My Crazy Family | A Podcast of Crazy Family Stories

For nine months, Charity Beallis begged for help. She wrote letters. Posted warnings. Told friends, family, legislators — anyone who would listen — that she feared her estranged husband would kill her. On December 2nd, a judge awarded that man joint custody. On December 3rd, Charity and her two children were found shot to death. Now the Secret Service and Homeland Security have joined a sprawling investigation, and the death of the suspect's first wife in 2012 — also by gunshot, ruled a suicide, with evidence destroyed — has been reopened. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down the catastrophic red flags and the investigative roadmap unfolding behind the scenes. We dig into: – Why strangulation is the #1 predictor of intimate partner homicide – Why Charity's public warnings went ignored – How federal agencies get involved when evidence suggests a pattern – Why a previous spouse's suspicious death changes everything – The troubling court decision awarding custody the day before the killings – What investigators are doing with 12+ search warrants and no arrest yet – What happens to a medical professional's license when they are under homicide investigation – And the heartbreaking question: could anything have saved her? This is one of the most disturbing domestic-violence system failures in recent memory — and Coffindaffer unpacks every layer. #CharityBeallis #JenniferCoffindaffer #DomesticViolenceAwareness #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #LethalityAssessment #StrangulationRisk #JusticeForCharity #DVReform Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

A bombshell revelation from attorney Mark Geragos has shifted the entire landscape of the Celeste Rivas Hernandez investigation: according to him, LAPD has identified a second suspect. Not the killer — but someone allegedly involved before, during, and after Celeste's death, including the disposal and possible dismemberment of her body. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what investigators uncovered — and how they uncovered it. Geragos says cellphone data, Tesla GPS, and social-media location tracking created a digital trail accurate “almost to the minute.” One key focus: a late-night trip to a remote area of Santa Barbara County, where investigators believe D4VD spent nearly two hours… and wasn't alone. If a second suspect was with him during that trip, that changes everything. Coffindaffer explains: – How investigators triangulate cell towers, GPS logs, and app metadata – Why Tesla vehicles are digital goldmines for forensic teams – What physical evidence might still exist months later in a remote area – How prosecutors flip secondary suspects with cooperation deals – How freezer storage, disposal access, and vehicle movements elevate legal liability We also explore the possibility that the second suspect parked the Tesla on July 29th — the same day D4VD left for tour — and what that would mean about their role, loyalty, and exposure. With a grand jury active, digital evidence mounting, and a second suspect reportedly identified, the case is shifting from “What happened?” to “Who helped?” #D4VDCase #CelesteRivas #SecondSuspect #DigitalForensics #TeslaData #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimePodcast #LegalBreakdown Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The grand jury investigating the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez has entered its third week — and the pressure inside that room is reaching a breaking point. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins me to break down the newest developments as the people closest to D4VD begin to fracture under questioning. This week, Robert Morgenroth — general manager of D4VD's record label and president of his touring company — spent three straight days testifying. Three days for a non-target witness is extraordinary, and it signals something major: prosecutors believe he knows far more than he's letting on. According to reports, he told courthouse staff that Deputy DA Beth Silverman was “pushy” about why he never called police after learning a decomposing body had been found in his artist's car. His alleged explanation? He didn't think it was his responsibility. He just wanted to keep the tour going. Meanwhile, another female witness reportedly refused to appear for her grand jury subpoena — prompting prosecutors to seek a body attachment order, essentially authorizing law enforcement to detain her and bring her to the stand. She's represented by the same attorney as Morgenroth, raising big questions about coordination behind the scenes. Coffindaffer walks us through what these moves really mean: – Why long testimony = prosecutors digging for inconsistencies – What liability witnesses face when they withhold critical information – Why refusal to appear can trigger aggressive enforcement – How resistance and fear inside the inner circle often signal far more beneath the surface This isn't just testimony — this is a pressure campaign. And the cracks are widening. #D4VD #CelesteRivas #JenniferCoffindaffer #GrandJury #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #WitnessTampering #LegalAnalysis #JusticeForCeleste Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Three cases. Three firestorms. One attorney who cuts through the noise. In this extended episode, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down the legal chaos surrounding the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, the explosive allegations linking Diddy to the murders of Tupac and Biggie, and the mysterious cruise-ship death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, where a 16-year-old stepbrother is the named suspect — yet no charges have been filed. Part One: Diddy vs. Netflix We look at the cease-and-desist letter, the “stolen footage” accusations, and why Diddy hasn't filed the billion-dollar lawsuit he threatened. Eric explains the hurdles of copyright ownership, the brutal reality of defamation law for public figures, and how anti-SLAPP statutes could turn the whole thing back on Diddy. We also break down why 50 Cent's decades-long feud with Diddy isn't enough to create legal exposure on its own. Part Two: Tupac & Biggie Allegations Keefe D named Diddy 47 times across interviews. Kirk Burrowes says Diddy “ushered Biggie to his death.” Former LAPD detective Greg Kading lays out timelines and motive theories. But accusations do not equal evidence. Eric explains why none of this has triggered criminal charges, what prosecutors would actually need, and whether future cooperation deals could change the landscape. Part Three: The Anna Kepner Case A death at sea. A teenage suspect identified in legal filings, not by investigators. Conflicting family narratives, witnesses claiming aggression and chokeholds, and an FBI investigation happening entirely out of sight. Eric breaks down why the silence may be strategic, how federal cases involving minors unfold, and what the legal roadmap looks like behind closed doors. This episode pulls together the legal, psychological, and forensic threads of three highly complicated cases — and gives listeners a grounded, real-world understanding of what justice looks like when the spotlight is this bright. #DiddyCase #TupacAndBiggie #AnnaKepner #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #LegalAnalysis #NetflixDocumentary #TrueCrimeDiscussion Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner died aboard a cruise ship. Her sixteen-year-old stepbrother has been identified as the suspect — not by police, not by the FBI, but through explosive court filings in a custody battle. The family acknowledges it. Witnesses describe aggression, chokeholds, and a dynamic the adults claim they never saw. And still: no charges. So what does this silence actually signal? Former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains why federal investigations move slowly, why cruise-ship deaths fall under complex jurisdictional rules, and what benchmarks investigators need before they pursue homicide charges involving a minor. We examine the digital trail (key-card logs, surveillance, onboard data), the fracture within the family, and how contradicting statements influence a prosecutor's strategy. Eric also walks through what a defense attorney would be doing right now behind the scenes — protecting a juvenile client, anticipating transfer hearings, and preparing for the moment charges finally drop. We discuss why custody documents are revealing more than the FBI, why investigators might be intentionally delaying charges, and what it means when a case hinges on both forensic evidence and family testimony. This case is quiet — too quiet — and Eric breaks down exactly what silence means in federal law. #AnnaKepner #CruiseShipCase #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #TonyBrueski #FederalInvestigation #LegalAnalysis #JusticeForAnna #TrueCrimeCommunity Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The Netflix documentary doesn't stop at abuse allegations — it dives straight into the two most infamous unsolved murders in music history: Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. With Keefe D now awaiting trial in Nevada, statements resurfacing from decades past, and former associates like Kirk Burrowes making explosive claims, many viewers are asking the same question: Is there any world where Diddy faces criminal charges? Defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down exactly why these allegations haven't resulted in charges and what prosecutors actually need before they put anyone — especially a high-profile figure — in front of a grand jury. We examine Keefe D's interviews, his credibility problems, and the challenge of using a witness whose own confessions may undermine his reliability. Eric walks through the Burrowes journals, the allegations involving Eric “Von Zip” Martin, the cross-state car movements, and the claims of hidden compartments. Is any of that enough to reopen a cold case? Or is it circumstantial at best? We also explore whether acquittals in unrelated federal cases influence prosecutorial willingness to pursue old allegations, whether civil wrongful-death suits are still possible, and whether a future cooperation deal from Keefe D could implicate anyone else — including Diddy. We end on a crucial point: In criminal law, accusations alone mean nothing. Evidence is everything. #Diddy #Tupac #Biggie #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #TonyBrueski #HipHopHistory #LegalBreakdown #ColdCaseAnalysis Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Before the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning even aired, Diddy's legal team fired off a cease-and-desist letter. They called the documentary a “shameful hit piece,” claimed the footage was “stolen,” and floated the idea of a billion-dollar lawsuit. And yet… nothing. No lawsuit. No emergency injunction. No filings. So what is actually happening here? In this segment, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the legal truth behind Diddy's threats. We examine what it would take for Diddy to win a copyright claim over footage filmed by his own videographer — especially when some reports say there were no formal contracts at all. Eric explains how ownership works, how intellectual property law overlaps with employment agreements, and why “stolen footage” is much harder to prove than people realize. We then dig into defamation. Diddy is a public figure — which means the “actual malice” standard applies. Eric walks us through how extraordinarily difficult it is for celebrities to win defamation cases, especially when a documentary includes on-camera statements from people like Kirk Burrowes rather than direct factual claims made by Netflix. We also discuss Diddy's active lawsuit against NBCUniversal, how his own sentencing-day statements may have severely weakened his claims, and whether 50 Cent — a vocal adversary — exposes himself to additional liability as an executive producer. Finally, we break down how New York's anti-SLAPP laws could turn the tables entirely, forcing Diddy to pay Netflix's legal fees if a defamation claim is deemed retaliatory. This is where legal threats meet actual law — and those two worlds rarely look the same. #DiddyCase #NetflixDoc #EricFaddis #LegalAnalysis #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #SeanCombs #DefamationLaw #TrueCrimePodcast #50Cent Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Description: Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home on Sunday, December 14, 2025. Authorities are investigating the deaths as a double homicide. According to People Magazine, citing multiple sources, the couple's 32-year-old son Nick Reiner is allegedly responsible. Both victims reportedly suffered stab wounds. Their daughter Romy discovered the bodies. Rob Reiner was 78. He won two Emmys playing "Meathead" on All in the Family before becoming one of Hollywood's most celebrated directors. His filmography includes This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men. His final film, Spinal Tap II, was released earlier this year. Michele Singer Reiner, 68, was a photographer who met Rob on the set of When Harry Met Sally. They married in 1989 and had three children: Jake, Nick, and Romy. Rob once said meeting Michele inspired him to change the film's ending so the characters end up together. Nick Reiner has spoken publicly about his struggles with addiction, which began in his teens. He first entered rehab at 15 and cycled through more than a dozen treatment programs. In 2016, he co-wrote the semi-autobiographical film Being Charlie with his father about his experiences with addiction and recovery. LAPD has not officially named a suspect. The investigation is ongoing. We'll update as more information becomes available. Hashtags: #RobReiner #MicheleSingerReiner #NickReiner #BreakingNews #TrueCrime #Hollywood #AllInTheFamily #ThePrincessBride #WhenHarryMetSally #LAPD

This full-length interview with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke brings together two deeply disturbing stories — the Jesse Butler case in Oklahoma and the tragic death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a cruise ship. Both cases expose something bigger than individual acts of violence. They reveal systems, institutions, and family dynamics that shape who gets protected — and who gets overlooked. Part One: The Predator's Playbook We examine how Jesse Butler allegedly built trust, manipulated perception, and inflicted escalating violence behind a mask of charm. Love-bombing, grooming, strangulation, digital trophies, calibrated threats — this is the behavioral blueprint of a predator operating in plain sight. Part Two: The System That Failed Despite overwhelming evidence and two victims ready to testify, Butler walked away with community service, counseling, and the promise of a clean record. We dig into the deal-making, the optics, the backlash, and the profound message this outcome sends to victims everywhere. Part Three: The Death of Anna Kepner Conflicting family stories, minimized aggression, outside witnesses telling a different truth, and behavioral indicators investigators look for when tragedy fractures the narrative. Robin explains how trained professionals cut through damage control to find reality. This episode isn't just about two cases — it's about the patterns, systems, and human behaviors that allow violence to go unchecked until it explodes into public view. #JesseButler #AnnaKepner #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #RobinDreeke #VictimAdvocacy #BehavioralAnalysis #JusticeMatters #CrimeAndAccountability Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

This episode of Hidden Killers brings together three troubling, psychologically revealing stories — each offering a unique window into manipulation, identity, and the way families and offenders construct narratives to protect themselves. We begin with Bryan Kohberger's reported self-harm threats inside Idaho Maximum Security Institution. He's allegedly telling staff he'll “harm himself” if they don't move him out of J-Block — a threat strategically worded, attached to conditions, and deployed after earlier complaints didn't get traction. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology behind conditional threats, escalation patterns, and why institutions must take every claim seriously even when manipulation is suspected. From there, we move into Kohberger's serial-killer outreach — his attempts to connect with high-profile offenders rather than family or supporters. Shavaun helps us understand what this reveals about identity, belonging, status, and the collapse of the image he expected to maintain inside prison. When inmates respond with contempt instead of fascination, the psychological fallout can be profound. Finally, we shift to the Anna Kepner cruise-ship case, where conflicting accounts from adults and teens highlight the distance between family myth and emotional reality. Parents describe harmony; teens describe aggression. Shavaun walks us through why teenagers often perceive danger more clearly than adults, how aggression becomes normalized, and why blended families are especially vulnerable to maintaining a narrative that doesn't match the truth. Across all three segments, one theme emerges: when reality doesn't match the story someone needs to believe, the mind works overtime to bridge the gap — sometimes through manipulation, sometimes through denial, and sometimes through sheer grandiosity. #HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #AnnaKepner #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimePodcast #PrisonPsychology #FamilyDynamics #SerialOffenders #TonyBrueski #CriminalMindset Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this full episode, Bob Motta joins us to dissect the entire defense strategy playing out in the Brian Walshe murder trial — a strategy built not on one cohesive story, but on three shaky pillars the defense is hoping can hold up under the weight of the evidence. First, Bob walks us through the “sudden death” claim — the idea that Ana died unexpectedly in her sleep and Brian panicked. Not murdered. Not harmed. Just suddenly gone. Bob explains why the defense is leaning into this bizarre narrative, what they were trying to draw out of the medical examiner, and whether a jury will ever buy that a medical fluke led to dismemberment and disposal. Then we turn to the “clean bedroom” angle. The defense hopes the lack of forensic evidence in that room creates doubt. Bob breaks down whether that's a real foothold or a mirage — because while the bedroom is spotless, the basement is a forensic crime story written in blood. We explore whether jurors interpret a clean space as innocence… or bleach. Finally, we tackle the heart of the case: there is no body. No autopsy. No official cause of death. Bob explains how prosecutors build a murder case anyway, what standards they must meet, and why circumstantial evidence — when stacked high enough — becomes its own undeniable force. This conversation is the full blueprint of where the defense is going, what they hope the jury grabs onto, and where the entire strategy may collapse under its own contradictions. If you want to understand not just what the defense is arguing, but why, this is the full breakdown. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTrial #LegalAnalysis #TonyBrueski #CourtroomBreakdown Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Two shocking criminal cases. Profoundly different stories. But a single unifying variable: evidence. In this special all-in-one episode, former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to walk us through both the Luigi Mangione suppression hearing and the early trial of Brian Walshe — side by side. What you'll get: A look at the body-cam video in a McDonald's, a backpack with a ghost-gun + manifesto, and the scrambled fate of the Mangione case. A deep dive into Mangione's weird behavior after the killing — surrender, confessions, chatter in custody — and what it all might mean. A breakdown of digital footprints, dumpster trails, and forensic evidence in the Walshe trial that could rewrite the defense's story. A broader discussion of public reaction — from “Free Luigi” supporters to nervous watchers of Walshe's fate — plus the danger of copycats and the impact on judicial precedent. What to watch next: suppression rulings, trial dates, possible appeals — and how both cases reflect larger tensions around ideology, justice, and the law. This episode isn't just about crime. It's about how evidence shapes narratives — and why what stays or gets thrown out could define not just verdicts, but public perception of justice itself. Hashtags: #TrueCrime #LuigiMangione #BrianWalshe #HiddenKillers #CourtCases #CrimeNews #LegalAnalysis #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeWatch #PodcastTV Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

This full-length interview with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke brings together two deeply disturbing stories — the Jesse Butler case in Oklahoma and the tragic death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a cruise ship. Both cases expose something bigger than individual acts of violence. They reveal systems, institutions, and family dynamics that shape who gets protected — and who gets overlooked. Part One: The Predator's Playbook We examine how Jesse Butler allegedly built trust, manipulated perception, and inflicted escalating violence behind a mask of charm. Love-bombing, grooming, strangulation, digital trophies, calibrated threats — this is the behavioral blueprint of a predator operating in plain sight. Part Two: The System That Failed Despite overwhelming evidence and two victims ready to testify, Butler walked away with community service, counseling, and the promise of a clean record. We dig into the deal-making, the optics, the backlash, and the profound message this outcome sends to victims everywhere. Part Three: The Death of Anna Kepner Conflicting family stories, minimized aggression, outside witnesses telling a different truth, and behavioral indicators investigators look for when tragedy fractures the narrative. Robin explains how trained professionals cut through damage control to find reality. This episode isn't just about two cases — it's about the patterns, systems, and human behaviors that allow violence to go unchecked until it explodes into public view. #JesseButler #AnnaKepner #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #RobinDreeke #VictimAdvocacy #BehavioralAnalysis #JusticeMatters #CrimeAndAccountability Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner died on a cruise ship. Her sixteen-year-old stepbrother is the suspect. Now the public is hearing two competing narratives: the parents describing a picture-perfect blended family, and outside witnesses describing aggression, chokeholds, and tension adults insist never existed. In this interview, former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down how investigators read these conflicting accounts. What signals truth? What signals narrative-protection? And how do you tell the difference between a family genuinely blindsided — and a family rewriting history? We explore the grandparents' “everything was fine” statements, the ex-boyfriend's drastically different perspective, the minimized reports of chokeholds, and the strange detail that sleeping arrangements were handled through a travel agent rather than the teenagers themselves. Stacy presses an important question: what does that say about the family's communication — and who was actually being considered? This is a breakdown of behavior, messaging, and the subtle cues investigators look for when tragedy fractures a family story. #AnnaKepner #CruiseInvestigation #RobinDreeke #FamilyDynamics #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #BehavioralAnalysis #JusticeForAnna #CrimeBreakdown Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Two victims. Video evidence. Medical records. Eleven felonies. A potential 78-year sentence. And somehow, Jesse Butler walked away with community service, counseling sessions, and the promise of a wiped-clean record at nineteen. In this segment, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke returns to dissect the institutional meltdown surrounding this case. The DA cut a deal without notifying the victims. A judge with connections to Butler's father granted youthful offender status. A community service program rejected Butler outright. And families who were ready to testify were shut out entirely. We dig into what the justice system thinks it's doing when it claims to “spare victims from testimony” — and what actually happens when their agency is removed. We examine the optics, the backlash, the calls for a grand jury investigation, and what this outcome signals to victims everywhere who are deciding whether reporting abuse is even worth the trauma. Stacy asks the question on everyone's mind: Would this outcome look the same if Butler's family didn't have status and connections? This is systemic failure in real time — and a case study in how trust is destroyed. #JesseButler #JusticeSystemFailure #YouthfulOffender #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #VictimsRights #TrueCrimeAnalysis #OklahomaJustice #AccountabilityNow Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Jesse Butler wasn't the monster people warn their daughters about. He was the boyfriend parents trusted. Flowers, church, country clubs, family dinners — the whole Norman Rockwell starter kit. And according to investigators, behind that perfectly polished image was a pattern of calculated violence that nearly killed two teenage girls. In this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down how someone like Butler operates in plain sight — how predators build charm, weaponize trust, and calibrate threats to keep victims silent. We walk through the behavioral markers, the escalation from love-bombing to violence, and why strangulation is one of the most chilling predictors of future lethal behavior. We also look at the bodycam moment where Butler's mother immediately coaches him — and what that interaction reveals about the ecosystem that allows someone this dangerous to thrive. And as Stacy points out, strangulation requires sustained, intentional effort. What does that tell us about motive, psychology, and risk moving forward? If you're a parent, guardian, or young adult — this is a conversation you cannot afford to skip. #JesseButlerCase #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #DatingViolence #VictimSupport #StrangulationRisk #JusticeForSurvivors Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

This episode of Hidden Killers brings together three troubling, psychologically revealing stories — each offering a unique window into manipulation, identity, and the way families and offenders construct narratives to protect themselves. We begin with Bryan Kohberger's reported self-harm threats inside Idaho Maximum Security Institution. He's allegedly telling staff he'll “harm himself” if they don't move him out of J-Block — a threat strategically worded, attached to conditions, and deployed after earlier complaints didn't get traction. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology behind conditional threats, escalation patterns, and why institutions must take every claim seriously even when manipulation is suspected. From there, we move into Kohberger's serial-killer outreach — his attempts to connect with high-profile offenders rather than family or supporters. Shavaun helps us understand what this reveals about identity, belonging, status, and the collapse of the image he expected to maintain inside prison. When inmates respond with contempt instead of fascination, the psychological fallout can be profound. Finally, we shift to the Anna Kepner cruise-ship case, where conflicting accounts from adults and teens highlight the distance between family myth and emotional reality. Parents describe harmony; teens describe aggression. Shavaun walks us through why teenagers often perceive danger more clearly than adults, how aggression becomes normalized, and why blended families are especially vulnerable to maintaining a narrative that doesn't match the truth. Across all three segments, one theme emerges: when reality doesn't match the story someone needs to believe, the mind works overtime to bridge the gap — sometimes through manipulation, sometimes through denial, and sometimes through sheer grandiosity. #HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #AnnaKepner #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimePodcast #PrisonPsychology #FamilyDynamics #SerialOffenders #TonyBrueski #CriminalMindset Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a cruise ship has left behind a trail of conflicting stories — and at the center of it is a blended family dynamic that now looks very different depending on who's doing the talking. Parents and grandparents describe harmony, closeness, and three teenagers who were “the three amigos.” Yet teens who actually lived inside that home describe something else entirely: aggression, chokeholds, tension, and behavior reframed by adults as “just playing.” On today's episode of Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to break down what these contradictions reveal about denial, family image-management, and the difference between outside perception and lived experience. Shavaun explains why teens often have a more accurate read on the emotional temperature of a home than parents do — especially in blended families where adults may be overly invested in a narrative of unity. She walks us through the psychology of minimizing aggression, why “roughhousing” becomes the excuse of choice, and the gender dynamics that shape which behaviors get dismissed and which get flagged. We also look at why an outsider — in this case, Anna's ex-boyfriend — might actually provide a more reliable account than adults with emotional or reputational skin in the game. And how cabin assignments made by a travel agent, not the kids themselves, may speak volumes about parental blind spots. This segment is a deep dive into credibility, emotional truth, and the patterns families cling to long after red flags have been waving in plain sight. #AnnaKepner #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimePodcast #FamilyDynamics #BlendedFamilies #CruiseShipCase #TonyBrueski #PsychologicalInsight #TeenPerspective Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Bryan Kohberger is reportedly telling prison staff he'll “harm himself” if they don't move him out of J-Block — and the wording of that threat is raising eyebrows. Not “end his life.” Not “I'm in crisis.” The phrase is specific, conditional, and attached to a demand. And in corrections psychology, that distinction matters. Today on Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to break down what this behavior actually signals. Is Kohberger genuinely overwhelmed inside Idaho's most restrictive housing unit? Or is this a strategic form of pressure meant to regain a sense of control he no longer has? From Day 2, Kohberger began testing the system — complaining about food, noise, harassment, and ultimately escalating to self-harm threats when lower-level grievances didn't get traction. Shavaun explains what this escalation pattern typically indicates: a person accustomed to getting results through pressure, resistance, or emotional leverage. But even with concerns about manipulation, prison staff are doing exactly what protocol requires — removing ligature risks, tightening supervision, documenting behavior. Shavaun walks us through why institutions must treat every threat seriously, even when the individual making it has a history of calculated behavior. We also explore the psychological payoff of using self-harm threats as leverage. Even if he doesn't get transferred, Kohberger may still gain exactly what he wants: attention, disruption, and power over the environment. For someone who built an identity around control, that's currency. This conversation offers a rare look into the psychological realities behind bars — and why a threat doesn't always mean what it appears to mean on the surface. #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #PrisonPsychology #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimePodcast #TonyBrueski #JBlock #PrisonBehavior #CriminalMindset #ControlTactics Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

While threatening self-harm, Bryan Kohberger is reportedly reaching out to serial offenders across the country — trying to build relationships with the very people he once studied academically. It's a pattern that has stunned investigators and raised deeper questions about identity, belonging, and psychological validation. Today on Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps us untangle what this behavior reveals. Why would someone convicted of killing four college students seek connection not with family, supporters, or advocates — but with other violent offenders? What does that choice of outreach tell us about how he sees himself and the world around him? Sources say Kohberger views himself as “above” the general prison population. He expected notoriety, maybe even dark fascination, when he entered the system. Instead, he got contempt — rejection from inmates who taunt him, mock him, and refuse to engage. For someone craving recognition, rejection can feel like psychological collapse. So why turn to serial offenders? Shavaun explores whether this is about validation, identity fusion, or the need to belong to a group he believes mirrors his own self-image. She also explains the recognizable profile of individuals who study violent offenders not to prevent harm — but because they identify with them emotionally or intellectually. Kohberger's behavior is happening in tandem with his escalating demands and self-harm threats. These aren't random, disconnected acts, Shavaun says — they're part of a larger pattern: a man whose sense of identity relies heavily on external reinforcement. And inside prison, he's not getting the reaction he believed he deserved. We also discuss why he clings so tightly to the “why” behind his crime — the one thing prosecutors never demanded and the one thing he refuses to give up. #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #SerialOffenders #ShavaunScott #PrisonPsychology #TonyBrueski #CriminalIdentity #StatusDynamics #TrueCrimeAnalysis #PsychologicalProfiling Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this full episode, Bob Motta joins us to dissect the entire defense strategy playing out in the Brian Walshe murder trial — a strategy built not on one cohesive story, but on three shaky pillars the defense is hoping can hold up under the weight of the evidence. First, Bob walks us through the “sudden death” claim — the idea that Ana died unexpectedly in her sleep and Brian panicked. Not murdered. Not harmed. Just suddenly gone. Bob explains why the defense is leaning into this bizarre narrative, what they were trying to draw out of the medical examiner, and whether a jury will ever buy that a medical fluke led to dismemberment and disposal. Then we turn to the “clean bedroom” angle. The defense hopes the lack of forensic evidence in that room creates doubt. Bob breaks down whether that's a real foothold or a mirage — because while the bedroom is spotless, the basement is a forensic crime story written in blood. We explore whether jurors interpret a clean space as innocence… or bleach. Finally, we tackle the heart of the case: there is no body. No autopsy. No official cause of death. Bob explains how prosecutors build a murder case anyway, what standards they must meet, and why circumstantial evidence — when stacked high enough — becomes its own undeniable force. This conversation is the full blueprint of where the defense is going, what they hope the jury grabs onto, and where the entire strategy may collapse under its own contradictions. If you want to understand not just what the defense is arguing, but why, this is the full breakdown. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTrial #LegalAnalysis #TonyBrueski #CourtroomBreakdown Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this segment, Bob Motta helps us untangle one of the most challenging elements of the case: Ana Walshe's body has never been found. No remains. No autopsy. No definitive cause of death. And yet prosecutors are moving forward with a full murder charge. Bob breaks down what prosecutors need to prove in a no-body case, and why this one may be stronger than most. While the defense argues that the lack of a body creates insurmountable doubt, the state points to the mountain of circumstantial evidence: the blood-soaked carpet fragments containing a Gucci charm that Ana owned, the surveillance footage of Brian buying cutting tools on New Year's Day, the dump runs, the inconsistencies in his statements, and Ana's complete digital silence afterward. We walk through each piece with Bob: how inconsistent stories become evidence, how behavior becomes motive, and how digital forensics often fill the gaps left by the absence of remains. Bob also explains the tightrope prosecutors walk with motive, especially in cases involving financial pressures and life insurance policies. Bob weighs in on the potential verdicts, too — including the real possibility of a second-degree conviction if jurors believe Brian dismembered Ana but aren't certain he killed her. This episode goes deeper than headlines. It's about how modern homicide cases work when the most crucial piece of evidence — the victim's body — is missing, and what it means for the defense when everything else points in a direction they can't explain away. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #BobMotta #NoBodyMurder #HiddenKillers #DigitalForensics #TrueCrime #CourtCase #TonyBrueski #LegalBreakdown Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this conversation with defense attorney Bob Motta, we dig into the strange forensic angle the defense is clinging to: the fact that investigators found no biological evidence in the bedroom where Brian claims Ana died naturally. Crime lab specialist Matthew Sheehan testified that blood was found everywhere it should be if a body was moved and dismembered: the hacksaw, the hammer, the hatchet, the basement floor, the towels, the carpet fragments. Meanwhile, the bedroom — the place where the defense insists Ana died peacefully — was spotless. Bob helps us unpack whether that's actually good for the defense… or whether it just reinforces the prosecution's timeline. Because a clean bedroom might sound helpful until you remember bleach destroys DNA — and that the basement is telling a very different story. We explore Tipton's tactical choices: pushing Sheehan to confirm “no evidence in the bedroom,” highlighting the investigators entering without protective gear, and pointing to oddities like the undisturbed insulation around a ceiling hole. Bob breaks down whether these are meaningful cracks or tiny fishing holes in a case that's already drowning in physical evidence. And then there's the jury. Bob walks us through how jurors typically interpret “absence of evidence” arguments: do they hear reasonable doubt, or do they hear a lawyer trying to redirect their attention away from the bloody basement? This is the chess match inside the trial — a defense building a narrative around what isn't there while the prosecution points repeatedly to what is. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #BobMotta #TrueCrimeAnalysis #HiddenKillers #CleanBedroomDefense #ForensicEvidence #CourtroomStrategy Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this segment, defense attorney Bob Motta joins us to dismantle one of the most bizarre strategies unfolding in the Brian Walshe murder trial: the claim that Ana Walshe simply died in her sleep… and Brian responded by dismembering her. Brian has already pleaded guilty to cutting up his wife's body and dumping her remains across multiple towns. That part isn't in dispute. So why is the defense leaning into this “medical emergency” narrative? Bob walks us through the bizarre tactical logic of admitting to the worst possible post-mortem crime while insisting the death itself was natural. We break down how defense attorney Larry Tipton tried to pry open a sliver of possibility during cross-examination — pushing the medical examiner to concede that sudden cardiac events, pulmonary collapses, arrhythmias, even neurological events can happen to healthy adults. But when the doctor immediately added that such an event would be “pretty rare” for a healthy 39-year-old and placed spontaneous arrhythmia “at the bottom of the list,” is there even enough left for reasonable doubt? Bob explains what's really going on here: not proving innocence, but planting a microscopic question mark in the jury's mind. And he weighs in on whether this kind of narrative feels clever… or insulting. We also explore Brian's history — the federal fraud conviction, the ankle bracelet, the pattern of deception — and ask Bob whether juries can realistically separate “bad character” from the question of guilt. Does a convicted con artist get the same benefit of the doubt as everyone else, or do jurors come in expecting manipulation? This one is a psychological and strategic autopsy of a defense theory that's either brilliant misdirection… or a Hail Mary with no receiver downfield. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #BobMotta #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SuddenDeathDefense #LegalAnalysis #MurderTrial #TonyBrueski Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Two shocking criminal cases. Profoundly different stories. But a single unifying variable: evidence. In this special all-in-one episode, former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to walk us through both the Luigi Mangione suppression hearing and the early trial of Brian Walshe — side by side. What you'll get: A look at the body-cam video in a McDonald's, a backpack with a ghost-gun + manifesto, and the scrambled fate of the Mangione case. A deep dive into Mangione's weird behavior after the killing — surrender, confessions, chatter in custody — and what it all might mean. A breakdown of digital footprints, dumpster trails, and forensic evidence in the Walshe trial that could rewrite the defense's story. A broader discussion of public reaction — from “Free Luigi” supporters to nervous watchers of Walshe's fate — plus the danger of copycats and the impact on judicial precedent. What to watch next: suppression rulings, trial dates, possible appeals — and how both cases reflect larger tensions around ideology, justice, and the law. This episode isn't just about crime. It's about how evidence shapes narratives — and why what stays or gets thrown out could define not just verdicts, but public perception of justice itself. Hashtags: #TrueCrime #LuigiMangione #BrianWalshe #HiddenKillers #CourtCases #CrimeNews #LegalAnalysis #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeWatch #PodcastTV Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The first week of testimony has shaken the foundation of the defense for Brian Walshe. From cell-phone data placing him at multiple dumpster sites to surveillance footage and forensic tools found nearby — the prosecution says the timeline and digital footprints speak louder than any alibi. Guest: ex-FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer. She guides us through: How investigators used synced devices (MacBook + iPad) and phone-pings to chart Walshe's movements. The pattern of visits to dumpsters, apartment complexes, and Home Depot / Lowe's — and why that movement doesn't look like panic. The axe, the hatchet, and the grim possibility of recovering human tissue — and what this means for charges. The defense's claim of “panic, not premeditation,” and whether that argument still holds after this first week. If you thought you knew the Walshe case — this week changed everything. #BrianWalshe #TrueCrime #MurderCase #DigitalForensics #CourtTrial #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #CrimeWatch #Justice Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

He kills a man on a NYC sidewalk — then sits at McDonald's for 40 minutes while law enforcement hunts him. He gives his real name without fight, never touches the gun, then talks endlessly in custody. What kind of killer behaves like that? In Part 2, former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to interpret the odd psychology and what it might mean for the future of the case. We explore: Whether Mangione looked like a desperate fugitive — or someone who wanted to be caught. What it means that he surrendered immediately, talked about a knife cops “missed,” and revealed sensitive details in jail. The controversial manifesto that named him a “health-care avenger,” his ideology, and the weird fan base rallying behind him. The messy legal battlefield ahead — federal death-penalty exposure, multiple jurisdictions, and court dates stretching months or years. The danger of copycats if this case becomes a martyr-dominated cause. Tune in for a full read of Mangione's mindset, motivations, and what's likely coming next — and why this might be more than just a murder trial. #LuigiMangione #TrueCrimePsychology #TerrorismWatch #CourtDrama #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #CrimeAnalysis #LegalWatch Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The suppression hearing for Luigi Mangione took a turn when prosecutors introduced a photo taken moments after his arrest — a photo showing Mangione had urinated on himself inside the Altoona McDonald's. It's an image that stops you cold. Not because of shock value, but because of what it reveals about the moment the most-wanted man in America realized the chase was over. In Part One of this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to break down why that single photo may tell investigators more than any manifesto or ghost gun ever could. We walk through the body-camera footage: Mangione sitting alone, mask on, seemingly composed. Then officers approach, ask him to take his mask down, and the moment he gives his real name — not the fake one he tried first — everything changes. What the public didn't see until now is what happened physically and psychologically when he understood he was caught. We explore: • Why suspects lose bodily control under acute stress — what that usually signals in federal cases. • How this undercuts the online mythology painting Mangione as a controlled ideologue or “avenger.” • What this moment says about whether he intended to flee, fight, or — as some experts argue — quietly surrender. • Why the defense wants the entire arrest scene suppressed, including the photo, the body-cam, and the items pulled from his backpack. • Whether the image of Mangione's loss of control will ever reach a jury — and what it means if it doesn't. It's not about humiliation. It's about behavior, stress indicators, and whether Mangione was the calculating assassin some people imagine — or a man completely overwhelmed the moment officers confronted him. This single photo may become one of the most significant pieces of evidence in understanding his mindset just seconds before the arrest. Hashtags: #LuigiMangione #TrueCrimeAnalysis #CrimeNews #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #CourtHearing #EvidenceSuppression #Psychoanalysis Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe is on trial right now for murdering and dismembering his wife Ana. Her body has never been found. He's already pleaded guilty to disposing of her remains and lying to police—but he says he didn't kill her. His defense: he woke up, found her dead from some unexplained medical event, and panicked. Rather than call 911, he spent three days Googling how to dismember a body, bought a hacksaw and hatchet at Home Depot, and distributed her remains across dumpsters in eastern Massachusetts. To protect his kids, they say. The prosecution has a different theory. And a search history that starts at 4:55 a.m. with "how long before a body starts to smell." In this full interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—takes us through every dimension of this case. Dreeke spent 21 years catching spies and detecting deception at the highest levels. His expertise is reading people: what they say, what they do, and what the gap between those things reveals. We break down Walshe's police interviews and the behavioral markers of deception. We examine the marriage itself—the affair Ana was hiding, the power imbalance created by Brian's home confinement, the resentments that may have been building beneath the surface. And we analyze the aftermath: the Google searches, the shopping trips, the dumpster runs, and what that sequence of behavior tells us about guilt or innocence. This isn't speculation. It's pattern recognition from someone who made a career out of knowing when people are lying. The jury is deliberating the evidence. After this interview, you'll understand what that evidence actually means. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #WalsheTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #FBIProfiler #MurderTrial #DeceptionDetection #CrimePsychology #PoliceInterview #ForensicEvidence #GoogleSearches #TrueCrimePodcast #Cohasset #MassachusettsCrime #ConsciousnessOfGuilt #CriminalBehavior #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForAna #ColdCase #FBIAgent #Interrogation Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Whatever happened to Ana Walshe in the early hours of January 1, 2023, her husband left a trail. Starting at 4:55 a.m., he searched "how long before a body starts to smell." Over the next 72 hours: "hacksaw best tool to dismember," "can you be charged with murder without a body," "how to clean blood from wooden floor." He went to Home Depot in surgical gloves and a mask, paying cash for tarps, mops, a hatchet, and baking soda. Surveillance cameras caught him at dumpsters near his mother's apartment. Inside those bags: bloodstained clothing, cutting tools, and Ana's COVID vaccination card. Then he called her employer and reported her missing. The defense says this was panic—a man who found his wife inexplicably dead and made catastrophic decisions to protect his children. The prosecution says it's consciousness of guilt, documented in real time. In this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—whose expertise is behavioral prediction, understanding what people will do based on observable patterns—walks us through what the aftermath reveals. We examine the psychology of cover-up behavior: What does the progression of those searches tell us about mental state? Does the timeline suggest planning or improvisation? Why would someone research removing a hard drive but never actually do it? And we confront the question the jury has to answer: Is it more plausible that an innocent man responded to tragedy by dismembering his wife's body and distributing it across Massachusetts—or that a guilty man just wasn't as smart as he thought he was? #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #WalsheTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #RobinDreeke #CoverUp #GoogleSearches #ForensicEvidence #BehavioralAnalysis #ConsciousnessOfGuilt #MurderTrial #CrimePsychology #TrueCrimePodcast #DigitalEvidence #CrimeScene #MassachusettsCrime #FBIAgent #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalBehavior Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

From the outside, the Walshes had it together. Three kids, a house in upscale Cohasset, a townhome in D.C., and Ana rising through commercial real estate. But the structure was fractured in ways that matter. Ana was months into an affair. Brian was under federal home confinement for art fraud, unable to travel, serving as primary caregiver while his wife built a separate life 400 miles away. She was the breadwinner. He was stuck. Four days before Ana died, someone on Brian's devices searched "what's the best state to divorce for a man." Two days later, their last text exchange ended with "love you" and "love you too." In this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent his career studying trust, betrayal, and human motivation—helps us understand what was actually happening inside that marriage. His framework isn't academic theory. It comes from decades of assessing relationships where the stakes were life and death. We explore the behavioral dynamics the jury won't see spelled out: What does it mean that Ana spoke positively about Brian while conducting an affair? How does a power imbalance like home confinement reshape someone's psychology? Can resentment build invisibly until it becomes something else entirely? And what did Ana's careful management of the affair—insisting Brian hear about it from her, worrying about his reaction—tell us about how she perceived the risk? The prosecution says Brian discovered the affair and killed her. The defense says he didn't even know. Somewhere in the behavioral evidence is the answer. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #WalsheTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #RobinDreeke #RelationshipDynamics #DomesticViolence #BehavioralAnalysis #TrustAndBetrayal #Affair #MurderMotive #CrimePsychology #TrueCrimePodcast #IntimatePartnerViolence #Cohasset #MassachusettsCrime #FBIProfiler #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalPsychology Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe sat across from detectives and told them everything was fine. Happy marriage. No affair. No idea where his wife went. He said he'd "never do anything to hurt" Ana. What investigators didn't tell him right away was that they'd already pulled his search history—queries like "how long before a body starts to smell" and "can you be charged with murder without a body." In this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—breaks down the recorded police interviews that are now central evidence in the Brian Walshe murder trial. For 21 years, Dreeke's job was catching people in lies that threatened national security. He knows what deception looks like under pressure, and he's walking us through exactly what Walshe's words, delivery, and behavior reveal. We dig into the specific tells: Why did Walshe volunteer that his wife's texts sometimes popped up on his phone? What does it mean when someone fabricates alibi details that surveillance footage directly contradicts? How does a person maintain composure across multiple interviews while their laptop contains a roadmap to dismemberment? Dreeke explains the difference between genuine denial and performance, why guilty people often give too much information, and what baseline behavioral shifts—like a suddenly rushed demeanor at daycare drop-off—actually signal. This isn't speculation. It's pattern recognition from someone who spent two decades in rooms with people whose lies had consequences. The Walshe trial is happening right now. The jury is hearing these recordings. And once you understand what to listen for, you'll never hear them the same way. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #WalsheTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #DeceptionDetection #PoliceInterview #MurderTrial #CohassetMurder #CrimePsychology #BodyLanguage #Interrogation #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalBehavior #FBIAgent #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice #MassachusettsCrime Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe sat across from detectives and told them everything was fine. Happy marriage. No affair. No idea where his wife went. He said he'd "never do anything to hurt" Ana. What investigators didn't tell him right away was that they'd already pulled his search history—queries like "how long before a body starts to smell" and "can you be charged with murder without a body." In this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—breaks down the recorded police interviews that are now central evidence in the Brian Walshe murder trial. For 21 years, Dreeke's job was catching people in lies that threatened national security. He knows what deception looks like under pressure, and he's walking us through exactly what Walshe's words, delivery, and behavior reveal. We dig into the specific tells: Why did Walshe volunteer that his wife's texts sometimes popped up on his phone? What does it mean when someone fabricates alibi details that surveillance footage directly contradicts? How does a person maintain composure across multiple interviews while their laptop contains a roadmap to dismemberment? Dreeke explains the difference between genuine denial and performance, why guilty people often give too much information, and what baseline behavioral shifts—like a suddenly rushed demeanor at daycare drop-off—actually signal. This isn't speculation. It's pattern recognition from someone who spent two decades in rooms with people whose lies had consequences. The Walshe trial is happening right now. The jury is hearing these recordings. And once you understand what to listen for, you'll never hear them the same way. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #WalsheTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #DeceptionDetection #PoliceInterview #MurderTrial #CohassetMurder #CrimePsychology #BodyLanguage #Interrogation #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalBehavior #FBIAgent #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice #MassachusettsCrime Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe is currently on trial for the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, a mother of three who vanished from their Cohasset, Massachusetts home on New Year's Day 2023. Her body has never been found. But here's where this case takes a turn that legal experts are still trying to wrap their heads around: two weeks before trial, Walshe pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's body and lying to police. He admitted, in open court, that he dismembered Ana and discarded her remains in dumpsters across the region. And yet he's standing in front of a jury right now saying he didn't kill her. The defense theory? Ana Walshe died suddenly and unexpectedly in their bed in the early hours of New Year's Day. No cause. No explanation. Just gone. Defense attorney Larry Tipton told jurors that his client panicked when he found his wife unresponsive. That he didn't think anyone would believe her death was natural. That his only thought was protecting their three young boys. So instead of calling 911, Brian Walshe allegedly grabbed a hacksaw. In this episode, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what might be the boldest — or most reckless — defense strategy we've seen in years. We dig into the tactical decision to plead guilty to the lesser charges right before trial. Is this about limiting what evidence the jury sees, or did the defense just hand prosecutors a gift? How do you sell "sudden unexplained death" to a jury when your client then cut up the body? And how do you rehabilitate a defendant's credibility when his own lawyer admitted he lied in every single police interview? Eric walks us through what the defense needs to prove, what experts they might call, and whether putting Walshe on the stand is a necessary risk or a fatal mistake. This is a case where the defense has already conceded consciousness of guilt — now they have to convince twelve people that consciousness of guilt doesn't mean guilt. We break down whether that's even possible. #BrianWalshe #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #WalsheDefense #SuddenUnexplainedDeath #MurderTrial #EricFaddis #DefenseStrategy #MassachusettsMurderTrial #TrueCrime #CourtAnalysis #LegalAnalysis #DismembermentCase #NoBodyMurder #CriminalDefense #TrialStrategy #Cohasset #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalJustice #CourtRoom Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The trial of Brian Walshe is exposing a divide that runs straight through the center of the courtroom — a divide between a prosecution building its case with timestamps, metadata, and DNA, and a defense leaning into emotional possibility and human frailty. It's not just a legal battle. It's a narrative war. Prosecutors say the evidence speaks for itself: searches about body disposal in the early morning hours, trips to multiple stores buying tools that prosecutors argue were used to dispose of Anna, lies told to friends, family, and police, and physical evidence recovered from a trash facility far from home — evidence they say directly connects Brian to a deliberate cover-up. The defense counters with a different story entirely. They say Anna died suddenly. Naturally. Tragically. And Brian, terrified the authorities would seize his children, made the worst decision of his life — hiding her death instead of reporting it. Not planning. Not malice. Fear. But jurors must decide not just which story makes sense — but which story they can live with. Can sudden, unexplained death explain Google searches that happened before the alleged death window? Can panic explain purchasing gloves, masks, tarps, and cutting tools all over Massachusetts? Can panic explain a disposal process so elaborate it spanned multiple towns? The defense doesn't need a full acquittal. They just need one person willing to say, “I don't know. It's bizarre, but maybe.” That's the real battleground. Tonight we break down the evidence, the psychology, the storytelling, and the stakes — and ask the question that may decide this entire trial: How much doubt is enough? #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #JuryDuty #CrimeStory #HiddenKillers #ForensicBreakdown #LegalExpert #TrueCrimeCommunity #CourtroomAnalysis #BobMottaDefenseDiaries Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we're looking at two cases that have stunned the public with their contradictions, inconsistencies, and lack of action from the justice system. In the Buzzard case, witness Tyler Brewer describes a home filled with paranoia: shifting stories about handing Melodee to strangers at a zoo, deleted accounts, talk of fake plates, accusations of undercover cops — and a pillow dressed in Melodee's clothes surrounded by torn missing-poster photos. Ashlee's erratic behavior continues, and Melodee is still missing. In the Celeste Rivas-Hernandez case, her decomposed, partially dismembered remains were found in the frunk of a Tesla tied to D4vd. Early reporting pointed to freezing; LAPD later clarified the body wasn't frozen upon discovery. The autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is active. And yet — no arrests. Two cases. Two women gone. Two investigations struggling to move forward. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to cut through the noise, explain the investigative roadblocks, and break down what needs to happen next. #MelodeeBuzzard #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CrimeUpdate #JenniferCoffindaffer #Investigation #TrueCrimeNews #MissingChild #TrueCrimeCommunity Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe is on trial right now in Dedham, Massachusetts for the first-degree murder of his wife Ana — a 39-year-old real estate executive, immigrant from Serbia, and mother of three young boys. Ana was last seen alive in the early hours of New Year's Day 2023. Her body has never been found. But what prosecutors and the defense agree on is this: Brian Walshe dismembered her remains and discarded them in dumpsters across the region. He's already pleaded guilty to that. He just says he didn't kill her. The defense theory is unlike anything we've seen in a high-profile murder case. Attorney Larry Tipton told jurors that Ana Walshe died suddenly and unexpectedly in bed — no cause, no explanation — and that Brian panicked. He didn't think anyone would believe it was natural. So instead of calling 911, he made a series of catastrophic decisions that included internet searches for "best way to dispose of a body," "hacksaw best tool for dismembering," and research into a serial killer known as the "trash bag killer." The defense says those searches prove panic, not premeditation. Prosecutors see it differently. They've told the jury this was a planned killing motivated by money and betrayal. Ana had $2.7 million in life insurance policies naming Brian as the sole beneficiary. She was also having an affair with William Fastow, a D.C. real estate broker — and prosecutors say Brian knew. His phone searched Fastow's name on Christmas Day, less than a week before Ana vanished. The internet searches, prosecutors argue, aren't evidence of panic. They're a roadmap. In this full breakdown, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to dissect every angle of this case. We start with the defense strategy: the decision to plead guilty to the lesser charges, the viability of the "sudden death" theory, and whether putting Walshe on the stand is a necessary gamble. Then we dig into the prosecution's case: the digital evidence, the insurance motive, the affair, and the challenges of proving first-degree murder without a body. Finally, we examine the trial dynamics — including the Michael Proctor scandal, Walshe's jail stabbing and mental competency evaluation, and what to watch as this case heads toward a verdict. This is a case that will test the limits of circumstantial evidence and force a jury to answer an almost impossible question: Can you believe a man who admits he cut up his wife when he says he didn't kill her? #BrianWalshe #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #MurderTrial #EricFaddis #DefenseAttorney #FormerProsecutor #FullBreakdown #NoBodyMurder #Dismemberment #LifeInsurance #GoogleSearches #MichaelProctor #KarenRead #Massachusetts #TrueCrime #CourtTV #TrialAnalysis #Cohasset #SuddenDeathDefense #WilliamFastow #FirstDegreeMurder #CircumstantialEvidence #CriminalJustice #TrueCrimePodcast #LegalAnalysis #DeepDive Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The Brian Walshe murder trial isn't just about the evidence — it's about the dynamics surrounding the case that could influence how this jury sees everything. And there are some significant wildcards in play that most people aren't talking about. First, there's the Michael Proctor connection. Proctor, the disgraced Massachusetts State Police trooper who was fired for misconduct during the Karen Read investigation, also worked the Walshe case. Several investigators tied to the Proctor scandal may be called as witnesses. The defense has every reason to lean into this — if they can paint the investigation as tainted or sloppy, it creates doubt. And after what happened in the Karen Read trial, Massachusetts juries may be more skeptical of state police testimony than they've ever been. Then there's what happened to Walshe himself. In September 2025, he was stabbed in jail at the Norfolk County Correctional Center. His attorneys pushed for a trial delay, arguing he couldn't adequately assist in his own defense after the attack. The judge ordered a 40-day mental health evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital. Walshe was cleared to stand trial just two weeks before opening statements. The jury won't hear about any of that — but it's context that matters for understanding where this defendant's head might be. And then there's the fundamental problem the jury has to wrestle with: Brian Walshe has already admitted he disposed of his wife's body. He pleaded guilty to it. Now they have to decide if they can separate that admission from the murder charge. Legally, they're supposed to. Psychologically? That's a different question. In this episode, Eric Faddis breaks down the trial dynamics that could shape the outcome. We discuss how the Proctor scandal might be weaponized by the defense, what "consciousness of guilt" jury instructions actually mean, and what typically makes or breaks no-body murder cases. Eric also tells us what he's watching for as this trial moves into its second week. #BrianWalshe #BrianWalsheTrial #MichaelProctor #KarenReadCase #MassachusettsStatePolice #NoBodyMurder #JuryInstructions #ConsciousnessOfGuilt #MentalCompetency #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #TrialAnalysis #WhatToWatch #LegalAnalysis #NorfolkCounty #Dedham #CriminalJustice #TrueCrimeCommunity #CourtAnalysis #TrialDynamics Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Prosecutors in the Brian Walshe murder trial are trying to prove first-degree murder without a body, without a murder weapon, and without a definitive cause of death. Ana Walshe has never been found. What the Commonwealth does have is a digital trail that reads like a step-by-step guide to getting away with murder — and a defendant who stood to collect $2.7 million in life insurance if his wife died. The internet searches are the backbone of the prosecution's case, and they are brutal. According to testimony from Massachusetts State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino, the searches began at 4:52 a.m. on January 1, 2023 — just hours after the couple celebrated New Year's Eve with a friend. That first search: "Best way to dispose of a body." By 4:55 a.m., Walshe had moved on to "How long before a body starts to smell." Over the next several days, the searches continued: "How long does DNA last." "Hacksaw best tool for dismembering." "Can you be charged with murder without a body." "Can you identify a body with broken teeth." He even researched Patrick Kearney — a serial killer known as the "trash bag killer." Prosecutors also have motive. Ana Walshe had taken out $2.7 million in life insurance policies naming her husband as the sole beneficiary. And according to the prosecution, Brian Walshe knew his wife was having an affair with William Fastow, a Washington D.C. real estate broker who sold Ana the townhouse she owned there. Prosecutors say Walshe's phone searched Fastow's name on Christmas Day — less than a week before Ana disappeared. In this episode, former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the strength of the Commonwealth's case. We discuss how prosecutors prove premeditation through circumstantial evidence, whether the internet searches are as damning as they appear, and what the defense can do to poke holes in the timeline. Eric also explains the challenges of no-body murder cases and what the conviction rates actually look like. The prosecution may not have Ana Walshe's remains, but they're betting they have enough to put her husband away for life. #BrianWalshe #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #ProsecutionCase #GoogleSearches #LifeInsuranceMurder #NoBodyMurderCase #CircumstantialEvidence #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #WilliamFastow #AffairMotive #Hacksaw #Dismemberment #FirstDegreeMurder #Premeditation #MassachusettsTrial #CriminalJustice #TrueCrimePodcast Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Brian Walshe is currently on trial for the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, a mother of three who vanished from their Cohasset, Massachusetts home on New Year's Day 2023. Her body has never been found. But here's where this case takes a turn that legal experts are still trying to wrap their heads around: two weeks before trial, Walshe pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's body and lying to police. He admitted, in open court, that he dismembered Ana and discarded her remains in dumpsters across the region. And yet he's standing in front of a jury right now saying he didn't kill her. The defense theory? Ana Walshe died suddenly and unexpectedly in their bed in the early hours of New Year's Day. No cause. No explanation. Just gone. Defense attorney Larry Tipton told jurors that his client panicked when he found his wife unresponsive. That he didn't think anyone would believe her death was natural. That his only thought was protecting their three young boys. So instead of calling 911, Brian Walshe allegedly grabbed a hacksaw. In this episode, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what might be the boldest — or most reckless — defense strategy we've seen in years. We dig into the tactical decision to plead guilty to the lesser charges right before trial. Is this about limiting what evidence the jury sees, or did the defense just hand prosecutors a gift? How do you sell "sudden unexplained death" to a jury when your client then cut up the body? And how do you rehabilitate a defendant's credibility when his own lawyer admitted he lied in every single police interview? Eric walks us through what the defense needs to prove, what experts they might call, and whether putting Walshe on the stand is a necessary risk or a fatal mistake. This is a case where the defense has already conceded consciousness of guilt — now they have to convince twelve people that consciousness of guilt doesn't mean guilt. We break down whether that's even possible. #BrianWalshe #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #WalsheDefense #SuddenUnexplainedDeath #MurderTrial #EricFaddis #DefenseStrategy #MassachusettsMurderTrial #TrueCrime #CourtAnalysis #LegalAnalysis #DismembermentCase #NoBodyMurder #CriminalDefense #TrialStrategy #Cohasset #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalJustice #CourtRoom Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The Brian Walshe case is one of those situations where the behavior speaks louder than the words. And when the behavior is stacked next to the timeline, the digital searches, and the ever-shifting narratives, the discrepancy becomes the whole story. In this episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to break down what the psychology reveals — not in theory, but in the real patterns prosecutors say Brian Walshe followed. We're looking at the contrast between everyday lies and the kind of calculated misdirection that reshapes reality for everyone around it. Shavaun brings decades of clinical experience to explain why certain behavioral choices — from early-morning Google searches to inconsistent statements to elaborate cover stories — raise red flags that aren't just “suspicious” but psychologically telling. We analyze how serial deceivers rationalize their actions, why they believe they can outrun the truth, and how they maintain “normalcy” while living a double life. We also unpack the defense's version of events: the claim that Ana Walshe suddenly passed away, that Brian panicked, and that the dismemberment and disposal were responses to shock. Shavaun walks us through what genuine shock looks like, what guilt looks like, and how investigators typically spot the difference. Then we widen the lens: what the psychology says about leaving dangerous relationships, why the time when a partner prepares to leave can be the most volatile, and how betrayal, financial stress, and loss of control can escalate risk in ways friends and family often overlook. If you've ever wondered how trained professionals evaluate credibility, deception, and emotional performance in cases like this, this is the breakdown you need. #HiddenKillers #BrianWalsheCase #DeceptionPsychology #TrueCrimeInsights #ShavaunScott #CrimeBreakdown #CourtAnalysis #AnaWalshe #TrueCrimeDaily #PsychologyUnmasked Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Jurors aren't just weighing evidence in the Brian Walshe case — they're weighing behavior. They're deciding which version of events feels psychologically possible, which narrative aligns with human behavior, and which actions simply don't match the story being told. Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps us understand the psychological patterns prosecutors are highlighting. We explore why certain types of deception — calculated lies, rehearsed narratives, contradictory explanations — point to deeper issues than simple panic or misunderstanding. Shavaun walks us through the mechanics of deceit: how people maintain double lives, how they separate public persona from private behavior, and what happens internally when the truth starts closing in. We look at the early-morning searches revealed in court and discuss what they suggest about planning, awareness, and emotional state. We also examine the defense's theory that Ana died suddenly and Brian responded in fear rather than violence. Shavaun explains what a real shock response looks like, how grief manifests, and why certain behaviors line up more with self-protection than panic. Then we broaden the view: the warning signs in troubled relationships, the risk spike when someone prepares to leave, the emotional danger of perceived betrayal, and what it means when financial motive intersects with escalating conflict. These are the patterns professionals see every day in cases that end in violence. Shavaun's perspective gives viewers the tools to understand not only this case, but the psychology behind deception itself — and why credibility is often the real battleground inside the courtroom. #HiddenKillers #BrianWalsheTrial #PsychologyExplained #TrueCrimeInsights #ShavaunScott #CrimeBehavior #CourtroomCoverage #AnaWalshe #ManipulationTactics #TrueCrimeCommunity Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The question dominating the Brian Walshe trial isn't simply what happened — it's whether the behavior on record looks like panic, planning, or something far more calculated. Prosecutors have presented a forensic roadmap: digital breadcrumbs, timestamped searches about dismemberment and body disposal, trips across multiple towns to buy cutting tools and protective gear, and DNA recovered from a commercial trash site miles away. It's the kind of evidence chain that leaves very little space to hide. But the defense is asking jurors to look past the logistics and focus on emotional chaos — a man stunned by sudden loss, reacting in a moment of complete psychological collapse. They concede the actions. They deny the intent. And they're hoping the jury is willing to accept that an overwhelmed husband could behave in ways that look almost identical to someone trying to erase a crime. Here's the problem: the digital evidence existed before the timeframe in which the defense claims Anna died. Panic doesn't travel backward in time. Google searches don't anticipate events that haven't happened yet. And juries know that. Add to this Brian's history — the fraud conviction, the pattern of deception — and the emotional gut-punch of a mother's remains being scattered across Massachusetts with no burial, no dignity, no closure. Jurors don't just weigh facts. They weigh humanity. They weigh what feels believable. In this episode, we break down why the defense strategy may hinge on one or two jurors who are willing to hesitate, how emotional storytelling collides with timestamped evidence, and why this trial is quickly becoming one of the most dissected, debated, and polarizing cases of the year. #BrianWalshe #AnaWalsheCase #TrueCrimeToday #CrimeAnalysis #HiddenKillersPodcast #CourtroomDrama #DigitalEvidence #JuryPsychology #LegalBreakdown #BobMottaInterview Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The trial of Brian Walshe isn't just a courtroom proceeding — it's a showdown between two narratives that couldn't be further apart. On one side, prosecutors have built the kind of timeline you rarely see outside a forensic textbook: predawn Google searches that read like a step-by-step guide to covering up a crime, store receipts for cutting tools and chemicals, cell phone data tracing every mile driven, and DNA pulled from a trash compactor hours from the family home. It's clinical. It's cold. And it's devastating. On the other side, the defense has presented a story rooted not in data but in emotional possibility — the claim that Anna Walshe suddenly died with no warning, and Brian, overwhelmed and terrified, spiraled into a series of decisions that look indistinguishable from deliberate concealment. They're not denying the cover-up. They're reframing it as panic. And that's where the real battle begins: because juries are made of human beings, not forensic analysts. Panic can be messy. Panic can be irrational. Panic can make people do things that look nothing like the person they were the day before. But can panic really explain Google searches that happened before the defense's timeline of death? Can panic explain the house visitor leaving shortly before the alleged moment Anna died? Can panic explain the organized trips to stores in multiple towns, for supplies that prosecutors say match the disposal effort? And if the defense can make even one juror wonder — just wonder — whether it's strange but not impossible? That's a very different outcome. Tonight, we break down what's at stake, why the stories differ so drastically, and why this case may come down to a single question: Which version can a jury actually live with? #BrianWalshe #AnaWalshe #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CourtTV #TrialCoverage #CrimeTimeline #ForensicEvidence #LegalAnalysis #BobMotta Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The trial of Brian Walshe is exposing a divide that runs straight through the center of the courtroom — a divide between a prosecution building its case with timestamps, metadata, and DNA, and a defense leaning into emotional possibility and human frailty. It's not just a legal battle. It's a narrative war. Prosecutors say the evidence speaks for itself: searches about body disposal in the early morning hours, trips to multiple stores buying tools that prosecutors argue were used to dispose of Anna, lies told to friends, family, and police, and physical evidence recovered from a trash facility far from home — evidence they say directly connects Brian to a deliberate cover-up. The defense counters with a different story entirely. They say Anna died suddenly. Naturally. Tragically. And Brian, terrified the authorities would seize his children, made the worst decision of his life — hiding her death instead of reporting it. Not planning. Not malice. Fear. But jurors must decide not just which story makes sense — but which story they can live with. Can sudden, unexplained death explain Google searches that happened before the alleged death window? Can panic explain purchasing gloves, masks, tarps, and cutting tools all over Massachusetts? Can panic explain a disposal process so elaborate it spanned multiple towns? The defense doesn't need a full acquittal. They just need one person willing to say, “I don't know. It's bizarre, but maybe.” That's the real battleground. Tonight we break down the evidence, the psychology, the storytelling, and the stakes — and ask the question that may decide this entire trial: How much doubt is enough? #BrianWalsheTrial #AnaWalshe #JuryDuty #CrimeStory #HiddenKillers #ForensicBreakdown #LegalExpert #TrueCrimeCommunity #CourtroomAnalysis #BobMottaDefenseDiaries Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In the case of Celeste Rivas-Hernandez, nothing is simple — not the timeline, not the condition of the remains, and certainly not the path forward for investigators. Celeste was missing for over a year before her decomposed, partially dismembered remains were found in the front trunk of a Tesla tied to public figure D4vd. Early reporting suggested freezing; LAPD later clarified the body was not frozen when discovered, leaving open the possibility of prior storage. The autopsy is under a full security hold. A grand jury is reviewing evidence behind closed doors. Multiple people have lawyered up — and still, no arrest. Tonight we break down why “a body in your car” is NOT automatically probable cause for homicide, how decomposition complicates cause-of-death findings, why digital forensics from Tesla telemetry can take time, and what investigators actually need before charges can land. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walks us through the forensic obstacles, the legal tightropes, and the hard truth: this case may hinge on a timeline investigators are still trying to piece together. #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeNews #Investigation #JenniferCoffindaffer #CrimeUpdate #TeslaCase #MissingPersons #TrueCrimeCommunity Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we're digging into the unraveling story surrounding nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard — and the disturbing firsthand account from the only person who's been inside Ashlee Buzzard's home since Melodee vanished. According to witness Tyler Brewer, Ashlee claimed she handed her daughter to strangers she met at a zoo. No names. No contacts. Constantly shifting meeting spots across multiple states. Then, moments later, she snapped, “How do you know I left her in Utah?” Her story collapsing inside itself. Brewer describes paranoia, accusations he was undercover, fears of being tracked, deleting accounts, talk of fake plates — and inside the home, a pillow dressed in Melodee's clothes surrounded by torn missing-poster photos. A shrine to a missing child. Her daughter is gone. This is the behavior she's exhibiting. And still — no detainment, no mental-health hold, no arrest. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what this behavior means, why law enforcement can't force cooperation, and what investigators actually need to move this case forward. #MelodeeBuzzard #BuzzardCase #HiddenKillers #MissingChild #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #Investigation #CrimeUpdate #TrueCrimeNews Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we're looking at two cases that have stunned the public with their contradictions, inconsistencies, and lack of action from the justice system. In the Buzzard case, witness Tyler Brewer describes a home filled with paranoia: shifting stories about handing Melodee to strangers at a zoo, deleted accounts, talk of fake plates, accusations of undercover cops — and a pillow dressed in Melodee's clothes surrounded by torn missing-poster photos. Ashlee's erratic behavior continues, and Melodee is still missing. In the Celeste Rivas-Hernandez case, her decomposed, partially dismembered remains were found in the frunk of a Tesla tied to D4vd. Early reporting pointed to freezing; LAPD later clarified the body wasn't frozen upon discovery. The autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is active. And yet — no arrests. Two cases. Two women gone. Two investigations struggling to move forward. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to cut through the noise, explain the investigative roadblocks, and break down what needs to happen next. #MelodeeBuzzard #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CrimeUpdate #JenniferCoffindaffer #Investigation #TrueCrimeNews #MissingChild #TrueCrimeCommunity Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this episode of Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to unpack the disturbing psychology and systemic collapse behind the escape of Morgan Geyser — the now-23-year-old woman who attempted a ritualistic Slender Man killing as a child, and who recently slipped out of a state-approved group home with a 42-year-old man after cutting off her GPS monitor. This wasn't a locked facility. This wasn't a secure psychiatric placement. This was a quiet residential street with families and kids — none of whom were told she was there. Tonight, we dig into the dangerous illusion of “stability” in cases like this. For years, Morgan lived in the tightly controlled structure of an institution. But structure can mask fragility. Compliance is not recovery. And what looked like stability to officials has now erupted into an interstate escape, a severed GPS bracelet, a fake name, and a bizarre “Google me” exchange with police. Shavaun walks us through the psychological landmines: • What her original violent delusion reveals about long-term risk • Why institutional calm can lull clinicians into false confidence • The overlooked red flags: dark material, troubling adult contacts • Why placing her in an unsecure group home was a catastrophic risk • What attachment to a much older man signals clinically • How quickly delusion-based distortions can return • The massive danger created when addresses are sealed from the public • Why relapse in psychosis can be invisible until it's explosive And then there's the system failure: When Morgan cut her GPS bracelet, the alert came in around 9:30 p.m. Police weren't notified until nearly 12 hours later. For victims like Payton Leutner, this is a nightmare come back to life. For the public, it's a warning about how dangerously optimistic the system can be when evaluating violent, delusion-based offenders. This episode pulls the curtain back on the psychology — and the failures — behind a case that never should have been allowed to unfold this way. #HiddenKillers #MorganGeyser #SlenderMan #TrueCrime #MentalHealth #Psychosis #SystemFailure #TonyBrueski #ShavaunScott #CrimeNews Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine one of the most psychologically alarming missing-child cases in recent memory: the disappearance of nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard — and the unraveling mental state of her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, whose behavior seems to be spiraling far past “odd” and into a realm of fractured reality. This is a case defined by contradictions, delusion-like narratives, and a system trapped in its own limitations. Ashlee has claimed her house is bugged, that strangers are monitoring her, that law enforcement is tracking her every move, and that a mystery couple from a zoo — whose names she can't provide — is caring for Melodee. Meanwhile, she's deleting accounts, swapping plates, dismantling her digital life, and creating what looks disturbingly like a symbolic stand-in for Melodee on a pillow inside the home. And through all of this, Melodee hasn't been heard from in nearly two months. Tonight, Shavaun breaks down the psychological red flags: • What paranoia and impaired reality-testing actually look like • Why her story shifts from day to day • What the “shrine” on the couch signals clinically • Whether the flight behaviors suggest panic, planning, or manic unraveling • Why calm, controlled behavior can mask severe internal instability • The danger to a child depending on a parent whose reality is fractured But the bigger story is the systemic failure: Why hasn't Ashlee been detained? Why no psychiatric hold? Why can't the system intervene when a child is missing and a parent is unraveling? Shavaun walks us through the brutal truth: unless someone meets the impossibly narrow legal standard of “imminent danger,” mental-health and child-welfare systems are often legally powerless — even when the red flags are blinking in neon. If you're following the Buzzard case, this is the conversation you need to hear. #HiddenKillers #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #TrueCrime #MissingChild #Psychology #MentalHealthCrisis #SystemFailure #TonyBrueski #ShavaunScott Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Tonight on Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps us unravel two cases that shouldn't be connected — but absolutely are. On one side: Ashlee Buzzard, a mother spiraling into paranoia, delusion, secrecy, and destabilization as her nine-year-old daughter, Melodee, remains missing. On the other: Morgan Geyser, the Slender Man attacker who escaped a state placement, cut her ankle monitor, crossed state lines with a 42-year-old man, and was found behind a truck stop. Two wildly different cases. One identical problem: a system incapable of responding to psychological danger until AFTER the damage is done. Shavaun takes us deep into the psychology behind both crises. In the Buzzard case, we look at fractured reality, shifting stories, conspiracy fears, digital erasure, symbolic “shrines,” and the psychological danger created when a child's safety depends entirely on a parent who may no longer be tethered to shared reality — yet shows just enough calm to avoid involuntary intervention. In the Geyser case, we dig into the illusion of “recovery,” the fragility of delusion-based offenders, hidden addresses, overlooked red flags, troubling adult relationships, and the near-disastrous consequences of placing someone with her history in an unsecured neighborhood with nothing but a GPS bracelet — a bracelet that failed the moment it mattered. Both cases ask the same chilling questions: • Why can't the system intervene before irreversible harm? • Why is “imminent danger” defined so narrowly it becomes meaningless? • How can someone be deeply unstable yet still appear compliant enough to avoid detection? • How many red flags does it take before a child or community is protected? This is a conversation about psychology, danger, and systemic blind spots — and why families, victims, and entire neighborhoods keep getting blindsided by crises everyone saw coming but nobody was legally allowed to stop. #HiddenKillers #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #MorganGeyser #SlenderMan #TrueCrime #MentalHealthCrisis #SystemFailure #TonyBrueski #ShavaunScott Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872