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    Jan 22

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

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  2. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    Alex Murdaugh’s Lawyer Told the Judge WHAT About That Night

    The first retrial hearing in the Alex Murdaugh case revealed a defense strategy far more aggressive than most expected. Lead attorney Dick Harpootlian presented the court with first-responder transcripts containing conflicting accounts about who was present at the Moselle property the night Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. He told Judge Debra McCaslin that the accounts from people who arrived at the scene don’t match — and that the defense has received tips from individuals that were forwarded to SLED without confirmation they were ever investigated. The hearing also set a tentative trial date of April 5, 2027, and surfaced several major pretrial battles. The defense is seeking independent DNA testing through Othram, the forensic genetic genealogy company that worked on the Kohberger case, to analyze unknown male DNA recovered from under Maggie’s fingernails that was never fully tested. The prosecution’s financial crimes testimony — which consumed 12.5 hours of the first trial — has been limited by the South Carolina Supreme Court. And Attorney General Alan Wilson has put the death penalty on the table despite not seeking it at the original trial. Murdaugh appeared in double shackles and an orange jumpsuit. Harpootlian argued potential jurors were watching and told the court his client “is not Ted Bundy.” The prosecution responded that Murdaugh “thinks he is special. He is not.” The battle lines for the retrial are drawn. Next hearing is set for August 14. 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: #AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #Moselle #MurdaughHearing2026 #DickHarpootlian #CreightonWaters #BeckyHill #TrueCrime

    20 min

  3. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    Nancy Guthrie, Alex Murdaugh — What Just Came Out

    Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to break down the latest developments in two of the most closely watched cases in the country. In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, a second note from the alleged kidnappers has been made public — claiming Nancy died shortly after being taken. Investigators reportedly believe it’s legitimate. If that assessment holds, the note may function as a written confession. An anonymous emailer continues to contact TMZ claiming to have video evidence, while the FBI has arrested multiple people for sending fraudulent ransom communications. In the Alex Murdaugh retrial, the first hearing set a trial date of April 5, 2027, and exposed a defense team arriving fully loaded — eight new expert witnesses, first-responder transcripts with conflicting accounts about who was at Moselle, and a DNA motion targeting the same forensic lab used in the Kohberger case. The prosecution faces a dramatically narrowed case after the Supreme Court limited the financial crimes testimony that drove the first conviction. Motta evaluates both cases through a defense attorney’s lens: what’s provable, what’s damaged, and what both sides still have to work with. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta. 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: #NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #MurdaughRetrial #SavannahGuthrie #FBI #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime

    1h 6m

  4. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Alex Murdaugh, Nick Reiner, and Nancy Guthrie — What Nobody’s Asking About These Cases

    Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke cover all three cases in one full-length panel discussion: the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, the Nick Reiner murder charges, and the Alex Murdaugh retrial. They take on the listener questions driving debate in each case and push back on the easy answers. In the Guthrie case: the sheriff says the FBI made multiple arrests for fake ransom notes — but only “thinks” so, while Harvey Levin’s offer to pay the ransom was shut down. In the Reiner case: the audience is split between mental illness and inheritance motive, and both collapse under their own facts. Nick is now demanding his murdered parents’ trust money to fund his defense. In the Murdaugh case: the defense wants untested DNA from under Maggie’s fingernails independently analyzed by the lab that worked the Kohberger case. The comments say it’s meaningless. The defense says SLED never finished the job. Tony and Robin take on every question the audience thinks they’ve already answered. A Hidden Killers investigation. 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 #NickReiner #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #MurdaughRetrial #HarveyLevin #TrustFund #TrueCrimePanel

    57 min

  5. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Bryan Kohberger Confessed — What Taxpayers Spent Defending Him, They Won't Let You See

    Eight million dollars of public money. No trial. A confessed killer. And a sealed file hiding the biggest number. This is the full cost of Bryan Kohberger's case — and the reason Idaho taxpayers still don't know where their money went. Kohberger pleaded guilty in July of 2025 to killing four University of Idaho students and took four consecutive life sentences. Prosecutors had chased the death penalty for years before dropping it in a deal. His defense alone ran about five and a half million dollars, funded entirely by taxpayers after he was ruled too poor to hire his own attorney. That figure is still climbing. And the public cannot see how it was spent. The full breakdown sits in a sealed civil court file. A judge ordered it at least partially opened. The defense appealed that order to the Idaho Supreme Court and is billing the state for the fight — meaning taxpayers are paying to be kept from their own records. Beyond the defense, the operational spending is its own story of carelessness. A crime-scene house donated for free that cost the public three hundred forty-six thousand dollars to maintain before they tore it down. A sixteen-thousand-dollar hotel bill for rooms nobody used because somebody forgot to book refundable. Nearly a hundred fifty thousand in jail costs across two counties. Every dollar explainable. None of it guarded the way a private citizen would guard their own. The families of the four students killed are running scholarship foundations in their children's names, raising money one donation at a time. The gap between how those families treat a dollar and how this system treated eight million of them is the whole story. 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 (10) #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #TrueCrime #Kohberger #TaxpayerMoney #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerCase #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerDefense #KohbergerSentencing

    18 min

  6. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Maternal Instinct: Watch Taylor Parker’s Interrogation and Ask What Kind of Person Does This

    By the time the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is over, the question that lingers isn't what happened. It's what kind of person is capable of any of it. That's the question this part of the series takes on. Not the evidence or the timeline, but the human being at the center of it all. A woman who faked a pregnancy for the better part of a year. Who took a baby from a young woman who was killed for it. Who could then sit in a hospital, surrounded by police, and hold steady. Any one of those is hard to absorb. Together, in one person, they demand an explanation. Tony watches the entire interrogation as a way into that question. He walks through the psychology of who Parker seems to be — what the composure suggests, what the deception suggests, what the missing reactions suggest — while being straight about the limits of what anyone can say for certain. Is she broken in a way that has a name? Someone who learned to imitate normal human feeling without having it? The tape won't hand you a clean verdict, but it gives you a long, unguarded look at the person. This installment isn't about one moment. It's the whole interrogation read as a character study of a woman now on Texas death row. The crime tells you what she did; the interrogation is the closest you'll get to who she is. This is the case behind the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, and the question of who Parker is has hung over it from the start. The full interrogation runs close to two hours — far more than the film aired — which gives you a long, raw look at the person rather than an edited glimpse. You won't leave with a neat answer. You'll leave with a sharper version of the question — and no easy way to set it down. Links Block: 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: #TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimePodcast #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePodcast

    19 min

  7. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Maternal Instinct: Watch Taylor Parker’s Interrogation for the One Thing That Never Appears

    When people describe the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct, they tend to focus on what's there. This part of the series asks you to watch for what isn't — the one response you keep waiting for that never arrives. Consider the weight of the moment. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is at the center of it, being questioned by police in a hospital. A situation like that should draw something out of anyone — some sign of grief, of horror, of the sheer scale of what has happened. Watch the entire interrogation for that sign, and you may never find it. That's what this installment is built on. Tony watches the footage for its absence, not its content. He breaks down the psychology of missing emotion: what it signals when the expected human reaction to a catastrophe simply doesn't show up, what experts read into that kind of flatness, and why the thing that's gone can be far more telling than anything that's present. The point isn't one statement or one moment. It's a void that runs the length of the entire interrogation. Watch Taylor Parker through this lens, and the gap where a feeling should be becomes impossible to ignore. Keep the scale of the case in mind. A young woman, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, was killed, and her baby was taken — the story behind the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. A loss like that should register on a person somewhere. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, far more than aired, which gives that reaction every chance to surface. Across all of it, it never does — and the absence is what this part is built to notice. This is the part of the series about what's not on the tape. And strangely, that turns out to be the most revealing thing on it. Links Block: 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: #TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimePodcast #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePodcast

    26 min

  8. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Does When Investigators Press Her in the Interrogation

    At its core, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a contest between two sides. Investigators trained to get the truth sit across from a woman who had spent the better part of a year proving she could keep the truth from everyone around her. This part of the series watches that contest unfold. Tony treats the interrogation as the back-and-forth it really is — the questions, the pressure, the doors the investigators try to open, and the way Parker responds when they push. He walks through the psychology of how a committed liar handles trained questioning: the deflection, the reframing, the way a person recalibrates when the room stops believing them. It's tense to watch, because both sides are clearly working. The investigators know more than they reveal. Parker gives up less than they're after. And the space between what they want and what she'll surrender is where the whole interrogation lives. Underneath the measured words sits the reason any of them are there: a young pregnant woman is dead, and her baby was taken. The point isn't one answer or one admission. It's the entire dynamic of the room — a practiced deceiver against the people whose job is to break through. Tony breaks down how each exchange goes, who's gaining ground, and what Parker's handling of the pressure tells you about the person she is. The stakes under the duel are absolute. A young woman, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, was killed and her baby taken — the case behind the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct — and the investigators are trying to pull the truth from someone now on Texas death row. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, far more than aired, which is where the real back-and-forth lives. This is the part of the series about the room itself. Watch it as a duel, and it doesn't let go. Links Block: 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: #TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimePodcast #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePodcast

    24 min
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