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Whatever this jury decides, Lindsay Clancy is not walking out of that courthouse a free woman — and True Crime Today brought in defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to explain exactly where she goes instead. Verdict one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. That doesn't mean release in Massachusetts. It means up to forty days of court-ordered observation, followed by a civil commitment petition that carries no statutory expiration. Faddis draws the comparison to Andrea Yates, found not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas in 2006 for drowning her five children — she's still committed two decades later and has never accepted the release hearing offered to her every year. Verdict two: first-degree murder, which in Massachusetts comes with an automatic sentence of life without parole and an automatic appeal to the state's highest court. Faddis walks through what that appeal actually reviews, why the psychiatric evidence doesn't disappear just because the jury rejected it, and the lesser verdict — second-degree murder — that most people following this case don't realize is even on the table. Underneath both paths is the same physical reality: Clancy has been paralyzed from the waist down and on suicide watch since January 2023, held at Tewksbury Hospital since that May under court order. One verdict keeps her in a hospital bed. The other moves her into a prison system Faddis says isn't equipped for what her care requires. Faddis lays out both roads in full — what triggers each one, how long they can last, and what almost never happens after either: her going home. 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 Legal 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: #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates 

For fifteen years, the government held a recording of Duane "Keffe D" Davis explaining his role in the death of Tupac Shakur, and no charge followed. The Tupac trial in Las Vegas just showed the jury why that changed.The 2008 interview ran under a proffer agreement, which Davis later called the deal of a lifetime, and it legally blocked prosecutors from building a case out of what he said in the room. On the recording, detectives tell him directly that his statements cannot be used against him. Jurors heard those assurances played back in open court.They also heard what Davis did with the protection. He described the white Cadillac, the hunt that followed his nephew's beating at the MGM Grand, the gun moving from his hand toward the back seat, and Orlando Anderson allegedly firing the shots that killed Shakur at 25. It contradicted what he told the FBI years earlier, when he denied involvement and steered investigators toward New York.Then the material stopped being secret. A detective from the interview published details in a 2011 book. Davis appeared in a BET documentary in 2018, released a memoir in February 2019, and gave paid interviews repeating the account. Prosecutors argue those public statements nullified the confidentiality, and a grand jury indicted him in September 2023. Davis pleaded not guilty, his lawyer calls the narrative fiction, and the judge admitted the tape while noting concerns about the legality of the proffer statements.True Crime Today follows the trial down to the question underneath it: whether a man everyone agrees is unreliable told the truth exactly once.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#TupacShakur #KeffeD #TrueCrimeToday #DuaneDavis #TupacMurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeNews #TrialUpdate #LasVegas #2Pac

Luigi Mangione confessed to murder and was convicted of stalking. Lindsay Clancy had four providers who never spoke to each other. Alex Murdaugh's prosecutor found out about his own evidence from the defense table.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to cover all three cases.Mangione told a federal judge on August 14 that he shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He posed as a financial manager overseeing billions to get the conference location. The federal murder charge had already been dismissed. His lawyers filed a double jeopardy motion to kill the state murder case within hours. He is twenty-eight and faces sentencing in December with prosecutors seeking life.The Clancy trial at Plymouth Superior Court is three weeks into testimony. Clancy's nurse practitioner had no idea she had seen her psychiatrist fourteen times. She searched "hallucinations" on her phone five days before the killings. Peer-reviewed literature documents a four percent infanticide rate for postpartum psychosis. She broke her spine in a suicide attempt and is permanently paralyzed.At Murdaugh's Lexington County hearing, Judge Debra McCaslin ordered independent DNA testing on Maggie Murdaugh's fingernail evidence and moved the retrial out of the Colleton County circuit. The defense raised a potential connection between Allendale County murder weapons and the Murdaugh case. Creighton Waters, who speaks with SLED daily, said he had never heard of it.Coffindaffer covers what an investigator sees in all three cases and where each one goes from here.Lindsay Clancy and Alex Murdaugh have pleaded not guilty. All individuals are presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LuigiMangione #AlexMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DoubleJeopardy #SLED #CriminalJustice

Luigi Mangione confessed in federal court on August 14 to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. He pleaded guilty to two counts of interstate stalking resulting in death. The federal murder charge had already been dismissed. No deal was offered.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to analyze the plea and the defense strategy surrounding it.Mangione outlined his planning for the court. He emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to manage a fund worth more than fifty billion dollars. The company sent back the conference location within an hour. He traveled to New York, positioned himself outside the venue, and shot Thompson from behind as the CEO walked toward the event.His attorneys filed to dismiss the New York state murder charges on double jeopardy grounds the same day. State jury selection had been set for September 8. The defense asked for the federal hearing three days prior.Mangione's sentencing date is December 18. The court cited guidelines of twenty-four to thirty years, though prosecutors have publicly announced they want life. He is twenty-eight, putting even the low end of the range past his fiftieth birthday.Since his arrest, Mangione has beaten terrorism charges when a judge ruled the evidence insufficient and avoided a federal murder conviction entirely. Coffindaffer examines what this trajectory tells an investigator, whether the double jeopardy motion has legal merit, and whether a system that started with a death-penalty-eligible case and ended with a stalking conviction has been outplayed.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#LuigiMangione #BrianThompson #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #GuiltyPlea #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime #UnitedHealthcare #FederalCourt #CriminalJustice

The lead prosecutor in the Alex Murdaugh murder case found out about potential evidence linked to the murder weapons from the defense — in open court. Creighton Waters told the judge on August 14 that he had never heard of the development. He said he communicates with SLED daily.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to go through the Lexington County pretrial hearing and what it means for the retrial scheduled for April 2027.Judge Debra McCaslin granted the defense access to fingernail DNA collected from Maggie Murdaugh. SLED's standard method had confirmed unknown male DNA but failed to identify it. The defense had fought to prevent SLED from retesting the sample internally, arguing the process would consume the only material available for independent analysis. McCaslin ruled an outside lab would get access.The retrial has been relocated out of the Colleton County circuit. The first trial was held where the Murdaugh family name carried decades of institutional power. McCaslin is personally overseeing jury selection after the first conviction was thrown out due to jury tampering.The prosecution can play Murdaugh's sworn testimony from 2023, including his admission he lied about being at the kennels. It lost roughly twelve and a half hours of financial crimes evidence the Supreme Court excluded. The defense has separately raised allegations that SLED's case agent provided false testimony about a bloody T-shirt and that the lab halted testing when results did not match.Coffindaffer covers what the hearing reveals about SLED's case management and whether the prosecution is stronger or weaker heading into the second trial.Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice

Lindsay Clancy saw her psychiatrist fourteen times in four months. Her nurse practitioner, who was also prescribing her medications, had no knowledge of those visits. When Clancy checked herself into a locked psychiatric unit, neither outpatient provider was notified.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to cover what these provider coordination failures mean in a case where three children — Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months — are dead.The trial at Plymouth Superior Court is in its third week. Testimony has shown Clancy searched "hallucinations" on her phone five days before January 24, 2023. She messaged providers that she felt completely hopeless and was experiencing unfamiliar intrusive thoughts. A postpartum treatment program she reached out to declined to accept her because of the number of medications she was already taking.Peer-reviewed literature documents postpartum psychosis as a rare condition — roughly one in every thousand births — with a four percent infanticide rate. Clancy's defense argues she was in the grip of that condition. The prosecution argues she was deliberate.Clancy attempted to end her own life immediately after. She jumped from a window and shattered her spine. She is permanently paralyzed. Coffindaffer covers what a jury does with evidence of a suicide attempt that severe, what it means that the system she was begging for help had no internal communication, and how an investigator reads the gap between a mother who planned a killing and a mother who could not stop one.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty. She is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #MentalHealth #CriminalJustice

True Crime Today digs into the Lindsay Clancy civil lawsuit and the reason her ex-husband is suing her providers instead of her. According to the complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court, the people treating Lindsay's postpartum mental illness misprescribed a bevy of powerful medications and stacked new drugs onto old ones without any connecting plan. The civil filings count nine psychiatric medications in her final months, eight of them inside a single three-week stretch, while her criminal defense team counts 13. The suits say Lindsay repeatedly told her providers the medications were causing her worsening symptoms. She went to emergency rooms, called crisis lines, and admitted herself to hospitals. The basic lab work that would have shown how her body was processing the drugs was never done, the filings claim. Lindsay's own separate malpractice suit goes further, naming 11 defendants including McLean Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital. It describes a program staffed by a skeleton crew over a holiday, and it discloses a bipolar diagnosis made after the killings by a Columbia University psychiatrist. Tony breaks down both filings, the difference between what a civil jury and a criminal jury must find, and the collision coming when one verdict arrives before the other. The providers' employers have responded with statements, not specifics, and nothing in either lawsuit has been proven. Lindsay Clancy is presumed innocent in her criminal case, where prosecutors allege the killings were planned and her illness has been overstated. The reason Patrick Clancy went to civil court is written across every page of his complaint, and it points at the same system his ex-wife's defense is blaming at trial. Read the trial through the lawsuit and the whole picture sharpens.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 #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #ClancyLawsuit #WrongfulDeath #MassachusettsNews #TrialCoverage #CrimePodcast #CourtCase

After Anna Kepner died on a Carnival cruise ship, her stepmother made a decision that says everything. She sent her son, Timothy Hudson, to live with a relative, and per People magazine's reporting, the stated purpose was removing any risk of danger to the other children in the home. Read that timing carefully. The household measured a teenager as a possible threat to kids and acted on it, once the one who allegedly warned everyone was already gone.Hudson, sixteen, was indicted as an adult in Anna's death and pleaded not guilty. He's presumed innocent, and a September trial will decide his case. What the trial can't decide is the question this True Crime Today episode puts on the table: what do we owe the adults who were allegedly told, in detail, and chose comfort over action?The newest court filings sharpen it. Federal prosecutors have delivered Anna's complete Snapchat extraction, FBI investigative reports, and grand jury materials to the defense, sealed under a protective order, meaning the last words this eighteen-year-old ever typed are working evidence in her accused killer's file. Meanwhile the custody fight between Hudson's parents has spilled texts into the record, including a 32-hour delay before his father even learned Anna was dead.Stack the alleged pre-cruise warnings against the government's claim that this happened without any warning, add a judge's detention order invoking psychopathy, and one conclusion becomes hard to escape. Somebody could see it. The episode makes the case that pretending otherwise should start carrying a price, and Anna Kepner's story is where that argument begins.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.#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #TrueCrimeToday #CarnivalCruise #CruiseShip #JusticeForAnna #TrueCrimeCommunity #FBI #CrimeNews #DailyTrueCrime

What do the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have in common? In every one of them, the referee is also playing the game. That's the spine of this True Crime Today triple with Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, a career federal investigator grading the investigations everyone else takes on faith.In Tucson, the sheriff's office running the Guthrie case accidentally published the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address. Coffindaffer's trace of that wallet shows no ransom was ever paid, just a single three-hundred-dollar FBI deposit sitting untouched. Direct messages to the wallet went unanswered for six months. Sheriff Nanos marked the half-year point by calling the FBI relationship great and admitting thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed.In South Carolina, SLED investigated Becky Hill — the clerk whose verdict SLED's biggest conviction depended on. Her guilty plea skipped the jury tampering entirely, she served no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. Now Murdaugh's defense demands SLED search its own files and certify in writing that nothing favorable stays buried. The demand lands on a lead investigator already tied to a separate case dismissed over undisclosed evidence, and a shirt that tested negative for human blood before the lab's own chemical made retesting impossible.In Massachusetts, the Lindsay Clancy trial narrowed to one question when the defense stipulated to the forensics: was her mind her own the night Cora, Dawson, and Callan died? Coffindaffer calls which of the state's mind-reading evidence will land with the jury and which is already backfiring.Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Three cases, one standard. Coffindaffer applies it without flinching.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

A defense attorney refused a sidebar at the Lindsay Clancy trial and accused prosecutors, in open court, of getting caught on a hot mic. What Kevin Reddington says they said, and what the district attorney's office says was actually whispered, opens Day 9 of the most closely watched murder trial in Massachusetts. True Crime Today takes you inside the whole day. The accusation traces to testimony about the autopsy of eight-month-old Callan, when Lindsay Clancy sobbed and was wheeled out as a whisper hit the livestream microphone. The DA's office reviewed the video and says the words were about a courtroom monitor, not the defendant. Judge William Sullivan answered with a blunt warning: microphones are everywhere, and anyone caught commenting is out. Then the day got heavier. Two psychiatrists who treated Clancy before January 24, 2023 testified for the prosecution, and one of them described the day before her children died in exactly two words. The other admitted on cross that she has never treated the illness Clancy's defense is built on. Jurors also heard from the woman who ran the club playroom where Cora and Dawson waited for their mother, and from a friend who asked Lindsay how she was doing at a bonfire two days before the deaths. She answered that she was good. Tony connects the chaos to the substance, and what the fight over three whispered words has to do with the two words that matter most in this courtroom. Cross-examination resumes August 10, and the witness coming back is the doctor who saw her last.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCourt #DuxburyMassachusetts #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeSystem

Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy trial say the evidence shows planning: a quiet house, a window of time, a sequence carried out start to finish. Their opening called it intentional, rational, and swift. The defense says a disease had already taken her mind before any of it began. On this True Crime Today conversation, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer take on the idea that trips up almost everyone who follows this case. A mind can be organized enough to plan something and still be broken. Why is that so hard to accept?Coffindaffer has spent a career around cases where the act was methodical and the actor was profoundly ill — the two are not opposites, no matter how much a jury wants them to be. She walks through how psychosis and planning coexist, why organized behavior feels like proof of sanity to twelve ordinary people, and how each side in this trial is using that instinct.Week two handed both sides new material. The defense stipulated to the forensic evidence on August 4. Clancy's lawyers don't dispute she caused the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, so the trial is purely about criminal responsibility. The state countered with structure: a toxicologist on the medication levels in her blood, a psychiatrist describing her as calm and organized six days after the deaths, diary pages prosecutors say show a woman tracking her own intact mind. The defense's answer never changes: postpartum psychosis swings hour to hour, and none of those snapshots is the night of January 24.Coffindaffer calls which of the state's moves will land with this jury and which are already backfiring.Lindsay Clancy is presumed innocent of murder. Her children are the reason this question deserves an honest answer.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

In 2025, a judge threw out the murder indictment against a man named Michael Colucci after finding that evidence which could have helped him was never properly disclosed. That case is connected to David Owen — the same investigator who ran the Alex Murdaugh murder investigation. Sit with that overlap for a second, because Alex Murdaugh's defense team clearly has. Their new motion demands prosecutors go back through every file SLED touched and certify in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh is still sitting in a drawer.On this True Crime Today conversation, Tony Brueski puts the uncomfortable question to retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer: if it happened in the Colucci case, who's checking whether it happened here, besides SLED itself? Coffindaffer spent her career inside federal investigations. She knows what a real evidence audit looks like and what agencies do when one is forced on them. She also knows the difference between a defense attorney who's fishing and one who already knows something is missing.The Owen question is one thread in a week that moved this case twice. A federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against Becky Hill, the former clerk whose jury interference forced the retrial, ruling she owes him nothing because he'd have paid his lawyers regardless. Hill's guilty plea covered a book photo, self-paid bonuses, and lying about sealed exhibits. No prison. Nothing for the tampering. Coffindaffer also works through the fired agent whose testimony cleared Eddie Smith, and the white shirt that tested negative for human blood before a lab chemical made it untestable forever.Murdaugh is presumed innocent, and his April retrial will settle what a jury believes. This episode settles something else: whether the file that jury gets handed can be trusted.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

Jennifer Coffindaffer thinks two different people wrote the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes. On this True Crime Today conversation with Tony Brueski, the retired FBI Special Agent makes the case note by note. The first reads like a script: deadlines, threats, she will be killed. The second reads like a person who stood inside that Tucson house and lost their nerve — we never intended to hurt her. One voice organized. One voice sorry. If Coffindaffer is right, the question becomes the man behind the second note: who is he, who hired him, and who is he apologizing to?There's a colder read on that second note too. Its language about not grasping the seriousness of her physical condition sounds less like remorse and more like a document written for a future jury, in a state that does not hesitate on the death penalty. An apology, or an insurance policy. Coffindaffer takes a side.The notes aren't the only fresh ground. Coffindaffer traced the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet after the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally published the address in a media release. Her trace shows no ransom was ever paid. The only deposit was roughly three hundred dollars from the FBI in February, untouched since. Messages written directly to the wallet, including the family's own on-camera words about paying, were never answered. A four-million-dollar demand met with total silence.And six months in, Sheriff Nanos describes the FBI relationship as great while conceding thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed. Coffindaffer, who spent her career inside federal investigations, tells Tony exactly what she makes of that math. Nancy Guthrie deserves better than a case explained by accident. This is the conversation that treats the evidence like it matters.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

Did the prosecution's own witness list start working for Lindsay Clancy? Legal analysts were debating exactly that after Day 8 of her murder trial, and True Crime Today digs into it on this episode.On August 6, the Commonwealth called her friends, her coworkers, and her father-in-law. They testified about insomnia that would not break, about brain fog, about a woman who said she felt like a zombie and texted a friend about dark thoughts on her medications. They also testified she never complained about her husband, never spoke of hurting anyone, and always wanted a house full of kids. The State put all of it in front of the jury on purpose, because those same witnesses saw her keeping appointments, making conversation, and showing no outward sign of a break.The bookends of the day were heavier still. It opened with the medical examiner who performed 8-month-old Callan's autopsy. It closed with the case detective whose review of Lindsay's accounts produced one Facebook post from May 2021, and who agreed under cross-examination that the hunt for abuse evidence found nothing.Tony Brueski walks through what each side actually gained, why the criminal responsibility question got harder on August 6, and what the fight over three defense doctors means for the weeks ahead. Whether you believe Lindsay Clancy belongs in a prison or a hospital, this was the day that sharpened the argument, and this episode gives you everything you need to pick a side.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #Duxbury #Massachusetts #CrimeNews #CourtTrial

The Bryan Kohberger guilty plea is on the table again, and the question underneath it is not legal. It is whether a person can say the word guilty out loud, four separate times, and then genuinely stop believing it.He pleaded guilty in July 2025 to the murders of four University of Idaho students and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. He waived his right to appeal. A year later he filed a petition for post-conviction relief and told the New York Times that his actual innocence is his truth.Tony Brueski talks it through with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, whose background covers private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs.What they get into: how a plea colloquy works on the person giving it, with a judge asking directly whether the answer is honest. What twelve months of enforced silence does to somebody's account of their own life. Why he reached for the specific words he reached for. And what a man in his position gets out of writing about himself the way he did.The filing itself is his allegation against his own attorneys and nothing more than that at this stage. But one strand of it lands regardless of what a court does with it, because it amounts to a claim that he was misled about what a life sentence would feel like.The Goncalves family answered that in public. They said he hates that life, and he wants another chance to roll the dice.Scott also takes on whether an account of yourself survives twelve months of that kind of isolation intact. Her answer is that it does not. It either hardens into something rigid and defended, or it mutates into something the person has come to genuinely believe. Neither of those looks like lying in the ordinary sense of the word.True Crime Today brings you the conversations behind the headlines. Follow for the next one.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 #TrueCrimeToday #Kohberger #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimePodcast

Neither of these cases will ever answer the question that matters most to the families in them.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI Special Agent with twenty-one years reading behavior under pressure, cover the Lindsay Clancy trial openings and Bryan Kohberger's petition to withdraw his guilty plea.On Clancy, this works through Patrick Clancy's testimony about the last ordinary day, including the photos traded that morning and his line that she was having one of her best days. It also covers the hospital stay, and the discharge he testified he never knew she had asked for. Cora, Dawson and Callan died in January 2023. Criminal responsibility is the only live question, and the Commonwealth owns that burden.On Kohberger, this covers the handwritten petition filed in Ada County District Court, his claim of actual innocence, and his assertion that he was convinced to falsely confess. It also covers the letter Latah County prosecutors sent the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, promising the plea would spare them decades of post-conviction appeals. There was never a trial and there has never been a motive on the record.In Plymouth, a chain of licensed professionals made every call and faces nothing. In Boise, an office traded away a trial and guaranteed an ending it could not deliver. One family will never hear why. The other is watching a man they were told was finished file paperwork to start it all again.The Clancy trial has weeks to run and the Kohberger petition is still pending, so neither of these ends here. Subscribe to True Crime Today for the next development in each case.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 (10)#LindsayClancy #BryanKohberger #TrueCrimeToday #ClancyTrial #IdahoStudentMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #ActualInnocence #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #PostConvictionRelief

Bryan Kohberger is not blaming the evidence. He is blaming the people who told him to sign.In a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief filed in Ada County District Court, Kohberger claims he received ineffective assistance from his defense team. He says evidence in his favor was never disclosed or reviewed. He says he was convinced to confess to something he did not do. He is representing himself. He told the New York Times his actual innocence is his truth.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through who exactly is being accused here and what that accusation costs.Anne Taylor represented Kohberger at the time of the plea. Her office has declined to comment. She is being blamed in the national press by a former client while her own ethics rules keep her from answering a word of it. That happens to defense lawyers every time a client turns, and almost nobody covers it.The breakdown also covers the rest of the filing. He claims he was given a distorted account of what a life sentence and death row in Idaho would look like. And he says he would welcome prosecutors seeking the death penalty against him again, which is the outcome the plea deal existed to prevent.The four students killed in Moscow in November 2022 were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. There was never a trial, never a cross-examination, and no motive was ever required of him. Everything the public knows about that night comes from investigators, and Kohberger now calls their account a work of fiction.True Crime Today follows this case through every filing and hearing with the analysis that explains what each one means. Subscribe for coverage of the ruling on this petition and whatever he files next.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 (10)#BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #TrueCrimeToday #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #ActualInnocence #TrueCrime #AdaCountyCourt

Someone approved Lindsay Clancy's discharge. That decision has not been on trial, and it may never be.She entered Massachusetts General on New Year's Eve 2022 after telling her husband she was having intrusive thoughts about hurting their children, and was transferred to McLean early on January 1. On January 5, after asking to go home, she was released with an appointment scheduled for the following day.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through what that release was built on.Patrick Clancy testified he did not know his wife had asked to leave. He said he was unaware she had been offered daily one-on-one therapy and unaware she had turned down additional group sessions. He said that from what he saw and heard, it did not seem like she was being treated, with a weekend and an observed holiday delaying her first doctor visit.She reported to providers that the thoughts had passed. Her daughter's fifth birthday party was two days after she got home. Cora died seventeen days after the party.Dreeke spent a career deciding whether people were being honest about their own state of mind. He explains what a clinician can actually confirm, and what every hospital is left guessing at.Cora had just turned five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Nobody disputes how they died. The only question for this jury is what their mother understood at the time, and the Commonwealth has to prove it.Subscribe to True Crime Today for coverage of the expert testimony ahead in 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 (10)#LindsayClancy #McLeanHospital #TrueCrimeToday #ClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PsychiatricCare

Before any of it, there was a snowman.Patrick Clancy testified that on the afternoon of January 24, 2023, his wife built one in the yard with their three children and then did art projects with them inside. That morning she had taken five-year-old Cora to a doctor's appointment while he stayed home with the boys, and the two of them had traded photos by text. Three-year-old Dawson had dressed himself for the first time.He told the jury she was having one of her best days.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through what that afternoon is worth to each side.The Commonwealth wants it as proof of a clear mind. Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham told jurors this was not a woman in the throes of psychosis. The defense needs those same hours to point somewhere else.The episode also covers what prosecutors say happened after the art projects. A drive plotted from the house to a restaurant nobody in the family had tried, then on to a pharmacy. A shopping list with dinner on it and children's medicine under it. An errand that emptied the house.Dreeke takes on the behavioral question directly. What does a genuinely good day tell you about the mind having it, and what does it fail to tell you?Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Their mother has pleaded not guilty and does not dispute causing their deaths, which leaves a jury of twelve women and six men to decide what she understood while it happened.The trial is expected to run six to eight weeks.Subscribe to True Crime Today for coverage of the expert testimony ahead.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 (10)#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #TrueCrimeToday #ClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #DuxburyMassachusetts #CriminalResponsibility

Joseph Duggar's arrest in Bay County, Florida isn't just a new headline for the Duggar family, it's a hinge point that connects a 2015 television confession, a 2003 cover-up, and a completely separate child endangerment case eight hundred miles away in Ohio. Tony Brueski starts with the tape: Joseph Duggar, on camera in December of 2015, describing his brother Josh's secret life and calling it heartbreaking. Then the 2026 affidavit alleging Joseph Duggar asked a nine-year-old girl to sit on his lap on a family trip to Panama City Beach. He's pleaded not guilty and posted a six hundred thousand dollar bond. In between sits 2003, when Jim Bob Duggar took his oldest son to a family friend with a badge instead of the police, a decision that kept the case out of court, made under a family doctrine that treated going outside the chain of command as the real danger. It also matters, a great deal, who that man with the badge turned out to be. This episode also lays the Duggar family's newest legal trouble next to the Siders family of Hamden, Ohio, where sixteen children were removed from a home in June of 2026 and four adults now face sixteen counts each of endangering children. Joseph and Kendra Duggar face a nearly identical set of charges out of Arkansas involving their own four kids. Different last names, same blueprint: children kept off the books, out of classrooms, and away from anyone who might have asked questions. The difference shows up the moment the cameras leave. One family posted bond and went home. The other's patriarch got out of jail because his county couldn't afford to keep him. True Crime Today breaks down what's public, what's alleged, and what still doesn't add up. 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 #DuggarFamily #JosephDuggar #TrueCrimeToday #JoshDuggar #SidersFamily #KendraDuggar #JimBobDuggar #19KidsAndCounting #TrueCrime #ChildEndangerment 

Two conspiracy theories have trailed the University of Idaho murders since before Bryan Kohberger was ever arrested, and Tony Brueski tackles both in this combined look at the case for True Crime Today. The first theory ruined an innocent man's life before Kohberger was ever named a suspect in this case. The internet decided a grieving young man who'd just lost the woman he loved was responsible, largely because he called her phone repeatedly that morning, something with a completely innocent explanation once you know the full timeline. We break down why the roommates waiting hours to call 911 isn't the smoking gun people think, what their private writings do and don't show, the theory that they were spared for being involved, and why a judge called the internet's alternate suspects rank speculation. The second theory says Kohberger's DNA was planted on the knife sheath left behind at the scene. The lab that tested it says the amount recovered wasn't a faint trace, it was hundreds of times more genetic material than investigators typically find in a case like this one. We go through the unidentified blood inside the house, the mismatched DNA under a victim's fingernails, the hair people insist was staged, the claim that genetic genealogy was concealed from the court, and the Amazon order for that same knife. No clean motive isn't proof of innocence, and a guilty plea stacked on top of DNA, phone records, car evidence, and scanner data isn't how wrongful conviction cases usually look. We separate the real open questions from the ones the internet invented, and explain why a missing motive never actually pointed at the wrong man 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. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimeToday #KayleeGoncalves #TrueCrime #KnifeSheath #DNAEvidence #GuiltyPlea #TrueCrimePodcast #IdahoFour 

Every red flag in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case got logged by somebody, and not one of them connected the dots in time. Tony Brueski breaks down the full D4vd case for True Crime Today, starting with a welfare check that should have ended very differently. Celeste was reported missing from Lake Elsinore three times in early 2024. That led Riverside County deputies to musician David Burke's phone number, and LA County deputies to his West Hollywood front door. Burke showed them a yearbook photo and claimed he'd met her only once. Deputies told him plainly that she was thirteen and a runaway, then left without further action. Prosecutors allege what came next was deliberate. Burke is accused of paying one of Celeste's junior high classmates a thousand dollars to hand her a new phone so contact could continue uninterrupted. Over the following year, prosecutors say she traveled with him to Las Vegas, London, and Texas, met his family, got matching tattoos, and had his name on her ring finger, all while still in seventh grade. The case takes an even stranger turn when you look at Burke's own music. His breakout single, the album it's from, and the alter ego he built around both all echo the allegations prosecutors are now making about a Hollywood Hills home. Seven months passed between investigators finding Celeste's remains and Burke's arrest, a stretch that included three grand jury panels, a friend fleeing to Montana to avoid a subpoena, and Burke's family fighting the grand jury in a Texas courtroom. He now faces first-degree murder with special circumstances, including lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness. That financial gain allegation is the piece prosecutors say ties everything back to Burke's career. 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 #D4vd #DavidBurke #TrueCrimeToday #CelesteRivas #TrueCrime #WelfareCheck #SystemFailure #GrandJury #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForCeleste 

Nolan Wells' case keeps circling back to one object: the phone his mother opened after his death, looking for the last day of his life. What she found — or didn't — is the thread True Crime Today is pulling apart today, using the Nolan Wells timeline as it's actually been reported, not the version that went viral.The 18-year-old football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi traveled to Horn Island with friends over the holiday. His friends returned. He was found in the water two days later. From there, the accounts split. A young woman says Nolan told her he was heading back to the boat. His friends say he told them the opposite — that he was staying on the island with her. Someone's account doesn't hold up, and it hasn't been resolved.Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins to unpack what it means that the sheriff declared no foul play before the autopsy, toxicology, and digital evidence were finished — and why the district attorney agreeing to present this case to a grand jury signals more than any press statement did. Messages the family says were deleted from the phone are now with the FBI. A viral video once treated as proof turned out to be something else. And with roughly two hundred people on a remote island with no cameras or cell service, the entire evidence base depends on footage nobody's turned in yet.Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break down the contradictions, the phone, and what a real investigation still owes this family.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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #OceanSprings #MississippiCase #NolanWellsCase #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForNolan #WhatHappenedToNolan

That's the line the Vinton County sheriff used after his deputies walked into a five-room house on Ohmer Street in Hamden, Ohio, looking to serve a misdemeanor warrant and instead found sixteen children living inside. Some couldn't speak. Some couldn't read. None had ever been enrolled in a school.The Ohio Attorney General went further, calling the conditions "pure evil" and saying another day could have ended in deaths. Four adults are now charged with sixty-eight felony counts of child endangerment, with a grand jury still to come and more charges possible. The AG's choice of the word intrafamilial is the kind of detail that tells you the full picture isn't public yet.What's striking is how the system missed this for eighteen years straight. Sixteen children, all born in hospitals, arriving roughly once every thirteen months — and not a single medical professional ever flagged the pattern. Ohio's 2023 rollback of homeschool oversight meant no school system ever came looking either. And Elizabeth Siders, one of the four now facing charges, was married herself at fifteen, with a judge's sign-off, in a state with no minimum marriage age on the books.Tony breaks down the case for the True Crime Today audience: the warrant that accidentally exposed it, the institutions that had every opportunity to catch it sooner, and the uncomfortable question at the center of it — whether the state that approved Elizabeth Siders' marriage at fifteen bears some responsibility for what happened to her children two decades later.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.#SidersFamily #GarySiders #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #OhioHouseOfHorrors #VintonCounty #16KidsOhio #ChildEndangerment #ElizabethSiders #SystemFailure

One sheriff declared no foul play before the investigation started. One county had complaints in hand for five years and never found the children. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the Nolan Wells death investigation and the Siders sixteen-kids case together — because the question connecting both cases is the same: what happens when the system fails first and investigates second?On Nolan Wells: what the premature no-foul-play call did to the case trajectory, the contradictions between the friends' statements and the young woman's account, the allegedly deleted messages, the friend who appeared on national television during the active investigation, and the grand jury the DA agreed to for a death publicly called a drowning. On the Siders case: the gag order silencing officials who called it pure evil, the grandfather released because the county couldn't cover his medical costs, the truancy complaints from 2021 that were never served, and Elizabeth Siders — married off at fifteen, mother of all sixteen, facing sixteen felony counts while her own attorney argues she is a victim.Two cases. One conversation. Every failure examined by a former prosecutor. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#NolanWells #SidersFamily #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HornIsland #Ohio #Mississippi #ElizabethSiders #16Kids

A sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of an eighteen-year-old before the autopsy was finished, before toxicology existed, and before the FBI touched a single piece of digital evidence. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains exactly why that matters — and what it costs an investigation when the public call comes before the science.Nolan Wells went to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends. His body was found in the water two days later. The friends told investigators he chose to stay on the island to talk to a girl. The young woman reportedly told investigators something different. That contradiction has not been publicly reconciled, and a former prosecutor says the timeline on resolving it matters more than most people realize. Messages were allegedly deleted from Nolan's phone before the family recovered it. The FBI is examining the digital evidence now.Faddis addresses what the independent autopsy needs to show for the investigation to change direction, why the DA's commitment to a grand jury presentation may be the most significant signal in this case, and how an investigation built almost entirely on strangers' cell phone footage from a remote barrier island operates when the physical evidence barely exists. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen years old when she was married off in West Virginia. She became the biological mother of every child found in a twelve-by-twelve room in rural Ohio — sixteen kids, some of whom could not speak, living in conditions investigators compared to livestock. She now faces sixteen felony counts of child endangerment. Her own defense attorney has argued in filings that she is a victim of this family. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether the law supports holding both of those positions simultaneously.The case has taken several turns since the arrest. A gag order now covers every official who spoke publicly, filed by the defense after the AG used the phrase pure evil and the sheriff described conditions worse than the animals on the property. The seventy-three-year-old grandfather was released from custody because the county couldn't afford his medical bills, and his competency is being challenged. Faddis addresses whether this man's case ever makes it to trial.Faddis also examines the charge itself — whether child endangerment captures the scope of what happened — and the truancy complaints Gallia County filed in 2021 that were never served because the family couldn't be located. Sixteen children lived off the grid for nearly two decades, and the system that's supposed to prevent this had complaints in hand and couldn't find them. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

Before the autopsy was finalized, before the FBI finished examining the digital evidence, before the investigation reached any conclusion, one of Nolan Wells' friends went on Good Morning America and then sat down with Rolling Stone to publicly tell his story. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis asks the question that matters: does an innocent person do a national media tour during an active investigation, or does that tell you something about what they're trying to control?The friends have attorneys. The family has Ben Crump. The family is running its own parallel investigation with private forensics examiners and a commissioned autopsy. And one detail that Crump has highlighted shifts the entire frame: the friends didn't voluntarily disclose that they had Nolan's phone and keys after his death. The family tracked the phone with Life360 and recovered it themselves.Faddis walks through every decision being made by every person connected to this case — what the friends should be doing if they genuinely want the truth, what the family's shadow investigation helps and hurts, and what everyone should be preparing for if the investigation ends without charges and a civil lawsuit follows. The Lauren Agee case provides the roadmap. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

There is still no cause of death in the Nolan Wells case — and the accounts meant to explain his final hours on Horn Island keep colliding with each other. A week of public pressure has produced theories, celebrity statements, and outrage, but not the one thing everyone actually wants.The first place that gap showed up was his phone. Nolan recorded almost everything he did, so when his mother searched it for the last day he was alive, what she saw became the detail that made his family stop trusting the easy answer. That's the starting point, and it opens into the entire Nolan Wells timeline.He was a college football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the Fourth of July he went to Horn Island with high school friends. They came back. He didn't. His body surfaced two days later, and the coroner requested a full autopsy because the circumstances were uncertain. Then the record fractures: a young woman says Nolan told her he was returning to the boat, while his friends say he told them he was staying with her. A widely shared video circulates as proof of a confrontation — and a friend steps forward to say it isn't Nolan at all.We work through the contradictions honestly — the ones that fall apart under a closer look and the ones that stubbornly remain. We cover the "no foul play" statement issued before the autopsy, the family flying the body out of state for an independent exam, the public figures funding it, and the race questions officials tried to close prematurely.It all comes back to a single missing answer: how Nolan Wells died. This is the verified version — no theories, no invented drama, just the timeline, the open questions, and the failures. Subscribe to True Crime Today for the latest.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 #TrueCrimeToday #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #BenCrump #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Unsolved

Every part of the Nancy Guthrie case points two ways at once. The notes contradict each other. One round of reporting says the investigation is dead in the water; another says an arrest is almost here. Both cannot be true. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes the whole thing on in one conversation.She untangles the notes — a claim the 84-year-old is "buried with nature," a separate TMZ tipster saying "time is no longer of the essence," and a disputed apology. She examines Air Mail's reporting that agents fear an early mistake cost them the case, plus a ransom of millions the kidnapper never touched. And she pressure-tests Maureen O'Connell's claim to Megyn Kelly that investigators are 75 percent of the way to "porch guy."Why do two former agents land in opposite places the same week? And is the case stalled for good or about to crack? All claims are reported and unconfirmed; no one has been charged. A True Crime Today conversation.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:#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PorchGuy #FBI #RansomNote #Tucson #PimaCounty #JenniferCoffindaffer

The Nancy Guthrie case looked stuck — and then a retired FBI agent said it's nearly cracked. Maureen O'Connell told Megyn Kelly her sources indicate investigators are closing in on "porch guy," the masked man caught outside the 84-year-old's home the night she was taken, putting her confidence at 75 percent and promising the floodgates would open once he's named.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer tests whether the optimism is earned. She explains how much a confidence number means from outside the case, the real challenge of identifying a man who erased his own face on camera, and whether one arrest truly breaks a case wide open. She also examines the official reason for the slow pace — building a case to survive a top-tier defense.Is a breakthrough genuinely near, or is this hope without a foundation? And how does it sit against reporting that the case has gone cold? All claims are reported and unconfirmed; no one has been charged. A True Crime Today conversation.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:#NancyGuthrie #PorchGuy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #MegynKelly #Tucson #PimaCounty #SavannahGuthrie #JenniferCoffindaffer

There's a version of the Nancy Guthrie story where the hard truth is simple: nobody's close. According to Howard Blum's reporting in Air Mail, the investigators themselves fear an early mistake cost them the chance to solve the abduction of the 84-year-old from her Tucson home. Brian Entin's reporting agrees — the person responsible vanished as cleanly as she did, leaving a task force circling back to the same ransom notes.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer meets it head-on. She explains how to interpret agents conceding doubt, whether endlessly clearing suspects is progress or paralysis, and how a single error on a crypto payment can quietly derail everything. And she wrestles with the contradiction nobody's solved: a man who demanded a fortune and then never collected it.So was the money ever the motive? How do cases this cold usually resolve? And does public silence mean the bureau has nothing — or that it's holding more than it's saying? All claims are reported and unconfirmed; no one has been charged. A True Crime Today conversation.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:#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #PimaCounty #MissingPerson #Tucson #Bitcoin #JenniferCoffindaffer

The notes in the Nancy Guthrie case were supposed to bring answers. Instead they brought a contradiction nobody can resolve. One reportedly came from the man who took the 84-year-old from her Arizona home and claims she's "buried with nature." Another, from a completely different sender, told TMZ "time is no longer of the essence." And the single most dramatic claim — that the kidnapper apologized for her death — is something one outlet reported and TMZ's founder flatly denies.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes the whole mess apart. She walks through how the bureau tries to authenticate anonymous messages, why the death claim reportedly went unverified, and how investigators tell an informant from an opportunist. She examines the contradiction at the core: a ransom demand, then an offer to return Nancy's body for roughly the same money.Is that one unraveling plan or two separate people? Does the gentle phrasing mean something, or nothing? Coffindaffer explains what these notes say — and what they refuse to. All claims are reported and unconfirmed; no one has been charged. A True Crime Today conversation.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:#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RansomNote #PorchGuy #FBI #Tucson #PimaCounty #JenniferCoffindaffer

On paper, Nick Reiner is the sole beneficiary of a trust worth more than $1.5 million. In reality, the newest filing in the Nick Reiner trust fund fight says he petitioned a judge partly so he can buy socks. This one starts with the smallest number in the file — the $300 cap on a jail commissary account at Twin Towers that, per the petition, was promised funding and never received a single deposit — and climbs all the way up to the biggest battle in this case outside the murder charges themselves.The petition accuses the trustee of offering “a shifting series of excuses and justifications” for withholding a payout the trust calls mandatory and unconditional. First he reportedly couldn't access the accounts. Then came “concerns” about Nick's competence — without a court order or a doctor's finding behind them. Then the shadow of California's slayer statute. Meanwhile, the filing claims, the consultant brought in to evaluate Nick is being paid presumably out of Nick's own funds — the fight over the money is literally being billed to the money.We break down everything he's actually asking for — the overdue age-30 distribution plus every dollar of interest since 2023, the age-35 money released early, damages from the trustee for breach of trust — and we're honest about which of those asks the law actually supports. Where it leans his way will surprise you. Where it doesn't might surprise you more. And through all of it, one image refuses to leave: a man staring down possible capital charges, heir on paper to Hollywood money, asking a court for hygiene products. True Crime Today follows the file — even when it goes somewhere nobody's comfortable.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:#NickReiner #RobReiner #TrueCrimeToday #MicheleReiner #TwinTowers #JailCommissary #TrustFund #CourtFiling #TrueCrimeNews #CelebrityCase

In a typewritten question left for the Wichita Police Department in January of 2005, Dennis Rader asked the cops, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to him. The question was inside an empty cereal box he had left for them in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He signed it with his self-given initials. He asked them to be honest.The Wichita Police Department answered through a small classified ad in the Wichita Eagle. They told him no. A floppy disk could not be traced.That was not true.In the fifth and final chapter of True Crime Today's BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through the trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr had been building since March of 2004. The thirteen-year silence Rader broke when he could no longer tolerate being ignored. The eleven separate communications that followed. The eleven months of polite, formal responses through classified ads that fed Rader's hunger for attention while the task force quietly built its case.The episode covers the February 16, 2005, arrival of a purple Memorex floppy disk at KSAS-TV in Wichita. The Microsoft Word file metadata that named Christ Lutheran Church in Park City and a user account named Dennis. The phone call from Wichita Police to Pastor Michael Clark that ended the case in a single conversation. The DNA confirmation from Rader's daughter Kerri Rawson's medical records, obtained under warrant without her knowledge or consent at the time. The February 25, 2005, arrest. The thirty-plus-hour confession.Dennis Rader was not caught by sketches, voice recordings, or FBI profiles. He was caught by his own vanity asking a question and his own ego believing the answer.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#BTK #DennisRader #FloppyDisk #TrueCrimeToday #KenLandwehr #BTKArrest #SerialKillers #BTKCase #TrueCrime #Wichita

In August of 2023, the Osage County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma released a journal entry written in Dennis Rader's own handwriting. The entry described a fantasy of taking a young woman from a laundromat. Rader had a title for it. He had written it on the page. "Bad Wash Day."The reason that journal entry was released matters. On June 23, 1976, a sixteen-year-old Pawhuska, Oklahoma, cheerleader named Cynthia Dawn Kinney finished her shift at her aunt and uncle's laundromat. She was reportedly last seen getting into a car with two women she did not appear to know. She has never been seen alive since. Her body has never been found. Almost half a century later, her family is still waiting.In the fourth chapter of True Crime Today's five-part BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through the thirteen years between Rader's last confirmed Kansas killing in 1991 and his March 2004 resurfacing, and the question that has been driving cold-case investigators in multiple states since 2023. Did Dennis Rader actually stop, or did the system miss him?The episode covers Sheriff Eddie Virden's 2023 task force announcement. The August 2023 excavation of a property near Rader's former Park City home. Dr. Katherine Ramsland's "powering down" framework from a decade of correspondence. The March 2024 ruling out of the Shawna Beth Garber case as Rader's. The continuing disagreement between the Osage County Sheriff's Office, which still names Rader a prime suspect in the Kinney case, and the Osage County District Attorney, who has publicly said the evidence does not support charges.Dennis Rader is eighty-one. The families are aging. The case is not closed.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#BTK #DennisRader #CynthiaKinney #TrueCrimeToday #ColdCase #Pawhuska #SerialKillers #BTKKiller #TrueCrime #BTKCase

Mary Capps worked as the only other compliance officer in Park City, Kansas, for more than six years. She reported directly to Dennis Rader. She would later tell the Wichita Eagle that he had never paid her a compliment in six years. That he discriminated against her because she was a woman. That he had created a hostile workplace she could not endure.After Rader's arrest in February of 2005, Mary Capps filed an EEOC complaint and a Kansas Human Rights Commission complaint against the city of Park City for the work environment he had built. She also said, in her own words, the things her coworker had been that nobody had publicly said before. Hateful. Condescending. Egotistical.She was one of at least five people on the record, after the arrest, describing what they had felt about Dennis Rader before anybody knew. A neighbor whose wife watched him film their back yard. A divorced single mother whose dog he killed. A Cub Scout parent who pulled her son from his pack. A neighbor across the street who, after sixteen years of knowing him, called him "definitely two-sided."In the third chapter of True Crime Today's five-part BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through the gap between what people who knew Dennis Rader sensed about him and what nobody was able to put together until after his arrest. The official roles. The community positions. The city paychecks. The institutional letterhead Dennis Rader collected over thirty years.This is the third uncomfortable truth. The cultural picture of a serial killer in 1995 did not include the city compliance officer with the clipboard. The cultural picture was wrong, and the people whose instincts had been correct could not get anybody to listen.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#BTK #DennisRader #MaryCapps #ParkCity #TrueCrimeToday #ComplianceOfficer #SerialKillers #ColdCase #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Kevin Bright was nineteen years old when Dennis Rader shot him twice and left him for dead in his sister Kathryn's house in Wichita on April 4, 1974. Kevin survived. His sister did not. Before Kevin went into surgery, with one of Rader's bullets still inside his head, he gave Wichita detectives a description of the man who had attacked them.A police sketch artist drew the face. On April 23, 1974, that drawing ran on the front page of the Wichita Eagle. Nineteen days after the attack. Dennis Rader was free in Park City, Kansas. He would remain free for the next thirty-one years.In his own 2005 confession, Rader said the sketch was, in his words, uncomfortably close to him. He said no one ever came for him.In the second chapter of True Crime Today's five-part BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through every piece of Dennis Rader that the Wichita Police Department had in evidence rooms during the years he was still operating. A sketch in 1974. A confession letter inside a library book in 1974. A voice tape in 1977. A poem in a sealed package in 1979. A neighbor of his killed in 1985 and one of his own residents killed in his own jurisdiction in 1991.The chase did not close because Wichita Police were incompetent. The chase did not close because Dennis Rader was a mastermind either. The chase did not close because the system, in a small city in the 1970s and 80s, did not yet know how to look at its own data. And the people paying the price for that gap, including a grieving husband suspected of his wife's murder for eighteen years, did not deserve to carry the cost.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#BTK #DennisRader #KevinBright #BTKKiller #TrueCrimeToday #SerialKillers #Wichita #ColdCase #TrueCrime #WichitaPD

For half a century, the BTK Killer story has been told the way Dennis Rader wanted it told. Factor X. The Minotaur. The BTK brand. Every term that has anchored his mythology came from a typewriter in his own kitchen in Park City, Kansas. Every term was his.In this first chapter of a five-part investigation from True Crime Today, host Tony Brueski sets the version of Dennis Rader that documentaries have repeated for forty-seven years next to the actual investigative file. The two don't match.The man who wrote the 1978 Factor X letter to KAKE-TV was a thirty-two-year-old husband and father. An alarm installer for ADT in Wichita. A student at Wichita State University working toward a degree in the administration of justice. He had taken courses on profiling. He knew what serial killers were supposed to sound like in the cultural imagination of the late seventies. He typed himself into the role.The press printed his words. The cops filed his words. The country read his words. And for nearly fifty years, when somebody has tried to explain Dennis Rader, they have explained him the way he wanted to be explained.This episode walks through the 1978 letter sentence by sentence. The literary references he borrowed from. The cultural figures he compared himself to. The contradictions inside the letter that read, in retrospect, less like the confession of a possessed killer and more like the audition tape of a man trying out for a role.The series will continue with the chase that didn't close, the official roles that made him invisible, the thirteen-year silence between his confirmed killings, and the floppy disk that ended his thirty-one years of getting away with it. Start here.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#BTK #DennisRader #BTKKiller #TrueCrimeToday #FactorX #SerialKillers #Wichita #ParkCity #TrueCrime #ColdCase

Prosecutors spent twelve and a half hours on Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes at the first trial. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours. The Supreme Court said the financial evidence went too far. Nobody said Blanca went far enough.That imbalance is the story of the retrial before it's even started. Because if round two can't rely on a parade of financial devastation to paint Alex as a monster, it has to rely on the evidence that was always there but never got the time it deserved. The timeline. The phone records. The physical evidence at the scene. And the domestic evidence — the kind that only someone who spent twenty years inside that house could carry to a jury.In this three-part exclusive, Blanca goes further than she's ever gone publicly. Part 1 takes you to Maggie's graveside and into the emotional reality of watching a conviction evaporate. Part 2 reveals what Blanca noticed the morning after the murders that nobody in the legal system asked about, what Alex's behavior in the hours and days after really looked like, and what prosecutors should be asking her this time that they didn't ask last time. Part 3 takes on the biggest question: did Alex do this alone? Blanca lays out her theory, confronts the defense team's "other suspects" strategy, and draws a line between Alex's decades of outsourcing risk and the night that ended Maggie and Paul's lives.Three parts. Twenty years of proximity. Evidence, theory, and emotional truth from the person who was closer to this family than almost anyone alive.A True Crime Today exclusive.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.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughHousekeeper #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughOverturned #BeckyHill #Moselle #HiddenKillers

Alex Murdaugh never worked alone. Not when he was stealing from clients. Not when he was running pills through Curtis Eddie Smith. Not when he staged his own shooting on the side of a Hampton County road. Every major scheme in his life had other hands on it. Other people carrying the weight. Other names on the checks.So why would the murders be different?That's the question Blanca Simpson keeps coming back to. She spent twenty years watching Alex operate from inside his own household. She saw the relationships. The visitors. The phone calls. The way people moved in and out of Alex's orbit depending on what he needed. And she's built a theory that the night of June 7th, 2021, wasn't a one-step plan.Blanca believes someone else was supposed to be at Moselle. She's called it Plan A. When that person didn't show or the arrangement fell apart, Alex executed Plan B himself. The framework for blaming someone else was already built — he just had to carry the act out on his own and redirect suspicion toward the boat crash families.The defense is now running a parallel track. They went on national television and said they have information about "third parties and potential motives." But their version of third parties means someone other than Alex. Blanca's version means Alex had help.In this interview, Blanca explains the foundation of her theory. She confronts the defense's "other suspects" narrative from the position of someone who watched Alex build and use a network of people for decades. And she names the investigative territory she believes has been overlooked.Part 3 of a three-part True Crime Today exclusive.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.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughConspiracy #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Moselle #MurdaughDefense #CurtisSmith #HiddenKillers

You want to know what went wrong in the first Murdaugh trial? Forget the jury tampering for a second. Forget Becky Hill. Look at the allocation of time. The state spent twelve and a half hours on financial crimes. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours.Blanca is the person who knew that household's daily patterns better than anyone. She knew how Maggie left her things. She knew where the towels went. She knew what the morning routine looked like and what it didn't look like. When she walked into that house the morning after the murders, her eyes caught things that a crime scene unit would have no frame of reference for. Not forensic anomalies. Domestic ones. The kind of details that only land when someone says: that's not how she did it.The Supreme Court's guidance for the retrial essentially forces prosecutors to rebalance the case. Less financial testimony. Which means more weight falls on the physical evidence, the timeline, and the behavioral details. And that's Blanca's territory.In this interview, Blanca goes past her trial testimony for the first time. She talks about what prosecutors didn't ask. What she noticed that morning that she's been carrying for five years without anyone in the legal system asking about it. She explains the moment Alex tried to rewrite the shirt story and what his approach to that conversation told her about how he operated. And she confronts what happens when the most important crime scene in South Carolina true crime history no longer exists.Part 2 of a three-part True Crime Today exclusive.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.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughEvidence #MaggieMurdaugh #Moselle #MurdaughTrial #PaulMurdaugh #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillers

Everyone has an opinion about Alex Murdaugh's overturned conviction. Legal analysts are breaking down the ruling. Defense attorneys are celebrating on morning shows. Prosecutors are promising a retrial. But nobody is asking the question that matters most to the people closest to Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson isn't a legal analyst. She's the woman who cooked Maggie's last meal. Who fixed Alex's collar that morning and remembered the shirt when investigators didn't think to ask. Who found the wet towel and the khaki pants by the shower and washed them before she understood what she was looking at. She spent twenty years inside that house. She knows what normal looked like — and she knows exactly what didn't look normal the morning after.When the Supreme Court issued its unanimous ruling, Blanca drove to Maggie's gravesite and sat alone. She didn't call anyone. She didn't make a statement. She went to her friend. That instinct tells you everything about where Blanca lives in this story — not in the legal arguments, not in the appeals process, but in the human cost of a system that broke at the worst possible moment.In this interview, Blanca talks about the emotional weight of the reversal. Whether she can respect the court and still believe in her own truth. What Becky Hill's actions cost the people who loved Maggie and Paul. And what it means to prepare herself to testify again.Part 1 of a three-part True Crime Today exclusive.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.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughOverturned #PaulMurdaugh #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillers

A retired Pima County detective has raised the possibility that more than one person may have been involved in the alleged abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home — potentially part of a theft group that encountered a situation that went catastrophically beyond the original plan. Months into this investigation, with unknown DNA at the FBI crime lab in Quantico and more than fifty thousand tips under review, no arrest has been made. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent more than thirty years in forensic mental health and behavioral analysis, joins True Crime Today to examine the investigative and psychological dimensions of this case from the perpetrator's perspective. Scott addresses the specific psychological dynamics of shared culpability — whether a co-conspirator who knows the truth creates stability or mutual paranoia, and what determines whether one person breaks first. She examines the post-crime decision cascade — the compounding psychological weight of each choice to conceal evidence, avoid detection, or remain silent — and how months of sustained evasion affect cognitive function and behavioral patterns. She also addresses the unique pressure of genetic genealogy as an investigative tool — a process that works toward identification with scientific certainty but on an unpredictable timeline — and what that specific form of threat does to a suspect compared to traditional investigative methods.Footer 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:#NancyGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #PimaCounty #GeneticGenealogy #ShavaunScott #ForensicPsychology #Tucson #CriminalInvestigation #TrueCrime #FBI

The federal prosecution of Timothy Hudson for the first-degree murder of his stepsister Anna Kepner is proceeding in the Southern District of Florida, where Hudson has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial. But in a Brevard County family court, a parallel custody battle between Hudson's biological parents is producing a record that illuminates the family dynamics behind the criminal case. Thomas Hudson, Timothy's biological father, filed for emergency sole custody of the couple's nine-year-old daughter, alleging that the Kepner household — where Shauntel Hudson and Christopher Kepner reside — expelled Timothy immediately after Anna's death and has publicly called for punitive outcomes. Court filings include text exchanges in which Thomas alleges Shauntel told him she could not jeopardize her marriage to support their son. The filings also allege that Kepner family social media called for “nails in the coffin” of the accused, and that Shauntel aligned with those statements. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, with more than thirty years in forensic mental health practice, joins True Crime Today to examine the psychological and relational dimensions of this family's collapse. Scott addresses the clinical dynamics of parental abandonment under crisis conditions, the psychological impact on a juvenile defendant whose primary caregiver has publicly aligned against him, and the implications for a minor child being raised in a household where loyalty to one family member requires the explicit rejection of another. She also examines whether Shauntel's position reflects an independent psychological process or one shaped by the conditions of her current marriage.Footer 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:#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #TrueCrimeToday #CustodyBattle #ShavaunScott #ForensicPsychology #FederalCase #CarnivalHorizon #BlendedFamily #TrueCrime

David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4VD, faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Prosecutors in Los Angeles County have alleged murder for financial gain and murder of a witness, charges that make Burke eligible for the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty. The People's filing alleges Burke killed Rivas Hernandez to prevent her from revealing information that would have jeopardized his career. But the psychological and developmental dimensions of this case extend well beyond the alleged criminal act. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, with more than thirty years of forensic mental health practice, joins True Crime Today to examine the conditions that allegedly preceded the charges. Burke was raised in a strictly religious household in Houston where the only permitted music was gospel. He was homeschooled by his mother, who reportedly served as his sole educator and social structure and who allegedly suggested he begin making music. By seventeen, Burke was signed to Darkroom and Interscope Records. He was touring internationally, generating significant income, and operating within an inner circle that consisted entirely of industry professionals whose financial interests were allegedly tied to his output. Scott addresses the clinical significance of that trajectory — religious restriction followed by unrestricted digital and cultural immersion with no intermediary, parental enmeshment followed by industry enmeshment, and the total alleged absence of peer relationships or adult oversight positioned to provide accountability rather than profit from his continued production.Footer 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:#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #TrueCrimeToday #DavidBurke #ShavaunScott #ForensicPsychology #MusicIndustry #LACounty #SpecialCircumstances #TrueCrime

Three active criminal matters. Three distinct jurisdictions. One forensic psychotherapist identifying the systemic failures that allegedly allowed each to occur. The Nancy Guthrie disappearance remains unsolved months after the eighty-four-year-old was allegedly abducted from her Tucson home. Unknown DNA is under analysis at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, and genetic genealogy is reportedly being applied. More than fifty thousand tips have been submitted. The investigation continues without a named suspect. In the Anna Kepner case, Timothy Hudson has been charged as an adult in the Southern District of Florida with first-degree murder in connection with his stepsister's death on a Carnival cruise ship. He has pleaded not guilty. Parallel custody proceedings in Brevard County have produced a record of family collapse — parental expulsion, alleged alignment against the accused, and an emergency custody petition filed by the defendant's biological father. In the D4VD case, David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances in Los Angeles County in the alleged killing of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Prosecutors have alleged murder for financial gain and murder of a witness. Burke has pleaded not guilty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, with more than three decades in forensic practice, joins True Crime Today to conduct a cross-case analysis examining perpetrator psychology in the Guthrie investigation, the clinical dynamics of family disintegration in the Kepner proceedings, and the developmental trajectory — from religious restriction through industry enmeshment — that allegedly preceded the D4VD charges.Footer 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:#NancyGuthrie #AnnaKepner #D4VD #TrueCrimeToday #CelesteRivasHernandez #TimothyHudson #ShavaunScott #ForensicPsychology #SystemicFailure #TrueCrime

People are saying it across social media and comment sections: Murdaugh is already locked up, why bother retrying? True Crime Today takes on that argument directly — and explains why the answer is as simple as it is non-negotiable.Maggie Murdaugh was 52. Paul Murdaugh was 22. They were shot to death at close range on their family's property. The Supreme Court erased the murder convictions and life sentences. The legal record says the question of who killed them is open. That's not because the evidence was insufficient. It's because an elected clerk tampered with the jury. The state's obligation to answer that question didn't disappear when the verdict was vacated. It was reset.Murdaugh is serving 40 years for financial crimes. That's punishment for stealing. It is not accountability for two deaths. Calling a financial sentence close enough to a murder conviction tells the families that how Maggie and Paul died doesn't deserve its own answer. It tells the public that the system has a price ceiling on justice.The constitutional argument is clear. The state brought murder charges. The Supreme Court said the trial was unfair, not that the evidence was inadequate. You don't charge double murder, get a conviction, lose it to corruption, and then decide the defendant's other sentence is sufficient. That's not how the system works and it's not a precedent any state wants to set.Financial crime victims who were personally harmed by Murdaugh have said publicly they'll go through the process again. If the people Murdaugh stole from can commit to a retrial, the state of South Carolina can do the same. Maggie and Paul deserve a verdict that holds. A verdict no one can challenge. That's the only acceptable outcome, and the retrial is the only way to get there.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#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul #TrueCrime #SCSupremeCourt #MurderTrial #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillers

A psychotherapist watched the Kouri Richins sentencing and saw things the rest of us felt but couldn't name. The contempt that overrode self-preservation. The grief that only appeared when the room validated her. The 45-minute speech that functioned as a love letter on the surface and something far more damaging underneath.Shavaun Scott breaks down the full sentencing in three parts on True Crime Today. The visible reactions during victim impact statements — including Kouri's response to her own children describing a childhood spent in survival mode. The dramatic behavioral flip when the defense took over and Kouri's tears appeared for the first time. And the speech: "be like your dad," the affair admission, the denial of the verdict, the request for her children to advocate on her behalf to the family they finally feel safe with, and the closing line coaching three boys to adopt her defiance as their own.Behavioral analysis from a licensed psychotherapist. Three parts. No moment left unexamined.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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #Sentencing #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Psychology #Psychotherapist #BehaviorAnalysis #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice

The courtroom was told to stay composed. Kouri Richins couldn't do it. While victim impact statements described the destruction she left behind — a father who stayed in a dangerous marriage to protect his sons, a sister who miscarried twins from the stress, three boys who described being locked in rooms and having their pets threatened — Kouri displayed visible contempt on camera.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what those reactions mean from a clinical standpoint. Not speculation — behavioral analysis from someone trained to read what people reveal when they think no one's watching. Except everyone was watching. And the cameras caught everything.The children stripped her of her title. They called her "Kouri." They asked for life without parole. One said he'd be afraid for his safety if she ever got out. And the woman at the defense table mouthed "what?" and shook her head. Shavaun unpacks what that disconnect reveals on True Crime Today.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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #Sentencing #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #VictimImpact #LifeWithoutParole #Psychology #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice