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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. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    Anna Kepner’s Brother Slept Next to Her Body for Nine Hours — And No One Checked

    For approximately nine hours, a thirteen-year-old boy slept in a cruise ship cabin with his sister’s body hidden under the bed next to him. He didn’t know. Nobody checked. Nobody knocked on the door. Nobody called. And the adults responsible for every child in that stateroom were across the hall in their own room the entire time. That detail — buried inside the Anna Kepner case update from the unsealed 145-page detention hearing transcript — is the emotional center of a question that has consumed this case since November: should the parents face charges? Anna Kepner’s step-grandmother thinks so. In a national television interview, she called the family cruise arrangement a “recipe for disaster” and demanded Christopher and Shauntel Kepner be held accountable for putting three teenagers who weren’t raised together in a single stateroom, for allegedly allowing alcohol, and for allegedly failing to ensure the accused was on his medication. But the legal landscape is brutally complicated. The Crumbley parents in Michigan were convicted because they bought the weapon, ignored explicit warnings, and refused to take their son home the morning he killed four classmates. The Kepner case has rage — justified, visceral rage — but it doesn’t have that level of evidentiary specificity. And the federal jurisdiction where this case lives doesn’t even have a statute that covers parental contributing-to-delinquency charges. This episode walks through the emotional case against the parents, the legal barriers that make criminal charges nearly impossible, the Crumbley comparison and why it collapses, and the one thread — allegations that Anna was allegedly afraid of her stepbrother before the cruise — that could change everything if it’s ever substantiated under oath. 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 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. #AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #HiddenKillers #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipMurder #TrueCrime #JusticeForAnna #FederalCase #ParentalAccountability #CarnivalCruise

    20 min

  3. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    Maternal Instinct: A Phone Call to Taylor Parker’s Doctor Could Have Saved Reagan Hancock

    Someone picked up the phone and called Taylor Parker’s OB/GYN clinic. Asked point blank whether Taylor Parker was really pregnant. The clinic manager knew the answer. Taylor Parker had a hysterectomy in 2015. She could not be carrying a child. But privacy laws prevented the clinic from saying so. The most the manager could legally offer was five words: just go with your gut. Reagan Simmons-Hancock, twenty-one years old and thirty-five weeks pregnant, never got that warning. Taylor Parker had spent nine months building a fake pregnancy from nothing — silicone bellies, stolen ultrasound images, a gender reveal party, weekly social media updates tracking a baby that did not exist. When the lie needed a real child to survive, she went to Reagan’s home in New Boston, Texas. The medical examiner documented over a hundred and fifty injuries to Reagan’s body. Parker cut her unborn daughter, Braxlynn Sage, from her body and fled toward Oklahoma. The baby did not survive. A jury convicted Parker of capital murder in one hour and sentenced her to death. Behind bars, she tried to frame a fellow inmate with forged confession letters and wrote a prayer to God asking that the blame be placed on someone else. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear her case. Reagan’s family is fighting for legislation that would close the privacy gap that kept the people who knew the truth from protecting their daughter. The full Taylor Parker case, the Maternal Instinct Netflix documentary, what the film didn’t fully cover, and where every piece of this stands. 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 #ReaganHancock #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrime #DeathRow #Netflix #TaylorParkerCase #HIPAA #JusticeForReagan #HiddenKillers

    19 min

  4. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    Nick Reiner’s Lawyers Filed 136 Pages and May Have Just Given Prosecutors His Motive

    Nick Reiner trust fund motive — law enforcement has never publicly named one. No leaks from the prosecution. No hints from the defense. The biggest question in the Reiner murder case has gone unanswered for months. Then Nick’s own civil attorneys filed a probate petition that may have answered it by accident. The filing lays out a timeline: a $1.5 million trust with reportedly mandatory terms, a distribution due on Nick’s 30th birthday in September 2023, and twenty-seven months of silence from the parents who controlled it. The petition reportedly offers no explanation for why Rob and Michele never paid while they were alive. The two people who stood between Nick and that money are now dead. In this episode, Tony dissects whether the trust timeline constitutes a motive — and why the answer depends on the intersection of a real financial grievance, a reported schizophrenia diagnosis, active substance use, and a medication change that sources say left Nick in “a complete break from reality.” He examines why the twenty-seven-month delay actually strengthens the theory rather than weakening it, and reveals the single legal path where Nick can allegedly kill his parents and still inherit. This is commentary based on publicly reported information. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #ReinerMotive #TrustFund #ApplePodcasts #BrentwoodMurders #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurderMotive

    20 min

  5. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    Why Is Rex Heuermann's Family Still Living in the House Where He Murdered Eight Women?

    Rex Heuermann told his ex-wife he killed eight women — seven of them in the basement of the house she still lives in, timed for when the family was on vacation. She addressed him as Mr. Heuermann during the confession. Their daughter says she now believes he most likely did it. Their mother may never get there.In court, Heuermann said strangulation to every question about cause of death in the same flat voice. His attorney said the plea brought a huge sense of relief. He never looked at the gallery.Asa Ellerup gutted the basement, rebuilt it, and moved in. She sleeps where the killings happened. She told a documentary crew the nightmares are permanent. She chose not to attend sentencing. Valerie Mack's son — six years old when his mother was killed — has filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Asa and Victoria alongside Rex. The community wants the house torn down.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski for the full three-part conversation covering what happens when denial collapses, how a brain sustains a double life for seventeen years, and what it means to choose the crime scene as your home. 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. #RexHeuermann #AsaEllerup #HiddenKillers #GilgoBeach #GilgoBeachKiller #VictoriaHeuermann #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #PeacockDocumentary #SerialKillerFamily

    50 min

  6. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

    Anna Kepner Case: What Did Prosecutors File Under Seal That Reversed the Judge?

    Four months after setting Timothy Hudson free, the judge in the Anna Kepner case just used the word “psychopathy” in an order putting him behind bars. Something changed — and what it was remains sealed from public view. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres released Hudson in February under juvenile rules and defended that decision through months of prosecution pressure and public attention. On May 27, he held a hearing and kept Hudson free again. The defense argued months of perfect compliance — no violations, no issues, total cooperation. Torres apparently agreed. Thirteen days later, he reversed himself completely. In his June 10 detention order, Torres wrote that Hudson could “snap at any time” and that no curfew, monitor, or custodial placement could be trusted to contain the danger he presents. The government’s evidence was “beyond clear and convincing.” Between the May hearing and that order, prosecutors had filed sealed “newly disclosed, supplemental information” — contents unknown. Whatever was in that filing turned a cautious judge into one writing about psychopathy and lack of remorse. Hudson surrendered to U.S. Marshals and is being held at Citrus County Jail before transfer to a juvenile facility at Miami-Dade’s Metro West Detention Center. Torres ordered a mental health evaluation. The September 8 trial holds. He faces life in prison. This episode covers why it took from November to June to detain someone accused of the most serious charges imaginable, how the legal framework shifted when the case moved from juvenile to adult prosecution, what the sealed filing tells us about the government’s case, and what September looks like for a defendant preparing from inside a detention facility. Anna Kepner was eighteen. Found dead aboard the Carnival Horizon during a family cruise. Her stepbrother is charged with first-degree murder. He pleads not guilty and is entitled to the presumption of innocence. The trial is September 8. 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 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. #AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #HiddenKillers #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipMurder #FederalCourt #TrueCrime #JusticeForAnna #BailReformAct #CarnivalCruise

    17 min

  7. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

    Did Gilgo Beach’s Rex Heuermann Write the Happy Face Killer?

    Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to killing eight women across Long Island. The Gilgo Beach killer, the LISK — the man who evaded investigators for decades. And according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, the one person Heuermann chose to correspond with from his jail cell was another convicted serial killer. Keith Hunter Jesperson — the Happy Face Killer — reportedly sent over ten letters to Heuermann’s cell in Riverhead. According to reporting, Heuermann wrote back once. What he said in that letter says more about who Rex Heuermann really is than anything he admitted in court. I got into the psychology of why killers seek each other out. Forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland has documented three reasons incarcerated killers reach out to one another: attention, affinity, and inspiration. Jesperson’s move fits the first one perfectly — he forwarded Heuermann’s response to a podcaster. He wasn’t mentoring. He was performing. But what Heuermann was doing is more unsettling. According to reporting, he described Jesperson’s letters as “a help and a comfort.” That’s a man finding connection — and not with a therapist or a priest. With a man who killed eight women, just like him. I also break down Heuermann’s jail reading list — exclusively crime novels about serial killers and the people who hunt them — and what Sheriff Toulon said after watching him for over a thousand days without a single change in emotion. The sheriff’s assessment? He’s never seen an inmate like this in more than four decades of law enforcement. This is a deep psychological dive into who Rex Heuermann is becoming behind bars — and what it tells us about how these individuals see themselves. 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. #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #HiddenKillers #HappyFaceKiller #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #SerialKillerPenPals #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #KillerPsychology

    15 min

  8. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

    Mickey Stines’ Doctor Sent Him Home With Benadryl the Day Before He Shot a Judge

    The former Letcher County sheriff was allegedly in a psychosis. His friends knew it. His staff knew it. His family knew it. And the doctor who saw him face-to-face the day before the shooting diagnosed an acute stress reaction and sent him home with melatonin and Benadryl. Mickey Stines is charged with shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins nine times inside his courthouse chambers in September 2024. He has pleaded not guilty. His defense team is pursuing an insanity defense and arguing extreme emotional disturbance. They say Stines believed his wife and daughter had been taken at the time of the shooting. New testimony from Stines’ aunt, Sherri Stines, reveals what happened the night before. Stines hadn’t slept in seven days. He was watching his home security cameras all night from his phone. He was terrified someone was coming for his family. He took Benadryl and melatonin at his aunt’s house. None of it worked. And minutes before the shooting, he FaceTimed her and asked to speak to his dead grandmother. A social worker who evaluated Stines four days after his arrest found him in an active state of psychosis. He didn’t know where he was. He couldn’t recognize a jail cell. The man who ran the Letcher County Sheriff’s Office had no recollection of the recent past. The judge overseeing the Mickey Stines case has signaled a likely change of venue and rejected the defense’s fifty-thousand-dollar bond request. No trial date has been set. 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 #MickeyStines #KevinMullins #HiddenKillers #LetcherCounty #CourthouseShooting #KentuckyCrime #StinesTrial #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

    33 min
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