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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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27:58

Kouri Richins Trial: Jailhouse Letter Exposed — "It...

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2026/03/12

Day 12 of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered what the prosecution has been building toward for three weeks. Lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll took the stand as the state's final witness and read aloud a six-page letter prosecutors say Richins wrote from jail — a letter titled "Walk the Dog!!" that allegedly directs her mother and brother on exactly what to say, who to contact, and what to erase.The letter instructs her brother to tell defense attorneys that Eric Richins obtained fentanyl from

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22:07

Kouri Richins: What Eric's Family Knew — and What It...

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2026/03/12

They walked through that door and something was already wrong. Eric Richins' family felt it before anyone could prove it — and spent years, six figures, and close to a thousand hours of a private investigator's time trying to force the world to catch up to what their instincts already told them.Tony Brueski explores the psychological weight of that experience with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke. What is that immediate family instinct — the one

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20:29

Kouri Richins: When Everyone Around You Is a Resource...

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2026/03/12

The Kouri Richins trial has given us something rare: a documented, witness-by-witness record of every person allegedly used along the way. A boyfriend. A best friend. A housekeeper. Friends who lost money. Each one, according to prosecutors, served a function — until they didn't.Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to examine what that pattern actually looks like from the inside. Why people embedded this deeply in someone's life

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59:04

Kouri Richins Trial: Jeff O'Driscoll — Defense Grills...

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2026/03/12

Jeff O'Driscoll, Summit County Detective, 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 gavel-to-gavel

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13:55

Child Influencer Exploitation: Ruby Franke's 8...

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2026/03/12

8 Passengers had a billion views. Six children filmed five days a week from birth. Milestones were content. Punishments were content. Worst moments got the most views.Part 3 of "The Good Mother" examines the business underneath the Ruby Franke case: what happens when children become products, when childhood becomes content, when privacy is traded before a child understands the cost.The Franke children were paid ten dollars per video. Family vacations were compensation — except the vacations were

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94:55

Kouri Richins Trial: Jeff O'Driscoll — State Calls...

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2026/03/12

Jeff O'Driscoll, Summit County Detective, 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 gavel-to-gavel

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76:41

Kouri Richins Full Panel: Motta & Dreeke on the Trial...

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2026/03/11

Three segments. Fifteen questions. Two of the sharpest people working this case. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke sit down for a full panel discussion on the Kouri Richins murder trial — and none of it is surface level.The defense strategy and what it tells us. Two compromised immunity witnesses and whether they're helping or hurting the prosecution. A circumstantial case built on three pillars — debt, fentanyl access, a failing marriage — and how you attack that architecture without dismissing each

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16:01

Cult Dehumanization: How the Daybell Doctrine Made...

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2026/03/11

The last photograph of Tylee Ryan was taken at Yellowstone. September 8, 2019. She's sixteen. She's smiling.Within a day, investigators believe she was dead. Her remains were found nine months later — burned and dismembered in Chad Daybell's backyard.Her mother's explanation, according to friends who testified? Tylee had "gone dark."This is Part 3 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' 5-part psychological examination of spiritual abuse and religious trauma through the Vallow-Daybell case. Today we

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13:37

Kouri Richins Trial: Carmen Lauber — Lauber Returns...

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2026/03/11

Carmen Lauber, Richins' Former Housekeeper, 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 gavel-to-gavel

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27:42

Kouri Richins Case: What It Reveals About Domestic...

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2026/03/11

The Kouri Richins murder trial isn't just a courtroom story. It's a case that forces hard questions about how this type of alleged crime operates, why it's so difficult to catch, and what justice looks like when the evidence is entirely circumstantial.Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke take the panel wider than the courtroom in this segment. Eric Richins reportedly told friends he thought his wife was trying to poison him after Valentine's Day. He'd consulted a divorce attorney. His sister had a private

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21:15

Nick Reiner's Siblings Cut Him Off — Family Walks Away

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2026/03/11

Nick Reiner — son of legendary director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner — pleaded not guilty on February 23rd, 2026 to two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the December 14th, 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood, California home. He is held without bail. The death penalty remains on the table. And his siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner, are done.Sources close to the family told TMZ directly: "Nick's defense is Nick's defense. They're not

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31:24

Kouri Richins: The Pattern Behind the Murder Charge

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2026/03/11

Most coverage of the Kouri Richins trial focuses on the night Eric died. This episode focuses on everything that came before it — and everyone who was allegedly in the way.Trial testimony has produced something more damning than any single piece of forensic evidence: a map of every person prosecutors say Kouri Richins used and what happened to them when they were no longer useful. A husband secretly trying to leave. A best friend who lost her life savings. A boyfriend leveraged for labor and love

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22:21

Kouri Richins: The Texts, the Witnesses, and What the...

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2026/03/11

The courtroom evidence in the Kouri Richins trial is one thing. What the jury is actually absorbing is another. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the specific moments and pieces of testimony that are going to follow those twelve jurors into deliberations — and why some of it is going to be nearly impossible to set aside.Two texts are at the center of this discussion. One Kouri sent to her boyfriend roughly two weeks before Eric died: "If he could just go away and you could just be here." One

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27:17

Kouri Richins: What the Defense Strategy Is Really...

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2026/03/11

Two mistrial motions. Forty prosecution witnesses. A case built entirely on circumstantial evidence. The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial hasn't shown their full hand yet — but the moves they've already made are saying a lot.Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke step into the panel to break down the defense's strategy from the ground up. Why file mistrial motions in the middle of the prosecution's case? What does fighting for the full retreat journal — not the redacted version — tell us about where

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17:00

Toxic Therapist: How Jodi Hildebrandt Used Coercive...

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2026/03/11

In 2009, Jodi Hildebrandt's niece went to police alleging abuse. Tied up. Duct taped. Forced to sleep outside. The allegations went nowhere.Fourteen years later, Ruby Franke's children were found bound and starving in Jodi's house. By then, Jodi had spent nearly two decades destroying families through a "life coaching" business that former clients describe as cult-like.Part 2 of "The Good Mother" examines how helpers become captors — and what happens when someone you love falls under influence you

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72:28

Guthrie Investigation and Richins Trial: The Full...

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2026/03/10

Hidden Killers delivers the complete listener Q&A — the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the Kouri Richins murder trial examined back to back with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski. This is the investigative and analytical deep-dive both cases have warranted from the beginning.The Guthrie evidence thread runs through a set of details that have been underexamined in the public conversation. The FBI's decision to return to Nancy's neighborhood and canvass again a

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17:16

Religious Narcissism: Inside Chad Daybell's Belief...

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2026/03/10

Chad Daybell kept spreadsheets.Not business records. Not finances. Lists of people — family, friends, his own children — each assigned a "light and dark rating" on a scale he invented.Everyone who dropped below a certain number was declared a "zombie." Everyone declared a zombie ended up dead.This is Part 2 of "The Chosen Ones," Hidden Killers' 5-part psychological examination of spiritual abuse and religious trauma through the Vallow-Daybell case. Today we focus on Chad Daybell: the gravedigger

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13:49

Matthew Farwell's Case Won't Be Dismissed — Sandra...

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2026/03/10

A federal judge has denied former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell's motion to dismiss the charges against him in the death of Sandra Birchmore — and the October 2026 trial is locked in.Sandra Birchmore was 23 years old and three months pregnant when she was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in February 2021. For years, her death was officially ruled self-inflicted. No charges. No trial. Just a closed file and a grieving family left with nothing but questions.What

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19:06

Kouri Richins: Immunity Deals, the Escalation...

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2026/03/10

The Kouri Richins murder trial is built on a stack of evidence that includes text messages, cell tower data, fentanyl receipts, and two witnesses who changed their stories after receiving immunity. Hidden Killers examines the evidentiary architecture of this case in a listener Q&A with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and host Tony Brueski.The escalation detail is one of the most significant in this case. According to prosecutors, after an alleged first attempt failed, Kouri Richins

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16:44

Kouri Richins: The Family Hired a PI — He Gutted the...

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2026/03/10

The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial has built its case around one central argument: Eric Richins had a history of substance use, and his death was a tragic accident. On the tenth day of testimony, a private investigator hired by Eric's own family took the stand and systematically dismantled that theory from every angle.Todd Gabler spent roughly a year investigating Eric's death independently before Kouri was arrested. Operating under rules that gave him access law enforcement couldn't get

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