relieve

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21:01

Inside the Cover-Up: How a School Let a 6-Year-Old...

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2025/11/02

A 6-year-old brought a gun to class. His teacher, Abby Zwerner, ended the day in a hospital — shot through the chest and hand in front of her first graders. But what’s unfolding now inside a Virginia courtroom is almost more shocking than the shooting itself. This isn’t just a story about a child with a gun — it’s a story about four separate warnings ignored by school officials who had every chance to stop it. Teachers and staff begged Assistant Principal Ebony Parker to act. They told her the boy

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52:55

Predators, Power & the Machinery of Silence |...

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2025/11/02

Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl doesn’t just tell a story—it indicts an entire system built on power, grooming, and silence. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sits down with FBI veteran Robin Dreeke to map out how the Epstein-Maxwell machine turned trauma into obedience and money into immunity. Dreeke unpacks every psychological layer: how parental betrayal created lifelong vulnerability, how Maxwell’s “female reassurance” normalized

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19:19

How Larry Krasner Failed Kada Scott — and Every...

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2025/11/02

Kada Scott should still be alive. But under Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, justice isn’t blind — it’s asleep. In this in-depth investigation, Tony Brueski breaks down the horrific chain of failures that allowed Keon King, a man already charged with kidnapping and strangulation, to walk free on low bail… and allegedly kill Kada Scott just months later. This episode exposes how Larry Krasner’s so-called “progressive reform” has turned Philadelphia’s justice system into a revolving

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20:25

The Wig, the Rental Car, and the Missing Child –...

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2025/11/02

Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard vanished after a mysterious three-day road trip with her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, in early October 2025. Surveillance footage shows Melodee wearing a dark wig and hoodie at a California car-rental counter on October 7. Ashlee rented a white Chevy Malibu (plate CA 9MNG101), drove more than 1,500 miles to Nebraska, and returned alone on October 10. Four days later, on October 14, the Lompoc Unified School District reported the child’s prolonged absence. Deputies found

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52:23

When Justice Fails | Bryan Kohberger’s Profits & The...

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2025/11/02

Two stories. One broken system. In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger could legally make money off his own murders. In Virginia, a first-grade teacher named Abby Zwerner was shot after four separate warnings were ignored. Both stories show how America’s justice system has traded accountability for excuses — and how law, morality, and bureaucracy keep collapsing under their own contradictions. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis connect these cases in one of their most morally charged episodes yet

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15:03

The True Horror of Amityville: DeFeo Family...

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2025/11/02

Before there was a “haunted house,” there was a family. And before The Amityville Horror became a pop-culture phenomenon, there was a very real crime scene — six members of the DeFeo family, murdered in their beds on November 13, 1974. In this Hidden Killers deep-dive, Tony Brueski strips away the myth and exposes the true story of Ronald DeFeo Jr. — the 23-year-old son who turned a picture-perfect Long Island home into one of the darkest chapters in American true-crime history. This isn’t about

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51:20

Trauma, Fear, and Accountability: Shavaun Scott on...

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2025/11/01

When Ajike Owens was killed through a closed door, her four children lost their mother — and a nation faced the consequences of unchecked paranoia. In this exclusive episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the mental chain reaction behind that fatal moment. Scott explores how chronic resentment, fear scripting, and entitlement converge in what she calls “justified aggression”—the mind’s way of excusing harm under the guise of

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18:23

Virginia Au Pair Murder Plot: Husband, Fetish Site &...

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2025/11/01

In a quiet Virginia suburb, what looked like a perfect family hid something unthinkable. When police walked into the Banfield home in Herndon, they found 37-year-old nurse Christine Banfield stabbed to death and 39-year-old Joseph Ryan shot in the head. Her husband, former IRS agent Brendan Banfield, claimed it was self-defense — that Ryan had broken in and attacked his wife. But investigators soon discovered the scene was staged. Christine had never met Joseph Ryan. In reality, he had been lured

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15:27

Inside Diddy’s Prison Countdown: 921 Days Until He...

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2025/11/01

Sean “Diddy” Combs — the man who once ruled hip-hop, fashion, and nightlife — now faces a very different kind of countdown: 921 days until freedom. Federal Bureau of Prisons records confirm Diddy’s expected release date as May 8, 2028, following his 50-month sentence for charges of transportation to engage in prostitution. But the real story isn’t about a date — it’s about survival. In this Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski exclusive, we dive deep into what life behind bars really means for one of

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70:03

15 People Saw Laci Peterson Alive!! NONE Were Heard...

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2025/11/01

Imagine fifteen people—five of whom personally knew Laci Peterson—telling police they saw her alive, walking her golden retriever, after her husband had already left for his solo fishing trip. Now imagine every single one of them ignored. That’s the picture painted by the LA Innocence Project in its new 600-page petition for a new trial. The filing lists more than a dozen witnesses who saw a pregnant woman matching Laci’s description between 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. on Dec 24 2002, right in the

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13:16

The Genesis of Control: How Donna Adelson Became...

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2025/11/01

Before Donna Adelson was a headline — before the mugshots, the trials, the whispers about murder-for-hire — she was a woman built for control. In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we trace how Donna Adelson became Donna Adelson — from her 1950s New York upbringing to the mindset that would one day define her downfall. What happens when an entire generation is raised to believe obedience equals love, achievement equals safety, and perfection equals survival? Tony digs into the

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13:09

Bryan Kohberger’s Secret Trial Plan: The Survivors He...

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2025/11/01

Before Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students, his defense team was quietly preparing a courtroom strategy that would have shocked the nation. According to newly unsealed court filings, Kohberger planned to call friends of the victims — and even the survivors themselves — as defense witnesses. Among them: Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, the two young women who lived through that horrific night in November 2022. Also on the list were Emily

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69:18

Letters from the Dark: Donna Adelson’s Prison Plea &...

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2025/11/01

In this full episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels take you inside the minds of two of America’s most notorious convicted murderers — Donna Adelson and Chad Daybell — through the words they wrote themselves. Segment 1: Donna Adelson’s Prison Letter From a Florida jail cell, Donna Adelson wrote a 2024 letter to her husband Harvey describing how her heart “breaks” over missing her grandsons’ first day of school. What could have been a rare glimpse of remorse

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