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Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns

Hidden Killers Podcast

Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how

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49:02

Kepner Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach Civil Defense

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins for a full-episode analysis of two cases where the legal questions are converging on the same core issue — how much the people standing next to an accused knew, chose not to see, or gambled on.In the Anna Kepner federal case, Faddis examines why a sixteen-year-old’s defense team would sign off on a waiver volunteering him for adult prosecution on charges carrying a maximum of life in prison. He breaks down the evidentiary record — ship

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16:18

Asa Ellerup’s Civil Defense After the Guilty Plea

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County Court, the criminal case reached its conclusion. But for his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, a different legal fight is just beginning.A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack alleges that Ellerup and her daughter Victoria either knew about, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning of the murders. The complaint also alleges unjust enrichment from a Peacock documentary that reportedly paid the family over a million

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24:02

Jesse Butler: The Clock Nobody Wanted To Stop

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

Fifteen minutes.That's how long a teenage girl had to understand that the boy she accused of nearly killing her was about to walk out of a Stillwater courtroom without a single day in prison. Fifteen minutes to process "no contest." Fifteen minutes to process "youthful offender." Fifteen minutes to realize the August birthday coming in four months would legally erase the whole thing.Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts — attempted rape, rape by instrumentation, strangulation,

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17:00

Anna Kepner: Can a Medication Defense Work Here

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

The physical evidence in the Anna Kepner case presents a compressed, specific set of facts that prosecutors believe can be tried in approximately one week. Ship surveillance showing no one else entering or exiting the cabin. A body allegedly concealed under a bed with deliberate covering. A cause of death — mechanical asphyxiation — that implies sustained physical contact.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether a medication-based argument has any realistic path in a case

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16:23

Anna Kepner Case: The Defense Gamble That Changes...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/17

Unsealed federal court records in the Anna Kepner case have revealed a defense move that experienced criminal attorneys are calling highly unusual. The accused — a sixteen-year-old facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his eighteen-year-old stepsister — signed a written waiver requesting to be prosecuted as an adult. His defense counsel co-signed the document.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that waiver tells us

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63:26

LIVE: Full Panel — FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

The full panel, live and uncut. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony for a complete breakdown of the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet — from how he built the cult, to what it did to the people inside, to whether Short Creek will ever stop producing predators who call themselves prophets.Robin spent two decades reading human behavior at the highest levels of federal law enforcement. Shavaun has

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19:46

LIVE: Is the FLDS Cycle Finally Breaking? | Part 3

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

The final segment of our live three-part panel on the Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. Parts 1 and 2 covered how he built it and what it did to the people inside. Now we're talking about what happens next — and whether "next" means healing or repetition.Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are back with Tony for the conversation about the future of Short Creek. The FLDS has survived everything the justice system has thrown at it

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24:03

LIVE: The Psychological Damage Inside Bateman's FLDS...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

Going live for Part 2 of our panel on the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. If Part 1 was about how Bateman built his cult, this one is about what it did to the people inside it — and the damage that's still unfolding.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are back with Tony for the conversation about the invisible wreckage. The children who wrote about their abuse in journals but couldn't say it out loud to a single adult

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20:16

LIVE: FBI Expert & Psychotherapist on How Bateman...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/16

We're going live with a conversation you're not going to want to pause. Former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott are sitting down with Tony to break apart the Samuel Bateman case in real time — starting with the question everyone who watched the Netflix doc Trust Me: The False Prophet keeps asking: how did a broke, homeless man get fifty people to hand him their children, their money, and their obedience in three years?Robin spent two decades at the FBI

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55:32

Gilgo Beach Plea, Ellerup Suit, Anna Kepner Case:...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/15

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski for a wide-ranging conversation that covers Rex Heuermann's guilty plea, the civil lawsuit against his family, and the federal adult indictment in the Anna Kepner case — bringing both legal strategy and behavioral expertise to bear on each story.Motta opens with the defense perspective on Heuermann's plea. He explains what it means when a defense team loses every

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19:17

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder: Defense Challenges...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/15

A defense attorney breaks down the federal indictment against Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother — and examines the significant challenges facing both the prosecution and the defense in a case that involves a minor charged as an adult, contradictory early reporting, and a family splintering across multiple courtrooms.The conversation begins with the most striking element of the indictment: the aggravated abuse charge. Early public reporting stated there was no indication of assault beyond

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17:40

Rex Heuermann: Why He Pleaded Guilty and What He Avoided

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/15

A defense attorney walks through the strategic calculus behind Rex Heuermann's guilty plea — and explains why the timing, the terms, and the inclusion of an uncharged victim all point to a defendant managing his exposure rather than accepting responsibility. Heuermann spent nearly three years maintaining his innocence while his legal team filed motion after motion, each one denied. When the judge ruled whole genome sequencing admissible and ordered all seven charges tried together, the defense had

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19:07

Gilgo Beach: Asa Ellerup Lawsuit Defense Breakdown

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/15

A defense attorney examines the civil lawsuit filed against Rex Heuermann's ex-wife and daughter — and explains why the complaint may not survive its first legal challenge. Benjamin Torres, the adult son of Gilgo Beach victim Valerie Mack, has sued Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann alongside the now-convicted killer, alleging they knew about the murders, concealed evidence, and collected over a million dollars from a documentary while showing callous disregard for the victims' families.The legal

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59:38

Nancy Guthrie and the Duggars: FBI Connects the Pattern

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to both of the stories dominating the national conversation — and draws the investigative line between them.In the Nancy Guthrie case, Coffindaffer maps every documented failure from crime scene handling to evidence disputes to the structural problems that predate Nancy's disappearance, and explains why the cumulative weight of those failures may already have compromised a future prosecution. She addresses the behavioral

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26:01

Duggar Investigation: Family System Under FBI-Level...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/14

The criminal case against Joseph Duggar has expanded beyond a single allegation into a multi-state investigation that's raising questions about systemic patterns of alleged abuse and concealment inside one of America's most publicly visible families.Joseph faces two life felony charges in Florida. He and his wife Kendra face eight combined misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. Investigators reportedly found exterior-mounted locks on bedroom doors during a search of their home. Court records in the

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16:15

Nancy Guthrie Case: The Calculation Keeping Nanos in...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her experience investigating law enforcement leaders who clung to power under pressure to the Pima County crisis — where Sheriff Chris Nanos faces a unanimous no-confidence vote, a board threatening removal under oath, multiple federal lawsuits, and a recall effort, and still refuses to resign while overseeing the Nancy Guthrie investigation.Coffindaffer analyzes the behavioral indicators of a leader whose self-preservation instinct has

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18:00

Nancy Guthrie: FBI Exposed What the Sheriff Missed

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/14

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer brings her bureau expertise to the documented investigative failures in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance — a case where the lead agency's own deputies have unanimously voted no confidence in their sheriff.Coffindaffer examines what it means when local law enforcement declares evidence unrecoverable and the FBI produces it days later. She analyzes the behavioral indicators behind a sheriff who publicly contradicts himself, shares operational details

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62:36

FBI Behavioral Expert: Duggars, FLDS Cults, and...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/13

Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, provides extended expert analysis across three interconnected investigations — applying decades of behavioral expertise to the Duggar family's private crisis communications, the family system that produced two sons facing charges or convictions involving children, and the psychological control mechanisms of FLDS cult leader Samuel Bateman.The behavioral throughline is chosen silence — how families, religious

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19:27

FBI Behavioral Expert Analyzes FLDS Cult Leader...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/13

From a behavioral analysis perspective, the Samuel Bateman case presents a concentrated example of cult control mechanics operating at their most extreme — a man with no institutional backing, no financial resources, and no prior following who constructed a system of total psychological dominance within a few years. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies his expertise in behavioral influence and manipulation to examine how Bateman achieved

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12:47

FBI Expert: The Duggar Family System That Produced...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2026/04/13

Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, applies decades of behavioral expertise to the structural question at the center of the Duggar family's unraveling: how does one household, operating under one parenting philosophy, produce two sons facing charges or convictions involving the abuse of children — and what does that pattern reveal about the system rather than the individuals?The analysis moves beyond the criminal allegations against Joseph

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