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🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast , bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski , we go beyond the headlines , featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal psychologists, and legal analysts. Whether it's the latest developments in cases like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow or deep dives into cold cases and unsolved mysteries , we uncover the hidden truths behind the crimes that captivate the world. If you’re obsessed with true crime, forensic psychology, and legal drama , subscribe now to Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski on Apple Podcasts. 🎧 New episodes multiple times a day—stay ahead of the latest crime stories. Join our SubStack: https://HiddenKillers.SubStack.com 📺Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod 📷Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 💻Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ ⏰Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod/ Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
In a case involving a body found in a Tesla trunk, chainsaws ordered under a fake name, and a thirteen-to-nineteen-million-dollar record deal as alleged motive, Blair Berk’s defense team pressed the LA County medical examiner on whether Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s wounds could have been self-inflicted. They got a detective to read messages where Celeste referenced harming herself. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that defense strategy means — and whether arguing self-infliction in a dismemberment case is genuine legal theory or manufactured reasonable doubt designed to survive a jury poll. Prosecutors mapped the timeline from first contact when Celeste was eleven to a twenty-one-minute window on the night she disappeared. Bodycam from February 2024 shows deputies told Burke she was thirteen. The relationship allegedly continued fourteen more months until she was dead. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is held without bail. Celeste was fourteen years old. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #D4vd #CelesteRivas #BlairBerk #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #DeathPenalty #MurderTrial #JusticeForCeleste
Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s father made a public statement through his attorney after David Anthony Burke’s arrest: he’d never had any contact with the singer. Five days of preliminary hearing testimony contradicted every word of it. Detective Farell testified the parents knew. Burke attended the family’s church. Celeste’s sister traveled with them to Las Vegas. A notarized consent form bearing the parents’ signatures sent their thirteen-year-old daughter to London with a grown man. Celeste was reportedly pregnant at thirteen while her parents were allegedly aware of the relationship. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the legal exposure facing the adults who signed the documents, issued the denials, and allegedly watched their daughter travel internationally with the man now charged with her murder. A teacher tried to intervene. Deputies visited Burke’s home and confirmed she was there. Nobody with the power to stop it did. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste was fourteen years old. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #D4vd #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste
Bart Edmiston — one of the friends who was on Horn Island with Nolan Wells on July 4 — has retained attorney Russ Latino and is preparing defamation lawsuits against the people who accused him online of killing Nolan. His lawyer says Bart already provided his boat, GPS data, and phone to investigators. He's cooperated fully. And he just received a credible death threat because of what his attorney calls "wholly fabricated" claims.Filing a defamation suit opens the door to the one thing fabricated claims can't survive: discovery. Depositions under oath. Subpoenas that pull every text and every GPS coordinate into a courtroom. Nobody volunteers for that process if they have something to hide.Ben Crump filed subpoenas to Snapchat, TikTok, WhatsApp, Meta, and Life360 — requesting login histories, IP addresses, password resets, GPS data, and message records. Both sides agreed to a mutual cell phone inspection. The data comes back in twenty-one days. When it does, the Snapchat question gets an answer based on evidence, not speculation.The internet manufactured an entire case file out of a debunked pool photo, an altered audio recording, and AI-generated fakes of Nolan's mother. Every viral accusation made the investigation harder, not easier. And the kids at the center of it — the friends Nolan grew up with, played football with, went to that island with — are carrying death threats for something nobody has proven they did. End Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer 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. Hashtags #NolanWells #BartEdmiston #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #OceanSprings #Mississippi #TrueCrime #BenCrump #JusticeForNolan #Defamation
Years before Moscow, Idaho, Bryan Kohberger was a nineteen-year-old fresh out of rehab who stole his sister's phone, sold it at a mall kiosk for less than half its value, and warned his father not to do anything stupid when he got caught. Then his family went to work. They fixed him. Community college. A bachelor's degree. A master's. A doctoral program in Washington State. By every measure available, they had won. Melissa used the word "proud" in an interview, and she'd earned it. What came back through that door carried two degrees and did what was done on King Road. And the reflex — whoever is closest is a lever, and levers get pulled — never changed. A courtroom walkout without looking at his mother. Video calls for hours, every day, for months. A birthday cake baked to his specifications from behind reinforced glass. A post-conviction petition filed July 27 naming the three lawyers who kept him off death row, with a reporter at the Times notified before his own family. This is not a case breakdown. It is not petition analysis. It is an open letter to the people who rebuilt Bryan Kohberger, asking them to consider that the door they've been holding open stopped leading somewhere a long time ago. That letting go doesn't cost them their decency, and that setting down the weight is not the same as pretending it never existed. Madison Mogen was twenty-one. Kaylee Goncalves was twenty-one. Xana Kernodle was twenty. Ethan Chapin was twenty. Their families carry those names forever. The Kohberger family still gets a choice. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer 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. Hashtags (10) #BryanKohberger #KohbergerFamily #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IdahoStudentMurders #KohbergerPetition #MoscowIdaho #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #TrueCrimeCommunity
Both Bryan Kohberger and Lindsay Clancy are asking the legal system to accept an account of something nobody else can see, and the two requests could not be less alike. Full conversation on both cases here. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski. Her background runs through private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs across more than thirty years. Kohberger admitted the University of Idaho murders in open court, waived his appeal, and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. A year later he filed for post-conviction relief representing himself and told a national newspaper his actual innocence is his truth. The segment covers that phrasing, his allegations against his former attorneys, the effect of a year of silence on a person's self-account, and the timing of his statement against a documentary premiere built around the four students who died. Clancy's trial turns on whether she was criminally responsible. She does not deny killing her three children. The segment covers the prosecution's framing of her treatment history as manipulation, the medication timeline her defense presented, why a stable-looking afternoon is consistent with psychosis rather than evidence against it, and what a not criminally responsible finding actually triggers in Massachusetts. The through-line is not that these two are similar. It is that only one of them is making a claim a clinician could ever evaluate. Scott also takes the question sitting underneath both segments, which is what a courtroom is actually built to evaluate. Juries assess credibility, motive, and behavior. None of those tools were designed for a psychotic illness, and none of them work on a man asserting a private truth about himself a year after saying the opposite under oath. Follow Hidden Killers for continuing coverage of both. For help with postpartum mood disorders, contact Postpartum Support International at postpartum.net or call or text 800-944-4773. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #LindsayClancy #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #IdahoStudentMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrimePodcast
There's a difference between asking someone to return your mother and asking someone to tell you where to find her. Savannah Guthrie crossed that line on July 27th. In a video posted to Instagram and addressed to whoever took Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson home, Savannah used language she's never used before. She offered empathy. She offered something close to forgiveness. And she stopped using the word "home" entirely. This episode examines what Savannah actually said and what it means — line by line. It also explains the timing: within the same week, Crime Junkie read the first ransom note aloud on air for the first time, FBI Director Kash Patel publicly accused the Pima County Sheriff's Department of losing evidence by keeping federal agents out for four days, and the sheriff's office shot back. Two agencies fighting while an eighty-four-year-old woman's family sits in front of a camera begging for a location. END LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER: 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. HASHTAGS: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #PimaCounty #Missing #CrimeJunkie #Kidnapping
Testimony resumed in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Duxbury firefighter-paramedic Daniel Dougherty testified about placing Clancy in a stabilizing neck collar and treating her in the ambulance. On cross-examination, the discussion turned to cold exposure and whether it could have restricted her blood flow — the kind of detail that sounds clinical until you remember why it matters to the defense's theory of her state that day. Duxbury Police Officer Vincent Cahill followed, describing the scene as he found it: the children, the equipment he brought in to try to help, and his own hands-on effort assisting with CPR on Cora. Not the kind of testimony anyone forgets giving. Prosecutors continue to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is now in recess and set to resume Friday morning in Plymouth Superior Court, where it's expected to continue for several more weeks. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #FirstResponders #Breaking
Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy trial did not tell the jury she was untreated. They told the jury she manipulated her doctors, looked for a quick and easy fix, and then quit trying. Tony Brueski brings that to psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, whose career covers private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, and the conversation goes exactly where it should go. Because there is a competing account of the same behavior sitting in the record. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington told jurors she had no motive and wanted off the drugs. Her malpractice suit alleges the medications she was prescribed made her worse, that she reported that to her providers, and that her care was uncoordinated across too many prescribers. A labor and delivery nurse is not an unsophisticated patient. She is the most system-literate person who will ever sit in that chair. If she could not get correctly diagnosed inside institutions that specialize in this, the question of who the system is actually working for stops being rhetorical. Also covered here: what the prosecution's argument about a single hallucinated voice actually requires jurors to assume about psychosis, and why postpartum psychosis not appearing as its own diagnosis in the DSM matters for the expert testimony coming. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and does not dispute that she caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The trial is about criminal responsibility and nothing else. Scott also addresses what outside observers consistently misread when someone with a serious psychotic illness looks fine for an afternoon. It is one of the most common assumptions in cases like this one, and one of the most damaging. Follow Hidden Killers for the rest of the trial coverage. For help with postpartum mood disorders, contact Postpartum Support International at postpartum.net or call or text 800-944-4773. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #DuxburyMassachusetts #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrimePodcast
Three first responders took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Duxbury firefighter-paramedic Patrick Dwyer described arriving to a scene most people spend their careers hoping to never see, working to resuscitate Cora before rushing her to the hospital. His colleague, Jennifer Stratton, testified to performing CPR on Callan — a baby who, by every account of that day, never had a chance to grow past seven months old. Then came Pembroke's Robert Costanzo, who tried to help Clancy herself, administering Narcan on the assumption she'd overdosed on opioids. She didn't wake up. Costanzo wasn't trained to treat benzodiazepines, which raises an obvious question about what exactly first responders are equipped to identify in the first sixty seconds of chaos. Under cross-examination, he admitted he never noticed the fractures later found in Clancy's spine, and that his hands-on time with her totaled about seven minutes — nowhere near enough to assess the true scope of her neck and wrist injuries. Prosecutors argue Clancy understood what she was doing despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, she allegedly jumped from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to run several more weeks. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #FirstResponders #Breaking
The prosecution put Patrick Clancy on the stand first in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and across two days at Plymouth Superior Court, they got something they probably didn't want. A portrait of a medical system that prescribed without monitoring, referred without following up, and discharged without warning the one person who needed to hear six words: do not leave her alone.Patrick testified to Lindsay's spiral after their third child — the insomnia, the ER visits, the rotating prescriptions, the voluntary admission to McLean Hospital. He told the jury she kept a journal tracking every pill. He said nobody ever told him his wife posed a risk to their children. Meanwhile, the prosecution walked nine prescription bottles past the jury, many still full, arguing the medications weren't taken. Tony breaks down what those bottles actually prove — and it isn't what the state thinks. Plus the seven-minute 911 call that stopped the courtroom cold, the man's voice Lindsay says she heard that night, and why the defense just filed a motion that could force prosecutors to stop misleading the jury about her internet searches. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeToday #MentalHealthCrisis #Duxbury
Three Duxbury Fire Department first responders took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings. Captain PJ Hussey, a firefighter and paramedic who responded to the scene, described what awaited the crews that night. Loring "Chuck" Nudd, a Duxbury EMT now retired, testified he was in the first ambulance to arrive — he walked the jury through what he saw as the children were brought up from the basement and what his crew attempted in those first frantic minutes. Keith Nette, a firefighter and paramedic, testified he worked to treat 3-year-old Dawson inside the ambulance. None of them needed to editorialize. The facts did the work. Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court before Judge William F. Sullivan, is expected to last several weeks. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #FirstResponders #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Two of the first responders to reach the Clancy home took the stand today, and together they gave the jury its clearest picture yet of what happened inside that house on January 24, 2023. Officers Stephen Hall and Brian Josephine were the first Duxbury police to arrive on Summer Street, where prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy, 34, strangled her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is mounting an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. Hall testified that he encountered Clancy outside the home before heading in and finding the three children in the basement. Josephine, who arrived alongside him, described that same discovery and the attempt to resuscitate Cora at the scene. Neither officer dressed it up. They didn't need to. Two men describing the worst minutes of their careers in flat, procedural language did more work than any narration could. This is how prosecutors build a case before it gets complicated — scene first, established plainly, by the people who were actually there. The psychiatric arguments, the competing theories about what Clancy understood and when, all of that comes later. Today was about what the record now shows happened in that house, in that order, to those three kids. The trial continues at Plymouth Superior Court, expected to run several more weeks. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer 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. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Bryan Kohberger waited a year to speak about the Idaho student murders, and then chose the seventy-two hours before a Netflix documentary about the case went live. The timing is the story. Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, whose career runs through private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, take apart the question of who he was performing for. The premiere of The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare had been public since mid-July 2026. Director Skye Borgman said the whole design of the series was to move the attention off the case and back onto the four students. Kohberger's statement went to the New York Times on the Sunday. His petition hit the Ada County docket on the Monday. The series arrived Wednesday, into a news environment where his name was everywhere again. He also used his statement to thank the people who believe in his innocence and keep analyzing the case. That group exists. During the sentencing, Kaylee Goncalves' mother received a message from someone claiming ties to serial killers, telling her she knew Bryan was innocent, and saying they had handed her address to a would-be killer in Moscow. Scott has spent decades around what that kind of attention does to the person receiving it, and the historical parallels are not subtle. Holmes. Lucas. Confessions that grew and shrank in exact proportion to who was watching. The episode ends where the Goncalves family put it, on whether any of us should be covering him at all. The conversation also looks at what the documentary was designed to do against what actually happened. Berlinger and Borgman built a series around family interviews and bodycam footage never released before, framed as the definitive account of the case. It arrived into a news cycle that was about the man again. That outcome was predictable to anybody reading a calendar. Follow Hidden Killers for the full conversation. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #Kohberger #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimePodcast
A year after Bryan Kohberger admitted to the University of Idaho murders in open court, he wants the whole thing thrown out, and the way he says so is stranger than the fact that he says it at all. His statement to the New York Times contains the line that his actual innocence is his truth. Not a denial. Not a claim of fact. A truth belonging to him personally, which is the sort of thing people write when the alternative has become unlivable. Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, whose career spans private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, to work through the psychology underneath the filing. The petition itself claims ineffective assistance of counsel, claims he was convinced to falsely confess, and claims his lawyers told him a false plea would hand him a legal victory. Those are his allegations, and his former attorneys have not responded publicly to them. But strip the legal language off and one piece of the argument is simply that nobody explained how bad prison would be. He has had a year to find that out. So which is it. A man discovering he made a terrible deal, or a man discovering he cannot live inside the version of himself that deal locked in permanently? The conversation also goes to the silence. Given the floor at his own sentencing, with the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin sitting feet away, he declined to speak. A year later he picked up a phone. Same man, same voice, two completely different rooms. Before any of that, he signed a nine-page questionnaire confirming he understood he was surrendering his right to appeal and might never be permitted to withdraw the plea later. He initialed his way through it in front of the judge. Hidden Killers goes past the filings and into the people. Follow along for the full conversation. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #Kohberger #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimePodcast
There is a bag sitting in evidence at the Lindsay Clancy trial that both lawyers are going to reach for, and it holds nine prescription bottles that are almost completely full. That bag went into the record on the first day of testimony, entered by the prosecution, in front of the father of the three children who died. Patrick Clancy took the stand as the Commonwealth's opening witness. Prosecutors walked him through the marriage, the three deliveries, the maternity leaves, and the anxiety that arrived every single time his wife had to go back to work as a nurse. Then they handed him the pill bottles. The counts came out one at a time. Seven gone from a Zoloft prescription filled in September of 2022. Six out of thirty gone from an Ativan prescription filled in October. A bottle with two gone, a bottle with three, a bottle that had never been opened at all. Asked whether he knew any of those numbers, he said no, and added that context mattered. Nobody was counting. That is the whole case in one sentence, and both sides know it. This episode takes the exhibit apart and shows you why the state's strongest piece of paperwork might be the defense's too, why the family videos the prosecution played work against the argument they were played to support, and what Patrick Clancy told investigators that eventually sent him to a lawyer's office. It also covers the sentence the state pulled out of him about how his wife seemed the day everything happened, and why a jury of twelve women and six men is going to hear expert testimony fight over those few words for weeks. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Part two of Patrick Clancy's cross-examination continued today in the murder trial of his wife, Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Reddington picked up where he left off, still working to establish that Lindsay's actions in the months before the killings were driven by fear and instability, not calculation. Patrick again testified that she was afraid to return to work — not because she resented the job, but because the thought of being separated from her children was too much for her to handle. Reddington also returned to the medication issue, reinforcing through Patrick that Lindsay only took a few pills of each prescription because that's what her doctors told her to do, not because she was refusing treatment. It's a continuation, not a pivot — the defense is laying the same brick twice to make sure it holds. A jury that hears "doctor's orders" once might forget it. A jury that hears it reinforced across multiple lines of questioning is a different story. Prosecutors still have to convince that jury she understood what she was doing that day. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #DuxburyTragedy #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #Breaking
One episode, two cases, and the same question running through both. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, who led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, cover the Lindsay Clancy trial openings and Bryan Kohberger's move to undo his guilty plea. The Clancy portion covers Patrick Clancy's testimony about January 24, 2023. A doctor's appointment with Cora. Photos traded by text. A snowman in the yard. His statement that she was having one of her best days. It also covers the discharge he did not know she had requested, granted days before their daughter's fifth birthday party. Cora, Dawson and Callan died in January 2023 and the circumstances are not in dispute. Criminal responsibility is the entire fight, and Massachusetts puts that burden on the state. The Kohberger portion covers the handwritten petition he filed on his own in Ada County District Court, in which he claims actual innocence and says he was convinced to falsely confess. It also covers the letter Latah County prosecutors sent the families before the plea, promising it would spare them decades of post-conviction appeals. Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed in November 2022, and there has never been a motive on the record. The two are connected without pretending they are the same crime. In one, every clinical decision was made by someone who will never be a defendant. In the other, an office made a guarantee it had no authority to make. Neither institution will be cross-examined. Both of them decided how these cases would go, and both of them told the families it was handled. Both sets of families were left with the same feeling. Neither of these is finished. Subscribe to Hidden Killers for the next stage of each. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS (10) #LindsayClancy #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #IdahoStudentMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #ActualInnocence #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #PostConvictionRelief
Patrick Clancy, husband of Lindsay Clancy, returned to the stand today in the murder trial of the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is building an insanity defense around claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Today it was Reddington's turn to ask the questions, and he used Patrick to reinforce the defense's narrative rather than attack it. Patrick testified that Lindsay was afraid to go back to work because she didn't want to be away from the kids — the kind of detail that reads very differently depending on which side is building the story around it. The defense also walked him through her mental state after each birth, and got him to confirm that when she only took a few pills of each prescription, it wasn't defiance — it was because a physician told her to. That last point matters. It's the difference between "she wasn't taking her medication" and "she was following doctor's orders while doctors kept adjusting what she was on." Reddington knows exactly which version he wants the jury to remember. Prosecutors still have to convince twelve people that Lindsay Clancy understood what she was doing that day. After the killings, she allegedly tried to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #DuxburyTragedy #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Calling the Nolan Wells investigation a blackout runs into an inconvenient problem: a blackout produces nothing, and this case has produced a paper trail anybody can go read. That is where this episode starts, and it is not where most of the coverage has been willing to go. Nolan Xavier Wells, eighteen, rode out to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends and did not come back with them. A park ranger found him in the water on the morning of July 6. In the time since, a belief has hardened that facts are being deliberately kept from the public. So we test it. The dispatch audio from the boat exists because a news organization filed a records request. The vessel's tracking data exists because another one did. A state agency report exists for the same reason. Investigators publicly asked the crowd from that day to send in unedited footage, which is a strange thing to request if the goal is a quiet burial. Meanwhile the people a cover-up would need silent have been doing interviews with national outlets. We also handle the thread almost everyone has left dangling, which is the judge whose son was on that boat, and what a chancery court in Mississippi actually has jurisdiction over. The answer defuses one complaint entirely and leaves a different one standing. Then there is the state autopsy, the statute governing who gets a copy, and the reason the district attorney gave for sealing it, which is weakest exactly where she is leaning on it hardest. And the video everybody thinks they understand, and the measurement that takes it apart. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS #NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #MississippiJustice #TrueCrime #JusticeForNolan #OceanSprings #TrueCrimePodcast #UnsolvedCase
He answered yes when a judge asked if he was guilty. Now Bryan Kohberger says he was talked into it. About a year after his sentencing on four consecutive life terms, Kohberger filed a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief in Ada County District Court, representing himself. He says his confession was false and that his actual innocence is his truth. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, who led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through what the filing actually argues and what the wording of it reveals. The petition rests on ineffective assistance of counsel. Kohberger alleges his defense team did not disclose or review evidence that would have helped him. He alleges he was given a distorted account of what a life sentence and death row in Idaho involve. He points to threats and false promises as the reason he pleaded at all. The discussion covers the practical question underneath all of it. He waived his appeal rights in the agreement, but a waiver has never stopped a defendant from attacking the validity of the plea itself. That is the opening he is using, and it was always there. It also covers his statement that he would welcome prosecutors seeking the death penalty again, and what the Goncalves family said in response. They wanted a capital trial from the beginning and have said he simply wants another roll of the dice. Dreeke weighs whether that read holds up behaviorally. Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed in November 2022. There was no trial and no motive on the record. Prosecutors could have required him to explain himself as a condition of the deal, and they decided not to. That silence is now part of what the families are living with. Hidden Killers stays with this case as the petition moves through Ada County. Subscribe for the ruling and the analysis behind it. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER 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. HASHTAGS (10) #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #ActualInnocence #TrueCrime #AdaCountyCourt
