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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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Former Pastor Calls JP Miller a Cult Leader and Says He's Dangerous
On Homicide Happy Hour, former thirty-year pastor Timmy Gibson looked into the camera and called JP Miller a cult leader. He confirmed the label with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott before the recording. Gibson says Miller's sermons weren't teaching. They were allegedly gaslighting. He quotes Miller telling his congregation that wives who don't satisfy their husbands will be replaced by the devil's twenty waiting women. Miller has been charged federally — cyberstalking and false statements. He maintains his innocence with a not-guilty plea. Mica Miller died in April 2024 at Lumber River State Park. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller has not be...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 13m 37s
Sandra Birchmore’s Chief Refused to Destroy the Investigation — Then THIS
Sandra Birchmore’s police chief refused to destroy an investigation into the officers — and paid for it. Chief Donna McNamara allegedly opened a second probe into the Stoughton department and says Town Manager Robin Calter demanded the report be destroyed. McNamara refused. She is now on administrative leave. The officers whose conduct she exposed are the reason her department is under scrutiny. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what this tells a clinician about how institutions behave when someone inside breaks ranks. McNamara was the department’s first female officer and its first female chief. The second investigation reportedly uncovered details about...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 16m 35s
Barry Morphew Faces a New Murder Charge Built on WHAT?!
Suzanne Morphew sent her last confirmed text at 2:11 p.m. on May 9, 2020. Barry Morphew was home by 2:43. By the next morning, Suzanne’s phone was dark, her bicycle was found thrown down a slope, and Barry was a hundred miles away on a work trip that lasted ten hours and produced thirty minutes of work. The prosecution charged murder. Then its own failures brought the case down before a jury could hear it. This three-part documentary covers the full arc: the marriage Suzanne described to the people she trusted, the digital evidence that contradicted Barry’s account, the prosecution’s coll...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 37m 3s
Another Officer Knew Sandra Was Pregnant by His Brother — What He Did NEXT
William Farwell knew Sandra Birchmore was pregnant with his twin brother Matthew’s baby. Prosecutors allege he participated anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what that decision reveals about the dynamic between officers who allegedly shared access to the same vulnerable person. Robert Devine ran the Stoughton Explorers program and allegedly mentored the Farwell brothers when they were teenagers — the same program that later gave those officers access to Sandra. When Devine faced his own disciplinary hearing after Sandra’s death, he called her a liar. Scott, author of Nightbird, explains what drives someone to attack a dead woman’s credibil...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 9m 32s
Farwell Went Eight Years Without Doing THIS Off Duty. Then Sandra Birchmore Died.
Matthew Farwell helped train Detective Daniel Barber in 2013 and shared the detective office with him on the four-to-midnight shift. Barber testified that in eight years, Farwell never once reached out off duty to ask what was happening overnight. Then, from his wife's hospital room, hours after prosecutors say he walked into Sandra Birchmore's building in a mask, Farwell texted him asking if anything was going on.Barber also described late 2020, when Farwell went from calm, cool and collected to stressed, flustered, and stepping into the parking lot to take calls. On a work drive to Taunton, Farwell...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 25m 45s
This Officer Put On a Mask the ONE Night Sandra Birchmore Was Killed
Matthew Farwell hated masks. Prosecutors say he put one on for the first time the night Sandra Birchmore died — the one night his face needed to be hidden. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what happens inside the mind of an officer who allegedly maintains two separate lives and the behavioral crack that shows in that single decision. Farwell used his patrol car and on-duty hours to meet Sandra, logging the time as work. When Sandra became pregnant, everything Farwell had built started to collapse. Her friend called the police station. And then prosecutors allege Farwell drove from Sandra’s apartment buil...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 18m 37s
Sandra Birchmore Wanted Her Officer's Baby — Then the DNA Came Back
Sandra Birchmore wanted to have Matthew Farwell’s baby. She believed the officer who had access to her since childhood loved her. When DNA testing showed Farwell was not the biological father, what Sandra felt about that result tells psychotherapist Shavaun Scott everything about how deeply Sandra’s reality had been distorted. In this first segment of a four-part interview, Scott examines how Stoughton officers allegedly used their badges and a youth program to fill every gap in Sandra’s life. Sandra’s friend saw the danger instantly. Sandra could not. She drafted a message to Farwell’s wife that would...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 17m 57s
Every Officer Who Touched Sandra Birchmore's Case Moved It Toward Suicide
The trooper. The examiner. The supervisor. The brother. Sandra Birchmore's death went through all four, and every one of them is now a reason the FBI had to start over. Trooper Dunne testified he never recorded the Farwell interview, skipped the autopsy, never interviewed a neighbor, and learned Farwell lied. Examiner Guarino found Sandra's password was Farwell's name, found zero messages on Farwell's phone, and returned it; the FBI later recovered tens of thousands. Sgt. Fanning, prosecutors say, told Farwell's twin they needed the investigation like a bullet in the head, and no warrant was ever sought. Officer William...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 10s
Former Pastor Explains Why the Bible Told Caleb Flynn He Only Owed God
When Caleb Flynn said "God is my judge" after his conviction, most people heard arrogance. Timmy Gibson heard something more specific. Gibson pastored evangelical churches for three decades before leaving. On Homicide Happy Hour, he explained the theology behind Flynn's statement. The Bible teaches that the primary relationship to repair after wrongdoing is between you and God. You haven't sinned against the person you hurt as much as you've sinned against God. When your accountability only runs upward, people become disposable. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts and sentenced to life without parole for the murder of his...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 18m 6s
Sandra Birchmore's Warning Call Reached Farwell Because Someone Inside Tipped Him Off
A three-minute phone call to the Stoughton Police Department on January 20th, 2021, should have ended Matthew Farwell's career. Instead, prosecutors say, it ended Sandra Birchmore's life. The caller reported Sandra's relationship with Farwell. She was put on hold twice. The recording was later auto-deleted. A department employee allegedly tipped Farwell off, and twelve days later Sandra was dead. Farwell's twin brother William worked in that building. He admitted his own relationship with Sandra, gave state police a false account, ran unauthorized database searches on her, and was permanently decertified in September 2024. Stoughton's own internal investigation found all three officers...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 14m 45s
Suzanne Morphew’s Remains Revealed a Drug From Barry’s Own Supply
The first murder case against Barry Morphew collapsed in April 2022. The prosecution’s tranquilizer theory had no body to support it. Seventeen months later, Suzanne Morphew’s remains were recovered in Saguache County — roughly fifty miles south of the family home, in a county outside the original search. Bone testing revealed butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine — the three compounds that form BAM, a wildlife tranquilizer used on elk and deer. The cause of death was ruled homicide. Barry Morphew had access to BAM through his Indiana deer operation. His last prescription was filled in March 2018. He acknowledged using BAM on deer in...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 14m 43s
Sandra Birchmore's Case Supervisor Told Farwell's Brother They Weren't Investigating
Sgt. John Fanning supervised the Massachusetts State Police unit that ruled Sandra Birchmore's death a suicide. Prosecutors told the jury that when Fanning interviewed Matthew Farwell's twin brother William on February 11th, 2021, he said they needed an investigation like they needed a bullet in the head. Nothing criminal. Not investigating. That's the prosecution's account of what William Farwell later told the FBI. Fanning was also the man who decided the Matthew Farwell interview would happen in a parking lot with no recording, per Trooper Dunne's testimony. No search warrant was ever sought. Fanning went on to supervise the Karen...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 18m 4s
Sandra Birchmore Ordered a Baby Onesie With THIS Written on It
Sandra Birchmore’s doctor screened her for depression on January 21. She scored high. The last question asked whether she’d had any thoughts of hurting herself in the past seven days. Sandra scored a zero.Eight days later, at her last appointment, she reported no bleeding and nothing worse than jitters from her medication. Her doctor expected to see her February 17. She learned Sandra was dead from a staff member.The defense built Sandra a reason. A 2017 journal entry. The Zoloft black-box warning. About two dollars in her account. Sandra’s doctor had one answer: “She’s mo...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 31m 27s
Sandra Birchmore's Examiner Found Farwell's Name in Her Password and Cleared His Phone
Nicholas Guarino held Sandra Birchmore's digital life in his hands. Her password was Matthew Farwell's name. He got into her laptop with it. Then he searched Farwell's phone for messages with Sandra, found zero, and gave the phone back. Prosecutors say Farwell had already deleted everything after his parking lot interview with state police. The FBI would later recover tens of thousands of messages Guarino never saw. He also testified he deleted a partial extraction of Sandra's laptop as redundant, that her Apple Watch was too new to read, and that an external drive failed in 2024 on a date...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 12m 50s
Sandra Birchmore's Trooper Kept Farwell Off Tape and Closed Her Case as Suicide
Trooper Matthew Dunne had one chance to get Matthew Farwell on the record about the night Sandra Birchmore died. He chose a school parking lot, no recorder, no notebook, and testified he did it so Farwell wouldn't lawyer up. Farwell told him the relationship started in 2020 and they'd met a handful of times. Dunne now says both claims were lies. He still didn't attend the autopsy, didn't interview neighbors, didn't preserve the bedding or the duffel bag the ligature likely came from, and signed off on suicide. Bob Motta explains how a lead investigator ends up testifying for the...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 17m 29s
Alex Murdaugh and Matthew Farwell — Untested DNA and Undeleted Texts
One episode covers two cases and two courtrooms. Murdaugh's defense surfaced unknown male DNA under both of Maggie's fingernails and on the phone thrown from the car — evidence SLED left untested. A federal prisoner's claim of $15,000-a-week pill sales to the family went uninvestigated for three years. Harpootlian told a judge Murdaugh passed a polygraph. The judge set the record straight: he failed it and was never tested about the murders. Candor is not optional. In Matthew Farwell's federal trial, his texts to Sandra Birchmore were read aloud. He wrote he figured she would have said no because she wa...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 1h 5m 6s
Former Pastor Says Caleb Flynn's Sin Brought Him Closer to God
A man who pastored for thirty years and left the faith entirely sat down for Homicide Happy Hour and said what insiders know but don't say. Caleb Flynn led worship while carrying on a relationship behind his wife Ashley's back. He was convicted on all nine counts and sentenced to life without parole for her murder in Tipp City, Ohio. Gibson says the affair didn't create distance between Flynn and his faith. It created the opposite. The evangelical system teaches that sin is proof you need God more, and shame becomes a kind of closeness. Gibson watched that cycle...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 23m 33s
Matthew Farwell — The Work Phone Searches He Made After Sandra Birchmore Died
His personal phone was already with State Police. So Matthew Farwell went to his department-issued work phone. Eight days after Sandra Birchmore died, he searched whether consent can be revoked in Massachusetts and whether deleted iMessages are recoverable through Cellebrite. The FBI examiner laid out the digital timeline from the night of February 1st: Sandra's phone captured six steps at 9:10 PM, locked at 9:13, moved eight more steps at 9:40, then went permanently still. Farwell was recorded entering her building. Two days prior, Sandra had compiled a list of baby names. Matthew was the last one. The defense had the examiner...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 17m 27s
Barry Morphew Told Investigators He Was Asleep. His Truck Data Said WHAT?!
Barry Morphew left his Chaffee County home before dawn on Mother’s Day 2020 for a construction job in Broomfield — more than a hundred miles east. He told investigators Suzanne was asleep when he left. That evening, Suzanne’s daughters reported her missing. The overnight data didn’t match Barry’s account. Truck sensors recorded activity between 3:25 and 3:51 a.m. His phone powered off twice. At 6:10 a.m., he texted Suzanne “Happy Mother’s Day.” Her phone had stopped all activity at 4:23 a.m. The work trip lasted almost ten hours. Barry spent less than thirty minutes at the site. Investigators do...
Published: Oct 20, 2026Duration: 12m 37s
Matthew Farwell — "I Figured You Would Have Said No Because You Were Young"
These are not allegations from a witness. They are Matthew Farwell's own words, preserved on his phone and read aloud in federal court. An FBI agent spoke Sandra Birchmore's side. A prosecutor spoke his. He wrote that he figured she would have said no because she was young. He wrote that he got addicted. He maintained a cover story — tutoring at the library — while prosecutors allege the relationship was physical there during Sandra's high school years. He confirmed to the FBI that 2012 was accurate. Sandra was fourteen at the time. He told her to delete messages, and he did it r...
Published: Oct 20, 2026Duration: 17m 24s