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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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13:49

Christine Tells Us What Bateman Says From Prison

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2026/06/10

The end of the Samuel Bateman story isn't the end. He's behind bars for fifty years and the women he claimed as wives are doing something almost nobody wants to talk about — going back to him. Not all of them. But enough of them that the question stops being a fluke and starts being a pattern.In this third and final part of our three-part conversation with Christine Marie, we get into the truth the Netflix documentary couldn't fully hold. Some of the people Christine risked her life to save have

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24:04

Is What Happened to Aaron Spencer Part of a...

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2026/06/10

The dashcam SD card in Aaron Spencer’s case didn’t vanish in a vacuum. It disappeared inside a department with a documented history of evidence problems stretching back over a decade.In 2021, a seventeen-year-old named Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a Lonoke County deputy during a traffic stop. Brittain was unarmed. He was carrying an antifreeze container. The deputy’s body camera was not activated until after the shooting. Sheriff John Staley fired the deputy for violating the camera

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17:26

What Happens When Mackenzie Shirilla Becomes an...

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2026/06/10

Mackenzie Shirilla is behind bars for driving a hundred miles per hour into a brick wall and killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. A judge called her actions controlled, methodical, and purposeful. She’s serving life with parole eligibility in 2037. And since Netflix put her case back in the spotlight, her social media presence has exploded — tens of thousands of followers, a support team managing her accounts, and jail calls where she and her mother discuss book deals and

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19:30

How Did BTK Use A Church Council Seat To Hide In...

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2026/06/10

Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest him. The thing that had identified him as BTK was a metadata trace from a Microsoft Word document he had saved to a church computer in his role as council president.He had volunteered for the council. He had volunteered to print agendas. He had risen through the ranks to council president, the visible

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12:37

What Happens When Aaron Spencer Walks Into the...

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2026/06/10

The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss.Spencer beat incumbent Sheriff John Staley by double digits in a three-way Republican primary. The county tilts hard Republican. Brian Mitchell Sr., the Democratic candidate, faces an uphill climb. Spencer’s path to the sheriff’s badge runs through a general election that favors him in a county that has already spoken loudly about what it wants.What it wants is the man this

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19:02

What Were the 11 Failures That Forced a Judge to...

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2026/06/10

Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal.Judge Ralph Wilson’s ruling in the Aaron Spencer case didn’t stop at identifying problems. He catalogued a pattern: no photographs of the dashcam’s position in Fosler’s truck, no documentation in the incident report, no chain-of-custody record, no evidence log entry for over a year. Detective Robbie McCain pulled the SD card, viewed it on his personal

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19:14

Why Is Everyone Connected to the Aaron Spencer Case...

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2026/06/10

The detective was fired. The prosecutor is retiring. The county clerk resigned months ago citing persecution. And at the center of it all is a nineteen-page judicial order that documents — in constitutional detail — how the most critical evidence in the Aaron Spencer murder case was mishandled, lost, and never accounted for.Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. found that Detective Robbie McCain violated the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office's own evidence policies in ways the court called "intentional." McCain

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54:12

What Does Every Piece of Evidence Say About What...

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2026/06/09

The evidence in the Elijah Vue case tells one story. The two people charged in his death allegedly tried to tell another. Three-year-old Elijah was reported missing from a Two Rivers, Wisconsin apartment in February 2024. His mother’s boyfriend Jesse Vang said the boy wandered off during a nap. His mother Katrina Baur, 150 miles away, sent Vang a message within sixty seconds telling him what to say. She deleted it. The investigation that followed recovered almost everything they allegedly tried to

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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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