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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.
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Why Didn't Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Call The One Expert Who Could Have Changed Everything?
2d ago00:47:55Tap to summarizeThe defense raised a medical condition that could have explained the Strongsville crash. Then they never called an expert to testify about it. No medical records entered. No testimony. The prosecution's intent narrative went unchallenged on the point that could have introduced reasonable doubt — and a jury never heard an alternative explanation for why the car hit that building at nearly a hundred miles per hour.After Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan, a neurologist reviewed her records and found evidence consistent with a medical episode — loss of consciousness, no head trauma, low blood oxygen. That opinion was submitted in a post-conviction petition. The court denied it. Not because the medical evidence lacked merit — the filing arrived one day past Ohio's 365-day statutory deadline.The failures compound. The prosecution presented an I-71 incident as proof of prior calculation — a friend testified Mackenzie threatened to crash the car. Text messages showed Mackenzie told Dominic's mother that Dom was the one who grabbed the wheel. Two versions of the same moment. The defense didn't challenge the prosecution's account. The prosecution's forensic examiner testified to no mechanical failure. The defense brought no accident reconstruction expert to offer an alternative reading of the physical evidence.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines each failure and whether the cumulative weight meets the standard for ineffective assistance of counsel. The question isn't only whether Mackenzie is guilty — it's whether she was ever given the tools to mount a real defense.Robin Dreeke brings FBI behavioral expertise to the competing narratives. Netflix's documentary shows Mackenzie soft-spoken and remorseful from prison. An inmate who spent six months with her describes someone unrecognizable from the woman on camera. The families need certainty the evidence may not fully support. Dreeke asks the hardest question: what if nobody in this case — not the families, not the prosecutor, not Mackenzie — actually knows the full truth?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.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IneffectiveCounsel
Transcribe →Is Blanca Simpson The Same Murdaugh Witness She Was In 2023?
2d ago00:34:52Tap to summarizeBlanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent twenty years inside the Murdaugh household. She fixed Alex's collar the morning of June 7th, 2021. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She was the person Maggie cried to when Alex's finances were collapsing and nobody would explain why. She told all of it to a jury that convicted him in three hours. Then the Supreme Court erased the convictions — and Blanca drove straight to Maggie's grave without calling anyone first.In her first interview since the reversal, Blanca addresses the question that matters most heading into a retrial: is she the same witness she was in 2023? Three years of processing what she saw inside that family, what she knew before the killings, and what she's learned since — has any of it changed what she's prepared to say under oath? She talks about what she said to Maggie at the gravesite. Whether respecting the court's decision and believing Alex is guilty can exist in the same person. And what Becky Hill — a clerk writing a book about the trial while it was still happening — took from the people who loved Maggie and Paul.The investigative question runs parallel. Jennifer Coffindaffer approaches the Murdaugh case as a clean-slate thought experiment. Strip the name off the file. Two people shot at the dog kennels on a remote hunting property. Two different firearms — a shotgun and a rifle — neither recovered. No blood on the defendant. The defense has long argued no single shooter could have done it the way the state described. Paul Murdaugh's earlier legal troubles — including a boat crash that killed a young woman — left a trail of unresolved grudges.Coffindaffer examines where a scene like this points when you come at it with fresh eyes, what the two-weapon theory actually means for the prosecution, and whether the murder case the state built can survive scrutiny without the financial crimes testimony that carried it the first time. The conviction is gone. The question of who killed Maggie and Paul is open again. These two conversations are the starting point.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.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #JenniferCoffindaffer #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Transcribe →What Made Kouri Richins Escalate From Valentine's Day To The Moscow Mule?
2d ago00:37:25Tap to summarizeThe Valentine's Day attempt failed. Eric Richins survived — gasping for air, reaching for his son's EpiPen. He told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And for seventeen days, Kouri Richins lived inside the same house, shared meals with the same children, and arrived at a second plan with five times the lethal dose.The psychological architecture behind that seventeen-day gap is the center of this breakdown. The gap between the image Kouri projected and the financial reality she was hiding — approximately $4.5 million in debt, a house-flipping business in freefall, a forensic accountant who would later use one word: imploding. The affair with Robert Josh Grossmann that functioned not as an escape but as a rehearsal for the life she intended to build after Eric was gone. Insurance policies taken out on Eric's life without his knowledge — manipulation that was caught and didn't produce a pause. It produced an acceleration.The moment Eric Richins stopped being a husband and became an obstacle — a math problem with a financial answer — is identifiable in the evidence. The escalation from Greece to Valentine's Day to the Moscow Mule follows a pattern forensic psychologists recognize: failed attempts don't produce reconsideration. They produce refinement.Then the fourteen months that followed. A children's book about grief. A television tour promoting it. A 911 call. A party the next day. Google searches for luxury prisons and insurance claim timelines. Every friend who testified at trial said they believed her. The psychology behind that deception isn't traditional lying. It's compartmentalization so complete that the person living inside the grieving-mother identity isn't pretending. She's relocated there. The room where she put fentanyl in a cocktail exists in a different part of her mind — sealed off, unvisited. That's what made her believable for fourteen months. And that's what makes this case a psychological study unlike anything else in the true crime landscape.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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #FentanylPoisoning #Psychology #MoscowMule #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #SummitCounty #JusticeForEric
Transcribe →What Evidence Did The FBI Unseal In The Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Case?
2d ago00:33:32Tap to summarizeUnsealed court records in the Anna Kepner case lay out what the FBI has assembled: security footage tracking the defendant's movements aboard the Carnival Horizon the night Anna was killed, a phone that ended up smashed in a trash bin, and DNA testing that reportedly points in one direction. Anna was found beneath a bed in the cabin she shared with her stepbrother — concealed on a ship in international waters, which placed the case in federal jurisdiction.Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years as an FBI Special Agent and knows what it takes to build a case when the crime scene is a vessel that sails into port and thousands of people disembark. She walks through why a death at sea is one of the hardest scenes to work, what makes evidence collection on a ship different from land-based investigations, and her reaction to watching a defendant facing first-degree murder charges and life in prison get sent home pending trial.The detention hearing produced a moment that cut through the legal process. The judge acknowledged that if Timothy Hudson were an adult, he'd almost certainly be detained. He called the case "a different animal." Then he ended the hearing without ruling — and Hudson walked out of the courthouse. He's sixteen. Charged as an adult. Indicted by a federal grand jury. And free.The release conditions have raised their own alarm. Hudson is not supposed to be alone with anyone underage. Prosecutors told the court that two minors reportedly live in the home where he's been placed. That contradiction was raised in open court.A criminal defense attorney examines why Hudson's age is reshaping the entire procedural landscape — the tension between juvenile protections and adult charges, why Hudson may have strategically sought adult prosecution in the first place, and what the release conditions actually require versus what they're apparently allowing. The case against Hudson is building. The question of why he's building it from the outside is one Anna Kepner's family is still waiting to have answered.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.#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipDeath #FBI #FederalCourt #JusticeForAnna #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Transcribe →What Does The Prosecutorial Silence Mean For Wendi Adelson In The Dan Markel Case?
2d ago00:41:17Tap to summarizeAfter Donna Adelson was convicted, the State Attorney told reporters that decisions regarding additional charges in the Dan Markel conspiracy were coming in the coming weeks. Months have passed. No charges. No grand jury announcement. No public movement of any kind. For a case where prosecutors have repeatedly labeled Wendi Adelson and her father Harvey as unindicted co-conspirators — in open court, in front of judges, across multiple trials — that silence demands interpretation.A defense attorney and former prosecutor examines what the quiet actually signals. When a prosecutor goes dark after a major conviction win, the possibilities narrow to two: either the investigation is still active and building toward additional indictments, or the evidentiary trail has reached a dead end that can't support charges beyond a reasonable doubt. The legal landscape is specific. Wendi testified under limited immunity — a deal that holds only if she told the truth. If prosecutors can demonstrate she lied under oath, that immunity evaporates. Harvey was caught at the airport with one-way tickets to a non-extradition country — a fact that carries enormous weight in front of any future jury. An appeal currently pending in a Florida court could alter the calculus for every remaining participant in the conspiracy.The psychological dimension of this case runs equally deep. Donna Adelson spent decades building an internal narrative where her needs were moral law and her fears were prophecy. She allegedly reframed boundaries as attacks, turned conflict into persecution, and gradually recast Dan Markel — a Florida State law professor and the father of her grandchildren — not as a person but as an obstacle to be removed. The narcissistic architecture that shaped her worldview allowed her to allegedly move from resentment to rationalization to catastrophe without ever believing she'd crossed a line.Five people are in prison. Two more have been named in open court. Dan Markel was gunned down in his own garage in 2014 during a custody fight with his ex-wife. The hitmen, the go-between, the brother, the mother — all convicted. The question is whether the silence surrounding Wendi and Harvey is the calm before the next indictment or the sound of a case that's gone as far as it can go.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.#DanMarkel #WendiAdelson #DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #HarveyAdelson #MarkelMurder #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FloridaCrime
Transcribe →How Did Mackenzie Shirilla Get 36 Prison Violations and Still Think She Doesn’t Belong There?
3d ago00:37:08Tap to summarizeMackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident.The record starts quiet. Months without a single citation after arriving in August 2023. Then a steady escalation: unauthorized medication belonging to another inmate, photographs depicting drug use, repeated alterations to prison-issued clothing, concealed contraband, disturbances, violations of video visit rules involving seven flagged calls with a single visitor, and most recently, a flat refusal to carry out a work assignment. A former inmate who served alongside Mackenzie described her as someone who showed no remorse and compared her to the character Regina George — daily makeup, social positioning, as if the facility were a high school cafeteria with a longer dress code.But the violations are only half the picture. Recorded phone calls between Mackenzie and her parents reveal a family locked in a shared delusion. Mackenzie tells her mother Natalie that she does not need to be rehabilitated. Natalie agrees, saying rehabilitation is for “actual criminals.” Mackenzie calls herself the third person harmed by the crash. Natalie calls the family of the young man her daughter killed “evil.” Steve Shirilla, now on leave from his teaching job, argues publicly that his daughter is innocent — while a judge’s finding that her actions were deliberate and purposeful sits unchallenged in the court record. During the trial, prosecutors decoded calls in which Mackenzie and Natalie communicated in a private language, and in one of those decoded calls, Mackenzie allegedly asked her mother whether they could tell police she had a seizure.Tony Brueski examines the violations, the calls, the parents, and the psychological pattern that ties them together: a person whose pathology has never been challenged by anyone close enough to matter.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:#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #PrisonViolations #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #StrongsvilleCrash #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #OhioCrime #ShirillaFamily
Transcribe →Mackenzie Shirilla's Recorded Calls Are Building a Case Against Her
3d ago00:56:19Tap to summarizeTwo cases. Two different kinds of evidence problems. Mackenzie Shirilla's own family is building the record against her on monitored prison calls — while in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case, the DNA points one direction and a federal judge just said the prosecution's case isn't strong enough. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines where both cases stand.Shirilla has thirty-six conduct violations in under three years at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, guilty on thirty-two. On recorded calls she refuses rehabilitation, calls herself the third victim, and discusses plans for a post-prison career. Her father Steve lost his teaching position after appearing on a Netflix documentary defending her. Her mother Natalie was recorded calling the Russo family "evil people" — and prosecutors have decoded separate calls in which mother and daughter used a fabricated language to evade monitoring, including an exchange about claiming Shirilla had a seizure.In the Anna Kepner case, a hundred and forty-five pages of unsealed transcript revealed the prosecution's full theory months before a September trial. The DNA odds are 120 sextillion to one against Timothy Hudson — but an FBI agent admitted on the record he cannot connect that DNA to Anna's cause of death. Judge Torres described the case as "a much closer call" with "various defenses."Faddis breaks down what the parole board does with an institutional record like Shirilla's, whether Natalie's conduct on monitored calls carries legal consequences, and what the gap between DNA identification and proof of cause of death means for the Kepner trial.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.#MackenzieShirilla #AnnaKepner #ShirillaNetflix #KepnerCruiseShip #TimothyHudson #TheCrash #DominicRusso #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Transcribe →Why Was Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue Sent to a Convicted Felon Still on Federal Supervision?
3d ago00:21:53Tap to summarizeJesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with conspiracy to commit human trafficking — with the alleged victim being the same woman who later placed her three-year-old son in his care. He had a federal drug conviction. He was still on supervised release when Katrina Baur drove her son Elijah Vue two and a half hours across Wisconsin and left him in Vang’s apartment for what she called “disciplinary reasons.” She told investigators she wanted Vang to teach Elijah “how to be a man.” The child was three years old.According to the criminal complaint, Vang described the arrangement as “boot camp.” He forced Elijah to stand for up to three hours at a time as punishment. He subjected the boy to cold water. He took away the child’s only toy. He changed his diaper once a day. Their text messages show two adults coordinating what was happening to this child — and Baur’s deleted photograph, recovered by investigators, showed Elijah blindfolded with bruising on his face and neck at 3:13 in the morning. She erased it within the hour. Eight days after Baur dropped Elijah off, Vang reported him missing. He told police the boy walked away while he slept. Within one minute, Baur messaged Vang telling him what to say. She deleted that message too. Investigators found it anyway.The community searched for seven months. Elijah’s remains were found in a wooded area three miles from the apartment — discovered by a hunter on private property. Doctors found healed fractures on his skull and face. His death was ruled a homicide. Vang now faces life in prison. Baur faces up to sixty years. Both have pleaded not guilty. The evidence in this case raises a question that goes beyond the courtroom: how does a three-year-old end up in the hands of someone like Jesse Vang — and who is supposed to stop it?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.#ElijahVue #JesseVang #KatrinaBaur #TwoRivers #Wisconsin #TrueCrime #JusticeForElijah #ManitowocCounty #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Transcribe →What Does the DNA Actually Prove in the Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Case?
3d ago00:17:39Tap to summarizeThe DNA odds are 120 sextillion to one pointing at Timothy Hudson. But an FBI agent admitted on the record that he is unaware of any DNA evidence directly connecting Hudson to Anna Kepner's cause of death. That admission — buried inside a hundred and forty-five pages of unsealed transcript — may be the single most important sentence heading into a September trial. Defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what the evidence can and cannot establish.Anna Kepner was eighteen when she was found dead aboard the Carnival Horizon during a family cruise in November. Her cause of death was mechanical asphyxia. Hudson, her stepbrother, was initially charged as a juvenile and later indicted as an adult on first-degree murder charges. He has pleaded not guilty.The unsealed transcript from a February detention hearing laid out the prosecution's full theory — CCTV footage, phone records, Snapchat timestamps showing Anna was active at 8:14 in the evening, and a timeline placing her alone with Hudson in their shared cabin for roughly three hours. Prosecutors say he was seen looking both ways before exiting the room. Her body was discovered the next morning concealed beneath the bed.The transcript also revealed that Anna had an encounter with a second juvenile male aboard the ship before her death. The FBI obtained his DNA, tested it, and excluded him. The defense has signaled they intend to use this information at trial.Judge Torres, who heard all of this evidence, stated from the bench he would not call the government's case strong and described it as "a much closer call" with "various defenses." Faddis analyzes what that language means for trial strategy, how a defense attorney attacks the gap between DNA identification and cause of death, and whether the prosecution's decision to put their entire theory on the public record months before trial gave the defense an unusual advantage.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.#AnnaKepner #KepnerCruiseShip #TimothyHudson #CarnivalHorizon #DNAEvidence #KepnerTrial #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #FederalCase
Transcribe →Why Did Ted Bundy Make Sure the Country Would Never Get the One Answer That Mattered?
3d ago00:14:59Tap to summarizeTed Bundy spent ten years on death row making absolutely sure of one thing: that the country would never get the why.The Chi Omega trial in Miami, summer 1979 — the first criminal trial broadcast nationally on American television — was his stage. He fired his attorneys. He rehired them. He fired them again. He cross-examined witnesses, including Nita Neary, the woman who had seen him on the stairs. The bite mark evidence cut through all of it. Guilty. Sentenced to death.Judge Edward Cowart called him a bright young man and a tragedy, on the record, in front of the cameras.In Orlando in January 1980, during his trial for Kimberly Leach, he proposed to Carole Ann Boone on the witness stand with a notary in the room. Convicted. Third death sentence.Death row. Florida State Prison. Nine years. Two journalists, Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, recorded him for hundreds of hours. He would only profile the killer in the third person. FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier visited for three years and became something close to a confidant.In his final week, Bundy summoned detectives from four states and handed them women's names like currency. Healy. Manson. Rancourt. Campbell. Cunningham. Culver. Kent. When Hagmaier asked if thirty-six was closer to the real number, Bundy said: add one more digit and you have it.On January 24, 1989, he was pronounced dead at 7:16. A field of several hundred people cheered the hearse.He gave the country a count he probably understated, an explanation he chose for the listener, and a confession he could keep at arm's length. What he never gave was the why.This is the fifth and final conversation in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. The women's names come last, because the last word is theirs.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.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DeathRow #FloridaStatePrison #ChiOmega #BiteMark #Justice #TrueCrimePodcast #HistorysHiddenKillers
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