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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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  1. Jan 22

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  2. 1h ago

    Siders Family: A Judge Approved WHAT At Age 15?!

    Before there were sixteen children in a five-room house on Ohmer Street, there was one fifteen-year-old girl and a judge's signature on a marriage license — because Ohio, at the time, set no minimum age for marriage at all. That girl grew up to be Elizabeth Siders, and she's now one of four adults facing sixty-eight felony counts of child endangerment out of Hamden, Ohio. The case broke open when Vinton County deputies arrived to serve a misdemeanor warrant and instead found sixteen kids living in the house, several of whom couldn't speak or read and had never been enrolled in a school. The Attorney General called it "pure evil." The sheriff said livestock gets treated better. And the AG's use of the word intrafamilial hints this story isn't finished being told. Here's the part worth sitting with live: every one of those sixteen children was born in a hospital. One roughly every thirteen months, for eighteen years straight. Not one nurse or doctor said a word. Ohio gutted its homeschool oversight in 2023, which meant no school ever came looking for kids who didn't exist on paper. The state that let a fifteen-year-old get married with a judge's blessing is the same state that then lost track of her children for two decades. Tony's taking this one live — the marriage law, the hospital pattern, the oversight gap, and the four adults now facing charges — and opening the floor for the audience to weigh in on the question nobody's answered yet: was Elizabeth Siders the first victim in that house, or one of the people responsible for 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/@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. #SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #OhioHouseOfHorrors #VintonCounty #16KidsOhio #ChildEndangerment #GarySiders #SystemFailure

    Siders Family: A Judge Approved WHAT At Age 15?!

  3. 4h ago

    Nolan Wells' Friends Wiped WHAT Right After He Vanished?!

    There's a version of the Nolan Wells case where three friends panic, make a bad call, and everything else is just grief and bad luck. And there's the version where a wiped phone, a lawyered-up friend group, and a boat nobody's bothered to inspect start to look like something else entirely. Nolan went out to Horn Island for the Fourth of July with three friends; only three came back. His phone eventually surfaced at the boat owner's house — Snapchat wiped on it, no phone call to his mother letting her know it had turned up. The friends' story is that Nolan wanted to stay behind for a girl. The girl's story doesn't match. The stated reason the boat left him behind — that it was taking on water — has never been independently checked, because as far as anyone can tell, the boat itself has never been examined by investigators at all. Nolan's own best friend, who was there that day, says he's never even been contacted. A Jackson County judge's stepson was on that boat too. The Coast Guard got a call at 11 PM and decided it wasn't urgent. Two days and a failed search later, Nolan was found face down in the water, right where he was last seen alive. His parents ordered their own autopsy rather than take Mississippi's word for it. Hundreds have marched in Ocean Springs. The funeral needs an arena. And the sheriff's answer to all of it, so far, is that his office won't be rushed — which is a strange thing to say about evidence with an expiration date. 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. #NolanWells #SheriffLedbetter #HiddenKillersLive #HornIsland #OceanSprings #BenCrump #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #ElmoreWonsley #TrueCrime

    Nolan Wells' Friends Wiped WHAT Right After He Vanished?!

  4. 15h ago

    Siders 16 Kids: Did Ohio Just Silence The Wrong People?

    Ohio's attorney general described what investigators found in the Siders home as pure evil. The sheriff said his county's livestock were kept in better conditions than those sixteen children. Both officials saw the inside of that house with their own eyes. A Vinton County judge just told them they cannot talk about it. The gag order covers the AG's office, the prosecutor, the sheriff, the clerk, and defense counsel. It was filed by Gary Siders Junior's attorney citing inflammatory language. The judge agreed the statements could prejudice potential jurors. What the order also does is halt the public flow of information about how sixteen children went undetected for eighteen years — right when state legislators started asking the hardest questions. Gallia County filed truancy complaints against the family in 2021 after six children missed an entire school year. The court terminated every case three months later. Gary Senior was released from custody because Vinton County couldn't cover his medical costs. Ohio approved a million dollars in emergency funding for the children. The officials who uncovered these facts and shared them with the public are the ones now prohibited from speaking. The institutions that never found those kids have not been required to explain anything. 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. #SidersFamily #GarySiders #HiddenKillersLive #VintonCounty #16Kids #OhioGagOrder #TrueCrime #ElizabethSiders #ChildEndangerment #JusticeForKids

    Siders 16 Kids: Did Ohio Just Silence The Wrong People?

  5. 17h ago

    Did Officials Fail Both Nolan Wells AND The Siders Kids?

    The sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected before anyone investigated Nolan Wells' death. A county in Ohio had truancy complaints on children five years before sixteen of them were discovered in a room smaller than a jail cell. Two cases, two states, and the same question at the center of both: did the people responsible for protecting these families fail before anyone else had a chance to act? Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers both cases in one extended live conversation. The Nolan Wells segments cover the premature call, the friends' contradictory statements, the allegedly deleted messages, the friend who went public during the investigation, and the DA's decision to present to a grand jury for what was called a drowning. The Siders segments cover the gag order, the grandfather who walked free because of medical costs, the charges and whether child endangerment captures what investigators found, and the question that dominates everything: Elizabeth Siders was married at fifteen, is the biological mother of all sixteen children, faces sixteen felony counts, and her own attorney says she may be a victim of this family. Faddis brings a former prosecutor's perspective to every angle. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it all down live. —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. #NolanWells #SidersFamily #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HornIsland #Ohio #ElizabethSiders #Mississippi #Investigation

    Did Officials Fail Both Nolan Wells AND The Siders Kids?

  6. 19h ago

    Did Nolan Wells' Mom Find Anything On His Phone At All?

    Almost nothing about the Nolan Wells case adds up cleanly — and the family's first sign that something was wrong came from an ordinary place: their son's phone.Nolan was a kid who documented everything. When his mother went through his phone after his death, looking for the last day of his life, what she found (and didn't) is where this whole breakdown starts. Then it widens out into the full Nolan Wells timeline.The setup: an 18-year-old wide receiver from Ocean Springs, Mississippi takes a Fourth of July boat trip to Horn Island — ten miles offshore, no facilities, no cameras. His friends return to the mainland. He stays behind, and two days later he's recovered from the water. Simple, until you line up the accounts and watch them collide. A young woman says he told her he was heading back to the boat. The friends say he told them he was staying. A viral video gets treated as evidence of a fight — until a friend comes forward and says it's not what people think.We go through every contradiction: the phone and the messages the family says were deleted, the two versions of his final decision, the video, and the questions about race that officials rushed to close before the medical examiner had even finished. We cover the sheriff's "no foul play" line, the body flown across the country for an independent look, and the money from public figures paying for it.And we end on the fact that undercuts all the certainty on every side: no one has released a cause of death. This is the real record — the questions, the failures, and the parts nobody can prove. Follow along for updates as answers come. END_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: #NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersLive #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #BenCrump #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Unsolved

    Did Nolan Wells' Mom Find Anything On His Phone At All?

  7. 21h ago

    Is Elizabeth Siders a Defendant Or THIS Family's Victim?

    She was married off at fifteen. She gave birth to all sixteen children. She faces sixteen felony counts. And her own attorney says she might be a victim of the Siders family, not one of its architects. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the hardest legal question in this case: can Elizabeth Siders be a defendant and a victim at the same time, and what does that argument do to a prosecution trying to hold four people accountable for what happened inside one house? Four adults face sixty-four combined felony counts of child endangerment. The grandfather, seventy-three years old, walked out of custody because Vinton County couldn't cover his medical expenses — and his defense attorney has filed five competency motions. The AG called the conditions pure evil. The sheriff compared them to livestock. And now a gag order has silenced every official, filed by the very defense team whose client's unrelated warrant led deputies to the house in the first place. Faddis addresses whether child endangerment is the right charge for what investigators described, why the gag order could become the defense's strongest weapon, where the state's liability begins after Gallia County filed truancy complaints in 2021 that were never served, and how a judge sentences four defendants with wildly different levels of alleged culpability. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it all down live. —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. #SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

    Is Elizabeth Siders a Defendant Or THIS Family's Victim?

  8. 23h ago

    Nancy Guthrie's Sheriff Said NO To The FBI's Plane?

    The FBI Director says he had an aircraft on the ground, fueled, ready to fly DNA evidence from the Nancy Guthrie scene to Quantico through the night. He says the Pima County Sheriff sent it to a private lab in Florida instead. The sheriff says the decision was made on scene, based on operational needs, and that the two labs have worked in partnership from the start. One of them is not telling the whole story. Tony Brueski goes through the full contradiction ledger in the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's eighty-four-year-old mother. The dueling statements released forty-five minutes apart in which each agency pointed at the other. The Reuters report on the ransom notes that FBI Phoenix reversed publicly the next day. The retired agent who says there is significant disagreement inside the Bureau. And the four days. Patel says the FBI was kept out. But an FBI special agent stood next to the sheriff at a Tucson press conference on the third of February, and Patel himself said on camera that same day that the Bureau was on the ground with them. Three officials, same side, three versions of the same four days. Meanwhile the sheriff was answering questions about his own record, and told the reporter asking to enjoy his hit piece. A working crime scene investigator says nobody has told that family the truth. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. No suspect has been named. END LINKSJoin 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 DISCLAIMERThis 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 #ChrisNanos #HiddenKillersLive #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #SavannahGuthrie #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson

    Nancy Guthrie's Sheriff Said NO To The FBI's Plane?
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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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