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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, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, 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

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13:26

She Killed Their Mother—Now "The Perfect Neighbor”...

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2025/11/07

She killed their mother—and now she wants to sue them.Convicted shooter Susan Lorincz, the woman who fired through a locked door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens in Ocala, Florida, is back in the headlines. From her prison cell, Lorincz penned a four-page handwritten letter threatening to sue Owens’s children and mother for defamation—accusing them of lying, trespassing, and “ruining her reputation.” In this episode of Hidden Killers, host Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with

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32:51

Justice on Trial: How Jesse Butler Turned 11 Felonies...

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2025/11/07

Eleven felony charges. Two teenage victims. One nearly strangled to death. And somehow—no prison time. In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony, Stacy, and Todd to unpack how Stillwater, Oklahoma’s justice system transformed one of the state’s most brutal sexual-assault cases into a single year of “rehabilitation.” Eighteen-year-old Jesse Mack Butler was originally charged with rape, attempted rape, sexual battery, and

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45:56

When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks...

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2025/11/07

Two cases. Two very different crimes.One system that failed both sets of victims. In this Hidden Killers double feature, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack two stories that expose the cracks in American justice — one soaked in leniency, the other in cruelty. First: Jesse Mack Butler. Eleven felony charges. Two teenage girls. One nearly strangled to death. Video evidence. Doctors saying seconds more and she’d be

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20:51

Golden State Killer Prosecutor Thien Ho Reveals What...

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2025/11/06

When Joseph DeAngelo — the Golden State Killer — was finally unmasked in 2018, the world saw an old man slumped in a wheelchair. But according to Sacramento DA Thien Ho, it was all an act.In this exclusive conversation, Tony Brueski goes behind the headlines with Ho, the man who stood across the courtroom from one of America’s most elusive serial predators. From the whispered “crazy act” DeAngelo tried to pull in the interrogation room to the frail performance he staged in court, Ho explains how

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26:02

The People vs. The Golden State Killer: How DA Thien...

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2025/11/06

For more than 40 years, the man now known as the Golden State Killer stalked California — breaking into homes, raping, murdering, and then vanishing into the night. He was a ghost who terrorized families from Sacramento to Santa Barbara — until one relentless prosecutor finally helped end his reign of fear. In this episode, Tony Brueski sits down with Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, the man who personally led the prosecution that put Joseph James DeAngelo behind bars for life. Ho’s

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46:33

From Refugee to DA: Thien Ho’s Fight to Bring the...

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2025/11/06

Imagine fleeing a war as a child, arriving in America unable to speak the language — and decades later, becoming the prosecutor who takes down one of the nation’s most infamous serial killers.That’s the real-life journey of Thien Ho, Sacramento County’s District Attorney and author of The People vs. The Golden State Killer. In this Hidden Killers exclusive, Tony Brueski sits down with Ho to unpack the extraordinary story behind both the man and the case: the trauma that drove him, the promise he

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28:38

GUILTY… But Not Enough: Inside the Sean Grayson...

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2025/11/05

After weeks of testimony and emotional bodycam footage, the jury finally spoke: Sean Grayson is guilty of second-degree murder for killing Sonya Massey — the unarmed woman who called 911 for help.But “second-degree” feels like a technicality, not justice. In this Hidden Killers exclusive, Tony Brueski and defense attorney Bob Motta pull apart the verdict, the courtroom strategy, and the dangerous precedent it sets. How did prosecutors lose the first-degree charge when the evidence seemed

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26:38

She Called 911 for Help: They Sent A Cop With A Rap...

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2025/11/05

She called 911 for help. And they sent her a bullet.When 36-year-old Sonya Massey phoned the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on a quiet July night, she thought officers would protect her. Instead, Deputy Sean Grayson — a man with a trail of DUIs, firings, and a dishonorable discharge — shot her in the face inside her own kitchen. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski sits down with defense attorney and Defense Diaries host Bob Motta to dissect a verdict that’s enraged a nation. A jury

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54:55

From Army Misconduct to Badge & Gun: Bob Motta On The...

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2025/11/05

Before he killed Sonya Massey, Deputy Sean Grayson was already a walking liability — fired from department after department, discharged from the Army for misconduct, arrested for DUI, and still somehow cleared to wear a badge in Illinois. In this powerful conversation, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels and attorney Bob Motta expose how that happened — and why it keeps happening. From failed background checks to lax hiring standards, the system designed to protect the public instead

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24:18

The Road Trip No One Understands: The Melodee Buzzard...

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2025/11/04

Security footage: a nine-year-old in a gray hoodie and wig beside her mother at a Lompoc rental-car counter.Three days later, the mother returns — alone. In this Hidden Killers round-table, Tony Brueski and the team dissect the road-trip timeline that has investigators racing from California to Nebraska and Kansas. Why disguise a child? Why drive 1,500 miles and come home without her? And why hasn’t Ashlee Buzzard been charged? We’ll walk through the digital trail — credit-card pings, cell data,

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33:17

System Failure: How 9-Year-Old Melodee Buzzard...

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2025/11/04

How does a child disappear while every agency insists it’s “following policy”? Tonight on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and the panel trace the bureaucratic breakdown that let Melodee Buzzard, 9, fade from every official record. Complaints were filed. CPS was warned. The school marked her “independent study.” And still, no one saw her for more than a year. We unpack the entire chain of failure — from overloaded caseworkers and loophole homeschooling laws to judges demanding “visible danger” before

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57:15

Melodee Buzzard & The Great Vanishing: How California...

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2025/11/04

Melodee Buzzard’s disappearance isn’t an anomaly — it’s the warning sign of a statewide collapse. Between 2019 and 2022, California’s public-school rolls dropped by 270,000 students. Roughly 150,000 of them remain unaccounted for in any school, private affidavit, or relocation record. They didn’t all move — many simply vanished from the data, the same way Melodee vanished from oversight. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and the panel connect the dots between one missing-child case

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22:29

Epstein’s Web, Fear’s Grip: Robin Dreeke Breaks Down...

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2025/11/03

What happens when the grooming starts long before the predator ever arrives? Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl traces that timeline—from a chaotic childhood to the psychological capture engineered by Epstein and Maxwell. Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, Todd Michaels, and retired FBI behavioral chief Robin Dreeke dissect the emotional architecture of trafficking: the grooming cycles, the normalization tactics, and the moment victims become complicit just to survive. Dreeke breaks down why fear—not money or

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30:41

Groomed by Fear: Inside Virginia Giuffre’s Final...

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2025/11/03

Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl isn’t just another Epstein chapter—it’s a psychological case study in how fear becomes control. In this raw episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski sits down with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, the former Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, to unpack how predators like Epstein and Maxwell systematically identify and break their targets. Giuffre’s memoir lays bare every step—from her father’s early betrayal

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52:49

Predators, Power & the Machinery of Silence |...

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2025/11/03

Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl doesn’t just tell a story—it indicts an entire system built on power, grooming, and silence. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sits down with FBI veteran Robin Dreeke to map out how the Epstein-Maxwell machine turned trauma into obedience and money into immunity. Dreeke unpacks every psychological layer: how parental betrayal created lifelong vulnerability, how Maxwell’s “female reassurance” normalized

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52:55

Predators, Power & the Machinery of Silence |...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/02

Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl doesn’t just tell a story—it indicts an entire system built on power, grooming, and silence. In this episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sits down with FBI veteran Robin Dreeke to map out how the Epstein-Maxwell machine turned trauma into obedience and money into immunity. Dreeke unpacks every psychological layer: how parental betrayal created lifelong vulnerability, how Maxwell’s “female reassurance” normalized

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52:23

When Justice Fails | Bryan Kohberger’s Profits & The...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/02

Two stories. One broken system. In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger could legally make money off his own murders. In Virginia, a first-grade teacher named Abby Zwerner was shot after four separate warnings were ignored. Both stories show how America’s justice system has traded accountability for excuses — and how law, morality, and bureaucracy keep collapsing under their own contradictions. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis connect these cases in one of their most morally charged episodes yet

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51:20

Trauma, Fear, and Accountability: Shavaun Scott on...

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns ·

2025/11/01

When Ajike Owens was killed through a closed door, her four children lost their mother — and a nation faced the consequences of unchecked paranoia.In this exclusive episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the mental chain reaction behind that fatal moment. Scott explores how chronic resentment, fear scripting, and entitlement converge in what she calls “justified aggression”—the mind’s way of excusing harm under the guise of

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70:03

15 People Saw Laci Peterson Alive!! NONE Were Heard...

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2025/11/01

Imagine fifteen people—five of whom personally knew Laci Peterson—telling police they saw her alive, walking her golden retriever, after her husband had already left for his solo fishing trip. Now imagine every single one of them ignored. That’s the picture painted by the LA Innocence Project in its new 600-page petition for a new trial. The filing lists more than a dozen witnesses who saw a pregnant woman matching Laci’s description between 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. on Dec 24 2002, right in the

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69:18

Letters from the Dark: Donna Adelson’s Prison Plea &...

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2025/11/01

In this full episode of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels take you inside the minds of two of America’s most notorious convicted murderers — Donna Adelson and Chad Daybell — through the words they wrote themselves.Segment 1: Donna Adelson’s Prison Letter From a Florida jail cell, Donna Adelson wrote a 2024 letter to her husband Harvey describing how her heart “breaks” over missing her grandsons’ first day of school. What could have been a rare glimpse of remorse

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