Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

<div> <p>Joseph Duggar appeared in a Florida courtroom on March 31 facing charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. He posted $600,000 bond and was back in Arkansas by evening. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, his father Jim Bob was in Florida and ready to post bond. According to court records reported by multiple outlets, Joseph had filed a written not-guilty plea and demanded a jury trial two days before the hearing — from a jail cell.</p><p>The charges in Florida are classified as a life felony. In Arkansas, both Joseph and his wife Kendra face separate charges reportedly connected to exterior locks found on bedroom doors in their Tontitown home. That specific detail echoes something the Duggar family disclosed decades ago — locks placed on doors to keep Josh Duggar separated from his siblings after his own abuse was revealed. A second Duggar household. The same solution. A generation later.</p><p>But the story inside the family is moving just as fast as the legal case. According to a recorded jailhouse call reported by TMZ, Kendra reportedly retained the family's longtime attorney for herself, not for Joseph. She left the family home with the couple's children and has not returned. Amy Duggar King told Fox News she was not surprised another alleged predator had come out of what she called a toxic system. Jim Bob's sister Deanna publicly called for Kendra to divorce Joseph. Jim Bob and Michelle issued a statement through a spokesperson supporting Kendra and the children — not Joseph.</p><p>This monologue covers every detail — the courtroom, the charges, the bond conditions, the family fracture, and the road ahead. Tony Brueski breaks it all down.</p><p>Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &amp; EXTRAS!: <a href="https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/">https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/</a></p><p>Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Tik-Tok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod">https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod</a></p><p>X Twitter <a href="https://x.com/TrueCrimePod">https://x.com/TrueCrimePod</a></p><p>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.</p><p>#JosephDuggar #DuggarFamily #KendraDuggar #JimBobDuggar #19KidsAndCounting #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DuggarArrest #BayCountyFlorida #JoshDuggar</p></div>

<div> <p>Kevin Reddington told a Plymouth Superior Court judge that his client continues to experience thoughts of self-harm, needs monitoring throughout the day, and that if she dies before or during trial, that is on somebody. And it is not him. That is where we are.</p><p>The final chapter of our five-part series is Tony Brueski's examination of the courtroom, the constitutional battles, and the question that no verdict in Plymouth will fully resolve: what does criminal responsibility mean when a defendant's own defense doesn't contest the acts — only the mind behind them?</p><p>This episode covers the bifurcation fight and the Fifth Amendment argument at its core; the prosecution's premeditation theory; the defense's psychosis argument; the psychiatric evaluation ahead of trial; and the parallel civil malpractice suits that may produce more lasting change than any criminal verdict. It closes with the structural reality no verdict will fix: postpartum psychosis still isn't in the DSM, and the system that processed Lindsay Clancy is still running.</p><p>The verdict is coming. The questions already belong to all of us.</p><p>Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &amp; EXTRAS!: <a href="https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/">https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/</a></p><p>Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Tik-Tok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod">https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod</a></p><p>X Twitter <a href="https://x.com/TrueCrimePod">https://x.com/TrueCrimePod</a></p><p>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.</p><p>#HiddenKillers #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #CriminalJustice #MaternalMentalHealth #JusticeSystem #TrueCrimePodcast</p></div>

<div> <p>A deleted Word document allegedly outlining how to carry out the Gilgo Beach killings and avoid detection. DNA recovered from a discarded pizza crust matching hairs found on multiple LISK victims across multiple crime scenes. A Frye hearing ruling that admitted a DNA technology never before used in a New York trial.</p><p>Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to walk through the evidence that reportedly ended the Gilgo Beach Killer's fight. Faddis breaks down why the planning document is so devastating from a prosecution standpoint, what whole genome sequencing actually is and why the Long Island Serial Killer defense couldn't get it excluded, and how investigators extracted deleted files from over 350 seized electronic devices.</p><p>We examine the document's alleged references to "Mindhunter" and how a prosecutor builds a premeditation case from a defendant allegedly studying serial crime investigation methodology. We follow the evidentiary chain from a piece of trash to the DNA match that connected Rex Heuermann to victims spanning years. And Faddis answers the question every attorney following the LISK case is asking — which single piece of evidence tipped the scales toward a plea?</p><p>If you want to understand what the prosecution was prepared to present at the Gilgo Beach Killer trial — and why it reportedly became a case the defense couldn't take to a jury — this is the conversation.</p><p>Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &amp; EXTRAS!: <a href="https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/">https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/</a></p><p>Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Tik-Tok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod">https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod</a></p><p>X Twitter <a href="https://x.com/TrueCrimePod">https://x.com/TrueCrimePod</a></p><p>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.</p><p>#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PlanningDocument #DNAEvidence #LongIslandSerialKiller #WholeGenomeSequencing #TrueCrimePodcast</p></div>

<div> <p>After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women on Long Island. Every defense strategy his LISK legal team attempted was denied by the court.</p><p>Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to walk through what actually forces a defendant's hand when every legal door closes. This isn't speculation. Faddis has been in that room. He's made the case from both sides of the aisle, and he explains the mechanics of how a plea negotiation works when seven murder charges are stacked against you and the evidence has already survived every challenge.</p><p>We get into DA Tierney's public posture, the defense's failed omnibus motion, what leverage Michael Brown has left at the negotiating table, and whether a judge could still reject the Gilgo Beach Killer's plea. We also talk about the families of the LISK victims — people who have waited over a decade for some form of accountability — and whether a plea gives them closure or robs them of the public reckoning a trial would have provided.</p><p>Faddis doesn't soften the reality. This is one of the most consequential legal decisions in the history of Long Island, and he treats it with the gravity it deserves.</p><p>Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &amp; EXTRAS!: <a href="https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/">https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/</a></p><p>Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Tik-Tok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod">https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod</a></p><p>X Twitter <a href="https://x.com/TrueCrimePod">https://x.com/TrueCrimePod</a></p><p>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.</p><p>#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #CriminalDefense #TrueCrimePodcast</p></div>

<div> <p>Everybody knows the case. The missing poster. The FBI investigation. The doorbell camera footage. But almost nobody outside of Tucson, Arizona, knows who Nancy Guthrie actually is — and that gap between the headline and the human being is where this episode lives.</p><p>Nancy Ellen Long grew up in Fort Wright, Kentucky, wrote for her college newspaper, married a mining engineer she spotted at a blind date to a basketball game, and followed him from Kentucky to Australia to the Arizona desert. She was a full-time mother for nearly two decades. Then her husband died suddenly at forty-nine, and Nancy was left at forty-six with three children, an aging mother, and a brother with Down syndrome who all needed her. She had no career and no safety net.</p><p>She went to work at the University of Arizona so her daughters could attend tuition-free. She built a career in public relations from the ground up. She brought live music into a hospital. She raised a fighter pilot, a published poet, and one of the most recognized broadcast journalists in America. She attended the same church every Sunday for thirty years — so consistently that one missed service triggered the alarm that she was gone.</p><p>This is the Nancy no one knew. The grandmother. The survivor. The woman still laughing about javelinas in her garden. Her story deserves to be told.</p><p>Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &amp; EXTRAS!: <a href="https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/">https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/</a></p><p>Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/">https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/</a></p><p>Tik-Tok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod">https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod</a></p><p>X Twitter <a href="https://x.com/TrueCrimePod">https://x.com/TrueCrimePod</a></p><p>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.</p><p>#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #HiddenKillers #PimaCounty #FindNancy #JusticeForNancy #BringNancyHome</p></div>