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🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast, bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski, we go beyond the headlines, featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal psychologists, and legal analysts. Whether it's the latest developments in cases like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow or deep dives into cold cases and unsolved mysteries, we uncover the hidden truths behind the crimes t...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Case Supervisor Ordered WHAT?!
Sandra Birchmore's investigators chose an interview that left no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, made the tactical call to question Matthew Farwell in a school parking lot so the officer would keep talking. Days later, the investigation still had no recorded version of what Farwell said in that conversation.Federal prosecutors pressed Dunne about the consequences. He testified that he subsequently learned Farwell had misrepresented when his relationship with Birchmore began and how often they met. He acknowledged not speaking with Farwell's Stoughton police colleagues. Prosecutors...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 33m 24s
Maggie Murdaugh Had WHAT Beneath Both Fingernails?!
Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails are back at the center of Alex Murdaugh's murder case. At the October 16 hearing, defense lawyers said additional testing found unidentified male DNA beneath both hands, and they argued that a sample from Maggie's phone also included genetic material not attributable to Alex. The defense wants to learn who may have contributed it. Prosecutors warn that further testing could consume the little evidence that remains.Judge Debra McCaslin allowed the defense to pursue independent Y-STR testing on remaining samples. That technique concentrates on the Y chromosome, giving analysts a way to examine male DNA...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 31m 23s
Matthew Farwell Learned WHAT From Inside His Department?!
A January 2021 complaint about Matthew Farwell reached Stoughton police. According to federal prosecutors, an employee then alerted Farwell himself. The indictment leaves that employee unnamed. Sandra Birchmore’s friend had tried to tell the department about the relationship, and the prosecution argues the disclosure changed what Farwell knew was at risk.Twelve days later, prosecutors allege, Farwell killed Sandra and arranged the scene to resemble a death by suicide. He has pleaded not guilty. His defense disputes the government’s account of how she died. Bob Motta looks at what investigators can establish about a departmental tip with...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 31m 29s
Sandra Birchmore’s Phone Examiner Found WHAT Before Giving It Back?!
Nicholas Guarino found a password containing Matthew Farwell’s name on Sandra Birchmore’s phone. He used it to access her MacBook. Then he searched Farwell’s iPhone for messages with Sandra, found none, and returned the phone to its owner, according to his federal trial testimony.That phone search was performed on February 9, 2021. Guarino testified that investigators directed him to look for communications between Farwell and Birchmore. Federal examiners subsequently recovered tens of thousands of messages from Sandra’s devices, and prosecutors argue that Farwell had deleted messages following his earlier State Police interview.Tony Bru...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 22m 31s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 3 — $4,500 vs. $81,000
Arne Johnson has never said the devil made him do it. Not in any interview, not in any documentary, not in any recorded statement over more than four decades. What he told police the night Alan Bono died: "I need help because I've got a drinking problem." His attorney Martin Minnella: "Arne never said 'I was possessed by the devil.' The priests said that. The Warrens said that." Judge Callahan barred the possession defense before the trial began. The jury convicted Johnson of first-degree manslaughter. The Glatzels received $4,500. The Warrens received more than $81,000. Carl Jr. found a note...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 13m 24s
Matthew Farwell’s First Interview Had WHAT Missing?!
Matthew Farwell was questioned about Sandra Birchmore in a school parking lot. State Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury the conversation was neither recorded nor documented in notes. Dunne said the approach was intended to keep Farwell talking. The admission leaves a basic problem: jurors cannot hear the exchange themselves or examine a contemporaneous question-by-question account.Dunne testified that he later learned Farwell had lied about the beginning and frequency of his relationship with Birchmore. Federal prosecutors questioned Dunne about the people investigators did not interview, including Farwell's fellow Stoughton officers and Birchmore's neighbors. He said...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 36m 16s
Matthew Farwell’s DNA Left WHAT for Jurors to Decide?!
Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney described Sandra Birchmore’s death as an impulsive act of despair. Federal prosecutors say DNA recovered from a strap at the scene ties the former Stoughton police officer to her death. The jury now has to weigh those conflicting accounts rather than assume either opening statement proves the case.The defense detailed Sandra’s mental-health history, including treatment beginning at a young age and an earlier attempt to end her life. Attorney Kimberly Stevens also told jurors Sandra faced money problems and had $2.90 in her account near the end of January 2021. She argued invest...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 29m 3s
Matthew Farwell’s Work Phone Held WHAT After Sandra Died?!
Eight days after Sandra Birchmore’s death, an iPhone linked to Matthew Farwell was used to search whether consent could be revoked in Massachusetts. A second search asked whether Cellebrite could recover deleted messages. Prosecutors showed jurors the digital evidence during the former Stoughton officer’s federal murder trial.Farwell denies the charge. His attorneys maintain Sandra died by suicide after he visited her apartment. Prosecutors allege he killed her and staged the scene. The searches are evidence of questions typed into a device, and a jury must determine whether they support the prosecution’s account.This...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 34m 19s
What Gypsy Rose Reportedly Said About Ken Urker
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s reported prison words about Ken Urker have resurfaced after his death, while a separate online campaign is challenging the accepted story of Dee Dee Blanchard’s treatment of her daughter.Recordings reported to be from prison calls in 2020 and 2021 capture Gypsy discussing Ken with Ryan Anderson and saying she had told Ken she hoped he would overdose. Ken died at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1, 2026, his thirty-fourth birthday. According to the sheriff’s incident report, deputies found syringes, a spoon near a brown powdery substance, another syringe and a holstered handgun. Authorities said t...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 38m 50s
Matthew Farwell Was Never Tested Against WHAT?!
Sandra Birchmore’s family was told her death was self-inflicted. Years later, Matthew Farwell faced federal charges accusing him of killing her and staging the scene. A federal prosecution filing says a state lab found male DNA on the strap in 2021, but officers did not collect Farwell’s sample for comparison. State Police investigator Matthew Dunne testified about interviewing Farwell without making a recording or taking notes. The jury also heard FBI Agent Heidi Kelsch read private text exchanges between Farwell and Birchmore. Prosecutors say the messages show contact dating back to her teenage years. The defense says Sandra died...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 35m 36s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 2 — What She Said at the Scene
Leo Hengstler drove the ambulance that responded to the Brookfield Boarding Kennels on February 16, 1981. He testified to something that appears in no book, no movie, and no dramatization of this case. He heard Debbie Glatzel tell her father while Alan Bono lay dying: "You know how he gets when he's been drinking." Not possessed. Drinking. Debbie had counted five blackout episodes in the months after Arne challenged the demon. She said each one looked exactly like David's. The Washington Post described a different Arne Johnson — quick to anger, possessive, a man who ripped a stuffed animal apart with his kn...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 13m 4s
Sandra Birchmore and Alex Murdaugh: A Friend With a Badge Allegedly Did THIS
Two of the biggest cases on the docket share a question about the police, and Eric Faddis joins me to work through both Sandra Birchmore and Alex Murdaugh.The FBI says a Stoughton police employee told Matthew Farwell about a friend's call reporting his relationship with Sandra, 12 days before she died. A dispatcher testified he carried that call to Farwell's office. Prosecutors say Farwell's DNA was on the strap found with her body.In South Carolina, Murdaugh's defense says prosecutors suggested a police officer who was his friend arrived at Moselle before other officers and...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 40s
JP Miller — Former Pastor Says Nobody in Ministry Was Honest on Their Own Form
Every year the Assemblies of God sends licensed ministers a form asking whether they've upheld the moral code. Timmy Gibson says not one pastor he personally knew answered honestly. On Homicide Happy Hour, Gibson explained the system. If you told the truth, you lost your license and your livelihood. One friend admitted to marijuana and was removed from ministry immediately. Gibson says JP Miller's church was built on top of that structure. Miller set things up so no one could override him. Miller faces cyberstalking and false statements charges federally. He has pleaded not guilty. He is not charged...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 26m 16s
Alex Murdaugh's Defense Says Maggie Wasn't the Last Person to Hold THIS
Alex Murdaugh's lawyers asked for one thing the state didn't want to give them, and on October 16 Judge Debra McCaslin gave it to them anyway. Eric Faddis joins me to weigh the ruling.The defense gets its own testing on unknown male DNA from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and her phone. Prosecutors warned the tests could exhaust the samples. Murdaugh's team says the state withheld evidence and wants to know whether that DNA belongs to someone else who was at Moselle.The same hearing ended Dick Harpootlian's polygraph talking point. The judge said Murdaugh failed a...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 16m 30s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 1 — Dad Slapped Him. He STOPPED.
David Glatzel was 11 years old when he described visions of Arne Johnson killing someone. Months before anyone died. Before February 16, 1981, when Johnson stabbed Alan Bono on the lawn of a Brookfield, Connecticut boarding kennel — the first homicide in the town's 193-year history. His brother Carl was in the room the day it allegedly started. Carl saw nothing. Their parents divided — their mother believed, their father slapped David during an episode and he stopped immediately. Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived and told the family to start recording. Those cassette tapes survived more than 40 years. On them, an 11-year-old's voice is deep...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 14m 4s
Sandra Birchmore's Chief Kept a Report on THIS Phone Call
Donna McNamara ordered the 2021 investigation that found three Stoughton officers had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore. Now McNamara is the one on leave, and Eric Faddis joins me to ask how.Her lawsuit says that on July 7, Town Manager Thomas Calter called her in, gave her a choice to resign or be fired, and barred her from headquarters. Calter says she was put on leave over a complaint and never got an ultimatum. Her suit says his office named an acting chief within 48 hours of her harassment complaint against him.At the center of the...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 12m 49s
Farwell Kissed a Mistress With His Wife in the Room. He Hid Sandra Birchmore With THIS.
Sarah Sproul had an affair with Matthew Farwell while she was friends with his wife. She testified that at parties, with his wife in the room, he'd come around a corner to kiss her. He never wore a mask or told her to delete a text. Two more women said the same, after the defense had told the jury that the mask Farwell wore into Sandra Birchmore's building was what people having affairs do.Prosecutors say the secret with Sandra was more than an affair. The father of her baby, Jason Pickard, testified under immunity that she...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 22m 7s
Sandra Birchmore's Chief Saw Her Own Detective on Video Only After THIS
For more than three years, the official word was that Sandra Birchmore took her own life. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to go through the five strongest signs, all from sworn testimony, that the people investigating her death protected one of their own.The parking lot comes first. Trooper Matthew Dunne testified he and his sergeant interviewed Farwell outside an elementary school. Then the phone. Examiner Nicholas Guarino testified Sandra's laptop password was built from Farwell's name, and that he still handed Farwell's phone back after finding no messages.The FBI says a Stoughton...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 15m 10s
Matthew Farwell's DNA Is on the One Object His Defense Can't Wave Away
Sandra Birchmore's death was ruled a suicide for more than three years. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down why federal prosecutors now say it was murder, and the hurdles Matthew Farwell's defense faces at trial.Prosecutors say Farwell's DNA is on the strap found around Sandra's neck. His lawyers have pointed to testing that found a mixture of at least four people's DNA on it. Eric explains how a jury weighs that fight.Then the clock. The government says Farwell was inside Sandra's Canton building for 29 minutes on February 1, 2021, wearing a mask...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 17m 9s
Sandra Birchmore’s Case Involves THREE Officers — Why Is the Coverup STILL Happening?
Sandra Birchmore’s case didn’t involve one officer — it involved three, connected through one youth program, allegedly targeting one girl for over a decade. And the coverup is still happening. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the full scope of what happened inside the Stoughton Police Department in this comprehensive four-part interview. Scott, author of Nightbird, traces the damage from Sandra’s perspective — the unsent text, the friend who could see it, the DNA results — through Farwell’s alleged double life, the mask, and the hospital visit. She confronts how Robert Devine allegedly built a pipeline that produced officers who followed his l...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 45s