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Murdaugh's Lawyer Has History With The Judge Deciding His Fate
Jun 1200:14:39Tap to summarizeThe latest Alex Murdaugh case update concerns the bench, not the defendant. The South Carolina Supreme Court has vested Judge Debra McCaslin with exclusive jurisdiction over all proceedings in the Murdaugh matter — including any retrial on charges that he murdered his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul — and her professional history with lead defense counsel Dick Harpootlian is now a matter of public scrutiny.The record, as reported: early in her career, McCaslin rented office space from Harpootlian, and during her judicial screening she identified him among the attorneys who shaped her legal career, reportedly stating he made an impression on her life. In this episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis applies the actual legal standards to those facts — what judicial disqualification requires, how appearance-of-impropriety analysis works, who can raise the issue, and why prior professional association between bench and bar is far more common, and far less determinative, than headlines suggest.Faddis then turns to the substantive authority McCaslin now holds. The Supreme Court's reversal — rooted in former clerk of court Becky Hill's misconduct, to which she pleaded guilty — came with a directive that any retrial sharply limit the financial-crimes testimony that consumed hours of the first trial. McCaslin will define that boundary. Faddis assesses what the State's case looks like at each possible line, which evidentiary disputes from the first trial remain unresolved, and what her reportedly stringent sentencing record signals about how she may run this courtroom.His closing analysis addresses the only question that ultimately matters: what has to go right for the State this time — and does this judge make that more or less likely?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 #DebraMcCaslin #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #DickHarpootlian #EricFaddis #BeckyHill #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #JudicialEthics
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Why Does Nick Reiner’s Petition Say He ‘Loved His Parents’?
Jun 1200:23:34Tap to summarize“Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths.” That is a direct quote from a probate petition filed by the man accused of stabbing Rob and Michele Reiner to death. The next line says the facts of their murders “are not at issue.” That is the legal strategy. That is the framing. And that is what makes this petition one of the most brazen court filings Tony Brueski has ever covered.Nick Reiner’s civil attorneys are demanding over $1.5 million from an individual trust his parents established in 1993. The petition says the payouts were mandatory at age thirty and thirty-five. Nick turned thirty two years before his parents were killed and reportedly never received the money. His siblings initially hired a prominent defense attorney, then withdrew financial support. Sources say they called the situation “disgusting” and said they could no longer “bankroll chaos.” Nick responded not with reflection but with litigation — assembling a separate legal team and filing a 136-page petition to take what his family refused to give. The same filing asks for commissary funds for socks and soap while simultaneously demanding the court release seven figures so Alan Jackson can resume defending him. Tony lays out the petition language, the family’s breaking point, the slayer statute that could end Nick’s claim permanently, and the lifetime pattern of entitlement that makes this move the least surprising thing Nick Reiner has ever done. The only person who still thinks Nick deserves Rob and Michele’s money is Nick.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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #TrustFund #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SlayerStatute #CriminalJustice #Accountability
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Did BTK Killer Dennis Rader Ask If The Disk Was Traceable Before Mailing It?
Jun 1200:21:48Tap to summarizeIn a typewritten question left for the Wichita Police Department in January of 2005, Dennis Rader asked the cops, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to him. The question was inside an empty cereal box he had left for them in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He signed it with his self-given initials. He asked them to be honest.The Wichita Police Department answered through a small classified ad in the Wichita Eagle. They told him no. A floppy disk could not be traced.That was not true.In the fifth and final chapter of True Crime Today's BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through the trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr had been building since March of 2004. The thirteen-year silence Rader broke when he could no longer tolerate being ignored. The eleven separate communications that followed. The eleven months of polite, formal responses through classified ads that fed Rader's hunger for attention while the task force quietly built its case.The episode covers the February 16, 2005, arrival of a purple Memorex floppy disk at KSAS-TV in Wichita. The Microsoft Word file metadata that named Christ Lutheran Church in Park City and a user account named Dennis. The phone call from Wichita Police to Pastor Michael Clark that ended the case in a single conversation. The DNA confirmation from Rader's daughter Kerri Rawson's medical records, obtained under warrant without her knowledge or consent at the time. The February 25, 2005, arrest. The thirty-plus-hour confession.Dennis Rader was not caught by sketches, voice recordings, or FBI profiles. He was caught by his own vanity asking a question and his own ego believing the answer.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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#BTK #DennisRader #FloppyDisk #TrueCrimeToday #KenLandwehr #BTKArrest #SerialKillers #BTKCase #TrueCrime #Wichita
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Can Nick Reiner Inherit From The Parents He's Accused Of Killing?
Jun 1200:17:52Tap to summarizeThe question at the center of this Nick Reiner trial development is older than the case itself: can a person accused of killing benefit financially from the death? California's answer is the slayer statute — and in this episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis explains how that law actually functions inside a live probate dispute, not how most people assume it does.The common understanding is that the slayer statute only operates after a conviction. The reality is more complicated, and it matters enormously here. Nick Reiner — who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner — has petitioned for the release of more than $1.5 million from his individual trust. The outgoing trustee reportedly cited the statute among his reasons for withholding the funds. Faddis walks through when the slayer bar can be invoked, who bears the burden, what standard of proof applies in a civil context, and whether a probate judge can simply freeze the assets until the criminal verdict resolves the question.Faddis then maps the family's procedural options with precision: formal opposition to the petition by Jake and Romy Reiner, who previously withdrew their agreement to fund their brother's defense; the implications of trustee Paul Kanin's resignation and his stated concerns about Nick's decision-making capacity; the arrival of successor trustee Jodi Montgomery, previously Britney Spears' conservator; and the reported freeze already imposed on the larger Reiner family trusts.He closes on the unresolved exposure: if funds are released, spent on defense counsel, and a conviction follows — is recovery possible, or is the money simply gone? The answer defines the stakes for everyone involved.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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #TrueCrimeToday #SlayerStatute #EricFaddis #ProbateCourt #TrueCrime #JodiMontgomery #ReinerCase #TrustLitigation
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Nick Reiner Asked A Judge For $1.5 Million — And Soap
Jun 1200:16:15Tap to summarizeThe latest Nick Reiner trial development arrived in the form of a probate petition — 136 pages requesting the release of more than $1.5 million in trust assets, and, in the same filing, modest distributions so the petitioner can purchase socks and personal hygiene items at the jail commissary, where spending is capped at $300.That juxtaposition is deliberate, and in this episode, defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis explains precisely what it accomplishes. The filing, submitted on behalf of Nick Reiner — who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner — asserts that the trust his parents established at his birth mandated distribution of half its assets at age thirty and the remainder at thirty-five, describing those terms as "mandatory and unconditional."Faddis conducts a methodical review of the petition's legal architecture. He assesses the enforceability of mandatory-distribution language under California trust law, the significance of the undisputed timeline — Nick reached the age-thirty trigger more than two years before his parents' deaths and, per the filing, received nothing — and the petition's reliance on the presumption of innocence, including its assertion that the funds remain "lawfully his own" absent a conviction. He also evaluates the constitutional dimension: the claim that withholding the money deprives Nick of his counsel of choice, attorney Alan Jackson, whose declaration states his firm remains ready, willing, and able to resume the representation.Finally, Faddis addresses the procedural posture that should concern anyone watching this case: the reported possibility that an unopposed petition could be granted without a hearing — and identifies who would have to act, and how quickly, to prevent it.He closes with a candid answer to a direct question: would he take 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=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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #TrueCrimeToday #ReinerCase #EricFaddis #TrustLitigation #ProbateCourt #TrueCrime #MicheleReiner #CriminalDefense
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Why Did a Kidnapping 7 Miles Away Become the Biggest Story in the Nancy Guthrie Case?
Jun 1200:17:06Tap to summarizeA BOLO for a 40-year-old woman wanted for kidnapping near Tucson became the biggest Nancy Guthrie headline in weeks — even though authorities have said plainly that the two cases aren’t connected. That gap between the facts and the reaction is the story worth telling.Coral Michelle Smith is wanted for kidnapping and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a May 29th incident at the intersection of River Road and La Cholla Boulevard, approximately 6.8 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills home. She’s 5’6”, 136 pounds, with a criminal record stretching back fifteen years. The Guthrie porch suspect is 5’9” to 5’10” with an apparent wrist tattoo that Smith doesn’t have. The criminal profiles are worlds apart — Smith’s history is street-level, opportunistic, and interpersonal. The Guthrie case involves what the evidence suggests was a planned operation.So why did this routine BOLO go national? Because the Nancy Guthrie investigation has gone four months without a named suspect, and that silence has turned the Catalina Foothills into a place where every nearby crime carries the gravitational weight of an unsolved case. Draw a seven-mile circle around any point in a metro area of over a million people and you will find violent crime that has nothing to do with the address at the center of the circle. That’s math, not a lead. But when a family has been waiting four months for an answer that hasn’t come, math doesn’t register the way it should. I break down what we actually know about the Smith case, what we don’t know because the sheriff’s department has declined to share details, and what both cases reveal about a system that isn’t delivering — for Nancy’s family or for whoever was allegedly taken at River and La Cholla.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.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #Tucson #PimaCounty #HiddenKillers #CriminalJustice #FBI #CoralMichelleSmith
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Twenty Years of Jesse Ridgway Faking Crises and It’s Only Getting Worse
Jun 1100:49:16Tap to summarizeStaged family violence that fooled a thousand people into calling the police. A creator platform that burned through a million users and got sold as an NFT. And now a pregnancy announcement involving a Down syndrome diagnosis that may or may not be real, from a man who has built his entire career on making people believe things that never happened. Jesse Ridgway has been escalating for twenty years and nothing in the ecosystem around him — not the media, not the audience, not the people in his life — is slowing him down.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins for a three-part conversation that goes where nobody else in media is willing to go. The brain behind the behavior. The machine that feeds it. And the audience that guarantees it never stops. If Jesse Ridgway is a case study, this is the clinical examination his record has been asking for.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.#JesseRidgway #McJuggerNuggets #PsychoSeries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InfluencerExposed #Narcissism #StoryFire #Exposed #MunchausenByInternet #OutrageAddiction
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What Does The Full Investigative Timeline Reveal In The Nancy Guthrie Disappearance?
Jun 800:43:25Tap to summarizeThe evidentiary timeline in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is anchored by three machine-generated timestamps that are not subject to interpretation. The residence's doorbell camera system disconnected at approximately 1:47 a.m. At approximately 2:12 a.m., the system's software detected a person at the front door. At 2:28 a.m., the pacemaker monitoring Nancy Guthrie's cardiac rhythm lost its signal — with her cellular phone remaining inside the residence she did not re-enter. The operational window is approximately forty-one minutes.The FBI released doorbell footage on February 10 depicting an unidentified individual approaching the front door wearing a ski mask, gloves, a jacket, and a holstered handgun, carrying a 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack — identified by the bureau as a product sold exclusively through Walmart. The individual discovered the camera during approach and covered the lens using vegetation pulled from the property. As of the bureau's most recent public statement, the individual has not been publicly identified.Physical evidence includes blood confirmed as Nancy Guthrie's on the front porch, her phone, wallet, and required daily medication left inside the residence, and discarded gloves recovered approximately two miles from the property. The family discovered her absence, contacted emergency services promptly, and a substantial response was deployed — aerial surveillance, K-9 units, and ultimately over one hundred investigators.No arrest has been made. Nancy Guthrie remains missing.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer provides forensic analysis of the forty-one-minute window — what the sequential timestamps indicate about the operation's timeline, the significance of the pacemaker disconnection as a terminus marker, and what the evidence profile tells an experienced investigator about the case's solvability.The investigation has been complicated by documented inter-agency friction — the FBI Director's public statement that the bureau was denied access for four days, contradicted by the Pima County sheriff. The sheriff's resume discrepancies and a recall campaign have affected institutional credibility. Canvass contamination concerns remain unresolved. The family reward has escalated to $1 million. The family has been cleared by law enforcement.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 #SavannahGuthrie #FBI #DoorbellCamera #InvestigativeTimeline #MissingPerson #JenniferCoffindaffer #PimaCountySheriff #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
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What Does Kouri Richins' Jail Cell Letter Tell Us About Compulsive Narrative Production?
Jun 700:32:55Tap to summarizeDuring a medical episode, deputies searched Kouri Richins' jail cell and recovered a six-page letter concealed inside an LSAT preparation book. The letter scripted testimony for her brother. When confronted, the defendant did not deny authorship. She characterized the document as part of a fictional novel set in a Mexican prison.The psychological pattern documented across the pre-trial and trial periods is consistent: each new threat to the defendant's position generated an automatic narrative response. Her first defense attorney withdrew citing ethical concerns. From jail, she communicated her intention to "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She recharacterized the victim's family as jealous competitors rather than bereaved relatives. The pattern is not strategic calculation — it is reflexive narrative production, a coping mechanism that activates under threat regardless of whether the resulting narrative serves the defendant's legal interests.The trial itself forced that mechanism into its most extreme configuration. Defense counsel presented zero witnesses. No defense case was offered. For approximately three weeks, the defendant sat in silence while prosecution witnesses systematically dismantled her constructed narrative. The housekeeper described the fentanyl procurement. The defendant's boyfriend provided emotional testimony. A forensic accountant demonstrated that the image of financial success concealed approximately $4.5 million in debt.The psychological analysis of the defendant's courtroom presentation identifies the stillness not as composure but as system overload — a narrative-production mechanism confronted with information it cannot reframe, counter, or redirect, forced into inactivity by defense counsel's strategic decision. The resulting presentation mimicked calm but reflected a fundamentally different internal state: a processing architecture with no available output channel.The jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts following deliberations of less than three hours — a timeline that itself constitutes psychological data. For a defendant whose entire coping structure depends on the belief that her narratives are persuasive, the speed of the verdict communicated something no prior consequence in her life had: she was not even a difficult question.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 #ForensicPsychology #NarrativeProduction #WitnessIntimidation #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #JusticeForEric
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Does The Clinical Evidence Support Mackenzie Shirilla's Dissociative Amnesia Claim?
Jun 700:37:58Tap to summarizeMackenzie Shirilla has consistently maintained she has no memory of the Strongsville crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution rejected the claim. The victims' families dispute it. A fellow inmate provided a characterization of Shirilla's behavior in custody that contradicts her on-camera presentation in Netflix's The Crash. The public discourse has largely treated the memory claim as fabrication.Shavaun Scott — licensed psychotherapist, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with more than thirty years of experience in forensic mental health, domestic violence shelters, and crisis intervention — provides the clinical framework the trial never heard. Dissociative amnesia is a documented clinical phenomenon with established diagnostic criteria. Trauma-induced memory loss presents with characteristics consistent with what Shirilla describes. Scott examines whether genuine dissociative amnesia can be distinguished from deliberate suppression, what the medical evidence in this case suggests about the defendant's neurological state at the moment of impact, and whether the clinical presentation is consistent with fabrication or with authentic trauma response.She also addresses the grief psychology operating on the victims' families — the mechanism by which loss drives certainty beyond what the evidence supports — and the possibility that premeditated murder may not accurately characterize what occurred.The relationship dynamics that preceded the crash received prosecutorial framing but no clinical analysis at trial. The relationship between Shirilla and Russo featured a documented cycle of separation and reconciliation, mutual escalation, and conflicting accounts of violent incidents. The I-71 episode is illustrative: prosecution testimony attributed a threat to crash the vehicle to Shirilla. Text message evidence showed Shirilla provided an alternative account to the victim's mother, attributing the steering intervention to Russo. Two contradictory versions of the same incident. The defense did not challenge the prosecution's account.Scott examines the clinical significance of the relationship cycle — why separation constitutes an identity-level threat for individuals with Shirilla's psychological profile, how self-harm threats function within volatile adolescent relationships, and whether the behavioral evidence supports premeditated calculation or emotional deregulation in an adolescent brain that had not completed neurological development.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 #ShavaunScott #DissociativeAmnesia #ForensicPsychology #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
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