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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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Why Is Nancy Guthrie's Own Yard Being Searched Again? Aug 15, 2026

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Search teams have gone back into the brush behind Nancy Guthrie's own home since the monsoons passed through Tucson, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke dig into what that choice might actually mean six months into this investigation.
It comes alongside a financial trail that doesn't line up with what the public has been told. The ransom demand was four million dollars in Bitcoin. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer's trace shows the only funds that ever reached the alleged kidnapper's wallet were roughly three hundred dollars, sent by the FBI itself on February 10, and never touched since. No ransom was ever paid, which sits directly against Savannah Guthrie's own statement that the family did their part. Messages written straight to that wallet include the exact words Savannah said on camera, meaning a direct line to whoever holds it has existed the whole time and gone unanswered.
Then there are the two ransom notes, released by Pima County on July 31. One opens with 'Hello Savannah,' demands four million, and knows details only someone inside the house would know, including a white smart watch on the floor and a destroyed flood light. The other asks for nothing, claims Nancy died shortly after she was taken, and says she's buried in nature. Dreeke and Coffindaffer both question whether one writer produced both.
Sheriff Nanos calls his relationship with the FBI great while thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed. This episode traces the money, the messages, and now the renewed search, all at once.
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Fernandez's Check to Jared Bridegan's Alleged Killer Said This Aug 15, 2026

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Mario Fernandez's defense team in the Jared Bridegan murder case has been winning before the trial started — charges dropped, death penalty gone, a key witness blocked from the stand, and the state's cooperating gunman withdrawing his plea deal entirely. Then prosecutors pulled the financial records.

Three handwritten checks from Fernandez's company to the alleged triggerman Henry Tenon total $10,000 and arrived after the murder. Two were issued on the same day in March 2022. The third, dated April 4, allegedly carried the memo "Kickstarter" and "Good luck!" on a $5,000 payment written seven weeks after Bridegan was ambushed on Sanctuary Boulevard.

Fernandez's attorneys say those checks paid for landscaping and roof repairs on a rental property and that no money changed hands before the crime. Phone records showing 35 calls between Fernandez and Tenon in February 2022, 30 in March, and continued contact into June form another pillar of the state's case. At a late-July hearing, prosecutor Alan Mizrahi disclosed that two people left the crime scene the night Bridegan was killed. One fled on foot, one drove a pickup truck. Tenon's DNA was on the tire. He was not driving.

A fellow inmate also alleges Fernandez described the conspiracy from inside the Duval County jail, identified his own role, named Gardner as the planner, and asked for help framing Kirsten Bridegan through letters mailed to reporters and law enforcement after release.

Fernandez has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and solicitation. Jury selection began August 10 and trial is set to begin August 17. Gardner's trial follows at month's end. Tenon faces his own trial in March 2027.

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Lindsay Clancy's Prosecution Is Building the Wrong Case Aug 15, 2026

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The prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial set out to prove she was sane and acted deliberately. Three weeks in, its own witnesses have told the jury she was a wonderful mother who was deteriorating while the medical system watched. Patrick Clancy described a Seroquel spiral. The nanny saw a devoted parent. The psychiatrist admitted she never met Lindsay in person.

The defense conceded Lindsay killed her children and is arguing she was consumed by postpartum psychosis. Kevin Reddington has used the prosecution's witnesses to build his own case — exposing telehealth-only treatment, incomplete records, and a prescribing pattern he's called horrific. He told the jury Lindsay heard voices. The psychosis diagnosis didn't come until after the crime.

And on TikTok, creators are accusing Patrick Clancy of being the real killer. They're comparing him to Chris Watts and scrutinizing his remarriage while both sides in the courtroom agree Lindsay did it.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers all three angles — the prosecution's problems, the defense's strategy and risks, and the legal question of what Patrick can do about conspiracy theories targeting him during the trial.

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Nick Reiner's Prosecutors Allege He Did This Before the Killings Aug 14, 2026

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Rob and Michele Reiner spent years trying to help the son who prosecutors now allege planned their murders. Nick Reiner co-wrote a film with his father about his own addiction struggles. His parents paid for treatment at a seventy-thousand-dollar-a-month facility. They kept him on their property in a guest house in Brentwood. A grand jury indictment unsealed on August 12 alleges he repaid all of it by concealing his purpose, waiting for his opportunity, and attacking them inside their bedroom. The lying-in-wait allegation is new — it was not part of the original charges filed in December 2025. It's a second special circumstance under California law, and it carries a specific legal standard: prosecutors must prove concealment, surveillance, surprise, and intent to kill. Nick had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder years before the killings. In 2020, a court placed him under a conservatorship for grave disability. His medication was reportedly changed in the weeks before December 14, and sources said the switch made him more erratic. The grand jury returned the indictment on July 20, and it sat sealed for over three weeks. It replaces the original case and sends the prosecution straight to pretrial, which is scheduled for September 15. The preliminary hearing Nick's defense had been expecting is now off the table. Tony walks through the full indictment, what it alleges about the night of December 13 and the early hours of December 14, and what prosecutors just committed to proving against a defendant whose own medical record may be his strongest defense. Nick Reiner denied the charges and remains in custody on no bail.

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What TikTok Creators Are Accusing Lindsay Clancy's Husband Of Aug 14, 2026

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Patrick Clancy lost three children on January 24, 2023. Now TikTok creators are accusing him of killing them. They're comparing him to Chris Watts. They're posting theories that Lindsay didn't jump from the window — he pushed her. They're dissecting his remarriage and his testimony for signs of guilt.

Lindsay Clancy's own defense team has told the jury she killed the children. The defense isn't arguing innocence — it's arguing she was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis. The conspiracy theories on social media contradict the position of both the prosecution and the defense.

The scrutiny has intensified during the trial. Newsweek published an analysis of the "TikTok jury" phenomenon forming around this case. The Boston Globe ran an opinion piece calling the social media coverage an indictment of public discourse. Creators are examining Patrick's remarriage to Dr. Rachel Danis, comparing his new wife to Lindsay, and framing the speed of his remarriage as suspicious.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether Patrick Clancy has legal options against creators who are accusing him of murder online. The difference between a protected opinion and an actionable defamation claim. Whether Patrick qualifies as a public or private figure. What the Alex Jones and Sandy Hook precedent established. And the practical reality of pursuing lawsuits against creators who are anonymous, scattered across multiple states, and unlikely to have assets worth collecting.

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Why Prosecutors Only Showed One Of Lindsay Clancy's Searches Aug 14, 2026

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The prosecution had 180,000 pages of data extracted from Lindsay Clancy's iPhone. On Day 13 at Plymouth Superior Court, they chose to present one Google search to the jury: "Can you treat a sociopath?" from January 20, 2023.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington's cross-examination revealed what else the phone's browser history contained. Four weeks of searches, date by date: bipolar disorder, McLean Hospital, Trazodone, Zoloft, insomnia, schizophrenia, Wellbutrin, Lamictal, benzodiazepine withdrawal, Ativan, psychosis. On January 23, the day before the killings — intrusive thoughts and hallucinations. Every medication Lindsay had been prescribed appeared in her search history.

The prosecution also flagged photos of the Clancy children as "modified" on the evening of January 23. Reddington established on cross that the modification was a standard iPhone function — converting a live burst photo to a single image. The forensic analyst confirmed he didn't know there were framed photos of the children throughout the Clancy home.

Prosecutors presented a Surface Pro laptop visit to a website about methods of ending one's life from August 2022. Reddington traced the browsing chain to a Spotify music search and a Wikipedia hyperlink. The examiner couldn't confirm who was using the computer. A cellphone note modified the night before the killings described a woman who wanted a fourth child and was terrified of messing up her kids. Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty and contends she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time. Prosecutors allege she planned the killings deliberately.

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What the Voices Told Lindsay Clancy the Night Her Children Died Aug 14, 2026

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"This is your last chance." That's what the defense says Lindsay Clancy heard on January 24, 2023 — voices telling her to act. She had been on thirteen psychiatric medications. She had been messaging her providers almost daily begging to change them. Her journal described intrusive thoughts, insomnia, and a desperation that built for months.

No clinician diagnosed postpartum psychosis before that night. Every provider documented anxiety and depression. The psychosis diagnosis came after, from a forensic psychiatrist retained by the defense.

Kevin Reddington's case doesn't dispute that Lindsay killed her children. It argues she was incapable of understanding what she was doing. He's spent three weeks dismantling the providers who treated her — exposing telehealth-only sessions, incomplete records, missed warning signs, and a prescribing pattern he's called "horrific." The judge barred him from calling other mothers who've experienced postpartum psychosis. He's now fighting to add a former McLean Hospital employee to the witness list through a TikTok video.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether the defense's strategy is working, where its risks are, and what happens when a case built on a diagnosis that didn't exist until after the crime reaches a jury that has to look at three dead children and decide whether their mother was too sick to be punished.

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What Lindsay Clancy's Psychiatrist Admitted About Their 14 Sessions Aug 14, 2026

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Fourteen appointments. Every one by telehealth. Lindsay Clancy's psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, told the jury she never saw signs of psychosis and that Lindsay denied wanting to hurt herself or anyone else. Then the defense got three hours to cross-examine her.

Tufts admitted she didn't have Lindsay's complete medical record. She never requested hospital records. She didn't use the Edinburgh scale. She had no idea Lindsay had called a suicide hotline twice. She got her board certification the same day Lindsay filled out intake forms.

The prosecution put Tufts on the stand to prove Lindsay was mentally sound. The cross-examination turned that testimony into an argument about a system that treated a deteriorating mother through a screen.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down where the prosecution's case stands three weeks into the Lindsay Clancy trial. The state argues Lindsay sent Patrick out for takeout, timed the errand, and searched "ways to kill" before her children died. But the prosecution's own witnesses — the nanny, the pediatrician, the ex-husband — have told the jury she was a wonderful mother who couldn't get help. In Massachusetts, the state carries the burden of proving she was criminally responsible. The question is whether the prosecution's witnesses have been proving the opposite.

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Jared Bridegan's Admitted Triggerman Traded 15 Years for This Aug 14, 2026

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Henry Tenon had a deal. Plead guilty to second-degree murder, testify truthfully against Shanna Gardner and Mario Fernandez Saldana, and face a sentencing range that started at 15 years. He signed it in March 2023. He walked away from it in February 2026 and is now charged with first-degree murder.

Four years on, Tenon has never been sentenced for anything.

Jared Bridegan was a 33-year-old Microsoft employee and a father of four. He was killed on a Jacksonville Beach street on February 16, 2022, minutes after dropping his twins at his ex-wife's house. A tire had been placed in the road to make him stop. His 2-year-old was behind him in a car seat.

We walk the bank records: 52 cents in Tenon's account in January 2022, three checks totaling $10,000 from a company owned by Fernandez and Gardner in the weeks after, and a detective's testimony that the promised figure was $150,000, structured as an investment in a pallet business. Defense attorneys say the checks paid for landscaping and roof work.

Mario Fernandez Saldana's jury was picked in August. Shanna Gardner's follows days after his verdict is read aloud. Each of the three defendants has pleaded not guilty, and each is presumed innocent.

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Lindsay Clancy Scored 23 Out Of 30 Before She Got There Aug 14, 2026

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In November 2022, a psychiatric nurse practitioner screened Lindsay Clancy with a ten-question tool built to detect postpartum mood disorders. Twenty-three out of thirty was the number. Extreme anxiety showed up on the same screen. Weeks later she was admitted to McLean Hospital, where that screening was never administered.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three first-degree murder counts arising from the deaths of her children at their Duxbury home. Her defense does not dispute the killings themselves. The defense argues her illness put her beyond criminal responsibility. The state's case is that she acted knowingly and swiftly.

This is the complete conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, all three parts in one.

The first covers the condition. A 2017 review in BMC Psychiatry puts postpartum psychosis at roughly one or two births in a thousand, and it typically arrives within days or weeks of delivery. Eight months was Callan's age.

The second covers the clinicians. Dr. Jennifer Tufts saw Clancy across fourteen video sessions and never in person, and testified she never obtained records from other providers or had Clancy sign the releases. Dr. Alia Goodheart testified no patient with that condition had ever come to her, and that McLean obtained none of Clancy's prior records.

The third covers bipolar disorder. A nurse practitioner told Clancy and her husband about it in 2022. A psychiatrist dismissed it on the absence of mania. McLean discharged her with major depressive disorder, severe, without psychotic features.

She authored the memoir Nightbird. Both named doctors deny the allegations against them.

Clancy's five-day stay at McLean ran from January 1 to January 5, 2023. Her lawsuit says a Columbia psychiatrist evaluated her for eight hours after the deaths and diagnosed bipolar disorder with psychosis and anxious distress with postpartum onset.

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