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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 Three Verdicts Lead to Three Very Different Lives Aug 29, 2026

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This jury has three options on the verdict slip. Guilty of first-degree murder — life without parole, automatic appeal, a transfer from a hospital to a prison. Guilty of second-degree murder — life with eventual parole eligibility. Not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility — commitment to a psychiatric facility with no time limit. Every path leads somewhere the audience does not expect.

Eric Faddis walks through all three as a defense attorney and former prosecutor. He starts with the deliberation itself — how the burden of proof sits with the prosecution in Massachusetts, how the two-prong legal test works, and what the prosecution's own expert conceded when he acknowledged Clancy had a severe mental illness but drew the line at psychosis. The legal standard says mental disease or defect and does not specify a diagnosis.

On the not-guilty path, Faddis explains the commitment process under MGL Chapter 123. The court can order 40 days of observation, then the state petitions for involuntary commitment. There is no cap. Andrea Yates has been committed for twenty years. Periodic review hearings give the state a chance to prove Clancy still meets the standard. Her attorney still has a role.

On the guilty path, Clancy leaves Tewksbury Hospital — where she has been since May 2023, paralyzed and on suicide watch — and enters the corrections system. The automatic SJC appeal carries the full trial record, including every piece of mental health evidence the jury rejected. Faddis explains what that review examines and whether the rejected defense has a second life.

The jury must be unanimous. If it deadlocks, the judge can issue a last-resort instruction. If that fails, the result is a mistrial.

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New Charges Against Fernandez Just Blew Up Gardner's Trial Aug 28, 2026

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New felony charges against Fernandez were filed the day after his murder conviction. Both involve crimes against children. Gardner's trial, set to begin this week, has been pushed to May 2027 after an unopposed defense continuance.

Gardner's defense indicated the new charges may give Fernandez an independent motive for Bridegan's murder. She married Fernandez in April 2018, months after he received an other-than-honorable discharge from the Army following allegations involving a recruit. Both told police they barely knew each other. Gardner called it a marriage of "convenience" tied to the custody arrangement.

The prosecution's answer runs through the timeline. Gardner's messages go back to 2015 and 2016, years before the first child's allegations began in April 2020. A friend told investigators Gardner said Fernandez could "take care of" Bridegan. The state has proposed trying Gardner alongside alleged gunman Henry Tenon in May 2027.

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Where the Prison System Puts Lindsay Clancy If She's Convicted Aug 28, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy has been at Tewksbury Hospital for over three years. She is paralyzed from the waist down. She has been on 24-hour suicide watch since January 2023. If this jury convicts her of first-degree murder, she leaves that facility and enters the Massachusetts corrections system. The sentence is mandatory — life without parole.

Eric Faddis breaks down what that transition looks like. The prison system must accommodate Clancy's physical condition — around-the-clock medical care for a paraplegic inmate — on top of her psychiatric needs. In a treatment facility, she is a patient. In prison, she is an inmate who happens to need care. The institutional mission changes, and with it the daily structure, the staffing, and the access to mental health treatment.

Faddis covers what Reddington can do for Clancy once she is inside the system. Advocacy for an incarcerated client includes fighting for placement, conditions of confinement, medical care, and mental health treatment access. The attorney-client relationship does not end with the verdict.

Every first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts triggers an automatic appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court. The trial record — including all of the mental health testimony the jury heard — goes up for review. Faddis explains what the SJC looks for and whether the rejected insanity defense evidence has any life on appeal.

The verdict slip gives this jury a second option. Second-degree murder carries a life sentence with parole eligibility after 15 years. How a jury reaches that verdict when the act itself is undisputed depends on how they weigh the mental health evidence without fully accepting the insanity defense.

First-degree life without parole has two exits — commutation by the governor or a successful appeal. Both are rare.

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Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Read the Jury a List That Went On and On and On Aug 28, 2026

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Reddington held up a list of Lindsay Clancy's prescriptions and started reading. Lorazepam. Sertraline. Hydroxyzine. Lorazepam again. Buspirone. More lorazepam. Trazodone. "It goes on and on and on and on and on." She took them as she was told, Reddington said. The system gave her medication after medication and still couldn't catch what was happening.

He called her a "darn good mother," held up a honeymoon wish jar filled with hopes for healthy children, and showed photos of Clancy smiling with her son Dawson. "They would have you think she killed him first, cruelly because she didn't like him," Reddington told the jury. "That is repulsive."

The prosecution answered with a closing that conceded mental illness and reframed the case around a single question: did Clancy know right from wrong? ADA Sprague pointed to thoughts Clancy hid from every medical provider in December 2022 while disclosing them to her family — and called that concealment proof of rational thinking. The jury is now deliberating. Four options on the verdict slip.

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Where Lindsay Clancy Goes If This Jury Acquits Her Aug 28, 2026

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Not guilty does not mean free. If this jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, she enters a commitment process governed by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123. That process has no end date.

Eric Faddis explains the legal mechanics. The court can order Clancy hospitalized for 40 days of observation and evaluation. After that window, the DA or hospital superintendent petitions for involuntary civil commitment. The commitment is reviewed periodically — the state must prove at each hearing that Clancy remains mentally ill and poses a danger. If the state fails to make that case, release is possible. If it succeeds, the commitment continues.

Clancy is already at Tewksbury Hospital, where she has received court-ordered treatment since May 2023. She is paralyzed and on 24-hour suicide watch. A commitment facility would provide daily psychiatric care — therapy, medication oversight, structured evaluation. The environment is built around treatment in a way that prison is not.

The question the audience keeps asking is whether Reddington still has work to do after an acquittal. Faddis explains why the answer is yes — the commitment hearings require legal representation, the conditions of confinement require advocacy, and the periodic reviews are adversarial proceedings where the state must carry its burden.

Andrea Yates has been in a state psychiatric facility for twenty years after a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict in the drowning deaths of her five children. She declines her annual release hearing every year. Faddis walks through whether that path is the most realistic comparison for Clancy's case — or whether Massachusetts law creates a different outcome.

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Lindsay Clancy's Jury Heard a Rule That Flips the Entire Case Aug 28, 2026

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Most people following the Lindsay Clancy trial assume the defense has to prove she was insane. Massachusetts law says the opposite. Once the defense raises mental illness, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. That burden does not shift back.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through the legal standard this jury was handed and why it matters. The McHoul test requires the Commonwealth to prove two things — that Clancy could appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions and that she could conform her conduct to the law. Fail on either, and she is not criminally responsible. The standard says mental disease or defect. It does not require a diagnosis of psychosis.

Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution's own rebuttal psychiatrist, told this jury Clancy had a severe depressive episode. He stopped short of psychosis. The legal question is whether that distinction matters under a test that never uses the word.

Faddis also covers the mechanics of deliberation — how jurors choose a foreperson, how holdouts shape the conversation, and how long a judge allows a deadlocked jury to continue before stepping in. The Tuey-Rodriguez instruction is a last-resort tool Massachusetts judges use to push past an impasse. In the Karen Read case, it did not work.

This jury heard from 84 witnesses across 21 days of testimony. What they do with it begins after closing arguments Thursday.

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Keffe D Was Recorded Saying WHAT From Jail?! Aug 28, 2026

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Twenty-five witnesses. Eight days. The prosecution in the Keffe D murder trial rested its case on Day 8 — and chose a recorded jail call as the last thing the jury would hear before the break.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis was recorded on a Clark County Detention Center phone line saying something the fiction defense can't account for. In a separate call, he complained that authorities were using his statements against him. The prosecution also played a YouTube clip of Davis promoting his book as "the real truth." A separate video showed Davis explaining why his side had reason to retaliate after the MGM Grand brawl.

The defense begins Thursday with a detective and two officers. Davis has to decide overnight whether to testify. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday.

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Lindsay Clancy's Fate and the Man the Internet Blames Aug 28, 2026

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One trial, three reckonings. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits with Tony Brueski for the complete interview on what the verdict coverage leaves out: the prison that waits, the hospital that never lets go, and the husband strangers decided to put on trial themselves.

The prison conversation confronts the physical truth first: a conviction sends a woman who cannot stand into a facility built on the assumption that inmates can. Shavaun, drawing on decades in forensic settings, describes the collision between mandatory life without parole and a defendant this dependent — and what becomes of a mind serving a sentence with no end date and no one left to visit.

The hospital conversation flips the script on the insanity verdict. Renewable commitments, a release standard nearly impossible to meet with a permanent diagnosis, dueling experts whose conflicting testimony will shape her treatment for years — and the Andrea Yates precedent hanging over all of it like a forecast.

The final conversation is Patrick's. The accusations his attorneys call patently false. The threats against his new wife. The testimony about a happy afternoon that ended in catastrophe. And the counsel of Rusty Yates, who has spent twenty-five years surviving what Patrick is just beginning.

Three parts, one question underneath: when the crime is this entangled with illness, what does justice even mean? Shavaun's answer earns the full runtime.

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Shanna Gardner Said THIS About Bridegan Before He Died Aug 27, 2026

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The man the prosecution called the only link between Bridegan and the gunman was convicted in under four hours. Gardner's jury selection starts August 31 — and the evidence profile is a different case entirely.

Against Fernandez, the prosecution had financial records and phone data but no evidence he ever expressed a desire to harm Bridegan. Against Gardner, prosecutors have her own texts to friends expressing exactly that. They have Jensen's messages about finding someone for Gardner. They have wiretaps from Gardner's phone and Apple Watch that survived a defense motion to suppress.

But Gardner's connection to Henry Tenon runs through Fernandez. She never paid Tenon directly. Her case requires the prosecution to prove she directed the killing, not just that she wanted it. Jose Baez has been fighting pretrial harder than Fernandez's defense team did — accusing the state of withholding evidence, challenging the wiretaps, and arguing the texts are taken out of context. The conspiracy charge Fernandez didn't face at trial is still live against Gardner. Deliberations in Fernandez's case took four hours. Gardner's trial is scheduled for three weeks.

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Patrick Clancy Carries a Grief Only One Man Understands Aug 27, 2026

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There is no support group for what happened to Patrick Clancy. The research on parents who survive what he survived barely exists, because so few ever have. But one man has — and his road map is at the center of this episode. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the loneliest grief in true crime.

Shavaun starts where the pain starts: a father who came home to find his three children gone, taken by the woman he loved and built a family with. She explains why this loss breaks the grief playbook therapists rely on. The perpetrator and the co-mourner are the same person, the anger and the love have the same address, and the standard stages of grief have no chapter for it.

Then the pile-on. While Patrick relived that night on the witness stand, strangers online accused him of orchestrating it — allegations his attorneys have condemned as patently false, allegations that brought death threats to his new wife's door. Shavaun details what public blame does to private trauma, and why survivors of family tragedies so often become the internet's suspects.

The episode closes with Rusty Yates — the father who lost five children to Andrea Yates' psychosis in 2001 — and the hard-won advice he offered Patrick. Tony asks whether wisdom like that can actually hold a person up. Shavaun's answer is the most honest thing you'll hear about grief this year.

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