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  Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Moved Amid New Weapons Allegations 04.10.2026 29Min.

  Alex Murdaugh’s second murder trial is now scheduled for Sumter County, about eighty miles from the courthouse where he was convicted in 2023. Judge Debra McCaslin moved the case after finding that Murdaugh could not receive a fair and impartial retrial in Colleton County or elsewhere in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit. The first jury-selection process had already disqualified most of the people summoned, and McCaslin said later publicity and the Becky Hill jury-interference case only deepened the problem.The defense had pushed for Charleston and offered to waive any future appeal based on venue if the judge accepted that request. McCaslin instead picked Sumter after reviewing jury-pool size, courthouse capacity, security, transportation, and technology. The retrial is set for April 5, 2027.Meanwhile, state investigators and statewide grand-jury prosecutors are reportedly examining allegations involving the still-missing murder weapons. Recent reports identify Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and another officer as subjects of questions about weapons and bloody clothing allegedly moved after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. Alexander has not been charged. His attorney says the allegations are unfounded and has called the reporting ridiculous rumors.The new inquiry does not erase the evidence presented in the first trial, and it does not establish who handled the missing guns. But it gives both sides another factual dispute to investigate before the retrial. Tony Brueski looks at how a new venue and an unresolved evidence question could reshape the second prosecution of one of South Carolina’s most scrutinized criminal cases.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.#AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #SumterCounty #GregAlexander #MurdaughMurders #SLED #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #TrueCrime
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  JP Miller Delayed His Trial Again — And the Demon Talk Is Back 04.10.2026 28Min.

  JP Miller is headed toward a January 2027 federal trial after his defense obtained a sixth continuance. The former Myrtle Beach pastor has pleaded not guilty to cyberstalking Mica Miller and making false statements to federal investigators, and the allegations in the indictment are concrete: unwanted communications, tracking devices, interference with finances and daily life, vehicle damage, and alleged lies to the FBI.Then there is the much stranger public record. In October 2023, Miller told his Solid Rock Church congregation that he was going through deliverance sessions and that demons were coming out of him. There is no indication that demonic possession has been raised as a defense in his federal case. But the statements matter because of what was happening around the same period and because of how Miller described his own behavior elsewhere.Mica's brother Nate Francis said in a sworn affidavit that JP sent Mica an email acknowledging that when he felt hurt, he would try to hurt back, attack, and cause pain. That language is not mystical. It is personal, direct, and potentially far more relevant to how viewers understand the allegations now before a federal court.The demon-defense comparison has legal history, too. In 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson's attorney tried to present demonic possession as an explanation for a fatal stabbing. Judge Robert Callahan barred the argument as irrelevant and unreliable, and Johnson was convicted of manslaughter.Tony Brueski looks at why the Miller case is not really about demons at all. After six delays, the central issue is whether prosecutors can prove the charged conduct beyond a reasonable doubt and whether the defense can undercut the government's digital, documentary, and witness evidence when the case finally reaches trial.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 #TrueCrimeToday #FederalTrial #Cyberstalking #DemonDefense #MyrtleBeach #SolidRockChurch #MicasLaw #TrueCrime
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  What Alleigha Botner's Texts Revealed About Caleb Flynn 04.10.2026 37Min.

  Alleigha Botner’s testimony forced the Caleb Flynn trial to confront both halves of the affair. Prosecutors did not only show jurors Flynn’s statements about wanting Ashley Flynn gone. They made Botner claim her own words. In one July 2025 exchange, she acknowledged writing that she wanted Ashley dead. Flynn replied, “that makes two of us.” Botner testified that she did not mean it literally.Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI special agent, and Robin Dreeke examine how those messages fit into the broader behavioral record. That includes the September 2 conversation after Ashley found evidence of the affair, when Flynn suggested taking Ashley’s phone while she slept and Botner responded “be careful,” asked what excuse he would use, and later wrote “Perfect.” The issue is not whether one ugly message proves a crime. It is how the sequence, repetition, and practical planning were presented to the jury.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the relationship from the other end of the timeline. Botner was a young church intern when she met Flynn, an older married worship-team volunteer. Scott discusses how age, religious trust, secrecy, Flynn’s claim that Ashley was merely a roommate, matching hidden tattoos, and AI-generated love songs can help create an insulated relationship in which outside objections lose force.The jury ultimately convicted Flynn on September 29, 2026, of aggravated murder and eight other charges. His lawyers had argued that the state never proved he fired the gun, that an intruder killed Ashley, and that the affair evidence was emotionally powerful but not direct proof. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5. Coffindaffer and Scott bring two different expert lenses to the same question: how much of this case lives in what was said, and how much lives in the relationship that made those conversations possible?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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #RobinDreeke #CalebFlynnVerdict #OhioCrime #TrueCrime
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  What Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Texts and Police Interview Revealed 04.10.2026 47Min.

  The Caleb Flynn case turned on more than one kind of evidence. Jurors heard months of private messages between Caleb and Alleigha Botner, then watched police interviews in which Detective Mike Morgan pressed Caleb on the physical scene inside the Flynn home.Botner’s testimony included a June 2025 exchange that ended with Caleb saying, “I’ve never joked about it.” Other messages included “please take her out” and an August statement about thinking of ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. Prosecutors argued the messages showed escalating intent. The defense said they showed a dishonest husband telling his girlfriend what she wanted to hear, not a murderer confessing a plan.Morgan’s interview tested a different question: whether Caleb’s account matched the house. He told Caleb the garage entry point did not make sense as a forced break-in and walked him through the bedroom evidence. At one point, Morgan described the edge of the bed where Caleb said he had stood while checking on Ashley, placing him in the area investigators believed the shooter occupied. Caleb agreed.Tony Brueski brings in retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke and former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to examine how investigators use incremental disclosures, how jurors may weigh violent language against physical evidence, and what can and cannot be inferred from a suspect’s responses in an interview.On September 29, 2026, the jury convicted Caleb Flynn on all nine counts. His attorneys have indicated 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 #TrueCrimeToday #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCity #OhioCrime #TrueCrime
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  Richard Allen Appeal: Did Indiana Protect Him Into Psychosis? 03.10.2026 53Min.

  This Delphi special combines the “Before the Appeal” commentary with a discussion of the appeal hearing featuring defense attorney Bob Motta. That structure matters because the first half explains what Richard Allen’s lawyers said was wrong with his trial, while the second tests those claims against the questions the Indiana Court of Appeals actually asked on September 21, 2026.Allen was convicted in November 2024 of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German and later sentenced to 130 years. His appeal challenges multiple trial rulings, including the admission of incriminating statements made after months at Westville Correctional Facility. The defense argues that Allen’s prolonged restrictive housing contributed to psychosis and that the resulting statements were not voluntary in the constitutional sense.Indiana argued that the placement was for Allen’s protection, not an interrogation strategy, and that several important statements were made when he was coherent. Judge Nancy Vaidik pushed back with the hearing’s most quoted line: “You protected him into psychosis.” The judges also explored excluded defense evidence and repeatedly tested whether any alleged trial errors mattered enough to require a new trial.Tony Brueski and Bob Motta separate courtroom pressure from appellate outcome. A judge’s skeptical question can reveal the issue the panel is wrestling with, but it does not tell us how that judge will vote. The case was taken under advisement without a ruling, meaning the legal question is now whether the panel sees reversible error — not simply whether it disliked how Allen was treated.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 #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #AppealHearing #TrueCrime
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  Lindsay Clancy's Defense Wants the Jury Notes Unsealed 03.10.2026 1Std. 5Min.

  The Lindsay Clancy case has moved from a deadlocked jury to a fight over what the judge should do with the record that deadlock created. This combined episode includes our discussion before the September 29 hearing with defense attorney Bob Motta, followed by special commentary explaining what happened in the Rule 25 hearing and the defense effort to un-impound juror information.After the September 4 mistrial, jurors publicly described an 11-to-1 split favoring not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Foreperson Roni Carlson said the lone holdout acknowledged reasonable doubt but would not join that verdict. Nick Dargie said the holdout could not identify evidence supporting his position. Those reports gave the defense a new question to press: whether the mistrial was necessary at all, and whether more inquiry into the juror should have happened first.At the September 29 hearing, Kevin Reddington renewed a Rule 25 request for a required finding of not guilty. He argued the prosecution's evidence was legally insufficient and sharply criticized the investigation. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham answered that the Commonwealth had presented enough evidence to support the charges and noted that the defense had accepted key stipulations during trial.A separate fight came from appellate attorney Martin Weinberg, who asked for access to sealed jury notes and sidebar material connected to the deadlock. The defense says those records may support its double-jeopardy argument by showing what the judge knew about the holdout before declaring a mistrial. Prosecutors warned against exposing deliberative material in a way that could chill future juries.Judge William Sullivan left the major questions open and set November 2 for further proceedings. Bob Motta explains the practical difference between Rule 25, double jeopardy, juror misconduct claims, and a motion to unseal - four paths that are now converging on the same unresolved question: can this case be tried again?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 #TrueCrimeToday #ClancyTrial #BobMotta #Rule25 #HoldoutJuror #DoubleJeopardy #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime
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  Kohberger Wants His Plea Back Over WHAT His Lawyers Said?! 03.10.2026 29Min.

  Bryan Kohberger wants to withdraw the guilty plea that spared him a death-penalty trial, and his new challenge reaches back to what his own lawyers privately told the judge weeks before that plea. The now-unsealed filing says Anne Taylor’s team believed Kohberger was struggling to understand adverse rulings and rationally evaluate the case as a whole.That is not the same as a finding that Kohberger was incompetent. His attorneys expressly denied incompetence while asking Judge Steven Hippler for additional time to investigate the problem and obtain expert assistance. Hippler denied the request on June 26, 2025. Six days later, Kohberger admitted the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin and pleaded guilty to burglary as well. The post-conviction petition tells a different story from the plea hearing. Kohberger now alleges his attorneys pressured him, made promises about prison life, and failed to disclose evidence. At the plea hearing, however, he told Hippler he understood the consequences, was not being forced, and was pleading guilty because he was guilty. His evidence claim involving hair found in Ethan Chapin’s hand also has a pre-plea record. Defense expert Ruth Ballard examined a hair from that location and concluded it was morphologically consistent with Chapin’s own reference hair. Taylor filed that analysis before the plea agreement was signed. Tony Brueski and defense attorney Eric Faddis examine what a court does with those competing records, why the competency distinction matters, and what the October 15 fight over Judge Hippler could mean before the larger evidentiary hearing scheduled for June 2027. 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 #TrueCrimeToday #KohbergerCase #AnneTaylor #StevenHippler #GuiltyPlea #PostConviction #IdahoFour #TrueCrime 
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  Caleb Flynn’s Texts Contradicted WHAT He Told Police?! 03.10.2026 45Min.

  Caleb Flynn told police there were no problems in his marriage. Trial testimony gave jurors a very different record: a long-running affair, repeated promises of divorce, messages about wanting Ashley Flynn gone, and more than 100,000 communications with Alleigha Botner. The contrast is the center of this combined episode. Botner testified that Flynn repeatedly said he would leave Ashley but kept delaying. In one exchange, he described the job, home, income, and family time he said he would sacrifice for Botner, then asked her to prove she was willing to do anything for love. He followed that demand by insisting he was not trying to manipulate her. Other messages turned darker, including statements about hating Ashley, wanting her dead, and thinking through ways to kill her without going to jail. Hours after Ashley was found shot, Detective Mike Morgan interviewed Flynn. His phone contained no messages from his wife. Flynn said he deletes messages to save storage. He volunteered two possible outside suspects and told Morgan his marriage had no problems “whatsoever.” Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke examine what investigators hear when a suspect arrives with explanations and alternatives already prepared — while keeping behavior analysis separate from proof. Flynn’s attorneys argued that an unknown intruder killed Ashley and emphasized the absence of a recovered murder weapon or eyewitness to the shooting. They argued the messages showed infidelity and toxic talk, not murder. Prosecutors presented the texts alongside digital and physical evidence. On September 29, 2026, a jury convicted Flynn on all charged counts and firearm specifications. He is scheduled to be sentenced October 5. The interrogation now reads against a verdict — and against the written record jurors had in front of them. 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 #TrueCrimeToday #AlleighaBotner #RobinDreeke #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCity #TrueCrime #AmericanIdol #OhioCrime 
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  JP Miller Has Delayed His Trial SIX Times — He's Still Free 03.10.2026 14Min.

  Between 2010 and 2020, the federal government filed 412 cyberstalking cases across the entire United States. Roughly 40 a year. The overall federal conviction rate exceeds 90 percent. Prosecutors pick the cases they expect to win.JP Miller is one of those cases. A federal grand jury in South Carolina indicted the Myrtle Beach pastor in December 2025 on two counts — cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. The indictment alleges a course of conduct from November 2022 until the day Mica Miller died on April 27, 2024. The North Carolina medical examiner ruled her death a suicide.JP pleaded not guilty in January 2026. Since then, his defense team has filed six motions for continuance. Prosecutors consented to all six.Judge Joseph Dawson III signed every order. JP voluntarily waived his right to a speedy trial. The trial is now set for January 2027.Prosecutors allege JP tracked Mica's location, sent floods of unwanted messages, posted a private photograph, and tampered with her vehicle. Mica called police seven times. Officers responded every time. When Mica was involuntarily hospitalized in February 2024, JP allegedly showed up and took her purse and car keys.In January 2027, Mica's Law — the coercive control bill her family championed — is expected to be reintroduced. The bill stalled in the South Carolina legislature in 2026.JP Miller is free on $100,000 unsecured bond. He remarried thirteen months after Mica's death. He preaches at pop-up locations around Myrtle Beach. The system moved — and it's still waiting.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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  What Caleb Flynn's Mistress Knew — Plus Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer 03.10.2026 56Min.

  Caleb Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. The jury took under three hours. We're asking whether civil court could reach the woman who spent eighteen months reading Flynn's death texts and said nothing — his mistress Alleigha Botner. This episode also covers two bombshell developments in the Lindsay Clancy case: Kevin Reddington's Rule 25 motion claiming there's no evidence Clancy killed her children, and his demand to investigate the lone holdout juror who prevented an acquittal. Flynn has been convicted. Clancy has pleaded not guilty. 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 #LindsayClancy #AlleighaBotner #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #GuiltyVerdict #Mistrial #JusticeForAshley
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  Someone Texted Nancy Guthrie’s Family THIS About Mexico 02.10.2026 14Min.

  Someone sent Nancy Guthrie’s daughter a text on September 28 claiming her mother is alive in Mexico. Bitcoin demanded. The sheriff’s department dismissed it in under 24 hours. A retired FBI agent says it’s a recycled scam — same playbook she saw used against her in April, different target.The Nancy Guthrie case is eight months old. The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson after being dropped off by family the evening of January 31. By early morning February 1, her blood was on the porch, her doorbell camera was dark, and her pacemaker had stopped communicating with her phone.FBI-recovered footage from Google’s servers shows a masked, armed individual at Nancy’s front door before she was taken. No one has been able to identify the figure. DNA found at the scene in February doesn’t belong to Nancy or her associates. Genetic genealogy analysis has been running since March, but sources say the sample quality is “low-level” and may not yield a usable profile.FBI Director Kash Patel publicly stated his bureau was kept out for the first four critical days. The Pima County deputies’ union president called the early investigation a product of “leadership incompetence.” The crime scene was handed back to the family before federal agents had processed it, and the DNA was sent to a private lab in Florida instead of the FBI’s facility at Quantico.Two ransom notes the FBI considers “potentially legitimate” contained details from inside the home. The first demanded four million dollars in Bitcoin. The second announced Nancy’s death, claiming she was “buried in nature.”More than $1.2 million in rewards. No suspect named. No arrest. The case may hinge on what happens in that DNA lab.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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  Why Matthew Farwell Deleted Two Searches Five Days After Sandra Birchmore Died 02.10.2026 18Min.

  Federal prosecutors put it in a 2026 court filing: at no point was Matthew Farwell seriously considered as a suspect in a homicide. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story is the investigation that produced that sentence, from the hour her body was found to the federal courtroom where jury selection begins October 5, 2026.Canton police found Sandra on February 4, 2021, seated on her bedroom floor with a duffel-bag strap around her neck. A trooper checked the suicide box that day. By February 6 the state had video of Farwell entering her building masked and leaving 29 minutes later, and a caller's report that Sandra's police-officer boyfriend had said he would take care of the problem himself. Detectives met him in a parking lot, unrecorded. He told them it began in 2020; the department's own investigators put it at 2013, when she was 15.On February 9, the FBI says, Farwell used his Stoughton-issued phone to look up whether deleted iMessages can be recovered and whether consent can be revoked, then wiped both searches. In March his lawyer refused a DNA sample and the state didn't seek a warrant. In May the medical examiner ruled suicide. The lieutenant who supervised the case had been a Stoughton officer alongside the deputy chief who ran the Explorers program, and later worked the Karen Read investigation.The Norfolk DA's office declined to prosecute in 2022, citing Sandra's death. The FBI arrested Farwell in August 2024. Prosecutors' 2026 filings say his DNA is the major contributor on the strap; the defense says the strap carries a mixture from at least four people and that Sandra died by suicide. He 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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #NorfolkDA #StoughtonPolice #KarenRead #FarwellTrial #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
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  What Reddington Did to the Juror After the Clancy Mistrial 02.10.2026 20Min.

  Eleven jurors voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy by reason of insanity. One man held out. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington demanded the court investigate him, accused him of misconduct and of lying during jury selection, and identified his gender in a press conference. Media reported the man's name and personal background. He now has his own attorney. Judge Sullivan scheduled a hearing on Reddington's investigation motion for November 2 — alongside the defense's motion to dismiss the charges entirely. This segment examines whether a defense attorney targeting a holdout juror is aggressive lawyering or a calculated act of intimidation aimed at future jury pools. 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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  What Reddington Told the Judge About Lindsay Clancy's Kids 02.10.2026 19Min.

  Kevin Reddington built Lindsay Clancy's entire defense on the premise that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan while in the grip of postpartum psychosis. He offered to stipulate it in writing. The jury deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal. A mistrial was declared. Then Reddington stood before Judge Sullivan and argued there is no evidence she did it. He called the police investigation nonexistent. He challenged the physical evidence. Prosecutors told the court they were hearing this argument for the first time. The judge took the motion under advisement and scheduled further hearings for November 2. This segment breaks down what Rule 25 actually is, whether it has any realistic chance, and what this pivot means for the retrial. 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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  What Suing Caleb Flynn's Mistress Could Uncover 02.10.2026 16Min.

  For eighteen months, Alleigha Botner received texts from Caleb Flynn describing how much he hated his wife and fantasizing about her death. Over 107,000 messages. She read them, stayed in the affair, and initially lied to the FBI after Ashley was shot twice in the back of the head. A jury convicted Flynn of aggravated murder. Could civil court offer the one thing criminal court couldn't — a reckoning with the woman who knew? What could a wrongful death lawsuit expose that prosecutors left untouched? What deleted texts, shared accounts, or private conversations are still buried? 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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  Kohberger’s Four Murder Convictions Could Fall Because of His Judge 02.10.2026 14Min.

  Anne Taylor is the person the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murder case turns on. In a sealed filing submitted in May 2025, Kohberger’s defense attorney told Judge Hippler that her client couldn’t rationally understand the proceedings against him. She wrote that he struggled to comprehend adverse rulings and couldn’t make consequential decisions about his own defense.Hippler denied Taylor’s motion for more time on June 26. Six days later, Kohberger stood in a Boise courtroom and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Taylor stood beside him and told the court she was satisfied she’d had sufficient time. Kohberger answered every question.Kohberger’s post-conviction petition now seeks to vacate that plea, alleging his attorneys withheld evidence and pressured him into a deal he didn’t understand. The defense team’s own forensic expert, Ruth Ballard, examined the hair evidence Kohberger says was concealed and concluded it physically matched victim Ethan Chapin. That analysis was completed a full month before the plea agreement was signed.Taylor’s team never concluded Kohberger was incompetent and denied it explicitly. Brent Turvey, the forensic criminologist on the defense team, has said publicly that Taylor and her co-counsel will face “very difficult questions.”Arguments on whether Hippler should be disqualified are set for October 15. An amended petition is due in November. If the evidentiary hearing goes forward in June 2027, everything comes down to what Anne Taylor says under oath.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’s 18-Month Playbook — A Psychotherapist Sees WHAT Behind the Affair 02.10.2026 1Std. 2Min.

  It started with a lie in a church and ended with a murder charge in a bedroom. In between: eighteen months, 107,000 text messages, and a relationship that psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says followed a trajectory she’s seen before — with an ending she says the psychology was always building toward.Scott joins Tony Brueski for a three-part interview covering the full arc of the relationship between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner in the case of Ashley Flynn’s death. Part one starts at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio, where Flynn — a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant — met Botner, a 21-year-old intern. Scott dissects the power imbalance: the age gap, the spiritual authority, the “roommate” narrative, and the theatrical gestures — AI love songs, matching Harry Potter tattoos — that built a sealed world around a younger woman.Part two maps the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted wife, children, reputation, and mistress — all of it, permanently. Botner set deadlines. Flynn broke them. She left in January. He came back on Valentine’s Day. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that made the pattern self-sustaining.Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and the escalation from marriage complaints to casual references to Ashley’s death. Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her.” Scott reads the complicity debate through both psychologies and then turns the entire question: if Flynn had recommitted to Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying every text he’d ever sent?One arc. One question running underneath all three parts: was this always heading toward the ending it reached, or was there a moment it could’ve been stopped?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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  How Old Sandra Birchmore Was When She Met the Cop Charged With Killing Her 01.10.2026 17Min.

  Sandra Birchmore was 12 years old when she applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers in March 2010. Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton officer charged with killing her, was an instructor there. Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story is what the department's own records, the FBI, and the state's police-standards commission say happened inside that program, and how it ended on the night of February 1, 2021.The Explorers post was run by Robert Devine, who rose to deputy chief, was demoted after an internal probe found he'd lied, and stayed on the force. The department's 2022 report found Devine, Matthew Farwell, and his twin William all had inappropriate relationships with Sandra. It dated Matthew's to the spring of 2013, when she was 15. A fourth town employee, the animal control officer, admitted an encounter of his own. The state has charged none of them.Prosecutors cite texts in which Farwell told Sandra to clear out their messages in 2019 and confirmed he'd be on the clock when he came by in November 2020. In December she told him she was pregnant. Friends told the FBI about a headlock, a shove over a sonogram, and a wish that she would die. She scheduled her OB appointment for February 10 and planned a Valentine's Day announcement.On January 20, 2021, a friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report Farwell; the FBI says the call reached him within the department. On February 1, the night before his wife gave birth, building video shows him walking into Sandra's building hooded and masked and walking out less than half an hour later. Prosecutors allege strangulation and a staged hanging. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and says she died by suicide. His federal trial opens 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 #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPolice #FarwellTrial #Massachusetts #PoliceExplorers #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra
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  A Psychotherapist Says Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Was Holding Something Terrifying 01.10.2026 20Min.

  One hundred and seven thousand text messages. An escalation from marriage complaints to “I want her dead.” A mistress who testified she texted “I want to kill her” about her boyfriend’s wife. And a question the public can’t stop arguing about. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to answer it — and to ask one the complicity debate has missed.Scott traces the normalization that turned the text thread between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner into a space where discussing Ashley Flynn’s death felt ordinary. The pattern is specific: each message escalated only slightly past the previous one. Over eighteen months and 107,000 exchanges, the cumulative shift was enormous. From inside the conversation, it was invisible. Scott explains how repeated exposure desensitizes both participants until language that would’ve been unthinkable in month one feels like nothing in month fifteen.The complicity question lands next. Botner says she was pushing for divorce, not death. Flynn’s alleged actions suggest he heard something different. Scott reads both psychologies: Botner’s escalating frustration with a man who wouldn’t leave, and Flynn’s specific profile — a man for whom divorce threatened his public image more than murder threatened his conscience. When those two met, Scott says the outcome became a function of Flynn’s priorities, not Botner’s words.Then the turn. If Flynn had changed his mind and recommitted to Ashley, where did that leave Botner? She carried eighteen months of texts documenting his most dangerous thoughts. She was the only person alive who knew what he’d written. Scott explains why the person holding the secrets is in a specific kind of danger — and why this affair had passed the point where safety existed for either woman in Flynn’s life.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 #Mu
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  Why Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Reversed His OWN Defense 01.10.2026 22Min.

  Kevin Reddington spent two months telling a jury Lindsay Clancy killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan in the family's Duxbury basement on January 24, 2023. He conceded the acts because that's how an insanity defense works — admit what happened, argue the person wasn't responsible. Lindsay herself stipulated to the physical evidence.At the September 29 hearing at Plymouth Superior Court, Reddington told Judge William Sullivan the prosecution never proved Lindsay killed her children. He filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion asking the judge to enter a finding of not guilty — arguing the evidence was legally insufficient. That motion, if granted, ends the case permanently.He called the DNA evidence on the exercise bands "woefully deficient." He said Lindsay woke up in the hospital with no memory and was told by police what happened. He accused Duxbury police of assuming guilt from the moment they entered the house.Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable" and pointed to the defense's own stipulations.The defense also wants holdout juror Michael Desronvil investigated. Eleven jurors were ready to acquit on insanity grounds. Desronvil held out alone through seven days of deliberations. Other jurors accused him of using his phone and acting out one of the killings with resistance bands. Appellate attorney Martin Weinberg filed a 34-page double jeopardy motion arguing the mistrial should never have been declared without a juror inquiry.Prosecutors filed a gag order motion. DA Tim Cruz told reporters he hasn't decided whether to retry the case. Sullivan pushed everything to November 2 and told both sides to come with a trial date. Neither side would commit.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 #TrueCrimeToday #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #DuxburyMom #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MartinWeinberg #HoldoutJuror