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39:29

What Does Mackenzie Shirilla's Institutional Record...

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2026/06/13

Mackenzie Shirilla's parole eligibility date is September 2037. Her institutional record at the Ohio Reformatory for Women raises substantial questions about whether that date will produce a different outcome than continued incarceration.In under three years of imprisonment, Shirilla has accumulated thirty-six conduct violations — guilty findings on thirty-two. Documented infractions include unauthorized medication, altered prison-issued clothing, contraband possession, and refusal of work

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24:13

How Many Parents Are Raising the Next Mackenzie...

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2026/06/13

Mackenzie Shirilla isn’t a one-off. She’s a product. And the machine that built her is running in households everywhere.Shirilla is serving fifteen years to life at the Ohio Reformatory for Women for killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan after driving a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. A judge found it deliberate. The Ohio Supreme Court declined her appeal. The conviction is settled. The question this episode takes on is different: how

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48:07

Nick Reiner Took His Own Trustees To Court From A...

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2026/06/12

The newest Nick Reiner trial development is a 136-page probate petition filed from custody — naming both his outgoing and incoming trustees and demanding the release of more than $1.5 million held in the trust his parents established at his birth. In this extended episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis conducts a complete legal examination of the dispute, from the filing's strongest claims to the family's most viable countermeasures.On the merits: the petition

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24:13

Why Was Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Handed to a Judge Who...

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2026/06/12

The first Alex Murdaugh trial wasn't just decided in a courtroom — it was swallowed by everything around it. A clerk of court writing a book about the case while she was supposed to be guarding the jury. Cameras in every corner of Walterboro. Podcasters, streamers, and true crime creators turning a small South Carolina town into a content farm. And when the dust settled, the state Supreme Court threw the whole verdict out, in part because of what happened to that jury outside the evidence.Now meet

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14:39

Murdaugh's Lawyer Has History With The Judge Deciding...

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2026/06/12

The latest Alex Murdaugh case update concerns the bench, not the defendant. The South Carolina Supreme Court has vested Judge Debra McCaslin with exclusive jurisdiction over all proceedings in the Murdaugh matter — including any retrial on charges that he murdered his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul — and her professional history with lead defense counsel Dick Harpootlian is now a matter of public scrutiny.The record, as reported: early in her career, McCaslin rented office space from Harpootlian, and

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23:34

Why Does Nick Reiner’s Petition Say He ‘Loved His...

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2026/06/12

“Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths.” That is a direct quote from a probate petition filed by the man accused of stabbing Rob and Michele Reiner to death. The next line says the facts of their murders “are not at issue.” That is the legal strategy. That is the framing. And that is what makes this petition one of the most brazen court filings Tony Brueski has ever covered.Nick Reiner’s civil attorneys are demanding over $1.5 million from an individual trust his parents

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21:48

Did BTK Killer Dennis Rader Ask If The Disk Was...

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2026/06/12

In a typewritten question left for the Wichita Police Department in January of 2005, Dennis Rader asked the cops, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to him. The question was inside an empty cereal box he had left for them in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He signed it with his self-given initials. He asked them to be honest.The Wichita Police Department answered through a small classified ad in the Wichita Eagle. They told him no. A floppy disk could not

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17:52

Can Nick Reiner Inherit From The Parents He's Accused...

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2026/06/12

The question at the center of this Nick Reiner trial development is older than the case itself: can a person accused of killing benefit financially from the death? California's answer is the slayer statute — and in this episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis explains how that law actually functions inside a live probate dispute, not how most people assume it does.The common understanding is that the slayer statute only operates after a conviction. The reality is more

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16:15

Nick Reiner Asked A Judge For $1.5 Million — And Soap

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2026/06/12

The latest Nick Reiner trial development arrived in the form of a probate petition — 136 pages requesting the release of more than $1.5 million in trust assets, and, in the same filing, modest distributions so the petitioner can purchase socks and personal hygiene items at the jail commissary, where spending is capped at $300.That juxtaposition is deliberate, and in this episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis explains precisely what it accomplishes. The filing, submitted

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17:06

Why Did a Kidnapping 7 Miles Away Become the Biggest...

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2026/06/12

A BOLO for a 40-year-old woman wanted for kidnapping near Tucson became the biggest Nancy Guthrie headline in weeks — even though authorities have said plainly that the two cases aren’t connected. That gap between the facts and the reaction is the story worth telling.Coral Michelle Smith is wanted for kidnapping and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a May 29th incident at the intersection of River Road and La Cholla Boulevard, approximately 6.8 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina

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18:25

Jesse Ridgway Has Faked Everything Before. Why Would...

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2026/06/11

Staged family violence for four years. A billion views. Over a thousand 911 calls from people who thought it was real. A creator platform that collapsed and got sold as an NFT. And now Jesse Ridgway announces a pregnancy, a Down syndrome diagnosis, and a termination to 4.3 million followers — and the world debates how he handled it instead of asking whether any of it happened.Jesse Ridgway’s entire career is built on fabricating events and presenting them as real. Each stunt pushes further than the

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49:16

Twenty Years of Jesse Ridgway Faking Crises and It’s...

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2026/06/11

Staged family violence that fooled a thousand people into calling the police. A creator platform that burned through a million users and got sold as an NFT. And now a pregnancy announcement involving a Down syndrome diagnosis that may or may not be real, from a man who has built his entire career on making people believe things that never happened. Jesse Ridgway has been escalating for twenty years and nothing in the ecosystem around him — not the media, not the audience, not the people in his life

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59:22

Christine Marie From “Trust Me” Reveals How She Beat...

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2026/06/11

The Netflix docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet introduced the world to Christine Marie — the cult psychologist and survivor who walked into Samuel Bateman's FLDS inner circle, gathered the evidence the FBI used to put him in federal prison for fifty years, and is still living in Short Creek today. The documentary couldn't tell you everything. This conversation can.This is the complete extended interview — all three parts in one continuous sit-down. Christine takes Tony through how she got

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18:57

Jesse Ridgway Gets Seventeen Million Views Because...

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2026/06/11

Seventeen million views. People with real bills, real health problems, real crises in their own families stopped what they were doing to be outraged about a YouTuber they’ve never met. Not because Jesse Ridgway’s story is more important than their own lives. Because their brains are built to respond to outrage faster than reason. Research shows moral outrage triggers dopamine — the same reward pathway that makes drugs addictive. The platforms know it. The algorithms amplify it. And Jesse Ridgway

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23:22

Kouri Richins’ Own Kids Say They Feel Safer With Her...

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2026/06/11

One of Eric and Kouri Richins’ sons remembers the night his father died. He was put to bed early without a bath — unusual for the family. When he tried to go into his parents’ bedroom, his mother yelled at him to go away. He later told investigators that Kouri didn’t sleep in his room that night, contradicting what she told police. A child, catching the seams in his mother’s story on the night he lost his father.At sentencing, all three boys said they would be afraid if Kouri were ever released

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18:03

What Did BTK Write In His Journal About A Cheerleader...

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2026/06/11

In August of 2023, the Osage County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma released a journal entry written in Dennis Rader's own handwriting. The entry described a fantasy of taking a young woman from a laundromat. Rader had a title for it. He had written it on the page. "Bad Wash Day."The reason that journal entry was released matters. On June 23, 1976, a sixteen-year-old Pawhuska, Oklahoma, cheerleader named Cynthia Dawn Kinney finished her shift at her aunt and uncle's laundromat. She was reportedly last

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12:34

Is the Media as Sick as Jesse Ridgway for Giving Him...

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2026/06/11

TMZ booked Jesse Ridgway within 48 hours of his pregnancy announcement. The LA Times interviewed him. News outlets ran the story for days. If Jesse Ridgway is doing this for attention, the entire media infrastructure gave him exactly what he wanted faster than he could have planned it. Is Jesse the sickness, or is he a symptom of something bigger?Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the full ecosystem around Jesse Ridgway — not just the man, but the machine that feeds him. She looks at the

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24:41

When Does Jesse Ridgway Stop Being a Performer and...

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2026/06/11

Ashley Ridgway went through a real medical procedure. She called it the most traumatic experience of her life. She was at home recovering. And within 48 hours, her husband Jesse was on TMZ Live telling a national audience he’s sleeping next to a gun. Not because she asked for it. Because Jesse Ridgway cannot stop turning other people’s pain into something the world watches. The off switch does not exist in this man. It has never existed.He watched a thousand fans call 911 out of genuine fear for

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55:03

How Did Aaron Spencer Go From a Murder Charge to...

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2026/06/10

Aaron Spencer was charged with murder. A judge threw it out after finding “egregious” conduct by the detective who investigated him. Now Spencer is on track to become the sheriff of the county that charged him. And the questions that ruling raised go far beyond one case.This is a three-part conversation with an outside legal analyst covering every angle.First, the ruling. Judge Wilson’s 19-page order documented eleven failures by the lead detective — a dashcam pulled without documentation, its SD

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13:49

Christine Marie Knows Why The Wives Walked Back To...

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2026/06/10

Samuel Bateman is in federal prison, serving fifty years, and his hold on his followers has not loosened. Some of his adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the women Christine Marie risked her life to pull out of his house have returned to him on their own. He picks up the phone from his cell every day and the indoctrination keeps flowing right into their ears.In this third and final part of a three-part conversation, Christine Marie sits down with Tony to tell the part of the Bateman

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