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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. How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Own Children Begged the Court to Keep Them Safe From Her?

    1H AGO

    How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Own Children Begged the Court to Keep Them Safe From Her?

    Three boys told a judge they’re terrified of Kouri Richins. They asked for one thing: never let her out. Her answer was a promise to come back for them — and it’s one of the most chilling things you’ll ever hear a convicted defendant say to her own children. Those boys didn’t speak for themselves. They couldn’t. Their therapists carried their words to the podium — words about locked bedrooms, starving animals, a brother smuggling food, and a woman prosecutors say was too drunk or too absent to function as a parent. Every child asked for the same outcome. Life. No release. Because the moment she walks free, the safety they’ve finally found disappears. Kouri heard all of it. Then she stood up and spent fifteen minutes talking about her love story, her marriage, her view of the case — without addressing a single thing her children described. She told them to “be like your dad.” She suggested their father was in physical pain. She told them to stop trusting the family keeping them safe. And she told boys who are scared of her that she’s on her way home. Tony Brueski plays back every word and takes it apart. 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. #KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FentanylMurder #SummitCountyUtah #Sentencing #CourtSpeech #Justice

    49 min
  3. Alex Murdaugh Retrial: A Defense Attorney and Former Prosecutor on What Happens Now

    3H AGO

    Alex Murdaugh Retrial: A Defense Attorney and Former Prosecutor on What Happens Now

    The conviction is reversed. The retrial is coming. And the case Alex Murdaugh faces the second time around is fundamentally different from the one that produced a guilty verdict in March 2023. Eric Faddis — who has tried cases from both the prosecution and defense side — provides the complete legal analysis. Faddis dissects the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling, from Toal’s reversed burden of proof to the Rule 606(b) violation to the court’s independent crediting of witness testimony that Toal tried to limit from the record. He maps the evidence landscape for retrial — identifying which financial crimes testimony survives the court’s restriction and which gets cut, and flagging the unresolved evidentiary challenges from the direct appeal that the defense will press. The conversation covers the full retrial picture: Murdaugh’s locked-in prior testimony, Hill’s perjury conviction as a potential narrative weapon, the venue and jury selection challenge, and the strategic advantages each side carries into a courtroom where the rules have been rewritten. 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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SCSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #MurdaughCase #JuryTampering #NewTrial

    55 min
  4. Alex Murdaugh Retrial Landscape: New Advantages, New Risks, and a Jury No One Can Seat

    7H AGO

    Alex Murdaugh Retrial Landscape: New Advantages, New Risks, and a Jury No One Can Seat

    Both sides of the Murdaugh case gained leverage over the past three years — but the advantages cut in opposite directions. The defense has a Supreme Court opinion calling the first trial fundamentally unfair and a former clerk with a perjury conviction. The prosecution has a locked-in transcript of everything Murdaugh said under oath and three years of investigative refinement. Eric Faddis analyzes the strategic landscape. Murdaugh’s first-trial testimony creates a trap: testify again and face impeachment with his own prior words, or stay silent and let the jury wonder why. The defense may try to put Hill’s misconduct before the retrial jury as a narrative weapon, but the judge could rule the tampering issue is resolved and keep her out. Meanwhile, the prosecution may have new forensic work or expert testimony that wasn’t available the first time. Faddis also confronts the venue problem head-on — after three years of saturation coverage, a Supreme Court reversal, and a clerk’s criminal conviction, the question of where you find twelve impartial people in this state may be the most consequential pretrial fight of all. 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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #JurySelection #MurdaughCase #NewTrial

    15 min
  5. Yogurt Shop Murders: The Killer Nobody Suspected

    9H AGO

    Yogurt Shop Murders: The Killer Nobody Suspected

    Robert Eugene Brashers committed at least eight murders across Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas. He assaulted women and girls. He restrained them with their own clothing. He set fires to destroy evidence. And he walked in and out of the criminal justice system without anyone connecting his crimes. He died during a police standoff in 1999 at the age of 40. For 26 years after his death, his name meant nothing to anyone. Then, in 2025, a cold case detective named Dan Jackson resubmitted a shell casing from the yogurt shop crime scene to a ballistics database with improved software. It hit. A DNA search matched the crime scene profile to Brashers through a lab in South Carolina. And biological material from 13-year-old Amy Ayers’ fingernails — evidence she created by fighting back in her final moments — confirmed the match at 2.5 million to one. The girl the system failed to protect ended up being the one who identified her killer. Part 5 of the Yogurt Shop Murders series reveals the man who actually committed the crime, the detective who refused to stop looking, and the exoneration that gave four innocent men their names back. “We could not have been more wrong.” Those words, from the state of Texas, arrived 34 years late. But they arrived. 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. #YogurtShopMurders #HiddenKillers #ColdCaseSolved #RobertBrashers #AmyAyers #DNAEvidence #SerialKiller #Exoneration #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

    14 min
  6. The FBI Documented 12 Tribes’ Silence Training. Yellow Deli Keeps Serving.

    11H AGO

    The FBI Documented 12 Tribes’ Silence Training. Yellow Deli Keeps Serving.

    The evidence fills bookshelves. It spans hidden camera footage, court records, SPLC reports, FBI interviews, investigative journalism, and survivor memoirs. The group’s own published materials include a child discipline manual and racial teachings documented as white supremacist. And the Yellow Deli is still open. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines why the Twelve Tribes has operated for five decades without facing lasting institutional consequence in the United States. The legal shield is real — religious freedom protections make intervention in communal groups extraordinarily difficult. The financial model is self-sustaining — unpaid labor generating revenue through consumer-facing businesses. The recruitment pipeline is self-replenishing — the delis bring new people in as others leave. And the opacity, according to FBI interviews with former members, is allegedly engineered through internal training that discourages cooperation with law enforcement. The 1984 Vermont raid produced a precedent that reportedly chilled enforcement for decades. The public defender from that case later joined the group. Germany acted on the same evidence in 2013 and the European Court of Human Rights upheld the decision. The United States has not taken equivalent action. As of 2026, the Twelve Tribes maintains approximately forty communities across sixteen states and ten countries. They are still opening new locations. The story is not winding down. It is still being written. And the question this series leaves is who bears responsibility for the fact that it continues. 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.#12Tribes #TwelveTribes #YellowDeli #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CultExposed #StillOperating #ReligiousFreedom #TrueCrimePodcast #TonyBrueski

    19 min
  7. Alex Murdaugh Retrial: The Financial Evidence the Supreme Court Said Went Too Far

    13H AGO

    Alex Murdaugh Retrial: The Financial Evidence the Supreme Court Said Went Too Far

    Twelve and a half hours. Ten days of trial. Ten witnesses. That is how much time the prosecution spent on Alex Murdaugh’s financial crimes the first time around. The South Carolina Supreme Court said the State could have made its motive argument in a fraction of that time — and ordered the next trial to do exactly that. Eric Fadds analyzes what the restriction means for the prosecution’s case. The motive theory has a specific spine: Murdaugh’s financial schemes were converging toward exposure in the days before the killings. That evidence can survive. But the detailed testimony about individual clients, the emotional dimensions of each theft, the description of a victim’s brother as a vulnerable adult — the court said none of that connected to why Murdaugh would allegedly commit murder, and all of it carried enormous potential to turn the jury against the defendant on character rather than evidence. Fadds identifies which unresolved evidentiary issues from the direct appeal give the defense the best chance at reshaping the case further, and breaks down the strategic choice Murdaugh’s team faces: fight to exclude all financial evidence or concede the conduct and attack the motive theory directly. 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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughEvidence #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SCSupremeCourt #EricFadds #FinancialCrimes #Rule403 #MurdaughCase

    20 min
  8. Alex Murdaugh New Trial: Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Ruling That Reversed It All

    15H AGO

    Alex Murdaugh New Trial: Defense Attorney Breaks Down the Ruling That Reversed It All

    The Colleton County Clerk of Court told jurors not to be fooled by the defense. She told them to watch Alex Murdaugh’s movements. She signaled that deliberations should be quick. The South Carolina Supreme Court found every one of those comments credible and ruled unanimously that they destroyed the integrity of the verdict. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fadds dissects the legal framework the court used to reach that conclusion. Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial by placing the burden of proof on the defense — requiring Murdaugh to demonstrate he was harmed by Hill’s conduct. The Supreme Court said that was backwards. Under the Remmer presumption, which the court formally adopted through the Fourth Circuit’s Cheek test, prejudice is presumed automatically once the defendant shows the contact was more than innocuous. The burden then shifts entirely to the State to prove the verdict wasn’t affected. Fadds explains how Toal’s questioning of jurors about their deliberative mental processes violated Rule 606(b), why the court went so far as to overrule its own precedent to close that door, and what Hill’s subsequent perjury conviction meant for the Supreme Court’s assessment of the entire evidentiary record. 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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughNewTrial #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SCSupremeCourt #EricFadds #MurdaughCase #Justice

    20 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: 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/@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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