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    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. Mickey Stines: The Mental Breakdown Nobody Stopped

    2H AGO

    Mickey Stines: The Mental Breakdown Nobody Stopped

    In the week before Mickey Stines shot Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside a Kentucky courthouse, everyone around him knew something was terribly wrong. He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He wasn't sleeping. He was making phone calls to dead relatives. He told staff that shadowy forces were going to kill his wife and daughter. He made someone put a bulletproof vest on his wife. A local attorney warned the judge directly that Stines was "losing it." The police chief said he'd lost his mind. Three days before the shooting, Stines sat for a deposition in a federal lawsuit tied to allegations of sexual exploitation inside the judge's chambers. According to everyone in the room, he was a mess — taking ten breaks, unable to answer basic questions, at one point saying "I'm having an episode." Friends brought him to a doctor the day before. The diagnosis was acute stress. He was sent home. Twenty-four hours later, Kevin Mullins was dead. Today we examine this case through a psychological lens. Not to excuse what happened — nine bullets, seven fired while the judge was already on the ground — but to understand what was happening inside Mickey Stines' head. The defense claims he was in psychosis, that he believed his family was in imminent danger, that he lacked the capacity to intend what he did. The court will decide if that's valid. But the harder question might be this: when everyone can see someone falling apart, whose job is it to stop them? #MickeyStines #KevinMullins #LetcherCounty #KentuckySheriff #CourthouseShooting #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #MentalHealthCrisis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeNews 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    17 min
  3. Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert — The Suspect, the Sheriff, and the Silence

    4H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert — The Suspect, the Sheriff, and the Silence

    A retired FBI behavioral expert breaks down the full scope of the Nancy Guthrie case in one interview. The FBI targeted specific January dates in footage requests — suggesting digital evidence already in hand. The suspect knew the target but brought cheap gear and left identifying features exposed. Nancy's predictable routine and employed staff created multiple intelligence access points. Inside the investigation, the sheriff contradicted himself on crime scene handling, searchers contaminated the evidence field, DNA was routed away from Quantico over FBI objections, and investigators told reporters they can't identify a command structure. A male DNA profile from a matching glove is entering CODIS. Cell towers and Walmart records are being analyzed. But through fifteen days, two missed deadlines, and a family publicly offering to pay — no proof of life, no direct contact, no arrest. This interview covers every dimension of the case and asks the hardest questions. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #NancyGuthrieMissing #SheriffNanos #CODIS #FBIInvestigation #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonKidnapping #RobinDreeke 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    1h 8m
  4. Judge Rejects Plea Deal in Banfield Case — Juliana Magalhães Gets 10 Years | Au Pair Sentencing

    6H AGO

    Judge Rejects Plea Deal in Banfield Case — Juliana Magalhães Gets 10 Years | Au Pair Sentencing

    The prosecution recommended time served. The judge said no. Juliana Peres Magalhães — the au pair who admitted firing the shot that killed Joseph Ryan while Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine to death — was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison. Judge Penney Azcarate rejected the Commonwealth's recommendation that Magalhães walk free after roughly two years behind bars, delivering instead the maximum sentence available under the plea agreement. "You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done," Azcarate told Magalhães. "May it weigh heavily on your soul." The judge called this "the most serious manslaughter scenario this court has ever seen" and systematically dismantled any notion that Juliana was merely a passive participant in Brendan Banfield's scheme. She detailed how Juliana spent weeks messaging Joe Ryan, knowing she was luring him to his death. How she waited nearby and alerted Banfield when Ryan arrived. How she hung up when Christine Banfield begged her to call 911. And how she walked up to Joe Ryan as he lay moaning on the floor and shot him point blank in the heart. "At any point for at least the month prior — or that day — you could have stopped this. The plan did not work without your full involvement." Joe Ryan's mother delivered a devastating victim impact statement, revealing she still hasn't taken down her Christmas tree since her son's murder — it stands behind the urn holding his ashes. "My son's life was used and thrown away, seen as worthless and utterly disposable." This episode features full analysis of the sentencing hearing, the judge's ruling, and what this means for cooperating witnesses in future cases. #JulianaMagalhaes #BrendanBanfield #AuPairAffair #ChristineBanfield #JosephRyan #FairfaxCounty #TrueCrime #Sentencing #JudgeAzcarate #HiddenKillers 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    19 min
  5. Nancy Guthrie Case: What the DNA, the Silence, and Fifteen Days Without Proof of Life Mean

    8H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie Case: What the DNA, the Silence, and Fifteen Days Without Proof of Life Mean

    The DNA from a glove matching the suspect's is going into CODIS. The FBI's cell tower team is mapping every phone near Nancy's home during the critical windows. Walmart records are being cross-referenced. Cheek swabs from people of interest already exist. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through every active thread that could produce a name — and confronts what the ransom silence actually means. The first note to KOLD reportedly contained details only someone with inside knowledge would have. But every demand since has gone to media outlets. Two deadlines passed. The family offered to pay. No one collected. No proof of life in fifteen days. Pacemaker helicopters have found no signal in eleven days of searching. This interview asks the question the audience needs answered — what breaks this case and what does the silence tell us? #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #NancyGuthrieMissing #RansomNote #FBISearch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonKidnapping 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    20 min
  6. The Reiner Tragedy: When Love Becomes a Trap

    10H AGO

    The Reiner Tragedy: When Love Becomes a Trap

    Eighteen rehab stints. Millions of dollars. A guesthouse on the property. A movie made together about healing. Rob and Michele Reiner gave Nick everything for seventeen years. They never walked away. And they're dead. This episode isn't about blame — what happened is the responsibility of one person alone. But it's about a question that haunts everyone who's ever loved someone dangerous: when does staying become its own form of destruction? We're taught that love means presence. That walking away is abandonment. That good people don't give up. But "unconditional love" got twisted somewhere into "unconditional proximity." They're not the same thing. You can love someone from a distance. You can love someone you'll never see again. You can love someone and still refuse to let them take you down with them. Nick reportedly told his parents that refusing their treatment plans meant homelessness. That was the line. But it never held. Every consequence dissolved. Every ultimatum evaporated. Some people never hit bottom because someone's always there to catch them — and your outstretched hands become the floor preventing the fall that might actually save them. The trap has three parts. Guilt weaponization: your departure becomes the cause of their destruction. Sunk cost: you've invested too much to walk away now. The final save fantasy: what if you leave right when they were finally ready? Rob Reiner brought Nick to a Christmas party because he was reportedly afraid to leave him home alone. A seventy-seven-year-old man couldn't attend a holiday event without his thirty-two-year-old son in tow. That's not supervision. That's hostage behavior. You're allowed to stop. Walking away isn't betrayal — it's the recognition that your presence isn't saving anyone. The Reiners stayed until there was nowhere left to stand. You don't have to. #RobReiner #NickReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #ReinerMurders #TrueCrime #Enabling #WalkingAway #AddictionFamily #Codependency #HiddenKillers 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    27 min
  7. Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert Breaks Down the Investigation's Failures

    12H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert Breaks Down the Investigation's Failures

    He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told reporters they don't know who's in charge. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through fifteen days of contradictions and command failures in the Nancy Guthrie investigation — from the premature crime scene release and re-securing, to pool cleaners on an active scene, to a pacemaker helicopter delayed by a personal grudge, to DNA routed away from Quantico to a private Florida lab the FBI says it will likely need to retest. NewsNation's FBI source put it plainly: "This is dumb." This interview asks when the pattern crosses from friction into something that's costing Nancy Guthrie her life. #NancyGuthrie #SheriffNanos #PimaCountySheriff #NancyGuthrieMissing #FBIvsNanos #Othram #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InvestigationFailures #TucsonKidnapping 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    20 min
  8. Nancy Guthrie Day 16: The Glove, the DNA, and the Theory We Called Two Weeks Ago

    15H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie Day 16: The Glove, the DNA, and the Theory We Called Two Weeks Ago

    One glove. Unknown male DNA. And an investigation that just shifted beneath the surface. Sixteen days after Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Catalina Foothills home, the FBI confirmed that a glove found two miles away contains a DNA profile matching the gloves worn by the suspect in the doorbell footage. That profile is headed to CODIS — but there's no guarantee it returns a name. If the suspect has never been arrested and swabbed, the database returns nothing, and investigators are left with forensic genealogy timelines Nancy may not survive. The evidence handling has been a disaster. Federal sources say Sheriff Nanos blocked the FBI from processing the glove at Quantico. Nanos denies it. The forensic genealogy company Othram called the decision devastating. On Monday, the sheriff's department quietly redirected all evidence questions to the FBI. A CBS 5 reporter says an inside source believes this was a burglary gone wrong. Both agencies denied it. But Robin Dreeke has been reading amateur behavioral markers in the footage on this show for two weeks. Jeff Bennett raised the burglary theory on Day 4 of our coverage. The behavioral evidence was already there. Trump threatened the death penalty Monday. The family has been saying it's never too late to come forward. Those two messages cannot coexist. Helicopters are scanning the desert with signal sniffers trying to detect Nancy's pacemaker. It went silent at 2:28 AM on February 1st and hasn't reconnected. The family has been officially cleared. And the entire case may now ride on whether a glove on a roadside holds enough to identify the person who wore it. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CODIS #DNAEvidence #SheriffNanos #RobinDreeke #BurglaryTheory #FBIInvestigation #TucsonKidnapping #TrueCrime 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/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872 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.

    49 min
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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 psychologists, and legal analysts. Whether it's the latest developments in cases like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow or deep dives into cold cases and unsolved mysteries, we uncover the hidden truths behind the crimes that captivate the world. If you’re obsessed with true crime, forensic psychology, and legal drama, subscribe now to Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski on Apple Podcasts. 🎧 New episodes multiple times a day—stay ahead of the latest crime stories. Join our SubStack: http://HiddenKillers.SubStack.com 📺Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod 📷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/ Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

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