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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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Why Doesn't Lindsay Clancy's Judge Get Any Say?!
If Lindsay Clancy is convicted of first-degree murder, a Massachusetts judge has no room to weigh in on her sentence at all. The charge carries mandatory life without parole. Not the illness, not the medication, not the wheelchair, not a single fact about who she was before January 24, 2023, when Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan died at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. The judge doesn't get a say. Neither does the jury, once they've reached that verdict. Lindsay is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. She's a former labor and delivery nurse. Prosecutors say roughly three mo...
Published: Jul 27, 2026Duration: 38m 46s
Nolan Wells' Friends Are Now Receiving WHAT?
The case of Nolan Wells now has two autopsies, a six-figure reward, and zero arrests, and somehow that combination has made things worse, not better. The independent exam the family commissioned came back undetermined. No fractures, no deep tissue injuries, no lacerations, just discoloration on the back of his skull that can't tell anyone how he entered the water or whether he was conscious when he did. The state's own completed autopsy from July 7th is still sitting unreleased in a Jackson County file. Then there's the money. A hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in reward funds, courtesy o...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 57m 16s
Why Was Lindsay Clancy's Medication Increased The Day Before?
The day before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children, her medication was increased. Nobody has fully explained why that decision was made, or by whom. She'd already been on roughly thirteen different psychiatric drugs across about four months. Her own malpractice lawsuit describes that final dose increase, paired with a night without sleep, in the hours before Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, died in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. She'd checked herself into a psychiatric hospital on New Year's Eve after telling her husband she was having th...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 43m 51s
What Josh Duggar Wants Done With His Own Sisters
There's a motion sitting in a federal court file right now, filed by Josh Duggar in 2025, and his own sisters are named in it. What he's asking the court to do with them is the reason we're covering this case again. It comes from a man who's currently being moved through four different federal facilities in three states, with the Bureau of Prisons refusing to say why. His attorney frames the transfers as retaliation, punishment for complaining that guards opened his legal mail. That's the version his team is selling. But his release date tells a quieter, uglier story...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 35m 57s
Lindsay Clancy's Suicide Call Ended With WHAT?
Lindsay Clancy called a suicide hotline before she killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and was told she didn't qualify for help because she didn't have a plan. That single phone call sits at the center of the trial now underway in Plymouth. Both sides agree Cora, Dawson, and Callan died at her hands. The only open question is criminal responsibility. Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, to walk through everything that led to that call and everything that came after it. Lindsay's providers had documented intrusive thoughts around the same time s...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 42m 52s
Joseph Duggar Did WHAT To A Nine-Year-Old Girl?!
n December of 2015, Joseph Duggar sat in front of a TLC camera and told the country exactly what kind of man his brother Josh really was. He described a secret life. He described a man who preached one thing and lived another. He said it broke his heart. In 2026, an arrest affidavit out of Bay County, Florida, says Joseph Duggar asked a nine-year-old girl to sit on his lap during a family vacation in Panama City Beach, and now his own words from that interview read less like grief and more like a confession he didn't know he was...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 46m 11s
Why Has Lindsay Clancy Never Spoken To Police?
Lindsay Clancy has been in custody or in a hospital bed for three and a half years, and in all that time, she has never once given police a statement. She's a former labor and delivery nurse charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. She was also gravely injured that night and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. Prosecutors have spent years reconstructing what they believe ha...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 38m 21s
What Happened In Nolan Wells' Missing 90 Minutes?
There are ninety minutes in the Nolan Wells timeline that nobody has ever fully explained, and they sit right at the center of everything. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The timeline itself is mostly machine-logged and undisputed. A boat left a dock outside Ocean Springs at 9:56 on the morning of the Fourth of July. The group reached Horn Island by 11:14. The boat left the island at 4:31 that afternoon, passed Fort Bayou near 5:52, reached a dock at 6:06, and was pulled from the water at a launch by 7:19 before heading o...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 56m 57s
Nolan Wells' Friends Waited HOW LONG To Call For Help?
Nolan Wells was last seen on Horn Island on the Fourth of July. Help wasn't requested for roughly thirteen hours. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College, out on the island with friends from Ocean Springs. Horn Island sits about ten miles off the Mississippi coast, uninhabited, no buildings, no fresh water, no service. On the holiday it's packed with boats until dark, and then every one of those boats turns back toward the mainland. His friends made it home. He didn't. A National Park Service ranger found his body in the water of...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 46m 56s
Lindsay Clancy Checked Apple Maps For WHAT?!
Lindsay Clancy sent her husband out to grab dinner, and prosecutors say she used that window like a stopwatch. In Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023, Lindsay Clancy killed her three children: Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months. She isn't disputing that she did it. The fight in Plymouth Superior Court is over what was happening in her mind when she did. Prosecutors say Lindsay checked Apple Maps before Patrick left the house, working out exactly how long a dinner run would take him. Her fitness tracker recorded her climbing three flights of stairs the moment she go...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 41m 29s
Siders Family Married Off Girls As Young As WHAT?!
Siders 16 kids child marriage pattern — state records show at least three girls as young as fourteen were married into or through the Siders family in two Appalachian Ohio counties between 2002 and 2008. One of those girls was married to a man thirty-four years her senior. A retired Gallia County judge who approved the marriage acknowledged that neither prosecutors nor child welfare were ever notified.Ohio's marriage statute allowed pregnant minors to marry with parental and judicial consent — even when the relationship itself was potentially a felony under the state's own criminal code. Three judges in two states signed off...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 18m 29s
What The Evidence Actually Shows In d4vd And Nolan Wells
d4vd and Nolan Wells — two active cases with evidence that public discussion has outpaced, both examined by defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis.The d4vd preliminary hearing unsealed prosecutors' digital evidence for the first time: online orders for chainsaws, a cadaver bag, a burn cage, an inflatable pool — all allegedly shipped to his own address under aliases. The digital trail looks devastating. But cross-examination revealed all three chainsaws tested negative for blood and no DNA testing was ordered. The cadaver bag was not fully preserved. The defense is planting flags that go directly at the prosecution's phys...
Published: Jul 25, 2026Duration: 59m 20s
What Nolan Wells’ Autopsy Proved That Both Sides Ignored
Two autopsies and no cause of death. The independent examination of Nolan Wells found no fractures, no deep tissue injuries, and no lacerations. It found a red discoloration on the back of his skull that two outside forensic experts read completely differently. It could not determine whether Nolan drowned because the structures needed for that determination were unavailable — already examined and retained during the state's autopsy, which is standard procedure in any forensic investigation. Tony separates the two questions the autopsy actually addresses and explains why both sides of this case are merging them into one. The family's team is...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 32m 51s
Why d4vd's Chainsaws Had Zero Evidence On Them
d4vd — prosecutors told a Los Angeles courtroom that online purchases of chainsaws, a cadaver bag, a shovel, and an inflatable pool were central to the alleged dismemberment and cover-up of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death. They presented financial records, delivery logs, and alias accounts allegedly tied to the defendant. The digital trail is extensive.But the defense exposed a gap: all three chainsaws recovered from the defendant's home tested negative for blood. No DNA testing was performed. The tools that prosecutors say carried out the alleged cover-up have no biological evidence connecting them to the crime. Berk also pressed on...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 16m 19s
d4vd Drove To The Same Remote Spot TWICE After Celeste Died?!
Day 2 of d4vd's preliminary hearing put a dollar figure on the alleged motive and a location pin on the alleged cover-up. Prosecutors called two financial witnesses who testified Burke grossed more than $10 million in three years. Then the questioning turned personal — a money manager admitted knowing Celeste Rivas Hernandez's first name before the body was ever found. He heard it from Burke's own manager. The prosecutor asked about international travel and nightclubs with fake identification before the defense shut it down. A CHP officer described how a Caltrans worker found Celeste's passport card in the brush along State Ro...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 18m 7s
Who Put Up $125,000 Before Nolan Wells' Cause Of Death Came Back
Nolan Wells — before the independent autopsy came back undetermined, before the state released its findings, before any medical examiner could say how Nolan Wells died, a combined $125,000 in reward money hit the table. Al Sharpton announced fifty thousand at the funeral through the National Action Network. Tyler Perry pledged to help fund the reward and cover funeral costs. Terrell Owens added twenty-five thousand. All of it offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.An arrest for what? No crime has been established. No suspect has been named. The coroner found no obvious trauma. The independent autopsy found un...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 24m 15s
What Nolan Wells' Independent Pathologist Was Never Given
Nolan Wells case — an independent forensic pathologist examined Nolan's body and delivered his findings: cause and manner of death are both undetermined. But the pathologist also reported that he never received the neck structures from the state's examination. Without those structures, he could not determine whether strangulation occurred. Mississippi says retaining neck tissue is common forensic practice. The family's legal team says it left a critical question permanently unanswered.The state toxicology results have not been released. Three hundred people were present on Horn Island. Sixty witnesses have been interviewed by law enforcement. The three friends who were with No...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 19m 24s
D4VD Had WHAT Delivered On Postmates After Celeste Was Killed?!
The d4vd preliminary hearing opened with a courtroom split in two. Celeste Rivas Hernandez's parents stayed for the graphic testimony after being offered the chance to leave. Burke, according to courtroom reporters, showed no visible reaction to any of it. The contrast defined Day 1.Detective Joshua Byers walked the court through a receipt-by-receipt timeline of purchases allegedly tied to Burke under multiple aliases. The items — ordered with his own payment methods and delivered to his own address — included materials prosecutors allege were used in the aftermath of Celeste's death. One item allegedly bore a label that...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 19m 42s
Lindsay Clancy Showed Every Sign And Nobody Caught It
Lindsay Clancy's trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court. The facts are not in dispute. She killed her three children in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. The question is whether postpartum psychosis made her unable to appreciate what she was doing — and that question depends on a diagnosis her doctors allegedly never made while they had the chance.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the full conversation on the clinical reality behind this case. The interview covers three distinct lanes. The spectrum — baby blues versus postpartum depression versus psychosis, what her providers allegedly charted versus what she...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 58m 3s
How Nolan Wells' Phone Got Off That Island Without Him
An eighteen-year-old's phone left Horn Island on a sinking boat. The eighteen-year-old didn't. His friends had it. His mother didn't know.Christine Wonsley found out her son was missing at 11 PM on July 4th — seven hours after his friends left the island. She found out they had his phone only because she went looking for it herself. When she got it back, the Snapchat history from that day was empty. Her son used Snapchat all the time.That phone is now headed for a joint forensic examination with the FBI assisting. This episode traces every ha...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 27m 36s