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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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    JAN 22

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

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    1 min
  2. Why the Gilgo Beach Killer Is Pleading Guilty Now

    7H AGO

    Why the Gilgo Beach Killer Is Pleading Guilty Now

    Months ago, both sides of the Gilgo Beach case said no plea deal. The LISK defense attorney said they were preparing for trial. The DA said the same. So what happened between then and now that made the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer reportedly decide to admit to murdering seven women? I walk through the legal collapse of the LISK defense — two failed DNA challenges, a denied severance motion, a 723-page prosecution evidence inventory, and computer files described as a murder checklist. Every strategy the Gilgo Beach defense tried, a judge shut down. The walls didn't just close in. They locked. But here's the part most people following the Gilgo Beach case aren't talking about. The sentence is the same whether he pleads or goes to trial. Life without parole either way. So the plea isn't about the outcome. It's about what a Gilgo Beach trial would have put him and his family through — months of LISK evidence read into the record, search history dissected publicly, his daughter already on record saying she believes he's "most likely" responsible. A plea compresses all of it. For the man prosecutors allege was the Long Island Serial Killer — a man who allegedly organized everything in his life around control — this is the last controlled decision he gets to make. I also dig into the health questions, the Dykes arrest that fractured the Gilgo Beach single-killer narrative, and what this means for the families who've been waiting since the first remains turned up along Ocean Parkway — some since 1993. 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. #GilgoBeach #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #RexHeuermann #GuiltyPlea #HiddenKillers #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #GilgoFour #OceanParkway

    19 min
  3. Delphi: Richard Allen — The Complete Case Against Indiana's Response

    9H AGO

    Delphi: Richard Allen — The Complete Case Against Indiana's Response

    We've been on this case from the beginning. We read the defense's appeal brief. We read the State's 94-page response. And now we're going through all of it — three sessions, one complete picture — with defense attorney Bob Motta. Here's what frames everything. The State calls the evidence against Richard Allen "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages they never address the documented fact from the defense's appeal brief that Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. Abby Williams and Libby German were not shot. In the first session, Bob goes through the State's playbook — the procedural waiver strategy, the solitary confinement argument, the religious conversion claim, the harmless error refrain that covers every ruling that went against the defense. In the second session, he goes through the two factual problems at the core of this case. The van the prosecution called proof the confession was real — and the surveillance footage and FBI data suggesting it arrived after the timeline had already ended. And the confession that got the manner of death wrong — with the State's response being complete silence across 94 pages. In the third session, he faces forward. The reply brief. Oral arguments. What a partial win means in real terms. What this does to the families who were told a verdict was the end. And an honest answer about what the five percent reversal rate actually tells us. This is the complete conversation the State's brief was written to avoid. 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. #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #FalseConfession #WrongfulConviction #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

    1h 3m
  4. How the Duggar Family Buried It for 13 Years — And Almost Got Away With It

    11H AGO

    How the Duggar Family Buried It for 13 Years — And Almost Got Away With It

    Jim Bob Duggar needed to handle a problem in 2003. His teenage son had admitted to harming his sisters. Jim Bob had already gone to church elders. Now he needed someone in law enforcement. He chose Arkansas State Trooper Joseph Hutchens — a personal friend — to handle it quietly. Hutchens gave Josh a stern talk. Filed nothing. Reported nothing to the Child Abuse Hotline as Arkansas law required. Hutchens was later convicted on serious criminal charges. He is currently serving fifty-six years. In Part 3 of Hidden Killers' five-part series, Tony Brueski examines the full timeline and every institution that failed to stop it. The statute of limitations that expired before police could act. The police report published in 2015 — and ordered destroyed by an Arkansas judge the same day. According to testimony given under oath at a federal pre-trial hearing, the youngest person Josh harmed was five years old. And Jim Bob's own sworn testimony at that 2021 federal pre-trial hearing: that he could not remember. Federal Judge Timothy Brooks reviewed that testimony and put his conclusion in writing: not credible. Selective lapse in memory. Obviously reluctant to testify against his son. Josh was never charged for the 2002 and 2003 conduct against his sisters. Those girls never saw a prosecution specifically for what was done to them. This is Part 3 of 5. 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. #JoshDuggar #JimBobDuggar #DuggarFamily #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DuggarCoverup #19KidsAndCounting #DuggarFamilySecrets #ReligiousAbuse #BobyeHolt

    28 min
  5. Delphi: Richard Allen — What Comes Next and What Justice Looks Like

    13H AGO

    Delphi: Richard Allen — What Comes Next and What Justice Looks Like

    The State filed. The defense replies. Three judges decide. And Richard Allen waits in a prison in Oklahoma while the system examines itself. In this session of our three-part panel, defense attorney Bob Motta turns to face forward — and the questions get harder. What does the defense's reply brief need to accomplish? The State left specific openings — places where procedure replaced substance, places where silence on documented facts speaks louder than the 94 pages around it. Bob tells you exactly where those openings are and why they matter to the court. What does a partial win look like? Not the single dramatic moment people imagine. The Court of Appeals can find error on one issue, send something back for specific proceedings, reverse on a narrow ground. Bob walks through what each of those outcomes means in real terms for a man serving 130 years. What does this do to the families of Abby Williams and Libby German, who were told a verdict meant it was over? There's no clean answer to that. Bob doesn't pretend there is. And what does the five percent reversal rate actually mean — and what does it leave out about the specific constitutional questions sitting in front of these three judges? We've covered this case from the beginning. This session is about where it goes from here — and whether the system that convicted Richard Allen is capable of examining what it built. 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. #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #WrongfulConviction #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

    17 min
  6. Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Exposed: Belief vs. Evidence in a Daughter's Nightmare

    15H AGO

    Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Exposed: Belief vs. Evidence in a Daughter's Nightmare

    Savannah Guthrie believes two ransom notes about her missing mother are real. She said it publicly, through tears, in her first interview since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home. And when you hear the full weight of what she's carrying — the guilt, the grief, the fear that her own fame brought a predator to her mother's bedside — you understand why she needs those notes to be real. Because if they're real, someone has Nancy. And if someone has her, there might still be a way to bring her home. But the evidence and the belief are pointed in different directions. The FBI characterized the details in those notes as publicly available. The Bitcoin wallet sat at zero through both deadlines. No proof of life was ever delivered. No contact was ever made with the family despite their repeated, desperate public appeals. And a confirmed opportunist has already been federally charged for sending fake demands after watching the case on cable news. We walk through the full record — what the notes said, what they didn't say, how they compare to legitimate ransom negotiations, and what the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Getty abduction, and the Elizabeth Smart case tell us about why ransom fraud always follows famous families. We examine Savannah's belief with the respect it deserves and the honesty the case demands. 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. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #RansomNotes #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #NancyGuthrieMissing #DerrickCallella #PimaCounty #TrueCrimeToday

    26 min
  7. Lindsay Clancy: The Machine That Processed Her and Sent Her Home

    17H AGO

    Lindsay Clancy: The Machine That Processed Her and Sent Her Home

    She told them she was "messed up beyond repair." She said she felt numb to all emotion. She tested at the most severe levels for depression and anxiety. She kept going back. The machine kept processing her and sending her home. Part 3 of our five-part series follows the full medical trail — from May 2022 to the 17-minute virtual appointment the day before the killings — and documents, provider by provider, the failures that both Lindsay and Patrick allege in civil lawsuits filed in January 2026. A Women & Infants assessment that allegedly produced the wrong conclusion without adequate patient history — now a cornerstone of the prosecution's case. A McLean Hospital admission where she reportedly waited three days to see a doctor and was discharged after five. Thirteen medications in roughly four months. Providers who allegedly never coordinated. Appointments too short to see what was happening. A dosage increase, a closed video window, and fewer than 24 hours before three children were dead. Postpartum psychosis still isn't in the DSM. This is the episode that explains why that matters more than almost anything else in this case. 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. #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MedicalMalpractice #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #PolypharmacyDanger #MentalHealthSystem #DuxburyMassachusetts #TrueCrimePodcast

    26 min
  8. Delphi: Richard Allen — The Van, Wrong Cause of Death, No Answers

    19H AGO

    Delphi: Richard Allen — The Van, Wrong Cause of Death, No Answers

    We've told you about the van. We've told you about the confession that got the cause of death wrong. Now defense attorney Bob Motta tells you exactly what both of those things mean — and why the State's response to the appeal doesn't fix either one. The prosecution's centerpiece argument was a detail they said only the killer would know — that Richard Allen saw a van drive past and it changed his plans. They traced that detail to a real neighbor with a real van. They told the jury it proved the confession was genuine. According to the defense's brief, surveillance footage and FBI cell phone analysis suggest that van arrived significantly later than the State's witness testified — after Libby German's phone had already stopped moving. The State's response is that the defense's paperwork wasn't filed correctly. Not that the data is wrong. And then there's the problem the State never answers anywhere in 94 pages. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot. Bob Motta goes through both of those problems in this session — what they mean legally, what they mean for the appeal, and what they mean for a conviction built entirely on confessions from a man found gravely disabled during 13 months of solitary confinement, who got the manner of death wrong, whose key confessor admitted she may have been wrong and destroyed some of her session notes. This is the conversation the State's brief was written to avoid having. 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. #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #FalseConfession #VanTimeline #WrongfulConviction #HiddenKillers

    25 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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