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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.
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🎙️ 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.
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What Did Todd Gabler Learn About Kouri Richins Case That Nobody Else Knows?
4d ago00:22:09Tap to summarizeTodd Gabler never met Eric Richins. But he might know him better than almost anyone outside the family. Over the course of a year-long investigation, Gabler went through Eric's phone records, walked through his home, interviewed dozens of people who knew him, and pieced together the reality of a marriage and a life that ended in a way nobody should have to die.That kind of immersion changes an investigator. Especially one who's spent 34 years on the defense side — the side that challenges, pokes holes, fights for the accused. For the first time in his career, Gabler's evidence became the prosecution's case. And when the jury convicted Kouri Richins on all counts in under three hours, he was sitting in a seat he'd never occupied before.In Part 3, Gabler tells Tony what Eric Richins became to him through the investigation, what it was like to testify six weeks after surgery because he refused to miss his day in court, and whether 34 years of doing this work prepared him for what this particular case did to him as a person.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/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #PrivateInvestigator #HiddenKillers #UtahMurderTrial #KouriRichinsVerdict #TrueCrimePodcast #KouriRichinsSentencing
Transcribe →What Was Happening Inside D4VD’s World That Nobody Caught Before Celeste Rivas?
4d ago00:16:24Tap to summarizeProsecutors allege David Anthony Burke — the musician known as D4VD — killed fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and attempted to conceal the evidence for months. They’ve filed special circumstance allegations including murder for financial gain. Burke has pleaded not guilty. But the evidentiary question of what allegedly happened leads to a deeper one — what allegedly created the conditions for it to happen? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to trace the psychological trajectory that reportedly brought Burke from a strictly religious Houston household to a death-eligible murder charge in Los Angeles. Burke was homeschooled by his mother in a home where the only permitted music was gospel until age thirteen. She reportedly suggested he start making music. She was his teacher, his social structure, his entire framework. Then the internet provided unrestricted access to a world he had no preparation for. By seventeen, he was signed to major labels, touring internationally, surrounded by an inner circle that consisted entirely of people whose livelihoods allegedly depended on his continued output. Scott examines what happens when religious restriction gives way to digital immersion without any intermediary to help a developing mind process the transition. She addresses the psychological impact of sudden fame and wealth on a teenager with no peer foundation, and she dissects the specific danger of an inner circle where every person allegedly benefits from you and no person is positioned to tell you no. The question isn’t just what Burke allegedly did. It’s who was supposed to be watching.Footer 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer: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:#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #ForensicPsychology #MusicIndustry #TrueCrime #Hollywood #CriminalPsychology
Transcribe →Delphi: Indiana Prosecutor Stood Behind Torture Of Disabled Man
4d ago00:27:01Tap to summarizeIDOC's own policy caps solitary confinement at thirty days for inmates with serious mental illness. Richard Allen had a diagnosed major depressive disorder and a history of suicidal ideation. According to the defense filings, he was held in the most restrictive solitary cell at Westville for thirteen months — the first pretrial safekeeper anyone could remember being placed there. Within two weeks, he told his wife he was broken. By five months, he weighed 135 pounds, was psychotic, gravely disabled, confusing nightmares with reality. He confessed to shooting the girls — they were killed with a blade. He confessed to acts there is no forensic evidence of. Before solitary, Allen endured a confrontational interrogation and refused to break, telling investigators: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Solitary changed that. The prosecutor waited nine days to respond to the defense's emergency transfer motion — while investigators monitored Allen's confession calls — then called the defense's concerns "colorful" on the same day IDOC found Allen gravely disabled. Dr. Wala, who controlled Allen's privileges, noted after one confession that she "needed more consistency." A 127-page forensic evaluation ruled out malingering and attributed the psychosis to solitary. The jury heard the confessions. They never heard the audio, the expert testimony, or the context.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #Westville #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby
Transcribe →Keith Raniere Says the FBI Manufactured the Evidence Against Him
4d ago00:15:29Tap to summarizeHe called himself Vanguard. He claimed to be a once-in-a-generation intellect. When authorities came for him, Keith Raniere was crouched in a closet in Mexico while his follower confronted armed agents on his behalf.The investigation began after a 2017 exposé brought the secret inner circle into public view. The FBI raided NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman’s home. Raniere had already fled to Mexico. On March 26, 2018, he was arrested in Puerto Vallarta and extradited to Brooklyn, where a federal judge denied bail and designated him a flight risk.The six-week trial in 2019 built a methodical case through cooperating witnesses, financial records, and digital evidence. Lauren Salzman testified in detail about the hierarchy, the control, and the arrest. The jury convicted Raniere on all seven counts. He was sentenced to 120 years after fifteen women delivered impact statements to the court.Every legal challenge since has failed. The Second Circuit denied his direct appeal. The Supreme Court denied certiorari. His claim that the FBI manufactured evidence was rejected by the trial judge and unanimously upheld on appeal. As of early 2026, a second cert petition is before the Supreme Court and a habeas petition remains on hold.He has been told no at every level. He keeps filing.Part three of a four-part Hidden Killers investigation into NXIVM and Keith Raniere.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#NXIVM #KeithRaniere #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #120Years #NXIVMCULT #FederalTrial #TheVow #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice
Transcribe →What Do the Custody Filings Reveal About the Family Behind Anna Kepner’s Death?
4d ago00:19:02Tap to summarizeThe federal murder charge against Timothy Hudson in the death of his stepsister Anna Kepner has dominated coverage. But the filings in a separate custody battle between Timothy’s biological parents tell a story the criminal case never will. Shauntel Hudson is Timothy’s biological mother. She married Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner. After Anna was found dead on a Carnival cruise ship, court filings show Shauntel and Christopher expelled Timothy from their home. His biological father, Thomas Hudson, placed a text exchange into the record alleging Shauntel told him she couldn’t risk her marriage to support her son. In the first forty-eight hours, Shauntel was relaying Timothy’s condition from a medical facility and telling his father she’d said “I love him.” Weeks later, filings allege she wanted him “buried.” Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, with more than thirty years in forensic mental health and trauma recovery, joins Hidden Killers to dissect the family dynamics at the center of this case. She examines the impossible position Shauntel occupies — biological mother of the accused, stepmother of the deceased, wife of the grieving father — and whether one of those identities always wins or whether a person simply breaks trying to hold all three. Scott addresses whether Christopher Kepner’s public statements may be setting the conditions for Shauntel’s alignment, and what a nine-year-old stepsister is absorbing about loyalty in a household that expelled her brother.Footer 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer: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:#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #HiddenKillers #CarnivalHorizon #ShavaunScott #CustodyBattle #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #BlendedFamily #FederalCase
Transcribe →Is Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapper Already Buried in the Fifty Thousand Tips?
4d ago00:23:45Tap to summarizeMore than fifty thousand tips have been submitted in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. A retired Pima County detective believes the suspect’s name is probably already in that pile — investigators just haven’t reached it yet. DNA recovered from Nancy’s Tucson home has been shipped to the FBI crime lab at Quantico, where genetic genealogy analysis is reportedly ongoing. No arrest. No named suspect. And the person allegedly responsible has had months to make decisions — what to do with evidence, who to avoid, whether to stay or disappear. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to examine what those months have done to the mind behind this alleged crime. Scott has spent more than thirty years in forensic settings studying not just what drives someone to violence, but the psychological machinery that either holds or breaks in the aftermath. She dissects the post-crime decision cascade — how each choice to conceal, each near-miss with the investigation, and each day of silence deepens the psychological burden. She explains what the specific threat of genetic genealogy does to someone compared to traditional investigative pressure — a scientific process working toward identification on a timeline nobody can predict. And she addresses whether the presence of a co-conspirator stabilizes someone or creates mutual paranoia where the fear of the other person talking first becomes its own form of psychological siege.Footer 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer: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 #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ForensicPsychology #GeneticGenealogy #PimaCounty #Tucson #ShavaunScott #CriminalPsychology
Transcribe →How Did D4VD Build a Life Nobody Could See Through?
5d ago00:25:48Tap to summarizeDavid Anthony Burke spent his entire childhood learning to perform emotions from behind a screen — and according to prosecutors, he allegedly spent his early adulthood applying that skill to maintaining a reality nobody around him could detect.This episode goes somewhere different. We’re not walking through charges or court dates. We’re going inside the person. Burke grew up homeschooled, isolated, recording music in his sister’s closet. He told interviewers openly that he’d never experienced the feelings in his songs — that he manufactured them from observation, from the internet, from imagined scenarios. He said the first concert he ever attended was his own. That’s the foundation. And according to prosecutors, what allegedly grew on top of it was an entire parallel existence that ran undetected for over a year.We break down three layers of psychology sourced from Burke’s own pre-arrest interviews and the People’s Brief: the career built on manufactured authenticity, the operating system of secrecy prosecutors allege surrounded the alleged relationship with Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the parallel worlds prosecutors say Burke allegedly maintained while touring with SZA and performing at Coachella. We examine the welfare check where deputies told Burke that Celeste was thirteen — and the yearbook photo he allegedly showed them while denying he knew her. We trace the alleged thousand-dollar phone delivered through a classmate, the matching “Shhh” tattoos, and the alleged infrastructure of concealment that prosecutors say held it all together.Then the alleged forty-eight hours: the radio interview, the album release, and the tools prosecutors allege were ordered under a fake name. Burke’s biggest song is called “Romantic Homicide.” His album is called Withered. According to prosecutors, it reportedly dropped two days after Celeste was allegedly killed inside his house.Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His defense maintains he is innocent and was not the cause of Celeste’s death.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderCase #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimePsychology
Transcribe →What's Broken in the Guthrie, Kepner, and Spencer Investigations?
5d ago00:57:57Tap to summarizeCriminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines three active cases through the lens of evidentiary reality and legal strategy. The Nancy Guthrie disappearance has produced no arrest, no identified suspect, and an investigation led by a department facing a no-confidence vote, a perjury referral, and a recall effort. A retired detective stated publicly that the suspect's identity may already exist within the case files. The Guthrie family reportedly remains without a private investigator.The Timothy Hudson federal case presents a narrow defensive landscape. He is reportedly depicted on surveillance as the sole individual entering and exiting the Carnival Horizon stateroom where Anna Kepner was found dead from asphyxiation. The trial was continued to September 8th. Hudson's biological mother and her husband reportedly declined to attend. His biological father is the only parent supporting his defense while simultaneously litigating custody of a younger child.The Aaron Spencer murder case arrives at its June 22nd trial date carrying significant evidentiary damage. The dashcam SD card from the night of the shooting is missing. Judge Ralph Wilson reversed multiple rulings from the removed judge, expanded the scope of allowable testimony, and left the defense's dismissal motion unresolved. Motta assesses each case on its evidentiary merits and examines what legal options remain available to each family.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #AnnaKepner #AaronSpencer #BobMotta #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CriminalDefense #JusticeSystem #TrueCrimeToday #LegalAnalysis
Transcribe →What Did Todd Gabler Find Inside the Richins Home That Police Left Behind?
5d ago00:19:01Tap to summarizeAfter law enforcement released the Richins home, Todd Gabler walked in and spent four or five straight days searching it. GoPro cameras running. Documents scanned. Eric's brother-in-law Clint Benson present or aware the entire time. No officers. No oversight from the Sheriff's Office. Just a PI operating under rules that gave him access a detective would need a warrant to get.He found things. Items the initial search hadn't turned up. When he came across what looked like protected attorney-client documents, he put them in a sealed envelope unread and handed them over to the appropriate attorney. That's discipline most people wouldn't expect from someone working outside the system — and it's why the defense's attempt to paint him as a rogue operator fell apart on the stand.In Part 2 of this three-part interview, Gabler tells Tony Brueski what he discovered during that search, how it felt to be outrunning a stalled police investigation, and what the Richins family went through while waiting over a year for the system to catch up to what one man with a cane and two hard drives already knew.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/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #SummitCounty #HiddenKillers #PrivateInvestigator #UtahMurderTrial #CarmenLauber #TrueCrimePodcast
Transcribe →What Happened to the Dashcam SD Card in Aaron Spencer's Murder Case?
5d ago00:15:08Tap to summarizeThe evidentiary picture in Aaron Spencer's case has shifted dramatically since Judge Ralph Wilson replaced Judge Barbara Elmore. The defense filed a motion to dismiss based on the destruction of evidence — an SD card from Michael Fosler's dashcam containing front-facing and rear-facing video and audio from the night of the shooting. Four officers and a defense tech expert testified about the card's handling. The dashcam was never photographed at the scene. The SD card sat in a detective's office for over a year. Investigators admitted they did not follow their own protocols.Wilson declined to dismiss outright but left the defense the option to pursue the destruction claim through motions or a dedicated hearing. He reversed the previous judge's restrictions on reputation witnesses, opening the door to testimony from individuals who knew Fosler during his time in Indiana. He also reversed the prior ruling blocking FBI expert testimony on behavioral patterns.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines the defense's position through the lens of the evidentiary record. The prosecution retains bodycam footage from three months prior to the shooting in which Spencer allegedly made statements about handling things himself. They've stated publicly that the trial will present information the public hasn't heard. Motta assesses whether dismissal remains viable, what a spoliation instruction accomplishes strategically, and whether the prosecution's pretrial losses have changed the calculus on charges or a potential plea.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#AaronSpencer #MichaelFosler #LonokeCounty #Arkansas #MurderTrial #DefenseOfOthers #MissingEvidence #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
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