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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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46:32

Kouri Richins: When Immunity Witnesses Contradict...

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2026/03/15

Carmen Lauber came in meth-positive. Robert Crozier contradicted his own sworn affidavit. Both are immunity witnesses the prosecution is leaning on hard—and both changed their accounts under prosecutorial pressure. At what point does that dynamic create more risk for the prosecution than the defense? This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, defense attorney Bob Motta, and host Tony Brueski for the panel discussion no one else is having.The

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40:07

Kouri Richins Defense Tried to Blame Eric for His Own...

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2026/03/15

The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial tried something that doesn't always work—putting the dead man on trial. They suggested Eric Richins had a history with drugs and that the fentanyl that killed him may have come from somewhere other than Kouri. Then the judge blocked their most specific drug evidence before they could even use it. And Eric's closest friend looked a jury in the eye and said he never once saw Eric use drugs. This Hidden Killers Week In Review examines why this strategy is

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54:04

Nancy Guthrie: The DNA Mixture Means More Than One...

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2026/03/14

Law enforcement has confirmed the DNA sample at the Nancy Guthrie scene is a mixture—meaning it may involve more than one person. That changes everything about who's been keeping this secret for over a month. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski together for a deep dive into the details that demand a real conversation.Robin breaks down what that behavioral picture looks like when two people are carrying this together versus one

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45:57

Kouri Richins Was $1.6 Million in Debt the Day After...

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2026/03/14

The prosecution just laid bare Kouri Richins' finances in open court. Bounced checks. Hard money loans stacking up. A real estate business a forensic accountant called "imploding." By March 5, 2022—the day after Eric Richins died with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system—Kouri was $1.6 million in the red. Even liquidating everything wouldn't dig her out. This Hidden Killers Week In Review examines the financial motive prosecutors spent two weeks building—and the warning Eric gave

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41:47

Cascio Family vs. Jackson Estate: $200 Million...

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2026/03/14

The Cascio family spent 25 years as Michael Jackson's most vocal defenders. They attacked other accusers. They called themselves his "second family." Frank Cascio declared on Oprah and in his memoir that Jackson's love for children was innocent. Now all five siblings claim Jackson trafficked and sexually abused them starting when some were as young as seven. This Hidden Killers Week In Review examines the legal collision that's testing the limits of credibility and timing.The Jackson estate calls

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35:04

Nancy Guthrie: What "Cleared" Really Means When You...

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2026/03/14

The Nancy Guthrie investigation has no arrest, no named suspect, no person of interest. But that hasn't stopped the destruction. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together expert analysis on both the investigation's progress and the innocent people caught in its wake.SWAT executed search warrants on one man's home. He was handcuffed, detained, questioned for hours—then released. His attorney says he has "no link whatsoever" to the kidnapping. An elementary school teacher who plays in a band

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13:39

Adult Children of Narcissists: The Franke Family...

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2026/03/14

Ruby Franke was arrested. The performance ended. But for her six children — raised as content for years — the work was just beginning.Part 5 of "The Good Mother" examines what comes after escape. The psychology of recovery. Who are you when the show is finally over?Shari Franke posted "Finally" when her mother was arrested. She wrote a memoir, testified before Utah legislators, advocates for child influencer protections. She's building a life on her own terms.Chad Franke reads his 2023 diaries on

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52:02

Eric Faddis: What's Really Going to Decide the Kouri...

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2026/03/13

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down with Tony Brueski for an extended Hidden Killers conversation that goes deeper into the Kouri Richins murder trial than anything you'll hear in a standard legal segment.Three issues. Three conversations. Each one with real stakes.The defense's drug use theory has been gutted by a judicial ruling, contradicted by the people who knew Eric best, and undermined by forensic toxicology. Is there anything left — or is this a strategy

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15:26

Cult Survivor Recovery: Healing After the Daybell...

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2026/03/13

Lori Vallow still believes she's chosen.In a 2025 Dateline interview, she maintained her innocence. She claimed Jesus showed her she'd be exonerated. She showed no remorse.Meanwhile, her surviving son Colby is trying to figure out how to live in the aftermath of something that can never be fixed.This is Part 5 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' final episode examining the psychology of spiritual abuse and religious trauma through the Vallow-Daybell case. Today we focus on the survivors — and on

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20:38

Can Kouri Richins Overcome What the Jury Already...

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2026/03/13

Before the Kouri Richins jury ever decides whether she murdered her husband, they've already learned who she is. Phone searches for "fentanyl poisoning." Deleted memes accessed minutes after first responders left — one saying "I'm really rich." A jailhouse letter coaching family on testimony. A forged signature on a life insurance policy a month before Eric died. And three days after his death, a text to her alleged drug source asking if she still had her connection.That's the deception pattern the

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14:26

Nancy Guthrie: Don't Be Surprised If They Never Find Her

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2026/03/13

Forty days. No suspect. No arrest. Cadaver dogs stood down. The DNA has dead-ended twice. And the desert keeps its secrets.This isn't pessimism — it's the evidence. After forty days with no named suspect, no viable DNA profile, and a biological clock that has long since run out for an 84-year-old woman with a cardiac condition, the Hidden Killers monologue goes where the cable coverage won't: straight into what the facts are actually saying.The glove DNA traced back to an unconnected restaurant

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18:41

Kouri Richins Stays Silent — Defense Rests, No...

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2026/03/13

The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she would not be testifying.This episode covers the full story of Day 13: Detective Jeff O'Driscoll's final cross-examination, the directed verdict motion, and the extraordinary legal moment where the defense was warned that one line of questioning would blow open previously suppressed evidence against

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14:13

The Richins Drug Chain: Can You Convict on Witnesses...

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2026/03/13

In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution's drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other changed her account of what drug she bought after federal charges appeared on the horizon.It's the kind of evidentiary situation that keeps defense attorneys up at night — and gives them ammunition in closing arguments.On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski sits down with Eric Faddis — defense attorney

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17:51

Was the Richins Defense a Hail Mary? Eric Faddis...

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2026/03/13

When you don't have much, do you blame the victim? That's the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it's one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, has seen play out in courtrooms more times than he can count.The defense suggested Eric Richins had a drug history. They wanted to show a jury evidence of his alleged high school pill use. The judge said no. What they're left with is a theory built around uncertainty — maybe the fentanyl came from

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15:32

System Failure: Ruby Franke Was Reported to CPS for...

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2026/03/13

CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case.Three years later, Ruby's children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt's house.Part 4 of "The Good Mother" examines what happens when you see abuse, report it, and nothing changes. Why systems designed to protect children fail until the damage is catastrophic.The Franke case wasn't hidden. Ruby documented her parenting publicly for 2.5 million subscribers. The warning signs were on YouTube — a teenager

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69:59

Kouri Richins: FBI & Psychotherapist on the Mind...

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2026/03/12

The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what it does to the people who love them, and where it all starts — that takes a different kind of analysis.Tony Brueski brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke into three complete panel conversations examining the full psychological scope of this

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17:13

High Control Religion Enablers: Who Watched the...

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2026/03/12

Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive.She was Lori's best friend. She heard Chad Daybell's zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked her to lie to police, she finally understood: she'd been used as an alibi for murder.This is Part 4 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' examination of spiritual abuse and religious trauma through the Vallow-Daybell case. Today we focus on the believers — the people around Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow

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28:02

Kouri Richins: The Cycle — Where She Came From and...

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2026/03/12

Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she's leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own.Tony Brueski examines the full arc of this case with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — from Kouri's own chaotic background to the question of what her children are now carrying. How dysfunction repeats not because people choose it, but because it's the only operating system they were

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46:34

Kouri Richins Trial: Detective Jeff O' Driscoll —...

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2026/03/12

Detective Jeff O' Driscoll, Summit Co. Sheriff's Dept., takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial.Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.This is

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19:38

Kouri Richins' Jailhouse Letter: The Full Breakdown...

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2026/03/12

You've seen the headlines about the Walk the Dog letter. Now hear it actually explained.Six handwritten pages. Written from jail. Titled by Kouri Richins herself as a destruction instruction — take vague notes, then walk the dog, meaning memorize it and make it disappear. It didn't disappear. It's state's evidence. And on this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski goes through it page by page and explains what you're actually looking at.That means breaking down the Ronney narrative — not just

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