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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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41:50

Heuermann's Guilty Plea — The Wife and the Defense...

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2026/04/12

Rex Heuermann pled guilty to seven murders and admitted to killing an eighth victim — Karen Vergata — in Suffolk County Court. Life without parole. Three consecutive life sentences followed by four sentences of 25 years to life. He has agreed to cooperate with the FBI. There will be no trial.For the families, the guilty plea provides certainty and a sentence. But it takes away the public accounting — the testimony, the cross-examination, the moment where every piece of evidence is laid bare in open

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50:32

Joseph Duggar's Alleged Confessions and Kendra's...

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2026/04/12

Two alleged admissions before an attorney was ever present. According to the arrest affidavit, Joseph Duggar admitted to the abuse when the victim's father confronted him — and then reportedly admitted again on a call monitored by Tontitown detectives in real time. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what a defense strategy looks like when the prosecution reportedly holds your client's own words. He examines the written not-guilty plea filed from a jail cell, the jury trial demand made

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45:02

Joseph Duggar's "Prayer Closet" and the Caldwell...

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2026/04/12

In the later jail calls between Joseph and Kendra Duggar, Joseph has renamed his solitary cell a prayer closet. He tells Kendra he had a breakthrough in his Bible reading. He reads her a devotional about boundaries — Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, and their different boundary failures — and says he finds it "really interesting." He is a man facing charges of allegedly violating a child's most fundamental boundaries. The connection never registers.Kendra tells him not to trust anyone. She says she's

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55:51

The Duggar Jail Call and the Woman Who Built the Silence

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2026/04/12

The first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County is now public. Joseph is in solitary, reading through the book of Psalms and doing push-ups. Kendra is falling apart — can't eat, can barely function, has lost the sound of her own laugh. He tells her the story of the Biblical Joseph resonates. She asks about his charges. He thinks she means a newspaper. Then they shift to taxes, ChatGPT files, and power of attorney while a child is sitting through forensic interviews

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49:53

Jim Bob Duggar Wrote Joseph a Redemption Arc — The...

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2026/04/11

Jim Bob Duggar's email to his son Joseph in jail has been obtained through public records. He acknowledged "terrible decisions." He compared Joseph to King David, who "royally messed up" but repented and became "a man after God's own heart." He compared him to the Biblical Joseph, who was "also in prison," and told him to "make lemonade out of lemons." He told him God is not finished with his life. He called Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." The child his son allegedly harmed does not appear anywhere

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37:48

Nancy Guthrie Case — Inexperience, Reassignments, and...

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2026/04/11

Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February. No suspect. No arrest. No proof of life. Blood confirmed as hers on the porch. Her phone left inside. An armed, masked figure on the doorbell camera. And the investigation that should have been running at full speed from hour one was reportedly staffed by a supervisor who had never worked a homicide.Sources now on the record say the sergeant leading the initial response to Nancy's abduction from her Catalina Foothills home had been in the role for

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37:45

Joseph Duggar Faces Life Felony — The System That...

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2026/04/11

Joseph Duggar posted $600,000 bond in a Bay County, Florida courtroom after facing charges classified as a life felony carrying a mandatory minimum of 25 years. According to the arrest affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old girl told investigators Joseph allegedly harmed her during a 2020 family vacation when she was nine. According to that affidavit, he allegedly admitted to the conduct when confronted by the girl's father and admitted again on a call monitored by a detective. Joseph had already filed

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37:07

Rex Heuermann's Guilty Plea Exposed — The Evidence...

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2026/04/11

For nearly three years, Rex Heuermann's defense team threw everything at the wall. Motions to exclude DNA evidence. A push for separate trials. A 178-page omnibus motion challenging the prosecution's entire framework. Every single one was denied. When the accused Gilgo Beach Killer finally entered guilty pleas to seven murders and admitted to killing an eighth victim — Karen Vergata — it marked the end of a legal battle that was already over long before the plea hearing.Eric Faddis — defense

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14:59

Rex Heuermann and Amber Costello: The Truck That...

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2026/04/11

He got scammed on the first visit. Came back the next night. And the roommate who saw the truck — a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche — gave investigators the description that eventually led to Rex Heuermann's front door. Amber Costello was 27, living in West Babylon, battling addiction, working as an escort. On September 2, 2010, she walked out of her house to meet a man whose burner phone had texted her the night before: "That was not nice, so do I get credit for next time." She was never seen

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55:48

Gilgo Beach Guilty Plea and Duggar Charges: The...

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2026/04/10

The evidentiary record in both of these cases is extensive — and it keeps expanding.Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case and admitted to killing an eighth victim, Karen Vergata. The investigation that built this case used DNA analysis, burner phone billing records, vehicle identification databases, and a digital blueprint recovered from Heuermann’s computer that prosecutors described as a methodology document for killing. Investigators

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16:06

Bateman Sentenced: Justice and What's Left Behind

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2026/04/10

This is where the Bateman series lands — and it doesn't land clean. Fifty years for the prophet. Life for the father who delivered his own daughters. Thirty-five years for the money man. Seven wives convicted. All eleven co-defendants held accountable. By the numbers, the federal justice system did its job. By every other measure, the damage is still spreading.Faith Bistline is the emotional center of this finale. She grew up FLDS. She escaped. She spent years trying to sound the alarm about

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23:12

The Duggar Charges: A Family Built on Silence Exposed

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2026/04/10

The investigative record on the Duggar family keeps expanding. Josh Duggar is serving a twelve-and-a-half-year federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material. Before that conviction, documentation shows Jim Bob Duggar knew about Josh’s conduct toward family members and handled it without law enforcement involvement. Joseph Duggar now faces felony charges in Florida after allegedly admitting to molesting a then-nine-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation to Panama City Beach

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14:14

Rex Heuermann and Megan Waterman: The Gilgo Beach DNA...

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2026/04/10

Megan Waterman was 22 years old, from Maine, a mother to a three-year-old daughter she called every single day without exception. When those calls stopped in June 2010, her family didn't wait. They reported her missing within two days. The last image of Megan alive is surveillance footage from a Holiday Inn Express on Long Island — walking out the door at 1:15 in the morning to meet a client.Episode 6 of "The Seven." This is the episode built around the pizza-crust DNA — the investigative

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19:06

Jesse Butler — Victims Force the System to Answer

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2026/04/10

Two young women were told the system would handle it. It didn't. So they hired attorneys, filed motions, and forced a Payne County judge to order something that almost never happens — an evidentiary hearing where the DA's office has to explain, under oath, how a plea deal was negotiated. Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to multiple felony sexual assault and strangulation charges involving two Stillwater High School students. He originally faced up to 78 years. He was granted youthful offender status

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12:47

Inside the Heuermann Family’s Courtroom Moment — and...

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2026/04/10

When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria were seated in the last row of a packed courtroom. The victims’ families occupied reserved seats closer to the front. Some wept as Heuermann described his crimes.The dynamic inside that room deserves examination. Ellerup, who was married to Heuermann for nearly three decades, has maintained that she had no knowledge of his alleged crimes. Prosecutors say her own hair was recovered from

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20:24

Rex Heuermann’s Guilty Plea Confirms What the...

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2026/04/10

The blueprint was on his computer. Checklists for limiting noise. Instructions for cleaning bodies. Notes on destroying evidence. Investigators recovered it from devices seized during a twelve-day search of Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park — a search that also turned up a basement vault containing hundreds of weapons and violent content that prosecutors say tracks directly to the methodology described in those files.Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder — three

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14:09

Rex Heuermann and Melissa Barthelemy: The Gilgo Beach...

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2026/04/10

A man used Melissa Barthelemy's phone to call her 15-year-old sister five times over five weeks. The calls were vulgar, mocking, sadistic — and operationally precise. Under three minutes each. From crowded Manhattan locations. The caller hung up on Melissa's mother and spoke only to the teenager. Law enforcement described his tone as emotionally flat, monotone, controlled. In the final call, he told Amanda her sister was dead.Episode 5 of "The Seven." Melissa was 24, from Buffalo, living in the

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61:00

Heuermann and Duggars: Denial, Conditioning, and...

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2026/04/09

Two cases. Three women. And the same question running underneath all of it — what does the mind do when the truth is something it cannot afford to see?Rex Heuermann is charged with murdering seven women along the Gilgo Beach corridor and is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea. His ex-wife Asa Ellerup shared a life with him for nearly three decades and has maintained she saw nothing. Prosecutors allege he timed the crimes for when his family was away, kept violent content and detailed

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24:19

Bateman's Arrest, the Trailer, and the Kidnapping

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2026/04/09

The image that will define this case forever: small fingers pushing through the slats of a sealed trailer on a Flagstaff highway. But what happened after that traffic stop might be more disturbing than the stop itself.Bateman posted bond and went home. Federal agents raided his compound two weeks later. Nine children were placed in foster care. From a detention facility in Florence, Arizona, Bateman used shared institutional tablets to direct three of his wives to extract eight of those girls from

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14:40

Michelle Duggar: The Mother Who Built a Brand on Silence

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2026/04/09

Most people think of denial as a moment. A flinch. A refusal to look. Michelle Duggar has turned it into something else entirely — a structure that has reportedly spanned over two decades, survived a federal conviction, and now faces a second son's arrest.She reportedly knew about Josh's abuse of her own daughters as early as 2002. She and Jim Bob reportedly sent him to manual labor for a family friend instead of professional treatment. Weeks after he came home, she wrote a parenting magazine

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