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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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30:03

Christine Reveals How Samuel Bateman Confessed On Her...

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2026/06/09

Samuel Bateman wasn't hiding. He was operating in the open, on a street where the local police knew his name, in a town where the sheriff drove past his house every day. The most disturbing question about his case isn't how he got away with it. It's why everyone around him let him.In this second part of a three-part conversation with Christine Marie, we get into the wall that almost saved him. Short Creek, the FLDS community where Bateman built his sect, had spent decades teaching itself to look

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19:55

Why Does Elijah Vue’s Mother Face Sixty Years While...

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2026/06/09

Jesse Vang faces harm to a child through repeated acts causing death — a charge that carries life in prison, filed with repeater enhancers because of his extensive criminal history. Katrina Baur faces chronic neglect of a child with consequence of death — up to sixty years, but structured around a fundamentally different theory of responsibility. Vang is charged as the direct actor. Baur is charged as the one who placed her child in harm’s way and failed to protect him. Both have pleaded not

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17:59

Why Did Brendan Banfield’s Own Lawyer Walk Away After...

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2026/06/09

Christine Banfield’s sister looked Brendan Banfield in the eye at his sentencing and told him she never truly knew him. Nobody did. Joseph Ryan’s mother reminded a Fairfax County courtroom that her son had a face, a name, and a life full of meaning — and Banfield shot his face, soiled his name, and treated his life as garbage. Two families. Two lives destroyed. And the man responsible sat in front of them claiming the system had failed him.Judge Penney Azcarate sentenced Banfield — a former IRS law

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19:11

Why Did Wichita Suspect The Wrong Husband While BTK...

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2026/06/09

Bill Wegerle was a suspect in his own wife's murder for eighteen years. From the day Vicki Wegerle was killed in their Wichita home in September of 1986 until the day in March of 2004 when the actual killer mailed her stolen driver's license to a local newspaper, Bill Wegerle lived under suspicion of a crime he did not commit. His two children grew up under that shadow.The man who killed Vicki Wegerle was Dennis Rader. The same Dennis Rader who, twelve years earlier, had written letters to the same

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18:10

How Did Missing Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue’s DNA End...

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2026/06/09

Surveillance cameras in Two Rivers, Wisconsin captured Jesse Vang pulling up to the donation door of a St. Vincent de Paul store on February 19, 2024 and dropping off a dark-colored suitcase. He’d borrowed a neighbor’s Nissan Altima. He’d left his phone at home playing a Netflix movie. When investigators tracked down and tested that suitcase, the Wisconsin State Crime Lab found one DNA profile inside. It was Elijah Vue’s.The next morning, Vang reported the three-year-old missing. He told police the

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16:45

Who Was the Convicted Felon Elijah Vue’s Mother Chose...

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2026/06/09

Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with human trafficking. He’d done federal time for a drug conspiracy. And when he was released in 2022, he was placed on supervised release through 2025. By February 2024, Katrina Baur was dropping off her three-year-old son at Vang’s apartment in Two Rivers, Wisconsin for what she described as “disciplinary reasons.” The question that hangs over this case: did anyone around Jesse Vang know what his

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15:33

What Do the Cops in the Sandra Birchmore and Karen...

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2026/06/09

Every case Michael Proctor ever investigated now carries a question mark — and that question mark just got a lot bigger. According to a lawsuit filed against the Town of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, the fired state police trooper who led the investigation into John O’Keefe’s death had been exchanging messages with Canton Sgt. Sean Goode for more than a decade. Messages that, according to the complaint, allegedly include racial slurs, antisemitic statements, discussions of planting

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50:22

What Happens When a Coverup, a Car Crash, and Missing...

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2026/06/08

In Lonoke County, Arkansas, a judge found that investigators' handling of evidence in Aaron Spencer's murder case was "so egregious" the prosecution had to be dismissed. The dashcam SD card that could have told the whole story was handled in violation of department policy and lost. Spencer, who killed the man accused of crimes against his daughter, was running for sheriff against the incumbent whose deputies mishandled the evidence. The court used the word "coverup."In Strongsville, Ohio, Mackenzie

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21:26

Christine Admits When She Became Bateman's Mole

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2026/06/08

A man who trusted almost no outsiders sat down across from Christine Marie and handed her the access that would eventually put him in federal prison for fifty years. He didn't know what she was. He didn't know her history. He didn't know what she could see.When Christine and her husband Tolga first moved to Short Creek — that quiet stretch of FLDS country along the Utah-Arizona border — they came for a completely different reason than the world now associates with their names. They had a different

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22:16

Why Can't the FBI's Lead Agent Confirm Basic Evidence...

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2026/06/08

The FBI built its case against Timothy Hudson on DNA evidence, surveillance footage, cellphone data, and a cabin timeline aboard the Carnival Horizon. DNA recovered from Anna Kepner's body points to her stepbrother with a probability prosecutors called 120 sextillion to one. The injuries Anna sustained were severe enough to rupture both eardrums. Her body was found hidden under the bed in the stateroom she shared with Hudson and another teen.The prosecution's timeline is meticulous. Anna was last

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19:37

What Was Lonoke County So Afraid Of in the Aaron...

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2026/06/08

When a judge uses the word "coverup" in a written order, he's not guessing. Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. looked at how Lonoke County handled the Aaron Spencer murder prosecution and found a pattern — not a mistake, not an oversight, but a pattern of policy violations that gave "the appearance of a coverup." Then he threw the entire case out.Aaron Spencer's thirteen-year-old daughter was found in the truck of Michael Fosler after midnight. Fosler was out on bond, facing over forty criminal counts

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20:01

Why Did The Press Print BTK's Own Self-Made Nickname...

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2026/06/08

Dennis Rader was the BTK Killer. He was also the man who named himself the BTK Killer. He typed the name onto an envelope and mailed it to the Wichita Eagle in October of 1974, and the city has been calling him by that name ever since.In the first chapter of a new five-part investigation, Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski takes apart the mythology Dennis Rader built around his own crimes. Factor X. The Minotaur. The BTK brand. None of it came from a profiler. None of it came from a detective. All of

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12:44

What Did Mackenzie Shirilla's Car Record in the...

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2026/06/08

The data recorder inside Mackenzie Shirilla's Toyota Camry captured a story she never told anyone. The accelerator was at full capacity. There was no attempt to brake. The car was aimed in a straight line at a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, traveling close to a hundred miles per hour. Dominic Russo, twenty, and Davion Flanagan, nineteen, were dead when first responders arrived. Shirilla survived.She never spoke to investigators. She never took the stand. The entire case was built on what the

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16:01

Did Investigators Deliberately Destroy the Key...

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2026/06/08

A dashcam SD card that was most likely recording during the final moments of the Aaron Spencer case disappeared from police custody. Investigators handled it in violation of their own department's procedures. A judge reviewed the evidence — or what was left of it — and concluded the pattern of failures gave "the appearance of a coverup."That language came from the court, not the defense. Special Judge Ralph Wilson found that law enforcement conduct was "so egregious" that the second-degree murder

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43:25

What Do The Three Timestamps In The Nancy Guthrie...

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2026/06/08

Three machine timestamps anchor the Nancy Guthrie disappearance in facts that can't be disputed. Her doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Twenty-five minutes later, the software detected a person at the door. At 2:28 a.m., the pacemaker monitoring her heart lost its signal — with her phone still inside the house she never re-entered. Forty-one minutes. That's the window.The FBI released the doorbell footage on February 10. A man in a ski mask, gloves, a jacket, and a holstered handgun

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32:55

What Does The Letter Kouri Richins Hid In An LSAT...

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2026/06/07

Deputies found a six-page letter inside an LSAT prep book in Kouri Richins' jail cell while she was being treated for a medical episode. The letter scripted her brother's testimony. When confronted, she didn't deny writing it. She said it was part of a fictional novel about a Mexican prison.That explanation is the psychology in miniature. Every threat Kouri Richins faced produced a story. Not a careful lie — an automatic narrative, generated under pressure the way a reflex fires before conscious

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37:58

What Relationship Dynamics Did The Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/07

The prosecution built its case on a breakup — Dominic Russo was leaving, Mackenzie Shirilla couldn't handle it, and she drove into a building at nearly a hundred miles per hour. Netflix's The Crash reinforced that framing. But a psychotherapist who has spent three decades in domestic violence and forensic mental health says the relationship between Mackenzie and Dominic was far more complicated than either the trial or the documentary allowed.Constant breakups and reconciliations. Explosive fights

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37:17

What Does A Psychotherapist See In Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/07

The prosecution called Mackenzie Shirilla cold and calculated. A judge called her "hell on wheels." The public split into two camps after Netflix's The Crash — she's a monster or she's innocent. But a psychotherapist who has spent three decades inside the minds of people who harm others sees a clinical picture that's messier than either side wants it to be.Shavaun Scott is a licensed psychotherapist, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, and has worked in domestic violence shelters, forensic

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43:34

What Does Blanca Simpson Know About The Morning After...

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2026/06/07

The South Carolina Supreme Court stripped away twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony. What fills that gap at retrial may depend on the kind of evidence that didn't get its full day in court the first time — and Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson has had three years to sit with what she saw versus what prosecutors actually asked her about.She testified for three hours in 2023. The jury heard about the shirt, the towel, the pajamas. But Blanca knew that household in a way no investigator could

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47:55

Why Didn't Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Call The One...

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2026/06/07

The defense raised a medical condition that could have explained the Strongsville crash. Then they never called an expert to testify about it. No medical records entered. No testimony. The prosecution's intent narrative went unchallenged on the point that could have introduced reasonable doubt — and a jury never heard an alternative explanation for why the car hit that building at nearly a hundred miles per hour.After Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash that

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