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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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Lindsay Clancy's Voice Told Her THIS And Then Vanished Sep 01, 2026

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A male voice appeared on the afternoon of January 24, 2023 — the first time Lindsay Clancy had ever heard it. The voice told her this was her last chance. She had to kill her children and then kill herself. It lasted roughly eighteen minutes and stopped the moment the children were dead.
The prosecution's expert called the pattern unusual. Defense experts Paul Zeizel and Phillip Resnick both diagnosed bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis and testified Clancy had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of what she did. Resnick called her a puppet. He is the same expert who testified for Andrea Yates.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates. They disagree on this case and dig into whether the defense's evidence — the voice, the medication history, the journal entries, the chaplain's testimony — actually blocked the prosecution from proving criminal responsibility.
Reddington held up a wish jar from the Clancy honeymoon filled with handwritten wishes for healthy children. He held up a poster listing thirteen psychiatric medications. He blamed the pills and the doctors who never talked to each other.
The jury — nine women, three men — has five verdict options on those slips.

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Lindsay Clancy's Prosecution Expert Said She Killed Out Of THIS Sep 01, 2026

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The prosecution called forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun to prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. He told the jury she committed a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing the children out of love.
Heilbrun said Clancy retained moral awareness of what she was doing. But his own characterization — love as the motive, not cruelty — landed squarely in the defense's territory. A second prosecution expert, Gregory Saathoff, agreed on the stand that the prosecution's opening statement minimized what Clancy was going through.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates in Plymouth Superior Court. They disagree on this case and dig into how the prosecution's closing argument landed — and whether it survived its own witnesses.
Sprague argued Clancy made a rational choice to end her life and removed her children because they were the protective factor keeping her alive. She told the jury Clancy left the children on the basement floor with exercise bands still around their necks and went upstairs to finish her plan.
Nine women and three men are deliberating. Five verdict options sit on those slips.

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Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Had the Answer and Did Nothing Sep 01, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy was a nurse who delivered other people's babies. She'd been inside a psychiatric facility less than three weeks before she killed her own three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. Both the prosecution and her defense at Plymouth Superior Court agree she was mentally ill when it happened. What the jury must decide is whether she was too ill to understand what she was doing.

Postpartum psychosis is rare, affecting roughly one or two mothers per thousand births. Doctors say the name is misleading because the condition is closer to a mood disorder than what most people imagine when they hear the word psychosis. A mother in its grip can look fine to everyone around her. The biggest risk factors, including bipolar history, are well established in the medical literature.

The cruelest part of the evidence: caught early, this illness is treatable and temporary. Weeks of treatment can end the acute danger. Yet suicide and overdose among new mothers now account for nearly a quarter of all pregnancy-related deaths in America. The CDC says more than eight in ten were preventable. Roughly four out of five American mothers leave a hospital after delivery without ever being screened for depression.

The same courtroom fight played out twenty years ago when Andrea Yates drowned her five children. The same forensic psychiatrist, Phillip Resnick, testified for the defense in both cases. Survivor Meghan Cliffel lived through postpartum psychosis in 2015 and says the attention only arrives after a tragedy.

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Lindsay Clancy: Prison, Hospital, or Free — The Jury Decides Sep 01, 2026

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The prosecution says Lindsay Clancy chose the basement three times. The defense says her doctors piled on medications until her brain broke. The jury has five options for each child — prison, hospital, or freedom are all on the table.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the courtroom for the full trial. He joins Tony Brueski for the complete breakdown — prosecution, defense, the Patrick conspiracy, and what happens to Lindsay no matter what the jury decides.

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Kohberger Got a New Hearing — His Expert Called for This Aug 31, 2026

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Judge Hippler scheduled Bryan Kohberger's evidentiary hearing for June 17, 2027 after prosecutors asked for the post-conviction petition to be dismissed outright. The hearing is a procedural step — not a ruling, not a signal of merit — but the timeline it creates puts a new attorney ten months from a hearing where Kohberger's former lawyers could be forced to testify.

Kohberger claims Taylor, Massoth, and Barlow coerced him into confessing, hid evidence, and lied about what prison and death row would look like. He signed a nine-page questionnaire under oath saying none of that happened. The legal standard he has to clear — manifest injustice — is designed to make post-sentencing plea withdrawals nearly impossible.

His new attorney Greg Rauch hadn't read the petition, the case file, or spoken to Kohberger as of his August 2026 appointment. He needs to drive 300 miles south to Kuna just to visit his client at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.

And the expert his defense team hired to build his case is now working against him. Sy Ray told reporters that additional cellphone geolocation data places Kohberger near the house repeatedly before the murders. Ray's position is clear: bring back the death penalty and try this case again.

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Lindsay Clancy May NEVER Leave the Hospital Aug 31, 2026

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If the jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible, she does not go home. Massachusetts law allows the state to commit her to a psychiatric facility — six months initially, renewable every year, no maximum sentence. Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She is still committed twenty years later.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down the verdict options, the conspiracy theories blaming Patrick, and what the rest of Lindsay's life actually looks like.

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Cruise Ship Murder: Anna Kepner Killer’s Mother Chose WHAT Over Him? Aug 31, 2026

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A Miller hearing is the only thing standing between Timothy Hudson and a life sentence. The 2012 Supreme Court ruling says a judge must examine a juvenile defendant's childhood — mental health, trauma, family environment, rehabilitation potential — before imposing life without parole. To build that examination, the defense needs parents, relatives, and anyone who witnessed the defendant's development. Records tell part of the story. Only a parent can tell the rest.

Timothy Hudson's three public defenders have never handled a juvenile federal case. They told Judge Beth Bloom their access to "certain family members" has been blocked by a family dynamic they called "very unfortunate." The filing was deliberately vague. A custody fight between Timothy's biological parents — his mother is married to Anna Kepner's father, making her stepmother to the girl Timothy allegedly killed aboard the Carnival Horizon — exposes the fracture the defense was trying to keep off the page.

Shauntel Hudson confirmed under oath that Timothy was taking ADHD and insomnia medication. She confirmed he'd skipped the insomnia meds the two nights on the cruise. FBI Agent del Valle testified that Anna's ex-boyfriend reported Timothy had tried to get into Anna's bed while she slept — months before the trip. Anna allegedly told the ex she was afraid and hesitant to tell her father. Shauntel's own stepmother went on CBS demanding charges against both parents for lack of supervision.

The person whose testimony would anchor the Miller case is the same person who'd have to explain what she knew before that cruise and what she chose not to act on.

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Lindsay Clancy Was on THIS Many Medications Aug 31, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney rattled off prescription after prescription for the jury. The defense argued her doctors kept piling on psychiatric medications without coordinating her care — and that the result was a woman whose brain broke before she ever walked into that basement.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside Plymouth Superior Court. He joins Tony Brueski to assess how the defense case played in the courtroom and whether the medication evidence moved the jury.

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Lindsay Clancy's Children Were Found HOW? Aug 31, 2026

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Patrick Clancy came home and found all three of his children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks. The prosecution says Lindsay put them there deliberately. The defense says her brain was in psychosis and she could not have stopped herself.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the Plymouth courtroom. He joins Tony Brueski to break down how the prosecution's closing argument landed with the jury — the puppet analogy, the phone call, and whether the state proved Lindsay knew what she was doing.

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Shanna Gardner's Own Texts Really Said WHAT?! Aug 31, 2026

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Jared Bridegan's killer is going to prison. His wife's trial just got more complicated than anyone expected.
Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation for shooting Bridegan in a Jacksonville Beach street in 2021, staged to look like a carjacking. Jurors took less than four hours. He's facing life without parole. Then, one day after that verdict, prosecutors filed two brand-new felony charges against Fernandez — both involving children, unrelated to Bridegan's murder, one tied to a girl who was around eight when the alleged conduct began.
Shanna Gardner's own trial was supposed to start days later. Instead, Judge London Kite granted a continuance to May 2027 so her defense can investigate whether the new charges reveal a motive of Fernandez's own — separate from, or tangled up with, hers. Fernandez had already told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture," a comment that predates the new charges by years.
None of that changes what prosecutors already have waiting for Gardner's jury: her own text messages, read by prosecutors as evidence of intent rather than frustration. A friend, Kim Jensen, texted someone about finding Gardner "a guy" who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plot goes back to 2015. Gardner still faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge connected to her twins.
Her attorney, Jose Baez, already has Casey Anthony's acquittal on his résumé, and he's accusing the state of mischaracterizing evidence before a single juror is seated. The jury pool has been doubled to 500. May 2027 is a long way off, and the story keeps changing before it gets there.
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