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  Caleb Flynn’s Messages Met His Interrogation in Court 04.10.2026 47min

  The Caleb Flynn trial gave jurors two very different windows into the same man: private messages to Alleigha Botner months before Ashley Flynn’s death, and Caleb’s own words to Detective Mike Morgan hours after Ashley was found shot in the couple’s Tipp City home.Botner testified about messages prosecutors used to argue planning and intent. In June 2025, the exchange ended with Caleb writing, “I’ve never joked about it.” On July 4, the jury heard “please take her out” and “I’d have a smile on my face the whole time.” In August, Caleb wrote that he had been up until 4 a.m. thinking of ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. His attorneys argued the messages were fantasy, anger, and manipulation inside an affair, not proof that he committed murder.The interrogation gave prosecutors a second track. Morgan told Caleb the side garage door had damage that did not make sense for an outside intruder and walked him through the bedroom scene. Using Caleb’s own story about where he stood when he went to Ashley, Morgan placed him at the edge of the bed, near the position investigators associated with the shooter. Caleb answered yes.Tony Brueski, retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, and former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down both sides of that record: how detectives test a story without announcing every conclusion, how repeated violent language can be interpreted in context, and what jurors actually had to decide.The jury ultimately convicted Caleb Flynn on September 29, 2026, on all nine counts. The defense has said an appeal is expected.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DetectiveMorgan #TippCityOhio #TrueCrime
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  Richard Allen and the Six Words Indiana Did Not Want to Hear 03.10.2026 53min

  This special Delphi episode combines the “Before the Appeal” commentary with a follow-up discussion of the appeal hearing with defense attorney Bob Motta. The first half sets the legal stakes before oral argument. The second half goes through what the Indiana Court of Appeals judges actually asked once Richard Allen’s case was in front of them.Allen is serving a 130-year sentence after a jury convicted him in November 2024 of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German. His appellate lawyers argue that the trial was unfair for several reasons, including the admission of incriminating statements he made after months in restrictive housing at Westville Correctional Facility. They contend his mental condition deteriorated into psychosis and that the State cannot separate those conditions from the confessions the jury heard.Indiana’s position is different. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender argued that Allen was placed there for safety, that ordinary restrictive-housing conditions do not automatically amount to legal coercion, and that important confessions were made when Allen was lucid. Judge Nancy Vaidik’s response became the headline: “You protected him into psychosis.”But sharp questions are not a ruling. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta examine why appellate judges test both sides with hypotheticals and pressure, how harmless-error analysis can preserve a conviction even if a trial ruling was wrong, and why the evidence excluded from Allen’s trial matters only if the appellate panel concludes the exclusion affected his right to present a defense. The panel took the case under advisement, leaving Allen’s conviction in place while the court considers its written decision.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #Westville #TrueCrime
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  Lindsay Clancy's Jury Room Fight Is Now in Court 03.10.2026 1h 5min

  What happened in the Lindsay Clancy jury room did not end when Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. It became the next legal battle. This combined episode starts with our before-the-hearing discussion with defense attorney Bob Motta about the reported conduct of the lone holdout juror, then follows with special commentary explaining the September 29 Rule 25 hearing and the motion to un-impound juror information.The mistrial came after seven days of deliberations and an 11-to-1 split. Several jurors later said the holdout would not accept a not-guilty-by-reason-of-lack-of-criminal-responsibility verdict. Foreperson Roni Carlson said he acknowledged reasonable doubt but still would not vote with the other eleven. Nick Dargie said he could not point to evidence supporting his position. The defense says those accounts matter because a mistrial must be supported by manifest necessity before a defendant can simply be tried again.Then came September 29. Kevin Reddington returned to court with a Rule 25 motion asking Sullivan to enter a required finding of not guilty. His argument was not the same as the insanity defense the jury had heard. He attacked the legal sufficiency of the Commonwealth's proof, including the investigation and physical evidence. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham argued the trial record contained ample evidence and emphasized that the defense had stipulated to key physical facts.At the same hearing, appellate lawyer Martin Weinberg sought access to sealed jury notes and sidebar proceedings tied to the deadlock. The defense says those materials may bear on whether Sullivan should have investigated the holdout more deeply before ending the trial. Prosecutors argue disclosure risks intruding on protected deliberations and chilling future juries. Sullivan left the major motions unresolved and set November 2 for the next round. Bob Motta explains why the juror issue, Rule 25, and double jeopardy are related - but not interchangeable.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #BobMotta #KevinReddington #Rule25 #Mistrial #HoldoutJuror #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime
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  Bryan Kohberger's Sealed Defense Memo Said WHAT?! 03.10.2026 29min

  Bryan Kohberger is trying to undo the guilty plea that put him in prison for life, and an unsealed defense memo gives his new legal team a document it says Judge Steven Hippler cannot ignore. In May 2025, Anne Taylor’s team told Hippler that Kohberger was having difficulty comprehending adverse rulings and folding them into a rational assessment of where his case was headed. Taylor’s filing drew an important line: the defense expressly denied Kohberger was incompetent. The request was for additional time to investigate his ability to understand the case, make major decisions, and communicate with counsel as the death-penalty trial approached. Hippler denied more time on June 26, 2025. Kohberger entered guilty pleas six days later to the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, along with burglary. His post-conviction petition now claims his former lawyers pressured him into the deal, misled him about prison conditions, and failed to disclose evidence he believed could help him. That account collides with Kohberger’s own answers at the July 2 plea hearing. He told the court he understood the agreement, was acting voluntarily, and had not been forced into pleading guilty. One evidence claim is also headed for scrutiny. Kohberger pointed to hair recovered from Ethan Chapin’s hand. Before the plea, defense expert Ruth Ballard examined a hair from that location and found it morphologically consistent with Chapin’s own reference hair, and the analysis was filed with the court. Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to separate a documented concern about Kohberger’s decision-making from a legal finding of incompetence, and to explain what Kohberger would have to prove to get past the plea he gave under oath. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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/tonybpod 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. #IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #KohbergerCase #AnneTaylor #GregRauch #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #IdahoFour #TrueCrime 
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  Caleb Flynn’s Clean Phone Hid WHAT From Police?! 03.10.2026 45min

  Caleb Flynn sat across from Detective Mike Morgan hours after Ashley Flynn was found shot in their Tipp City home and presented a remarkably clean version of his life. His phone showed no messages from Ashley. His marriage had “none whatsoever” in the way of problems. He offered two strangers as possible suspects and described a church-going family that kept mostly to itself. Then the jury heard the other version. Alleigha Botner testified about a nearly two-year affair and read from more than 100,000 messages exchanged with Flynn. Those texts included repeated divorce promises, hatred directed at Ashley, violent language from both Flynn and Botner, and Flynn’s statement that he had stayed up thinking about ways to kill Ashley without going to jail. Botner also testified that when Flynn talked about “actions” coming the next day, she understood him to mean a divorce. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke connect those two records: the private messages and the police interview. Flynn said he deleted texts for storage. He said there were no marital problems. He volunteered alternative suspects before the interview had fully unfolded. Robin breaks down why investigators pay attention when explanations arrive before the question that would require them — without pretending behavior alone proves a crime. Flynn’s defense argued that no murder weapon was recovered, there was no eyewitness to the shooting, and his messages showed an affair and ugly talk rather than proof he pulled the trigger. Prosecutors argued the messages, digital evidence, scene evidence, and Flynn’s own statements fit together. On September 29, 2026, the jury found Flynn guilty on all charged counts and firearm specifications. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5. What remains is the record of what Flynn told police versus what his own communications showed. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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/tonybpod 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. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #AlleighaBotner #RobinDreeke #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCity #TrueCrime #AmericanIdol #MiamiCountyOhio 
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  JP Miller Filed Six Motions to Delay — The Feds Agreed Every Time 03.10.2026 14min

  Mica Miller called police seven times between 2022 and 2024. She reported harassment and fear for her life. Officers responded every time.South Carolina's domestic violence statute did not cover coercive control. The law gave them nothing to work with.On March 11, 2024, a Horry County officer ordered JP Miller to stop contacting Mica. Six weeks later she was dead. When investigators sat JP down in October 2024, he allegedly told them that police had never given him that order. That alleged lie is now a federal charge.A grand jury indicted JP in December 2025 on two counts — cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. He pleaded not guilty. Since January 2026, the trial has been delayed six times.All six continuances filed by the defense, consented to by prosecutors, signed by Judge Joseph Dawson III. JP waived his right to a speedy trial.The case now sits in January 2027. Federal cyberstalking prosecutions happen roughly 40 times a year across the entire country. The overall federal conviction rate exceeds 90 percent. The FBI picked this one.Digital evidence doesn't degrade with time. Every delay the prosecution agrees to takes a potential appellate argument off JP's table.Senator Stephen Goldfinch told WMBF News he plans to reintroduce Mica's Law — the coercive control bill named for her — in January 2027. The bill and the trial are scheduled for the same month.JP Miller is free on a $100,000 unsecured bond. He remarried thirteen months after Mica's death. He preaches at pop-up locations around Myrtle Beach.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CyberStalking #FederalTrial #MicasLaw #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
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  Caleb Flynn and Lindsay Clancy: Who Did WHAT After Court?! 03.10.2026 56min

  Caleb Flynn's jury convicted him of aggravated murder in under three hours. His mistress Alleigha Botner read 107,000 texts where Flynn fantasized about killing his wife and never said a word. Could civil court force her to answer for what she knew? In the Clancy case, Kevin Reddington told a judge there's no evidence Lindsay killed her children — after offering to stipulate that she did. And he's demanding the court investigate the lone holdout juror who prevented an acquittal, a man who now has his own attorney. Three stories about what happens after the verdicts and mistrials — when the people around the case start facing their own reckonings. Flynn has been convicted. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#CalebFlynn #LindsayClancy #AlleighaBotner #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #GuiltyVerdict #Mistrial #JusticeForAshley
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  Nancy Guthrie’s Daughter Was Sent WHAT About Mexico?! 02.10.2026 14min

  A text claiming Nancy Guthrie is alive and being held in Mexico landed on September 28. The sender wanted Bitcoin. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department called it “not credible” within a day, and a retired FBI agent publicly identified it as a recycled con she’d been targeted by herself months earlier.Nancy Guthrie, 84 years old and the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson on the night of January 31. Blood on the front porch. Doorbell camera dark by 1:47 AM. Pacemaker disconnected from her phone by 2:28 AM. Her medication-dependent body separated from everything keeping her alive.The FBI recovered Google server footage of a masked, armed figure at her front door. No identification. No enhanced image released. The investigation’s best physical evidence is DNA collected at the scene in February that doesn’t match anyone connected to Nancy — but sources describe it as “low-level,” meaning it may not produce a genetic profile even after seven months of lab work.The investigation’s early days drew fire from the FBI director, who says the bureau was locked out for four days, and the deputies’ own union president, who called the first week a disaster. The crime scene was returned to the family before the FBI processed it. Evidence with an expiration date — the doorbell camera’s local cache — may have lost footage while jurisdictional arguments played out.Two ransom notes carrying details only someone inside the home would know demanded four million dollars. A second note claimed Nancy had died and was “buried in nature.”Over $1.2 million in combined rewards and thousands of tips have produced no arrest. The answer may rest on whether that DNA sample can give investigators a name.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ChrisNanos #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson
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  Farwell Typed THIS Into His Police Phone After Sandra Birchmore Died 02.10.2026 18min

  Matthew Farwell had just handed his personal phone to State Police detectives on February 9, 2021, when, the FBI says, he picked up the phone the Town of Stoughton paid for and asked it two questions. Can deleted iMessages be recovered by Cellebrite, the tool police use to pull data off a phone? Can consent be revoked in Massachusetts? He deleted both searches. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story starts there and follows the state's investigation to the courtroom.It had started within an hour of finding her, when prosecutors say local officers told the medical examiner's office there was no foul play. Troopers wrote no sign of a struggle. The doctor who ruled on her death never saw the room and didn't request scene photos until May. Two days in, detectives met Farwell in a school parking lot, didn't record it, and wrote him up as Matt. Prosecutors say he lied about when it started, how often he saw her, and when he left her apartment.By late December 2021, state investigators had a man on video, a fractured bone in Sandra's throat, and nearly 33,000 messages between the two of them, and the charge their own paperwork said they were building toward was larceny. The theory was that Farwell had stolen from the Town of Stoughton by seeing Sandra while he was being paid to patrol. In September 2022 the Norfolk DA's office said its witness was dead and there was no prosecutable case.Sandra's family hired Michael Baden. The FBI reopened the state's own file. The medical examiner changed the death certificate to undetermined in April 2026. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and faces mandatory life if convicted. A federal judge has admitted Sandra's journals and texts, and jury selection starts October 5, 2026.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #NorfolkDA #StatePolice #FarwellTrial #MichaelMorrissey #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
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  Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Demanded WHAT About a Juror?! 02.10.2026 20min

  The Lindsay Clancy jury split 11-1 for acquittal. Kevin Reddington didn't accept the mistrial quietly. He demanded the court investigate the lone holdout — accused him of misconduct, of lying during jury selection, of refusing to follow the judge's instructions. He publicly identified the juror's gender during a press conference, making it simple for anyone to figure out who the man was. Media reported his name. His personal life was dragged into public scrutiny. The holdout now has his own lawyer. A hearing on Reddington's investigation motion is set for November 2. This segment asks what it means for jury duty in America when a defense attorney can publicly target a citizen for voting the wrong way. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #KevinReddington #HoldoutJuror #JuryDuty #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthCourt #Duxbury #JurorRights
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  Christa Pike + Nancy Guthrie + Lindsay Clancy: What Went Wrong 02.10.2026 59min

  A killer survived her own execution. An FBI agent was targeted by extortionists. A father was blamed for murders because of a legal filing. Christa Pike received two lethal injections on September 30, 2026, and survived both — witnesses reported breathing, snoring, and complaints her arm felt like it was about to burst. Governor Bill Lee halted all Tennessee executions. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer received a ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie at a private personnel address using a middle name she doesn’t publicly go by. And after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Kevin Reddington’s Rule 25(b) motion was misread by the internet as an accusation against Patrick Clancy — a father already dealing with unimaginable loss, now defending himself against strangers.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#ChristaPike #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #RansomNote #Defense #MissingPerson #Justice
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  Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Claims WHAT About Evidence?! 02.10.2026 19min

  Kevin Reddington spent an entire trial arguing Lindsay Clancy killed her three children but wasn't criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis. He previously offered to stipulate the act in writing. Then he stood before Judge William Sullivan and said there is no evidence she did it. The Rule 25 motion asks the court to find that prosecutors failed to prove their case — and to enter a not-guilty finding without a retrial. Prosecutors told the judge they'd never heard this argument from the defense before. The judge delayed his ruling until November 2. This segment unpacks the legal mechanics, what the shift means for Patrick Clancy, and whether any judge would actually grant this. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #KevinReddington #Rule25 #PlymouthCourt #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #MassachusettsCrime
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  Caleb Flynn's Mistress Could Face WHAT in Civil Court?! 02.10.2026 16min

  Caleb Flynn texted Alleigha Botner at 4 AM about ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. Botner read every message across a year and a half — over 107,000 texts — and stayed in the affair. She showed up at the family's home the morning after Ashley was shot. She initially lied to the FBI. On the stand, she admitted she once texted that she wanted Ashley dead too. Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. Could civil court force the mistress to answer for everything she knew and everything she ignored? A wrongful death suit doesn't need proof beyond reasonable doubt. It needs a preponderance. Flynn has been convicted. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent of any uncharged conduct until proven guilty.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulDeath #CivilLiability #MiamiCountyOhio #JusticeForAshley
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  One Thing Bryan Kohberger's Judge Did Could Unravel His Guilty Plea 02.10.2026 14min

  Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorney Anne Taylor told Judge Hippler in a sealed filing that her client couldn’t rationally understand the Idaho murder case against him. She described Kohberger as struggling to comprehend adverse rulings and unable to make consequential decisions about his own defense. The judge denied her request for more time on June 26, 2025.Six days later, Kohberger pleaded guilty to all four counts of first-degree murder — the November 2022 killings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. At the plea hearing, Hippler asked Taylor whether she’d had enough time to discuss the case with her client, and she said yes.That sealed filing is now public. Kohberger has filed a post-conviction petition arguing the plea should be thrown out. He claims his attorneys hid critical evidence, including hair evidence he says would have pointed to an unidentified attacker.His own defense expert, Ruth Ballard, analyzed that hair and concluded it physically matched Ethan Chapin’s own hair. Her report was completed a month before the plea deal was signed.Taylor’s defense team never determined Kohberger was incompetent. They explicitly denied reaching that conclusion and said they needed more time. Forensic criminologist Brent Turvey, a former member of the defense team, has said Taylor and her co-counsel will have to answer “very difficult questions.”The court hears arguments October 15 on whether Hippler should step aside. An amended petition follows in November. The evidentiary hearing, if it proceeds in June 2027, puts Anne Taylor on the stand.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#BryanKohberger #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #GuiltyPlea #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConviction #TrueCrimePodcast
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  Caleb Flynn Went From Church Worship Leader to THIS — A Psychotherapist’s Full Read 02.10.2026 1h 2min

  The Caleb Flynn murder trial has produced evidence, testimony, and more than 107,000 text messages. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski not to relitigate the evidence but to read the psychology — a three-part interview that traces the arc from church volunteer to murder defendant through the relationship that allegedly drove it.Part one starts where the relationship started: CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Flynn was 36, married, embedded in worship leadership. Botner was 21 and interning. Scott maps the power imbalance — the age gap, the spiritual “halo effect,” the “roommate” narrative — and explains why each detail is a clinical finding, not just a biographical footnote. The AI-generated love songs and matching Harry Potter tattoos that sound absurd in a courtroom are the gestures Scott calls most significant.Part two follows the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and his mistress — simultaneously and permanently. Botner set a January deadline for him to leave Ashley. He ignored it. She left. On Valentine’s Day, he returned. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that kept Botner locked in despite receiving nothing she’d been promised.Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and their escalation. Botner testified under oath that she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. The public debate over her complicity has split hard. Scott reads both sides, then turns the lens: if Flynn had chosen to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying all of his darkest admissions? Scott says the danger ran in both directions — and identifies when this stopped being a relationship and became something lethal.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #RelationshipPsychology
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  Sandra Birchmore's Own Department Put THIS in Writing About Farwell 01.10.2026 17min

  Nine years after it happened, the Stoughton Police Department wrote it down: an inappropriate relationship between one of its officers, Matthew Farwell, and a girl in its youth program, beginning in the spring of 2013 when she was 15. That finding is the floor of Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story. It follows a 12-year-old who idolized cops into a program the department ran, and out the other side into a Canton apartment where a Stoughton officer held a copy of her key.Robert Devine built the Stoughton Explorers into a junior police academy and rose to deputy chief while running it. The department demoted him once for lying and kept him on the force. He brought back two former Explorers, the Farwell twins, as instructors; the department's own report called them his understudies. A prior chief had rejected William Farwell's application in 2011, citing behavior he called incompatible with police work. Stoughton hired him in 2017.Matthew Farwell was seven months on the job when, according to the FBI, he sent Sandra a Facebook friend request and met her at the public library under the guise of tutoring. She later typed the date it became physical into a text: April 10, 2013. By 2019, prosecutors say, he was tracking her location and ordering her to clear out their texts.When she told him she was pregnant in December 2020, prosecutors say his first reply was that he had nothing to say. Within weeks, friends told the FBI, he'd put her in a headlock and said he wished she would die. Four days after a friend reported him to his own department, prosecutors say, he asked Sandra for a spare key. He's charged with killing her and has pleaded not guilty. Part 2 takes on what the state did next.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #PoliceExplorers #TrueCrime #Massachusetts #RobertDevine #WilliamFarwell #JusticeForSandra
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  A Psychotherapist Says Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Was in More Danger Than She Knew 01.10.2026 20min

  One hundred and seven thousand texts. That’s the volume of communication between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner over eighteen months — and somewhere inside that thread, wishing Ashley Flynn dead became routine. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to trace how that happened, what Botner’s role actually was, and the part of this case most people aren’t examining.Scott starts with the normalization. An escalation that dramatic doesn’t happen in one jump. It happens in thousands of small ones. Each text pushes the boundary slightly past where it was, and because the shift is gradual, neither person inside the conversation registers the distance they’ve traveled. Scott explains the clinical process — how repeated exposure to language desensitizes both the person saying it and the person hearing it, until “I want her dead” carries the emotional weight of a complaint about traffic.Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. She said she didn’t mean it. The public is debating whether she was complicit in murder or simply venting about a situation she wanted resolved through divorce. Scott gives that question a clinical frame. She says the distinction depends on whose psychology you’re reading — and that Flynn’s specific profile, where his public image mattered more than any person in his life, made murder the option that preserved what he valued most.Then Scott turns the lens. If Flynn had decided to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying eighteen months of texts that documented his most dangerous thoughts? Botner was the one person who could destroy him. Scott explains why the person with the secrets is always in a specific kind of jeopardy — and why this affair had crossed a threshold where both women were at risk.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTexts
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  Lindsay Clancy's Defense Reversed Its ENTIRE Case 01.10.2026 22min

  Lindsay Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan at the September 29 hearing that the prosecution's case is built on nothing — no confession, deficient DNA, and an investigation he called "horrific" and "ridiculous" before correcting himself: there was no investigation.This is the same attorney who spent two months at trial conceding Lindsay killed her three children. The insanity defense required him to concede the acts so he could argue she wasn't responsible. His client stipulated to the physical evidence. His experts testified she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis.Reddington filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion — asking the judge to enter a finding of not guilty based on insufficient evidence. If granted, the case ends with an acquittal. No retrial. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable" and reminded the judge that Lindsay confirmed the stipulations herself.Appellate attorney Martin Weinberg filed a 34-page double jeopardy motion on top of that. His argument: the judge should have investigated holdout juror Michael Desronvil before declaring the mistrial. Fellow jurors accused Desronvil of scrolling his phone during deliberations and using resistance bands to act out one of the killings.Two sealed jury notes from deliberations are at the center of the double jeopardy fight. The defense wants them unsealed. Prosecutors argued releasing them would chill every future juror's willingness to communicate with a judge.The prosecution filed a gag order motion to prevent public statements that could contaminate a retrial jury pool. DA Tim Cruz wouldn't confirm his office is retrying the case. Sullivan pushed everything to November 2 and told both sides to come with a trial date. Neither would give him one.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/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #DuxburyMom #InsanityDefense #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MartinWeinberg #HoldoutJuror
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  Caleb Flynn Spent Every Holiday With His Wife. His Mistress Spent Them Alone. 01.10.2026 23min

  Eighteen months. That’s how long Alleigha Botner waited for Caleb Flynn to leave his wife Ashley — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski that the length of the wait is itself a clinical finding.Scott joins the conversation to map the psychology of the holding pattern at the center of the Caleb Flynn murder trial. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and Botner. He wasn’t choosing. He was collecting. Scott says the profile isn’t just narcissistic — it’s a specific form of entitlement where a man genuinely can’t conceive that his double life has an expiration date.Botner’s psychology is the other half. She gave Flynn a firm deadline in January: leave Ashley or this is done. He blew past it without acknowledgment. They broke up. On Valentine’s Day, he reappeared, and she took him back. Scott explains the pattern: intermittent reinforcement, the same behavioral loop that keeps a gambler at the table. Long stretches of nothing punctuated by sudden attention create a bond that’s chemically harder to break than consistent affection. The brain doesn’t process the deprivation as a warning. It processes the return as a reward.Meanwhile, Botner spent holidays alone while Flynn played the family man at his own table. Scott walks through the sunk-cost fallacy that kept her anchored — eighteen months of secrecy, emotional investment, and social isolation made leaving feel like failure rather than survival.Scott addresses the question every friend in this situation is already asking: if you’re watching someone disappear into this kind of relationship, what actually reaches them? The answer isn’t what most people try first. Scott explains what the research says works — and why the instinct to shake someone out of it usually drives them deeper in.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ToxicRelationship
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  How Caleb Flynn Used His Own Church to Get a 21-Year-Old to Trust Him 01.10.2026 18min

  Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map what happened between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner long before any murder charges — and why the church where they met matters as much as the 107,000 texts that followed.Flynn was a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Botner was a 21-year-old intern. He was married with children. She’d never been in a relationship with that kind of power gap. Scott says the age difference alone creates conditions where manipulation goes undetected — at 21, the part of the brain that evaluates risk and spots long-term consequences is still developing. Flynn had fifteen years on her and a marriage he was hiding behind.The church setting amplified everything. Scott explains how spiritual authority generates a specific cognitive shortcut — what clinicians call a “halo effect.” A man embedded in worship leadership doesn’t trip the same alarms a stranger would. When Flynn told Botner his wife was “just a roommate,” Scott says that narrative did something precise to a 21-year-old in that environment: it activated a desire to help instead of a desire to leave.The details that sound strangest in a courtroom — AI-generated love songs, matching hidden Harry Potter tattoos — are the ones Scott calls most clinically significant. She says they’re tools for building a sealed-off world where only two people have access. Paired with the secrecy the affair required, Botner lost contact with every person who could’ve seen what was happening. Scott traces each element to its psychological function and explains what the pattern tells us about the eighteen months that came after.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join 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.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ChurchAffair