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There is a limited amount of DNA left from under Maggie Murdaugh's left hand, and both sides want to test it first. Tony Brueski takes your questions on that fight with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.SLED previously determined the material belonged to an unknown, unrelated male, but did not identify him. The state uses STR analysis, which checks samples against law enforcement databases and cannot name someone who is not already in the system. The defense wants the reserve samples sent first to Othram, a Texas laboratory that runs SNP testing and forensic genetic genealogy, the approach that can build out a family tree from an unknown contributor.In a July filing, Murdaugh's attorneys told the court something new. Prosecutors had just disclosed that reserve samples from two evidence items remain unprocessed, and that SLED wants to run repeat testing on them. Every test consumes material. The defense argues a retest risks exhausting the only sample capable of producing a name. Othram, they say, could finish in sixty to ninety days.The same filing accuses SLED of mishandling the white T-shirt Murdaugh wore the night of the killings. Testing returned negative for human blood on the stained areas, and the shirt was later rendered unavailable for additional testing after a chemical enhancement agent was applied. The defense calls that a reason to doubt the agency's good faith. That is their allegation, not a court finding.Prosecutors oppose the defense's access request. Judge Debra McCaslin decides the sequence. A July conference on the testing brought defense attorneys, prosecutors, SLED forensic scientists and Othram's chief executive into the same call.The verdicts against him were reversed on appeal, and Murdaugh returns to trial presumed innocent. Robin Dreeke takes the mail on what a name under those fingernails would and would not prove.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SLED #BradyMotion #MaggieMurdaugh #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #SouthCarolina

The South Carolina Supreme Court did not only fault the clerk of court when it threw out Alex Murdaugh's convictions. The justices also flagged how much of the 2023 trial was spent on the money he stole. Tony Brueski takes your questions on what that means for the retrial with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.Prosecutors spent close to two weeks of the first trial on Murdaugh's financial crimes. That evidence was not tied to the murder charges directly. It was offered to establish motive: his thefts were about to be exposed, and the state argued the killings bought him sympathy and time.Judge Debra McCaslin now decides how much of that comes in the second time. She has told the attorneys she knows nothing about the first trial and wants them complete when they explain it to her.The state's newest filings run the other direction. Prosecutors moved to admit Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony at the retrial, renewed motions to exclude polygraph evidence and third-party guilt, requested a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposed the defense's push for independent DNA analysis.Listeners are asking a sharp question about the arithmetic. If the financial evidence gets trimmed and the third-party door stays shut, what is the state walking into April 2027 with, and is it enough for twelve people who have never heard any of this.Murdaugh has denied the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh since 2021. His convictions were vacated, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes and remains in prison on those sentences.Robin Dreeke handles the mail on motive, money, and what a jury actually does with a man's finances.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

What actually happens when someone calls a crisis line? Nothing about that call routes automatically to the psychiatrist writing your prescriptions. Tony Brueski brings your questions on that gap to retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.A crisis line is not a medical record. It is not a referral. Nothing about the call guarantees the clinician managing someone's care ever learns it happened. In the Lindsay Clancy trial, that structure stopped being theoretical.Clancy's civil lawsuit describes a woman who sought treatment, went to emergency rooms, called crisis hotlines and admitted herself to hospitals. Both psychiatrists who have testified for the prosecution said the hotline calls were news to them. One testified it surprised her.Goodheart, the McLean physician, also testified she did not know Clancy had gone roughly two days without sleep after starting a medication earlier in her treatment. She told the court sleep deprivation can contribute to a manic episode, and that she would have wanted to keep observing Clancy's sleep after discharge.That is the part listeners keep writing in about. Several outpatient providers, one inpatient stay, two hotline calls, and no single person holding all of it.Clancy pleaded not guilty to the murder charges against her and is presumed innocent. Prosecutors argue she acted with intent and that her care team is not responsible. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis and a lack of criminal responsibility. The providers deny negligence.Robin Dreeke answers what listeners are asking about warning signs, handoffs, and who is supposed to be holding the whole picture. If you need someone, 988 is answered every hour of the day.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MaternalMentalHealth #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #MentalHealthCare #RobinDreeke

Full live session with Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, covering the two stories dominating the mailbag. First, the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes. Then the Lindsay Clancy trial, including the conspiracy theory that refuses to release Patrick Clancy.Everything is on the table live. Whether the Guthrie family should accept a letter claiming their mother is buried in nature, from a writer who walked away from $4 million and wished her children peace. Whether a sheriff who denied having that note one day before releasing it still has the room's trust. Whether Lindsay Clancy's prosecution is quietly helping her defense, one loving-mother witness at a time. And whether any amount of CVS footage and phone records will ever satisfy the crowd convinced Patrick did it.The chat drives all of it. Every question tonight was built to split the room, Robin has a professional read on each one, and the disagreements are the show. Show up with an opinion — or lose one.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #SavannahGuthrie #PatrickClancy #RansomNote #TrialWatch #CrimeNews

Live with Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke. On the table: the ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case, released by the Pima County Sheriff's Department on July 31. Underneath them sits the question no family should ever face, whether to believe a letter that says their mother is gone.This session runs on listener submissions, and they don't hold back. The $4 million demand that simply vanished from the second note. The proof details, the white smart watch and the broken flood light, that put the writer inside that house. The apology and the wish for peace, which Robin can read like a case file. The sheriff who told CBS he had no note indicating death, twenty-four hours before releasing one, while a Wall Street Journal report questions his department's early moves. And the federal search teams back in the brush behind Nancy's own home.The chat carries this one. Whether you believe the notes are real, a hoax, or something in between, bring your reasoning — because the room will not agree, and that's exactly why this case needs a live hour.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #RansomNote #Tucson #FBI #MissingPerson #PimaCounty

Live listener Q&A on the Lindsay Clancy trial with Tony Brueski. Eight days of testimony, and the state's own witnesses keep describing a loving mother — so the audience took over the questioning, and this session runs on your submissions.On the table: whether the takeout order and the timed errand read as a plan or as illness, and whether a person in psychosis can plan at all. The pill bottles counted out for the jury and the collision between skipped-medication and overmedication. The hospital discharge 19 days before it happened, from a listener who asked her own doctor for help and got a pamphlet. The moment Lindsay's sobbing stopped the trial, and the listener who admitted she doesn't know what to feel. And the endgame question — if the verdict is not criminally responsible, does a state hospital ever open its doors?The chat decides where this one goes. Every question tonight splits the room on purpose. The last one, about who stands up for Cora, Dawson, and Callan, belongs to everybody. Come argue.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #LindsayClancyTrial #PlymouthCounty #Massachusetts #CrimeNews #TrialWatch

Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke: the conspiracy theory chasing Patrick Clancy through his wife's murder trial. Lindsay Clancy's attorney conceded to the jury that she killed their three children, prosecutors laid out Patrick's movements minute by minute, and thousands of people online still insist the husband did it.Robin spent his FBI career studying belief — why people form it, why evidence bounces off it, and what actually changes a mind. Tony puts the whole theory in front of him live. The airtight timeline versus the conspiracy read of it. The crowd's certainty that Patrick's grief looked wrong, and the remarriage they call a tell. The lawsuit against Lindsay's doctors that makes her defense's argument for her.Bring your take to the chat. Whether you've dismissed this theory from day one or you've caught yourself wondering, the room is going to be split — and that's the point. The question that ends the segment goes to everyone watching: what would it take to let it go?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #LindsayClancyTrial #Duxbury #Massachusetts #RobinDreeke #TrialWatch

Three cases. One live conversation. And a chat that is not going to agree on any of them. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for a Hidden Killers Live triple covering Nancy Guthrie, Alex Murdaugh, and Lindsay Clancy: three investigations where the loudest question is aimed at the investigators.The Guthrie segment is built on Coffindaffer's own blockchain trace, run after the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally released the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address. What she found: no ransom was ever paid. The only deposit in the wallet's history is roughly three hundred dollars from the FBI. Messages written directly to that wallet, a standing line to whoever took Nancy, were never answered. Why does someone who allegedly demanded four million dollars go silent? The room gets that one.The Murdaugh segment starts with the question his audience keeps yelling: why isn't Becky Hill in prison? Her jury interference forced the retrial; her guilty plea covered a book photo, self-paid bonuses, and sealed exhibits, with no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. Then the new defense motion demanding SLED's files be certified clean in writing, the fired agent whose word cleared Eddie Smith, and the shirt that tested negative for human blood before becoming untestable forever. Accident or convenience — the chat votes.The Clancy segment takes week two head-on: the defense stipulating to the forensics, the state's calm-patient snapshot from six days after the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, and the diary both sides claim proves their case. Can a mind be organized enough to plan and still be broken? Bring your answer.Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Pull up a chair. This one runs hot.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #LindsayClancy #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #MurdaughRetrial #ClancyTrial #JenniferCoffindaffer

Prosecutors put Lindsay Clancy's diary in front of her jury. Brain fog. Can't make a plan. Terror. Living moment to moment. The state's argument: look at these pages — no voices, no delusions, no break from reality. A woman documenting her own mind, and the documentation shows a mind still there. It might be the most double-edged evidence in this entire trial, and it's where retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer starts on this Hidden Killers Live conversation with Tony Brueski.Because the defense reads the same pages and sees the illness itself: a nurse who spent her career in labor and delivery reduced to recording fog and fear, day after day, while the medical system adjusted her medications around her. And underneath both readings sits the clinical reality the jury has to wrestle with: postpartum psychosis doesn't hold still for a diary. A mind can be present in the morning and gone that night. Pinning any single day's entry to January 24 assumes a stability the condition doesn't have.Week two gave this jury everything at once. The defense stipulated to the forensics, since Clancy's lawyers don't dispute she caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, so the physical evidence stopped being a fight. The state's toxicologist testified about medication levels. A psychiatrist described Clancy six days afterward as calm and organized. Every piece asks the same question from a different angle: whose version of her mind does the jury believe?Coffindaffer has watched juries navigate exactly this, and the live chat gets a voice in it too, because this audience does not agree on Lindsay Clancy, and this is the case where that disagreement is the whole point.She is presumed innocent of murder. Cora, Dawson, and Callan are why we keep showing up.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ClancyTrial #Massachusetts #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalJustice #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrialCoverage

Ryan Kelly stood between Eddie Smith and the Murdaugh murder case. On the stand at the first trial, the SLED agent said there was none whatsoever — zero evidence connecting Smith to the killings of Maggie and Paul. That clearance held for three years. Now Kelly is out of law enforcement, fired in June from his internal affairs job at the Charleston County Sheriff's Office after an investigation into harassment and conduct allegations. To be fair: the public records don't describe what he did, and nothing ties his firing to his SLED work. But Alex Murdaugh's defense is demanding disciplinary files on every officer connected to this case, and Kelly's file is sitting right there.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on Hidden Killers Live to answer the question underneath all of it. Did anyone ever actually rule out Eddie Smith, or did one agent's word become the whole clearance?The conversation runs through both filings that just reshaped this case. A federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against Becky Hill on August 5, ruling the former clerk owes him nothing for his defense costs even though her jury interference triggered the retrial. Hill pleaded guilty to obstruction, perjury, and misconduct, none of it for the tampering itself, and received no prison time. And the defense's new motion demands prosecutors certify in writing that no favorable evidence remains buried in any file, any agency, any lab.Coffindaffer also takes the shirt head-on: SLED testing negative for human blood, then a chemical that made retesting impossible forever. Accident or convenience: she picks a side, and the chat will pick theirs.Murdaugh is presumed innocent with an April retrial coming. Bring your read on Eddie Smith. This one gets loud.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SouthCarolina #SLED #MurdaughMurders #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeSystem

Someone allegedly demanded four million dollars for Nancy Guthrie — and then never came back for it. That's the mystery at the center of this Hidden Killers Live conversation with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer. She traced the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet after the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally released the address in its own media materials.The trace shows a direct line existed this whole time. Messages were written onto the blockchain, straight to that wallet, including the exact words Savannah Guthrie said on camera about the family's willingness to pay. Anyone controlling that wallet could see them. Nobody ever answered. Coffindaffer walks Tony Brueski through the question that haunts this case: why does a person who allegedly took a woman from her home for money go silent when the money is offered?The numbers make it stranger. Coffindaffer's trace shows no ransom was ever paid. The only deposit was roughly three hundred dollars in Bitcoin, moved by the FBI on February 10 as an apparent test, still sitting untouched. The four million never moved because it was never sent. That reframes every public statement the family has made, including that they did their part.Coffindaffer also breaks down why she believes the two ransom notes came from two different authors: one writing threats like a script, one writing something closer to an apology from inside that house. And she reacts to Sheriff Nanos marking six months by praising the FBI relationship while admitting thousands of hours of video are still unreviewed.Live chat drives this one. Bring your theory on the silence, because the room will not agree. That's the point. Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson, and the trail her case left behind is written in a currency that never lies.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #Bitcoin #RansomNote #MissingPerson #JenniferCoffindaffer

A prosecution witness in the Lindsay Clancy trial said something on the stand that sounds like it belongs in the defense's closing argument. I go through exactly what was admitted and why it matters more than the state probably wanted it to.The Commonwealth's case leans hard on one fact: all thirteen of Lindsay Clancy's psychiatric medications were within therapeutic range when her children died. To the prosecution, that means clarity. But their own psychiatrist told the jury that someone deep in psychosis can still present as calm and put-together — normal on the outside doesn't rule out a break happening underneath.Day 8 of the trial brought eleven witnesses, every one called by the state, and the day didn't go the way prosecutors probably scripted it. A medical examiner explained how 8-month-old Callan died, autopsy photos went up on screen, and Lindsay sobbed hard enough that the judge stopped the hearing. The pediatrician described a routine, unremarkable checkup with 5-year-old Cora just hours before the killings. Coworkers described insomnia, brain fog, a stack of medications, a stay at McLean Hospital. Then the case detective confirmed a search warrant on her Facebook, looking for signs of abuse, came back empty.Her journal entries were read aloud — words about drowning, about barely functioning. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington isn't arguing about what happened; he's conceded it. The only question left for this jury is whether the state can prove she was legally sane, and that burden belongs entirely to the prosecution. I break down where this leaves the case.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags (same set, all four channels): #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Duane "Keffe D" Davis sat down with the LAPD in 2008 and described his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur, on the record, in a proffer session his own defense team is now trying to use as a shield. He told a similar story on BET's "Death Row Chronicles." He wrote an even more detailed version in his 2019 memoir, claiming he provided the gun and gave the order that got Tupac killed over a fight at the MGM Grand. None of that stopped Las Vegas police from sitting on his statements for over a decade. They had what they needed by 2009. The arrest didn't come until 2023.  Now Davis says all of it was a lie to sell books, that he wasn't even in Las Vegas the night Tupac died, contradicting the account he published under his own name. There's no murder weapon in this case and no DNA. The man Davis says fired the shots, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, denied any involvement before he was killed in Compton in 1998. Judge Carli Kierny has already ruled Davis's own statements admissible, and his immunity claim tied to that 2008 proffer was rejected.  Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether a jury can convict on nothing but a defendant's own words, whether that immunity argument had any real teeth, and what it takes to prosecute a case this cold, three decades after the murder and fourteen years after police first had what they needed. Davis is 63, facing life without parole, and he's pleaded not guilty in a trial his own recorded history may end up deciding. Every major defense motion filed since his 2023 arrest has been rejected, leaving his own words as the centerpiece of the state's case. Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DuaneDavis #LasVegas #MurderTrial #2Pac #ComptonStreetLegend #TrueCrimePodcast 

Three and a half years of silence, and this is what Bryan Kohberger chose to say first: the case against him is "a work of fiction." He invited the state to seek the death penalty again. He thanked the people who believe he's innocent. He named the public, the state, his own family, his supporters online. He did not name Kaylee, Madison, Xana, or Ethan. Not once, in the entire statement. Live, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and Tony Brueski go through it line by line — how the opening reframes Kohberger as the one who's been wronged, what "my actual innocence is my truth" is actually doing rhetorically, and the new affidavit where he accuses his own defense attorneys of telling him guilt wasn't an important factor in the plea. Then the conversation turns to where some of that language actually came from. Reporters traced "broken plea" and "clumps of hair" — phrases central to Kohberger's petition — directly to a true crime book, not to any court filing. His own defense team once sent that book's author a cease-and-desist letter. A DNA expert his defense hired had already tested the hair in question and found it consistent with Ethan Chapin's own, according to PEOPLE. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins to explain what Kohberger is actually facing if a judge lets any of this move forward, and why Steve Goncalves, who fought this plea deal harder than anyone, is now the one saying he wants a trial. It's a live breakdown of a statement built to sound like a man fighting for the truth — and what got left out to make that sound convincing. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillersLive #ShavaunScott #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #EthanChapin #BrokenPlea #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 

Eight years after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death, there's still unidentified male DNA sitting under Maggie's fingernails, and the prosecutors preparing to retry Alex Murdaugh for their murders are fighting to keep an independent lab away from it. SLED tested it once, said it wasn't a family member, and moved on. Nobody ever tried to find out whose it actually was. The defense wants the same forensic genealogy lab that identified Bryan Kohberger in Idaho to finish what SLED started before the remaining sample is gone. The state wants to test it themselves first, with the same method that already failed once, in a process the defense says risks using up the evidence for good.  If the prosecution is as confident as they sound that this DNA is meaningless, an outside confirmation should be the easiest yes of their case. Instead they're fighting it in court. That tells you something.  It's happening alongside another loss for the defense. On August 5th, a federal judge dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against former clerk of court Becky Hill, a case built specifically to force her under oath and get her personal records into evidence before the retrial. Those records were the defense's best shot at tracing the anonymous email that got a juror pulled from deliberations during the original murder trial, and at making the investigators who cleared Hill of tampering explain that decision on the record.  Both fights point the same direction, toward a retrial set for April 5th, 2027, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty and Alex Murdaugh's team refusing to take a deal. The judge assigned to the retrial has already pressed prosecutors on how long independent testing would take, a sign this fight over the DNA isn't getting resolved quietly before April. Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #ColdCaseDNA 

Here's the question that's been sitting underneath the Lindsay Clancy trial all week: did she know exactly what she was doing? Both sides agree she killed her three children. Plymouth Superior Court just spent three days trying to answer whether she understood it while it happened — Patrick Clancy on the stand for two of those days, his 911 call played for jurors who could barely sit through it, first responders describing the scene they walked into. Then prosecutors laid nine prescription bottles on the table. Most of them were still mostly full. If the defense rests on a woman drowning in medication her doctors kept switching, that's a hard detail to explain away. So is the twenty-five-minute errand prosecutors keep coming back to, and the takeout order they say she placed like nothing was wrong. Tony Brueski puts that against a case people keep comparing it to: Nick Reiner, who told reporters he cycled through roughly seventeen rehab stays his family arranged and paid for, including a yearlong conservatorship, and is now charged with killing Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, sought help once in December of 2022 and was discharged in a day. Live, Tony breaks down what those pill bottles actually prove, what a jury is supposed to do with a father who spent two days defending the woman who killed his kids, and what happens to this family if the jury decides she isn't criminally responsible at all — and takes the hardest questions viewers have been sending in all week about who really failed those three children. Reiner has pleaded not guilty. Clancy's jury has not returned a verdict, and prosecutors argue she acted intentionally. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #NickReiner #HiddenKillersLive #PatrickClancy #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #RobReiner Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 

Bryan Kohberger stood in an Idaho courtroom and told a judge, four separate times, that he deliberately killed each of his victims. Asked if he was pleading guilty because he was guilty, he said yes. Asked if anyone had forced him, he said no. Thirteen months later, from a maximum security cell, he's asking a judge to let him take it all back. Live, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer go through Kohberger's handwritten petition line by line against the actual unsealed record. His central claim — that "clumps of hair" found in a victim's hand prove his innocence — traces back to a published book, not to any forensic report. His own defense team already had a hair from that hand tested. It came back consistent with the victim's own. Then there's the line in the petition that may matter more than the hair: Kohberger's claim about exactly who was present during his private meetings with his own attorneys. Coffindaffer breaks down why prosecutors and defense teams alike take that kind of allegation seriously, and why it could cut against him instead of helping his case. They also cover the amended witness list naming a hundred and eighty people prosecutors were prepared to call, what got recovered from the crime scene, what never got tested, and why nearly every legal expert who has looked at petitions like this one says they fail — even when, on paper, the law allows them to be filed at all. It's a live breakdown of where the actual evidence ends and where the petition starts filling in its own version of events. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillersLive #JenniferCoffindaffer #EthanChapin #GuiltyPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 

Nolan Wells' own family paid for a second autopsy, and it came back "undetermined" — partly because parts of his throat were missing by the time their pathologist examined the body. The official state autopsy is still sealed, and the DA has only said a grand jury will eventually look at it, with no date attached. Nolan was eighteen. He went to a July 4 boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, and never came home. His body was found two days later in the water. The sheriff called it no foul play before the autopsy, toxicology, or the FBI's phone review were finished. His mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, wasn't even told he was missing until almost midnight, hours after the boat docked and his friends left with his phone and his keys still in their hands. When Christine got that phone back, both of Nolan's Snapchat accounts were completely empty — for a kid who documented everything. There's also a contradiction on the record: the girl he allegedly stayed behind to talk to says Nolan told her he was getting on the boat with the boys. The boys say he stayed behind with her. On the day the family buried him, their attorneys sent preservation-of-evidence letters to every party connected to the case. Nine days after that, Christine filed court-ordered subpoenas against five tech companies for GPS data, login histories, direct messages, and password reset records. Tony Brueski walks through every open thread in this case — the missing tissue, the empty phone, the hours nobody can account for, and a mother who isn't waiting on anyone to hand her answers. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NolanWells #ChristineWonsley #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #HornIsland #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #BenCrump #GrandJury #TrueCrimeCommunity 

Here's what the prosecution didn't count on in the Lindsay Clancy trial: their own witness might be their biggest problem. Patrick Clancy took the stand in Plymouth Superior Court to help the state prove his wife was rational enough to plan what happened to their three children. He described one of her best days — a snowman, normal texts, nothing that looked like a woman in crisis. Prosecutors leaned into it hard. Jurors sat through a seven-minute 911 call. They saw the pajamas. They saw the exercise bands. They heard about the fourteen-second phone call Patrick got after the children were already gone, a call where he had no idea anything had happened. Then cross-examination flipped the room. Lindsay had checked herself into McLean Hospital on New Year's Eve. She'd gone to the ER. She'd told providers, more than once, about intrusive thoughts involving her own children. And Women and Infants Hospital had already flagged overmedication and a possible misdiagnosis — a warning that went nowhere. And then came the detail nobody in that courtroom saw coming: Patrick Clancy filed a civil lawsuit against the doctors. Lindsay filed her own, separately. The father who just testified for the prosecution is, outside those courtroom doors, telling a different story about who's actually responsible. Tony Brueski sits down live with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries to go through it in real time — what ADA Buckingham's opening statement bet on, what the defense pulled out of Patrick on cross, and whether a jury asked to judge a mother's mind can ignore what her own husband believes happened to her. They also get into how Massachusetts law defines criminal responsibility for someone the state's own witness may not fully believe was in control. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 

Nancy Guthrie's ransom note is public now, and the language in it doesn't sit right. Pima County released both notes the kidnapper sent, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, goes through them on this episode word by word. The first note demanded four million dollars in bitcoin, gave Savannah Guthrie a deadline, and included a line about Nancy's mother that reads more like leverage than reassurance. Scott flags the proof-of-presence details — a smartwatch on the floor, a busted floodlight — and a single slip from "we" to "me" that changes how the whole letter sounds. Then the second note lands: it says Nancy died shortly after she was taken. If the timeline holds, that four-million-dollar demand was sent for someone who was no longer alive to ransom. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to unpack the investigation itself. Sheriff Chris Nanos publicly got the only conviction in this case wrong — he said ten years; the real plea deal is five years of probation on two harassment counts, and sentencing hasn't even happened. Coffindaffer explains what that mistake signals about the coordination, or lack of it, between local and federal investigators who have never spoken directly. Savannah Guthrie's latest public statement uses language that hints at something moving behind the scenes. And not far from where Nancy disappeared, another woman was attacked by someone who walked through an unlocked door in the middle of the night, matching the general build of the figure on Nancy's porch. This is a note built to control a family, and an investigation that can't get its own facts straight. Tony Brueski hosts. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillersLive #ShavaunScott #JenniferCoffindaffer #RansomNote #PimaCounty #SheriffNanos #TrueCrime #Kidnapping 

Dr. Staci Turner has Nolan Wells' sealed autopsy results in her hands right now, and this isn't the first time her office's conclusions haven't matched the evidence. In 2021, Turner ruled Damien Cameron's in-custody death "undetermined" — despite documenting neck injuries in her own autopsy consistent with compression. The New York Times and Mississippi Today brought in three independent forensic pathologists to review the same file. All three disagreed with her. Dr. Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner of New York City, called it "homicide, absolutely." A Rutgers pathologist said there was nothing undetermined about it at all. A grand jury leaned on Turner's ruling and declined to charge the deputies who restrained Cameron. One of them, Hunter Elward, is now in federal prison — convicted as part of the Rankin County "Goon Squad" torture cases, though not for Cameron's death. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins this episode to break down what Turner's history means for the Wells investigation, why the district attorney — not a court, not a deadline — controls when Nolan's results become public, and why Christine Wells-Wonsley filed subpoenas on the day she buried her son. Attorney Ben Crump represented Cameron's family. He represents the Wells family now, in the same state, in front of the same examiner. Tony Brueski and Jennifer Coffindaffer lay out exactly why this family has reason to doubt the results before they've even seen them. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NolanWells #StaciTurner #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #Mississippi #DamienCameron #GoonSquad #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeForNolan #MedicalExaminer

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down for a full session covering three of the country's most watched criminal cases.Bryan Kohberger's post-conviction petition to withdraw his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders has put the death penalty back on the table. He signed a nine-page questionnaire, told a judge he was guilty, and took four life sentences. Now he says his own lawyers coerced a false confession.Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court has reached its testimony phase. The prosecution's first week produced evidence that may hurt the state's case more than it helps — including the revelation that Clancy was on thirteen psychiatric medications and the state's own expert admitting psychosis can present as outward calm.Duane "Keffe D" Davis goes on trial in Las Vegas for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The case is built on statements Davis made over fifteen years — to police, on camera, and in a published book. He now says he invented the entire story.Faddis covers the legal mechanics, the strategic calculations, and the risks each defendant faces — drawing on his experience as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #LindsayClancy #KeffeD #TupacShakur #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #LindsayClancyTrial #TupacMurderTrial

The Tupac Shakur murder trial is about to begin in Las Vegas, and the prosecution's case is unlike any other murder case in modern memory. The defendant allegedly got himself arrested by spending over a decade publicly describing his role in the killing.Duane "Keffe D" Davis provided a proffer to the LAPD in 2008. He appeared on BET's "Death Row Chronicles." He published his account in a book. He gave interviews. In each one, he placed himself in the white Cadillac, described providing the gun, and detailed the motive — retaliation for a physical altercation at the MGM Grand hours before the shooting on September 7, 1996.Las Vegas police had all of this by 2009. They did not charge Davis until September 2023 — fourteen years later. The arrest came after a grand jury indictment triggered in part by the publication of his own memoir.Davis now claims innocence. He says he made up the entire story for financial gain. He has even claimed he was not in Las Vegas the night of the shooting — a statement that contradicts his own book, his own documentary, and his own words to police.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether a jury can convict on confessions the defendant now calls fiction, and what a thirty-year gap does to a murder prosecution.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacMurderTrial #DuaneDavis #LasVegas #ComptonStreetLegend #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students and took four life sentences without parole. The deal removed the death penalty. He signed every document. He confirmed under oath the plea was voluntary. Then thirteen months later, he filed a handwritten petition claiming he was coerced.The timing is difficult to separate from the media cycle. His first public statement went to the New York Times the same weekend Netflix dropped its documentary. His petition echoes language from a book whose author says they never communicated.But the legal question underneath the spectacle is real: can a defendant undo a guilty plea by claiming his own lawyers scared him into confessing? Idaho law requires manifest injustice — a standard legal experts call near-impossible to meet after sentencing, especially when the defendant endorsed the plea under oath.The gamble is life and death. If the plea is withdrawn, the deal evaporates. Idaho has a firing squad. The state has signaled it will pursue the death penalty. The Goncalves family says they're ready.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the legal mechanics, the state's options, and whether Kohberger just made the worst strategic decision of his life.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #HiddenKillers #GuiltyPlea #KayleeGoncalves #UniversityOfIdaho #EricFaddis #PostConvictionRelief #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Plymouth Superior Court is hearing the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and the prosecution's first week of testimony has produced evidence that cuts both ways. The state wants this jury to believe Lindsay Clancy was calculating enough to plan the deaths of her three children on January 24, 2023. The defense says she was a woman drowning in psychiatric crisis who did everything right — and the system failed her anyway.The toxicologist testified that Lindsay was on thirteen medications simultaneously, all at therapeutic levels individually. The prosecution frames that as proof she was medically managed and functioning. The defense frames it as proof she was buried under a pharmaceutical avalanche no single doctor was tracking.Then the prosecution's own expert made an admission on cross-examination that could haunt the state's case for the rest of this trial: a person experiencing psychosis can appear calm, cooperative, and coherent. The jury heard that from the state's witness, not the defense's.Lindsay's own journal was read aloud. She wrote about drowning. She wrote about wanting to die. The question is whether those entries prove she was lucid — or prove she was in freefall.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what the prosecution proved in its opening days, what it accidentally handed to the defense, and who's actually winning this trial.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #EricFaddis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Two written documents. Two cases. Both reveal more by what is missing than by what is written. Shavaun Scott breaks down the ransom notes and the Kohberger statement with Tony Brueski in one full conversation.Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #ForensicPsychology #CriminalPsychology #RansomNote #IdahoMurders #BehavioralAnalysis

His first public statement in three and a half years includes a direct appeal to the people who have been defending him online. He thanks them. He knows they exist. He is recruiting from a segregated prison cell.Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the full Kohberger statement — the work of fiction claim, the my truth construction, the accusation against his own defense team, and the four names that never appear.Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #KohbergerStatement #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #ForensicPsychology #CriminalPsychology #TrueCrime #PleaWithdrawal

The first note demanded millions. The second one apologized. Linguists believe the same person wrote both. Investigators confirm the same IP address. But something changed between the spreadsheet and the sympathy card.Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to break down the second note — the claim about her physical condition, the money left on the table, the phrase that ends it, and the question of whether this man was always going to walk away.Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #ApologyNote

The first ransom note demanded four million dollars. The second note says Nancy died shortly after she was taken. If the timeline holds, the demand went out while she was already gone.Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to walk through the first note line by line — the structure, the details, the language choices, and the question that hangs over every word: did he know?Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #CriminalPsychology

Kouri Richins wrote herself bad checks. She allegedly forged her husband's bank documents to get mortgage loans. She borrowed from more than twenty-five lenders and defaulted on most of them. And when the whole operation was about to collapse, prosecutors say she took forty-five thousand dollars from her closest friend and let that friend's family get evicted from the house she'd promised them.That's not the murder case. Those are the twenty-six separate felony charges still pending against Kouri Richins in Summit County — filed while she was awaiting trial for poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl. She's been convicted on the murder. Life without parole. New trial denied. But prosecutors aren't done.The fraud case covers everything she was allegedly doing behind Eric's back for years. The secret quarter-million-dollar line of credit she took out on his premarital home using a power of attorney. The real estate business she built with that money — a business that owed hard money lenders one-point-eight million dollars on the day Eric died and nearly five million the day after. The insurance policies she stacked. The prenuptial clause that made his death the only way she could access his business interests.And the trust Eric quietly built with an estate planning lawyer to make sure Kouri could never touch what he'd worked for. She allegedly didn't know about it until after he was gone. This episode lays out the financial architecture charge by charge and follows the pattern that prosecutors say connects the fraud directly to the murder.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FraudCharges #MurderConviction #SummitCountyUtah #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForEric #LifeWithoutParole

Two cases, one attorney, one conversation that covers both.The prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial built its first week around her best day, the 911 call, and a fourteen-second phone call. Then the prosecution's own witness filed a lawsuit against her doctors. In the Kohberger case, a handwritten petition from prison claims innocence — with language traced to a book and evidence his own defense team already examined.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down the prosecution's strategy in Plymouth, what Patrick Clancy's civil lawsuit reveals, where Kohberger's legal theory came from, and whether any defense attorney would take either of these cases to trial from where they stand.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #IdahoMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #PleaWithdrawal

Bryan Kohberger says his defense team hid exculpatory evidence from him before he pleaded guilty. But reporting from PEOPLE shows a DNA expert hired by that same defense team tested the evidence in question — hair found in Ethan Chapin's hand — and determined it was consistent with Chapin's own hair. The finding was included in a June 2025 filing, one month before the plea.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to work through what the petition actually claims versus what the record shows. They cover where Kohberger's language came from, what the nine-page questionnaire and sworn colloquy mean for his chances, and why the Goncalves family — which opposed the plea deal from day one — is now on record welcoming a retrial and the return of the death penalty.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #HairEvidence #TrueCrime

Patrick Clancy testified for the prosecution. He described a woman having one of her best days. Then the defense cross-examined him and pulled a different picture — a mother who checked herself into McLean Hospital, who fought to get help, who told multiple providers what was happening in her head.Not one of them told Patrick it was unsafe to leave her alone with the children.Now both Patrick and Lindsay have filed separate civil lawsuits against her healthcare providers. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to analyze what the lawsuits reveal about what this family actually believes happened, the hospital that identified the problem and got no response when it tried to raise the alarm, and whether Massachusetts is asking a jury to make a medical judgment without medical training.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #MedicalMalpractice

Patrick Clancy took the stand and described a woman having one of her best days. The prosecution is betting the jury cannot reconcile that with a psychosis defense.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to analyze whether the prosecution's first week at Plymouth Superior Court built a legal case or an emotional trap. Motta covers the seven-minute 911 call that forced a recess, the fourteen-second phone call the prosecution says proves awareness, the doctor shopping argument, and what ADA Buckingham meant when she told the jury that sick and guilty are not opposites under Massachusetts law.They cover what the defense has to overcome after the prosecution's evidence sequence, how juries process psychiatric testimony after emotional exposure, and whether there is a version of this case where medical evidence can still land.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #MurderTrial

If Bryan Kohberger ever gets a new trial in the Idaho student murders, it will be because one attorney said one thing under oath.For three years, Anne Taylor could not say a single word about what happened between her and him. Attorney-client privilege sealed it. A change of venue, a gag order, and a mountain of filings never touched it.Kohberger just unsealed it himself, by hand, from a prison cell.By arguing that his lawyers were ineffective, he opened the door to everything said in those rooms. And in the affidavit attached to his post-conviction petition, he volunteered something else: both of his parents and both of his sisters sat in on most of those discussions before he agreed to the deal. He offered it as corroboration that he was pressured.What he actually produced was a list of people who can be placed under oath and asked what was really said.Tony walks through what an evidentiary hearing in this case would look like if a judge lets it proceed. Taylor sworn. Her co-counsel sworn. His family sworn. And Kohberger himself sworn and cross-examined by the State of Idaho about a confession he gave in open court — something he has never faced once, and something the plea deal was written to spare him.The timing of that plea is its own story. Prosecutors filed an amended witness list naming a hundred and eighty people who could help convict him. Newly unsealed records show who was on it. He took the deal days later.There is exactly one way this petition succeeds, and it does not depend on the hair, the affidavit, or anything Kohberger writes. It depends entirely on what one attorney is willing to say under oath — and she has already told the court where she stands.LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags (10)#IdahoStudentMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #AnneTaylor #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerPlea #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerHearing #CrimeCommunity

Mississippi's chief medical examiner is facing scrutiny that goes far beyond the Nolan Wells case — and that scrutiny is exactly why the Wells family has no reason to trust whatever her autopsy says, even if the science is perfect.Dr. Staci Turner ruled a 2021 in-custody death "undetermined" after documenting injuries consistent with compression by deputies. Three independent pathologists — recruited by the New York Times and Mississippi Today — reviewed the same evidence and unanimously called it homicide. The grand jury used Turner's finding and filed no charges. One of the deputies is now in federal prison for the "Goon Squad" torture cases out of the same Rankin County Sheriff's Department.Turner also affirmed the official ruling on Trey Reed, a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University. That family disputes the finding. A Change.org petition is now demanding an independent investigation into Turner's office.The pattern reaches beyond any one case. A sheriff who called Nolan's death no foul play before the autopsy existed. A DA who sealed the results behind a grand jury with no date. A governor who accused the family's attorney of stoking division. A medical examiner whose biggest prior ruling was contradicted by three experts. That's the framework — and it's the reason every family in the chain has hired its own pathologist.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #StaciTurner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #MedicalExaminer #DamienCameron #JusticeForNolan #GoonSquad #TrueCrimeCommunity

In Tucson, the sheriff and the FBI director have never spoken. In Idaho, a convicted murderer is using a published book to claim innocence. In Mississippi, the medical examiner holding a teenager's sealed autopsy previously helped a convicted torturer avoid a homicide charge. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI, sits down for one conversation covering all three — Nancy Guthrie, Bryan Kohberger, and Nolan Wells — and the institutional failures connecting them. This is about the families filling the gaps their government left open, the credibility crises undermining each investigation, and the pattern that emerges when you line up what went wrong across three states.LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#NancyGuthrie #BryanKohberger #NolanWells #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #IdahoMurders #Mississippi #GoonSquad

Nolan Wells' autopsy results remain sealed. The medical examiner who holds them previously ruled a death "undetermined" when three independent pathologists said homicide — and the deputy involved in that death was later convicted of torturing two men as part of the Rankin County Goon Squad. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI, breaks down the credibility crisis facing this investigation. Even a perfect autopsy from Dr. Staci Turner will carry the weight of what she ruled in Damien Cameron's case. The DA says sealing is standard procedure but won't commit to a date. And Christine Wells-Wonsley, Nolan's mother, filed subpoenas against five tech companies and sent preservation letters to the sheriff, the DA, and the medical examiner — the day she buried her son.LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #StaciTurner #GoonSquad #DamienCameron #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeForNolan

Thirteen months after admitting under oath that he deliberately killed four University of Idaho students, Bryan Kohberger claims a book convinced him he's innocent. His petition points to evidence in Ethan Chapin's hand that he says was never disclosed — but unsealed documents show a defense expert already tested it, and it matched the victim. Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walks through what the petition actually says versus what the forensic record contains, why Kohberger's language mirrors a published book rather than legal filings, and the one procedural move that would make or break his case: whether former defense attorney Anne Taylor admits under oath that she failed her client. The families were promised no more appeals. Prosecutor Bill Thompson put that in writing. That promise was never his to make.LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EthanChapin #GuiltyPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #JenniferCoffindaffer #KohbergerCase

Six months of investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance and the sheriff can't accurately describe the only conviction connected to the case. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI with twenty-eight years in the bureau, walks through the disconnect between what Sheriff Nanos stated publicly about Derrick Callella's sentence and what the plea agreement actually says. The conversation covers the zero-contact relationship between the FBI director and the county sheriff, Savannah Guthrie's new public plea and the shift in her language, and a home invasion thirty miles from Nancy's house that matches the profile of the porch intruder — which Nanos says has no connection. Six months, a million-dollar reward, and the only person convicted got probation for sending texts.LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PimaCounty #SheriffNanos #Tucson #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #MissingPerson

The Lindsay Clancy trial, the Nolan Wells death investigation, and the d4vd preliminary hearing have each produced more questions than answers this week — and the audience has not been quiet about it.Clancy: a father defending the woman who killed his children, an overmedication defense challenged by bottles still full of pills, and a 911 call nobody who heard it will forget. Wells: contradicting stories, a sealed autopsy, a missing throat, a midnight call, and a governor blaming the family's advocates. D4vd: a record deal worth millions, bodycam footage of a lie, a trail of receipts, and a fourteen-year-old whose parents allegedly signed a form letting her travel overseas with an adult.Thirty questions. Three cases. Tony answers them all.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#LindsayClancy #NolanWells #D4vd #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #HornIsland #ListenerQA #TrueCrimeToday #PatrickClancy

The Interscope deal was worth up to nineteen million. He had already banked more than ten. Prosecutors told the court that a fourteen-year-old girl was threatening to expose their alleged relationship and destroy everything. Five days of hearing testimony put the receipts in front of a judge — the chainsaws, the inflatable pool, the air fresheners, the Uber, the texts — and the judge said the state met its burden on every count.D4vd will stand trial for first-degree murder with special circumstances, meaning the death penalty is on the table. The defense challenged evidence handling at every turn but could not stop the bind-over.Tony answers the ten questions the audience sent this week — about the money, the bodycam, the parents, the platforms, and what happens when a system gives an adult access to a child and nobody stops it. Straight answers, no filter.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#D4vd #CelesteRivas #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #LosAngeles #Interscope #MurderCase #JusticeForCeleste #ListenerQA #TrueCrimeToday

The boat came back to the mainland that afternoon. Nolan Wells was not on it. His friends had his phone. They had his keys. Hours passed before anyone called his mother. By the time Christine Wonsley reported him missing at midnight, the island was dark, the water was empty, and the only people who knew where her son was supposed to be were the friends who left without him.The girl they say he stayed behind to talk to has now been identified. Her family's version of events does not match theirs. The state autopsy is sealed. The independent autopsy came back undetermined with parts of his throat missing from the body.Ten audience questions. Tony answers every one — the contradictions, the hours nobody can account for, the sealed evidence, the threats, and the question underneath all of it that nobody in Mississippi seems willing to answer.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #Mississippi #BenCrump #GrandJury #DeathInvestigation #ListenerQA #TrueCrimeToday

The Lindsay Clancy trial is three days deep and every piece of testimony has landed differently than anyone expected. Patrick Clancy — the father of those three children — sat in the witness box, described a woman lost inside thirteen medications, and told the jury he never saw her harm the kids. He asked the public to forgive her. He filed his own lawsuit against her doctors.Then the prosecution showed nine prescription bottles. Still containing pills. That single piece of evidence may be the thing that reframes the entire defense. If she was overmedicated, why were the bottles full? If she was not taking the pills, what was causing the spiral?Tony answers the ten questions you asked this week — covering the testimony, the medications, the 911 call, the jury's visit to the Duxbury house, and whether this trial should have happened at all. Your questions. Straight answers.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #MurderTrial #Duxbury #ListenerQA #TrueCrimeToday

The preliminary hearing for David Anthony Burke, the musician performing as d4vd, has turned into a fight over what actually happened to fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez in the final minutes of her life — and how far a defense team will go to reframe it. Attorney Blair Berk isn't disputing that Celeste died. She's disputing when her wounds happened, pressing the LA County medical examiner on whether the injuries could have occurred after she was already dead, then having a detective read text messages in which Celeste referenced hurting herself. It's a strategy built entirely around reasonable doubt, aimed squarely at a girl who has no way to respond to any of it. The backdrop makes it harder to watch. A notarized consent form let Celeste travel internationally with Burke. Her family reportedly knew about the relationship, attending concerts and even church together. Her father has since denied any contact ever happened, a denial that contradicts sworn detective testimony. Prosecutors, meanwhile, have built their own timeline: a twenty-one-minute gap between Celeste's Uber arrival and her phone going permanently silent. Three chainsaws recovered from Burke's home tested negative for blood and were never collected as evidence by LAPD. Burke's Interscope deal was worth as much as nineteen million dollars. Burke has been held to answer on first-degree murder with special circumstances and additional charges tied to illegal conduct with Celeste and unlawful mutilation of her remains. He faces the death penalty and has pleaded not guilty. Arraignment is set for August 31st, and the legal maneuvering is only getting sharper from here. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CelesteRivas #D4vd #TrueCrime #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #JusticeForCeleste #MurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice #DeathPenalty 

On the same day in July, three different FBI sources gave three different answers about the single most critical piece of evidence in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping — whether the ransom notes are even real. Tony Brueski goes live to walk through the contradiction: Reuters reporting all the notes are fake, the Phoenix field office saying some may be legitimate, and TMZ's sources ranking the original two as more credible than not. Same evidence, same day, three different stories from inside one investigation. It landed the same week Savannah Guthrie posted a video to her mother's abductor that dropped every demand she'd made for six months and replaced them with something that sounded like she already knows how this ends. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins the conversation with her ten-point challenge to investigators — why the enhanced photo of porch guy has never been released, why Nancy's face is on the billboards instead of a suspect's, and the one question nobody has answered yet. Former agent Steve Moore has already called the case cold on camera, predicting fresh eyes will eventually have to rotate in. Genetic genealogy testing on DNA recovered from inside the house began in February. Five months later, if results exist, nobody has shared them. This is a live conversation about what it means when the Bureau can't agree with itself, and a daughter's words move on without them. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NancyGuthrie #FBI #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #Tucson #PorchGuy #RansomNotes #PimaCounty #ColdCase 

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the Idaho student murders, avoided a death sentence because of it, and is now telling a judge the attorneys who negotiated that deal failed him. Tony Brueski is joined live by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, more than thirty years across private practice, crisis teams, and forensic work, to unpack the handwritten petition Kohberger filed from his cell on July 27, 2026. He names his own defense team as ineffective. He claims he was pushed into a false confession and misled about what a life sentence would actually look like day to day. The two of them dig into the language he chose — writing that his innocence is his truth rather than simply claiming innocence — and what a year of isolation with no trial and no appeals to occupy his mind might do to a person's account of his own case. They cover his silence when the judge gave him the floor at sentencing, the moment he walked past his mother without turning his head, and the fact that a reporter heard about this petition before his own family did. This is a live conversation, which means real reactions, audience questions, and a psychotherapist working through what she's hearing in real time rather than a scripted breakdown. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin's families are watching this play out with no say in any of it. Join the conversation as it happens. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillersLive #KohbergerCase #MoscowIdaho #TrueCrime #LiveTrueCrime #IdahoMurders #KohbergerPetition #TrueCrimePodcast 

Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She doesn't deny what happened. This trial is entirely about whether she was criminally responsible when it did. Tony Brueski is joined live by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, more than thirty years across private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, to unpack the opening days of testimony — starting with prosecutors putting Patrick Clancy on the stand and walking him through a bag of nine pill bottles, count by count, asking what was missing. Scott and Brueski get into what the defense calls thirteen prescriptions from multiple prescribers in four months that nobody was tracking, why an afternoon of a patient looking fine doesn't rule out a psychotic illness, and what happens when an antidepressant is handed to someone with an undiagnosed bipolar condition. They cover where Massachusetts actually sends someone found not criminally responsible, which isn't out the front door, and why roughly two dozen countries have a law written for exactly this situation and the United States doesn't. This is a live conversation, so expect real reactions and audience questions alongside the clinical breakdown. For help with postpartum mood disorders, contact Postpartum Support International at postpartum.net or call or text 800-944-4773. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillersLive #ClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #DuxburyMassachusetts #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast 

Why two of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's fingers were missing is a question prosecutors answered in a court brief most people covering this case have skipped past. Tonight we don't skip past it. Start with the timeline. At 12:04 in the morning, from a desolate road off Highway 154, David Burke's phone called Celeste's number, hours after prosecutors say she was already dead. An LAPD criminalist described spraying Bluestar across the garage, getting strong reactions on rubber mats, the bricks underneath, a rowing machine, a tarp, a cord, and a bag of wipes. All presumptive positive. Blair Berk, for the defense, got that same criminalist to admit under cross-examination that none of it can be called definitively blood, and pointed to two chainsaws that were never swabbed for touch DNA at all. Then the hearing's final and heaviest session. A medical examiner testified Celeste died of two sharp-force wounds and had been dead for weeks before she was found. A detective walked the court through her phone, messages tracing to when she was eleven, close to fifty images investigators labeled illegal material involving a minor, and texts from January 2024 indicating she was thirteen and pregnant. Her mother cried in the courtroom gallery. Her father stared at the floor. Burke has pleaded not guilty. A judge decides soon whether this case reaches a jury, and tonight we walk through everything the state has put on the record so far. None of it is settled tonight. A judge still has to decide if it goes further. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #BlairBerk #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrime #LAPD #JusticeForCeleste #CourtTV 

Bryan Kohberger sank his own case with one line, and he said it under oath more than a year before he tried to take it all back. Tonight we go through exactly how that happened. He stood in an Idaho courtroom and pleaded guilty four times to the University of Idaho student murders. Thirteen months later, representing himself, he filed a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief in Ada County, telling the New York Times his actual innocence is his truth. Before it ever reached a judge, he called a reporter from a prison phone, and what he said in that call put the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in a position they'd been promised, in writing, could never happen. His petition claims his defense team withheld evidence and painted a distorted picture of what death row and a life sentence would look like, and that threats and false promises produced the original confession. He's also said he'd welcome the death penalty being sought again at a new trial. But the line that matters most came the day he pleaded. When the judge asked him directly, under oath, whether he was pleading guilty because he was guilty, he said yes. The Goncalves family responded within hours, taking the petition apart point by point. There was never a trial, never a cross-examination, and no motive was ever entered on the record. We walk through what he filed and why it may not hold up. None of it gets resolved tonight. It goes to a judge in Ada County from here. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #ActualInnocence #AdaCountyCourt #TrueCrime 

There's a video that exists before any of this happened, where d4vd plays a character dragging a body into a car. Prosecutors are now alleging he did the real version of that scene to a fourteen-year-old, and tonight we sit with what that overlap actually means. David Burke's story starts small. Homeschooled, recording in his sister's closet, building an audience in Fortnite lobbies. Prosecutors say that's where he met Celeste Rivas Hernandez, both of them still teenagers, and the connection continued for years without anyone in either of their lives stepping in. At seventeen, newly signed to Darkroom and Interscope, Burke introduced an alter ego, Itami, the Japanese word for pain, an agent of chaos wearing a blindfold, built from a manga concept about a detective whose double commits the murders he investigates. He put that character on camera holding a knife, taking a woman's arm. Then the physical evidence entered the record. Investigators matched cuts on an inflatable pool in Burke's garage to fragments found on Celeste's leggings. DNA connected the Tesla and the home directly to her. A criminalist testified about real blood scrubbed from the garage near shelves of fake blood used for props. Cell tower data placed the Tesla in Santa Barbara County three times in the weeks after she allegedly died. She was fourteen when she went to his home on April 23, 2025, and was never heard from again. Her remains surfaced in his Tesla months later, the day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. Burke has pleaded not guilty. Tonight we trace the character, the industry around him, and the forensic case now in front of a judge. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #Itami #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrime #LACounty #JusticeForCeleste #MusicIndustry