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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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26:50

Alex Murdaugh: The Family System That Created Him —...

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2026/03/23

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Murdaugh case gets examined at the level where it actually starts — not the double murder, not the fraud trial, but the eighty-six years of institutional power that produced the man who committed both.Three generations of Murdaughs controlled prosecution in South Carolina's lowcountry. Problems disappeared. Consequences never arrived. Part 1 of The Name maps the dynasty — how a family machine built over nearly a century creates a psychology of

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32:43

Nancy Guthrie: The Evidence Record at 40 Days — and...

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2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Nancy Guthrie investigation gets a complete evidence-based accounting at the 40-day mark. No arrest. No named suspect. No viable DNA profile. Two CODIS dead ends. A glove found two miles from her home traced to an unconnected restaurant worker. A Ring camera vehicle 2.5 miles away at 2:36 a.m. that remains unidentified. Cadaver dogs stood down. Ground searches scaled back. And investigators still canvassing neighbors in early March — more than a

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30:14

Kouri Richins: Controlling the Narrative After the...

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2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, two of the most revealing dimensions of the Kouri Richins case get the examination they deserve — the performance Kouri allegedly constructed in the aftermath of Eric's death, and the parallel cases that document what it looks like when a victim understands exactly what is happening and still cannot survive it.After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book about a father who becomes a firefly. She appeared on morning shows. Prosecutors say she

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37:05

Kouri Richins: What the Appellate Record Contains —...

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2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Kouri Richins case moves beyond the verdict and into what comes next — while the behavioral pattern the prosecution spent three weeks documenting gets examined against one of the most methodical cases in true crime history.Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the appellate record the defense built across three weeks of preserved rulings and motions. The coaching video —

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60:31

Kouri Richins: The Defense Strategy Examined — and...

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2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the guilty verdict in the Kouri Richins trial gets its most complete analytical breakdown. The defense called zero witnesses, presented no affirmative case, and built everything around reasonable doubt. Eight jurors deliberated for three hours. It wasn't enough.Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine the strategy in full. The jury saw video of investigators instructing Carmen Lauber to

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48:19

Kouri Richins: The Conviction Nobody Could Guarantee...

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2026/03/22

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, two of the most important analytical conversations surrounding the Kouri Richins trial come into full focus now that the verdict is in. No murder weapon. No confirmed drug chain. A death certificate that still reads undetermined. Eight jurors. Three hours. Guilty on all counts.Before closing arguments, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke mapped out where the case would get won or lost. The defense's

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68:02

Kouri Richins: Death by a Thousand Cuts — The...

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2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we go back through the prosecution case that convinced a jury in three hours. No murder weapon. No confession. No eyewitness. What prosecutors had was circumstantial — and they called it death by a thousand cuts. The jury agreed.Tony Brueski breaks down every layer of that case: the $4.5 million in alleged debt, the housekeeper who testified she made four fentanyl runs at Kouri's request, the Valentine's Day poisoning attempt, the hundreds of deleted

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42:00

Laken Snelling: The Phone Evidence, the Concealment...

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2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Laken Snelling case gets the examination it demands. The University of Kentucky cheerleader has been indicted on first-degree manslaughter after her newborn son was found dead — wrapped in a towel inside a black trash bag in her closet — hours after she gave birth alone at 4 a.m. on August 27, 2025. The Kentucky Medical Examiner confirmed the baby was born alive. Cause of death: asphyxia by undetermined means.What separates this case from most

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70:53

Kouri Richins: The Defense Rested Without a Witness —...

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2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we revisit the decision that, in retrospect, may have sealed the outcome. On Day 13 of the Kouri Richins murder trial, the defense rested without calling a single witness. Three were reportedly available. After a one-hour recess following the judge's denial of a directed verdict motion, the defense chose silence. Three hours of jury deliberation later, Kouri Richins was found guilty on all counts.Tony Brueski walks through Day 13 in full — the final

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47:50

Kouri Richins' Jailhouse Letter Decoded — Evidence,...

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2026/03/21

This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Walk the Dog letter gets treated the way the legal record demands — as evidence. Tony Brueski breaks it down section by section: the Ronney narrative and the degree of scripted witness instruction embedded in it, the airport drug story constructed as a pre-emptive defense mechanism rather than genuine recollection, the GMA media coordination complete with assigned speaking lines, the Lotto suppression request, the Katie section and how casually it's

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14:23

Kouri Richins Trial 2026: The Silence Is Breaking —...

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2026/03/21

Kouri Richins is watching her story collapse. Every day in Utah, another witness. Another text. Another crack in the foundation.This is Part 5 of The Perfect Wife — examining why long cons always end. Not through brilliant investigation. Through simple math: eventually, someone's survival matters more than the secret.Denise Williams held hers together for seventeen years.Mike Williams disappeared December 2000. Duck hunting trip. Drowned, eaten by alligators — official story.Denise collected $1.75

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59:23

Three Open Questions — Kouri, Nancy, Kelsey, and the...

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2026/03/20

A murder conviction that closed a trial but opened new questions about immunity, justice, and what happens to the people left behind. A disappearance now in its seventh week with no arrest, a mountain of leads, and a single piece of doorbell footage still doing all the heavy lifting. A cop-on-cop shooting where the officer who was shot is the defendant — and her trial starts in days with a judge deciding everything. In this extended listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis

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13:11

Alex Murdaugh Aftermath: The Victims, The Survivors,...

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2026/03/20

The Murdaugh dynasty is over. The law firm dissolved. The property liquidated. The name ruined.But the wreckage keeps spreading.Part 5 of "The Name" explores the aftermath. Gloria Satterfield's sons, robbed twice. Mallory Beach's family, still fighting. Every client Alex stole from, still living with the damage.And Buster Murdaugh, carrying a name that now means murder.This episode is about what remains when a family system collapses. The victims who'll never be made whole. The survivors trying to

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17:13

The Fitzsimmons Case — When the System That's...

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2026/03/20

She was a police officer. She had a baby. She was hospitalized for postpartum depression. She surrendered her weapons. And then, months later, her own colleagues showed up at her door to take her son and serve a restraining order obtained by the man she was engaged to — and one of them shot her. Now she's the defendant. Kelsey Fitzsimmons goes to trial March 23 in Lawrence, Massachusetts — and as of today, she's waived her right to a jury. A single judge will decide her fate. In this listener

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24:40

Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Texts Are In — And They Tell...

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2026/03/20

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial opens Monday in Lawrence Superior Court. No jury. Judge Jeffrey Karp decides alone. And this week the full text exchange between Fitzsimmons and Justin Aylaian was unsealed, admitted into evidence, and made public.On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski goes through those texts as a behavioral document — not a he-said-she-said, a document — and asks the question this case has been waiting for someone to ask directly.If every single one of those messages had come from him — the

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19:19

Courtney Clenney Trial: The Case That Has No Clean...

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2026/03/20

In April 2022, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney stabbed her boyfriend Christian Obumseli in their Miami high-rise apartment. That is the only fact both sides fully agree on. Everything else — who was the aggressor, what the wound proves, what the investigation was worth — is in dispute. Violently, documentably, and with evidence on both sides.Obumseli secretly recorded Clenney calling him racial slurs, screaming at him, demanding to hit him. Surveillance cameras caught her striking him in their

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18:58

The Nancy Guthrie Investigation — What the Silence Is...

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2026/03/20

It has been over six weeks since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson in the middle of the night. There has been no press conference in over a month. No named suspect. No arrest. And this week, newly recovered camera footage from her own property showed nothing. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke cut through what the official silence means — and what it doesn't. Investigators are asking neighbors about specific dates weeks before

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23:50

Guilty — But Here's What the Verdict Didn't Settle

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2026/03/20

A jury convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl. She's going to prison. And still — the questions that don't fit neatly inside a courtroom verdict keep coming. Listeners have been flooding in with what's still bothering them, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are working through the ones that matter most. Carmen Lauber gets immunity. The woman who sold Kouri the fentanyl that killed Eric walks free while Kouri heads to prison for

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12:03

Kouri Richins Children's Book: She Played the...

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2026/03/20

After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote "Are You With Me?" A children's book about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Played the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.Prosecutors say she caused it.This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the story.Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011, she wrote "How to Murder Your Husband." An essay discussing methods, weighing options. She wrote: "If the

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63:41

Kouri Richins: The Full Psychology of a Marriage...

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2026/03/19

The Kouri Richins case has been covered from every legal angle. This is the psychological one — and it's the angle that matters most to anyone who recognizes this story from the inside.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a wide-ranging conversation that uses the Kouri Richins case as a framework to examine the complete arc of a relationship with someone operating with narcissistic or borderline personality traits. From the first phase — the love bombing, the

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