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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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77:47

Guthrie Week in Review: A Defense Attorney's Dream...

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2026/02/22

No arrest. A growing list of investigative failures any defense attorney would weaponize at trial. Bob Motta examines the vulnerabilities — early crime scene release, DNA reportedly diverted from Quantico, evidence gloves contaminated by the search team. He explains how chain of custody failures build reasonable doubt before charges exist. Shavaun Scott — thirty years in forensic mental health — takes on the psychological damage. The contradiction between surveillance-level planning and amateur

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43:13

Rob Reiner: Grieving a Son Who Was Still Alive — The...

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2026/02/22

There's a version of your child that no longer exists. You have the photos. You remember exactly who they were before. That person is gone — and you're not allowed to grieve them because they're still breathing. Psychologists call it ambiguous loss. When someone is physically present but psychologically absent. No funeral. No closure. Just an infinite middle where hope and despair take turns destroying you. Rob and Michele Reiner lived inside that for seventeen years. The Nick who existed before

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39:08

Guthrie Case This Week: Suspect Footage, a Desert...

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2026/02/22

A full recap of the most significant week in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. The FBI released doorbell footage of the masked suspect — and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains what it actually reveals about the person's methodology, equipment, and planning. A delivery driver was detained, questioned for hours, and released. A glove was recovered a mile and a half from the home. Investigators requested footage from three weeks before the kidnapping, suggesting the home may have

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67:46

Kouri Richins & Colin Gray Trials: Former Prosecutor...

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2026/02/22

Two murder trials happening simultaneously—and both are asking jurors to define the boundaries of accountability.Kouri Richins stands trial February 23rd for allegedly poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl. The defense has scored pretrial victories: a recanting drug source, excluded expert witnesses, severed financial charges. But the prosecution's evidence remains formidable—an alleged prior Valentine's Day attempt, a housekeeper testifying about fentanyl requests and "the Michael Jackson

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46:42

The Reiners: When Staying Is the Most Dangerous Thing...

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2026/02/22

Rob Reiner told friends he was afraid his son could hurt him — then brought Nick to a Christmas party because he was afraid to leave him alone. That contradiction is the trap millions of people live inside every day. This episode is about the psychology of staying — the guilt weaponization, the sunk cost, the belief that walking away means you failed. The Reiners did everything right by every measure we're taught. They never gave up. And it cost them their lives. If you've ever stayed with someone

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34:40

Robin Dreeke on Nancy Guthrie: The Blind Spots That...

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2026/02/21

She had a doorbell camera. A pacemaker app. Family nearby. Every layer of modern security we're told should keep us safe. And none of it mattered. Nancy Guthrie vanished from her own home and twelve days later, with more than a hundred investigators and eighteen thousand tips, there is no vehicle of interest, no named suspect, and no confirmed sighting.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke spent twenty-one years inside the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, eventually serving

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32:28

Murdaugh Appeal: The Justices Had Questions — The...

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2026/02/21

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today, and the state walked into a courtroom that wasn't friendly. The justices pressed prosecutor Creighton Waters on both tracks of the appeal — Becky Hill's jury tampering and the evidentiary errors at trial — and the exchanges revealed a bench that has serious doubts about what happened below. Justice James opened by asking about the egg juror affidavit that Justice Toal excluded from the evidentiary hearing. Chief

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29:32

Nancy Guthrie: The Prosecution Problem and the Public...

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2026/02/21

The FBI released surveillance footage. They're looking for multiple suspects. A man was detained in Rio Rico for eight hours and released. An imposter ransom demand led to a California arrest. And eighteen thousand tips are now competing with millions of amateur verdicts being rendered in comment sections across the internet. Two experts break down why both sides of this equation — the legal case and the public spectacle — are in trouble. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric

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16:32

Kouri Richins: The Children's Book, the Jail Letter,...

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2026/02/21

In March 2023, Kouri Richins appeared on television promoting a children's book she'd written. Are You With Me? featured her husband Eric as an angel-winged father watching over their sons. Two months later, she was arrested for his murder. Six months after that, prosecutors found a letter in her jail cell allegedly scripting false testimony for her family.Robin Dreeke's FBI career was built on reading deception in high-stakes situations. His "Tempo Tells" framework identifies the patterns that

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51:04

Faddis on Richins and Gray: A Former Prosecutor...

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2026/02/21

Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis takes on two of the biggest criminal cases in the country in one comprehensive interview — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder trial and the Colin Gray parental accountability case.In the Richins case, the defense has won real pretrial battles: a recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed financial charges, and witness intimidation allegations against the lead detective. But the prosecution has an alleged prior poisoning attempt, a firsthand witness who says

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21:09

Kouri Richins: FBI Analyst Reveals the Behavioral Red...

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2026/02/21

Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies taken out without Eric's knowledge. A confrontation in 2020 when he discovered the financial fraud. An alleged failed attempt on Valentine's Day 2022. Then his death eighteen days later.FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent his career profiling individuals capable of sustained deception and violence. His "Life Arc" framework examines the pressures, patterns, and escalating behaviors that shape someone's trajectory toward harm. In this episode, we

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17:46

Colin Gray Trial: FBI Warnings, an Alleged Parkland...

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2026/02/20

Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis dismantles the case piece by piece.The alleged warning signs prosecutors presented span years. An alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad" on a school computer. FBI involvement over school shooting

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22:43

The Reiner Tragedy: Peace Without Resolution

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2026/02/20

The apology isn't coming. The ending won't make sense. The trial won't fix what's broken.Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Motions. Their brother's face across the room. And at the end of all that waiting — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead. The verdict gives an outcome. It doesn't give peace.That's the trap of waiting for external resolution. You make your healing contingent on something you can't control. The court. The apology. The moment of

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12:37

Kouri Richins: "The Michael Jackson Stuff" and the...

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2026/02/20

The pretrial wins belonged to the defense. But the prosecution is walking into the Kouri Richins trial with a case they've spent four years constructing — and it starts with a prior poisoning attempt the jury will hear alongside the murder charge.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state's strongest cards. Prosecutors allege Kouri laced Eric's sandwich with fentanyl on Valentine's Day 2022, months before his death. Two friends reportedly say Eric called them saying his wife tried to

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21:21

Kouri Richins Trial Preview: What the Defense Doesn't...

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2026/02/20

The Kouri Richins murder trial starts February 23rd — and the defense has been quietly dismantling the prosecution's case for months. A recanting drug source who now says it wasn't fentanyl. A lead detective accused of threatening witnesses. Two excluded prosecution experts. And 26 financial crime charges the judge refused to let the jury hear.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the defense's strongest arguments heading into trial. Robert Crozier, the man

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18:09

Colin Gray: The Father Who Allegedly Armed a School...

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2026/02/20

Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder — not because he pulled a trigger, but because prosecutors say he put the weapon in his son's hands and ignored every warning that followed. His son, Colt Gray, allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on September 4, 2024 and opened fire, killing two students and two teachers and wounding nine others in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history. Colin Gray faces 29 felony counts and up to 180 years in prison.The

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45:03

Nancy Guthrie: The Suspect, the Chaos, and a Family...

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2026/02/20

The Nancy Guthrie case is a psychological event as much as a criminal investigation. The man on the doorbell footage planned for weeks and still made mistakes that suggest he'd never done anything like this before. His DNA produced no CODIS matches — a person capable of kidnapping an 84-year-old medically fragile woman who has apparently never been in the system. The investigation has been flooded with false ransom demands, contaminated evidence, dead-end leads, and fifty thousand tips that have

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16:00

Monique Tepe Did Everything Right — The System Still...

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2026/02/20

Michael McKee allegedly told Monique Tepe he could kill her at any time. That she would always be his wife. That he would find her wherever she went. According to witnesses cited in an unsealed Franklin County affidavit, those threats were made during and after a marriage that allegedly included strangulation, sexual violence, and sustained emotional abuse. Monique left. She divorced McKee in 2017, married Spencer Tepe in 2020, and built a life with two young children in Columbus, Ohio.On December

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16:04

Guthrie Family Cleared — But the Psychological Damage...

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2026/02/19

Sheriff Chris Nanos stood at a podium and called the Guthrie family "victims, plain and simple." He said suggesting otherwise is cruel. He begged the media to report with compassion. That was yesterday — seventeen days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and only after weeks of online accusations, body language analysis from strangers, and conspiracy threads targeting Savannah's sister Annie and her husband Tommaso for the simple fact that they were the last people to see Nancy alive.On Hidden

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27:21

Nick Reiner: The Lies His Parents Had to Believe

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2026/02/19

You knew. Somewhere underneath the hoping and the trying — you knew this wasn't going to end well.And you stayed anyway. Not because you were stupid. Because the truth was unsurvivable.Rob and Michele Reiner weren't naive. Rob directed films for forty years. He understood how stories telegraph their endings. These were not people who got fooled easily. And yet they built frameworks that kept them close to a son who was destroying them.First: trust the professionals. Then: the professionals are

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