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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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63:26

The Bateman Panel: How He Built It, What It Broke,...

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2026/04/16

This is the conversation we've been building toward since we started covering the Samuel Bateman case. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony for a full panel discussion timed to Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — covering the behavioral mechanics, the psychological damage, and the question of whether Short Creek can ever break the cycle.We go move by move through how a broke, homeless man turned a fractured religious community into his

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18:10

Larry Millete Never Searched — The Family Did

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2026/04/16

The investigation into Maya Millete's disappearance produced sixty-seven search warrants and eighty-seven interviews. Her family organized volunteer searches at the Glamis sand dunes, Anza-Borrego Desert, Lower Otay Lake, and locations across Southern California. For nine months, they showed up every weekend. Larry Millete — the man whose wife was missing — never showed up once.This is Episode 4 of a five-part Hidden Killers series. In it, we cover the full arc from the missing persons report on

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19:46

Can Short Creek Break Free? The Final Conversation |...

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2026/04/16

Bateman is in prison. Bistline got life. The case is over. But every time someone asks whether this is finished, the answer keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable truth — the FLDS has survived every attempt to dismantle it for nearly a century. Warren Jeffs is still reportedly running operations from a Texas cell. The One Man Rule doctrine that created the vacancy Bateman filled hasn't changed. And somewhere in Short Creek, children are growing up under the same conditions that produced the

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42:30

Rex Heuermann’s Family Sued Over Valerie Mack — Gilgo...

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2026/04/16

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth. That should have been the end of the legal battle. It wasn’t. The son of Valerie Mack — one of the victims Heuermann admitted to killing — has filed a sweeping civil lawsuit that goes after the people who were closest to the convicted killer: his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann.The allegations in this complaint are staggering in their scope. Wrongful death. Aiding and abetting. Civil

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18:41

They Escaped IBLP and Had to Rebuild Everything From...

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2026/04/16

Leaving IBLP isn't walking out a door. It's dismantling the only framework you've ever had for understanding yourself — and then trying to build a new one with tools you were never given.Survivors describe the immediate disorientation of life outside the system. They can't make simple decisions because every choice was previously filtered through a hierarchy. They have no transferable education, no professional skills, and no social connections outside the movement. Women who entered marriages

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24:03

Inside the Wreckage: The Minds Bateman Destroyed |...

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2026/04/16

Samuel Bateman called them "atonement ceremonies." Federal prosecutors called them organized child sexual abuse. Bateman wrapped the acts in religious language, framed them as commandments from God, and told his followers — including children — that participation was the path to salvation. When abuse gets dressed in that kind of authority, can a victim even identify what's happening to them as wrong?Part 2 of this three-part panel goes inside the psychological damage. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott,

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20:16

Bateman's Playbook: How a Nobody Built a Cult in...

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2026/04/16

You've heard what Samuel Bateman did. Twenty wives. Children as young as nine. Fifty years in federal prison. But the part the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet can only gesture at is the how — the behavioral mechanics that turned a man with nothing into a prophet with total control over fifty people's lives, finances, and children.This is Part 1 of a three-part panel discussion with former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke, psychotherapist and true crime consultant Shavaun Scott,

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14:53

Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 3 | Crystal Rogers:...

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2026/04/16

One of the central questions in the Nancy Guthrie investigation is whether Sheriff Nanos built his department around loyalty instead of competence — and whether that structure put the wrong people in positions of influence over a case they weren't qualified to handle. In Bardstown, Kentucky, that question played out in its most extreme form. The wrong person in the room wasn't just unqualified. He was actively working against the investigation. And he was wearing a badge.Crystal Rogers was a

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55:32

Gilgo Beach Plea, Ellerup Suit, Kepner Cruise Ship...

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2026/04/15

Defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke examine the legal strategy and behavioral dynamics across three cases that converged simultaneously — each one revealing something different about how the justice system processes violent crime, serial offending, and family complicity.The Heuermann guilty plea is examined through both lenses. Motta walks through the defense calculus — the failed motions, the admissible DNA evidence, the

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21:05

Larry Millete: Nine Bangs, a Dead Phone, a Missing Mom

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2026/04/15

At 4:42 PM on January 7, 2021, a camera captures Maya Millete walking toward her front door. No camera in the neighborhood ever records her walking away.Between that moment and 6:45 the next morning — when Larry Millete drove the family Lexus away from the house with his phone turned off — something happened inside the Millete home that changed everything. A neighbor's camera recorded nine banging sounds that night. The FBI couldn't confirm they were gunshots. Maya's phone died at 1:25 AM and has

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19:17

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: What Investigators...

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2026/04/15

The federal grand jury indictment returned against Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother fundamentally reshapes the public understanding of this case. Early reporting indicated there was no evidence of an assault beyond the mechanical asphyxia that caused the eighteen-year-old's death aboard the Carnival Horizon. The indictment tells a different story — charging the stepbrother as an adult with first-degree murder and aggravated abuse.The evidentiary picture assembled from court filings,

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32:06

Anna Kepner: What the Cruise Ship Indictment Just...

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2026/04/15

The sealed case is open. The charges are public. And they are worse than anyone anticipated.Timothy Hudson, the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner, has been indicted by a federal grand jury as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. The indictment, announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Hudson violently assaulted and intentionally killed his 18-year-old stepsister while their family slept across the hall on the

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17:41

Raised Inside IBLP: The Children the System Consumed

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2026/04/15

The Advanced Training Institute didn't educate children. It produced members.ATI was IBLP's closed homeschooling system — fifty-four "wisdom booklets" filtering every subject through Bill Gothard's theology. Families couldn't just enroll. They had to attend both the Basic and Advanced Seminars first. The curriculum wasn't available to the public. Once inside, children learned math through biblical numerology, science through creationism, and history through Christian nationalism. Critical thinking

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17:40

Rex Heuermann Admitted to a Victim Nobody Saw Coming

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2026/04/15

The guilty plea Rex Heuermann entered in Suffolk County Court did not come from a sudden crisis of conscience. It came from a legal defense that had exhausted every option and a defendant who chose to negotiate the terms of his surrender rather than sit through a trial he could not win. The mechanics of this deal — and what they reveal about Heuermann's calculus — deserve close examination.In September 2025, Judge Timothy Mazzei issued two rulings that effectively ended any viable defense strategy

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19:07

Gilgo Lawsuit Targets Ellerup and Daughter's Profits

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2026/04/15

The first civil lawsuit filed by a Gilgo Beach victim's family member doesn't just target Rex Heuermann. It goes after the people who lived with him. Benjamin Torres — the son of Valerie Mack, whose dismembered remains were found in Manorville and along Ocean Parkway — has named Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann as co-defendants in a sweeping wrongful death action filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court.The evidentiary foundation of this complaint rests on several pillars, and each one has cracks

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25:49

Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 2 | Delphi Murders: Richard...

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2026/04/15

The Nancy Guthrie case forced a question that should terrify anyone paying attention: what happens when an investigation is run by the wrong people from the start — and instead of finding the truth, the system builds a case around the most convenient answer?In Tucson, the Guthrie investigation has raised questions about whether underqualified personnel handled the most critical early hours. In Delphi, Indiana, that same kind of failure played out across five years — and may have ended with the

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59:38

Nancy Guthrie and the Duggar Collapse: System Failure...

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2026/04/14

Two investigations. Two collapsing systems. One retired FBI Special Agent connecting the patterns.In Tucson, the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance has been systematically undermined by the leadership decisions of a sheriff now facing unanimous no-confidence from his deputies, a board threatening removal under oath, a $2 million federal lawsuit alleging political retaliation, and a disciplinary record allegedly concealed for over four decades. The crime scene was released too early

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26:17

Larry Millete Reviewed a Spellcaster Like an Uber

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2026/04/14

Over $1,000 on love spells. Subliminal speakers hidden throughout the house. Internet searches for "subliminal wife training." A phone hidden under the bed playing audio Maya didn't recognize. Google searches for Rohypnol. And a five-star customer review for a spellcaster — written with the same tone you'd use for a decent Thai restaurant.This is Episode 2 of a five-part Hidden Killers series on the Larry Millete case. Maya Millete vanished from Chula Vista on January 7, 2021. Her husband Larry has

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26:01

Duggar Family: Charges Expose a System Built on Silence

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2026/04/14

Joseph Duggar faces two life felony charges in Bay County, Florida — lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12, and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person 18 or older. He was released on bond with conditions barring unsupervised contact with any minor. He and his wife Kendra face separate misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts each of second-degree false imprisonment.But the charges against Joseph and Kendra

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33:56

Kendra Duggar’s Window Is Closing. Here’s the Way Out.

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2026/04/14

There’s a moment on a recorded jail call where Kendra Duggar sounds like a completely different person. She’s crying. Telling Joseph her priorities are the kids. Saying she can’t be there for him because she needs to do anything and everything for her children. She’s not performing faith. She’s not reciting Psalms. She’s a mother in agony who can see, for one clear moment, what she needs to do.By the end of the week, the Duggar system had filled that silence. Family visits. Worship music. Scripture

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