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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 Trial: Friend's Testimony Reveals She Called Herself "A Zombie" Aug 06, 2026

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Four witnesses took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings.

Susan Bertolo, a former teacher at Learning Sprouts, testified that Cora needed the bathroom more often than usual and, at one point, was upset that her mother was in the hospital. Fellow Learning Sprouts teacher Stephanie Williams told the court she saw no signs of depression in her interactions with Clancy. Then came the more complicated testimony. Mass General labor and delivery nurse Andrea Hennigan — who has no formal PPD training but has screened patients for it — said she socialized with Clancy and that Clancy told her she was worried about returning to work because of insomnia. On cross, Hennigan acknowledged Clancy had numerous doctor's appointments and had been placed on multiple medications with side effects, while still describing her as a loving, attentive mother. Marriage and family therapist Bethany DeCollibus, a friend of Clancy's, testified Clancy seemed more tired after Callan was born and never appeared suicidal — but told her she felt like "a zombie."

Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks.

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Medical Examiner Reveals How Callan Died — Pediatrician Says She Saw No Warning Signs Aug 06, 2026

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Three witnesses took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

The clinical parts of this case are the hardest to sit through, and today didn't spare anyone. Dr. Kimberley Springer, the medical examiner, testified to the autopsy findings for Callan — cause of death was complications from mechanical asphyxiation, strangulation by ligature. Clinical language for something that shouldn't need a definition.

Then came the pediatrician, Dr. Lindsay Rosshart, who'd seen all three kids and, by her account, saw nothing alarming in Clancy either — no signs of postpartum depression, and on cross-examination she went further, calling Clancy a good mom. That's the tension this trial keeps circling back to: a woman everyone around her says looked fine, and three children who are dead.

Susan Fraone, a preschool teacher at Learning Sprouts, added a smaller but pointed detail — drop-offs were hard for Dawson. Whether that means anything beyond a toddler having a rough morning is for the jury to decide.

Prosecutors maintain Clancy understood what she was doing. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Left the Money and Did WHAT? Aug 06, 2026

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Savannah Guthrie went on camera and said the family would pay. The deadline had not passed. And the next note that arrived was not a counteroffer. It was an apology. Eight sentences. No location. No demands. Just an explanation that Nancy died shortly after she was taken and that they are truly sorry.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what the second note reveals about the writer — the shift in register, the claim about her physical condition, the phrase buried in nature, and whether a man who walks away from millions and writes about finding peace is showing remorse or closing an account.

Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.

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Nancy Guthrie's Ransom Note Proved WHAT About Her Kidnapper? Aug 06, 2026

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The Pima County Sheriff's Department released both notes in full because they want the public to recognize a man by how he writes. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott goes through the first note line by line with Tony Brueski — the demand structure that reads like an invoice, the proof-of-presence details that almost nobody outside the investigation knew, the shift from we to me, and the line about Nancy that stops the conversation cold when you put it next to the second note's timeline.

Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.

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Kouri Richins’ Best Friend Gave Her WHAT?! Aug 06, 2026

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Twenty-six felony charges. That’s what’s still pending against Kouri Richins in Summit County, Utah — separate from the murder conviction that already put her away for life. Five counts of mortgage fraud. Seven counts of money laundering. Forgery. Bad checks. Communications fraud. And a charge that says it was all one continuous pattern.

The murder case showed you how Eric Richins died. These charges show you who Kouri Richins was while he was alive. Prosecutors allege she used Eric’s power of attorney to secretly take out a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar line of credit on his premarital home. She allegedly funneled that money into a real estate company that was losing more every month than it earned in five. She allegedly forged his bank documents, wrote bad checks to herself, and borrowed from more than two dozen lenders while defaulting on most of them.

But it’s the friend that tells you the most about who this woman is. According to prosecutors, Kouri signed a rent-to-own agreement with her best friend, collected forty-five thousand dollars for a down payment, and used every cent to cover her company’s debts. The property already had more than four hundred thousand in loans against it. When the lender foreclosed, the friend’s family was thrown out of the house Kouri had promised them.

This episode breaks down every charge, follows the debt spiral from the first stolen dollar to the day Eric died owing nearly five million, and exposes the prenuptial clause that made his death the only scenario where Kouri could access what she needed — and the trust Eric secretly built to make sure she couldn’t.

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Why Patrick Clancy Is Suing Lindsay's Healthcare Providers Aug 06, 2026

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The prosecution's own lead witness walked out of the courtroom and filed a civil lawsuit against the people who were supposed to help his wife. Patrick Clancy is not suing to punish Lindsay. He is suing the doctors. Both he and Lindsay filed separate suits naming the providers who prescribed, adjusted, and failed to monitor seven medications that were in her blood that night.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines what the defense extracted from cross-examination — testimony that no provider warned Patrick it was unsafe to leave Lindsay alone with the children despite her ER visits and documented intrusive thoughts. Motta covers the documented fact that Women and Infants Hospital identified overmedication, reached out to her nurse practitioner, and never heard back. He also addresses what it means to ask a jury of non-medical professionals to decide whether someone was sick enough to lack criminal responsibility.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.

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Lindsay Clancy AND Kohberger: The System On Trial in BOTH Aug 06, 2026

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The Lindsay Clancy trial is playing out in Plymouth Superior Court. The prosecution says her best day is proof she planned what happened. Her husband testified for the prosecution and then sued her doctors. The defense says seven medications were in her blood and a hospital identified the problem before it was too late and nobody responded.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger wants to take back a guilty plea for four murders using arguments traced to a true crime book. The evidence he says was hidden was already examined by an expert his lawyers hired. The family that opposed the plea deal is daring him to go to trial.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries covers both cases with Tony Brueski — the emotional architecture of the prosecution in Plymouth, the defense case built from the prosecution's own witnesses, and the Kohberger petition's legal reality.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.

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Murdaugh's Prosecutors Told the Judge WHAT About Maggie's DNA?! Aug 05, 2026

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SLED found DNA from an unknown, unrelated male under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails at the Moselle crime scene. The defense says the agency catalogued it and never pursued it further. Now Dick Harpootlian and the defense team are demanding that an independent lab — the same forensic genealogy operation that helped crack the Idaho student murders and decades-old cold cases — test the last remaining reserve sample before SLED can run additional tests using the same method that already came back incomplete. Prosecutors pushed back hard. They told the judge the unknown profile is too partial to mean anything and that trace DNA under fingernails can transfer through casual contact. They called the defense's request an exercise aimed at public consumption. The defense fired back with a documented history of how SLED handled other biological evidence in this same investigation — including a white T-shirt that tested negative for human blood before a blood spatter expert allegedly reversed his conclusions after a visit from the lead SLED investigator. The defense's filing alleges that a SLED forensic administration captain directed her team to stop running exculpatory tests and suppress the results they'd already generated. If the prosecution is right that this DNA is meaningless, letting an independent lab confirm that only strengthens their case at retrial. The pretrial hearing on August 14th could decide whether the sample gets tested independently — or whether SLED's methodology consumes what's left first.

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What Bryan Kohberger Read That Made Him File This Petition Aug 05, 2026

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The language in Bryan Kohberger's handwritten post-conviction petition mirrors a true crime book published in April 2026. The key evidence term he uses appeared nowhere in court records — only in the book. And the evidence he claims was hidden was already tested by an expert his own defense team hired.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines the petition against the record. He covers the nine-page questionnaire Kohberger signed confirming his plea was free and voluntary, Steve Goncalves welcoming a retrial and saying the family will pursue the death penalty, and the historical pattern of defendants who tried to undo death-penalty-avoidance pleas and failed.Motta also addresses the one question that hangs over this entire filing: is there a single defense attorney in the country who would take Kohberger to trial carrying a signed confession and a sworn admission under oath?Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Judge, Forensic Scientist, and Nanny Detail DNA and Depression Confessions Aug 05, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, faced a courtroom day built entirely on physical evidence and personal history. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan opened proceedings by reading stipulations both sides have already agreed to — no dispute needed, no argument required. The exercise bands used in the killings carry DNA from Lindsay Clancy, Patrick Clancy, and the children on their ends. And blood found in the basement of the Summer Street home has been confirmed to belong to Cora. Those are facts now, not allegations.

From there, former Massachusetts State Police criminalist Katarina Stashyn walked the jury through how DNA testing actually works and what the results from the case's physical evidence showed — the kind of testimony that turns a crime scene into a data set.

Then came the human piece. Elaine Rossi, the family's nanny, testified about her time working for the Clancys, including conversations in which Lindsay confided she was struggling with postpartum depression. It's the connective tissue between the forensic timeline and the defense's psychiatric argument — and it's not going away.

Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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