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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 investigators crack cases, uncovering the psychology of killers, or following the twists of ongoing trials, you’ll get sharp, unfiltered insight every time. Unlike recap shows, Hidden Killers Live! is true crime talk in real time — asking the tough questions, cutting through the noise, and giving listeners the context they need to understand today’s biggest cases. If you crave smart, binge-worthy true crime content with expert commentary, emotional depth, and daily updates that keep you ahead of the story, this is the podcast for you. Follow now on Apple Podcasts and join Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke inside Hidden Killers Live! — where the truth is always in the details.

  1. HOW TO LISTEN to PREMIUM PLUS AD-FREE, ADVANCE Episodes!

    Jan 22

    HOW TO LISTEN to PREMIUM PLUS AD-FREE, ADVANCE Episodes!

    How to Get Ad-Free, Advance Content from True Crime Today and Hidden Killers Podcasts Do you want to enjoy all the content from True Crime Today and Hidden Killers podcasts without ads and before everyone else? Here’s exactly how to do it: Subscribe to True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS on Apple Podcasts. Choose either a monthly or yearly subscription. Make sure you select True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS—this is the channel that gives you all the ad-free and advance content. Important: If you’re hearing ads, it means you’re not on the right channel. Double-check that you’ve subscribed to True Crime Today Premium Plus. Follow the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel on Apple Podcasts. This is a separate channel where all the ad-free and early-access episodes are uploaded. Remember: Regular episodes with ads will still be available on the main channels. To get the ad-free and advance episodes, you must subscribe and follow the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel. If you’re still getting ads, head over to the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel and ensure you’re subscribed there! Enjoy your exclusive content!

    1 min
  2. Nancy Guthrie and Anna Kepner: Two Families, Two Failures, Zero Accountability

    3h ago

    Nancy Guthrie and Anna Kepner: Two Families, Two Failures, Zero Accountability

    Pima County has acknowledged it has never dealt with a wrench attack. If the crypto kidnapping theory is correct, the investigation has been structured for a conventional crime while the actual architecture — overseas handlers, encrypted recruitment, disposable operatives, cryptocurrency — operates on a level that local law enforcement has no experience with. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for an extended analysis. She examines the wrench attack theory, the anonymous Mexico tip, the sheriff discovering a cross-border search from news reports, and what it would change if the FBI formally adopted the crypto framework. The analysis also covers the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder. The public demand for parental charges. Hudson’s step-grandmother’s CBS interview. The ex-boyfriend’s claim that Anna feared Hudson. And the jurisdictional wall — Panamanian flag, international waters, no applicable federal statute — that may block prosecution. Robin Dreeke provides behavioral analysis across both cases. Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NancyGuthrie #AnnaKepner #CruiseShipMurder #CryptoKidnapping #WrenchAttack #FBI #SavannahGuthrie #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

    52 min
  3. Does Eric Bland Think Alex Murdaugh Will Testify Again?

    5h ago

    Does Eric Bland Think Alex Murdaugh Will Testify Again?

    During the appeal, Murdaugh's defense had limited tools. They could argue the record. They could point to Becky Hill. But they couldn't compel new documents or force new testimony. That's over. At retrial, Harpootlian and Griffin walk in with full subpoena power — and they've already signaled they intend to use it. Eric Bland has been in discovery on the financial side of this case for years. He's seen records the public hasn't. He knows what the prosecution relied on and what it left on the table. Now the defense gets access to that same landscape — and the ability to reframe it. In this interview, Bland assesses whether the prosecution can still win with a narrower financial crimes presentation, what the defense's unknown DNA evidence actually means in a courtroom, and whether Wilson's death penalty consideration helps or hurts the state's position. He gives his honest read on whether Alex Murdaugh should testify again — and explains why the hung jury scenario is more real than most commentators want to admit. This isn't a legal panel rehashing what we already know. This is the attorney who built the motive case telling you whether the prosecution can survive without it. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #EricBland #Harpootlian #SubpoenaPower #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillersLive #NewEvidence #MurdaughTrial

    17 min
  4. Anna Kepner Cruise Ship: Did Her Parents Know She Was Afraid of Him?

    7h ago

    Anna Kepner Cruise Ship: Did Her Parents Know She Was Afraid of Him?

    Anna Kepner’s ex-boyfriend says her brother told him she was scared of Timothy Hudson. That she would sleep at friends’ houses to avoid being near him. If that’s true, and the parents knew, the cabin arrangement on the Carnival Horizon looks different than a simple vacation decision. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the central question in the parental accountability debate: what did the parents know about Anna’s fear, and when did they know it? She walks through what investigators would need to establish, how the Crumbley school shooting conviction compares and where it diverges, and why the parents’ denial of alcohol on the ship matters. Hudson’s step-grandmother went on CBS and said the parents should be charged, calling the cruise “a recipe for disaster.” But this happened on a Panamanian-flagged vessel in international waters. There is no federal contributing-to-delinquency statute. The loudest public demand in this case may be aimed at a legal wall. Robin Dreeke reads the behavioral dynamics of a family publicly fracturing under the weight of a murder charge and what the competing public statements reveal about what was known inside the household before that ship sailed. Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #CruiseShipMurder #CarnivalHorizon #ParentsCharged #JusticeForAnna #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CruiseShipCrime

    11 min
  5. Nancy Guthrie: The Sheriff Found Out About the Mexico Search From the News

    13h ago

    Nancy Guthrie: The Sheriff Found Out About the Mexico Search From the News

    The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says it learned about a cross-border search for Nancy Guthrie from media reports. Not from Mexican authorities. Not from the FBI’s legal attaché office in Mexico City. Not from the Hermosillo suboffice. From the news. An anonymous caller reached a volunteer search collective in Nogales, Mexico, and claimed Nancy’s remains were buried in the Mariposa area near the border. The group searched and found nothing connected to Nancy. But the area already held more than 25 unmarked graves with at least 32 sets of remains. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what it means when the lead agency on a murder investigation discovers a cross-border development from reporters. She addresses the communication failures, whether there’s a functioning investigative channel between the U.S. and Mexico on this case, and what the anonymous tip’s routing says about whoever sent it. Robin Dreeke reads the behavioral implications of the sheriff’s public response and what the communication breakdown reveals about the investigation’s structure four months in. Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #MexicoBorderSearch #PimaCounty #FBI #Tucson #Nogales #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

    17 min
  6. Nancy Guthrie: Did a Crypto Gang Send the Person to Her Door?

    15h ago

    Nancy Guthrie: Did a Crypto Gang Send the Person to Her Door?

    Thirty-four verified crypto kidnappings in four months. A 41 percent increase. Roughly $101 million in losses. Handlers overseas directing disposable operatives through encrypted apps to force their way into homes and extract digital currency. The model has a name — a wrench attack — and a blockchain security firm has put Nancy Guthrie’s case on its official list. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a detailed examination of the crypto kidnapping theory. She’s been the most prominent expert voice connecting this model to Nancy’s disappearance and has said publicly it “checks a lot of boxes.” But this conversation puts the theory through questions it hasn’t faced. Why is Nancy on the list when no crypto trail connects her family to a targeting pipeline? Why does the person at her door look nothing like the Scottsdale operatives who showed up in FedEx uniforms the day before? If the crypto ransom demands came from opportunists and not the people who took her, does the classification hold? Robin Dreeke applies behavioral analysis to the wrench attack operative profile and what the doorbell camera evidence does — and doesn’t — match. Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CryptoKidnapping #WrenchAttack #CertiK #FBI #Tucson #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

    24 min
  7. Nancy Guthrie: Is She Buried in the Mexican Desert?

    1d ago

    Nancy Guthrie: Is She Buried in the Mexican Desert?

    It’s the question nobody can answer and everybody’s asking. An anonymous caller told a Mexican volunteer group that what happened to Nancy Guthrie ended in the Mariposa arroyos — a stretch of desert near the Arizona border where clandestine graves have been found before. He said her body is there. He described where to dig. The Nancy Guthrie case now stretches across an international border, and the people doing the searching are volunteers with shovels. Buscando Corazones Nogales, a collective that searches for the missing in Sonora, has conducted two searches based on this tip. Both came up empty. The caller persisted — reaching back out with revised directions after the first failure. A third search is scheduled. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says it has not been contacted by Mexican authorities. No U.S. law enforcement agency is involved. This episode lays out both sides. The location logic for burying someone in cartel territory — where remains get catalogued under a different crisis — isn’t crazy. The caller’s specificity is either damning or performative. The search group is legitimate and hasn’t dismissed the tip. But the same questions keep surfacing: why did the caller bypass over a million dollars in rewards? Why does this tip follow the same routing pattern as the ransom notes? And why is the only response from federal law enforcement silence? The answer may be in what those volunteers already knew about that ground before this caller ever pointed them there. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillersLive #NancyGuthrieMexico #NancyGuthrieBuried #GuthrieDesertSearch #NancyGuthrieMissing #GuthrieCaseUpdate #TrueCrime #BuscandoCorazones

    19 min
  8. Every False Lead in Nancy Guthrie’s Case Shares One Fingerprint

    1d ago

    Every False Lead in Nancy Guthrie’s Case Shares One Fingerprint

    Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for the complete session testing every major theory about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Robin identifies a behavioral pattern that runs through the Mexico tip, the insider theory, and the staging claim — and it changes how you read all of them. The anonymous caller who contacted a Mexican volunteer collective on Mother’s Day and described Nancy’s alleged burial site near the border routed his information the same way the ransom notes were routed: through a channel where he’d never have to identify himself or face verification. Two searches found nothing. He called back with new directions both times. Over a million in reward money went untouched. Robin connects that behavioral choice to every unverifiable claim the case has generated. The insider theory has the most law enforcement voices behind it. Nancy’s orbit was full of people with access to her schedule. The Gail Crane parallel — an eighty-three-year-old taken by a fired caregiver sixteen days earlier — is documented. But the man on the porch didn’t know about the camera. Robin examines the version where someone inside the orbit planned it and someone outside executed it. The staging claim says none of it was real. Robin applies the investigative framework for scene authenticity, notes the complete absence of precedent, and names the one thing that would have to exist for the theory to deserve a formal look. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RobinDreeke #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #MexicoTip #StagingTheory #PimaCounty #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime

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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 investigators crack cases, uncovering the psychology of killers, or following the twists of ongoing trials, you’ll get sharp, unfiltered insight every time. Unlike recap shows, Hidden Killers Live! is true crime talk in real time — asking the tough questions, cutting through the noise, and giving listeners the context they need to understand today’s biggest cases. If you crave smart, binge-worthy true crime content with expert commentary, emotional depth, and daily updates that keep you ahead of the story, this is the podcast for you. Follow now on Apple Podcasts and join Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke inside Hidden Killers Live! — where the truth is always in the details.

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