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The Caleb Flynn jury deliberated roughly two hours before convicting on all nine counts. No weapon was found. No residue on the defendant. No fingerprints. The defense said the state had nothing but an affair. Prosecutors argued Flynn shot Ashley Flynn twice in the back of the head as she slept and staged the crime as a break-in. Their daughters were in the house. The prosecution built its case on 107,000 text messages, digital forensics from Flynn’s phone and Apple Watch, deleted apps, and the testimony of Flynn’s 24-year-old mistress. The defense called no witnesses. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke discuss how jurors weigh circumstantial and digital evidence, how the defense strategy of calling no witnesses affected deliberations, and what made this verdict land so fast.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 #CalebFlynnVerdict #CalebFlynnJury #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #MiamiCounty #JuryDeliberation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Ken Urker watched an HBO documentary about Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 and made a decision that would define the next nine years of his life. He wrote her a letter at Chillicothe Correctional Center, where she was serving time for her part in killing her mother.The letters became visits. The visits became a proposal in October 2018. She said yes from the other side of a visiting room. He’d never known her outside of one.He ended the engagement ten months later. His own words, years after: outside opinion and influence. He’d been listening to a podcast, hearing people say the kindest thing was to let her build her own identity. He handed his relationship to strangers and walked away. His mother says it devastated him.For three years, he could have stayed gone. Gypsy married Ryan Anderson in the prison in 2022. She walked out December 28, 2023, three years early. Lifetime’s cameras met her at the door. Three months after release, she announced the separation. Days later, she and Ken were getting matching tattoos.He moved from Dallas to Louisiana. Because of her parole, they couldn’t live together. He’d left his family for a place where he knew one person — the woman on the reality show.Aurora Raina Urker was born December 28, 2024. Her middle name is Ken’s mother’s name. By the spring of 2026, Ken was drinking hard and had been to at least one AA meeting. By late summer, he was alone in Raceland.Deputies found him on October 1, 2026. He was 34.Before the coroner had looked at him, Gypsy called People and TMZ. His sister went live on TikTok. Both told their story. Ken can’t tell his.Nine years, one letter to the last phone call.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.#KenUrker #GypsyRoseBlanchard #HiddenKillers #GypsyRose #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Lifetime #RacelandLouisiana #DeeDee #TrueCrimeCommunity
Caleb Flynn was convicted on nine counts including aggravated murder for the shooting death of his wife Ashley. Prosecutors argued he killed her while she slept and staged the scene as a burglary. Divorce was available to him at every stage. He chose murder, the prosecution argued. Flynn had been carrying on an 18-month affair with a 24-year-old church intern and exchanged over 107,000 texts. In one, he allegedly wrote he was up until 4 a.m. thinking of ways to kill his wife and not go to jail. He led a public life as a worship leader and a private life texting about killing the mother of his children. The jury took roughly two hours to convict. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the psychology of compartmentalization, the arrogance it takes to think you can stage a crime scene, and what flips a man from fantasy to action.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 #CalebFlynnPsychology #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdol #MiamiCounty #TrueCrimePsychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Alleigha Botner was the prosecution’s star witness in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. She helped put Caleb away for shooting his wife Ashley in her sleep. But the 107,000 messages she read aloud from the stand included her own words about wanting Ashley dead. When Flynn allegedly wrote about hiring someone to take Ashley out, Botner’s reply, according to testimony, was “so tempting.” She admitted she coached Flynn on deleting data from his devices multiple times during the affair. She destroyed messages after the killing. She lied to the FBI. Her phone and laptop went missing a month before Ashley died. Ohio abolished alienation of affection lawsuits, so the family can’t sue Botner for the affair. But the texts and the cover-up raise a different question. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke join the discussion.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 #CalebFlynnMistress #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #CivilLawsuit #MiamiCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Ken Urker was found dead in bed on his birthday in Raceland, Louisiana. A handgun, syringe, shot glasses, and powdery substance surrounded him. Before the autopsy was done, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was giving exclusives and launching a cyberbullying petition. Four days earlier in Tennessee, the state gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital with a physician who had already failed once — and who the state told the court did not need to be qualified. Pike tried to help them find a vein. They still failed. Colleen Slemmer's mother watched three decades of waiting end in a hospital transfer. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to dissect the behavioral patterns in both cases — personal narrative control and institutional self-protection, examined side by side.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.#GypsyRose #ChristaPike #KenUrker #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #GypsyRoseBlanchard #TrueCrimePodcast
Rob and Michele Reiner sat in a circle of chairs at a Malibu treatment center in 2009 for every family session their 15-year-old son was given, and the boy across the circle remembers them for it. He remembers Nick Reiner for something else. Danny Svilar, Nick's roommate that summer, told a reporter in 2026 why the arrest in the Rob Reiner murder case didn't surprise him, and his reason opens chapter one of Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story.Svilar says the facility ran about $60,000 a month and that Nick treated it like something he was owed. A pompous little punk, in his words, with no sense of gratitude. He says Nick went after another kid in the program and once turned on him. He says the nights were the worst part, because that was when Nick talked.The series traces where that boy came from. Carl Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show. Rob Reiner made The Princess Bride and A Few Good Men. Michele Singer, a photographer, met Rob on the set of When Harry Met Sally, and Rob rewrote the ending of his own movie after he met her. Before Nick's first Christmas, his parents signed The Nick Reiner Children's Trust. An interventionist was in the living room by the time he was 14. Over the next seven years he was placed in 17 or 18 programs and chose shelters over counselors in three states. He shot heroin for the first time on Skid Row with someone he met in treatment, and he told a magazine that surviving all of it was luck.In 2015 his parents apologized to him in the Los Angeles Times. Then they made his version into a movie and premiered it on his 22nd birthday. Tony lays out who paid, who kept paying, and what the professionals said that two devoted parents chose not to hear. Nick Reiner 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.#ReinerMurders #NickReiner #HiddenKillers #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #BeingCharlie #Brentwood #CelebrityCrime
Christa Pike cooperated with her own execution. According to her attorneys, she tried to help the IV team locate a vein in her arm. They still could not carry out the procedure. Two doses of pentobarbital. Multiple needle attempts. Arms swollen, burned, and blistered. Pike still breathing on the gurney. May Martinez, the mother of Pike's victim Colleen Slemmer, was reportedly in or near the witness room on September 30. She came to watch the state fulfill a promise that was thirty-one years old. Instead she watched it fall apart. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine what this kind of systemic failure does to every person in the room — the condemned, the family that waited decades, the officers and paramedics who watched their job collapse around them.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimePodcast
Caleb Flynn stood before Judge Jeannine Pratt and told the court he did not kill his wife. Then his own daughters' statements were read. One told him he'd caused too much pain, that Ashley was the best thing that ever happened to him, and that she is never coming to see him. She signed her name. The other wrote to him as Daddy and asked how he could do it — kill the only mother she ever had. She told him it was his choice to have the affair, his choice to leave his daughters, his choice to kill their mom. Ashley's sister and brother-in-law also addressed the court. Her parents told Flynn they forgive him and asked for the maximum sentence. A jury convicted Flynn on all nine counts for shooting Ashley in the back of the head while she slept in their Tipp City home and staging a break-in. Flynn's defense plans to appeal.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 #VictimImpactStatement #CalebFlynnSentencing #CalebFlynnDaughters #TippCityOhio #JusticeForAshley #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
After the May execution of Tony Carruthers was halted — after over an hour of failed IV attempts and an alleged stroke — Tennessee sent the same physician into Christa Pike's execution chamber on September 30. Dr. Mark Fowler testified under oath he had not placed a central line in over thirteen years. He holds no hospital privileges. The state's position in court filings: his qualifications were "not important or relevant." Pike received two doses of pentobarbital. Her arms were swollen, burned, and blistered. She was still breathing. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the behavioral fingerprint of a system repeating its own failures — and what the state's own words tell us about an institution that may be protecting itself instead of protecting the process.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimePodcast
On September 30, Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike — its first attempt to execute a woman in over two hundred years. The doctor running the procedure had already failed at another execution four months earlier and had told a court under oath that he wasn’t qualified.Dr. Mark Fowler oversaw the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026. The IV team spent over an hour trying to establish the required backup line. Fowler stepped in to place a central line — a catheter deep into a major vein. A witness described his hands shaking. Carruthers’ family says he’s been left partially paralyzed.In a deposition months before either attempt, Fowler said he hadn’t placed a central line since around 2013. He’d placed roughly a dozen in his career, with one complication. He told attorneys he didn’t know the protocol required him to be able to do it. His understanding of the job: certify the death of the inmate.On September 30, they sent him in again. Pike’s IV team stuck her at least seven times. One needle came out bent at ninety degrees. She received two full doses of pentobarbital. Her heart kept beating. Her attorneys filed an emergency motion. She’s on a ventilator.Austin Sarat’s research puts the lethal injection botch rate at 7.12 percent — the highest of any method. Every major medical organization prohibits members from participating. Drug suppliers have blocked their products. States use compounding pharmacies under secrecy laws that prevent verification.The people most trained to do this are forbidden from doing it. The drugs are unverifiable. And Tennessee keeps ordering reviews while the same gaps remain.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #BotchedExecution #HiddenKillers #LethalInjection #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #TrueCrime #DeathRow #CapitalPunishment #Execution
The public story is cyberbullying. The Lafourche Parish police report describes something else. Ken Urker was found unresponsive in bed on October 1 — his birthday — surrounded by a handgun, a syringe, shot glasses, and a powdery substance. He had told family at church the night before that he was severely depressed. The next evening, after he missed work and stopped answering his phone, family members climbed through an unlocked bedroom window. Gypsy Rose Blanchard was texting him birthday wishes from elsewhere. Ken Urker was living alone in Raceland while the mother of his daughter managed the media circus from a distance. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine what the physical scene and the emotional distance reveal about a man in freefall — and the polarizing media spectacle that surrounded him.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.#GypsyRose #KenUrker #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #GypsyRoseBlanchard #PoliceReport #LafourcheParish #Depression #Raceland #TrueCrimePodcast
Ken Urker was found dead in bed at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1 — his thirty-fourth birthday. Lafourche Parish deputies confirmed his death after family members climbed through a bedroom window for a welfare check. He had told family he was severely depressed the night before at church. No official cause of death has been released. Before the autopsy was finished, Gypsy Rose Blanchard gave an exclusive interview to People magazine, called it a suspected overdose, blamed cyberbullying, and launched a petition for "Kenan's Law." Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine the behavioral psychology of someone who moves to control the media narrative before the investigation has begun — and whether it looks like panic or calculation.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.#GypsyRose #KenUrker #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #GypsyRoseBlanchard #Autopsy #Cyberbullying #KenansLaw #Lifetime #TrueCrimePodcast
The sign was homemade and sprinkled with glitter, and Sandra Birchmore made it for a Stoughton police officer. Federal prosecutors say that officer, Matthew Farwell, walked into her building masked on the night of February 1, 2021, strangled her, and staged a hanging. This is the whole Sandra Birchmore story, both parts in one episode, released before his trial in Boston. It starts in March 2010, when a 12-year-old with no father applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers because she wanted to be a cop.In between is the department. Robert Devine ran the Explorers and rose to deputy chief; Stoughton demoted him for lying and kept him. The Farwell twins came back as his instructors. The department's investigators found Matthew Farwell's inappropriate relationship with Sandra began at 15, and that William Farwell and Devine crossed the line with her as an adult. The town could produce one year of program paperwork and no youth-protection training records for anyone.Sandra told Farwell she was pregnant on December 28, 2020. Prosecutors say his reply was that he had nothing to say, and that he later shoved her to the ground over a sonogram. A friend reported him to the Stoughton Police Department on January 20, 2021; the FBI says the report went to Farwell. Prosecutors say he copied her key on January 24. His wife was due on February 2. On February 1 he texted Sandra: "come by for a second."The state marked her death a suicide the day she was found, accepted his refusal of a DNA sample, and by the end of 2021 was building a larceny case. The Norfolk DA declined to prosecute in 2022. The FBI arrested Farwell in August 2024. He has pleaded not guilty and his defense says she died by suicide. Jury selection begins October 5, 2026.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #PoliceExplorers #NorfolkDA #FarwellTrial #RobertDevine #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
Prosecutors told a jury in 2023 that Alex Murdaugh hid both murder weapons at his parents' home in Almeda. Police searched three months late and came up empty. A grand jury is investigating whether the weapons went somewhere else entirely — into the hands of Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander. Alexander has called Alex a ‘longtime friend.’ The Murdaugh family backed him through a misconduct indictment. He was at the Moselle crime scene the night Maggie and Paul were killed. Alex wrote him a $5,000 check after the killings, and Alexander couldn't keep his story straight about when it was written. Witnesses have allegedly testified before the grand jury to seeing both guns in Alexander's possession. He denies all of it. On September 30, Murdaugh's defense alleged in a Brady motion that the state sat on a witness statement about Alexander and the weapons since 2023. The retrial begins April 5.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 #MurdaughMurders #HiddenKillers #MurdaughCoverup #GregAlexander #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MurdaughTrial #GrandJury
The full sentencing hearing for Caleb Flynn in Troy, Ohio for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. A jury convicted the former worship pastor and American Idol contestant on all nine counts including aggravated murder after prosecutors argued he shot Ashley twice in the back of the head while she slept and staged the crime as a burglary. Their young daughters were sleeping in the next room on the night of February 16. Flynn had been having an affair with a 24-year-old church intern for eighteen months. The pair exchanged more than 107,000 text messages. The jury convicted him in roughly two hours. Flynn's defense team called no witnesses and plans to appeal. Judge Jeannine Pratt presided.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 #CalebFlynnSentencing #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdol #MiamiCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #JusticeForAshley
The Lindsay Clancy defense made a move that set the internet on fire. After the mistrial, Kevin Reddington filed a motion stating there is no evidence Lindsay killed her children. The public assumed he was accusing Patrick Clancy. The truth is far more calculated. Reddington filed a Rule 25(b) motion — a procedural argument that the prosecution’s official trial record lacks the direct physical evidence required to sustain the charges. It’s a technical challenge about what made it into the record, not a claim about who committed the act. Patrick Clancy is absorbing the fallout of a filing that was never designed for public eyes. Reddington is also investigating the single holdout juror from the 11-1 split. The defense is playing every angle — procedural loopholes and private citizen investigations simultaneously.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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Rule25b #Mistrial #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #MurderTrial
Kouri Richins is serving life without parole for killing her husband Eric — and she’s not done fighting. Prosecutors now say she’s lying to the court about why she filed a sealed motion, calling her stated reason ‘a misleading pretext.’Richins was convicted in March 2026 after a jury found her guilty on every count: aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, insurance fraud, and forgery. She poisoned Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a cocktail at their Park City home. Two weeks earlier, she’d laced a Valentine’s Day sandwich with fentanyl. He blacked out but survived. She tried again on March 4 — and he didn’t wake up.Her post-conviction campaign has been relentless. A motion for a new trial claiming judicial bias. A bid to disqualify the judge — denied by a separate judge who found no evidence of the extreme behavior required for removal. Then, on the day her team owed prosecutors a response, they filed a sealed motion instead, asking to pause everything.Prosecutors’ public response rips the seal off. Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth writes that the judicial bias allegations in the sealed motion are ‘novel’ and don’t connect to the original new trial arguments. Her first complaint was about how the judge treated her lawyers in front of the jury. Her new complaint is about what the judge did in a closed pre-trial hearing. Two different claims presented as one.The investigation she’s leaning on for ammunition involves a detective, a local sheriff’s race, and a recorded jail call with a man prosecutors describe as her admirer. What that man said on tape about why he helped a political campaign points straight back to the detective who investigated Eric’s murder. She filed it sealed. Prosecutors made sure it didn’t stay that way.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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #truecrime #MisleadingPretext #SealedMotion #fentanyl #ParkCity #lifewithoutparole #postconviction
The state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike on September 30, 2026, and failed. Pike received two doses of pentobarbital and survived both. Witnesses reported her breathing, complaining her arm felt like it was about to burst, and snoring on the gurney. Corrections officials stopped the procedure and called an ambulance. Governor Bill Lee halted all executions in Tennessee and ordered a third-party review. Pike brutally murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer at a Knoxville Job Corps center in January 1995 — carving a pentagram into her chest and keeping a piece of her skull. Slemmer’s family has waited more than 31 years. Instead of closure, they watched the system collapse in front of them. The failure raises a question Tennessee cannot avoid: incompetence, or something more deliberate?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #GovernorLee #Justice
The search for Nancy Guthrie has taken a disturbing turn. Extortionists are now targeting the people investigating and commenting on her disappearance. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer received a ransom demand sent to a private personnel email address, using a middle name she doesn’t publicly go by. Those details suggest access to personal information that should be nearly impossible to obtain on a former federal agent. Coffindaffer reported it to the FBI. Local authorities dismissed the notes publicly as fakes. Meanwhile, Nancy’s friend Lauren Serpa received a separate demand for six bitcoin — roughly half a million dollars — claiming Guthrie was alive in Mexico. The extortionists used crypto wallets, masked IP addresses, and AI-generated proof-of-life images. Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from Catalina Foothills, Arizona since February 1, 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.#NancyGuthrie #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #Arizona #FBI #RansomNote #ColdCase #CatalinaFoothills
Caleb Flynn spent more than a year telling Alleigha Botner that he would leave his wife. Prosecutors argued he never wanted to surrender the life attached to Ashley Flynn. By the end of the trial, jurors had seen 107,000 messages, device records, neighborhood-camera evidence, and the State's claim that Flynn staged a break-in after killing Ashley.On September 29, the jury convicted Flynn on all nine charges, including aggravated murder. The prosecution had called forty witnesses. The defense called none. Flynn's attorneys argued the State had no murder weapon and that a failed husband could still be innocent of murder.The digital evidence became one of the prosecution's central answers. A forensic extraction recovered deleted app artifacts, messages, AI-generated songs, and device activity. Jurors also heard Flynn's own messages about wanting Ashley dead and thinking about how to kill her without going to jail.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine a different part of the same story: the relationship structure that kept Flynn and Botner locked together. Scott discusses intermittent reinforcement after broken promises, the sunk-cost trap that can keep someone waiting, and the compartmentalization required to maintain two incompatible lives.That analysis is not a substitute for evidence and was not presented to the jury as proof. It is a framework for understanding the behavior surrounding evidence the jury did hear.This combined episode moves from the courtroom record to Scott's explanation of the holding pattern behind it. The verdict answers what the jury decided. The relationship history raises a different question: how long can someone keep promising two opposite futures before something gives?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 #HiddenKillers #AlleighaBotner #ShavaunScott #CalebFlynnTrial #DigitalEvidence #GuiltyVerdict #TippCityOhio #TrueCrime
Richard Allen was convicted of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German, but his appeal is built in part around evidence his jury never heard. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to examine two of the biggest examples raised before the Indiana Court of Appeals: a third-party suspect theory involving Brad Holder and the defense challenges to the bullet and eyewitness evidence used against Allen.Mark Leeman told the appellate panel that Indiana State Police had investigated Holder in 2017 and that later information included a rune-like marking Holder posted on his hand and social-media material the defense believed resembled elements of the crime scene. Holder has never been charged. Judge Frances Gull barred the theory from Allen’s trial, finding the defense had not established the direct connection Indiana law requires before a defendant may point the jury toward another person. The State defended that ruling and emphasized work records it says placed Holder at a landfill roughly 25 miles away during the critical time.The appeal also challenges what the jury did hear about an unfired .40-caliber cartridge recovered near the girls. A State Police examiner testified that it had been cycled through Allen’s Sig Sauer. The defense wanted former FBI metallurgist William Tobin to attack the reliability of that methodology, but Gull excluded him. Leeman also argued the jury should have seen the sketch associated with witness Betsy Blair, who encountered a man on the bridge shortly before Abby and Libby arrived.Bob Motta explains why these are not simply arguments over whether evidence looks persuasive. They are appellate questions about what evidence a jury was legally entitled to consider, whether exclusions crossed the line into an incomplete defense, and whether any error could have changed the verdict. No appellate decision has been issued.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #BobMotta #Odinism #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime
Alex Murdaugh will be retried for the murders of Maggie and Paul in Sumter County, a venue neither side made its first choice. Judge Debra McCaslin’s eight-page order moved the case outside the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit after reviewing what happened during the first trial’s jury selection. Of roughly 900 prospective jurors summoned in 2023, only 123 qualified to serve. McCaslin wrote that the extraordinary disqualification rate was a floor, not a ceiling, because the case has only become more public since then.The defense wanted Charleston and offered to waive venue appeals if the court sent the case there. Prosecutors opposed Charleston on practical grounds but did not insist on a single alternative. McCaslin selected Sumter because it sits outside the Murdaugh family’s historic circuit and has the courthouse, security, technology, and jury pool needed for an April 5, 2027 retrial.That venue ruling now lands beside a second development. Recent reporting says state investigators and statewide grand-jury prosecutors are probing allegations involving Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and another officer in connection with the still-missing murder weapons and bloody clothing. Alexander was a longtime friend of Murdaugh, received a $5,000 check from him about a month after the killings, and has previously said the money was a loan for his parents. He has not been charged, and his attorney rejects the new allegations.Tony Brueski separates what is established from what is alleged: the retrial location is fixed by court order; the weapons inquiry is an investigation, not a finding. Together, they show how much of the second Murdaugh murder trial will be about rebuilding a case after the first verdict was erased.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 #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SumterCounty #GregAlexander #MurdaughMurders #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #TrueCrime
JP Miller's federal case has now been delayed six times, pushing his cyberstalking trial into January 2027. At the same time, old footage and testimony about what Miller said from the pulpit is taking on new weight. In October 2023, he told his Solid Rock Church congregation that he was attending deliverance sessions and that demons were coming out of him.That language is not a legal defense currently before the court. Miller has pleaded not guilty to one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. The federal indictment alleges a course of conduct beginning in 2022 that included unwanted communications, tracking devices on Mica Miller's vehicle, interference with her finances and daily life, damage to her vehicle, and lies to investigators.The contrast is hard to miss. In a sworn affidavit, Mica's brother Nate Francis said JP had written Mica an email describing what happened when he felt hurt: rather than forgive, he would hurt back, attack, and try to cause pain. That is a very different explanation from spiritual warfare.Then there is the calendar. Since Miller's January 2026 arraignment, his attorneys have repeatedly asked for more time. Prosecutors have consented to the continuances, and Miller waived speedy-trial rights. The sixth continuance moved the case to January 2027.Tony Brueski breaks down what actually matters once this reaches federal court. A jury will not be deciding whether demons exist. It will be deciding whether the government can prove the charged conduct. And if anyone ever tried to turn demonic possession into a courtroom defense, history offers a warning: in 1981, Judge Robert Callahan refused to let Arne Cheyenne Johnson use it, and Johnson was convicted anyway.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 #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #DemonDefense #MicasLaw #MyrtleBeach #SolidRockChurch #TrueCrime
The Caleb Flynn trial did not only put his messages under a microscope. Alleigha Botner had to read her own. One of the most damaging exchanges came from July 10, 2025, when she acknowledged writing that she wanted Ashley Flynn dead. Flynn answered, “that makes two of us.” Botner testified that she regretted the message and did not mean it literally.This combined episode brings together the behavioral and psychological sides of that relationship. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI special agent, joins Robin Dreeke to examine the messages prosecutors used to show how the affair evolved into repeated conversations about Ashley’s death. Their discussion includes the September 2 exchange after Ashley discovered messages on Caleb’s iPad. Flynn suggested taking Ashley’s phone while she slept to see whether she still had the evidence. Botner told him to be careful, asked what excuse he would use, and called the plan “Perfect.”Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott looks at an earlier question: how did the relationship get to that point? Botner testified that she first met Flynn while she was a young church intern and he was an older married volunteer on the worship team. Scott discusses the trust attached to church roles, the age gap, Flynn’s claim that Ashley was essentially a roommate, the secrecy of the affair, AI-generated love songs, and matching hidden tattoos as parts of a private world built away from outside scrutiny.On September 29, Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder and eight additional charges in Ashley Flynn’s death. The defense had argued that an intruder killed Ashley and that the affair evidence was being used to turn marital betrayal into proof of murder. Sentencing is set for October 5. Coffindaffer and Scott examine different pieces of the same record: the words the jury heard and the relationship dynamics surrounding them.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 #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #OhioTrial #TrueCrime #CalebFlynnVerdict
The Caleb Flynn trial gave jurors two very different windows into the same man: private messages to Alleigha Botner months before Ashley Flynn’s death, and Caleb’s own words to Detective Mike Morgan hours after Ashley was found shot in the couple’s Tipp City home.Botner testified about messages prosecutors used to argue planning and intent. In June 2025, the exchange ended with Caleb writing, “I’ve never joked about it.” On July 4, the jury heard “please take her out” and “I’d have a smile on my face the whole time.” In August, Caleb wrote that he had been up until 4 a.m. thinking of ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. His attorneys argued the messages were fantasy, anger, and manipulation inside an affair, not proof that he committed murder.The interrogation gave prosecutors a second track. Morgan told Caleb the side garage door had damage that did not make sense for an outside intruder and walked him through the bedroom scene. Using Caleb’s own story about where he stood when he went to Ashley, Morgan placed him at the edge of the bed, near the position investigators associated with the shooter. Caleb answered yes.Tony Brueski, retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, and former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down both sides of that record: how detectives test a story without announcing every conclusion, how repeated violent language can be interpreted in context, and what jurors actually had to decide.The jury ultimately convicted Caleb Flynn on September 29, 2026, on all nine counts. The defense has said an appeal is expected.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DetectiveMorgan #TippCityOhio #TrueCrime
This special Delphi episode combines the “Before the Appeal” commentary with a follow-up discussion of the appeal hearing with defense attorney Bob Motta. The first half sets the legal stakes before oral argument. The second half goes through what the Indiana Court of Appeals judges actually asked once Richard Allen’s case was in front of them.Allen is serving a 130-year sentence after a jury convicted him in November 2024 of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German. His appellate lawyers argue that the trial was unfair for several reasons, including the admission of incriminating statements he made after months in restrictive housing at Westville Correctional Facility. They contend his mental condition deteriorated into psychosis and that the State cannot separate those conditions from the confessions the jury heard.Indiana’s position is different. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender argued that Allen was placed there for safety, that ordinary restrictive-housing conditions do not automatically amount to legal coercion, and that important confessions were made when Allen was lucid. Judge Nancy Vaidik’s response became the headline: “You protected him into psychosis.”But sharp questions are not a ruling. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta examine why appellate judges test both sides with hypotheticals and pressure, how harmless-error analysis can preserve a conviction even if a trial ruling was wrong, and why the evidence excluded from Allen’s trial matters only if the appellate panel concludes the exclusion affected his right to present a defense. The panel took the case under advisement, leaving Allen’s conviction in place while the court considers its written decision.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #Westville #TrueCrime
What happened in the Lindsay Clancy jury room did not end when Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. It became the next legal battle. This combined episode starts with our before-the-hearing discussion with defense attorney Bob Motta about the reported conduct of the lone holdout juror, then follows with special commentary explaining the September 29 Rule 25 hearing and the motion to un-impound juror information.The mistrial came after seven days of deliberations and an 11-to-1 split. Several jurors later said the holdout would not accept a not-guilty-by-reason-of-lack-of-criminal-responsibility verdict. Foreperson Roni Carlson said he acknowledged reasonable doubt but still would not vote with the other eleven. Nick Dargie said he could not point to evidence supporting his position. The defense says those accounts matter because a mistrial must be supported by manifest necessity before a defendant can simply be tried again.Then came September 29. Kevin Reddington returned to court with a Rule 25 motion asking Sullivan to enter a required finding of not guilty. His argument was not the same as the insanity defense the jury had heard. He attacked the legal sufficiency of the Commonwealth's proof, including the investigation and physical evidence. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham argued the trial record contained ample evidence and emphasized that the defense had stipulated to key physical facts.At the same hearing, appellate lawyer Martin Weinberg sought access to sealed jury notes and sidebar proceedings tied to the deadlock. The defense says those materials may bear on whether Sullivan should have investigated the holdout more deeply before ending the trial. Prosecutors argue disclosure risks intruding on protected deliberations and chilling future juries. Sullivan left the major motions unresolved and set November 2 for the next round. Bob Motta explains why the juror issue, Rule 25, and double jeopardy are related - but not interchangeable.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #BobMotta #KevinReddington #Rule25 #Mistrial #HoldoutJuror #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime
Bryan Kohberger is trying to undo the guilty plea that put him in prison for life, and an unsealed defense memo gives his new legal team a document it says Judge Steven Hippler cannot ignore. In May 2025, Anne Taylor’s team told Hippler that Kohberger was having difficulty comprehending adverse rulings and folding them into a rational assessment of where his case was headed. Taylor’s filing drew an important line: the defense expressly denied Kohberger was incompetent. The request was for additional time to investigate his ability to understand the case, make major decisions, and communicate with counsel as the death-penalty trial approached. Hippler denied more time on June 26, 2025. Kohberger entered guilty pleas six days later to the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, along with burglary. His post-conviction petition now claims his former lawyers pressured him into the deal, misled him about prison conditions, and failed to disclose evidence he believed could help him. That account collides with Kohberger’s own answers at the July 2 plea hearing. He told the court he understood the agreement, was acting voluntarily, and had not been forced into pleading guilty. One evidence claim is also headed for scrutiny. Kohberger pointed to hair recovered from Ethan Chapin’s hand. Before the plea, defense expert Ruth Ballard examined a hair from that location and found it morphologically consistent with Chapin’s own reference hair, and the analysis was filed with the court. Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to separate a documented concern about Kohberger’s decision-making from a legal finding of incompetence, and to explain what Kohberger would have to prove to get past the plea he gave under oath. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #KohbergerCase #AnneTaylor #GregRauch #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #IdahoFour #TrueCrime
Caleb Flynn sat across from Detective Mike Morgan hours after Ashley Flynn was found shot in their Tipp City home and presented a remarkably clean version of his life. His phone showed no messages from Ashley. His marriage had “none whatsoever” in the way of problems. He offered two strangers as possible suspects and described a church-going family that kept mostly to itself. Then the jury heard the other version. Alleigha Botner testified about a nearly two-year affair and read from more than 100,000 messages exchanged with Flynn. Those texts included repeated divorce promises, hatred directed at Ashley, violent language from both Flynn and Botner, and Flynn’s statement that he had stayed up thinking about ways to kill Ashley without going to jail. Botner also testified that when Flynn talked about “actions” coming the next day, she understood him to mean a divorce. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke connect those two records: the private messages and the police interview. Flynn said he deleted texts for storage. He said there were no marital problems. He volunteered alternative suspects before the interview had fully unfolded. Robin breaks down why investigators pay attention when explanations arrive before the question that would require them — without pretending behavior alone proves a crime. Flynn’s defense argued that no murder weapon was recovered, there was no eyewitness to the shooting, and his messages showed an affair and ugly talk rather than proof he pulled the trigger. Prosecutors argued the messages, digital evidence, scene evidence, and Flynn’s own statements fit together. On September 29, 2026, the jury found Flynn guilty on all charged counts and firearm specifications. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5. What remains is the record of what Flynn told police versus what his own communications showed. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #AlleighaBotner #RobinDreeke #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCity #TrueCrime #AmericanIdol #MiamiCountyOhio
Mica Miller called police seven times between 2022 and 2024. She reported harassment and fear for her life. Officers responded every time.South Carolina's domestic violence statute did not cover coercive control. The law gave them nothing to work with.On March 11, 2024, a Horry County officer ordered JP Miller to stop contacting Mica. Six weeks later she was dead. When investigators sat JP down in October 2024, he allegedly told them that police had never given him that order. That alleged lie is now a federal charge.A grand jury indicted JP in December 2025 on two counts — cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. He pleaded not guilty. Since January 2026, the trial has been delayed six times.All six continuances filed by the defense, consented to by prosecutors, signed by Judge Joseph Dawson III. JP waived his right to a speedy trial.The case now sits in January 2027. Federal cyberstalking prosecutions happen roughly 40 times a year across the entire country. The overall federal conviction rate exceeds 90 percent. The FBI picked this one.Digital evidence doesn't degrade with time. Every delay the prosecution agrees to takes a potential appellate argument off JP's table.Senator Stephen Goldfinch told WMBF News he plans to reintroduce Mica's Law — the coercive control bill named for her — in January 2027. The bill and the trial are scheduled for the same month.JP Miller is free on a $100,000 unsecured bond. He remarried thirteen months after Mica's death. He preaches at pop-up locations around Myrtle Beach.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CyberStalking #FederalTrial #MicasLaw #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
Caleb Flynn's jury convicted him of aggravated murder in under three hours. His mistress Alleigha Botner read 107,000 texts where Flynn fantasized about killing his wife and never said a word. Could civil court force her to answer for what she knew? In the Clancy case, Kevin Reddington told a judge there's no evidence Lindsay killed her children — after offering to stipulate that she did. And he's demanding the court investigate the lone holdout juror who prevented an acquittal, a man who now has his own attorney. Three stories about what happens after the verdicts and mistrials — when the people around the case start facing their own reckonings. Flynn has been convicted. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #LindsayClancy #AlleighaBotner #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #GuiltyVerdict #Mistrial #JusticeForAshley
A text claiming Nancy Guthrie is alive and being held in Mexico landed on September 28. The sender wanted Bitcoin. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department called it “not credible” within a day, and a retired FBI agent publicly identified it as a recycled con she’d been targeted by herself months earlier.Nancy Guthrie, 84 years old and the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson on the night of January 31. Blood on the front porch. Doorbell camera dark by 1:47 AM. Pacemaker disconnected from her phone by 2:28 AM. Her medication-dependent body separated from everything keeping her alive.The FBI recovered Google server footage of a masked, armed figure at her front door. No identification. No enhanced image released. The investigation’s best physical evidence is DNA collected at the scene in February that doesn’t match anyone connected to Nancy — but sources describe it as “low-level,” meaning it may not produce a genetic profile even after seven months of lab work.The investigation’s early days drew fire from the FBI director, who says the bureau was locked out for four days, and the deputies’ own union president, who called the first week a disaster. The crime scene was returned to the family before the FBI processed it. Evidence with an expiration date — the doorbell camera’s local cache — may have lost footage while jurisdictional arguments played out.Two ransom notes carrying details only someone inside the home would know demanded four million dollars. A second note claimed Nancy had died and was “buried in nature.”Over $1.2 million in combined rewards and thousands of tips have produced no arrest. The answer may rest on whether that DNA sample can give investigators a name.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ChrisNanos #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson
Matthew Farwell had just handed his personal phone to State Police detectives on February 9, 2021, when, the FBI says, he picked up the phone the Town of Stoughton paid for and asked it two questions. Can deleted iMessages be recovered by Cellebrite, the tool police use to pull data off a phone? Can consent be revoked in Massachusetts? He deleted both searches. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story starts there and follows the state's investigation to the courtroom.It had started within an hour of finding her, when prosecutors say local officers told the medical examiner's office there was no foul play. Troopers wrote no sign of a struggle. The doctor who ruled on her death never saw the room and didn't request scene photos until May. Two days in, detectives met Farwell in a school parking lot, didn't record it, and wrote him up as Matt. Prosecutors say he lied about when it started, how often he saw her, and when he left her apartment.By late December 2021, state investigators had a man on video, a fractured bone in Sandra's throat, and nearly 33,000 messages between the two of them, and the charge their own paperwork said they were building toward was larceny. The theory was that Farwell had stolen from the Town of Stoughton by seeing Sandra while he was being paid to patrol. In September 2022 the Norfolk DA's office said its witness was dead and there was no prosecutable case.Sandra's family hired Michael Baden. The FBI reopened the state's own file. The medical examiner changed the death certificate to undetermined in April 2026. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and faces mandatory life if convicted. A federal judge has admitted Sandra's journals and texts, and jury selection starts October 5, 2026.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #NorfolkDA #StatePolice #FarwellTrial #MichaelMorrissey #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
The Lindsay Clancy jury split 11-1 for acquittal. Kevin Reddington didn't accept the mistrial quietly. He demanded the court investigate the lone holdout — accused him of misconduct, of lying during jury selection, of refusing to follow the judge's instructions. He publicly identified the juror's gender during a press conference, making it simple for anyone to figure out who the man was. Media reported his name. His personal life was dragged into public scrutiny. The holdout now has his own lawyer. A hearing on Reddington's investigation motion is set for November 2. This segment asks what it means for jury duty in America when a defense attorney can publicly target a citizen for voting the wrong way. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HoldoutJuror #JuryDuty #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthCourt #Duxbury #JurorRights
A killer survived her own execution. An FBI agent was targeted by extortionists. A father was blamed for murders because of a legal filing. Christa Pike received two lethal injections on September 30, 2026, and survived both — witnesses reported breathing, snoring, and complaints her arm felt like it was about to burst. Governor Bill Lee halted all Tennessee executions. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer received a ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie at a private personnel address using a middle name she doesn’t publicly go by. And after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Kevin Reddington’s Rule 25(b) motion was misread by the internet as an accusation against Patrick Clancy — a father already dealing with unimaginable loss, now defending himself against strangers.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #RansomNote #Defense #MissingPerson #Justice
Kevin Reddington spent an entire trial arguing Lindsay Clancy killed her three children but wasn't criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis. He previously offered to stipulate the act in writing. Then he stood before Judge William Sullivan and said there is no evidence she did it. The Rule 25 motion asks the court to find that prosecutors failed to prove their case — and to enter a not-guilty finding without a retrial. Prosecutors told the judge they'd never heard this argument from the defense before. The judge delayed his ruling until November 2. This segment unpacks the legal mechanics, what the shift means for Patrick Clancy, and whether any judge would actually grant this. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #Rule25 #PlymouthCourt #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #MassachusettsCrime
Caleb Flynn texted Alleigha Botner at 4 AM about ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. Botner read every message across a year and a half — over 107,000 texts — and stayed in the affair. She showed up at the family's home the morning after Ashley was shot. She initially lied to the FBI. On the stand, she admitted she once texted that she wanted Ashley dead too. Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. Could civil court force the mistress to answer for everything she knew and everything she ignored? A wrongful death suit doesn't need proof beyond reasonable doubt. It needs a preponderance. Flynn has been convicted. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent of any uncharged conduct until proven guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulDeath #CivilLiability #MiamiCountyOhio #JusticeForAshley
Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorney Anne Taylor told Judge Hippler in a sealed filing that her client couldn’t rationally understand the Idaho murder case against him. She described Kohberger as struggling to comprehend adverse rulings and unable to make consequential decisions about his own defense. The judge denied her request for more time on June 26, 2025.Six days later, Kohberger pleaded guilty to all four counts of first-degree murder — the November 2022 killings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. At the plea hearing, Hippler asked Taylor whether she’d had enough time to discuss the case with her client, and she said yes.That sealed filing is now public. Kohberger has filed a post-conviction petition arguing the plea should be thrown out. He claims his attorneys hid critical evidence, including hair evidence he says would have pointed to an unidentified attacker.His own defense expert, Ruth Ballard, analyzed that hair and concluded it physically matched Ethan Chapin’s own hair. Her report was completed a month before the plea deal was signed.Taylor’s defense team never determined Kohberger was incompetent. They explicitly denied reaching that conclusion and said they needed more time. Forensic criminologist Brent Turvey, a former member of the defense team, has said Taylor and her co-counsel will have to answer “very difficult questions.”The court hears arguments October 15 on whether Hippler should step aside. An amended petition follows in November. The evidentiary hearing, if it proceeds in June 2027, puts Anne Taylor on the stand.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #GuiltyPlea #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConviction #TrueCrimePodcast
The Caleb Flynn murder trial has produced evidence, testimony, and more than 107,000 text messages. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski not to relitigate the evidence but to read the psychology — a three-part interview that traces the arc from church volunteer to murder defendant through the relationship that allegedly drove it.Part one starts where the relationship started: CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Flynn was 36, married, embedded in worship leadership. Botner was 21 and interning. Scott maps the power imbalance — the age gap, the spiritual “halo effect,” the “roommate” narrative — and explains why each detail is a clinical finding, not just a biographical footnote. The AI-generated love songs and matching Harry Potter tattoos that sound absurd in a courtroom are the gestures Scott calls most significant.Part two follows the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and his mistress — simultaneously and permanently. Botner set a January deadline for him to leave Ashley. He ignored it. She left. On Valentine’s Day, he returned. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that kept Botner locked in despite receiving nothing she’d been promised.Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and their escalation. Botner testified under oath that she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. The public debate over her complicity has split hard. Scott reads both sides, then turns the lens: if Flynn had chosen to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying all of his darkest admissions? Scott says the danger ran in both directions — and identifies when this stopped being a relationship and became something lethal.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #RelationshipPsychology
Nine years after it happened, the Stoughton Police Department wrote it down: an inappropriate relationship between one of its officers, Matthew Farwell, and a girl in its youth program, beginning in the spring of 2013 when she was 15. That finding is the floor of Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story. It follows a 12-year-old who idolized cops into a program the department ran, and out the other side into a Canton apartment where a Stoughton officer held a copy of her key.Robert Devine built the Stoughton Explorers into a junior police academy and rose to deputy chief while running it. The department demoted him once for lying and kept him on the force. He brought back two former Explorers, the Farwell twins, as instructors; the department's own report called them his understudies. A prior chief had rejected William Farwell's application in 2011, citing behavior he called incompatible with police work. Stoughton hired him in 2017.Matthew Farwell was seven months on the job when, according to the FBI, he sent Sandra a Facebook friend request and met her at the public library under the guise of tutoring. She later typed the date it became physical into a text: April 10, 2013. By 2019, prosecutors say, he was tracking her location and ordering her to clear out their texts.When she told him she was pregnant in December 2020, prosecutors say his first reply was that he had nothing to say. Within weeks, friends told the FBI, he'd put her in a headlock and said he wished she would die. Four days after a friend reported him to his own department, prosecutors say, he asked Sandra for a spare key. He's charged with killing her and has pleaded not guilty. Part 2 takes on what the state did next.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #PoliceExplorers #TrueCrime #Massachusetts #RobertDevine #WilliamFarwell #JusticeForSandra
One hundred and seven thousand texts. That’s the volume of communication between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner over eighteen months — and somewhere inside that thread, wishing Ashley Flynn dead became routine. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to trace how that happened, what Botner’s role actually was, and the part of this case most people aren’t examining.Scott starts with the normalization. An escalation that dramatic doesn’t happen in one jump. It happens in thousands of small ones. Each text pushes the boundary slightly past where it was, and because the shift is gradual, neither person inside the conversation registers the distance they’ve traveled. Scott explains the clinical process — how repeated exposure to language desensitizes both the person saying it and the person hearing it, until “I want her dead” carries the emotional weight of a complaint about traffic.Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. She said she didn’t mean it. The public is debating whether she was complicit in murder or simply venting about a situation she wanted resolved through divorce. Scott gives that question a clinical frame. She says the distinction depends on whose psychology you’re reading — and that Flynn’s specific profile, where his public image mattered more than any person in his life, made murder the option that preserved what he valued most.Then Scott turns the lens. If Flynn had decided to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying eighteen months of texts that documented his most dangerous thoughts? Botner was the one person who could destroy him. Scott explains why the person with the secrets is always in a specific kind of jeopardy — and why this affair had crossed a threshold where both women were at risk.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTexts
Lindsay Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan at the September 29 hearing that the prosecution's case is built on nothing — no confession, deficient DNA, and an investigation he called "horrific" and "ridiculous" before correcting himself: there was no investigation.This is the same attorney who spent two months at trial conceding Lindsay killed her three children. The insanity defense required him to concede the acts so he could argue she wasn't responsible. His client stipulated to the physical evidence. His experts testified she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis.Reddington filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion — asking the judge to enter a finding of not guilty based on insufficient evidence. If granted, the case ends with an acquittal. No retrial. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable" and reminded the judge that Lindsay confirmed the stipulations herself.Appellate attorney Martin Weinberg filed a 34-page double jeopardy motion on top of that. His argument: the judge should have investigated holdout juror Michael Desronvil before declaring the mistrial. Fellow jurors accused Desronvil of scrolling his phone during deliberations and using resistance bands to act out one of the killings.Two sealed jury notes from deliberations are at the center of the double jeopardy fight. The defense wants them unsealed. Prosecutors argued releasing them would chill every future juror's willingness to communicate with a judge.The prosecution filed a gag order motion to prevent public statements that could contaminate a retrial jury pool. DA Tim Cruz wouldn't confirm his office is retrying the case. Sullivan pushed everything to November 2 and told both sides to come with a trial date. Neither would give him one.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #DuxburyMom #InsanityDefense #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MartinWeinberg #HoldoutJuror
Eighteen months. That’s how long Alleigha Botner waited for Caleb Flynn to leave his wife Ashley — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski that the length of the wait is itself a clinical finding.Scott joins the conversation to map the psychology of the holding pattern at the center of the Caleb Flynn murder trial. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and Botner. He wasn’t choosing. He was collecting. Scott says the profile isn’t just narcissistic — it’s a specific form of entitlement where a man genuinely can’t conceive that his double life has an expiration date.Botner’s psychology is the other half. She gave Flynn a firm deadline in January: leave Ashley or this is done. He blew past it without acknowledgment. They broke up. On Valentine’s Day, he reappeared, and she took him back. Scott explains the pattern: intermittent reinforcement, the same behavioral loop that keeps a gambler at the table. Long stretches of nothing punctuated by sudden attention create a bond that’s chemically harder to break than consistent affection. The brain doesn’t process the deprivation as a warning. It processes the return as a reward.Meanwhile, Botner spent holidays alone while Flynn played the family man at his own table. Scott walks through the sunk-cost fallacy that kept her anchored — eighteen months of secrecy, emotional investment, and social isolation made leaving feel like failure rather than survival.Scott addresses the question every friend in this situation is already asking: if you’re watching someone disappear into this kind of relationship, what actually reaches them? The answer isn’t what most people try first. Scott explains what the research says works — and why the instinct to shake someone out of it usually drives them deeper in.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ToxicRelationship
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map what happened between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner long before any murder charges — and why the church where they met matters as much as the 107,000 texts that followed.Flynn was a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Botner was a 21-year-old intern. He was married with children. She’d never been in a relationship with that kind of power gap. Scott says the age difference alone creates conditions where manipulation goes undetected — at 21, the part of the brain that evaluates risk and spots long-term consequences is still developing. Flynn had fifteen years on her and a marriage he was hiding behind.The church setting amplified everything. Scott explains how spiritual authority generates a specific cognitive shortcut — what clinicians call a “halo effect.” A man embedded in worship leadership doesn’t trip the same alarms a stranger would. When Flynn told Botner his wife was “just a roommate,” Scott says that narrative did something precise to a 21-year-old in that environment: it activated a desire to help instead of a desire to leave.The details that sound strangest in a courtroom — AI-generated love songs, matching hidden Harry Potter tattoos — are the ones Scott calls most clinically significant. She says they’re tools for building a sealed-off world where only two people have access. Paired with the secrecy the affair required, Botner lost contact with every person who could’ve seen what was happening. Scott traces each element to its psychological function and explains what the pattern tells us about the eighteen months that came after.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ChurchAffair
The man police believe is in the Philly House of Horrors footage died in his bed in May 2025—a full year before a park ranger’s traffic stop blew the case open. He was eighty-two. He was never charged with a violent crime. And he can never be prosecuted.His name was Raymond “R.C.” Horsch—father of Eugene Horsch, the man sitting in federal custody on gun and credential charges after the June 2026 stop at Independence Mall. The search of their shared home at 417 West Chew Avenue in Olney uncovered a 55-gallon drum connected to water lines, containers of chemicals, and more than a million files across fifty hard drives.Seven women are linked to the house. Five are believed dead. No bodies have been found. The figure in the videos is R.C., not Eugene. Eugene has not been charged with harming anyone.R.C. Horsch had an IQ of 140, a criminal record stretching back to 1973, and decades of recruiting women from Kensington. A 1985 federal psych eval called him “consumed by anger.” His ex-wife vanished from the house in 2016. A missing woman’s photo sat on his website for years. None of that opened the front door. A parking violation did.The FBI has reviewed thirty percent of the evidence. The rest is waiting. And the man at the center of it is already in the ground.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.#PhillyHouseOfHorrors #OlneyHouseOfHorrors #HiddenKillers #EugeneHorsch #PhiladelphiaCrime #TrueCrime #MissingWomen #Kensington #RCHorsch #NicoleFusaro
Thirteen months in a cell at Westville, lights on around the clock, a camera watching, and a guard outside the door writing down everything Richard Allen said. On September 21, 2026, the State of Indiana defended every day of it to the Indiana Court of Appeals, and what its lawyer called those conditions is the thread running through this full breakdown with defense attorney Bob Motta.The Delphi murders conviction stands on statements Allen made inside that unit in April and May 2023, 61 of them by the state's count, to his wife, his mother, guards, a warden, and the psychologist treating him. Appeal lawyer Mark Leeman argued they came from a man the prison's own psychiatrist had found on the floor covered in filth and declared gravely disabled. The state argued Allen was in restrictive housing because a county jail could not keep him safe, that the conditions were ordinary custody, and that the confessions that matter came when he was lucid.From there the hearing went to the man the jury never heard about. Brad Holder, investigated in 2017 and never charged, has a hand tattoo Leeman says matches the sticks laid on Abby Williams, and social media posts the defense wanted jurors to see. The state's answer was a landfill time card placing him 25 miles away.Then the bullet and the face. A single unfired cartridge was matched to Allen's pistol by a method the defense calls junk science. The sketch Betsy Blair helped draw of the man she saw on the bridge never reached the jury, because Judge Frances Gull kept it out.Bob and I go through every clip and every rule underneath it, from the burden of proof on a confession to what harmless error would mean for a man serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German.The panel has the case under advisement.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Westville #TrueCrimeCommunity
Witnesses are reportedly telling a statewide grand jury that Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander had the Murdaugh murder weapons in his possession in the immediate aftermath of the June 7, 2021, killings at the family’s Moselle estate. FITSNews reported the investigation on September 25, 2026.Maggie Murdaugh was killed with a .300 Blackout rifle. Her son Paul was killed with a 12-gauge shotgun. Alex Murdaugh was convicted of both murders in 2023. Neither weapon was ever found.Alexander is not the only officer under scrutiny. The Post and Courier reported that a second, unnamed Yemassee town policeman is also being investigated. Both are accused of transporting weapons and bloody clothing into the Yemassee police department the morning after the murders.Alexander’s own attorney acknowledged that his client was at the crime scene on the night of the killings. The Moselle property sits outside Yemassee’s jurisdiction.The financial ties between Alexander and the Murdaugh family are documented. Alex Murdaugh wrote Alexander a $5,000 check approximately one month after the murders. Alexander said the money was a loan for his parents. Murdaugh family members and allies contributed $5,500 to Alexander’s campaign for Hampton County sheriff.During Alex Murdaugh’s first trial, Nathan Tuten — who worked as a runner for Murdaugh’s law firm — testified that Alexander was present during some of the cash deliveries Tuten made to Alex’s office.In 2012, Alexander was indicted by a statewide grand jury for stealing nearly $11,000 in seizure money from motorists. He went to trial in Hampton County with the Murdaugh family in his corner. He was acquitted and eventually rose to chief of police.The prosecution convicted Alex Murdaugh at the first trial using shell casing evidence, gunshot residue on a blue raincoat, and digital data — without the physical weapons. The retrial is scheduled for April 2027.Alexander has not been charged. His attorney, Joe McCulloch, calls the allegations absurd.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/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://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 #GregAlexander #HiddenKillers #MurdaughMurderWeapons #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #MurdaughRetrial #GrandJury #SouthCarolina
Judge Elaine Brown asked the question every Richard Allen group chat has argued since the Delphi verdict. If the confessions are ruled inadmissible, what proof does the state have? That exchange, at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, is where this segment starts.Mark Leeman's answer for Allen was blunt. No one identified him as the man on the bridge. There is no DNA.What the state had at trial was an unfired cartridge found in the ground between Abby Williams and Libby German, matched by a state examiner to the .40-caliber pistol from Allen's home. It also had witnesses who put a man on the trail.The defense's expert on the cartridge never testified. William Tobin, a former FBI metallurgist, was excluded by Judge Frances Gull as not a firearms examiner. Leeman told the panel Tobin would have said matching marks on a round found in a field is about as useful as astrology.One judge asked the state's lawyer if she had read the Virginia Supreme Court decision finding reversible error over this same expert. She had not.Then the sketch. Betsy Blair saw a man on the first platform about 50 feet away and helped police draw him. The jury never saw that drawing. Leeman held it up in rebuttal and told the judges that if Blair didn't see his client, the rest of the case is noise.The state's position, argued by Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender, is that the case against Allen begins with Allen. He told police in 2017 that he was on the trail that afternoon, and she says that statement supplies probable cause and the strongest evidence, with or without a confession.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I walk through the clips and what harmless error means when a court decides a mistake didn't change the verdict.The panel took it under advisement.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #BridgeGuy #TrueCrimeCommunity
Caleb Flynn thought he cleaned his phone. He deleted the texts. He scrubbed the apps. He wiped the AI tool he used to generate love songs for a woman who wasn’t his wife. When investigators pulled a full extraction, they recovered everything — and what was on that phone the night before Ashley Flynn was killed is the evidence that buried him.A Miami County jury convicted Flynn on all nine counts — aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence — after deliberating roughly two hours. The prosecution called forty witnesses. The defense called none.The phone held more than 107,000 texts to Alleigha Botner, a 21-year-old worship intern Flynn met at his own church. He took off his wedding ring so she wouldn’t know he was married. He called Ashley “douche” and “spawn of Satan” and told Botner he wanted her dead. Prosecutors printed the texts into 34 books — three cardboard boxes stacked in front of the jury.Six months before the murder: “I was up until 4 a.m. last night crying, literally thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail.” The night before: “I choose you. I’m free. Actions will come tomorrow.” Hours later: “It’s happening.” Prosecutors showed Flynn reached out to Botner before calling 911.His Apple Watch tracked roughly 200 steps while he claimed to be sleeping in his daughters’ bedroom. A spike of 346 steps around 2:30 a.m. His Oura ring and AirPods connection data told the same story — he was awake and moving through the house while Ashley lay dead in their bed. Neighborhood cameras showed no intruder arriving or leaving. His side of the bed was undisturbed. Flynn faces life without parole, with sentencing set for October 5.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 #HiddenKillers #GuiltyVerdict #TrueCrime #PhoneExtraction #AlleighaBotner #MiamiCounty #WorshipPastor #MurderConviction
Mark Leeman had thirty minutes at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, and he spent part of it on a man who is not Richard Allen. That argument could send the Delphi murders case back for a new trial, and it starts with a tattoo.Richard Allen was convicted in November 2024 of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German and is serving 130 years. His trial lawyers wanted the jury to hear about Brad Holder, a man Indiana State Police investigated in 2017 and never charged. Judge Frances Gull said no. The reason is Indiana's rule on third-party suspects: the defense has to show a direct connection to the crime, and the state argued there wasn't one.Leeman told the panel what that rule kept out: two tips in March 2017 naming Holder as a match for Bridge Guy, and a work alibi that rested on a landfill time card. Then came a rune Holder drew on his hand and posted online, which Leeman says has the same shape as the sticks laid on Abby, alongside photos of girls posed as if dead under branches. By Leeman's account, an officer took that to his superior and asked to reopen, and was told they'd already cleared him.The state's response was a location and a clerk. Holder was at a landfill in Buffalo, Indiana, about 25 miles away, when the girls were confronted and when Libby's phone stopped moving, and a landfill employee testified that a missing driver would have been noticed. The FBI's analyst, the state added, did not see clear runes in the sticks at all.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I take the three clips apart and ask whether a time card should ever be the thing that keeps a name away from a jury.Three judges are deciding. The losing side can take it to the Indiana Supreme Court.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Odinism #TrueCrimeCommunity
On April 14, 2023, a psychiatrist who hadn't seen Richard Allen in months walked into his Westville cell. What he saw there became the opening of Allen's appeal at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, and it's where Bob Motta and I start.Allen is serving 130 years for the 2017 Delphi murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. The state counted 61 incriminating statements from him in the spring of 2023, made to family, guards, a warden, other inmates, and the psychologist treating him. All of them came from a cell he'd been in since November 2022.Mark Leeman, arguing for Allen, described a man on the floor, unable to communicate, covered in his own waste, declared gravely disabled by the prison's own doctor and medicated against his will. He told the judges the state's own records fix the start of that collapse at April 4, and that the state spent the following weeks fighting to keep him where he was. His word for it was coercion, and the judges pressed him on it, because no officer ever questioned Allen.The state's lawyer answered that restrictive housing is ordinary custody and that Allen was there for his own protection. The tablet, the therapy sessions, the chaplain visits, and the commissary access, she argued, show a man treated as well as anyone at Westville. She conceded he was psychotic by mid-April and argued the confessions that matter came before and after it.Bob explains why the burden of proof on a confession sits with the state in Indiana, and what Leeman meant when he said Judge Gull got it backwards. He also gets into how three judges decide whether a man's mind was taken from him or came apart on its own.No ruling yet; the loser can seek review at the Indiana Supreme Court.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Westville #TrueCrimeCommunit
More than a hundred and seven thousand text messages. Matching lightning bolt tattoos — his hidden in his armpit. Three hundred messages a day. And a woman who allegedly watched a man describe planning to end his wife's life for months and never told a soul.Alleigha Botner's testimony in the Caleb Flynn murder trial lasted seven hours and covered a relationship that started in a church and ended in a courtroom. Flynn is charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence in the death of his wife Ashley, a mother of two and volleyball coach who was shot twice while sleeping in Tipp City, Ohio, on February 16, 2026. He's pleaded not guilty.Botner was a twenty-two-year-old intern at Christian Life Center in Butler Township when the relationship with Flynn, who ran the music ministry, turned physical in May 2024. Prosecutors allege the messages between them escalated from complaints to explicit talk of wanting Ashley gone by mid-2025. Botner's response to one such message, read aloud in court: "I'm not asking that you take her life."In January 2026, Botner gave Flynn an ultimatum. During a Florida trip that same period, two devices carrying their messages were lost. Botner testified she searched for information about unsolved cases. The night before Ashley was found, she allegedly sent Flynn instructions on deleting a ChatGPT conversation about divorce.After Ashley was found, Botner testified that Flynn pulled her aside and said something that made her heart start pounding. She didn't call police. She deleted messages and lied to the FBI.Botner hasn't been charged. Prosecutors never searched her apartment, vehicle, or DNA. The question her testimony left behind: what did she believe was coming?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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #MurderTrial #TippCity #TrueCrime #MiamiCountyOhio #AmericanIdol #JusticeForAshley
This is the complete interrogation breakdown — nine clips across three segments, dissected by Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke. Two police interviews from February 16, 2026, hours after prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn shot his wife Ashley while she slept in their Tipp City home.Segment one covers the performance: the clean phone, the perfect-marriage lie, the alternative suspects, the church-going family image — all built before the detective asked a question. Segment two covers the detective's game: the staged door, the shooter placed at the foot of the bed using Caleb's own words, the neighbor Morgan already had on record. Segment three covers the breaks: the accusation Caleb made before anyone accused him, the timeline that collapsed from minutes to seconds, and the missing gun known only to two sleeping children and a dead woman.Robin reads the behavioral tells, the interrogation technique, and the moments the mask slipped. Three days after these interviews, Caleb Flynn was arrested.He has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder. He is presumed innocent.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnInterrogation #CalebFlynnTrial #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCityOhio #RobinDreeke #MiamiCountyOhio #TrueCrime
The Caleb Flynn trial ended with a guilty verdict on every count the jury was asked to decide in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. After 2 hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds of deliberations, jurors returned guilty verdicts on one count of aggravated murder, three counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault and three counts of tampering with evidence.Flynn, 40, a former American Idol contestant and worship pastor, had maintained that Ashley was killed during a home-invasion burglary and that investigators rushed to blame him. Prosecutors argued that Flynn killed Ashley at their Tipp City, Ohio home on February 16, 2026, then staged the scene to make it look like an intruder had been there. The jury rejected the defense account.Two misdemeanor intimidation counts from the original 11-count indictment were dismissed before deliberations, leaving nine counts for the jury. The verdict means the presumption of innocence on those counts has ended. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5, 2026, at 3:00 PM EDT. The next question is no longer whether the jury believed the home-invasion story. It is what sentence Judge Jeannine Pratt will impose.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. Caleb Flynn has now been found guilty by a jury on the nine counts submitted for verdict. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #GuiltyVerdict #AggravatedMurder #MurderTrial #OhioTrial #TrueCrime #CourtCoverage
JP Miller told his congregation at Solid Rock Church that he was going to deliverance three times a week and that demons were coming out of him. His stepfather-in-law Michael Honeycutt — who helped raise Mica from about age 12 — prayed over JP and says the word that came out was “deliverance.” Ten minutes later, Honeycutt says Mica called, with JP, upset and asking whether Honeycutt was saying JP was possessed.That was October 2023. Mica’s friend Bruna Pabon told Robbie Harvey that September 2023 is when Mica found out about JP and Suzie Skinner. The timing is the story: the demon showed up the same month the affair did.From the pulpit, JP Miller called the 18 people Mica confided in demons. He texted her closest friend that listening to Mica was a greater sin than anything he could have committed. Former elder Bernard Kenerson says JP convinced the church leadership that Mica had been in a months-long psychotic episode and nothing she said could be trusted. The word “demon” pointed at everyone except the man saying it.But in a sworn affidavit, Mica’s brother Nate says JP wrote Mica an email with different language: “When someone hurts me, I try to hurt them back rather than forgive” and “I just attack and try to cause pain.”No American court has ever accepted demonic possession as a defense. Arne Johnson tried it in 1981 — the judge threw it out. Berkowitz invented his demon story. Sellers was executed and Dalton got life.JP Miller faces federal cyberstalking and false-statement charges in Florence, with a trial set for January 2027. He married Suzie Skinner in June 2025. The demons left. The charges didn’t.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 #DemonDefense #FederalTrial #TrueCrime #Cyberstalking #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
Martin Weinberg is asking Judge William Sullivan to open up another piece of the Lindsay Clancy trial record—juror notes and sidebar discussions that are currently subject to impoundment.Weinberg argued for Clancy’s defense on a motion seeking an order that those materials not remain impounded. The reason matters. The defense wants to use at least some of those documents as part of its separate motion to dismiss the case on double jeopardy grounds. Sullivan did not rule from the bench, instead taking the motion under advisement.That puts the focus squarely on what happened during a trial that ended without a verdict—and what the defense believes the record may show about how it ended.Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months. Prosecutors allege she strangled the children with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. They allege she then attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window. She is now paralyzed from the waist down.Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time. He has since relocated to Manhattan and has spoken to The New Yorker about Lindsay’s mental health.Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has argued that Clancy was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and had been psychiatrically overmedicated, forming the basis of the insanity defense. Jury selection began July 20, 2026, in Plymouth Superior Court.Now Weinberg’s argument moves the post-trial fight into the jury record itself. The defense says some of those materials matter to its double-jeopardy claim. Whether Sullivan agrees they can be released remains undecided.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #MartinWeinberg #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #ClancyTrial #DoubleJeopardy #JurorNotes #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #CourtroomNews
The detective was explaining paperwork. Search warrants, phone downloads, next steps. And Caleb Flynn interrupted him: it feels like you guys are pointing it to me. Nobody accused him. Then he added that he'd never laid a hand on his wife — an answer to a question nobody had asked.His timeline collapsed in the same interview. He told Morgan he froze for two to five minutes after the gunshots. When Morgan repeated that number, Caleb walked it down to five seconds. And then there was the handgun. Caleb said it was in the center console of his truck in the garage. The console was found open. The gun was gone. Never recovered. Only his two daughters and Ashley knew it was there.Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke play the three clips where Caleb Flynn's performance broke down — and Robin reads what each crack told the detective about the man across the table.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent.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.#CalebFlynnInterrogation #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MissingMurderWeapon #TippCityMurder #MiamiCountyTrial #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime
The Lindsay Clancy Rule 25 fight took a sharp turn on September 29 when defense attorney Kevin Reddington challenged both the proof that she committed the charged acts and the Commonwealth’s case on criminal responsibility.Reddington told the court his required-finding argument has two tracks. The first reaches back to his unsuccessful request for a bifurcated trial. He wanted the jury to decide whether Clancy committed the acts separately from whether she could be held criminally responsible, arguing that the combined trial forced the defense into a position that risked incriminating Clancy while pursuing an insanity defense.That distinction matters because Reddington is now attacking the underlying investigation. He pointed to what he described as inconsistencies and investigative shortcomings in the deaths of Clancy’s children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — and in the investigation of Clancy’s alleged attempt to harm herself afterward. He also challenged one of the most consequential pieces of the Commonwealth’s case: her alleged confession. Reddington claimed the statement reflected a planted memory rather than a reliable recollection of the January 24, 2023 events.His second argument focuses on mental disease or defect. The defense has maintained that Clancy was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis. Reddington argued that the Commonwealth did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not psychotic at the time of the children’s deaths, which goes directly to Massachusetts law on criminal responsibility.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges and three strangulation charges. Her first trial ended with Judge William Sullivan declaring a mistrial after jurors could not reach unanimity. The Rule 25 motion asks Sullivan to decide whether the Commonwealth’s evidence was legally sufficient, rather than simply sending the same unresolved questions to another jury.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 #Rule25 #ClancyCase #CriminalResponsibility #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrime
The prosecution called forty witnesses and put 107,000 text messages in front of the jury. Caleb Flynn’s defense called zero.The messages between Caleb and his mistress Alleigha Botner were organized by the state’s digital analyst into categories. “Kill Ashley, Ashley Dead/Gone, Rid of Ashley.” “About Hating Ashley” — ninety-five texts over ten months. The language escalated across a full year: “I hate her ever living guts” became “I despise her,” which became “the witch.” On February 10, 2025, Caleb texted Botner: “I need her to die.”The prosecution says Caleb couldn’t afford to leave. He texted Botner what divorce would cost — his daughters full time, a quarter-million-dollar salary, his house, and his standing at the church where both of them worked. He promised to leave Ashley in September, October, and February. He never did. By February 2026, Botner had planned a date with someone else.On September 2, 2025, Botner researched permanent deletion of their messages across WhatsApp, Instagram, iCloud, and GroupMe. Caleb had already been coaching her on scrubbing their trail since August. Her conclusion: “Not even lawyers with a subpoena.” The prosecution recovered all of it.The night of February 15, Caleb texted: “Actions will come tomorrow.” By 12:42 AM: “It’s happening, Alleigha.” At 12:45 AM: “I choose you, Alleigha. Goodnight.” Ashley was dead by morning. When Botner heard, she texted Caleb: “Were you behind this?” Three GroupMe messages that followed were deleted.Closing arguments begin Tuesday. One sentence from the defense against 107,000 texts from the prosecution.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #AlleighaBotner #MiamiCountyOhio #AshleyFlynnCase #TrueCrime #ClosingArguments #MurderTrial
The final prosecution response in the Caleb Flynn trial focused on something simple: connect the evidence, connect the timeline, and compare both with what prosecutors characterize as Caleb's lies. Miami County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Watkins used rebuttal to answer the defense's argument that the State had not proved Caleb killed his wife, Ashley Flynn.Caleb, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, in Ashley's February 16, 2026 death at their Tipp City home. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense maintains that an intruder killed Ashley and that investigators rushed to judgment.Rebuttal gave Watkins the prosecution's final opportunity to respond after defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan argued that the case was circumstantial and that prosecutors had proved an affair, not murder.Watkins answered by returning to the connections the State says matter. He linked pieces of evidence to the prosecution's timeline and focused on statements the State argues were lies told by Caleb. The prosecution's position was that those pieces should not be evaluated as unrelated coincidences.This episode covers the State's final answer to the defense before the case moves fully into the jury's hands. Caleb remains presumed innocent unless and until the jury finds him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #ClosingArguments #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtCoverage #TrueCrime #TrialCoverage
The Caleb Flynn trial reached the point where the same record became two very different stories for the jury. Prosecutor Matthew Joseph told jurors the evidence against Caleb becomes overwhelming when they stop isolating each item and consider the case as a whole. Defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan told them the opposite: the State still had not proved Caleb killed his wife, Ashley Flynn.Caleb, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, in Ashley's February 16, 2026 death at their Tipp City, Ohio home. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense maintains that a burglar killed Ashley and investigators rushed to judgment against Caleb.Joseph's closing asked jurors to connect the evidence rather than demand that any single piece carry the entire case. Mulligan attacked that approach at its foundation. He emphasized that the State's case is circumstantial and argued that the prosecution proved Caleb had an affair, but did not prove that he murdered Ashley.Mulligan put the responsibility where it ultimately belongs in a criminal trial: with the jury. “You make the call,” he told them.This episode puts those competing closing arguments together: the prosecution asking jurors to see one complete picture, and the defense asking whether that picture actually proves who killed Ashley beyond a reasonable doubt.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #ClosingArguments #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtCoverage #TrueCrime #TrialCoverage
The door wasn't locked. It wasn't even latched. But somebody pried it open anyway — and the damage was on the inside. Detective Mike Morgan told Caleb Flynn that to his face and said it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Caleb said for sure.In Part 2 of the interrogation breakdown, Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke play three clips from the second police interview and pull apart what Detective Morgan was really doing when he walked Caleb through the evidence. The forced-but-unlocked door. The shooter at the foot of the bed — placed there using Caleb's own description of where he stood. The neighbor who had already told police about the arguments before Caleb dared the detective to ask.A BCI agent spent twelve hours in the home and concluded the scene was staged. Morgan already had that conclusion when he sat down. Every detail he put on the table was a move, and Robin Dreeke reads what Morgan was watching for in Caleb Flynn's reaction to each one.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent.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 #CalebFlynnTrial #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynnMurder #CalebFlynnInterrogation #DetectiveMorgan #TippCity #StagedCrimeScene #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime
The detective handed Caleb Flynn's phone back after scrolling through it and finding nothing. Not one message from his wife Ashley. Caleb had the explanation ready: he deletes texts to save storage. The jury now knows what prosecutors allege was actually on that phone.In this interrogation breakdown with retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, Tony plays the clips from the February 16 police interview that was played for the jury this week. Three clips, one lane: what Caleb Flynn brought into that room before anyone asked. The clean phone. The two strangers volunteered as suspects. The church invoked as a character reference — the same church where prosecutors allege Caleb had been carrying on an affair with a twenty-year-old worship singer.When the detective asked about marital problems, Caleb Flynn said "none whatsoever." According to prosecutors, his phone allegedly held more than a hundred thousand messages with another woman. Prosecutors say those messages included one about being up until 4 a.m. thinking of ways to kill his wife. And one sent hours before this interview allegedly read: I choose you, I'm free, actions will come tomorrow.Robin Dreeke breaks down the behavioral tells in each clip — the pre-built narrative, the unsolicited denials, and the difference between someone in shock and someone running a script.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynnInterrogation #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdolMurder #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #MiamiCountyOhio
For a year, Caleb Flynn told his girlfriend he hated his wife and was going to leave her. Then he put a condition on it, and that condition is the part of the Caleb Flynn trial texts that tells you exactly who he is. Tony reads the message and then explains the year that led up to it.The messages came from thirty-four binders the state put in front of the jury, read aloud by Alleigha Botner, the woman he sent them to. Tony lays out the playbook in his own words. He took away Ashley Flynn's name and replaced it with a nickname. He typed "I hate her" dozens of times, and once explained why: "That's why I constantly tell you I hate her." He wrote his most famous line, the one about killing her and not going to hell, as an apology for going to his daughter's birthday party. When his girlfriend doubted him, he wrote "I'm sorry your mind is going to these places."The death talk climbed all year. "I need her to die, to cheat again, to leave" in February. "Please hire someone" in June. By July his girlfriend was typing "I want to kill her, Caleb," and he wrote back "That makes two of us." In August she told him in writing not to take Ashley's life, and his reply was "I'll work on getting rid of her."Then the part that held it all together. He couldn't leave his wife, so he made his girlfriend prove her love instead, and the test he chose cost her nothing. He wrote "I'm not trying to manipulate you" in the same message.Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her own bed on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors say her husband did it and staged a burglary; his lawyers say an intruder did it and the texts were lies to keep his girlfriend happy. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and every other count. Tony translates every line, ending with what "I'm not trying to manipulate you" meant.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TippCity #MiamiCountyOhio #AmericanIdol #MurderTrial #Gaslighting
There's a message in the Caleb Flynn trial where he tells Alleigha Botner what he'll do once Ashley is asleep, and she answers "Perfect." It's from September 2, 2025. Ashley Flynn was shot in her sleep on February 16, 2026. That exchange is the spine of this Hidden Killers panel, all three parts in one.Robin Dreeke, retired FBI behavioral analyst, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, 25-year FBI special agent, and nine clips from Botner's two days of direct and her cross. His side: the June 12 "hire someone" message and "I've never joked about it"; July 4's "please take her out" and "not even for a second"; August 22's "thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail." Her side: the July 10 message she had to claim on the stand, the September 2 phone plan, and "I'm not asking that you take her life, obviously," followed by "time is ticking." The cross: her Google searches after the murder, "I don't think he could ever be capable," and the admission that she went to Ashley's parents' house that morning so she wouldn't "look suspicious," while police never searched, swabbed, printed, or charged her.Prosecutors say Caleb shot his wife twice in the head and staged a break-in. His lawyers say an intruder did it and the state is trying an affair. The panel's verdict on the two of them is the episode.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial
Bryan Kohberger studied criminology at the doctoral level, and his own defense team told a judge they needed outside help getting through to him. That's in a sealed May 2025 filing, unsealed on September 22, 2026, that his new attorney, Greg Rauch, is using to challenge the guilty plea. Anne Taylor's team wrote that Kohberger was having difficulty comprehending adverse rulings and fitting them into a rational assessment of his case. In the same filing, they expressly denied he was incompetent. Judge Steven Hippler refused to delay the case on June 26, 2025, and Kohberger pleaded guilty six days later to killing four University of Idaho students. Rauch argues the judge knew all of this before accepting the plea. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains how a lawyer can say a client can't follow his own case and still isn't incompetent, and why that line matters for the plea.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.#IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #Kohberger #AnneTaylor #GregRauch #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #IdahoFour #TrueCrime
Cross-examination of Ohio BCI criminal intelligence analyst Samantha Reeb shifted attention away from Caleb Flynn’s messages and onto information recovered from Ashley Flynn’s own phone.Reeb testified that she created timelines using Flynn’s police interviews, other investigative information, and data recovered from his iPhone. Prosecutors have used that digital work to organize the enormous volume of communications surrounding the case.The defense used cross-examination to widen that picture.Reeb testified about notes found on Ashley’s iPhone, including one indicating that Ashley was experiencing difficulty in her marriage to Caleb.Defense counsel also questioned Reeb about Alleigha Botner. Specifically, the attorney asked about messages from Botner expressing hatred toward Ashley or wanting Ashley dead. The testimony described here does not establish Reeb’s answer to those questions, but the line of questioning put Botner’s own communications before the jury rather than focusing exclusively on Flynn’s.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. His defense maintains Ashley was killed by an intruder and investigators focused on Caleb too quickly.Reeb’s direct testimony gave jurors a prosecution-built digital timeline. Cross-examination is testing what else existed inside that same digital record.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 #HiddenKillers #SamanthaReeb #AlleighaBotner #CalebFlynnTrial #DigitalEvidence #OhioBCI #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Cross-examination in the Caleb Flynn trial opened with Alleigha Botner's search history, and the defense had it word for word: what she looked up on February 17 and February 19, 2026, in the days after Ashley Flynn was killed. She said yes to every one.Part three of the Hidden Killers panel with Robin Dreeke, retired FBI behavioral analyst, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, 25-year FBI special agent. Three clips from Emily Smith's cross. The searches. The moment Smith asks whether Botner ever believed Caleb meant his "kill her" messages, and the state's own witness answers, "I don't think he could ever be capable of doing something like that." And the close: she thought Caleb did it, drove to Ashley's parents' house that same morning so she wouldn't "look suspicious," kept her suspicions to herself for days, and was never searched, swabbed, printed, charged, or offered a deal.Prosecutors say Caleb Flynn shot his wife twice in the head on February 16, 2026 and called 911 with an intruder story. The defense says investigators picked the husband on day one and never looked anywhere else. This segment is where that argument lives.Whether the jury walked out wondering about him or about her is the question the panel answers.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial
More than 107,000 messages between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner became a spreadsheet, a timeline, and ultimately a series of numbers the prosecution wants jurors to remember.Ohio BCI criminal intelligence analyst Samantha Reeb testified that she helped preserve digital data, analyze information returned through search warrants, and build a timeline of communications in the investigation into the death of Ashley Flynn.Reeb testified that an Instagram account using the false name “Derrick Hammond” was created by Caleb Flynn’s phone and used to monitor and message Botner.Then she broke down the communications by subject matter.According to Reeb’s analysis, 141 messages referenced Caleb wanting to kill Ashley, while another 95 referenced hating her. She identified 188 messages involving discussion about deleting digital data. The overall volume of communication dropped dramatically in January before Flynn and Botner resumed talking on February 14.Reeb testified there were 266 communications from February 14 into February 15. From roughly 4 p.m. February 15 through February 16, she counted 716 communications.She also testified that GroupMe was deleted from Flynn’s phone at approximately 1 a.m. February 16, with Instagram deleted around the same time.Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene as a home invasion. His defense maintains an intruder killed her and investigators wrongly focused on Caleb.The prosecution has spent days showing jurors individual messages. Reeb’s testimony attempts to show them the scale and timing of the digital record surrounding those messages.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 #HiddenKillers #SamanthaReeb #CalebFlynnTrial #AlleighaBotner #DigitalEvidence #OhioBCI #TippCity #MurderTrial
Caleb Flynn spent six days of his aggravated murder trial without showing emotion. He sat through Alleigha Botner’s testimony about 107,000 text messages, alleged meetups at a storage unit, and AI-generated love songs prosecutors say he created using her voice. None of it moved him.On Day 7, the jury watched two police interrogation videos recorded on February 16, 2026, hours after Ashley Flynn was found with two gunshot wounds to the back of her head. When the courtroom screen played those interviews, Caleb Flynn cried.The questioning started at 4:28 in the morning. Detective Mike Morgan asked to see Flynn’s text messages with Ashley. The phone had none. Flynn said he deleted them because her photos took up storage. The same phone allegedly held every message he’d exchanged with Botner.Morgan asked about enemies. Flynn said the family had none — they stuck to themselves, went to church. FBI Special Agent Kinzig had testified that a murder-for-hire tip allegedly pointed at Flynn during the investigation.Flynn offered an intruder theory and pointed to a side door in the garage. Testimony established that the damage to that door was allegedly visible only from the inside. His own theory allegedly didn’t match the physical evidence.Flynn said he fell asleep by 11:30 p.m. Prosecutors presented Apple Watch data showing Ashley’s watch allegedly recorded activity between approximately 1:19 a.m. and 2:28 a.m. Flynn called 911 at approximately 2:30 a.m.Then Flynn volunteered something nobody asked about — a handgun in his truck. The weapon that allegedly killed Ashley has never been recovered. Flynn couldn’t describe the gun he admits he owned.Before anyone accused him, Flynn told Morgan it felt like they were pointing at him. He denied laying a hand on Ashley. Nobody in the room had suggested he had.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #TippCity #MurderTrial #PoliceInterrogation #AggravatedMurder #MiamiCountyOhio #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Cross-examination of Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan turned from what Tipp City police investigated in Ashley Flynn’s murder to what they didn’t.The defense pressed Morgan about moments where the interview video appeared not to line up with its audio. Then the questions moved to physical evidence. Morgan testified that investigators found no evidence of blood on Caleb Flynn’s clothing or in the sinks of the home.Caleb also was never tested for gunshot residue.Asked why, Morgan said investigators didn’t want to rush to judgment and take Caleb into custody at that point. But Morgan also testified that because Caleb said he entered the room within four to six seconds of hearing the shots, he believed gunshot residue would have been somewhere on Caleb’s body. No gunshot-residue tests were taken in the case.The defense also questioned investigative ground that Morgan acknowledged wasn’t covered. Police did not examine FLOCK camera data in the neighborhood or around Pastor Jordan’s house, and investigators did not search the fields behind Jordan’s home. Defense counsel also raised the use of cold-case units by many police departments.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged a home invasion. The defense says the home invasion was real and investigators focused on Caleb too quickly.Cross-examination is now putting that defense theory directly against the investigative choices police made.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 #HiddenKillers #MikeMorgan #CalebFlynnTrial #GunshotResidue #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
The Caleb Flynn murder trial put jurors back inside the police interview room as Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan showed more video of investigators questioning Flynn about the night his wife, Ashley Flynn, was killed.Morgan testified as jurors watched Flynn draw a map explaining what he said happened inside the Tipp City home and where events unfolded. Detectives pressed him on what he heard that allegedly woke him that night and continued working through his account step by step.Then the interview became much more direct.An officer asked Flynn, “Did you do this?”Flynn asked him to repeat the question. When the officer did, Flynn answered, “No.”Investigators also told Flynn that he would be investigated and that evidence gathered in the case would be taken to a grand jury. Flynn again denied involvement, telling detectives, “I did not touch my wife.”Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the death of Ashley Flynn, 37. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. His defense maintains Ashley was killed during an actual home invasion and investigators rushed to judgment against her husband.Now jurors are hearing Flynn explain the night in his own words—and hearing exactly how investigators challenged that explanation.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 #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #MikeMorgan #TrueCrime #OhioTrial #TippCity #MurderTrial #CourtroomCoverage
Every message the jury heard from Caleb Flynn about wanting his wife gone came out of a conversation, and Alleigha Botner was the other half of it. On part two of this Hidden Killers panel, the clips are hers. One is a message about Ashley Flynn that the prosecutor made her read and then made her claim: "Who said that?" "Me."Robin Dreeke, retired FBI behavioral analyst, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, 25-year FBI special agent, join me for three clips from the Caleb Flynn trial. July 10, 2025: the message, her "I didn't mean it," and his "that makes two of us." September 2: Ashley had found their texts on Caleb's iPad and taken pictures; here the two of them work out whether the pictures still exist, Caleb says he'll "grab her phone when she sleeps," and Botner replies "be careful," then "what would be your excuse," then "Perfect." August 22: her answer to his 4 a.m. "ways to kill her" message, which starts "I'm not asking that you take her life, obviously" and ends "time is ticking and I can't wait forever."Caleb Flynn is charged with aggravated murder. Prosecutors say he shot Ashley in her sleep on February 16, 2026 and called 911 with an intruder story. His defense says the state is prosecuting an affair. Botner testified on cross that she has no deal and no charges.Whether you see a victim of a married man or a woman steering him is the argument this panel has out loud.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial
Caleb Flynn's mistress read a text to the jury that turns an ugly affair into something else, and it was sent June 12, 2025, with eight months still to go before Ashley Flynn died. What he asked for, what she wrote back, and "I've never joked about it" open this Hidden Killers panel on the Caleb Flynn trial.Robin Dreeke, former head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI special agent, watch three clips with me and break down the man in them. Fourth of July: "douche needs to go," "please take her out," and his answer when she asks if he'd ever miss the Smiths. August 22: "up till 4 a.m. crying and literally thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail," then "I have been literally trying to find a way to get rid of her," then the confession that he'd been parked across the street from her office in tears.The state's theory is that Caleb shot Ashley twice in the head while she slept on February 16, 2026, then staged the house to look like a break-in. The defense says an intruder killed her and the prosecution has motive confused with murder. Every message in this episode was read into evidence by the prosecution's own witness.Where these three clips leave you decides how you hear the rest of this trial. Part two is her hands on it. Part three is cross.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial
Hours before Ashley Flynn was found dead, Caleb Flynn was telling Alleigha Botner that February 16 would be a day she would never forget. Botner testified that she believed the promised action was a divorce.The Caleb Flynn trial has now put that explanation beside the rest of their final-night communications. Botner said Flynn laid out a plan to leave Ashley: speak with family, talk to his daughters, ask about work, get a hotel, and move out. She also testified that she was using ChatGPT that evening for information about divorce, proof of an affair, and deleting messages, and that she sent Flynn screenshots. Their messages continued after midnight.By morning, Ashley Flynn was dead. Flynn reported that an intruder had entered their Tipp City home. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley and staged the scene; he has pleaded not guilty. Botner told jurors the timing immediately struck her as too much of a coincidence. She asked Flynn whether he was involved, then deleted those messages because she feared the affair would be discovered. She also admitted she initially concealed the relationship from the FBI.Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to examine the legal fight inside those facts. The prosecution can ask jurors to view the messages as part of a plan. The defense can point to Botner's own stated understanding that Flynn meant divorce and challenge what her deletions and initial lie do to her credibility.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime
The Siders family case now has one defendant the court says cannot be tried and another facing 23 criminal counts while her own competency remains unresolved. Gary Siders Sr., 73, was found incompetent to stand trial on September 9 after a forensic examiner concluded he could not understand or assist in the proceedings. The judge also accepted the finding that he is not restorable, leaving prosecutors to choose between dismissal and possible civil commitment. Gary Sr. had been charged with 16 counts of child endangerment after 16 children were found June 30 in a Hamden, Ohio, home. He had already been released on a recognizance bond because of serious medical concerns and is subject to GPS monitoring. His attorney has said he expects the criminal case to be dismissed, but that decision still belongs to prosecutors and the court. Elizabeth Siders is on a different track. She faces 19 child-endangerment counts plus four additional felony charges involving a teenage relative, and she pleaded not guilty to the newer charges on September 16. Her bonds total $550,000. Her attorney requested a competency evaluation, and the report had not yet been filed at the time of her arraignment. The other remaining defendants, Gary Siders Jr. and Christina Siders, also asked to be evaluated for competency. So the same prosecution that began with four adults and 16 children is now being filtered through four separate mental-competency questions. This episode follows what that means legally, what it does not mean about guilt or innocence, and why competency can stop a criminal case before a jury ever hears the evidence. 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. #SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillers #GarySiders #VintonCounty #ChildEndangerment #OhioCrime #CompetencyEvaluation #TrueCrime #CourtCase
Bryan Kohberger's former defense team had already raised concerns about his ability to process the case before he accepted the plea deal that sent him to prison for life. A filing unsealed on September 22, 2026, says his lawyers told Judge Steven Hippler that Kohberger was struggling to rationally understand adverse rulings and what those rulings meant for his options. The defense did not tell the court he was incompetent. Instead, they asked for additional time and expert assistance so they could communicate with him about major choices, including whether to testify, continue toward trial or resolve the case. The court denied the continuance, and six days later Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders and burglary. That timing now sits inside Kohberger's effort to undo the plea. His new attorney, Greg Rauch, says the sequence does not automatically make the plea unconstitutional. He argues it creates a factual issue about whether Kohberger had enough time and help to understand the position he was in when he made the decision. The legal filing arrives alongside a very public family statement. Kohberger's parents and sisters say they support his post-conviction challenge and want the full truth tested in court. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine what it means when a family publicly validates a convicted relative's new innocence claim after he admitted guilt under oath. Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences without parole plus ten years for burglary. An October 15 hearing will address his request for a new judge and venue, followed by a June 17, 2027 evidentiary hearing on post-conviction relief. The dispute is no longer just about what he says now. It is also about what his own lawyers told the court before he entered the guilty pleas. 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. #BryanKohberger #KohbergerCase #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #GuiltyPlea #PostConvictionRelief #ShavaunScott #JudgeHippler #MoscowIdaho #TrueCrime
Before Caleb Flynn called 911, prosecutors say his private messages had already documented a year-long affair and repeated anger toward his wife Ashley. After 2:30 a.m. on February 16, 2026, Caleb told dispatch that somebody had broken into the Flynn home and shot Ashley. He said she had two shots to the head and directed attention toward the garage while officers were still on the way. The prosecution is now pairing that call with more than 100,000 messages it says Caleb exchanged with another woman. In opening statements, prosecutor Paul Watkins quoted messages allegedly sent by Caleb about thinking of ways to kill Ashley without going to jail and saying he would kill her "in a heartbeat" if he could avoid hell. Prosecutors argue those messages help establish motive and intent. The defense concedes the affair and the damaging language but says neither proves Caleb committed the killing. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke examine the two records side by side: the emergency call Caleb knew was being recorded and the private messages prosecutors say he never expected a jury to read. Robin discusses the call's cadence, Caleb's account that he froze after hearing gunfire, and his repeated intruder framing without treating any single verbal cue as a lie detector. The central fight is simple enough for a jury to understand and hard enough to decide: what weight should private statements about killing carry when the same man later reports an unknown intruder killed his wife? Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #MiamiCounty #911Audio #AffairEvidence #TextMessages #TippCity #TrueCrime
Nick Reiner's murder case just lost its biggest sentencing headline, while a second courtroom fight is putting his parents' money at the center of his defense. Prosecutors announced September 15 that they will not seek the death penalty for the alleged killings of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. If Nick is convicted as charged, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says he faces life without parole. At the same time, Reiner is asking a probate court to release money from a separate trust created for him in 1993. His lawyers say half of that trust became mandatorily payable when he turned 30 on September 14, 2023. They estimate that distribution at about $558,000 and argue it became his before his parents died. The full trust is now reported at roughly $1.6 million. The dispute is not over the larger Reiner family estate. It is over Nick's individual trust and whether money scheduled for him years earlier can be withheld while he awaits trial. His attorneys argue California's slayer statute does not reach funds that already vested before the alleged killings. Trustees have resisted releasing the money while the criminal case and the statute's consequences remain unresolved. Former private defense attorney Alan Jackson has said his firm would be prepared to resume representation if funding becomes available. Meanwhile, prosecutors allege Nick killed his parents after lying in wait, an allegation that remains unproven. Reiner has pleaded not guilty. His documented mental-health history may become part of the defense, but no formal insanity plea has been publicly established. The trust fight returns October 23, with the criminal case back in court October 7. 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #HiddenKillers #MicheleSingerReiner #TrustFund #MurderCase #LosAngeles #AlanJackson #TrueCrime #Reiner
Hours before Ashley Flynn was found dead, Caleb Flynn was telling Alleigha Botner that February 16 would be a day she would never forget. Botner testified that she believed the promised action was a divorce.The Caleb Flynn trial has now put that explanation beside the rest of their final-night communications. Botner said Flynn laid out a plan to leave Ashley: speak with family, talk to his daughters, ask about work, get a hotel, and move out. She also testified that she was using ChatGPT that evening for information about divorce, proof of an affair, and deleting messages, and that she sent Flynn screenshots. Their messages continued after midnight.By morning, Ashley Flynn was dead. Flynn reported that an intruder had entered their Tipp City home. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley and staged the scene; he has pleaded not guilty. Botner told jurors the timing immediately struck her as too much of a coincidence. She asked Flynn whether he was involved, then deleted those messages because she feared the affair would be discovered. She also admitted she initially concealed the relationship from the FBI.Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to examine the legal fight inside those facts. The prosecution can ask jurors to view the messages as part of a plan. The defense can point to Botner's own stated understanding that Flynn meant divorce and challenge what her deletions and initial lie do to her credibility.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime
The Lindsay Clancy case is now focused on two kinds of information people say they could not see in time. Patrick Clancy told 60 Minutes that mental illness can be 'tragically deceptive.' Days later, Lindsay's lawyers asked the court to investigate what the lone holdout juror disclosed before he was selected and what he was doing during deliberations. Michael Desronvil was the only juror who favored criminal responsibility when the panel deadlocked 11-1 and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Records reported after the trial show Desronvil had previously faced a domestic assault charge that was dismissed, had an active restraining order involving his teenage nephew when he was seated, and was involved in eviction proceedings. The defense is not treating those facts as automatic proof of misconduct. It is asking whether his confidential questionnaire and voir dire answers accurately disclosed the background the court normally asks prospective jurors to reveal. Reddington's filing also asks for a limited inquiry into alleged cellphone use during deliberations. Other jurors have accused the holdout of spending time on his phone, while Desronvil has publicly defended his verdict position and said he had no doubts about Clancy's criminal responsibility. Judge Sullivan has not publicly granted the requested inquiry as of September 23. The issue is set to return to court September 29 alongside the defense effort to stop a retrial. Patrick's interview adds the human side of the same case. He said Lindsay's decline included sleeplessness, depression, intrusive thoughts, repeated medical care, and a stay at McLean Psychiatric Hospital. He told 60 Minutes he believes there were warning signs he simply did not understand at the time. Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski connect Patrick's account with the new courtroom fight: what was knowable, what was disclosed, and what the legal system does when critical information surfaces only after a mistrial. 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #HoldoutJuror #MichaelDesronvil #DoubleJeopardy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #60Minutes
Before the prosecution could turn Caleb Flynn's affair into a courtroom reveal, his own defense put it in front of the jury. Emily Smith opened with a verse from Proverbs, admitted Flynn was unfaithful and had lied about it, then drew the distinction the defense needs jurors to keep: marital betrayal is not proof of murder. That argument is being tested against the state's theory of a staged burglary. Flynn maintains that somebody stole his 9mm handgun from his Ford truck, entered the family's Tipp City home and killed Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege there was no real intruder and that the scene was arranged to support that story. BCI Special Agent David Hammond testified that the garage entry door did not show the signs of forced entry he expected to see. The defense challenged that conclusion, pointing out that the locks were unlocked and pressing Hammond on limits in the scene examination. The gun investigators believe was used has not been recovered. Then there is the evidence that brings the marriage itself into the courtroom. The woman prosecutors connect to Flynn's alleged affair is expected to testify, and the couple's daughters are also witnesses. The judge has restricted video of the juveniles while permitting audio recording of their testimony. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer break down why the defense would volunteer damaging personal facts before the state can weaponize them, and what happens when that strategy meets the physical evidence. The towel found over Ashley's head is treated with the context trial testimony supplied: the first officer said Flynn reported placing it there after a 911 dispatcher instructed him to cover her head. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #DefenseOpening #MiamiCounty #TippCityOhio #CourtroomStrategy #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Bryan Kohberger is trying to take back his guilty plea as alleged unredacted crime-scene photos from the Idaho murders move through the online creator world. The criminal case ended in 2025, but the records around it are now being contested from two directions. A creator with more than 9,000 YouTube subscribers said she possessed unredacted images and was waiting for more. On September 15, 2026, the Latah County Prosecutor's Office, Moscow Police and Idaho State Police said an unknown source had allegedly provided sensitive material to journalists and social-media creators. The agencies urged against publishing, posting or sharing the photographs. That warning followed months of legal restrictions. Judge Megan Marshall ordered bodies and immediately surrounding blood blacked out before City of Moscow releases. Idaho State Police later posted nearly 2,800 images in January 2026 and pulled them the same day. The Goncalves family said the images were live by the end of a 12-minute warning call. Senate Bill 1250 later exempted death-investigation photographs from public disclosure. Kohberger's parents and sisters then publicly supported his post-conviction challenge. His petition alleges former counsel pressured him into a false confession, misled him about prison conditions and failed to disclose evidence he believes supports innocence. His July 2, 2025 plea hearing says something very different. Kohberger told Judge Steven Hippler that no one threatened him, no one told him to lie, no one promised anything outside the agreement, and he was entering the plea freely and voluntarily. He also said he was guilty. The petition points to hair from Ethan Chapin's right hand. Defense expert Ruth Ballard had examined one hair from that location and described it as morphologically consistent with Chapin's own reference hair. Kohberger now has to support his coercion claims with evidence strong enough to overcome his sworn answers, while investigators face a separate problem: tracing the alleged leak of protected crime-scene material. 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. #BryanKohberger #KohbergerFamily #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #GuiltyPlea #PostConvictionRelief #Idaho4 #CrimeSceneLeak #MoscowIdaho #TrueCrime
Caleb Flynn gave police a direction before they had finished clearing his Tipp City home: look at the garage. On the 911 call placed at 2:31 a.m. February 16, Flynn said someone had broken in, his wife Ashley had been shot, and the garage door was open. That detail became part of the intruder story from the opening minutes of the case. The prosecution now says the house told a different story. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley Flynn and staged the scene to resemble a burglary while the couple's two daughters were inside the home. Ashley was 37, coached middle school volleyball, worked as a substitute teacher, and was found dead in the bedroom. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. During trial testimony, Ohio BCI Senior Special Agent David Hammond described the garage side-door damage as inconsistent with the forced entries he had seen in burglary investigations. The defense has challenged the state's rush to judgment and is entitled to test every one of those conclusions in front of the jury. The door is evidence; the meaning of that evidence is the fight. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer join Tony Brueski to break down the 911 call alongside the physical scene. They examine what Flynn volunteered, why the garage kept returning in his account, and how investigators separate panic from information that can be checked. Flynn was indicted on 11 counts, including aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and intimidation. The state says the garage undermines the intruder claim. The defense says Caleb Flynn did not kill his wife. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #MiamiCountyOhio #GarageDoorEvidence #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime
There's a document in the Bryan Kohberger case that prosecutors never saw and the families never knew existed until September 2026. Filed under seal by his original defense team, it told the judge their client couldn't fold adverse rulings into a rational read of where he stood.Weeks later he pleaded guilty to killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. A year on, he called a reporter from prison, claimed "actual innocence," and said he really wanted to be heard. Kohberger's new attorney, Greg Rauch, says the judge who denied his old team more time is being asked to grade his own decision, and wants him replaced. The Goncalves family calls Kohberger a narcissist who hates the life he bargained for.This episode reads the sealed note as what it is: his own lawyers describing a man who can follow every word and refuse every loss.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.#IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #Kohberger #TrueCrime #KohbergerCase #GuiltyPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #CrimePodcast #IdahoStudentMurders
I sat down with Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, on two cases. The first is the Caleb Flynn murder trial in Miami County, Ohio. Alleigha Botner, a prosecution witness and Flynn's former girlfriend, told jurors Flynn said at least once a month that he wanted his wife dead. She testified she gave him a last deadline on January 11, 2026, told him on Valentine's Day she had a date in March, and heard him lay out a Monday divorce plan. Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head early on February 16. Botner admitted she deleted the text she sent Flynn that morning asking if he was involved. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. The second is Bryan Kohberger. His original lawyers told Judge Steven Hippler in a sealed May 2025 filing that he had difficulty comprehending adverse rulings, and he pleaded guilty six days after Hippler denied a delay. Faddis explains what each fight means for a jury and a judge.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #EricFaddis #OhioMurderTrial #TrueCrime
Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan put Caleb Flynn’s own recorded police interviews in front of the jury, including the moment Flynn told him, “It feels like you're pointing at me.” Morgan testified about his response to the Tipp City home where Ashley Flynn was found deceased and about two voluntary interviews he conducted with Caleb.Morgan said he examined the garage and saw damage near the side door, but testified that what he observed was not consistent with forced entry. He then requested assistance from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed his wife Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home invasion; Caleb has pleaded not guilty and maintains Ashley was killed by an intruder. Other investigators have also testified that the garage-door evidence did not appear consistent with a genuine forced entry.In the first recorded interview, Flynn described what he said happened before and after he heard two shots. He told Morgan that Ashley had asked him to sleep on the couch because he was coughing, that he later went into his daughters’ room, and that he heard the shots while lying on a bunk. Flynn said he ran to the garage, saw the side door wide open, closed it, then went to Ashley and called 911. He also described encounters Ashley allegedly had with a strange man before her death and provided Morgan a written list of firearms and ammunition.The second interview moved into the marriage. Morgan told Flynn investigators would examine Ashley’s phone and asked whether the couple had problems. Flynn answered, “No. We had a normal marriage,” and said neither phone would reveal trouble. Then came the line prosecutors played for the jury: “It feels like you're pointing at me.”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 #TrueCrime #MikeMorgan #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #PoliceInterview #CourtroomTestimony #HiddenKillers
Three trustees have held Nick Reiner's money since his parents were found dead, and each gave a different reason for keeping it. Matthew Fishburn never paid the age-30 distribution. Paul Kanin questioned Nick's competence even though the trust requires two physicians' statements to make that call, then paid Alan Jackson's law firm anyway before resigning after fifteen weeks. Jodi Pais Montgomery says she can't release fifty dollars for shampoo without a court order.Montgomery's position is the slayer statute: if Nick is convicted, the money passes to Jake and Romy as if he died first, so releasing it now is irreversible. She also claims, citing Fishburn, that Michele told him Nick consented to leaving the money in the trust. Nick's lawyers answer that the distribution vested in 2023, that $325,017 came from Carl Reiner, and that the Supreme Court bars freezing untainted money a defendant needs for counsel. The trust is paying both sides' lawyers.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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #HiddenKillers #MicheleReiner #SlayerStatute #TrueCrime #JodiMontgomery #AlanJackson #TrustFund #TrueCrimePodcast
Joseph Stratman’s cameras didn’t show an outside intruder approaching the home where Alleigha Botner was house-sitting. Prosecutors instead played three surveillance clips that Stratman testified showed a car leaving, returning, and leaving again - evidence the state used to place Alleigha at the house during the period it says Ashley Flynn was killed.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the February 16, 2026 death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. His defense says Ashley was killed during a home-invasion burglary and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.Pastor Jordan Hansen of Christian Life Center testified that staff and volunteers are prohibited from intimate relationships unless they are married, and that an extramarital affair would violate church policy. Hansen also testified that Alleigha was house-sitting for him at the time of the incident and resigned from CLC the following weekend.On cross-examination, Hansen acknowledged there were no surveillance cameras inside or outside his house. He also described farmland and an open field behind the property. That leaves the jury with two different pieces of the geography: a neighbor’s cameras that Stratman said showed no outside intruder, and areas around Hansen’s home that those cameras did not cover.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 #HiddenKillers #AlleighaBotner #JosephStratman #JordanHansen #MurderTrial #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Alleigha Botner told the jury in the Caleb Flynn trial what she was doing on her phone the night before Ashley Flynn was killed, and who she was sending it to. The former church intern testified for the prosecution that she was worried the affair would come out in a divorce and cost her her job. So, she said, she went to ChatGPT. Botner also testified she hid the relationship from the FBI when agents first questioned her, and an agent told jurors she was far more truthful in a second interview. The morning Ashley died, Botner said a church member messaged her the news, and her gut told her it was too much of a coincidence. Flynn is charged with aggravated murder and has pleaded not guilty. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains why prosecutors would build a case on a witness with this much baggage, and how the defense cross-examines her.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime
Special Agent Andrea Kinzig returned to the stand in Caleb Flynn's trial for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, and the defense zeroed in on an investigative lead that went nowhere. Kinzig testified that a tip from Zachary McIntosh about a supposed hit on Caleb by Chris Hill was not followed up after what she described as a collective agreement between Tipp City Police and the FBI.The digital evidence cut in several directions. Kinzig said an Amazon search warrant showed three Blink cameras at the Flynn home - front door, back door, and living room - were last online on January 26, 2026. On cross, she also agreed it was theoretically possible that Alleigha Botner losing a laptop could have been a ruse.The defense then walked through communications that were positive toward Caleb, including messages between Caleb and Ashley containing repeated "I love you" exchanges. On redirect, Kinzig pushed back. She testified that the records presented by the defense were cherry-picked, did not represent the complete communications record, and contained data she could not independently verify.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty. The defense maintains Ashley was killed during a home invasion and investigators rushed to blame him; prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like a burglary.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 #AndreaKinzig #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CourtroomTestimony #DigitalEvidence #OhioTrial
Five moves, twelve months, and more than 100,000 texts — that’s what the prosecution’s central witness described from the stand as she read her own messages with Caleb Flynn to the jury. Messages that show a 23-year-old worship leader going from receiving death wishes about Flynn’s wife to sending them back.Flynn faces aggravated murder charges in the death of Ashley Flynn, 37, in Tipp City, Ohio on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors allege he shot Ashley twice in the back of the head while she slept and staged a burglary.Alleigha Botner testified for more than four hours, reading text after text. In May 2025, according to her testimony, Flynn wrote that he’d kill Ashley in a heartbeat if it wouldn’t send him to hell. By June, he was asking Botner to hire someone. When she asked for a future together, he told her he’d never joked about it. By July, Botner was texting back — calling Ashley “douche” and writing that she “needs to go.” Flynn’s reply, per testimony: he’d have a smile on his face the whole time. Botner wrote back: “Praise God.”The texts document a full year of the same pattern: death wishes as proof of devotion, a woman conditioned to treat his crisis as hers, emotional collapse every time she pushed for answers, a 40-day spiritual fast that replaced every deadline, and jealous surveillance wrapped in sacrifice talk. By September 2025, five months before the shooting, they were coordinating the permanent deletion of every message using methods Botner researched on ChatGPT. Cross-examination has not started.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 #HiddenKillers #AlleighaBotner #MiamiCountyOhio #TippCity #AggravatedMurder #TrueCrime #TextMessages #Manipulation
Special Agent Andrea Kinzig took the Caleb Flynn jury deeper into the digital evidence, and one finding widened the picture beyond Flynn and Alleigha Botner. Kinzig testified that Kayla Heyt, Ashley Flynn's sister, abused a service to monitor Botner's Instagram account.Kinzig also testified about several snoop reports Caleb Flynn ran on Botner's accounts, along with emails exchanged between Flynn and Botner. The testimony adds another layer to the digital trail surrounding the affair prosecutors have placed before jurors in the case over Ashley Flynn's death.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged their Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. His defense maintains Ashley was killed during a home invasion and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.The digital evidence presented through Kinzig does not speak for itself. Jurors still have to decide what the monitoring activity, snoop reports and communications establish - and what they do not - as both sides argue over the meaning of the electronic record.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 #AndreaKinzig #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #KaylaHeyt #CalebFlynnTrial #DigitalForensics #OhioTrial #TrueCrime
Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm returned to the Caleb Flynn trial under cross-examination, and the defense aimed directly at the digital evidence extracted from the iPhones. Defense questioning framed that evidence as unreliable, challenging how much confidence jurors should place in the phone data presented by the state.Wilhelm, a cyber crime investigator specializing in digital forensics, previously testified about extracting data from Caleb Flynn’s phone after an initial extraction method was unsuccessful. His earlier testimony included app deletions, incognito-browser artifacts, Apple Watch information and other digital activity. On cross, the defense’s point was broader: digital artifacts still have to be interpreted, and the defense wants jurors questioning whether the phone evidence is dependable enough to support the prosecution’s theory.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged their Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. The defense maintains Ashley was killed during a home invasion and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.The defense challenged the reliability of the digital evidence; based on the testimony details available here, that should not be confused with Wilhelm conceding that the evidence was unreliable. That distinction matters when jurors decide what weight to give the phones.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 #JosephWilhelm #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #DigitalForensics #PhoneEvidence #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
On the last night of Ashley Flynn's life, her husband was messaging another woman until after midnight. That's what Alleigha Botner told the jury in the Caleb Flynn murder trial, testifying for the prosecution. She said Flynn promised her "actions will come tomorrow." She said his last message before bed was that tomorrow was a big day and he had to get some sleep. Botner told the jury she read all of it as a divorce announcement. By morning, Ashley had been shot twice in the head, and Flynn was telling police someone had broken into their Tipp City home. He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down how prosecutors will frame those messages, and how the defense argues that a man about to ask for a divorce would sound exactly the same.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime
In the Caleb Flynn murder trial, prosecutors are building motive out of what the former American Idol singer typed to the woman he was seeing. Alleigha Botner took the stand for the state and read a March 2025 exchange with Flynn, message number by message number. He told her he'd been crying. She wrote back, "What can I do?" His answer was two words long. Botner testified that Flynn said early on that Ashley wasn't worthy of being called by her first name, and that he talked about wanting his wife dead about once a month. Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her bed in February 2026. Flynn says someone broke in, and he has pleaded not guilty. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down how a text thread becomes motive in front of a jury, and how the defense argues a man who talks big isn't the man who pulled the trigger.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime
One juror stopped eleven others from acquitting Lindsay Clancy by reason of insanity. Now that juror is the subject of a formal judicial inquiry, and his own court records are the reason.Judge William Sullivan on September 21 granted defense attorney Kevin Reddington's motion to produce the holdout's sealed juror questionnaire and conduct a limited investigation. The defense alleges the juror may have given false answers during selection about his criminal history and existing court orders.The holdout has been identified as Michael Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater. He was arrested in 2021 on a domestic assault charge that was later dismissed. His teenage nephew obtained a restraining order against him after alleging Desronvil pushed him down and repeatedly punched him in the face. That restraining order was active during the entire Clancy trial. Massachusetts law requires prospective jurors to disclose this information on their questionnaires.The motion also targets Desronvil's cellphone. Multiple jurors told interviewers that the holdout scrolled through his phone during deliberations rather than engaging in discussion. If the phone shows outside material was accessed, that constitutes an external influence courts can investigate.Through an attorney, Desronvil says he had no doubts about Clancy's guilt. The foreperson and multiple jurors say the opposite. Defense counsel Martin Weinberg, who joined from the Karen Read case, is preparing a double-jeopardy motion arguing that a jury broken by a disqualified juror cannot produce a lawful mistrial. The September 29 hearing will determine how far this investigation goes.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #HoldoutJuror #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MichaelDesronvil #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Two cases. Three conversations.Prosecutors in the Caleb Flynn murder trial say the former worship pastor sent more than 100,000 messages to his mistress, some allegedly describing plans to kill his wife Ashley. At the same time, they say, he was texting Ashley love messages. His defense attorney conceded the affair and told the jury: being a terrible husband doesn't make you a murderer.Bryan Kohberger confessed to the Idaho student murders, was sentenced to four life terms, and is now claiming from prison that the confession was coerced. His family released a statement to ABC News backing his bid for a new trial.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine both cases through a clinical lens. What goes through the mind of a mistress who reads those messages and stays? What does the pastoral persona tell a therapist about the ego underneath? And is the Kohberger family acting out of genuine denial, or is Bryan running a manipulation campaign from his cell?Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Kohberger's hearing is set for June 2027.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 #BryanKohberger #AshleyFlynn #IdahoMurders #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdolMurder #CalebFlynnTrial #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm took the Caleb Flynn jury inside the digital evidence recovered from Flynn's iPhone, and the timeline prosecutors are building now has another layer. Wilhelm testified that Instagram, GroupMe, ChatGPT and other apps showed as deleted from the phone on February 15, 2026 - the day before Ashley Flynn was killed.Wilhelm, a cyber-crime investigator specializing in digital forensics, said the first attempt to extract Caleb's phone data failed because of settings on the device. He used another forensic tool and completed a full extraction. He testified that the recovered artifacts included evidence of incognito browsing.The extraction also reached beyond the phone. Wilhelm testified about Apple Watch data, including a final recorded heart rate at 2:10:11 a.m., step information and AirPods connectivity. The watch was identified in the data as @CalebApplesWatch. Investigators also recovered audio of a song Caleb wrote for Alleigha Botner, which was played for the jury.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged their Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. The defense says an intruder killed Ashley and investigators rushed to blame Caleb. The digital evidence gives jurors another timeline to compare against both versions of what happened.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 #JosephWilhelm #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #DigitalForensics #AppleWatch #CyberCrime #OhioTrial #TrueCrime
The State of Indiana's proof that Richard Allen was treated well in solitary is a short list: a free replacement tablet, a new cell window, and a couple of in-person visits with his wife. The state's lawyer read it to the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, in the Delphi murders appeal, and the warden's 2023 account explains the tablet. Allen destroyed the first one in the days after the phone call in which he told his wife he killed Abby and Libby, while refusing to eat or sleep.That call was April 3, 2023. She hung up on him. The state counted 61 incriminating statements after that, to his mother, to guards, to the warden, and to the prison psychologist, and it had a record of every one because the suicide-watch cell logged everything he said every fifteen minutes.Sworn statements from Westville guards confirm they used a Taser on Allen twice in May 2023, for refusing orders, they say. When his lawyers asked to move him because guards wore patches tied to Odinism, the state admitted the patches were real, said the officers were told to remove them, and called a transfer unwarranted.Allen wants a new trial because his lawyers say those thirteen months produced the confessions and the trial court hid the evidence that undercut them. The state wants the conviction upheld because it says restrictive housing isn't coercion under Indiana law and the confessions that matter came when he was lucid.The appeals judges asked the state whether Allen was treated as well as anyone else at Westville. The answer was yes. What a judge said next is the first thing you'll hear. No ruling has come, none is scheduled, and the loser can take it to the Indiana Supreme Court.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillers #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #DelphiAppeal #Westville #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Alleigha Botner's cross-examination in the Caleb Flynn murder trial gave the defense a chance to turn the spotlight onto the prosecution's affair witness. Botner testified that she had searched the internet for information about unsolved murders and that, in her first FBI interview, she said she did not believe Caleb killed his wife, Ashley Flynn. In a later interview, after retaining counsel, she said she did believe Caleb killed Ashley.The defense also walked Botner through messages showing her jealousy toward Ashley and her repeated demands that Caleb leave his wife. Botner acknowledged sending many messages saying she hated Ashley and wanted her gone. She also testified that she sometimes doubted Caleb's claims that he hated Ashley because she saw Ashley behaving lovingly toward him and saw the couple going on dates and to restaurants. Botner said Caleb may have been lying to her about how he felt about his wife.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in Ashley Flynn's death. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene as a home invasion; the defense says investigators rushed to blame him. Botner also testified that she has never been charged in connection with Ashley's murder and that prosecutors made her no promises.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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #CrossExamination #MurderTrial #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Bryan Kohberger admitted in July 2025 to killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. A year later, he filed a handwritten petition claiming he was coerced into a false confession.Now his family has released a statement through ABC News backing his bid for a new trial. Their statement acknowledged the grief of the families. They want what they call a proper trial to get to the truth.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine what drives a family to voluntarily step back into a toxic public narrative when they could stay silent. Scott breaks down the psychology of denial, whether Bryan could be orchestrating his parents from prison, and what that family's public statement does to a convicted killer's ego.A hearing on Kohberger's petition is set for June 2027.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 #KohbergerFamily #IdahoMurders #KohbergerPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #KohbergerInnocence #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Alleigha Botner testified that the affair with Caleb Flynn came roaring back just before Ashley Flynn was killed. On February 14, Botner said Caleb told her he hoped their relationship was not over. By February 15, she said they were discussing divorce, jobs, where to live and what came next - sending hundreds of messages that day.Then came the line Botner read to the jury: "February 16th. A day I'll never forget." Botner testified that she understood Caleb's comments at the time to mean he was finally leaving Ashley. Hours later, Ashley was dead.Botner said that after learning of the killing, she texted Caleb asking whether the news was real. She also testified that she later resigned from Christian Life Center because she knew the affair would become public. According to Botner, the last time she saw Caleb in person before court was February 16. She testified that Caleb told her, "It didn't happen the way we thought it would, did it?"Caleb has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he murdered Ashley and staged a burglary; the defense says an intruder killed her. The jury now has to evaluate the timing, the words and Botner's explanation of what she believed they meant.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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #February16 #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Alleigha Botner is the prosecution’s star witness in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. She’s also a woman who deleted evidence, lied to federal agents, and helped the defendant research how to wipe his phone — all before anyone asked her a question under oath.Botner testified she and Flynn exchanged over a hundred thousand messages while she worked as a worship leader at the Flynns’ church. She read the jury texts in which Flynn allegedly said he wished he could kill his wife, and one exchange where he texted “kill her” in response to her question “what can I do?”On the last night of Ashley Flynn’s life, Botner testified she went to ChatGPT and searched how to delete their messages. She sent Flynn the screenshots. Hours later, Ashley was shot twice in the head.Botner’s first reaction, she testified, was that it was “too much of a coincidence.” She texted Flynn “were you involved?” and deleted the text. When the FBI interviewed her four days later, she denied the affair entirely. She told the jury she believes Flynn killed his wife. The defense let her say it without objection. Cross-examination hasn’t started — and neither have the defense’s questions about the Vandalia house she was staying in that night, which investigators never searched.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 #AlleighaBotner #CalebFlynnTrial #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnMistress #TippCityOhio #MiamiCounty #AmericanIdolMurder #TrueCrime
Alleigha Botner told the Caleb Flynn jury that by late 2025, her message to Caleb had become consistent: leave Ashley Flynn, or the affair was over. Botner testified that she first set Christmas Eve as a deadline, then extended it to January 11, 2026.On January 11, Botner said she texted Caleb that the deadline had passed and she was officially moving on. The next day, she testified, Caleb replied that he was sorry but understood their relationship was over. Then, on February 3, she said he reached out again and sent lyrics to a song he had written for her.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty in the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley on February 16 and staged their Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. The defense says an intruder killed Ashley and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.The timeline matters because the jury is now hearing how the affair moved from repeated ultimatums to an apparent breakup - and then, less than two weeks before Ashley's death, contact started 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.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime #TippCity
Alleigha Botner read a message she said she sent Caleb Flynn during their affair: "I want to kill her, Caleb." Botner testified that Caleb replied, "That makes 2 of us."Those words were presented to jurors as Botner's testimony continued in the trial over the death of Caleb's wife, Ashley Flynn. Caleb has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley on February 16, 2026 and staged the Tipp City home to look like a burglary. His attorneys say Ashley was killed by an intruder and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.This exchange adds a complication the jury cannot simply skip past: the language in these private messages was coming from both people. Botner is a prosecution witness, and her own words are now part of the evidence jurors are hearing. The state can argue the exchange supports its theory. The defense can press context, credibility, and what two people saying something in a text actually proves about a later homicide.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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MurderTrial #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime
Alleigha Botner returned to the stand in Caleb Flynn's murder trial and read more private messages between herself and Caleb. In one message attributed to Caleb, Botner testified he wrote, "Please hire someone to take douche out!"The prosecution is using the messages to show jurors how Caleb allegedly spoke about his wife, Ashley Flynn, during his affair with Botner. Caleb, 40, has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in Ashley's February 16, 2026 death. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged their Tipp City home to resemble a burglary; the defense says investigators rushed to blame him and maintains Ashley was killed during a home invasion.Botner's testimony puts the wording of those messages directly before the jury. The issue is no longer whether ugly things were said. Jurors now have to decide what those words prove, if anything, about the killing prosecutors allege came later.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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MurderTrial #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime
Caleb Flynn led worship at two churches for eleven years. He appeared on American Idol Season 12 and told producers on camera that he loved his wife Ashley more than anything. He was the spiritual leader his congregation leaned on.Prosecutors in Miami County, Ohio, allege the man behind that image was maintaining an affair, sending messages about killing Ashley, and ultimately shooting her to death in their Tipp City home while staging the scene as a home invasion. His defense attorney conceded the affair in the trial's first hour.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the psychology of a performer turned pastor turned murder defendant. How does the pulpit provide cover for someone living a double existence? What drives the specific kind of ego that needs a captive audience to function? And was Ashley a partner or a prop in the pastoral brand Caleb was selling?Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence.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 #AmericanIdol #WorshipPastor #CalebFlynnTrial #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #NarcissistKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Prosecutors in the Caleb Flynn murder trial say the former worship pastor sent more than 100,000 messages to his mistress in the year before his wife Ashley was found shot to death inside their Tipp City, Ohio, home. Some of those messages allegedly contained detailed plans to kill Ashley. Others, sent around the same time, were warm and loving texts to Ashley herself.Two phones. Two women. Two completely different versions of the same man, prosecutors allege, running simultaneously.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the psychology of Flynn's alleged double messaging and the mind of the mistress who, according to the state, read texts about murder plans and stayed in the relationship. Scott breaks down the "appeasement" defense, the psychology of compartmentalized lives, and the moment someone crosses from dark fantasy into preparation.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence.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 #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynnTexts #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdolMurder #WorshipPastorMurder #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Junior Burdynski was ten years old, four feet tall, and riding a red-and-white Schwinn when he disappeared from Brentwood, Maryland, on May 24, 1993. His family searched. Law enforcement brought dogs, helicopters, FBI agents going door-to-door. A local Domino’s Pizza glued his face onto every delivery box. The only trace recovered was a bicycle rim found three blocks from home near a tennis court.The search for Junior uncovered something investigators weren’t looking for — a ring of offenders who had allegedly been harming neighborhood children for twenty-five years. Three men were convicted, including Joseph Lynch, who lived blocks away on Varnum Street. But investigators said they could not connect any of them to Junior’s disappearance.Thirty-three years later, a separate investigation changed that. In 2026, police charged Lynch with new offenses against two teenagers between 2007 and 2014. That inquiry led detectives to a previously unknown witness — a man, now in his mid-forties, who had been thirteen years old and living in Brentwood when Junior vanished. According to police, the man told detectives he was in a home with Junior and Lynch that day, that Lynch directed what happened, and that Junior died from the injuries.On September 17, 2026, Lynch was charged with second-degree murder and multiple offenses involving a minor. His bond was denied. He is the only person charged. The witness is cooperating and was not charged — prosecutors cited his age and his status as a child under Lynch’s alleged control.Junior’s remains have never been recovered. Authorities have not said whether physical evidence supports the witness account. Police believe there are more victims and are asking anyone with information to call 301-772-4930.Junior’s sister Virginia was six when he disappeared. She addressed him at the press conference: she said she was sorry, and that thirty-three years of hope ended in heartbreak.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.#JuniorBurdynski #JosephLynch #HiddenKillers #BrentwoodMaryland #ColdCase #MissingChild #PrinceGeorgesCounty #ColdCaseBreak #InnocentImages #JusticeForJunior
This episode is the definitive behavioral breakdown of the Caleb Flynn murder case. Tony Brueski sits down with former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke to analyze the case across three segments, covering every major piece of evidence that has emerged from the investigation and the trial.The first segment dissects the 911 call. Caleb Flynn called dispatch at 2:30 a.m. and told them his wife had been shot. He claimed he was sleeping on the couch, heard a gunshot, and froze. Robin identifies the specific behavioral red flags on the tape -- the pacing, the narrative construction, the language choices, and the allegedly premature introduction of the intruder theory that reportedly shifted the investigation's focus almost immediately.The second segment examines the digital evidence. Prosecutors recovered over 100,000 text messages between Caleb and another woman, sent while he was still married to Ashley and still serving as a worship pastor. In one message, Caleb reportedly wrote that he would kill his wife in a heartbeat if he could avoid eternal consequences. Robin analyzes what that message means inside a behavioral framework -- the escalation patterns, the moral negotiation, and the capacity for sustained deception that the volume of communication allegedly reveals.The third segment turns to the courtroom. The defense opened with a Bible verse and an admission of adultery. The prosecution presented testimony about a towel placed over Ashley's head, an unlocked door with allegedly staged damage, and a husband who was found outside with his dogs when the first officer arrived. Robin examines how each piece of behavioral evidence reportedly connects to the others, building a profile that the prosecution is asking the jury to see and the defense is asking them to ignore.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal 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:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #MurderTrial #FullEpisode #MiamiCounty #CrimePodcast
Bryan Kohberger confessed under oath to murdering four University of Idaho students. His family just hired their own lawyers to say the confession was forced.On September 17, parents Michael and Mary Ann Kohberger and sisters Amanda and Mel issued a coordinated statement through Pennsylvania law firm Amori & Associates and New York civil attorney Jason Goldman. They told ABC News they want "the complete and unvarnished truth" through "a proper trial." Goldman framed the guilty plea as a "business decision" driven by fear rather than guilt.Kohberger's handwritten petition from prison alleges his defense team of Anne Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow coerced his confession, concealed hair evidence from the crime scene, and fabricated a story about death-row conditions. He wrote that his family was in the room during "most" of the attorney-client discussions. That detail cuts both ways: if the coercion happened in front of them, they'll be called to testify. If it didn't, their public statement is loyalty, not evidence. No contemporaneous complaint exists — no call to the court, no letter to the bar, no motion for new counsel.The hair he calls his proof of innocence was examined by his own defense expert, Ruth Ballard. She found it morphologically consistent with the victim Ethan Chapin's own hair — not an unknown attacker's. That report was filed with the court by Taylor on June 6, 2025, a month before the plea was signed. The phrase "clumps of hair" appears in no forensic record — only in a bestselling book about the case.At his plea hearing, Kohberger told the judge he was not coerced and was guilty. He said it four times — once per victim. Prosecutors are calling the post-conviction effort a "fishing expedition." An evidentiary hearing is set for June 2027.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 #KohbergerFamily #IdahoMurders #IdahoStudentMurders #KohbergerConfession #ForcedConfession #GuiltyPlea #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostConvictionRelief
Alleigha Botner returned to the stand in the Caleb Flynn murder trial and read messages she testified were exchanged with Flynn before the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. One February 2025 message she attributed to Caleb said, “I need her to die, leave, or cheat again.” Botner also testified that she sent Flynn instructions on deleting messages because she was concerned the messages could be subpoenaed in a divorce case. When prosecutors asked her about another exchange, Botner read a message in which she asked what he wanted her to do and said his response was, “Kill Douche.” The testimony came from what Botner described as 34 books of messages collected between her and Flynn. She read additional exchanges in which she testified that Flynn said he hated Ashley and wanted her dead. Prosecutors also played videos Botner said Caleb sent to her. Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts, including aggravated murder, in Ashley Flynn’s death at their Tipp City home. Prosecutors allege the scene was staged to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense says Ashley was killed during a home invasion and investigators rushed to blame Caleb. Botner’s testimony is expected to continue Thursday, putting the prosecution’s interpretation of those messages back in front of the jury. 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 #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #OhioTrial #HiddenKillers #TrialCoverage
Three details from the crime scene testimony reportedly tell investigators more than any single piece of forensic evidence could. A towel placed over Ashley Flynn's head. A front door that was unlocked despite alleged signs of forced entry. And a husband who was outside the house with his dogs when police arrived, instead of at his wife's side.Tony and Robin Dreeke break down each of those details through the lens of behavioral analysis. Robin starts with the towel. In his experience, when a victim is found with their face covered, investigators immediately narrow their focus. Covering the face is reportedly one of the most reliable indicators that the killer had a personal relationship with the victim. It suggests guilt, shame, or an inability to confront the physical reality of what was done. Strangers almost never do this.The alleged staged break-in is next. Prosecutors told the jury that the damage to the front door was caused by multiple tools and did not match any known pattern of forced entry. The door itself was unlocked. Robin explains why staging a break-in is one of the most common -- and most commonly botched -- elements of a domestic murder cover-up. The instinct to overdo it, to make the scene look more dramatic and more convincing, reportedly creates the exact inconsistencies that trained investigators are looking for.Then Robin turns to Caleb's behavior in the minutes immediately after the 911 call. When the first officer arrived, Caleb had left the house and was standing outside with the family dogs. Robin examines the priority set embedded in that decision. In a genuine crisis, a spouse's instinct is almost always to stay with the victim, to attempt aid, to be as close as possible to the person they love. Going outside to secure the pets suggests a different set of priorities -- the priorities of someone who may have allegedly already known that there was nothing left to save.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal 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:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #StagedScene #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #MiamiCounty #CrimePodcast
Alleigha Botner testified that on February 14 Caleb Flynn messaged her that he was finally free of Ashley Flynn and had told Ashley he wanted a divorce. FBI forensic examiner Sarah Stuchell, meanwhile, conceded on cross that her tool-mark testing could not identify who used any tested tool or establish that a tested tool was used on the door. Caleb Flynn is charged in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. He has pleaded not guilty. The defense says Ashley was killed during a home invasion and investigators rushed to blame Caleb, while prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like a burglary. Stuchell confirmed that her findings were inconclusive. She testified that she could not determine who used any of the tools she examined, and she could not say that any specific tested tool made the marks on the door or door hardware. Botner testified that she met Flynn in 2022 while interning at his church and that their relationship became personal in 2024. She said Flynn told her he hated Ashley, described the marriage as essentially over, and said he was staying for his children. Botner testified that Flynn said he wanted Ashley gone every week and said at least monthly that he wanted her to die. She also testified that he once said that if he could kill Ashley without going to jail or going to Hell, he would. Botner said she repeatedly gave Flynn deadlines to leave the marriage. She testified that on February 14 he messaged that he was finally free of Ashley and had told her he wanted a divorce. Botner also described losing her phone in the water while kayaking in January and losing her laptop while traveling. 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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #SarahStuchell #FBI #TippCity #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
The Nolan Wells no true bill came with a detail buried in the district attorney's video statement: the family's own lawyers had already told her they had no evidence a crime was committed. Tony Brueski walks through what the grand jury found instead. Nolan chose to stay on Horn Island. His phone came home on another boat, like other passengers' phones did. Both pathologists found bruising that neither called fatal. The viral SeaTow audio didn't match the original recording. Meanwhile, Bart Edmiston's home address went out to 200,000 followers, Judge Ashlee Cole went into hiding from the internet, and an Illinois man told a witness he'd put them in a suitcase. Sharpton said "sue me first," the friends' lawyers took him up on it, and his lawyers say he'll countersue. Tony sets the Goon Squad and Rasheem Carter beside all of it and asks who the summer was actually for.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.#NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillers #AlSharpton #HornIsland #Mississippi #GrandJury #TrueCrime #JacksonCounty #OceanSprings
FBI forensic examiner Sarah Stuchell testified that the toolmark testing in the Caleb Flynn case produced a complicated result: some marks were consistent with a hammer seized from the Flynn home, while her written report remained inconclusive. Caleb Flynn is charged in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. He has pleaded not guilty, and the defense says Ashley was killed during a home invasion while investigators rushed to blame him. Prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like a burglary. Stuchell said she tested multiple prying, gripping, and compression tools and compared them with casts and marks from the doors. She also examined the doorknob components and strike plates for possible toolmark comparisons. She testified that marks on the door frame and marks produced during laboratory testing were consistent with a hammer seized from the Flynn house. The distinction matters: Stuchell also said her report was inconclusive on whether any of the tested tools actually made the marks found on the doors. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #FBI #Toolmarks #ForensicEvidence #TippCity #MurderTrial #OhioCrime
Jill Smith's phone rang at 3 a.m. on February 16. It was her son-in-law, Caleb Flynn, telling her someone had broken in and shot Ashley. On the third day of the Caleb Flynn trial in Miami County, Ohio, Jill told the jury what happened next, and by the end of the day her granddaughter's three-word reaction to the affair was in the record.Jill testified she got dizzy and lay on the bathroom floor before she could drive. Body camera footage from earlier in the trial showed Caleb on his knees on the lawn when she arrived, telling her the girls were still sleeping and that he didn't know what to do. She said he then gave her the account he later repeated to her daughter Kayla and her husband Todd: a cough, the couch, a dog's collar, lying down with the younger girl, a gunshot. The defense asked Jill no questions.Todd Smith testified he brought Caleb into the family company, paid him well, and mailed monthly checks from the inheritance, and that on the drive home from Quebec he couldn't understand why the dogs never barked. Jill had told him not to go there. Kayla Keyt said she believed police had the wrong man until the FBI told her about the other woman, who worked in the music ministry at the family's church.A Tipp City police captain showed the jury bank records including a monthly Snoopreport charge, a service that tracks another person's Instagram, running from September through January. Ohio BCI scientists found no foreign DNA in the house. The defense established that Caleb volunteered his DNA and prints, was never tested for gunshot residue, and that no print or DNA can be dated.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and related charges. Tony tells the story of a family that gave a man everything, the night he called them, and what a 12-year-old said when she finally heard the name.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #JillSmith #TrueCrimeCommunity
Det. Zachary Farkus and FBI Special Agent Sarah Deamron put the alleged break-in door under a microscope in the Caleb Flynn trial. Farkus testified that he saw no pry marks, no damage suggesting the door had been kicked in, and only the missing interior handle. Caleb Flynn is charged in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. He has pleaded not guilty, and the defense says Ashley was killed during a home invasion while investigators rushed to blame him. Prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like a burglary. Farkus, a Dayton police detective serving with an FBI task force, said he searched roughly 70 to 80 percent of the attic with metal detectors but could not access the rest. He also described following tips, searching nearby vacant homes, and locating Alleigha Botner after one tip. He testified that camera evidence showed Botner's vehicle leave the house where she was staying on February 15, return around 12:30 a.m. on February 16, and leave again around 10 a.m. Deamron testified that Botner admitted having a relationship with Caleb Flynn and became more forthcoming in a later interview. Deamron also identified a claw hammer collected from Flynn's tool bench. She said FBI lab results found no paint on the tools, though the item may have been capable of making markings on the door. On cross, she agreed the report did not identify that hammer as the tool used on the door, and she said Botner never gave the FBI a burner phone. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #FBI #TippCity #CourtroomTestimony #MurderTrial #OhioCrime
Two law-enforcement witnesses put the alleged break-in door itself at the center of Caleb Flynn's trial. Det. Brad Kline testified that debris from the broken garage access lock was inside the garage and that, based on his prior DEA experience with kicked-in doors, the damage did not look consistent with forced entry from outside. Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the February 16 death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37. His defense says Ashley was killed during a home-invasion burglary and investigators rushed to blame Caleb; prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like a burglary. Kline said he and Det. Hammond removed the damaged door frame, which was brought into court and assembled to show its condition that night. He also described searching the attic for the gun, but testified that heavy insulation prevented a complete search and some areas could not be accessed. On cross-examination, Kline said investigators did not use an X-ray machine on the walls, neighbors did not report hearing anything that night, and he asked nearby residents about camera footage. Lt. Jason Moore also testified that the door damage did not fit an outside forced entry in his view. Using the courtroom setup, Moore pointed to the limited damage and said the missing internal handle would make the door harder to open. He described searches inside vents and elsewhere in the home, plus outdoor searches using cameras, magnets, and other equipment. On cross, Moore said officers returned repeatedly over the next several weeks because when an initial search does not produce what they are looking for, they expand the search and keep going until available efforts are exhausted. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #BradKline #JasonMoore #CourtroomTestimony
Prosecutors did not have to speculate about motive. They had a digital archive. Over 100,000 text messages between Caleb Flynn and his mistress, sent over the course of months while he was still married to Ashley and still serving as the worship pastor at their church. Those messages allegedly document a man living two completely separate lives -- performing devotion at home and in the congregation while conducting an intense, all-consuming affair behind every closed door.And then there is the text that stops you cold. Caleb reportedly wrote to his mistress that if he could literally kill Ashley and not go to hell, he would do it in a heartbeat. The defense calls it venting. The prosecution calls it motive.Tony and Robin Dreeke go deep on the behavioral science of this double life. Robin explains the concept of moral licensing -- the psychological mechanism that allows a person to commit one transgression and then use their perceived moral standing to justify the next one. For a worship pastor who has already rationalized a massive, ongoing affair, Robin explores how far that moral licensing can reportedly extend before the boundary between fantasy and action dissolves entirely.They break down the volume of communication as its own evidence. 100,000 messages is not a casual affair. Robin explains the personality type capable of sustaining that level of parallel existence -- the constant toggling between personas, the emotional regulation, and the cognitive load that reportedly separates a person who cheats from a person who constructs and maintains a fully operational second life.The defense is daring the jury to forgive the affair and focus on the physical evidence. Robin examines whether that dare is a brilliant legal maneuver or a potentially catastrophic miscalculation.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal 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:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DoubleLife #MurderMotive #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #Affair #MiamiCountyTrial
The prosecution's case against Caleb Flynn arguably begins and ends with a phone call. At approximately 2:30 a.m., Caleb dialed 911 and reported that his wife Ashley had been shot. He told the dispatcher he had been sleeping in another room. He said he heard a single gunshot. He said he was unable to move. And then, according to prosecutors, he started doing something that would define the investigation from that point forward -- he allegedly began telling a story.Tony and Robin Dreeke, a former FBI behavioral analysis expert, break down the call in granular detail. Robin explains the framework investigators use to evaluate crisis calls -- the markers that indicate genuine terror versus what may be a rehearsed performance. He walks through the significance of Caleb reportedly pushing the intruder narrative before anyone asked him a single question about suspects, and why that preemptive storytelling is one of the most consistent red flags in cases involving staged crime scenes.The freeze response is at the center of Caleb's account. He claims he heard the gunshot and simply could not move from the couch. Robin measures that claim against what behavioral science tells us about how people respond to an immediate lethal threat to someone they love. The instinct to run toward danger to protect a spouse is one of the most powerful drives in human behavior. Caleb says he did not have it.Robin also pulls apart the specific language Caleb used on the call -- the phrasing, the pronoun choices, and the way he reportedly described his wife and the scene. Each word choice becomes a data point. And by the time Robin finishes, those data points allegedly paint a very different picture than the one Caleb wanted dispatch to see.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal 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:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #911Call #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #MurderInvestigation #MiamiCounty #CrimePodcast
Jesse Lee Calhoun grew up in Troutdale, Oregon, dropped out of high school, and racked up two decades of criminal convictions — assault, drugs, weapons, burglary. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office called him a prolific thief and career criminal. In 2021, Governor Kate Brown granted him early release after he fought the 2020 Oregon wildfires as part of an inmate crew. He walked out of prison roughly a year ahead of schedule.Prosecutors now allege Calhoun killed six women in the Portland area between November 2022 and April 2023. Their ages ranged from twenty-two to thirty-two. Their bodies were found in secluded locations across Oregon and Washington — near state parks, along creeks, in an abandoned barn, in a pond. One victim's body has never been recovered. Only one cause of death has been publicly disclosed: blunt force trauma to the head.According to Ashley Real's father, she went to police in November 2022 with marks on her throat and identified Calhoun as the man who choked her. A report was filed and the case was transferred to another jurisdiction. She disappeared the following March and was found dead two months later. The Portland Police Bureau publicly denied any connection between the deaths. Officers later arrested Calhoun on a parole violation after he fled into the Willamette River. Indictments have been coming ever since — the sixth arrived September 16, 2026. Calhoun has pleaded not guilty to all charges.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.#JesseCalhoun #PortlandSerialKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Oregon #AshleyReal #KristinSmith #BridgetWebster #JoannaSpeaks #PortlandFive
Latent print expert Vicki Bartholomew testified that palm and latent prints recovered from the Flynn property matched Caleb Flynn. But on cross-examination, she acknowledged a key limitation: she could not determine when any of those prints were left. Bartholomew said palm prints found at the scene belonged to Caleb. She also testified that prints lifted from the door of the Ford truck and a palm print from the minivan matched Caleb. Her testimony identified whose prints investigators recovered, while leaving the timing of those contacts unresolved. Next-door neighbor Kimberly Bingaman gave jurors a different kind of evidence. She said her three dogs are very vocal when disturbances happen nearby and described several cameras around her property. Bingaman testified that those cameras captured nothing outdoors or around the residences. Bingaman also said she had noticed a new camera near the Flynn home. On cross, she acknowledged she could not tell whether that camera was actually functioning. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege the scene was staged to resemble a home invasion, while the defense maintains Ashley was killed by an intruder. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #VickiBartholomew #KimberlyBingaman #FingerprintEvidence #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Patrick Clancy told 60 Minutes he was at Boston Children's Hospital when Callan was airlifted after January 24, 2023. He believed his youngest son might survive. He described making one plea — a three-word bargain with the universe that he knew might not be answered. It wasn't. This interview covers everything Patrick revealed to CBS: how Lindsay's illness hid from her doctors and the people who loved her, the panic attack he suffered off-camera during the trial while the internet called him cold, his decision to forgive Lindsay without being asked, and the moment on a first date when a stranger asked about the children in his photos. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break down the full weight of Patrick's first public interview since the mistrial and what his words reveal about deception, trauma, forgiveness, and starting over.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.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #RachelDanis #HiddenKillersPodcast
BCI ballistics experts Aaron Schultz and Alex Miller testified about the bullets and shell casings recovered in the investigation into the killing of Ashley Flynn, and what the markings on that evidence told them. Schultz and Miller described comparing markings, striations, and other firearm indicators on the recovered bullets and casings. Their testimony focused on whether those pieces of evidence could be connected to the same firearm. The experts testified that both bullets were fired from the same gun. They also testified that their analysis did not connect that firearm to any other crime. That finding gives jurors another piece of the physical-evidence picture in the case against Caleb Flynn. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed his wife, Ashley Flynn, and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. Caleb has pleaded not guilty, and the defense maintains investigators rushed to blame him instead of proving an intruder was not responsible. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #AaronSchultz #AlexMiller #Ballistics #BCI #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #TrueCrime
The father published the method. The son inherited the house. Five women appear dead on the hard drives. And nobody opened the door until a parking violation forced it.Raymond “R.C.” Horsch—National Merit Scholar, IQ of 140, convicted counterfeiter, meth cook, fugitive, filmmaker—spent decades recruiting women from Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood to appear in his violent films and photos. He paid them with cash and drugs. He called the violence simulated. In 2014, he published a book under his own name describing how to strangle a woman and dissolve her body in a basement bathtub with lye.R.C. died in May 2025 at eighty-two, uncharged with any violent crime. His son Eugene, born in New Zealand while R.C. was living under a stolen identity, was left with the house at 417 West Chew Avenue in Olney.On June 19, 2026, a park ranger at Independence Mall pulled Eugene over. Ghost guns, fake DEA credentials, and a woman carrying a missing person’s ID were inside the car. The search of the house found a 55-gallon drum connected to water lines in the basement, containers of chemicals, and more than one million digital files.Seven women have been linked to the property. Police say footage shows five of them appearing lifeless. The figure in the videos is R.C., not Eugene. No remains have been recovered. Eugene faces federal gun and credential charges and has not been charged in connection with any of the women.A 1985 federal psych evaluation called R.C. “consumed by anger” and “excessively controlling.” Prosecutors re-read that file in 2009. Seven years later, his ex-wife Amy McHale vanished from the house. Her family reported it. Police interviewed R.C. and moved on.The FBI has reviewed thirty percent of the evidence. The rest is 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.#OlneyHouseOfHorrors #RCHorsch #HiddenKillers #EugeneHorsch #PhiladelphiaCrime #TrueCrime #MissingWomen #Kensington #PhillyHouseOfHorrors #NicoleFusaro
Four Bureau of Criminal Investigations forensic scientists walked jurors through the DNA work in the Caleb Flynn trial, ending with the conclusion Andrea Weisenburger said she reached after reviewing the testing from Ashley Flynn’s home. Nicole Augsback, Jennifer Akbar, Phillip Irion, and Andrea Weisenburger described the team approach used to process and analyze DNA evidence. Each explained parts of the laboratory process, while Weisenburger testified that she wrote the final report and made the ultimate conclusions for the DNA evidence. Weisenburger testified that the testing did not identify DNA in the home that belonged to someone outside the people who lived there. That testimony goes directly to one of the central disputes in the case: Caleb Flynn’s defense says Ashley was killed during a home invasion, while prosecutors allege the scene was staged to look like one. Cross-examination added an important limitation. Weisenburger said DNA cannot tell investigators when it was deposited. She also testified that the mixed DNA on the truck console was mostly Caleb Flynn’s, but she could not say who contributed the additional DNA in that mixture. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. The jury is now hearing how the physical evidence was tested, what the laboratory could identify, and just as importantly, what it could not. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #AndreaWeisenburger #NicoleAugsback #JenniferAkbar #PhillipIrion #DNAEvidence #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime
Rachel Danis asked the most natural question in the world. Patrick Clancy answered with two words that no first date is built to carry. Patrick told 60 Minutes he moved to New York City specifically so he could grieve without being watched. He described crying on Fifth Avenue and realizing the crowd didn't care — and that the anonymity was exactly what he needed. He admitted he didn't think he'd live to see 35. He was fine with that. Then he met Rachel at a run in Central Park. They married in April 2026 and are now expecting a child. Patrick says he can't wait to tell their baby about Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Robin Dreeke breaks down what Patrick's journey from suicidal grief to a new family tells us about how human beings find their way back from the kind of loss the brain isn't designed to process.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.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #RachelDanis #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillersPodcast
ATF Special Agent and K9 handler David McMullen testified about the search outside the Flynn home after Ashley Flynn was killed. McMullen said he and K9 Hilton thoroughly searched around the house and along the nearby wood line, and Hilton did not alert in any of the areas they checked outside. The testimony matters because prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn staged Ashley's death to resemble a home-invasion burglary, while the defense maintains an intruder killed her. McMullen's testimony gives jurors one more piece of the search effort, but an absence of a K9 alert does not by itself establish who was or was not at the property. Bureau of Criminal Investigations DNA specialist Lindsay Koennig also testified about the forensic testing inside the home. Koennig said she tested DNA collected from doorknobs and other surfaces and analyzed known DNA samples from Ashley and Caleb Flynn. No additional DNA conclusions were provided in the testimony details supplied for this cut. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #DavidMcMullen #LindsayKoennig #CalebFlynnTrial #ATFK9 #DNAEvidence #OhioTrial #TrueCrime
Caleb Flynn told a 911 dispatcher that a burglar shot his wife, and the state's answer in the first two days of trial was a stack of his own text messages. This is the Caleb Flynn trial through opening statements and twelve prosecution witnesses, for anyone following the American Idol murder case out of Miami County, Ohio. The message that matters most went to his mistress the night before Ashley Flynn died, and it named February 16. Prosecutor Paul Watkins read it to the jury alongside two others sent months earlier, one about killing her without going to jail, one about doing it in a heartbeat if it didn't mean hell. Defense attorney Emily Smith conceded the affair and the messages, framing them as ugly things Caleb said to keep his mistress happy, and argued police found the affair and shoehorned the evidence in after. The state's crime scene agent said the garage door showed damage on the inside only, that it happened while the door was open, and that a refrigerator sat against it. A police dog started at that door and tried three times to go back into the house. The deputy coroner needed to clean the wound and shave the hair back to find both bullet holes; Caleb told 911 there were two shots before anyone examined her. His alibi is that he was lying in his daughters' bunk bed, and the agent said the bottom bunk was too full of stuffed animals for an adult. Those girls will testify in the same room as their father, because the judge denied the state's request for a screen when prosecutors offered no evidence these particular children needed one. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence. The state promised his Apple Watch and phone would show he was up and moving. That evidence hasn't reached the jury.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.#AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #TippCity #Ohio #AmericanIdol #MurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
Todd Smith, father of murder victim Ashley Flynn, testified about Caleb Flynn’s finances, his future inside the family business, and the moment he began wondering whether his son-in-law could have been responsible for Ashley’s death.Smith testified that Caleb earned $195,000 from the family company in 2025, plus a $10,000 tax-free medical reimbursement. Smith planned to retire and split the company equally between daughters Ashley and Kayla, and he said Caleb’s income could have increased as sales grew. The Smiths also provided the Flynns additional money through what the family called the “GGFM fund,” meant for vacations and other family experiences.Smith said Ashley never spoke badly about Caleb. After Ashley was killed, however, he testified that he thought the situation “didn’t look good” for Caleb and searched online, “Can a Christian man snap and kill his wife?” His wife asked him not to go there.Tipp City Police Captain Tony Smith testified about the investigation itself. He said he brought the FBI into the case early, subpoenaed Flynn accounts at Allied Bank and Citibank, collected DNA from one of the children, and took custody of a laptop Todd Smith provided from the Flynn home.Captain Smith also testified that investigators received numerous tips that were passed to the FBI, but none panned out. On cross-examination, he said police collected items from Alleigha Botner’s church office and that he was informed Botner’s laptop and cell phone had been lost during a January 2026 trip.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in Ashley Flynn’s death.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #ToddSmith #TonySmith #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Kayla Keyt, sister of murder victim Ashley Flynn, testified about Caleb Flynn’s place inside the family business—and the financial future she said had been discussed with him before Ashley’s death.Keyt testified that Caleb earned about $200,000 a year as a salesman for her family’s company, where her husband, Matthew Keyt, also worked in sales. She said her father planned to retire and eventually split the business between Kayla and Ashley. According to Kayla, she shared the company’s projections with Caleb and told him the potential annual income could reach $300,000 to $400,000.Kayla also described being with Caleb when he told his daughters their mother had died. She recounted the version Caleb gave her of what happened that night. Later that week, she testified, Caleb told her he believed investigators were going to blame him and worried his daughters could lose both parents.On cross-examination, Kayla said remaining with the family company would have been financially beneficial for Caleb. She also testified that she knew Alleigha Botner from the church worship team but knew nothing about Caleb’s alleged affair with her until police interviewed Kayla. She said she initially did not believe it.Matthew Keyt also testified about his friendship with Caleb and their work together in the family business.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in Ashley Flynn’s death. Prosecutors allege the scene was staged to resemble a home invasion; the defense says investigators wrongly focused on Caleb.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #KaylaKeyt #MatthewKeyt #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
Caleb Flynn is on trial on charges including aggravated murder in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Officer Will Roberts testified that Caleb voluntarily provided DNA, fingerprints, and clothing around noon on February 16, but Roberts was not asked to collect a gunshot-residue sample. Ashley’s mother, Jill Smith, described a marriage she believed had become strained in the final six months. Smith also testified about Caleb’s account of hearing dog collars, checking on the girls, then hearing a gunshot. Later, she said one daughter was afraid to tell investigators the truth.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.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #JillSmith #WillRoberts #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview delivered one detail about Lindsay Clancy's psychiatric care that reframes the entire case. Lindsay checked herself into McLean Hospital in early January 2023, told the doctors she wanted to go home, and was discharged in five days. No one flagged her as a danger. Patrick described mental illness as "tragically deceptive" — something capable of fooling the people who live with it and the professionals trained to treat it. He also said Lindsay told him the night of January 24th felt "like a dream." Robin Dreeke breaks down what these statements reveal about the gap between how Lindsay presented and what was actually happening inside her mind — and what Patrick means when he says he did the best he could with a crisis no one around him was equipped to handle.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.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #PostpartumPsychosis #McLeanHospital #TrueCrime #MentalHealthAwareness #LindsayClancyTrial
Day 2 of the Caleb Flynn murder trial moved deeper into the digital side of the investigation. Tipp City Police Officer Luke Velvman testified that he drafted search warrants for records tied to Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and Alleigha Botner, including a Venmo warrant for Botner. Botner matters because, according to the testimony presented in court, Caleb Flynn was involved with her at the time of his wife Ashley Flynn's death. Velvman said investigators sought records connected to Botner's Venmo account and searched social-media information associated with her. Velvman also testified that he wrote a search warrant to Amazon for records connected to the Blink camera system. He separately drafted a warrant for Caleb Flynn's Gmail account. Those warrants show investigators were looking beyond the physical scene and into electronic accounts that could preserve communications, account activity, or other records relevant to the investigation. On cross-examination, Velvman said the electronic searches were not limited to Caleb. He testified that warrants covered devices and accounts associated with Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and Alleigha Botner. Defense questioning also established that investigators examined Botner's social-media accounts. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense says Ashley was killed by an intruder and investigators rushed to focus on Caleb. Velvman's testimony gives jurors a look at the breadth of the digital evidence collection rather than the final meaning of those records. The warrants tell the jury what police sought and whose accounts they examined. The next question is what those records actually contain, and how either side connects them to its version of what happened inside the Flynn home. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #LukeVelvman #AlleighaBotner #TippCityPolice #DigitalEvidence #SearchWarrant #OhioTrial #CourtroomTestimony
On February 16, 2026, Caleb Flynn called 911 and told a dispatcher that someone broke into his Tipp City, Ohio, home and shot his wife Ashley twice in the head. He said an intruder came through the garage. He said his 9mm handgun was stolen from his truck. He said he was with the kids when it happened. Officers arrived in four minutes. They found Ashley in bed with two gunshot wounds. They found shell casings on the floor. They found the center console of Caleb's truck open in the garage.And they found a refrigerator sitting in front of the garage side door -- the only plausible entry point for the intruder Caleb described. The court affidavit says it would have had to be pushed to open that door. If nobody pushed the fridge, nobody came through that door. Within 82 hours, Caleb Flynn was arrested and charged.A grand jury returned an 11-count indictment. Aggravated murder. Three counts of murder. Felonious assault. Tampering with evidence. Witness intimidation. Bond set at 3.5 million. Ashley was 37 -- a volleyball coach, a teacher, and a mother of two daughters who were asleep across the hall. Caleb was a former worship pastor and American Idol contestant. His defense attorney says the government rushed to judgment. Both sides have forensic experts. The trial is expected to last two to three weeks.This is the full case before testimony begins. The prosecution's evidence. The defense's position. The physical detail inside the garage that the jury will see when they visit the house. And the fact that two little girls are on both sides' witness lists because their father says he was with them when the shot was fired. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges.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 #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdolMurder #MiamiCounty #JusticeForAshley #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnMurderTrial
Day 2 of the Caleb Flynn murder trial moved from the original crime scene into the evidence work that followed. Tipp City Police Detective Adam Bernard testified about collection efforts in the days after Ashley Flynn's death, including electronic data obtained through a Microsoft search warrant. The firearm search became a major point on cross-examination. Bernard testified that he personally spent tens of hours searching the Flynn home for the gun investigators were trying to locate. He said police also searched sewer drains, pushing that search well beyond the obvious places inside the house. Bernard also addressed tips that came into the investigation. He testified that he collected tip reports and forwarded them to the FBI. When defense counsel asked what happened after that handoff, Bernard said he did not know whether those tips were followed up on. Sending information onward and knowing what was done with it are two separate steps, and Bernard could only account for the first. Bernard also testified that investigators collected electronic data under a Microsoft search warrant. That portion of his testimony established another category of evidence gathered after the incident, while cross-examination focused more heavily on the firearm search and tip reports. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the home to resemble a burglary. The defense maintains that Ashley was killed during a home invasion and that investigators rushed to focus on Caleb. Bernard's testimony gave both sides something to work with. The prosecution can point to the hours devoted to the firearm search and the collection of digital evidence. The defense can point to the uncertainty surrounding what happened to outside tips after they were forwarded, and ask the jury how completely alternative leads were actually tested. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #AdamBernard #TippCityPolice #OhioTrial #DigitalEvidence #SearchWarrant #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony
One was a worship leader in small-town Ohio who told American Idol cameras he loved his wife more than anything. The other was a Myrtle Beach megachurch pastor whose congregation shielded him while his estranged wife allegedly lived in fear. Caleb Flynn is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for the aggravated murder of his wife Ashley, 37, who was shot twice in the head inside their Tipp City home on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors allege he staged the scene as a home invasion and put on a performance for the 911 dispatcher. Investigators saw through it within hours. He was arrested in 82 hours and indicted on 11 charges. His bond was set at $3.5 million. His alleged mistress and his own daughters are set to testify for the prosecution. John-Paul Miller faces federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators. The indictment alleges he tracked Mica Miller's vehicle, called her more than 50 times in a day, and posted intimate images without her consent. The alleged harassment ran from November 2022 until her death on April 27, 2024. Mica's death was ruled a suicide. Solid Rock Church is closed. Miller's trial is set for October 2026. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer break down the prosecution's evidence against Flynn, what the defense is working with, and the FBI's strategy in the Miller investigation. Both men have pleaded not guilty to all charges.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 #JPMiller #AshleyFlynn #MicaMiller #CalebFlynnTrial #JohnPaulMiller #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Day 2 of the Caleb Flynn trial moved deeper into the physical evidence with Ohio BCI crime scene technician Holly Ryszek and forensic pathologist Dr. Bryan Casto. Ryszek focused on what investigators tested inside the home. Casto explained what he documented during Ashley Flynn's autopsy. Ryszek testified that swabs from the sink drain and shower drain in the master suite did not test positive for blood. She also swabbed suspected blood from light switches and testified that the material was blood. Ryszek said she collected DNA swabs from numerous locations in the bedroom and master bathroom, plus Caleb Flynn's truck. The garage remained part of the prosecution's staging theory. Ryszek testified that the garage door appeared inconsistent with forced entry. Prosecutors allege Caleb staged the home to resemble a burglary. The defense maintains Ashley was killed during a home invasion and says investigators rushed to focus on Caleb. Casto, who conducted Ashley's autopsy, testified that she had two gunshot wounds to the head positioned very close together. Toxicology showed Prozac in Ashley's system and an elevated level of melatonin. Casto said the melatonin finding indicated she had taken melatonin at some point. Cross-examination established limits on what the autopsy could show. Casto testified that the two bullet tracks overlapped, but the firing range was indeterminate. His examination therefore did not establish a specific distance between the firearm and Ashley when the shots were fired. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Jurors now have another set of forensic findings to weigh: drains without detected blood, blood on light switches, multiple DNA collection points, Ryszek's opinion about the garage entry, and two closely placed wounds with no determined firing range. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #HollyRyszek #BryanCasto #OhioBCI #ForensicPathology #CrimeSceneEvidence #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony
Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty to 23 charges on September 16, including four felony counts alleging the abuse of a child who is not one of her 16. She appeared in court visibly pregnant. Her bond sits at $550,000.Her 16 children were found on June 30 in a 12-by-12-foot room in Hamden, Ohio. Feces, insects, children who couldn’t speak. The AG called it "pure evil." Seven were hospitalized. The oldest is 18 and can’t spell her own name.Elizabeth was 15 when she married. Her attorney argues she was pregnant for two decades with no medical care and no postpartum recovery. Relatives say she was "indoctrinated." But she also delivered children at hospitals in three cities, attended school through 11th grade, and was present for two CPS investigations that the family responded to by blocking a caseworker and then disappearing with a fake address.On August 21, a grand jury indicted her for allegedly harming a minor relative at 29. Her father-in-law was ruled incompetent on September 9 and will likely walk free. The question: does Elizabeth’s record support the same claim, or does it destroy it?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.#SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillers #VintonCounty #HouseOfHorrors #OhioChildren #ChildEndangerment #TrueCrime #CompetencyHearing #JusticeForChildren
David Hammond's cross-examination in the Caleb Flynn trial put one missing piece squarely in front of the jury: investigators never recovered the firearm used on Ashley Flynn. Hammond, a special agent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, also testified that he never interviewed Caleb Flynn during his work on the case. Defense questioning moved from what investigators collected to what they did not do. Hammond said he did not weigh the refrigerator that was positioned against the garage entry door, and he did not try to move it. Earlier, Hammond had testified that the damage around that door did not look consistent with burglaries he had investigated. The defense then offered another explanation for how someone could have entered the garage. Counsel presented a theory that a person could have used a garage-door signal to open the door rather than forcing it. That was a defense theory raised during cross-examination, not a finding Hammond testified had been established. Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley and staged the Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. The defense says a real intruder killed Ashley and investigators rushed to blame Caleb. On redirect, prosecutors returned to forensic testing. Hammond testified that gunshot residue is fragile evidence and said it is not used that often. His answer gave the state a response to questions about what forensic evidence investigators did or did not pursue, but it does not change the basic point raised on cross: the firearm itself was never recovered. This portion of Hammond's testimony gave jurors competing ways to view the investigation. The prosecution has used his scene observations to support its staging theory. The defense used cross-examination to underline missing evidence, investigative choices, and an alternate way the garage could have been opened. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #DavidHammond #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #OhioBCI #CrossExamination #MissingFirearm #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony
John-Paul Miller's federal trial is set for October 2026, but the investigation didn't take the summer off. Miller was indicted in December 2025 on federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators. The indictment alleges a sustained campaign of harassment against his estranged wife Mica that ran from November 2022 until her death on April 27, 2024. GPS trackers on her car. More than 50 calls in a single day. Intimate images posted without her consent. Interference with her daily life and her finances. Tire damage. Mica was found dead at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller was released on $100,000 bond with electronic monitoring and ordered to surrender his passport. Solid Rock Church — the Myrtle Beach ministry at the center of everything — closed after public protests erupted following Mica's death. The Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife brought the allegations to millions in August 2026. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what federal investigators do when a case goes quiet publicly. How they flip enablers. How they track digital footprints and build financial cases alongside the criminal one. And whether the people who allegedly helped Miller understand what a federal investigation means for them. Miller has pleaded not guilty. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted on both counts.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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #JohnPaulMiller #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #FBIInvestigation #Cyberstalking #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
David Hammond returned after the mid-morning break with the Caleb Flynn case moving from entry points into the physical evidence collected around Ashley Flynn. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation special agent identified bullet fragments recovered from Ashley, Caleb Flynn's wife and the murder victim, as well as fragments collected from the scene. Hammond also discussed latent prints investigators collected. His testimony described another category of evidence documented inside the home without turning the mere existence of a print into an identification. That distinction matters because the defense has argued investigators do not have forensic evidence proving Caleb fired the shots. Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the Tipp City home to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense says an intruder killed Ashley and investigators decided Caleb was responsible too quickly. The prosecution then asked Hammond where the investigation ultimately led him. Hammond testified that, based on his investigative work, he believed Ashley's death was a homicide and the scene had been staged as a burglary. That is Hammond's conclusion as a state investigator, not a finding the jury is required to accept. This portion of Hammond's testimony pulls together the evidence jurors had already heard him describe. Earlier, he questioned whether the garage-door damage looked like a real forced entry. After the break, the testimony moved through bullet fragments and latent prints before prosecutors asked him to state his overall conclusion about the scene. For the state, that conclusion supports the allegation that the burglary appearance was manufactured after Ashley was killed. For the defense, Hammond's opinion is exactly the kind of investigative judgment it says should be tested against what the physical evidence can actually prove. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #DavidHammond #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #OhioBCI #StagedBurglary #ForensicEvidence #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson called the alleged leak of unredacted Kohberger crime-scene photographs "unconscionable." Then he said something more damaging than any photograph: he doesn't know if his office can take legal action against whoever did it.A YouTube creator with nine thousand subscribers had claimed on camera that she possessed unredacted images of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — wounds visible, no redaction — and told her audience to stay tuned. On September 15th, Thompson's office joined Moscow Police and Idaho State Police in a public warning. But the warning carried no teeth.Senate Bill 1250 passed unanimously in March 2026 and took effect July 1st. It exempts death-investigation photographs from public-records disclosure. It tells government agencies what they can't release. It does not say what happens to a private person who already has the file and hits upload. The front door got a lock. The side door is a hallway of copied hard drives.This episode traces the two-year failure chain: a Dateline leak in May 2025 still under investigation with no public result, families suing over sloppy redactions, a judge ordering bodies blacked out, Idaho State Police botching a release of nearly three thousand images, and a corrections employee leaking Kohberger prison video with no criminal charges filed. The pattern is identical each time: leak, investigate, nobody gets charged, move on.Thompson's admission isn't weakness. It's the diagnosis. The system was built to copy evidence, not to protect the dead from the internet.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.#Kohberger #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #Idaho4 #PhotoLeak #CrimeScenePhotos #XanaKernodle #TrueCrime #Moscow
David Hammond's testimony moved from the doors of the Flynn home to the evidence tied to the shooting itself. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation special agent told jurors about the truck Caleb Flynn said contained his gun. He also described what investigators documented inside the bedroom where Ashley Flynn, 37, Caleb's wife and the victim in the murder case, was found dead. The prosecution questioned Hammond for roughly the first two hours of Day 2, moving through photographs of the house before reaching the truck and bedroom evidence. That broader scene documentation is the context for his conclusions about what investigators found inside. Hammond testified that investigators swabbed the area of Caleb's truck where Caleb said his gun had been kept in the center console. That collection step documented a location Caleb identified as the place the gun was stored. Inside the bedroom, Hammond testified that investigators found 9mm shell casings. He then gave jurors his opinion about Ashley's position at the time she was shot. Hammond said Ashley was asleep or lying still when the shots were fired. That opinion matters because prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn, 40, killed Ashley and staged the house to look like a home-invasion burglary. The defense says a burglar killed Ashley and argues investigators rushed to focus on Caleb. Caleb has pleaded not guilty to all 11 charges, including aggravated murder. This portion of Hammond's testimony connects three separate pieces jurors will have to keep distinct: where Caleb said the gun was stored, what investigators collected from the truck, and what Hammond believes the bedroom evidence says about Ashley's movement. None of those points, standing alone, decides who fired the shots. But Hammond's testimony gives prosecutors a forensic narrative about what happened in that room and gives the defense specific conclusions to challenge as the trial continues. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #DavidHammond #AshleyFlynn #OhioBCI #9mmEvidence #TippCityOhio #MurderTrial #ForensicTestimony
David Hammond took jurors straight to the part of the Caleb Flynn case that has to support a home-invasion story: the entry points. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation special agent testified about the photos he took throughout the Tipp City home where Ashley Flynn, 37, Caleb Flynn's wife and the victim in the murder case, was found dead. Hammond documented doors, windows, entrances and exits. At the garage door, he testified that the handle was broken, but the soft wood surrounding it showed no marks suggesting someone had attacked the handle from outside. He also noted a refrigerator positioned against the door. According to Hammond, the deadbolt and the door frame showed no damage. That combination immediately mattered because Caleb Flynn's defense says Ashley was killed during a home-invasion burglary and investigators rushed to blame him. Prosecutors allege Caleb staged the scene to make Ashley's death look like a burglary. Caleb, 40, has pleaded not guilty to all 11 charges, including aggravated murder. Hammond told the jury the garage-door damage did not look right to him. He testified, "The damage was inconsistent with any burglaries I've worked on in my experience as an investigator." Aside from the broken handle, Hammond said he found no sign that the door had actually been forced open. The prosecution spent roughly the first two hours of Day 2 walking Hammond through the physical scene. That makes this testimony less about one dramatic object and more about whether the house itself supports the story jurors are being asked to evaluate. A broken handle may sound like evidence of entry. Hammond's testimony asks jurors to look at everything around that handle before deciding what it means. 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. #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #DavidHammond #AshleyFlynn #OhioBCI #TippCityOhio #MurderTrial #CourtroomTestimony #TrueCrime
The internet built an entire conspiracy theory around the way Patrick Clancy looked on the witness stand. He didn't cry the right way. He didn't grieve the right way. So they decided he must be guilty of something. Patrick told 60 Minutes what actually happened: he had a massive panic attack in the back room before testifying. He nearly didn't go back in. He forced himself to return and finish. The cameras captured a man who looked composed. The back room held a man who was falling apart. Patrick also said he forgave Lindsay immediately — not because she asked, but because the alternative was letting the rage destroy him. Robin Dreeke analyzes the gap between how trauma presents and how the internet demands it look — and what it costs a grieving father when strangers treat his worst day as content.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.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #OnlineHarassment #HiddenKillersPodcast
Caleb Flynn's defense comes down to a coincidence the prosecution says nobody should believe. He claims a burglar stole his own 9mm handgun from his Ford pickup truck on the exact night someone used that weapon to shoot his wife Ashley twice in the head inside their Tipp City, Ohio, home. Then the burglar vanished, leaving the two young Flynn daughters untouched in the next room. Prosecutors say Caleb staged the entire scene. He was arrested within 82 hours and indicted on 11 charges — aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and witness intimidation. His bond was set at $3.5 million. But the trial in Miami County is about to deliver something worse than physical evidence for the defense. Those two daughters are on the prosecution's witness list. A judge ruled they will testify — audio only, no video cameras. The woman with whom Caleb was allegedly having an affair is also set to testify. The jury will hear the secret Caleb allegedly kept from Ashley, from her family, and from the community that knew them as a devoted couple. Defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan has 128 names on his own witness list. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer break down what the defense is working with, what happens when a public persona collapses under oath, and how a jury weighs a father's story against his own children's testimony. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges.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 #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MiamiCounty #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCity #CrimeStagging #JusticeForAshley #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Caleb Flynn was sobbing on the phone with a 911 dispatcher at 2:30 in the morning, telling them somebody broke into his Tipp City, Ohio, home and killed his wife Ashley. Two gunshot wounds to her head. Their two young daughters asleep in the next room. A burglar he never saw, using a gun that prosecutors say belonged to Caleb himself. Within hours, investigators from Tipp City police, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and the FBI were inside that house and the home invasion story was already falling apart. The physical staging didn't match. The details Caleb gave the dispatcher didn't track with a man who had just discovered his wife's body. Eighty-two hours after that call, Caleb Flynn was in the back of a police car. The former American Idol contestant and worship leader — the man who once told a national audience he loved his wife more than anything — was headed to the Miami County Jail. A grand jury indicted him on 11 charges including aggravated murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and witness intimidation. His bond was set at $3.5 million. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer sit down to dissect the prosecution's evidence. The 911 call. The botched staging. The forensic trail. And the behavioral tells that put law enforcement on Caleb before Ashley's family had even buried her. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges.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 #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdol #MiamiCounty #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott is at the center of this episode because the story is bigger than a federal indictment. She examines the pattern Mica Miller’s family says she documented herself: medication allegedly controlled by someone else, unwanted injections, sleep deprivation and repeated police reports. Her family says the systems around her never saw the whole picture at once. That pattern is why Mica’s family has backed a South Carolina coercive-control bill known as Mica’s Law. The latest proposal, SB 702, sought to make coercive control unlawful and expand what courts and police can recognize inside an intimate relationship. It stalled during the 2026 legislative session and has not become law. Scott explains why that matters: a person can experience domination as one continuous reality while the legal system keeps sorting it into disconnected incidents. JP Miller now faces federal cyberstalking and false-statement charges tied to alleged conduct from November 2022 through Mica’s death on April 27, 2024. Prosecutors allege unwanted contact, tracking devices, interference with her finances and daily activities, tire damage and an intimate image posted without consent. He has pleaded not guilty and has not been charged in connection with her death. His federal case is set for the October 2026 trial term. While Mica’s family pushed for a new law, JP moved into a new marriage. He married Suzie Skinner in June 2025. Suzie’s former husband, Chris Skinner, an Army veteran who became quadriplegic after a vehicle crash, died in a pool in September 2021. The death was ruled accidental. His family has raised questions publicly, and the matter has reportedly been revisited. No one has been charged in his death. Netflix interviewees have alleged JP and Suzie were involved before Mica died. JP denies that and has said they began dating later. Scott’s lane is the behavior around that transition: how alleged controllers can reframe the past, build a new public identity and leave the people around them arguing over what the previous relationship actually was. 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. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #MicasLaw #CoerciveControl #SuzieSkinner #Cyberstalking #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
The Matthew Farwell trial begins with a document that no longer says what it said for five years. Sandra Birchmore’s death certificate originally listed suicide. In April 2026, the Massachusetts medical examiner changed the manner of death to undetermined and changed the cause from asphyxia by hanging to asphyxia. Farwell’s defense still says Sandra killed herself. Judge Denise Casper has ruled that his lawyers may show jurors evidence of Sandra’s mental-health struggles and suicidal thoughts. That creates the central fight for October: whether the jury sees those records as an explanation for her death, or as personal history that does not answer the physical and investigative evidence prosecutors plan to present. Federal prosecutors allege Farwell met Sandra through the Stoughton Police Explorers program, where she enrolled at 12. They say he began an unlawful relationship with her at 15 while he was 27 and later killed her to prevent disclosure of what had happened. Farwell has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing a witness and causing the death of Sandra’s unborn son. The department’s own history sits underneath that prosecution. A 2022 internal investigation found that Farwell, his twin brother William, and former deputy chief Robert Devine had inappropriate relationships with Sandra. William Farwell and Devine have not been criminally charged in this case. Federal prosecutors have also criticized the original death investigation. Their court filings say local officers told the medical examiner there was “no foul play” within about an hour of finding Sandra. They did not compel Farwell’s DNA or seize his devices at the time. Years later, federal investigators reworked the same case and obtained evidence they say supports homicide, including DNA evidence tied to the strap at the scene. The defense says that evidence does not erase Sandra’s prior struggles. The prosecution says those struggles do not explain away the alleged staging. Jury selection is set for 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=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. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #Birchmore #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #FederalTrial #Massachusetts #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra
The Mica Miller case is forcing people around JP Miller to define exactly how close they really were. Mark Kaufman was best man at JP and Mica's 2017 wedding, but his September 2026 statement says JP was never part of the core friend group with whom he regularly spent his time. That statement arrived after Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife showed Kaufman repeatedly inside the story. Wedding footage captured him joking that JP forced him to be his friend and best man. The morning after Mica's death, JP stood in front of Solid Rock Church and introduced Kaufman to the congregation as his best friend before Kaufman sang. Kaufman says the public picture of that friendship is inaccurate. He denies helping JP pursue another woman, denies witnessing mistreatment of Mica, and says he has severed ties with JP and the church. Separate reporting says JP once held a minority share in Kaufman's Crocodile Rocks piano bar and that the remaining interest was bought out in late 2025. The episode also returns to JP's own words at Mica's May 5, 2024 memorial. He told the congregation he had gone to spend time beside her body multiple times and claimed he tried to raise her from the dead. Robin Dreeke, a former FBI Special Agent and behavioral analyst, examines what loyalty, social pressure, coercive-control allegations, and public separation can look like inside a close religious community. The legal case is separate from Mica's death. A federal grand jury charged JP with cyberstalking and making false statements, and he pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege tracking, repeated unwanted contacts, financial interference, an intimate image posted without consent, and conduct involving her vehicle between November 2022 and April 27, 2024. JP has not been charged in Mica's death. His federal trial has been continued to the October 2026 term. 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. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #MarkKaufman #RobinDreeke #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SolidRockChurch #FederalTrial #CoerciveControl #TrueCrimePodcast
Kevin Reddington is challenging what happens next in the Lindsay Clancy case before prosecutors have committed to a retrial. The September 29 hearing now brings together two separate defense attacks on the aftermath of the 11-1 hung jury. One route is Massachusetts Rule 25. That rule permits a judge to enter a required finding of not guilty when the evidence is insufficient as a matter of law. The other route is a double-jeopardy argument. Reddington says the mistrial lacked manifest necessity because jurors reported that the lone holdout acknowledged doubt but still would not join the majority. The jury instructions make that dispute harder to reduce to a simple story about one stubborn juror. Judge William Sullivan told the panel it had to accept the law as he gave it, whether jurors agreed with it or not. The deadlock charge also told them that each verdict had to be the product of the individual juror's own convictions. It then reminded them that a defendant must receive the benefit of any reasonable doubt. During deliberations, Reddington asked Sullivan to remove the holdout. The judge declined, explaining that discharging a deliberating juror requires extreme caution and that the record did not show the juror had stopped deliberating or refused to obey the law. The trial ended in a mistrial on September 4 after more than 38 hours of deliberations across seven days. Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down where these arguments overlap and where they do not. The next question is whether Sullivan sees a legal basis to end the case, or whether the Commonwealth gets another chance to present it to twelve new jurors. 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. #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #ClancyCase #Rule25 #HungJury #DoubleJeopardy #PlymouthCourt #TrueCrimePodcast
Donna Adelson’s role in the Dan Markel case reaches far beyond the murder charge that sent her to prison. At her 2025 trial, jurors heard Wendi Adelson describe what happened after a judge rejected her request to move the children from Tallahassee to South Florida. Wendi testified that Donna proposed converting the boys to Christianity, dressing them in Hitler Youth uniforms, and offering Markel $1 million to approve the relocation. The testimony exposed the level of pressure inside the Adelson family before Markel’s death. Wendi told jurors that Donna “micromanaged my life.” Robert Adelson, Donna’s estranged oldest son, described his mother as controlling and said she “ran the show.” He also testified that Charlie needed more attention from Donna than the other children. Charlie’s own records later showed how constant that connection remained. In the seven days between his November 6, 2023 conviction and Donna’s November 13 arrest, jail records showed 86 calls to the phone number associated with Donna. The calls totaled 2,118 minutes, more than 35 hours. At Donna’s trial, financial investigator Mary Hull testified that Donna handled hotels, flights, and bills for Charlie. Katherine Magbanua testified that Charlie sometimes left the room to call Donna during conversations about the murder arrangement. Magbanua also said Charlie told her Donna had physically washed cash that later reached her. Those statements remain Magbanua’s testimony, and Donna’s defense challenged the prosecution’s interpretation of the financial evidence. Donna was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation for orchestrating Markel’s murder-for-hire killing. Her direct appeal remains pending. On September 8, 2026, the First District Court of Appeal accepted her amended initial brief and ordered the state to answer within 30 days. 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. #DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #HiddenKillers #DanMarkel #WendiAdelson #AdelsonFamily #MurderForHire #FamilyControl #Tallahassee #TrueCrimePodcast
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott is front and center in this look at the JP Miller case, because the most revealing part of the allegation may not be the surveillance itself. It may be the explanation. Federal prosecutors say Miller told agents he had Mica Miller watched for her own safety. Shavaun Scott explains why clinicians often see that as a classic form of carewashing — coercive behavior dressed up in the softer language of help, concern and protection. The same frame helps explain the second half of the story: the unraveling of Solid Rock Church. Public reporting says the ministry controlled roughly $5.59 million in property and assets in late 2023, after years of tithes and expansion fundraising. Within a year, the church and school were closed, the main building had sold for $2.15 million, and former insiders were publicly saying they never saw full financial records or even knew about some of the assets attributed to the ministry, including multiple vehicles and an airplane. The federal indictment, returned in December 2025, charges Miller with cyberstalking and making false statements. Prosecutors allege that from November 2022 until Mica’s death in April 2024, he engaged in unwanted contact, interference with her finances and daily life, tire damage, nonconsensual posting of an intimate image and tracking devices placed on her vehicle. Miller has pleaded not guilty, denies wrongdoing and has not been charged in Mica’s death. The criminal case is set for the October 2026 trial term. Shavaun Scott’s point is that institutions can absorb the language of a controlling person and start repeating it back as fact. Once that happens, concern for the target gets filtered through the controller’s story. This episode combines the federal allegations with the money trail and the ministry collapse to ask a harder question: when a church tells itself that surveillance is protection and opacity is normal, how much damage can be done before anyone finally calls it what it is? 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. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #SolidRockChurch #Carewashing #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
JP Miller and Mica Miller’s relationship did not begin with a marriage license. Years earlier, JP was the pastor at Solid Rock Church and the man standing at the altar when Mica married her first husband, Jeremy Deas. Mica began attending Solid Rock as a teenager and became deeply involved in the church. JP was about fifteen years older and occupied several positions of authority in her life. He was her pastor and spiritual mentor. He officiated her first wedding. Public records and reporting later place Mica working for JP’s family before the two eventually married in November 2017. That progression is the first half of the story. The second is the federal case. Prosecutors charged JP in December 2025 with cyberstalking and making false statements. The indictment alleges a course of conduct beginning in November 2022 that included unwanted communications, tracking devices placed on Mica’s vehicle, interference with her finances and daily activities, tire damage and an intimate image posted without her consent. JP has pleaded not guilty. He has not been charged in connection with Mica’s April 27, 2024 death, and the federal case is set for the October 2026 trial term. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a former FBI Special Agent, examines what investigators look for when authority, access and surveillance overlap. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott focuses on the people around a powerful figure and why loyalty to a leader can become stronger than the impulse to question what is happening. That distinction matters. The indictment alleges JP caused tracking devices to be placed, but it does not charge church members with cyberstalking. Separate public accounts from former congregants describe concerns about JP being raised inside Solid Rock and dismissed. Together, those records create a harder question about what the institution saw, what it accepted and when anyone decided to push back. 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. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Cyberstalking #JenniferCoffindaffer #ShavaunScott #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
Lindsay Clancy holdout juror accounts are revealing what other jurors say happened during seven days of deadlocked deliberations in Plymouth Superior Court. The final split was 11-1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, according to jurors who have spoken after the mistrial. The most striking account comes from juror Nick Dargie. He told ABC News that the lone holdout would sometimes scroll on his phone while others were speaking and could not identify evidence or witness testimony that explained his position when Dargie pressed him. Dargie also described seeing the man take an exercise band from the evidence bag, tie it around an empty water bottle, and pull on it. The band had been admitted as a trial exhibit. Dargie said he was shocked by what he saw. Foreperson Roni Carlson says the jury came even closer to a verdict. Carlson said the holdout acknowledged having reasonable doubt, which led her to start filling out and signing the three verdict forms. She says he then refused to agree that Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury had already told Judge William Sullivan that one member was not following the court's reasonable-doubt instructions. Sullivan questioned jurors individually, repeated the law, and sent them back to continue deliberating. The defense asked that the holdout be removed, but he remained on the panel. Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jury still could not reach unanimity. Tony Brueski and former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke focus on the human mechanics behind that deadlock. They examine isolation, emotional overload, group pressure, and the point where persistence is experienced by the rest of the room as refusal to deliberate. 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. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #HoldoutJuror #Mistrial #JuryRoom #ReasonableDoubt #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrimePodcast
The Mica Miller case carries a detail from Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife that sits uncomfortably beside the official record. Mica’s friend Bruna Pabon says Mica came into her living room before her death and described a specific fear involving JP Miller and what she believed could happen to her. On April 27, 2024, Mica left for what should have been a normal workday. Her divorce attorney has said that the day before, Mica was talking about a future beyond the marriage and sounded ready to begin again. Hours later, Mica was found at Lumber River State Park, where authorities concluded that she died by suicide. That ruling is separate from the federal criminal case now pending against JP Miller. Prosecutors allege an eighteen-month course of cyberstalking that included unwanted communications, tracking devices on Mica’s vehicle, more than fifty contacts in one day, interference with her finances, and a tire-deflation device. They also charge him with making false statements to investigators; JP has pleaded not guilty and has not been charged with causing Mica’s death. Robeson County authorities later asked the FBI for help, and the federal investigation drew in state and local agencies as well. Miller was released on a $100,000 bond, and the case has moved through several continuances before reaching the October 2026 term. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains what federal agents can prove through digital records, devices, purchases, and statements made during an investigation. She also draws the line between evidence supporting the cyberstalking indictment and the questions Mica’s family and friends continue to raise about her final weeks. JP’s case is set for the October 2026 federal court term, where the government will have to prove its allegations beyond a reasonable doubt. 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. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Cyberstalking #FederalCharges #Netflix #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
D4vd wrongful death lawsuit Celeste Rivas Hernandez — her family's civil case reaches beyond David Anthony Burke and directly into the people and companies that surrounded his career. The complaint brings 12 causes of action and names Burke alongside his mother, management figures, a live-in security guard, and business entities. The family's theory is that access did not happen in a vacuum. Their complaint alleges adults around Burke knew or should have known Celeste was a minor and failed to take reasonable steps to protect her. Sheldon Jacques, identified as Burke's live-in security guard, is accused in the complaint of helping remove Celeste from her family home and assisting with transportation to Burke's Hollywood Hills residence. The management and money trail sits beside those allegations. The complaint says Colleen Burke handled major parts of her son's finances and approved bills tied to his operation, including expenses connected to the Los Angeles residence. At Burke's preliminary hearing, a former financial manager testified that Burke generated about $10 million to $11.5 million in gross earnings between 2023 and 2025. Property records later showed two Texas homes were moved into his mother's name after Celeste's remains were found. Burke has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges against him. A judge ordered him to stand trial after a five-day preliminary hearing in July, and he remains held without bail. After his private attorneys withdrew, the public defender's office took over his representation. A status conference is scheduled for October 19, 2026. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to break down the civil case's most important pressure point. They examine what discovery could reveal about who knew what, who handled logistics, and whether evidence from the lawsuit could matter to the criminal investigation. 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. #CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vd #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #WrongfulDeath #DavidAnthonyBurke #JoshMarshall #SheldonJacques #CivilCase #TrueCrime
The audience has been calling JP Miller a narcissist since Mica Miller's death in April 2024. This episode argues the evidence points past narcissism into territory the published research gives different names. Miller is under federal indictment for allegedly cyberstalking Mica for seventeen months — tracking devices, fifty-plus calls in a day, a nude photo posted without consent, tire damage, financial interference. He has pleaded not guilty. Mica's death was ruled a suicide and he has not been charged in connection with it. But federal prosecutors aren't the only ones alleging a pattern. Two Jane Does have filed civil suits alleging Miller assaulted them as minors at his family's church and school. His first wife Alison Williams swore he admitted to sexual contact with underage congregants. His father Reginald Wayne Miller pled guilty to exploiting international students through a sham Bible college. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI analyst Robin Dreeke have publicly applied terms like calculated targeting, spiritual enmeshment, and ambient terror to the documented JP Miller pattern. Forensic psychologist Joni Johnston published a case analysis mapping grooming indicators and institutional cover. This episode lays out the behavioral evidence cluster by cluster — the control, the weaponized diagnosis, the DARVO response cycle, the multi-generational institutional pattern — and asks what the research says about how dangerous a person with this profile becomes when the institution that protected them collapses. Miller's church closed. The property sold. His trial is set for October 2026. The research says that's the moment that matters most.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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl #TrueCrime #Netflix #MicasLaw #HiddenKillers #JusticeForMica
Every side of JP Miller's federal case gets examined in this three-part conversation with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis.Miller was indicted in December 2025 on charges of cyberstalking and making false statements. Prosecutors allege a pattern of harassment against Mica Miller from November 2022 through her death in April 2024 — GPS tracking, a hired PI, fifty-plus daily contacts, financial interference, tire damage, and an intimate image posted without consent. The false statements charge stems from what prosecutors say Miller told agents about the PI. Miller has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. He has not been charged in Mica's death. She was thirty and filed for divorce two days before dying. Her death was ruled a suicide. He faces up to seven years. Trial is October 2026.The enablers: court filings describe associates who allegedly did the physical work while Miller stayed off camera. South Carolina has no coercive control law, but the hands-on acts carry separate exposure — and the helpers may face worse than the alleged puppet master. The defense: Miller's team has to reframe GPS trackers and a PI hire as a husband's genuine concern, defend a lie to the FBI, and seat an impartial jury while the Netflix documentary plays in every potential juror's memory. The prosecution: the DOJ has the evidence; the question is whether these charges are the whole fight or the lever that breaks something bigger open.A former prosecutor maps every angle — who has the most to lose, where each side's strategy is strongest, and where it collapses.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 #FederalTrial #Cyberstalking #DOJ #DeathOfThePastorsWife #EricFaddis #Prosecution
Lori Vallow Daybell has been convicted in three separate trials across two states and has never once acknowledged that anyone was harmed. At her Idaho sentencing in 2023, she told the court that Jesus Christ knows no one was murdered. On Dateline in 2025, she told Keith Morrison she’d be exonerated and offered to go on Dancing With the Stars. In two Arizona trials where she represented herself, she smiled at jurors and told them to protect her from the state. Two more convictions. Two more life sentences.On November 2, the Idaho Supreme Court hears oral arguments on her appeal. Her attorney Craig Durham has one claim with real teeth: the judge removed her hired lawyer Mark Means in December 2021 over a conflict with co-defendant Chad Daybell. If that removal was unconstitutional, the conviction falls automatically. The state says Chad called Means “my attorney” on a recorded jail call, paid for the representation, and shared privileged information. Lori was incompetent and couldn’t waive the conflict.Even a complete reversal sends her back to trial, where two Arizona convictions now make the state’s evidence stronger. The door she’s trying to open leads to a smaller room. She dies in custody either way. But she told Morrison that Jesus visits her cell and showed her the future. That’s the woman asking this court for relief.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.#LoriVallow #LoriVallowDaybell #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IdahoSupremeCourt #ChadDaybell #TyleeRyan #JJVallow #Dateline #TrueCrimePodcast
The search for evidence of a suspected intruder moved outside the Flynn home as jurors heard from a police K9 handler and an FBI agent. One searched for a scent trail. The other searched the neighborhood for someone who had seen or recorded a possible burglar.David Laycox, a deputy and K9 handler with the Preble County Sheriff’s Department, testified about working the scene with K9 Hayes, a police dog trained to track human scent.Laycox said Hayes picked up a strong scent along the side of the garage. According to his testimony, the dog repeatedly tried to enter the garage because the scent appeared stronger there.Hayes then performed a perimeter search around the property. Laycox testified that the dog did not detect a scent trail indicating someone had moved away from the scene. Hayes returned to the area of the stronger scent and again attempted to enter the home.Laycox described that as a negative alert for a suspect leaving the scene.Cross-examination added an important limitation. Laycox acknowledged that the K9 search did not eliminate the possibility that someone had left the house. A tracking dog failing to locate an outgoing trail is not the same thing as proving no one left.FBI Agent Michael Tom testified about another search for that possible person. Tom, stationed in Dayton, said he canvassed the area, questioned neighbors and others nearby, and looked for doorbell-camera footage that might identify a suspected burglar.Tom testified that nothing was reported from that canvass.Those two searches matter because Caleb Flynn’s defense maintains that Ashley Flynn was killed during a home invasion. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley and staged the Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. Caleb has pleaded not guilty to all charges.The state now has testimony about what investigators did and did not find outside the house. The defense has already established that an unsuccessful search does not prove an intruder could not have left.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #K9Hayes #DavidLaycox #MichaelTom #FBI #TippCity #TrueCrime
Five years for cyberstalking. Two years for false statements. Seven total if a federal jury convicts JP Miller on both counts. The DOJ brought the charges in December 2025 and has been building toward an October 2026 trial. Miller allegedly left a massive digital footprint — GPS data, purchase records, phone logs, PI contracts, and an intimate image posted online.Miller has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. Prosecutors allege he harassed Mica Miller from November 2022 through her death in April 2024. The false statements charge stems from what the government says Miller told agents about the PI hire — that it was to prevent Mica from purchasing firearms. The government calls that a lie. Mica was thirty. She filed for divorce two days before dying. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller has not been charged in her death.Building a federal case isn't just about accumulating evidence. It's about constructing a story the jury can feel. Prosecutors need twelve people to understand that the GPS coordinates, the phone records, and the purchase receipts add up to something more than a contentious divorce — that they describe an alleged campaign of sustained terror.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony to reverse-engineer the prosecution's approach. How does a prosecutor sequence the evidence for maximum impact? How does the government anticipate and neutralize the victim-blaming defense before it gains traction? How do you seat a clean jury in a case saturated by a Netflix documentary? And the seven-year question: is this the ceiling, or is the DOJ squeezing for something bigger?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 #DOJ #FederalProsecution #Cyberstalking #DeathOfThePastorsWife #EricFaddis #FederalTrial
Two Day 1 witnesses gave jurors very different snapshots of the Flynn home: one from inside the bedroom minutes after police arrived, and another from above the property more than an hour later.Alex Huels, a Tipp City firefighter and paramedic, testified about entering the bedroom where Ashley Flynn was found on February 16, 2026. Huels said Ashley was lying on her left side in the bed with a towel covering her head.He testified that he removed the towel and observed a penetrating wound to Ashley’s head. Huels said she was not moving and had no pulse when he checked her. His assessment ended at approximately 2:42 a.m.The prosecution then called Tipp City Police Officer Hunter Bradburn, who also serves as a drone pilot.Bradburn testified that he used a police drone to photograph the Flynn home. On cross-examination, he said the drone was deployed at approximately 3:56 a.m. Bradburn described that as more than an hour and a half after the incident.He testified that the only moving heat signatures he observed during the drone deployment were animals.That timing matters. The drone footage shows what Bradburn says was present when the aircraft went up at 3:56 a.m.; it does not tell jurors what may or may not have been around the home during the earlier events.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley and staged the Tipp City home to resemble a burglary. The defense maintains that Ashley was killed during a genuine home invasion and investigators wrongly focused on Caleb.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #AlexHuels #HunterBradburn #TippCityPolice #DroneEvidence #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Officer Alexandra Giampapa’s testimony gave jurors another look at the first police response inside the Flynn home — including an open garage door leading outside and body-camera footage showing officers clearing the property.Giampapa, an officer with the Tipp City Police Department, testified that she and another officer cleared the garage during the response at the home where Ashley Flynn was found dead on February 16, 2026. While doing so, Giampapa said they discovered a door in the garage that was open to the outside.She then continued checking and clearing other areas of the house. Giampapa also testified that she checked on the minor children who were inside the home as officers worked through the scene.EMS personnel arrived during that response. Ashley’s mother, Jill, then took the children from the home.Prosecutors played Giampapa’s body-camera footage for the jury, allowing jurors to see portions of the police response rather than relying only on testimony about what officers encountered.That footage enters a case where the condition of the Flynn home is central to two competing accounts.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley and staged the Tipp City home to resemble a home-invasion burglary. The defense maintains that Ashley was killed during an actual home invasion and that investigators later rushed to judgment against Caleb.Giampapa’s testimony gives jurors another piece of the original scene as officers encountered it: the garage, the open exterior door, the children still inside the house, and the police response unfolding on body camera.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #AlexandraGiampapa #TippCityPolice #BodyCam #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Mica Miller documented what was happening to her. She wrote it in journals. She told it to police. She filed for divorce. And the state of South Carolina didn't have a single law that recognized what she described.Her family compiled the journal entries after Mica's death on April 27, 2024. The allegations against her husband, pastor John-Paul "JP" Miller, include forced medication he allegedly controlled, forced injections, and sleep deprivation. Mica was thirty years old. She'd served JP with divorce papers two days before she died. Her death was ruled a suicide.The federal government charged JP with cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators—the tools they had because South Carolina had nothing. He has pleaded not guilty. The trial is set for October 2026. Mica's Law has been introduced four times. It has failed four times. The law still doesn't exist.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #JohnPaulMiller #MicasLaw #CoerciveControl #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #DeathOfThePastorsWife #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Five minutes separated Caleb Flynn’s 911 call from the arrival of the first Tipp City police officer at the home where Ashley Flynn was found dead. Day 1 testimony established that early timeline — and revealed that the officer’s first conversation with Caleb was not captured on body camera.After jurors reviewed the scene, prosecutors called Beth Hull, director of the Miami County Communication Center, as their first witness. Hull testified that she retrieved the records and audio connected to the February 16, 2026 emergency call. According to Hull, the call came in at approximately 2:31 a.m. Prosecutors then played Caleb Flynn’s 911 call requesting help for the jury.Sgt. Corey Rismiller of the Tipp City Police Department testified that he arrived at approximately 2:36 a.m. He said he searched the home for anyone else and found no other people inside. Rismiller testified that he then entered the bedroom, where Ashley Flynn had significant trauma around her head and was deceased.Rismiller said he secured the scene, notified detectives of Ashley’s death, and allowed EMS personnel to enter. He also testified that he never treated Caleb Flynn as a suspect during those initial moments.Cross-examination focused heavily on what happened before Rismiller’s body camera began recording. He testified that the camera did not activate automatically and that he manually turned it on after realizing it was off. That means his first conversation with Caleb was not recorded.Rismiller also acknowledged that he had previously worked one homicide in Tipp City, back in the early 2000s.Caleb has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the home to resemble a burglary. The defense says Ashley was killed during a real home invasion and investigators later focused on Caleb too quickly.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 #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #BethHull #CoreyRismiller #TippCityPolice #911Call #MurderTrial #TrueCrime
Opening statements in the Caleb Flynn murder trial gave jurors two very different ways to look at the death of Ashley Flynn — and the defense made one admission immediately: Caleb had an affair, and he lied about it.Miami County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Watkins delivered the prosecution’s opening statement as the state began laying out its case against Caleb Flynn, 40, who has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts, including aggravated murder, in the February 16, 2026 death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37. Prosecutors allege Caleb staged the couple’s Tipp City home to make Ashley’s death appear to be the result of a home-invasion burglary.Defense attorney Emily Smith presented the competing version. The defense maintains that Ashley was killed during an actual home invasion and that investigators rushed to judgment when they focused on Caleb.But Smith did not try to present Caleb as a flawless husband. She acknowledged to jurors that he had an affair and lied about it, then drew a very deliberate line between marital betrayal and murder: “A man can fail as a husband without being a murderer.”That sentence tells you exactly where one of the early battles in this trial is going to be fought. The prosecution can present evidence surrounding Caleb’s marriage and conduct, but the state still has to prove the criminal charges beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense is already telling jurors not to substitute their judgment of Caleb as a husband for their judgment of the evidence.Judge Jeannine Pratt also instructed the jury before the case moved forward, reminding jurors of the legal framework that governs everything they are about to hear.Now both sides have given jurors their roadmap. The evidence has to determine which one survives contact with the courtroom.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/tonybpodContent on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #OhioTrial #MurderTrial #OpeningStatements #TrueCrime #EmilySmith #PaulWatkins
Federal cases are won by the government roughly ninety percent of the time. JP Miller's defense team faces those odds with a case file that includes GPS trackers, a private investigator, over fifty daily contacts, tire deflation devices purchased online, and an intimate image allegedly posted without consent. The alleged campaign ran nearly two years. The evidence is digital, documented, and difficult to reinterpret.Miller faces one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements. He was indicted in December 2025 and has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege the harassment ran from November 2022 through Mica Miller's death in April 2024. The false statements charge stems from what prosecutors say Miller told agents about hiring a PI to keep Mica from buying firearms. Miller denies the allegations and has not been charged in Mica's death. She was thirty. She filed for divorce two days before she died. Her death was ruled a suicide. Trial is October 2026.The defense path is narrow. Turn the surveillance into protection. Use Mica's documented mental health struggles to create reasonable doubt about intent. Attack the government's characterization of the PI hire. And do all of it in front of a jury pool saturated with the Netflix documentary and years of media coverage.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony to map the defense strategy and name its weakest point. The false statements count — the cover-up — may be the charge that gives the defense the least room to move.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 #FederalTrial #DefenseStrategy #Cyberstalking #DeathOfThePastorsWife #EricFaddis #NotGuilty
The federal indictment names JP Miller. It does not name the people around him who allegedly helped. But that doesn't mean they're safe. Court filings describe church members and associates who allegedly executed physical tasks in the harassment of Mica Miller — the kind of acts that leave evidence law enforcement can trace.Miller was indicted in December 2025 on charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. The alleged conduct ran from November 2022 until Mica's death in April 2024 and includes tracking devices on her vehicle, more than fifty contacts in a day, interference with her finances, tire damage, and an intimate image posted online. Miller has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. He has not been charged in Mica's death, which was ruled a suicide. She was thirty. She filed for divorce two days before she died. Trial is October 2026.South Carolina has no coercive control law. That gap limits what the state can pursue against the alleged psychological torment. But the physical acts described in the filings — the tracking, the following, the damage — carry separate legal risk for anyone who allegedly carried them out. The insulation that allegedly protected Miller may not protect his helpers.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony to break down the legal math. Why the person who physically placed a device may face more direct exposure than the person who allegedly ordered it. How investigators squeeze a crumbling inner circle. And what the first phone call to a defense attorney sounds like when you're the one who did someone else's dirty work.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 #Enablers #FederalTrial #Cyberstalking #DeathOfThePastorsWife #EricFaddis #SolidRockChurch
Nick Reiner will not face the death penalty for the alleged murders of his parents. DA Nathan Hochman made the announcement after speaking with the Reiner siblings and reviewing the case. He would not disclose what the family asked for. Sources with direct knowledge told TMZ that Rob and Michele Reiner's own opposition to capital punishment was a significant factor.The decision removes the most severe possible sentence from a case that never realistically faced it. California hasn't carried out an execution since 2006. Hochman campaigned on reversing the moratorium, kept death on the table for nine months, and pulled it. The same DA who fought the Menendez family's wishes on resentencing and called their self-defense claim fabricated.What remains is the harder question. Nick Reiner's defense will likely center on his documented mental illness — schizoaffective disorder, a conservatorship, medications changed weeks before the murders. Under California law, the burden of proving insanity falls entirely on the defendant. No middle ground exists since the state abolished diminished capacity. The defense has to prove Nick didn't understand what he was doing, period. The prosecution doesn't have to prove he was sane. It sits and watches. And the lying-in-wait special circumstance the grand jury added alleges Nick concealed his purpose, waited, and ambushed his parents. If the prosecution proves that allegation, the insanity defense has to explain how a man in psychosis plans an attack.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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #DeathPenalty #MicheleSingerReiner #TrueCrime #MurderCase #InsanityDefense #LosAngeles #HiddenKillers #NathanHochman
Between Mica Miller's death in April 2024 and his federal indictment in December 2025, JP Miller was a free man. What prosecutors allege he did during that time — and what the people around him allegedly did — is the subject of this three-part interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott.Miller faces one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. The indictment alleges he harassed Mica from November 2022 through her death — tracking devices, over fifty contacts in a day, financial interference, and an intimate image posted without consent. He has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. Mica was thirty and filed for divorce two days before dying. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller has not been charged in her death. Trial is October 2026.Part one covers the enabler exodus — the church members who court filings describe as alleged participants in Mica's harassment, and who only scattered when the feds arrived and the Netflix docuseries reached tens of millions of viewers. Solid Rock Church is gone — sold for $2.1 million, slated for demolition. Seven hundred members became fifteen.Part two covers carewashing — the clinical framework for what prosecutors describe when they say Miller told agents his surveillance of Mica was about protecting her.Part three covers the new supply — Miller's June 2025 marriage to Suzie Skinner, whose first husband, a quadriplegic veteran, drowned in 2021. His death was ruled accidental. His family has publicly raised questions.The alleged pattern didn't end when Mica died. It allegedly restarted.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SolidRockChurch #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #Netflix #ShavaunScott
Katherine Magbanua testified the payoff cash was damp and starting to mold. Charlie told her his mother had washed it. In a washing machine. Because Donna Adelson thought that's how you laundered money.A grandmother doing laundry on a murder payment, and her adult son reporting it to his girlfriend the way a kid reports that mom shrinks his sweaters. Then Donna signed forty-four payroll checks from the Adelson Institute to Magbanua — four hundred seven dollars and fifty-eight cents each, hand-delivered by Charlie. Magbanua never worked a shift at the dental practice.This episode digs into the mother-son bond between Donna and Charlie Adelson — not the killing of Dan Markel but the relationship that made it possible. The evidence is documented across four trials: jail calls, wiretap recordings, financial records, and testimony from Charlie's own brother, his girlfriend, and the woman who connected him to the hitmen.Charlie made eighty-six calls to Donna in the week after his conviction. More than thirty-five hours. His brother Robert testified Charlie was "somewhat dependent on my mom" and "always needed more attention than the other two children." Prosecutor Cappleman told the jury Donna managed Charlie's life in exchange for him solving her problems. Charlie's girlfriend testified they spoke to Donna every day. Charlie never married. When danger returned — an FBI agent approached Donna on a sidewalk — she didn't call police or her husband. She called Charlie. Three times.Charlie told the jury eighty percent of what he knew about Dan came from Donna. He repeated her stories at dinner because they were more interesting than teeth. The joke about a TV being cheaper than a hitman circulated for a year. Then it stopped being a joke.The episode places the Adelsons alongside three cases that map the spectrum of mother-son enmeshment — including one where the line was crossed entirely.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.#DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #HiddenKillers #DanMarkel #AdelsonFamily #TrueCrime #MurderForHire #MotherSonBond #FolieADeux #Tallahassee
Mica Miller died in April 2024. Chris Skinner drowned in September 2021. Both were married to people who are now married to each other. JP Miller and Suzie Skinner wed in June 2025, fourteen months after Mica's death and less than four years after Chris's.Miller faces federal charges of cyberstalking and false statements stemming from the alleged harassment of Mica from November 2022 until her death. He has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. Mica's death was ruled a suicide. Chris Skinner's drowning was ruled accidental. Miller has not been charged in connection with either death. His trial is scheduled for October 2026.Chris Skinner was a US Army veteran who became quadriplegic after a car accident and went on to become a motivational speaker. He was found unresponsive in a neighborhood pool. Surveillance footage reportedly showed his wheelchair reaching the pool's edge before entering the water. His family has publicly raised concerns about the circumstances, and the investigation was reportedly reopened.Friends alleged in the Netflix docuseries that Miller and Suzie were involved before their respective spouses died. Miller denies an affair, claiming they began dating in January 2025. Suzie's testimony in a civil case reportedly placed the relationship earlier.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the psychology behind the "new supply" — why an alleged controller allegedly replaces a partner so quickly, what draws a new person into a situation surrounded by federal charges and national attention, and what the clinical research says about the cycle repeating.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SuzieSkinner #ThirdWife #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #ShavaunScott
Solid Rock's elder Bernard Kenerson sat in leadership meetings and never once saw where the money went. He did not know the ministry held a $429,000 airplane. He did not know 11 vehicles sat on church paper. He did not know his pastor had transferred his own home to the ministry for $70,000 under its taxable value — two months after his wife Mica filed for divorce. The ministry bought the airplane while Kenerson, serving as a pastor, was not paid. He called that "really hurtful."Mica Miller was found dead on April 27, 2024. By the end of that November, everything Kenerson had not been allowed to see was either gone or being reorganized. The church closed. The school closed. The FBI carried boxes from JP's home. Movers stripped the building and the sign. JP's attorney blamed protesters — but the congregation was the first to leave.The former Air Force chapel sold for $2.15 million. Eight weeks later it flipped for $2.6 million. Twenty-eight acres of cleared Highway 17 land — $1.2 million in tithes, assessed at over $3 million — transferred to a new entity JP also registered for $5 a parcel. Five new religious entities appeared in state filings within weeks.JP now preaches in gyms and storefronts with an ankle monitor visible above his left foot. Fifteen to twenty people. His new wife Suzie Skinner leads worship. He has entered a not-guilty plea to federal cyberstalking and false-statement charges and faces trial in the October 2026 term. He has not been charged in Mica Miller's death.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 #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Netflix #FaithFirstAcademy #MercyChurch #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MyrtleBeach
JP Miller allegedly told federal investigators he tracked Mica Miller to protect her. Federal prosecutors allege the tracking was part of a cyberstalking campaign that lasted nearly two years and put Mica in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury.The federal indictment, returned in December 2025, charges Miller with one count of cyberstalking and one count of false statements. Prosecutors say he placed tracking devices on Mica's vehicle, contacted her more than fifty times in a day, interfered with her finances, and posted an intimate image without her consent. He allegedly hired a private investigator, telling agents it was to keep Mica from purchasing firearms. Miller has pleaded not guilty and denies the allegations. He has not been charged in Mica's death.Mica Miller was thirty. She filed for divorce two days before dying in April 2024 at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller's federal trial is set for October 2026.While Mica was reportedly hospitalized, her devices were allegedly seized. She had gone to police. She had told friends and family what was happening. And the man she was trying to leave was allegedly framing the surveillance as concern for her wellbeing.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine "carewashing" — the clinical framework for how coercive behavior allegedly gets disguised as protection. The conversation covers how institutions can be manipulated when a calm, articulate individual presents surveillance as love, and what happens to a target when the systems designed to protect her are allegedly turned into tools of control.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Carewashing #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #NarcissisticAbuse #ShavaunScott
Federal prosecutors allege JP Miller harassed Mica Miller for nearly two years — tracking her car, contacting her more than fifty times in a single day, posting an intimate image of her online. But the federal indictment names only Miller. The people around him who allegedly helped enforce that control have never been charged with anything.Miller was indicted in December 2025 on one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements. He has pleaded not guilty and denies the abuse allegations. Mica Miller, thirty, died in April 2024, two days after filing for divorce. Her death was ruled a suicide. Miller has not been charged in connection with her death.Court filings describe church members who allegedly participated in the campaign against Mica. And now — with a federal trial set for October 2026 and tens of millions watching the Netflix docuseries — those same people are claiming distance. Solid Rock Church closed. The $2.1 million property was sold. Miller preaches to maybe fifteen loyal members in pop-up spaces around Myrtle Beach.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony to examine the psychology of the enabler ecosystem — what clinical research says about why people allegedly participate in another person's control campaign, why they maintain silence for years, and why they bolt the moment consequences arrive. The people running now had front-row seats while Mica was alive.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SolidRockChurch #FlyingMonkeys #Enablers #Cyberstalking #ShavaunScott
Donna Adelson called her son-in-law an idiot. A fucker. A bastard. A piece of shit. A bully. A royal jackass. A religious zealot. And a narcissist. She wrote all of it in emails to her daughter Wendi during the divorce and custody battle with FSU law professor Dan Markel. Prosecutors read every word to a jury in 2025. The jury convicted her of first-degree murder in less than a day.Those emails went beyond name-calling. Donna wrote the legal strategy from Wendi's kitchen table. She compiled a multi-year log of Dan's travel to paint him as an absentee father. She told Wendi the relocation of the children was non-negotiable. When a judge denied it permanently, Donna wrote the email prosecutors would later call the blueprint — subject line: please read, very important. She told Wendi to exploit Dan's weak points: money, religion, control. She told her to put on the performance of her life. She laid out a psychological warfare toolkit that included offering Dan a million dollars, staging fake religious conversions, and dressing their two Jewish sons in costumes meant to psychologically torment their observant Jewish father. Wendi confirmed on the stand that her mother suggested this.She called Dan a narcissist — in writing — while running his wife's divorce from another room, calling her adult daughter a hostage, and listing her own husband as inventory between a child and a dog on national television. On Wheel of Fortune in 1989, she solved the puzzle MISCHIEF-MAKER and won twenty-nine hundred dollars. Thirty-five years later, the mischief is a documented trail of slurs, staged separations, weaponized grandchildren, and a life sentence without parole.Her son Robert said she was controlling. Her daughter said she micromanaged her life. This episode reads every receipt.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.#DonnaAdelson #DanMarkel #HiddenKillers #WendiAdelson #AdelsonFamily #TrueCrime #MurderForHire #Tallahassee #CustodyBattle #AdelsonExposed
The foreperson was reportedly signing the verdict forms when the holdout pulled back. Eleven jurors had agreed after 38 hours of deliberation. One man, who reportedly admitted reasonable doubt and couldn't point to a single piece of supporting evidence, collapsed the entire proceeding into a mistrial on September 4.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins the show for an extended analysis of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial across three fronts. Inside the jury room, multiple jurors have now spoken publicly, describing a holdout who reportedly wouldn't engage with the medical or toxicology evidence and spent deliberation time on his phone. Motta examines what Judge Sullivan could and couldn't do, why Reddington's emergency SJC appeal was denied, and what both sides face in voir dire if this case returns to trial.Behind the legal curtain, Reddington filed a Rule 25 motion on September 10 asking the court to enter an acquittal finding, with a hearing September 29 — the same day Cruz is expected to reveal the state's next move. Motta walks through the double jeopardy argument behind the motion, why the prosecution's trial theory may be unsalvageable after 11 jurors reportedly rejected it, and what the plea deal dynamics look like when both sides are publicly entrenched.At the center of everything is the human cost. Patrick Clancy facing another trial. Lindsay reportedly paralyzed and severely ill at Tewksbury State Hospital. Dr. Resnick's testimony on altruistic filicide accepted by the overwhelming majority of the jury. Motta addresses who a retrial serves, what the system gets wrong about maternal mental illness, and what message continued first-degree murder prosecution sends.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 #ClancyMistrial #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #KevinReddington #TimCruz #Retrial #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrime
Gary Siders Senior was wheeled into a Vinton County courtroom on September 9th and found incompetent to stand trial. Not restorable. Sixteen counts of child endangerment — one for each child found in a twelve-by-twelve-foot room in Hamden, Ohio. He's already out of jail on a recognizance bond. His attorney says the prosecution is coming to a quick end. Investigators found those sixteen children by accident in June while serving a DNA warrant on a different case. The children hadn't been enrolled in school. Some couldn't speak. CPS investigated this family twice — in 2020 and 2021 — documented developmental delays in children as young as five, and closed the case both times. Doctors warned the court the kids would lose care. The court shut the file. Now Christina Siders, Gary Junior, and Elizabeth Siders have all filed for competency evaluations.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.#GarySiders #SidersFamily #HiddenKillers #ChildEndangerment #VintonCounty #OhioCPS #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeNews #SystemFailed #JusticeForChildren
A retrial means Patrick Clancy sits through all of it again. The 911 audio. The expert testimony describing how Cora, Dawson, and Callan died. The clinical dissection of his wife's psychiatric collapse. Seven weeks of testimony replayed for a new jury while the 11-to-1 split from the first trial hangs over the entire proceeding.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins the show to examine the human cost the legal maneuvering obscures. Lindsay Clancy is reportedly paralyzed at Tewksbury State Hospital on suicide watch with severe ongoing psychiatric illness. Motta walks through the practical reality of what a conviction changes — whether the difference between a secure psychiatric facility and a prison sentence justifies the toll of a second trial on everyone involved.Motta digs into Dr. Phillip Resnick's trial testimony on altruistic filicide — the clinical framework for understanding how a mother experiencing psychosis could believe she was protecting her children. Eleven jurors reportedly heard that evidence and accepted it. The legal system has no adequate mechanism for cases built on this kind of psychiatric evidence. The first-degree murder framework forces binary choices — guilty or not guilty — in a case where the medical reality doesn't fit either box cleanly.The question reaches beyond this family. Mothers across the country followed this trial because they reportedly recognized their own postpartum experiences in Lindsay Clancy's story. What the state does next sends a message about how the system treats women who suffer the most extreme documented forms of maternal psychiatric crisis — and whether continued prosecution serves justice or a prosecutor's conviction record.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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #Retrial #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Tewksbury #AltruisticFilicide
In May 2024, Charles Randall stood at the Solid Rock pulpit and told the room he was backing JP Miller "for the duration." He labeled Mica Miller's death "a little bump in the road" and denied all allegations of misconduct. After thirty-four million people watched Netflix's Death of a Pastor's Wife, Randall has offered no comment, no interview, and no defense of the man he once vowed to stand beside. His silence says more than any press release.Randall is not the only one who went quiet. But his counterpart chose a different tactic. Mark Kaufman — JP's best man, business partner at a Myrtle Beach piano bar, and the man who received power of attorney over JP's entertainment company shares — issued a written statement saying JP "was never part of the core group" of friends he regularly kept. Wedding footage and pulpit recordings from the morning after Mica's death tell a different story. A former Solid Rock pastor told the documentary Kaufman phoned her within minutes of her resignation, insisting she could not leave JP.Bernard Kenerson, who earned an elder title at Solid Rock, walked away a week after Mica died. Even with that title, he says he had no access to the church's $5.59 million property portfolio, the ministry airplane, or the eleven vehicles on church paper. His word for JP: "not the man I thought he was." When his own photos with JP surfaced, he clarified publicly that he was "never close friends" with the pastor.The congregation did its distancing without a single statement. Seven hundred worshippers became a handful at gyms and empty storefronts. JP Miller has entered a not-guilty plea to federal cyberstalking and false-statement charges. His October 2026 trial approaches.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 #DeathOfThePastorsWife #MarkKaufman #SolidRockChurch #Netflix #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
Kevin Reddington filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion on September 10 asking Judge Sullivan to enter a finding of Not Guilty by Reason of Lack of Criminal Responsibility on all charges against Lindsay Clancy. The hearing is scheduled for September 29 — the same date DA Tim Cruz is expected to indicate whether the state retries. The timing appears deliberate: Reddington is forcing the prosecution to respond to his motion before a second trial gains momentum.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins the show to break down the legal architecture of the filing. Reddington concedes in the motion that a hung jury doesn't ordinarily terminate jeopardy. His argument is narrower: that the holdout juror's reported admission of reasonable doubt, combined with his alleged refusal to apply the court's instructions, means the mistrial was not a "manifest necessity." If Sullivan finds merit in that argument, double jeopardy attaches and the prosecution loses the right to retry.Motta also dissects the prosecution's credibility problem. The Commonwealth's trial theory — that Lindsay staged her suicide attempt while simultaneously arguing she killed because she wanted to die — was reportedly rejected by 11 of 12 jurors. Going back with the same theory risks the same result. Going back with a new one invites the defense to ask why the state changed its story.The plea deal dynamics are equally complicated. Reddington told ABC's "Good Morning America" he hoped Cruz would "revisit" the case, then told CNN he won't agree to any deal involving incarceration. The Plymouth County DA's office rarely negotiates. Motta examines what falls between those two positions — including the bench trial option on reduced charges that Reddington has said he'd consider for second-degree murder but not for first.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 #ClancyCase #HiddenKillers #KevinReddington #TimCruz #Rule25 #PleaDeal #Mistrial #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta
Foreperson Roni Carlson was filling out the verdict forms. Eleven jurors had reportedly agreed that the prosecution failed to prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. Then one man allegedly admitted reasonable doubt — and refused to apply the legal standard he swore an oath to follow. The foreperson told NBC10 Boston she had already begun signing the paperwork when the holdout said he still wasn't going to vote not guilty by reason of insanity.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins the show to dissect the legal mechanics of what happened inside the jury room and why the system had no remedy. Reddington asked Judge Sullivan to remove the holdout, arguing the juror was not following instructions. Sullivan declined. Reddington filed an emergency appeal with the Massachusetts SJC, arguing the juror's conduct reflected bias against mental illness. The SJC denied the appeal, and Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after 38 hours of deliberation over seven days.Since the mistrial, multiple jurors have spoken publicly. Nick Dargie told ABC News the holdout wouldn't engage with fellow jurors, reportedly spent deliberation time scrolling his phone, and couldn't cite a single witness or exhibit supporting his position. Dargie told ABC the man picked up a piece of physical evidence from the case during deliberations.Motta breaks down the screening problem both sides face heading into a potential retrial — how voir dire handles prospective jurors who refuse to accept psychiatric evidence in a case where the only contested issue was whether postpartum psychosis negated criminal responsibility.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/hiddenkillerspodFacebook 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 #ClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #Mistrial #HoldoutJuror #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #KevinReddington #JurySystem #TrueCrime
The criminal responsibility instruction in Lindsay Clancy’s trial asks a jury to navigate double negatives, undefined legal terms, and a burden of proof that runs backwards from what most people expect. The prosecution has to prove she was sane — not the defense proving she wasn’t. Fewer than one in three jurors understand the reasonable doubt standard in comprehension studies. Massachusetts has a plain-language drafting guide. They didn’t apply it to this charge.On top of that, the jury was handed two commands that cancel each other. Follow the law whether you agree with it or not. Your verdict must be the result of your own convictions. The foreperson described signing all three verdict forms before the holdout reversed himself. Another juror defended the holdout in words that echo the instruction itself. The holdout has not spoken.When the defense pushed the judge to re-read the reasonable doubt standard with force, his response from the bench lays bare a system where checking the box is the job — and whether anyone can use the instructions is someone else’s problem. The highest court in the state has admitted the deadlock charge “has a sting.” They still use it.DA Cruz has not said whether he’ll retry. Hearing is September 29th.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.#LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #JuryInstructions #Mistrial #HoldoutJuror #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueJustice #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PlymouthCourt
A church that chose the accused over the accuser. A juror who admitted his doubt and still held out. A family allegedly named in a civil lawsuit for enabling their son's alleged crimes. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke covers all three.JP Miller allegedly ran a campaign of surveillance and harassment against Mica Miller while their shared congregation closed ranks around him. Mica reported the behavior to police. She filed for divorce. Two days after serving papers, she was found dead at a North Carolina state park. Her death was ruled a suicide. JP Miller faces federal cyberstalking charges. He has pleaded not guilty. He preached at her memorial.Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended in a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court. The jury was deadlocked 11-to-1. Jurors say the holdout admitted he had reasonable doubt about Clancy's guilt and still would not change his vote. The foreperson started filling out the acquittal forms before the holdout reversed. Jurors describe severe psychological effects from the evidence, particularly Patrick Clancy's 911 call.The family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez filed a wrongful death lawsuit against D4vd naming his mother, his management, and his business entities. The complaint alleges company funds paid for housing and security that concealed a minor. David Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges.Dreeke examines the behavioral dynamics of enablement and institutional failure across all three 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.#MicaMiller #LindsayClancy #D4vd #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #JPMiller #CelesteRivasHernandez #CoerciveControl #HungJury #TrueCrimePodcast
Sandra Birchmore joined the Stoughton Police Explorers as a child with nobody left. The officers who ran it were supposed to mentor her. Federal prosecutors allege the union president began a physical relationship with Sandra at fifteen. His twin and the deputy chief who oversaw the program also crossed boundaries, according to POST and departmental findings.When Sandra was found dead at twenty-three with a strap around her neck, the local system called it suicide before examining her phone or compelling DNA from the last person seen entering her building.That department has been producing scandal for decades. Extortion in handcuffs on duty. A chief convicted for covering it. The FBI running a wire inside the station. A deputy chief's compromising photos hitting every inbox in the building. A sergeant killing a seventy-four-year-old man with his truck and going back to work.The FBI found what the locals missed. Farwell's federal trial starts October 5.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime #PoliceMisconduct #FederalMurderTrial #Massachusetts #TrueCrimeToday
D4vd is not the only person facing legal consequences in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case. The family's wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, names David Anthony Burke's mother Colleen Burke, his management team, and his business entities as defendants. The complaint alleges each played a role in the system that the family says kept Celeste hidden.The lawsuit describes an inner circle that allegedly knew about the relationship and facilitated the logistics. A bodyguard who allegedly drove a minor to the residence. Managers who the family says were in a position to intervene and did not. A mother who the family alleges was financially dependent on the career the arrangement surrounded.Burke's high-profile attorneys withdrew from the criminal case before his most recent arraignment. Blair Berk, who previously represented major celebrities, and Marilyn Bednarski asked the court to let them go. A public defender was appointed. Burke pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges.Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke at a Hollywood impound lot in September 2025. She was 14. Prosecutors allege the relationship began when she was 13 and he was 18. The DA's office has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke examines the behavioral dynamics of fame-driven enablement, why the people closest to Burke allegedly looked away, and what the civil lawsuit's scope reveals about the architecture of concealment.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.#D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #RobinDreeke #CivilLawsuit #ColleenBurke #LosAngeles #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Sheldon Jacques lived full-time in d4vd's Hollywood Hills home for six months. The lawsuit says he helped make what happened there possible.The wrongful death complaint names ten defendants. Jacques faces the sharpest allegations: that he helped remove Celeste from her family, transported her, and arranged Burke's continued access to her.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing three times in seven weeks. Her family told authorities each time. The pattern resumed.Colleen Burke — d4vd's mother — allegedly managed his finances and approved the bills. Josh Marshall booked international tours prosecutors say included Celeste.Burke's former financial manager testified he earned roughly ten to eleven and a half million dollars between 2023 and 2025. Three attorneys withdrew from his defense on August 31, the same day he pleaded not guilty.The family's attorney alleges Burke transferred assets to his mother and that the inner circle profited.Next court date: October 19.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.#d4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #SheldonJacques #DavidBurke #WrongfulDeathLawsuit #TrueCrime #d4vdCase #ColleenBurke #JusticeForCeleste
Seven days. Twelve jurors. Seven weeks of testimony. Psychiatric experts on both sides. And the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court came down to one man who admitted he had reasonable doubt and still refused to vote for acquittal.The jurors are speaking publicly for the first time. Foreperson Roni Carlson said the holdout told the room he had reasonable doubt about Clancy's guilt after watching a recorded interview played in evidence. Carlson began signing the verdict forms. Then the holdout reversed and said he would not change his position.Other jurors said the holdout disregarded testimony explanations from nurses serving on the jury. Juror Paula Devlin called him arrogant and said he refused to engage with information that contradicted his position. The jury sent a formal note to Judge William Sullivan stating one member was not following the court's reasonable doubt instructions.The psychological toll on the jury was severe. Jurors described being physically sick leaving the courthouse. The 911 call Patrick Clancy made after discovering what happened on January 24, 2023 left jurors in tears every night.Lindsay Clancy was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington conceded the killings and argued postpartum psychosis.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down the behavioral dynamics of a holdout juror under group pressure, how trauma from evidence affects deliberation, and whether the system can call any jury fair when the evidence itself causes lasting psychological harm.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #HungJury #RobinDreeke #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Mica Miller told police she was being stalked. She reported tracking devices on her car. She told officers she was afraid for her life. And the community she turned to for support chose the man she was accusing.Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach was the center of both Mica's and JP Miller's lives. He was the pastor. She was the worship leader. When the marriage began to fracture and Mica started documenting what she described as surveillance, harassment, and coercive control, members of the congregation rallied around JP. Mica was isolated within the institution she had given her life to.On April 27, 2024, Mica was found dead at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. Her death was ruled a suicide. She had served JP with divorce papers two days earlier. JP Miller preached at her memorial. Mica's friends say the way he spoke about her body from that pulpit was the clearest window into the dynamic she had been trying to escape.Federal prosecutors have charged JP Miller with cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators. He has pleaded not guilty. A Netflix documentary explores the marriage and the alleged pattern of control.Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke examines how charismatic individuals recruit entire communities into enabling their behavior, and what the congregation's response reveals about the psychology of institutional complicity.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #CoerciveControl #RobinDreeke #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #MicasLaw #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
The ruling on Mica Miller’s death is suicide. The federal government’s position on her husband is cyberstalker. Between those two facts is a gap that hasn’t been closed.Mica left her apartment on April 27, 2024, dressed for work, packed sandwich in the car. The night before, she’d signed separation papers from Solid Rock Church pastor JP Miller. By three o’clock, she was dead at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina.JP admits he sent her four emails that morning — through a cover letter that told him not to contact her. Their content has never been released. Her body was found a hundred feet from the gun. No traditional autopsy was performed. Fourteen police contacts in ten weeks couldn’t get between them.JP Miller’s federal trial on cyberstalking and false statements begins in October. The question the sandwich asks hasn’t been answered.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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Netflix #TrueCrime #MyrtleBeach #CyberStalking #FederalTrial
JP Miller and D4vd — two names from different worlds carrying the same alleged weight. A former Myrtle Beach pastor facing federal trial for cyberstalking. A musician whose inner circle just got named in a wrongful death lawsuit.Prosecutors allege Miller conducted a campaign against Mica Miller between November 2022 and her death on April 27, 2024 — surveillance, a tire deflation device, over fifty calls in a day, and an intimate image posted without consent. JP was Mica's youth worship leader, officiant, and employer before becoming her husband.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen. Her parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit on September 8, 2026, naming David Anthony Burke alongside his mother, manager, security guard, and business entities.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the thread through both 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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #FBI #TrueCrime #WrongfulDeath #CoerciveControl
A fender-bender. Barry Morphew struck two cars in Denver while carrying a three-million-dollar murder bond, held out three hundred dollars to one driver, wouldn't identify himself, and bolted when she mentioned calling police. The GPS unit strapped to his ankle showed he'd visited the airport that morning under a work exception the court never signed. Prosecutors told the judge that a citizen with a phone camera and a local news station caught what the monitoring company missed entirely. Bond went to ten million cash-only after the court learned Barry boasted on a recorded jail line about walking free by the weekend. Before this it was fake names in Arizona. Before that it was forging his dead wife's ballot. The man accused of killing Suzanne Morphew cannot stop creating evidence against himself.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.#BarryMorphew #SuzanneMorphew #HiddenKillers #BondRevoked #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #Colorado #JusticeForSuzanne #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalJustice
D4vd property transfers — Burke's former financial manager testified to earnings exceeding ten million dollars. In October 2025, Burke transferred two Texas homes into his mother's name — weeks after fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were discovered. The manager testified he advised those transfers to shield assets.On September 8, 2026, Celeste's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Burke alongside his mother Colleen Burke, manager Josh Marshall, security guard Sheldon Jacques, and business entities. Twelve causes of action. The family alleges Burke used his wealth to gain access to a minor and the adults around him failed to intervene.Burke fired his legal team and now uses a public defender. He is held without bail.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the financial trail and what this lawsuit could mean for the criminal case.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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #CelesteRivasHernandez #WrongfulDeath #Lawsuit #JusticeForCeleste #DavidBurke #Murder #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers
Three verdict forms in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial carry the foreperson’s signature. They were never delivered. The holdout admitted reasonable doubt, then reversed and refused to sign.Five jurors have spoken publicly since the September 4 mistrial. The most recent — Nick Dargie, a military veteran and the first male juror to come forward — said the holdout couldn’t cite a single piece of evidence for his position and scrolled his phone during deliberations. He described the holdout pulling an exercise band from the evidence bag and tying it around a water bottle in an apparent reenactment.The instructions Judge Sullivan read created the collision. The reasonable doubt charge required acquittal when doubt remained. The dynamite charge told jurors not to surrender their honest convictions. Those commands pointed in opposite directions.Reddington filed a motion on September 10 asking the judge to enter an acquittal outright. A hearing is set for September 29.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 #ClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #HoldoutJuror #Mistrial #ReasonableDoubt #JuryInstructions #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
JP Miller coercive control — Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife showed the world what Mica Miller endured. This segment goes deeper into the mechanism.JP was Mica's youth worship leader at Solid Rock Church when she was a teenager. Fifteen years her senior. He officiated her first wedding. He employed her as his nanny. The affair began in 2015 when Mica was twenty. He confessed from his pulpit to "a moral failing." Both marriages ended. JP set the engagement and wedding terms. They married in November 2017.Worship leader. Officiant. Employer. Husband. Every role gave him authority and proximity.Mica died on April 27, 2024, at thirty. JP faces federal trial in October 2026 on cyberstalking and false statements charges.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the methodology and the systemic gaps.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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Netflix #CoerciveControl #SolidRockChurch #Pastor #RedFlags #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
JP Miller cyberstalking case — the former Solid Rock Church pastor faces federal trial in October 2026 on charges of cyberstalking Mica Miller and making false statements to investigators.The indictment alleges a sustained campaign from November 2022 until Mica's death on April 27, 2024 — GPS surveillance, a tire deflation device, over fifty calls in one day, and an intimate image posted without consent. Miller told agents the PI was hired to protect Mica. Prosecutors say that was a lie.Mica filed reports with local police. The case stalled until the Robeson County Sheriff's Office asked federal prosecutors to step in.Miller pleaded not guilty, posted $100,000 bond, and faces up to seven combined years. He has since remarried and sold the church.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer dissects the federal case.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 #DeathOfThePastorsWife #Netflix #FBI #Cyberstalking #FederalTrial #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #TrueCrime
Tim Cruz left the Lindsay Clancy mistrial facing a problem prosecutors rarely get to see this clearly. Kevin Reddington says eleven jurors favored acquittal and one did not. Cruz still defended the prosecution’s theory and called the deaths the “cruel and calculated killing of three innocents.” The jury had deliberated for more than 38 hours across seven days before Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Clancy’s defense never disputed that she caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan.The fight was over criminal responsibility: the defense said postpartum psychosis deprived her of the capacity required by Massachusetts law, while prosecutors argued she knew her conduct was wrong and could control it. Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to work through the decision now sitting with Cruz’s office. A retrial can involve more than putting the same witnesses back on the stand. Prosecutors can reassess which evidence actually persuaded jurors, how their experts were received, whether the charging posture still makes sense, and whether any negotiated resolution serves the case better than another first-degree murder trial. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings the discussion outside the legal strategy. She examines why this case has produced such absolute public judgments about mothers, mental illness, responsibility, and mercy. The mistrial did not settle what happened inside Clancy’s mind, yet the public conversation often treats uncertainty as weakness and compassion as taking a side. There is another person prosecutors have to consider. Patrick Clancy’s attorney said reliving the deaths through another trial would be extraordinarily painful for Patrick and his family. Cruz said he would not make an immediate retrial decision. The case returns to court September 29 with the prosecution’s next move still unresolved. 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. #LindsayClancy #TimCruz #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #ShavaunScott #Mistrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCounty #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersPodcast
The Lindsay Clancy jury deadlock turned into a legal argument over one juror and one reported admission. Kevin Reddington told the court that the foreperson said a holdout had acknowledged doubt yet would not apply Judge William Sullivan’s instructions on reasonable doubt. Reddington wanted the juror removed. Sullivan instead questioned the jurors about their ability to follow the law, repeated the reasonable-doubt instruction, and refused to replace the holdout based on the information before him. The jury remained stuck, and the case ended in a mistrial on September 4 after more than 38 hours of deliberations over seven days. The courtroom fight was followed by another dispute outside it. On September 8, Patrick Clancy’s lawyer Howard Cooper said social-media accusations tying Patrick to the deaths of his children were false, described the campaign as escalating and destructive, and said law enforcement had been notified. Robin Dreeke, a former FBI counterintelligence behavioral expert and Hidden Killers co-host, joins Tony Brueski to examine what prolonged deadlock can do to trust, persuasion, and group pressure without assigning motives to a juror he never interviewed. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former felony prosecutor, breaks down when a judge may investigate possible juror misconduct and why courts are cautious about intruding into deliberations. Faddis also examines the Patrick Clancy dispute: the difference between harsh opinion and a false factual accusation, and how lawyers can seek identifying information tied to anonymous accounts. He also explains what a statement that law enforcement has been notified does and does not establish. September 29 is the next scheduled court date while the prosecution weighs another trial. 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #ReasonableDoubt #JuryDeliberations #RobinDreeke #EricFaddis #OnlineConspiracies #DefamationLaw #TrueCrime
Lindsay Clancy's post-mistrial legal battle has moved far beyond the jury room, with defense attorney Kevin Reddington publicly asking President Donald Trump for help in a Massachusetts state murder case. Reddington knows federal pardon power does not reach Clancy's state charges, so the move is best understood through the pressure it may create while prosecutors decide whether to try her again. That strategy lands after a trial in which the prosecution challenged the seriousness of Clancy's attempt on her own life. Doctors and first responders testified that cuts to her neck and wrists were superficial, while the fall from the second story caused a severe spinal injury and paralysis. Reddington accused the Commonwealth of using the wound testimony to suggest the attempt was staged or insincere. The jury never reached a verdict. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after about 38 hours of deliberations across seven days, and Reddington later said the panel stood 11-1 for acquittal on criminal responsibility. Jurors who spoke afterward also described a lone holdout. An emergency Supreme Judicial Court request over that juror was denied, and a spectator was arrested after allegedly filming jurors outside the courthouse. Reddington is now pursuing the path that has actual legal force inside the state case. On September 29, Sullivan is scheduled to take up status, trial assignment, and the Rule 25 motion seeking a required finding of not guilty. The Commonwealth must also decide whether it wants another trial, a negotiated resolution, or no further prosecution. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis join Tony Brueski for the legal mechanics after the mistrial. Motta examines whether the prosecution's handling of Clancy's injuries became a strategic liability. Faddis explains the Rule 25 fight, the effect of a reported 11-1 split on negotiations, and why a defense lawyer would seek presidential attention when the pardon itself is unavailable. 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. #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #EricFaddis #Rule25 #ClancyMistrial #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsLaw #TrueCrime
A handwritten question-and-answer script became one of the most unusual exhibits in Donna Adelson's Dan Markel murder trial. Jailhouse witness Drina Bernhardt testified that Donna created the script so Bernhardt could give false testimony about Katherine Magbanua, and an FDLE handwriting analyst later identified Donna as the writer. Bernhardt said the proposed deal included $10,000, a grand piano, phone privileges, and other favors. Donna's lawyers attacked Bernhardt's credibility and argued her own criminal exposure gave her a reason to cooperate with prosecutors. Another jailhouse witness also testified that Donna admitted involvement and tried to shape testimony, claims the defense disputed. The state also emphasized 44 checks Donna signed to Magbanua after Markel's murder. Prosecutors argued the checks tied Donna to payments connected to the plot, while the defense said Donna wrote them at Charlie's direction because she believed his extortion story. Donna was convicted on first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation after about three hours of jury deliberation. Wendi Adelson has never been charged, but Jeffrey Lacasse's testimony remains a major disputed piece of the family record. Lacasse said Wendi told him five days before the murder that Charlie had explored "all options" for the "Danny Markel problem," including a hitman costing about $15,000. Wendi denied saying it. Lacasse also testified that Wendi asked about his Friday travel route in the days before the murder and later told him not to contact her for a week. Wendi testified that the television being repaired at her home that morning was not code for murder. She also acknowledged encountering police tape near Markel's home and not calling Markel or the children's daycare afterward. One week after Charlie's 2023 conviction, Donna was arrested at Miami International Airport as she and Harvey prepared to travel to Vietnam on one-way tickets. 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. #DanMarkel #DonnaAdelson #HiddenKillers #WendiAdelson #AdelsonFamily #JeffreyLacasse #MurderForHire #FloridaCrime #Tallahassee #TrueCrimePodcast
Nick Reiner and Lindsay Clancy are both at the center of high-profile murder cases, and online arguments keep collapsing them into one question about mental illness. The legal records do not make them the same case. A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted Reiner on two murder counts in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. He pleaded not guilty. The indictment also alleges multiple-murder and lying-in-wait special circumstances, and prosecutors say he personally used a knife. Years before the charges, Reiner spoke publicly about addiction, many treatment stays, homelessness, relapse, and destructive behavior during drug use, including wrecking his parents' guest house. Clancy's Massachusetts trial centered on whether severe mental illness erased criminal responsibility. Her defense argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis when her three children died. Prosecutors disputed that and argued her actions were deliberate. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4 after seven days of deliberations. Jurors who later spoke publicly described an 11-1 division favoring a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict. The internet has turned that legal distinction into a loyalty test. A TikTok creator claimed he ended a $200,000 wedding after his fiancee expressed a different view of the Clancy case, then called her a monster. That story spread because the argument was no longer only about Lindsay Clancy. It became a judgment about the person sitting across from you. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, joins Tony Brueski to separate diagnosis from responsibility and public outrage from evidence. They examine why addiction history does not automatically answer a murder charge and why a psychosis defense does not erase the deaths at the center of a case. They also ask whether comparing defendants can become a shortcut that hides the facts a jury must decide. Reiner returns to court September 15. Clancy's prosecution remains pending after the mistrial. 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. #NickReiner #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #LyingInWait #PostpartumPsychosis #Mistrial #MentalHealth #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice
Patrick Clancy's attorney says the social-media accusations against him crossed a line after Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended in a September 4 mistrial. Howard Cooper's September 8 statement called the claims a defamation campaign, said law enforcement had been notified, and warned that legal consequences could follow. No public evidence has implicated Patrick in the deaths of his three children. That has not stopped strangers from dissecting his life. Patrick testified as the Commonwealth's first witness about Lindsay's decline, the events of January 24, 2023 and the devastating 911 call. He later moved to New York, remarried and tried to rebuild. Online, those choices became fuel for unsupported theories instead of evidence of a surviving parent trying to live after losing Cora, Dawson and Callan. Kevin Reddington added another layer after the mistrial. Asked about internet claims targeting Patrick, Lindsay's attorney said Patrick had not been accused by him. Reddington also said he did not dismiss internet investigators and remarked on how TikTok and Instagram users can ferret out facts and conduct their own investigations. Reddington's praise for online investigation lands inside an environment already treating speculation like proof. Tony Brueski brings retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott into the conversation. Dreeke examines how people turn fragments of behavior into a narrative of guilt. Scott looks at why remarriage, forgiveness and the outward appearance of grief become character tests for people watching from a distance. Patrick's lawyer has now put the accusers on notice. The harder question is whether the internet can recognize the difference between asking questions and inventing a case against someone. 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #Mistrial #ConspiracyTheories #Defamation #CourtroomCoverage
Timothy Hudson’s mother is back in court over money as the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder case moves toward a November federal trial. Shauntel Hudson says her ex-husband, Thomas Hudson, owes child support and should be paying more. Her petition says Thomas agreed to $2,129 a month when support covered three children. The figure later fell to $1,092 as the number of eligible children changed. Shauntel alleges Thomas missed several months of payments and says his income is higher than the amount used for the existing order. Thomas disputes both points, and no ruling has been entered on Shauntel’s request. The timing matters because Timothy is also at the center of a separate federal fight over trial preparation. His lawyers told U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom that they have limited access to certain family members whose information could matter to his juvenile history and sentencing record. They are preparing for a Miller hearing, which requires a judge to consider a juvenile defendant’s background before a sentence of life without parole can be imposed. The defense asked to move the September trial date so it could complete that work and advise Timothy about his options. Prosecutors did not oppose the request. Bloom granted it, setting trial for November 2, 2026 and leaving October 23 as the plea-agreement deadline. Timothy has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and another serious federal charge in Anna Kepner’s death aboard the Carnival Horizon. He has been in federal custody since June 15. His federal defense says it needs family history while the family court shows his parents contesting money, custody history, and their relationships with the children. Both court records will remain active as the federal trial date approaches. 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. #AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #HiddenKillers #ShauntelHudson #ThomasHudson #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipMurder #FederalCourt #MillerHearing #TrueCrimePodcast
Before Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial reached a jury, defense attorney Kevin Reddington says prosecutors never offered a plea deal. The case proceeded on three first-degree murder counts, exposing Clancy to mandatory life without parole if jurors convicted her of first-degree murder.The central trial dispute was criminal responsibility. The defense argued that postpartum psychosis prevented Clancy from meeting Massachusetts’ standard for criminal responsibility. The prosecution argued she understood what she was doing, knew it was wrong, and retained the ability to act differently.The jury did not reach a unanimous verdict, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026. A September 29 status hearing is scheduled while prosecutors consider the next step.Separate civil litigation is asking a different question about the months before the deaths. Patrick Clancy filed a wrongful-death action against four of Lindsay’s medical providers and their employers. Lindsay filed her own malpractice case naming those same four defendants plus additional clinicians and hospitals. The complaints allege failures to diagnose, monitor, and coordinate her psychiatric care as her condition worsened.Patrick’s lawsuit also alleges that Lindsay received eight different medication prescriptions within a three-week window. The civil cases address provider negligence, while the mistrial leaves Lindsay Clancy’s criminal responsibility unresolved. Tony Brueski, Bob Motta, and Robin Dreeke put those two tracks beside each other and ask what the system is trying to accomplish with each one. When prison, secure psychiatric treatment, and civil accountability are all part of the conversation, which outcome actually answers the failures this case exposed?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 #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #PatrickClancy #PostpartumPsychosis #MedicalMalpractice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews
The Lindsay Clancy mistrial left the murder charges unresolved, but Kevin Reddington says the jury room was far from evenly divided. According to Clancy's defense attorney, eleven jurors were ready to acquit on criminal-responsibility grounds and one juror would not join them. That reported split followed more than 38 hours of deliberations across seven days. The foreperson raised a dispute over whether the holdout was applying reasonable doubt, while Judge William Sullivan concluded he did not have a basis to remove the juror or press the inquiry further. The defense then sought emergency relief from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and that request was denied before Sullivan formally declared the mistrial. The fight shifted immediately to what happens next. Reddington said he would ask Sullivan to reconsider a required finding of not guilty, which would end the prosecution without another jury if the judge granted it. He also signaled that he wanted a fast ruling and a fast return to jury selection if the motion failed. Sullivan chose a slower schedule and set September 29, 2026, for argument, status, and possible trial assignment. Tony Brueski is joined by criminal defense attorney Bob Motta to test what the 11-1 claim really means for both sides. Bob looks at the leverage prosecutors have after a near-acquittal, the limits on what anyone can infer from a deadlocked panel, and the strategic risk of asking twelve new jurors to decide the same insanity-defense dispute. District Attorney Timothy Cruz had not announced a retrial decision when the first trial ended. Patrick Clancy's attorney said another trial would force Patrick and his family to relive a tragedy they can never close. That leaves one hard question hanging over the next court date: what would the Commonwealth have to believe it can do differently before asking everyone to go through the case again? 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. #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #Mistrial #HungJury #CriminalResponsibility #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PatrickClancy #Retrial
It started with a custody ruling. Dan Markel, an FSU law professor, won the right to keep his sons in Tallahassee after his divorce from Wendi Adelson — a judge said the boys couldn't be moved. Prosecutors say Wendi's mother, Donna Adelson, tried to buy her way out of that ruling with a million-dollar offer to Markel. He turned it down. Not long after, two men drove five hours from Miami in a rented Prius, waited outside Markel's house, and shot him twice in the head in his own garage — the same morning he'd taken his sons to preschool and gone to the gym. He was 41. The money trail investigators uncovered ran straight through a family dental office near Fort Lauderdale: 44 checks signed by Donna, $138,000 funneled through a woman who never worked there, and a toll transponder receipt marking every mile of the killers' drive. That practice belonged to Donna's son Charlie Adelson, a periodontist prosecutors say orchestrated the entire murder-for-hire plot. Charlie took the stand at his own trial and claimed he was the real victim — extorted by the hitmen, forced into paying them off in installments through his practice. The prosecutor asked him one simple question about why an extortionist would send the victim's girlfriend to collect a payoff. The jury needed three hours to see through it. Five people are convicted, and Charlie's July 2026 appeal failed after his own lawyer filed the wrong motion. Hashtags #DanMarkel #AdelsonFamily #CharlieAdelson #DonnaAdelson #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #WendiAdelson #FSU #Tallahassee 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.
Shauntel Hudson just filed a child support petition against her ex-husband Thomas Hudson — the father of Timothy Hudson, who is in a federal cell awaiting trial for the alleged murder of Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon. According to court documents, she claims Thomas didn’t pay for several months and wants the support amounts increased. Thomas denied her claims.The petition asks for money per child. One of those children is in federal detention. The other is a nine-year-old girl living in a home with her stepfather — whose biological daughter was allegedly killed by her biological brother. Shauntel testified at an earlier hearing that all the children in her household had been unenrolled from school because of the media attention.Thomas has been fighting for custody of that nine-year-old since November 2025. His emergency petition argued the child shouldn’t be in a household where her brother is accused of killing the stepfather’s daughter. He’s also supporting Timothy’s criminal defense — shouldering the cost of a federal murder case while his ex-wife tells a judge he owes her money.The custody filings document a family that fractured within weeks of Anna’s death. Text exchanges entered into the record show Shauntel went from telling Thomas she loved their son to allegedly saying she couldn’t jeopardize her marriage to help him. She invoked the Fifth at a custody hearing rather than testify. And now she wants more money from the father who’s paying for their son’s defense.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.#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #HiddenKillers #ShauntelHudson #CarnivalHorizon #CruiseShipMurder #ChildCustody #FederalTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
The Lindsay Clancy case now has a prosecutor weighing a retrial, a defense lawyer making national appeals, and a surviving father pushing back against an online campaign aimed at him. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony Brueski to show how those three developments change the ground under Plymouth County DA Tim Cruz.Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after the jury spent about 38 hours deliberating across seven days. Kevin Reddington says the split was 11-1 for acquittal. Afterward, he asked President Trump to consider a pardon that federal power cannot provide in a Massachusetts case. Reddington also made his negotiating line public: he says he will not plead Lindsay Clancy to any jail time.A September 29 hearing remains the next major court date.Patrick Clancy's attorney Howard Cooper then addressed the conspiracy claims that have circulated online about Patrick. His statement described a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign, promised appropriate legal measures, and said law enforcement had been notified. Eric explains what that can mean for creators who assume a screen name or the phrase "just my opinion" will protect them.Cruz has not announced a retrial decision. He said after the mistrial that his office believed Lindsay Clancy was in control of her actions and described the case as cruel and calculated.Eric walks through the prosecutor's problem from the inside. He explains how an office reviews a case after a near-acquittal and how a reported 11-1 split can change defense leverage. Patrick Clancy's position adds the human cost of another trial, while the defamation fight adds another layer of public attention. Cruz has the charging power.The question is what he does with it next.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #TimCruz #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #PatrickClancy #KevinReddington #Retrial #Mistrial #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime
Fewer than one in seven. That's how many prospective jurors qualified to serve during Alex Murdaugh's first murder trial. Judge Debra McCaslin called that number a floor, not a ceiling — and then moved the retrial eighty-six miles away to Sumter County. The defense fought for Charleston and offered McCaslin something extraordinary: a permanent waiver of all venue appeals in exchange for their preferred courtroom. McCaslin rejected the deal. The prosecution didn't push for any specific alternative. McCaslin selected Sumter on her own. Three generations of the Murdaugh family ran the 14th Circuit prosecutor's office for eighty-six consecutive years. That kind of influence doesn't wash out with time. McCaslin found that some residents still revere the family name while others resent it, and either reaction disqualifies a juror. Becky Hill's conviction for obstruction, perjury, and misconduct contaminated the courthouse itself. McCaslin's order describes a building now inseparably linked to the original conviction and the Supreme Court's decision to throw it out. Sumter County sits in a different judicial circuit with a population three times Colleton's size. The retrial is set for April 5, 2027. McCaslin will personally oversee every step of jury selection. The defense didn't get what they wanted, which means venue stays a live appellate issue if there's a second conviction.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.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #SumterCounty #JudgeMcCaslin #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #BeckyHill
A hung jury, a defense attorney saying the split was 11-1 for acquittal, and a district attorney who answered by calling the case cruel and calculated. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to break down what Tim Cruz does with a case that just failed in front of a jury.Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial September 4, 2026, after seven days and 38 hours of deliberation. Kevin Reddington says eleven jurors wanted to acquit. Cruz said the facts are that Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and that the evidence suggested to his office she was in control of her actions. He called the case the "cruel and calculated killing of three innocents." He has not announced a decision on a retrial. Court reconvenes September 29.The prosecution's theory was premeditation. On January 24, 2023, Lindsay searched Apple Maps at 4:13 p.m. for a restaurant in Plymouth, called in a takeout order at 5:10 p.m., and Patrick Clancy left to get it at 5:54 p.m. Prosecutors argued she was getting him out of the house. The defense argued postpartum psychosis and never disputed that she caused the deaths. The jurors agreed on what happened and split on whether she was responsible for it.Eric explains how a prosecutor's office takes apart its own case after a loss like this. Whether swinging for first-degree murder cost the state a conviction it could have won on a lesser charge. How the expert testimony gets rebuilt so a jury can follow it. The moment an elected DA weighs the county's cost against a triple homicide. And what Patrick Clancy's wishes are worth, now that his attorney says a second trial would be extraordinarily painful for him.Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She is held at Tewksbury Hospital.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 #TimCruz #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #EricFaddis #Retrial #Mistrial #PatrickClancy #PlymouthCounty
Dan Markel won a custody fight. A judge told his ex-wife she couldn't move the kids. Her mother offered him a million dollars. He refused. Prosecutors say the Adelson family's response was a murder-for-hire — two hitmen from Miami, paid through the family dental office, with the grandmother signing every check.This episode tells the complete Adelson conspiracy in one sitting. The investigation that traced a rented Prius through toll records to two childhood friends from Miami. The woman who connected the hitmen to Charlie Adelson through the bedroom and the bank account. The FBI trap that caught Charlie on tape discussing the plot at a Miami Beach restaurant. Charlie's extortion defense — a layaway plan that lasted three hours with the jury. Donna's arrest on the jet bridge at Miami International Airport with a one-way ticket to Vietnam. The handwritten script she wrote in jail to buy false testimony. The parking ticket line at sentencing.And the question the whole case comes back to: Jeffrey Lacasse testified that five days before the murder, Wendi Adelson told him her brother had looked into hiring a hitman. Wendi denied it under oath at four trials. Five people are in prison. The ex-wife who benefited most from Dan's death has never been charged. The investigation is technically open.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/@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.#DanMarkel #AdelsonFamily #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #WendiAdelson #TrueCrime #Tallahassee #FSU
Kevin Reddington has told the world what he will not take for Lindsay Clancy, and he said it before the DA has even decided whether to retry her. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to explain how a public ultimatum works as a negotiating tool.The mistrial came September 4, 2026, after seven days and 38 hours of deliberation. Reddington says eleven jurors were ready to acquit. Since then he has gone on Good Morning America and asked President Trump to consider a pardon, knowing a president has no power over a state murder charge. He has called DA Tim Cruz a hard-charging prosecutor and a conservative gentleman and said he hopes Cruz will reconsider. And he has said this: "I would not plead Lindsay Clancy to a day in jail." His reason is that she was sick.There is a motion on the calendar too. On September 29, Reddington will argue for a required finding of not guilty under Rule 25, a request that the judge end the case because the evidence could not support a conviction.Eric explains what a pardon plea to a president who cannot act is really meant to do to an elected county DA. He weighs whether the no-jail line is a bluff or a demand an 11-1 split lets Reddington make. He describes how a defense team uses a near-acquittal in private talks with prosecutors. He explains why a long-shot motion still matters. And he lays out how an agreement gets built around psychiatric care with no admission of guilt.Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She remains at Tewksbury Hospital. The DA's office declined to comment on Reddington's remarks.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #EricFaddis #TrumpPardon #Mistrial #ClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis
Patrick Clancy's attorney has told the people spreading conspiracy theories about him exactly what is coming, and he did it in writing. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to break down how that promise gets kept.Attorney Howard Cooper released the statement on September 8, 2026. It says Patrick and his family have endured a "relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" for months. It describes the claims that Patrick was involved in his children's deaths as outright falsehoods spread by people who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles. It says those responsible should understand there will be consequences, that every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally, and that law enforcement has been notified.Eric takes the audience inside each step. Unmasking an anonymous account starts with a lawsuit against a John Doe and a subpoena to the platform. "Just a theory" protects a creator only until the post states something as fact that the creator cannot back up. Discovery in a defamation suit reaches direct messages, drafts, and the revenue an account earned from the posts in question. A campaign that is coordinated and relentless can cross into criminal territory, which is why the phrase "law enforcement has been notified" matters. And a few large judgments could set the template every future family's lawyer copies.Patrick Clancy was the first witness prosecutors called at the trial of his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. That trial ended in a hung jury on September 4, 2026. DA Tim Cruz has not decided on a retrial. The next court date is September 29.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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #EricFaddis #Defamation #ClancyTrial #Duxbury #TrueCrimeCommunity
The defense in the Matthew Farwell case is building its strategy around Sandra Birchmore's mental health records, her journals, and her history of instability. They want the jury to see a woman who killed herself. Prosecutors want the jury to see a twelve-year-old girl who walked into a police youth program and spent the next decade being exploited by men in uniform.Four officers connected to the Stoughton Police Department had involvement with Sandra. Prosecutors allege Farwell was the first, beginning when she was fifteen. He allegedly tracked her location, made her delete texts, and sent at least twenty messages in the year before her death describing choking her by the throat. His DNA was the major contributor on the ligature found around her neck. The state crime lab identified unknown male DNA in 2021 but never obtained Farwell's sample. The FBI matched it three years later.A strangulation expert found Sandra's hyoid bone fractured with zero documented cases of that injury in women found seated. Abrasions on her nose, hemorrhage in a neck muscle, a broken necklace on the bedroom floor. The original investigation ruled it suicide before the autopsy. The ME wasn't told it might be a homicide.Before her death, Sandra booked prenatal appointments and planned to announce her pregnancy on Valentine's Day. Farwell had attended a training on staging versus suicide in hanging deaths. The defense says Sandra's damage proves she killed herself. The prosecution says the damage proves what was done to her.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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #Birchmore #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #TrueCrime #FederalTrial #JusticeForSandra #Podcast
Lindsay Clancy's trial lasted six weeks in Plymouth Superior Court. The jury deadlocked eleven to one. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4. While the jury was still deliberating, the internet had already moved on to its own verdict — and Patrick Clancy was the defendant.The conspiracy theories accused Patrick of staging the scene and killing his own children. Creators used astrology, birth charts, and livestream footage as evidence. Lindsay admitted through her defense that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Patrick was the prosecution's first witness.A man ended a $200,000 engagement on TikTok because his fiancée said he couldn't understand postpartum illness. He called her a monster. Four million people watched.On September 8, Patrick's attorney Howard Cooper released a statement calling the accusations a defamation campaign. Law enforcement has been notified. Lindsay's own attorney Kevin Reddington praised the conspiracy theorists after the mistrial.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the full conversation — the relationships breaking, the grieving father being accused, and the fear underneath the rage that the country won't name.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #ShavaunScott #PostpartumPsychosis #ConspiracyTheories #TrueCrime #Mistrial #HiddenKillers #Nightbird #TrueCrimePodcast
Rob and Michele Reiner spent years trying to save a son who sources say bragged about what he could get away with. They paid for treatment at a facility that reportedly charged seventy thousand dollars a month. They kept him in a guest house on their Brentwood property. They gave him ultimatum after ultimatum. According to sources, he took their money for drugs, destroyed the guest house more than once, threatened his sister, and laughed about the wreckage on a podcast. A grand jury has now added lying in wait to his murder charges — alleging he hid his intentions from the two people who trusted him most, waited for his moment, and attacked them inside their own bedroom with the intent to kill. Under California law, every piece of that charge requires a brain that is planning and choosing. Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and placed under a conservatorship for grave disability in 2020. His medication was switched weeks before December 14, 2025, and sources say doctors warned his parents the change could trigger worse behavior. Tony examines the lying-in-wait allegation against the full behavioral record and the comparison to Lindsay Clancy — who spent months following her doctors’ orders while her brain pulled apart underneath her. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. Held without bail. Next hearing September 15.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.#NickReiner #RobReiner #LyingInWait #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MentalHealthDefense #Schizophrenia #BrentwoodMurders #Insanity
The Clancy mistrial declared September 4 left the legal question open. But the question that actually landed hardest has nothing to do with a retrial.Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two in every thousand births. The medical community classifies it as a psychiatric emergency. Lindsay Clancy's defense team argued she was experiencing it when she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The prosecution argued she acted deliberately. Twelve jurors who heard all of it couldn't agree.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines why the Lindsay Clancy case triggers a fear response that has nothing to do with taking sides. Why the concept of a mother's brain being hijacked by biology threatens something foundational about how people understand maternal instinct and personal control. What the word "monster" does psychologically — and who it's actually protecting.Scott also addresses mothers listening right now who have experienced intrusive thoughts they've never disclosed. When the public response to this case turns honesty into a threat, she explains what happens next to the women watching in silence.The trial was about Lindsay Clancy's mental state. This conversation is about yours.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 #PostpartumPsychosis #ShavaunScott #Nightbird #MentalHealth #Motherhood #TrueCrime #Mistrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
Five days before the murder, Wendi Adelson's boyfriend says she told him her brother had looked into hiring a hitman. The day before, she asked him about his Friday driving route near Dan Markel's house, then told him not to contact her for a week. The morning of the killing, she was home waiting for a Geek Squad appointment that prosecutors say her mother Donna scheduled. And about an hour after the shooting, she drove past police tape at Dan's house — knowing her children were supposed to be with him — and didn't make a single call.Jeffrey Lacasse testified to all of this under oath. Wendi denied every word of it under the same oath. One of them lied, and the answer determines whether the state of Florida can charge the woman who moved the children south within days and changed their last name from Markel to Adelson.Five people are serving time for Dan Markel's murder. Wendi Adelson has been named an unindicted co-conspirator and has never been charged. This fourth installment of the Adelson series examines what Lacasse said, what Wendi denied, and the gap prosecutors haven't been able to close.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/@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.#WendiAdelson #DanMarkel #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #AdelsonFamily #TrueCrime #JeffreyLacasse #Unindicted #Tallahassee #FSU
Lindsay Clancy admitted through her defense that she killed her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — in their Duxbury home in January 2023. The trial was solely about whether she was criminally responsible. It ended in an eleven-to-one mistrial on September 4.Patrick Clancy was the prosecution's first witness. He testified about the hospitalizations, the medication spiral, and the night he came home to find his children. He and Lindsay have since divorced. He has remarried and lives in New York.While the trial was still in session, TikTok and Instagram creators were building an alternate case accusing Patrick of being the real killer. The conspiracy theories used astrology, timeline analysis from trial livestream footage, and comparisons to Chris Watts.Patrick's attorney Howard Cooper released a statement on September 8 calling the accusations a defamation campaign, confirming law enforcement has been notified, and warning that legal consequences are coming for those responsible.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down how the conspiracy took root despite the defendant herself admitting through counsel what happened, what makes a grieving father's grief look suspicious to strangers, and whether sustained false accusation causes damage that legal action can't reverse.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.#PatrickClancy #LindsayClancy #ConspiracyTheories #TrueCrime #Mistrial #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #Nightbird #Defamation #TrueCrimePodcast
The Lindsay Clancy jury was deadlocked eleven to one. Six weeks of testimony about postpartum psychosis and thirteen medications ended without a verdict on September 4. The jury couldn't decide. The internet had no trouble at all.A man posted a TikTok claiming he canceled his $200,000 wedding because his fiancĂŠe told him he could never understand postpartum illness. He called her a monster and four million people weighed in. The case had jumped from the courtroom to the kitchen table, and the arguments happening there were uglier than anything the lawyers had.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down how the Clancy mistrial became a litmus test for relationships, why compassion and accountability started looking like opposite teams, and what happens to the next mother in crisis when she watches the country treat this case like a loyalty oath.The hung jury couldn't settle it. Neither can your group chat. But Shavaun explains what's actually happening underneath the rage.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 #ShavaunScott #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #Mistrial #HiddenKillers #Nightbird #MentalHealth #Motherhood #TrueCrimePodcast
Every time a detective got close to solving the murder of Christopher Wallace, the LAPD pulled the plug. The first investigator followed the evidence to two of the department's own officers. His chief ordered him to stop. He quit the force in 1999 and never saw an arrest before he died in 2015.A second task force, created in 2006 under federal pressure, got even further. Its detectives extracted a confession naming who allegedly pulled the trigger and who allegedly ordered the hit. The FBI wired its cooperating witness and sent her to confront the suspect in prison. He gave them nothing. The task force was disbanded after the Wallace family dropped their $400 million lawsuit against the city.Along the way, that same task force produced the confession that eventually put Keffe D in a Las Vegas courtroom for Tupac Shakur's murder. Davis was convicted of first-degree murder on August 31, 2026. The investigation that solved Tupac's murder was built to solve Biggie's. It solved one and was shut down before it could finish the other. This episode maps how a solvable case became the longest-running failure in LAPD history.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.#NotoriousBIG #BiggieSmalls #HiddenKillers #LAPD #KeffeD #TupacShakur #ColdCase #SugeKnight #Unsolved #DeathRow
The trial ended. The case multiplied. Lindsay Clancy’s jury split eleven to one. The mistrial was declared. And instead of a resolution, the legal fight broke into three separate tracks — a potential retrial, two civil malpractice suits, and a battle over whether the next jury gets sequestered.Clancy had pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The defense argued postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors said she was deliberate and rational. The jury could not agree.On the medical side, both Patrick and Lindsay Clancy have filed lawsuits against the same providers, alleging uncoordinated care and a barrage of psychiatric medications in the weeks before the killings. On the legal side, Reddington is demanding sequestration and the prosecution is weighing whether to retry a case where eleven of twelve jurors reportedly wanted to acquit.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines all three fronts — the jury deadlock, the medical accountability fight, and the legal chess match heading into a potential second 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #Mistrial #MedicalMalpractice #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday
What happens if the judge won’t end Lindsay Clancy’s case? Kevin Reddington had an answer ready before a retrial was even announced.After the mistrial, he asked for a fast hearing—and, if he lost that argument, jury selection the following Monday. Sullivan didn’t agree to that schedule.On Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski follows what could happen next, from the defense’s attempt to stop the prosecution to the possibility of putting this family through another trial.Patrick’s attorney has described how painful that prospect is. What does the prosecution believe a second jury would see differently?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Substack: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX: https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #KevinReddington #PatrickClancy #ClancyCase #Mistrial #HungJury #PossibleRetrial #TrueCrimePodcast
In the final hours before Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked the judge for a one-hour pause. He used the time to file an emergency petition with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, arguing the lone holdout juror was biased against people with mental illness and had refused to follow the court’s instructions on reasonable doubt.Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt held a brief hearing over Zoom. The court denied the petition. Sullivan declared the mistrial.The emergency filing was the last in a series of moves Reddington made during the final days of deliberation. He asked Sullivan to dismiss the holdout. He asked the judge to survey the panel on lesser charges. He argued the foreperson’s notes showed the holdout was intractable. Sullivan declined each request.Clancy had pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The jury split eleven to one after seven days. The prosecution had argued during the trial that Clancy’s fall from a second-story window was not a sincere attempt, a characterization the defense used to argue the prosecution had alienated the panel.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines the legal basis for Reddington’s emergency petition, whether the prosecution’s strategy backfired, and what a retrial looks like when the defense already knows what worked.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #KevinReddington #DATimothyCruz #Retrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday
One week after her son's conviction, Donna Adelson tried to board a one-way flight to Vietnam. She didn't make it past the jet bridge. Prosecutors charged the 73-year-old matriarch with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the killing of Dan Markel — the same charges that put her son Charlie in prison for life seven days earlier.Two jailhouse informants testified that Donna confessed behind bars and then tried to buy a replacement story. She wrote a handwritten script — questions and answers — for another inmate to memorize and recite under oath. In exchange: ten thousand dollars, a grand piano, and prescription drugs. A state handwriting expert confirmed the script was Donna's. The defense called her "a meddler, not a murderer." The jury took three hours and convicted her on all counts.At sentencing, Donna told the judge she'd never had a parking ticket. She asked where the evidence was. She suggested the jury was asleep during parts of the trial. Judge Everett interrupted her repeatedly and cited her utter lack of remorse. Life without parole.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/@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.#DonnaAdelson #DanMarkel #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #AdelsonFamily #TrueCrime #Vietnam #ParkingTicket #Tallahassee #Convicted
The criminal trial ended in a mistrial. The civil lawsuits are just beginning. Patrick Clancy and Lindsay Clancy have both filed suit against the medical providers who treated Lindsay before the January 2023 deaths of their children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Both lawsuits name the same defendants — psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nurse practitioners Rebecca Jollotta and Julie Paul, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health.Patrick’s wrongful death complaint alleges his ex-wife was prescribed eight psychiatric medications in a three-week span. Lindsay’s malpractice suit alleges undiagnosed Bipolar I disorder with postpartum onset and a course of uncoordinated polypharmacy that triggered a psychotic break.The criminal trial at Plymouth Superior Court produced five weeks of conflicting psychiatric expert testimony. The jury deadlocked eleven to one and could not resolve the competing diagnoses.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines the providers’ exposure, what the mistrial does to the civil cases, and why the only courtroom likely to examine the medication timeline under oath may now be the civil one.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #MedicalMalpractice #PostpartumPsychosis #PatrickClancy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday
Seven days of deliberation. More than thirty-six hours behind closed doors. Eighty-plus witnesses. Three hundred exhibits. And when the jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial finally reported to Judge William Sullivan for the third time that they could not agree, the split was eleven to one.Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said the eleven wanted to acquit. The holdout, reportedly a male juror, would not follow the majority. Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court.Clancy had pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The defense argued postpartum psychosis and overmedication drove her actions. Prosecutors said she planned the killings and acted rationally.Reddington tried everything in the final hours. He asked Sullivan to dismiss the holdout. He asked for a lesser-charge poll. He filed an emergency petition with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The court denied it. The mistrial stood.DA Timothy Cruz must now decide whether to retry. Sullivan scheduled a September 29 status conference.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines why one holdout can override eleven and what the split tells us about the prosecution’s evidence. He asks what a retrial means for the survivors who just endured five weeks of testimony.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #Mistrial #HungJury #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday
Barry Morphew is facing a new legal problem while awaiting trial in Suzanne Morphew’s death. A Colorado judge says video from an alleged Denver hit-and-run clearly shows Morphew during an encounter that prosecutors now say matters to his bond.According to the court, Morphew refused to provide his name or identification and indicated he didn’t have insurance. He then made the other driver a specific offer for the damage.She declined and said police were being called. The judge says Morphew left afterward, nearly hit another person, and drove over a curb.Morphew has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Judge Amanda Hopkins ordered him confined to his home with no ordinary exceptions. Prosecutors want further restrictions because they argue his conduct shows a willingness to evade authorities.One number in that exchange now sits at the center of a much bigger problem.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.#BarryMorphew #SuzanneMorphew #HiddenKillers #BarryMorphewTrial #SuzanneMorphewCase #ColoradoCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #MorphewCase #MurderTrial #ColoradoCourts
Look past the verdict watch and the Lindsay Clancy case has become something much stranger.We are judging the jurors for failing to agree. We are judging Patrick Clancy for how he grieves, where he lives, whom he married and why he forgave Lindsay. And we are judging prosecutors for pursuing a first-degree murder case that Kevin Reddington says never included a plea offer.Tony Brueski takes all of it apart.The jury heard psychiatric professionals reach fundamentally different conclusions about Clancy’s criminal responsibility. Patrick became a target of unsupported theories despite no public evidence implicating him. And the justice system now faces the difference between punishment, treatment and protection.Three children are dead. Nothing about that changes.But if every person surrounding the tragedy must also satisfy an angry audience, we may be asking the wrong people to prove themselves.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #HiddenKillersPodcast #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #JuryDeadlock #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimeEthics #JusticeSystem #CriminalResponsibility #TonyBrueski
Tyler Robinson entered a not-guilty plea after Judge Tony Graf sent the Charlie Kirk case to trial on aggravated murder and six other charges. Prosecutors say their preliminary case includes campus surveillance, a rifle recovered near the alleged escape route, DNA evidence and private communications they characterize as admissions.Robinson remains presumed innocent. His attorneys have challenged identification and DNA interpretation, and they argue the state has not shown that a single rooftop shot knowingly endangered other people enough to support death-eligible aggravated murder.That plea preserves those challenges and leaves room for later negotiations, although no deal has been announced. The defense has not publicly offered a developed alternate-shooter theory. One exchange prosecutors presented from Robinson’s roommate goes directly to responsibility without resolving what defense his lawyers will ultimately take to a jury.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.#CharlieKirkCase #TylerRobinson #HiddenKillersPodcast #CharlieKirk #NotGuiltyPlea #UtahCourt #DeathPenaltyCase #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrimeAnalysis #CourtroomNews
There is a persistent assumption that Lindsay Clancy rejected some compromise and forced everyone into this trial.Her lawyer says that never happened.Kevin Reddington says prosecutors did not offer a plea deal. With three first-degree murder charges, the case went before a jury deciding whether Clancy was criminally responsible, guilty of varying homicide offenses or not guilty.Tony Brueski asks what the prosecution ultimately wants the justice system to accomplish.Nobody disputes the enormity of what happened to Cora, Dawson and Callan. The dispute is whether Clancy was legally responsible while experiencing the mental illness both sides acknowledge existed.If prison provides punishment and psychiatric confinement provides treatment plus public protection, which objective matters most?And when prosecutors, defense experts, state experts and now jurors cannot agree, maybe the unresolved question is bigger than Lindsay Clancy herself.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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.
Charlie Adelson's defense at trial was that he was being extorted. A periodontist pulling in over three million a year told a jury he was so terrified of two hitmen that he set up a three-thousand-dollar monthly payment plan through his family's dental office. His mother signed the checks. She washed the cash. His girlfriend collected the money and delivered it to the killers.Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman asked one question: "Do extortionists send a girlfriend of the victim to get the money?" The jury deliberated for three hours and convicted him on all counts — first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. Charlie mouthed the word "No" and put his head on the defense table.This second installment of the four-part Adelson series covers the path from the hitmen's convictions through Magbanua's flip to Charlie's trial and the three-hour verdict that ended a millionaire's freedom. His appeal was affirmed in July 2026 after his attorney failed to file a required written motion — the procedural equivalent of a dentist leaving an instrument inside a patient.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/@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.#CharlieAdelson #DanMarkel #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #AdelsonTrial #TrueCrime #DolceVita #ExtortionDefense #Tallahassee #FSU
Apparently there is now an internet-approved timetable for grieving your children, and Patrick Clancy failed to consult it.Patrick eventually relocated to New York and remarried after losing Cora, Dawson and Callan. He also publicly forgave Lindsay and has described her as someone who became terribly sick rather than the monster strangers expected him to describe.Parts of the online true-crime world have responded by dissecting Patrick instead.There is no public evidence connecting him to the deaths of his children. That has not stopped unsupported theories and suspicion surrounding his personal life.Tony Brueski looks at why people seem more comfortable with a survivor who remains permanently shattered than one who rebuilds, why forgiveness can infuriate people who want vengeance, and when consuming true crime turns into believing strangers owe us access to their grief.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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.#PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersPodcast #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeEthics #OnlineConspiracies #Grief #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeAnalysis #TonyBrueski
The Lindsay Clancy jury didn’t merely deadlock. According to Kevin Reddington, its foreperson raised a problem involving one juror and the court’s reasonable-doubt instructions.Reddington wanted that juror removed. Judge William Sullivan refused, correctly noting that removing someone from a deliberating jury is an extraordinarily sensitive move.But now imagine actually being inside that room.These jurors heard weeks of testimony about the deaths of three children. Defense experts said Clancy was psychotic and lacked criminal responsibility. Prosecution experts disagreed. Then twelve non-experts were told to somehow convert all of that into one unanimous answer.Tony Brueski asks whether the lone holdout is always the courageous skeptic we imagine, what prolonged deliberations do to human beings, and whether a verdict produced by exhaustion is necessarily better than no verdict at all.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodCheck out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #HiddenKillersPodcast #LindsayClancyTrial #JuryDeliberations #JuryDeadlock #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeAnalysis #TonyBrueski
A Massachusetts jury spent five weeks, heard from more than eighty witnesses, and still couldn't agree on what to do with Lindsay Clancy. Now her attorney's own attempt to fix that has become its own story.  Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, stood trial for the January 24, 2023 killings of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — inside the family's Summer Street home, where prosecutors say she strangled them with exercise resistance bands. She's charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation and has pleaded not guilty. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication — the idea that the medical system meant to help her instead helped set the tragedy in motion. Reportedly, Clancy tried to take her own life afterward by jumping from a second-story window and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan.  Nine women and three men deliberated across thirty-nine-plus hours and told Judge William Sullivan three separate times they were deadlocked. With no verdict in sight, Reddington tried to have a holdout juror removed, then took an emergency appeal straight to the state's highest court. It didn't work. Sullivan declared a mistrial.  Plymouth County's district attorney now has to decide whether to put this case in front of a jury again, with a status hearing already scheduled. We're also getting into the phrase that follows Clancy everywhere she goes online — "another Lindsay Clancy" — and why the shorthand might be erasing the exact warning signs that actually matter. 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 Legal 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 #TrueCrime #Mistrial #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthCounty #AndreaYates #AnotherLindsayClancy
Eighty witnesses. Five weeks. Three hundred exhibits. And Lindsay Clancy's jury still can't agree on the one question that decides everything — was she psychotic when her three children died, or wasn't she. Judge Sullivan gave them the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, the blunt version of there is no better jury coming after you, go finish the job. They went back into the room. They're still deadlocked. And while they were stuck, a 56-year-old woman was arrested outside Plymouth Superior Court for allegedly filming jurors as they left the building. She told police she'd come to see Lindsay. Investigators found deleted video of the jury on her phone anyway. Sullivan had to question every single juror, one at a time, before deliberations could resume — all while the panel was already telling the court they might not reach a verdict at all. The defense conceded the physical facts a long time ago. Kevin Reddington told the court outright that his client killed her children; the exercise bands and the DNA aren't in dispute. What's in dispute is criminal responsibility, and in Massachusetts, once the defense raises insanity, the burden shifts to the prosecution to prove she was sane. That's the needle twelve strangers have been trying to thread for days. If they can't get there, nothing is resolved. Lindsay Clancy stays charged with three counts of first-degree murder, still held at Tewksbury State Hospital, still paralyzed from the waist down, while Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz decides whether to try this case all over again. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony to unpack the deadlock, the parking-lot arrest that nearly derailed it further, and what either outcome means for a case this fractured. Links & Footer 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke  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 #EricFaddis #HiddenKillersPodcast #HungJury #JuryTampering #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
There are two timelines running through the Nolan Wells case, and they don't match up. The first belongs to the physical evidence. Nolan's phone has been with his family since July 5. On July 15, they agreed with the Jackson County DA on a joint forensic exam at a community college lab — their experts, the DA's experts, possibly the FBI. No date was ever set. A month later, the friends' attorney went on national radio accusing the family of stonewalling. The DA's office sent a 44-hour deadline to deliver the phone to her office instead, while Nolan's parents were out of state. The family called it bad faith and offered any day between August 18 and 21. That phone still hasn't been examined. The second timeline belongs to Al Sharpton. Four days after Nolan's body turned up on Horn Island, he called the case suspicious and framed it as one Black man against three young white men. He asked on camera whether the friends were racist. At Nolan's funeral, he announced a six-figure reward before a cause of death had even been determined. An independent autopsy later found no fractures, no lacerations, no deep-tissue injuries. Nolan's own Black friends who were on the island contradicted the racial framing entirely. Sharpton's attorneys now insist he never accused anyone of a crime. Read his statements in order, date by date, and decide that for yourself. Three strangers are now facing federal charges for threatening the friends. Some of those friends couldn't go back to school. All of it happened while one piece of evidence sat untouched, waiting for someone to actually look at it. 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. Hashtags #NolanWells #AlSharpton #BenCrump #HornIsland #Mississippi #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #JacksonCounty #JusticeForNolan #Investigation
Mica Miller called police at least seven times reporting harassment, tire slashing, and surveillance, telling officers she was afraid for her life. Every single time, her husband John-Paul Miller had already gotten to the narrative first — telling officers she was bipolar, schizophrenic, having an episode. He filed a mental health pick-up order against her. He confiscated her phone, laptop, purse, and car, claiming he was protecting her finances. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains the tactic in clinical terms: an abuser terrorizes a woman in private, then weaponizes her natural trauma response to convince the very people she's asking for help that she's the unstable one. Federal prosecutors allege JP tracked her car, contacted her more than fifty times in one day, and posted an intimate photo of her online without consent. Two of Mica's February 2024 911 calls, published by FITSNews, add another layer — in one, she reports that JP's adult son Logan Ryan Hardee made an unwanted advance toward her in the kitchen; in the other, she says he was following her in his work truck, armed, and living in the home she'd fled. Logan already faced a felony domestic violence charge tied to a different woman's hospitalization. Two 2025 civil lawsuits go further still, alleging JP and his father used their churches and a school to gain access to underage girls across two decades. His father never answered and lost by default. JP's federal cyberstalking trial is set for October 2026. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #MicaMiller #JPMiller #ShavaunScott #DeathOfThePastorsWife #LoganHardee #SolidRockChurch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #CoerciveControl
A woman doesn't call someone back if she's being controlled by a voice in her head. That's the argument prosecutors made to a Plymouth County jury weighing whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children.  Twenty minutes. That's how long Clancy was alone with Cora, Dawson, and Callan while her husband Patrick ran to CVS and picked up Thai food. ADA Jennifer Sprague told jurors Clancy chose the basement, chose strangulation with exercise bands, and repeated it three times — then missed a call, phoned back, held a conversation, and hung up. Prosecutors say that isn't what a puppet does.  The defense says it's exactly what happens once a hallucination has already finished its work. Clancy described a male voice that appeared once, on the afternoon of January 24, 2023, and told her this was her last chance. It lasted roughly eighteen minutes. It stopped the second her children were dead. Defense experts Paul Zeizel and Phillip Resnick both testified she had no appreciation that what she was doing was wrong. Resnick, who evaluated Andrea Yates after her own children's deaths, used the word puppet too — just aimed the other direction.  The prosecution's forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff pushed back hard on the timing, calling a hallucination that vanishes the instant the act is done clinically unusual. Defense attorney Reddington countered in closing with a different number: thirteen psychiatric medications, prescribed by providers who never spoke to one another.  Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta was inside that Plymouth courtroom. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has her own read on the evidence. Tony Brueski brings both of them together as the jury weighs a case where two forensic teams looked at the same eighteen minutes and reached opposite conclusions. Links & Disclaimer 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMurders #TrueCrime #VerdictWatch #CommandHallucination
Prosecutors called Kirk Heilbrun to help prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. Instead, the forensic psychologist told jurors this was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing her children out of love, because Clancy couldn't bear to leave them behind — testimony that sounds a lot more like a defense argument than a prosecution one.  He wasn't the only one. Forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, another prosecution witness, agreed under defense questioning that the state's own opening statement had minimized what Clancy was actually experiencing. He also flagged what he called significant inconsistencies in her account of the voice she says ordered her to kill Cora, Dawson, and Callan — a voice that appeared once, lasted roughly eighteen minutes, and stopped the moment the children were dead.  The defense used the opening the state's witnesses gave them. Attorney Kevin Reddington showed jurors a chart of Clancy's prescriptions — lorazepam, sertraline, hydroxyzine, buspirone, trazodone — stacked up by providers who never coordinated her care, alongside a December 2022 journal entry he said had deteriorated into chicken scratches a month before the killings. His final witness, forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who evaluated Andrea Yates decades earlier, told the jury Clancy was clearly psychotic.  ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argued something entirely different: that Clancy made a rational choice, that her children were the only thing keeping her alive, and that she left them in the basement and went upstairs to finish what she'd started for herself.  The jury deliberated three and a half hours on their first day with no verdict. Bob Motta and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break it down with Tony Brueski — and they don't agree on who won the day. Links & Disclaimer 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments
Duane “Keffe D” Davis spent eighteen years narrating his own guilt — to federal agents in a 2008 proffer, to Las Vegas police in 2009, to a documentary crew in 2017, and in a 2019 memoir he marketed as the real story behind Tupac Shakur's murder. A Las Vegas jury heard all of it, deliberated for roughly three hours, and came back with first-degree murder. No weapon was ever recovered. No Cadillac was found. There were no phone records and no surveillance footage. The entire case rested on a man talking, over and over, until his own words became the evidence against him. His defense team knew that was the problem. Their closing argument ran almost two hours, built around a single idea: that everything Davis told police, cameras, and readers for nearly two decades was fabricated. The jury rejected it. Davis now faces life in prison at his sentencing, and he's already told the court he intends to appeal. Here's what makes this bigger than one conviction. Davis is also the man who first put Sean “Diddy” Combs inside the Tupac Shakur story, alleging a million-dollar offer for the killing, funneled through a now-deceased Harlem contact. Combs has denied any involvement, and police have said he's never been named a suspect. Every other person who might independently confirm or contradict what Davis said about Diddy is gone. So a jury just decided Keffe D was believable enough to convict on his own words — while his own attorneys spent two hours arguing he can't be trusted at all. Both things are now true in the same courtroom, and that contradiction isn't going away quietly. 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/@hiddenkillerspod?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/tonybpod Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #TupacShakur #KeffeD #SeanCombs #TupacMurderTrial #GuiltyVerdict #Diddy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LasVegas #ColdCase
On April 25, 2024, Mica Miller served her husband, Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller, with divorce papers. Forty-eight hours later she was found dead at a North Carolina state park, in what was ruled a suicide. She had already told a friend that JP threatened to put a bullet in her head and stage it as her own doing. He was verified in Charleston at the time and has never been charged in her death. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why that 48-hour window is the most dangerous point for anyone trying to leave a controlling partner — the moment an abuser's grip is most threatened. The next morning, JP preached a full service to his congregation before saying anything about his wife's death. He later claimed he'd tried to raise her from the dead. Four days after that, he was seen at a bar with congregant Suzie Skinner, whose wheelchair-bound Army veteran husband had drowned in a community pool in September 2021 after confronting JP about an alleged affair. He married Suzie thirteen months later. This pattern reaches back further than most people realize: Mica moved to Myrtle Beach at 15, went to work at Solid Rock Church, and told police JP had controlled her since she was a child. A federal indictment filed in December 2025 alleges seventeen months of cyberstalking, tracking devices, and financial and medical interference. Mica filed at least eight police reports. JP still held healthcare power of attorney over her. His federal trial is scheduled for October 2026. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #MicaMiller #JPMiller #ShavaunScott #DeathOfThePastorsWife #SuzieSkinner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #PsychologicalHomicide #CoerciveControl
Twenty minutes. That's how long prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy had after sending her husband Patrick out for a CVS run and Thai takeout — and, they argued, exactly how long it took her to kill their three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in the basement of their Duxbury home. ADA Jennifer Sprague told the jury of nine mothers and three men that timing a pickup order, a pharmacy stop, and three separate acts inside one twenty-minute window proves calculation, not psychosis. The defense pushed back hard: organized behavior and psychosis coexist every day in hospitals across the country, and a woman can plan a takeout run while still being controlled by something she can't fight. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries watched it all unfold from inside the courtroom across five weeks and more than eighty witnesses — close enough to see the jury's reaction in real time and watch Lindsay's demeanor shift through the hardest testimony. He tells Tony Brueski which argument actually carried weight with the parents on that jury. The stakes were personal for millions watching: Lindsay had been prescribed more than a dozen psychiatric medications in the months before, documented her symptoms in a journal, and told multiple providers she was having intrusive thoughts about harming her children. The defense says the medical system failed her. The prosecution says reaching out for help proves she knew exactly what she was doing. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #BobMotta #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #KevinReddington #CriminalJustice
Massachusetts already ran this exact experiment once. Andrea Yates killed her five children, was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and has remained committed for more than twenty years without ever walking out. Defense trial attorney Bob Motta says that precedent is the real story behind the Lindsay Clancy case — not which of the five verdicts the jury eventually lands on. Motta sat through the entire five-week trial and breaks down what each option actually carries: prison with no parole under some outcomes, indefinite psychiatric commitment under others. Lindsay Clancy has already been living that second reality at Tewksbury State Hospital since the day her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — died, paralyzed from the waist down after her own suicide attempt on January 24, 2023, medicated daily, and evaluated once a year. The defense has never disputed the physical facts of that day; the only real fight left is over what was happening in her mind. Motta also breaks down the malpractice lawsuits Lindsay and her husband Patrick filed against her medical providers, and whether the criminal verdict changes anything about those. If the current jury can't agree, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis says a retrial isn't the only road left. Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz could pursue one — Massachusetts moved fast on exactly that in the Karen Read case — but Lindsay Clancy could also waive her right to a jury and let a single judge weigh the psychiatric evidence instead of twelve people who couldn't agree on it. Faddis also revisits Kevin Reddington's failed bifurcation motion, which could split any retrial into a guilt phase and a responsibility phase entirely. Two attorneys, two outcomes, and a case where the ending may already be written. Links & Footer 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke   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 #BobMotta #HiddenKillersPodcast #EricFaddis #AndreaYates #InsanityDefense #BenchTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Lindsay Clancy has never denied killing her three children. The entire defense rests on one question: was she psychotic when it happened? But a separate story has taken over parts of the internet — thousands of people insisting her ex-husband Patrick is somehow responsible instead, despite her admission and surveillance footage that places him outside the home. Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, who was in the courtroom and watched Patrick testify, tells Tony Brueski whether any actual evidence supports that theory, and what legal options Patrick has against people spreading it after his divorce from Lindsay and remarriage. From there, the case moved to twelve jurors — nine women, three men — who began deliberating at Plymouth Superior Court on August 27 and went more than three and a half hours without reaching a verdict. They're choosing between five outcomes: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not criminally responsible, or not guilty. A not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict doesn't mean Lindsay walks free — it means commitment to a state psychiatric facility with no maximum term. Andrea Yates has been under that kind of commitment for twenty years. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what each option would mean, and how a jury of mostly mothers weighs a case like this one. Both Lindsay and Patrick have already filed separate lawsuits against her medical providers, setting up a civil case that could reach a very different conclusion than whatever this jury decides. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #BobMotta #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #MedicalMalpractice #ConspiracyTheory
Jason Goldman just joined Bryan Kohberger's court-appointed defense team, and his first move was telling PEOPLE magazine that everyone should stop assuming they understand the Idaho murders case. He's being paid with public money, in a case that has already cost Idaho taxpayers more than eight million dollars. Here's what's not in dispute: Kohberger confessed on July 2, 2025, in Ada County — four guilty pleas, four lives taken, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. The judge confirmed it was voluntary. Kohberger gave up his right to appeal. The evidence behind that confession runs deep: a Reddit survey asking real offenders how they picked their targets, peers at Washington State University who flagged him for stalking and intimidating women, cell tower records placing him near the victims' address on roughly two dozen late-night occasions before the attack, and DNA recovered from a knife sheath left beside one of the bodies. Twelve months after sentencing, Kohberger filed a jailhouse petition claiming he'd been tricked into confessing — with no supporting evidence attached. The Goncalves family called him a narcissist. Now a judge has scheduled an evidentiary hearing for June 2027, and Kohberger's own hired forensics expert, Sy Ray, says investigators actually missed MORE incriminating cellphone data — and that the death penalty should be back on the table. So what exactly does Goldman think he's found that changes any of that? A new attorney who hadn't even read the file yet has ten months to answer that question in open court. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #JasonGoldman #KohbergerLawyer #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MoscowIdaho #SyRay
Every part of Mica Miller's life ran through one man, and the Netflix documentary “Death of the Pastor's Wife” finally shows how far back that control went. Pastor John-Paul Miller met her when she was a child — fourteen years older, already married, already her pastor. In a police report filed in February 2024, Mica told officers he had been pursuing her since she was ten. His attorney denies it. The documented timeline: JP officiated her first marriage at eighteen, hired her as his personal assistant, began an affair with her while she was babysitting his own kids, and married her himself in 2017. She became his wife, his employee, and his church's worship leader. Friends now allege he demanded compliance from her multiple times a day and wouldn't let her sleep when she refused. They allege he pressured her into taking testosterone that damaged the voice that once led worship at Solid Rock Church. Family attorney Regina Ward alleges JP went further — putting Mica on his own lithium prescription without her knowledge. Siblings allege he then had her involuntarily hospitalized against her will, and while she was locked inside, took her car, phone, and laptop. Federal prosecutors allege an intimate photo from that laptop later appeared online without her consent. JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking charges. His trial is scheduled for October 2026. He has since remarried, to a church member whose own husband drowned in a neighborhood pool in 2021. Mica was thirty years old when she died. 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 Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ReginaWard #SolidRockChurch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #CoerciveControl #MicasLaw
Seven days. Thirty-nine hours. Twelve people who could not agree on what happened inside a house on Summer Street — and in the end, that's the verdict. There isn't one.Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, stood trial for the January 24, 2023 killings of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — inside the family's home on Summer Street. Prosecutors allege she strangled the children with exercise resistance bands. She's charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation and pleaded not guilty. Her defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, argued severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication left her not criminally responsible. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands when it happened; he's since relocated to Manhattan and spoken publicly about her mental health.After five weeks of testimony covering more than 80 witnesses and 300 exhibits, the jury — nine women, three men — told Judge William F. Sullivan three separate times they couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Reddington made a last-minute push to swap out a holdout juror, then filed an emergency appeal to the state's highest court when Sullivan refused. The court said no. Sullivan declared a mistrial.Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz now has to decide whether to run this whole thing back with a new jury — a decision that isn't happening today. What is happening: a status and motion hearing on September 29. So no, this isn't over. It just got longer.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #Mistrial #HungJury #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCounty #KevinReddington #JudgeSullivan #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Three developments in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court are converging into a single question: what happens next?The jury has been deliberating for days and has sent notes indicating they cannot agree. Judge Sullivan read the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction and sent them back. The impasse continued. The deadlock centers on a psychiatric dispute that twelve lay jurors appear unable to resolve.Outside the courthouse, a woman was arrested for filming the jurors. Police found deleted videos on her phone. The judge questioned each juror individually. The arrest created documented interference during active deliberation—evidence that could affect any appeal or future proceeding.If the jury hangs, the defense enters the next phase with options that did not exist before. A bench trial would put the case before a judge instead of a new jury. A renewed bifurcation motion could split a retrial into two phases, focusing only on criminal responsibility. Massachusetts precedent suggests the DA will retry—Karen Read was retried after a hung jury, as was Emanuel Lopes.But the depth of the deadlock, the outside interference, and the defense's strategic options make this a more complicated decision than a simple retry.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers all three developments and what they mean for Lindsay Clancy, for the DA's office, and for the mothers watching who needed this trial to deliver an answer.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #HungJury #JuryFilming #BenchTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Lori Vallow Daybell is serving seven life sentences for murdering her two children and conspiring to kill three other people. She believed her children were zombies whose souls had been taken over by dark spirits. She told an Arizona judge Jesus would free her from prison. Her appellate attorney Craig Durham has filed five constitutional claims with the Idaho Supreme Court, and the centerpiece is what happened to her defense attorney Mark Means.The state has documented evidence that Chad Daybell arranged and paid for Means to represent Lori. In a recorded jail call, Chad called Means "my attorney." Co-conspirators in a capital case cannot share a lawyer. The judge removed Means for the conflict, and Durham argues that removal violated Lori's constitutional right to the attorney of her choice — an error that could erase the conviction without any proof of harm.The state used Lori's incompetency to explain the trial delays, to justify holding hearings without her, and to block her from choosing her own lawyer. Durham says you can't use someone's illness against them in three different directions. Oral arguments are November 2 in Boise. Even a complete reversal leaves two Arizona life sentences untouched. She's not walking out of prison.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.#LoriVallow #LoriVallowDaybell #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IdahoSupremeCourt #ChadDaybell #TyleeRyan #JJVallow #Appeal #TrueCrimePodcast
If a mistrial is declared in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the next chapter is not automatic. The defense has options, the DA has a decision to make, and the timeline could stretch months while Clancy remains at Tewksbury State Hospital.The option that has received the least public attention: Massachusetts allows a defendant to waive the right to a jury trial. Kevin Reddington could ask for a bench trial—putting the entire case before a single judge instead of twelve jurors. In a case where the impasse appears to be twelve people's inability to resolve a dispute between psychiatric experts, a bench trial eliminates the problem.Reddington also has the bifurcation motion he filed pretrial and lost. A hung jury gives him stronger ground to renew it. If granted, a retrial would separate the guilt question Clancy has conceded from the criminal responsibility question the jury could not resolve.The DA's decision is not simple either. Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz charged first-degree murder. That charge mandates a jury trial unless the defendant waives it. Cruz has shown no willingness to reduce the charges. A retrial means the same eighty-plus witnesses return to the stand.Massachusetts history points in one direction. After Karen Read's first trial hung, the DA retried within months. After Emanuel Lopes hung, the state tried again and convicted.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through the bench trial, the bifurcation motion, the retrial timeline, and how the depth of the jury's impasse factors into what happens next.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #Retrial #BenchTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MassachusettsLaw #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
A judge told Wendi Adelson she couldn't move her kids to South Florida. Her mother Donna allegedly offered Dan Markel a million dollars to let them go. He said no. Prosecutors say the family's next move was a contract killing — two men hired from Miami to shoot the FSU law professor in his own garage on July 18, 2014.Dan Markel was 41. He'd dropped his sons at preschool that morning and come home from the gym. What investigators found afterward was a financial trail running through the Adelson family dental practice — monthly payments to a woman who never worked there, 44 checks signed by Donna, cash in brown paper bags with bills stapled in thousand-dollar increments. The grandmother allegedly washed the money before it went out.A rented Prius with a toll transponder led investigators from Tallahassee to Miami. A woman dating Charlie Adelson turned out to be the mother of the gunman's children. And an FBI sting in 2016 produced a forty-one-minute recording of Charlie discussing the entire arrangement at a Miami Beach restaurant. Donna's reaction to the FBI's approach — three calls to Charlie, zero to the police — told prosecutors everything they needed to know.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/@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.#DanMarkel #AdelsonFamily #HiddenKillers #MurderForHire #DonnaAdelson #CharlieAdelson #TrueCrime #WendiAdelson #FSU #Tallahassee
A woman was arrested outside Plymouth Superior Court during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. She told reporters she came to catch a glimpse of Lindsay getting into the transport van. Police found deleted videos on her phone—not of Lindsay, but of the jurors.The judge had to individually question each member of the jury before allowing them to resume deliberations. This happened during an already fragile moment—the jury had been deadlocked for days and had sent notes to the judge saying they could not reach agreement.The arrest creates complications that extend well beyond this trial. If a guilty verdict is returned, the defense gains a concrete argument for appeal—that the jury was exposed to outside interference during a period when they were already struggling. If the jury hangs, the incident becomes part of the case file that follows Lindsay Clancy into any retrial.Courts across the country are grappling with how to secure jurors in an era when anyone with a smartphone can record, post, and potentially identify the people deciding a defendant's fate. Most courthouses operate with security protocols designed for an era before social media existed.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down how the arrest affects the current deliberations, what it means for any verdict that comes out of this trial, and what courts need to change to protect jurors from a public that has forgotten the difference between a trial and a television show.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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #JuryTampering #TrueCrimeTourist #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
The Lindsay Clancy jury at Plymouth Superior Court has heard more testimony and reviewed more evidence than most juries see in a career of service. Eighty-plus witnesses. Three hundred exhibits. Five weeks of testimony covering every detail of January 24, 2023—from the snowman Lindsay built with her children that afternoon to the 911 call Patrick made that night.The jury indicated it could not reach a verdict. Judge Sullivan read the Tuey-Rodriguez charge—the instruction that tells jurors they are in the best position to decide and no future jury will have better evidence. They returned to deliberations and remained deadlocked.At the center of the impasse are dueling psychiatric experts. The prosecution's team said Clancy was not psychotic. The defense's team said she was. Both examined the same woman, reviewed the same medical records, and testified under oath to opposite conclusions. The jury—regular people, no medical training—was left to choose.Lindsay Clancy was on thirteen psychiatric medications at the time of the incident. She had been discharged from a psychiatric hospital three weeks earlier. Her defense conceded every physical fact and put the entire case on one question: was she criminally responsible?Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what is blocking this jury, what a deadlock would mean for Clancy's future, and what happens when the people the system depends on to deliver verdicts cannot deliver one.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #HungJury #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Say “another Lindsay Clancy” out loud. Strip the true-crime vocabulary off it, and what you’re actually saying is “mother who went crazy and killed her kids.” That’s the entire contents of the comparison. No diagnosis, no detail, no name the speaker would recognize a week later.Andrea Yates drowned her five children in 2001, and for two decades she was the name people reached for when a mother killed her children. Convicted in 2002, acquitted on retrial in 2006 after a jury heard what postpartum psychosis does to a brain. We had a national conversation about maternal mental health. Published the papers, formed the groups, said we understood. Then Clancy’s case arrived and we grabbed the same shorthand like we’d never heard any of it.Nearly two-thirds of mothers who committed filicide had documented mental health histories. More than half were showing symptoms at the time — documented by someone who saw them, charted them, and didn’t intervene. Research found that roughly four in ten mothers with PPD acknowledged harmful thoughts toward their children. The women were talking. The profession’s own estimate of how many women were struggling fell short of reality.Those three words do the same thing to these women that the system did. The hospital documented her and didn’t act. We read about her and didn’t think. The hospital got scrutinized. We got a heart emoji. Tony lays out what those three words actually cost — and why the comparison is the failure, not a description of it.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 #PostpartumPsychosis #AnotherLindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MaternalMentalHealth #AndreaYates #PostpartumDepression #MentalHealthAwareness #CriminalJustice
Targeting. Enmeshment. Ambient terror. Psychological homicide. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has a clinical name for every stage of what JP Miller allegedly did to Mica Miller — from the moment he met her as a child through the 48 hours after she served divorce papers. This is the full three-part conversation.Part one covers how spiritual authority becomes a tool of control and what total enmeshment does to a woman's identity. Part two covers what living under GPS surveillance and fifty daily contacts does to a person's brain and why police couldn't see what was happening. Part three covers the deadliest window, the concept an abuser driving a victim past the point of psychological survival, and what JP's post-death conduct — the sermon, the remarriage, the new church — reveals clinically.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. He has not been charged in Mica's death. Trial is October 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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #PsychologicalHomicide
Three of Nolan Wells' friends — Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo, and Morgan Seymour — sent Reverend Al Sharpton a nineteen-page presuit defamation demand on August 21. On September 1, Sharpton's attorneys fired back a fifteen-page response rejecting every claim and threatening counter-litigation.The friends say Sharpton's repeated references to "three young white male friends" and his public claims about the phone, the keys, and erased data aimed an accusation at them without ever saying the words. Sharpton's defense: he never accused anyone of a crime. He didn't even know their names.This episode holds both men accountable for what they said and when they said it. Crump cited a viral video he said showed Nolan yelling for his phone — a Black friend who was on the island later said the voice was his, not Nolan's. Sharpton offered a reward for arrest and conviction before the cause of death was known. The friends cooperated from the first night. Their families have since reported thousands of death threats. Three strangers are facing federal charges. None of them had any connection to Nolan Wells.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/@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.#NolanWells #AlSharpton #BenCrump #HornIsland #Mississippi #TrueCrime #JusticeForNolan #HiddenKillers #WarrenHudson #MississippiInvestigation
Mica Miller died forty-eight hours after filing divorce papers. The Robeson County Medical Examiner ruled her death a suicide. JP Miller was verified to be in another city. He has not been charged in connection with her death. Shavaun Scott says the timing is clinically significant regardless of cause — the moment a victim asserts independence is the moment the risk spikes.Scott addresses two concepts the audience needs: narcissistic injury, which describes the psychological crisis an abuser experiences when control is taken away, and psychological homicide, the theory that coercive control can systematically destroy a person's capacity to survive. She then walks through what JP's post-death behavior — the rapid remarriage to a woman from his own congregation, the church service where he allegedly performed a parody song before mentioning Mica was dead — clinically reveals about personality pathology.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. Trial is October 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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #SuzieSkinner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #PsychologicalHomicide #CoerciveControl
On August 28, Kouri Richins learned the price tag on what she did. A judge set restitution at $1,369,581 — split between Auto Owner’s Insurance and TruStage, the two companies that paid out on the life insurance policies she cashed in after poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl. Her lawyer accepted the figure without argument. The stay request was denied.Forensic accountant Brooke Karrington mapped the path of that money at trial. Kouri took in $1.35 million. Ninety days later, it was gone. She owed $7.5 million. Four payday lenders were pulling $2,100 from her daily. Her real estate company’s revenue couldn’t cover a third of its monthly obligations. By September 2022, her balance was $800.The court already declared her indigent. Her defense was taxpayer-funded. Her appeal is taxpayer-funded. At Utah’s top prison wage of $1.75 an hour, clearing the restitution would require 376 years of work.And restitution is just the first line on the ledger. Twenty-six felony fraud charges remain active in a separate Summit County case — five mortgage fraud counts, seven money laundering counts, forgery, bad checks, and a pattern-of-unlawful-activity charge connecting the financial crimes to the killing itself. October 9 brings the scheduling conference that sets the second trial in motion.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/tonybpodDisclaimer: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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Restitution #MurderConviction #SummitCountyUtah #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForEric #LifeWithoutParole
Police treated Mica Miller's stolen property as a civil matter because she and JP were still legally married. Her restraining order was denied. JP allegedly told officers she suffered from mental disorders to explain away her reports. The system heard a domestic dispute. Shavaun Scott says the system was hearing a woman being systematically dismantled.Scott walks through the clinical reality of what the indictment describes: a woman whose phone, laptop, car, and purse are confiscated under the cover of concern, whose tires are slashed and vehicles tracked, whose every movement is monitored — and who is then called crazy when she tells someone what's happening.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. He has denied all allegations of misconduct. Trial is October 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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #MicasLaw #CyberstalkerPastor
The documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife reveals footage, text records, and first-person accounts that reconstruct a targeting timeline spanning more than a decade. JP Miller was Mica's pastor when she was a child. He officiated her first wedding at 18. He made her his assistant. He began the affair while she babysat his kids. And when he married her, he became her husband, her boss, and the man who controlled her access to God.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains the clinical mechanism: enmeshment. When a woman's marriage, income, social circle, and what she believes is her spiritual salvation all run through the same person, leaving isn't a decision — it's an unraveling of her entire identity. Scott walks through what JP allegedly built around Mica and why a woman inside that kind of trap cannot simply walk away.JP has denied all allegations of targeting and misconduct. He has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. Trial is October 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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #SpiritualAbuse
A sworn affidavit filed by JP Miller's first wife one month after Mica Miller's death is the document that connects two generations of the Miller family. Alison Williams states under oath that JP told her he had been inappropriate with underage members of their church — and that his explanation was what he says his own father did to him growing up. Church leadership allegedly knew about JP's conduct. They offered him a program. He quit. They let him keep preaching.Two lawsuits brought in 2025 allege that Reginald Wayne Miller built the institutional system that made this possible — a network of churches and a school the complaints describe as a "hunting area." Reginald founded the first of those churches in 1972. He was federally convicted of labor fraud in 2015 and defaulted on both civil suits. JP denied everything and countersued.FITSNews then published Mica's own February 2024 dispatcher recordings. She names JP's oldest son, Logan Ryan Hardee, and accuses him of an unwanted advance and of tracking her across town. Hardee carries a separate felony domestic violence charge unrelated to Mica. JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. Trial is October 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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #JohnPaulMiller #LoganHardee #SolidRockChurch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #DeathOfThePastorsWife #CoerciveControl
The broadcast showed testimony. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries saw what the camera left out. The families sitting feet apart in the gallery. The jury's mothers breaking during the worst evidence. The energy during recesses. And the moment the entire room shifted.Bob joins Tony Brueski for the full three-part breakdown of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court. He starts with the courtroom experience the cameras could not transmit — what Lindsay looked like in person, how the gallery held up over five weeks, and what the jury's body language revealed. He moves to the prosecution's claim that a CVS run proves premeditation and the defense's argument that over a dozen medications destroyed Lindsay's brain. He addresses ADA Jennifer Sprague's argument that Lindsay resented her life and Kevin Reddington's response calling the prosecution's case repulsive.Bob closes with Lindsay's future. She has been locked inside Tewksbury Hospital since 2023, paralyzed from the waist down. Andrea Yates has been committed for over twenty years. Whether prison or a psychiatric facility, Lindsay's address is a locked building. Bob explains the commitment process, the annual evaluations, and whether any realistic path exists for her release.This is the trial from inside the room — the grief, the medications, and the question nobody in that gallery could answer.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #PatrickClancy #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been named in connection with Tupac Shakur's murder in court documents, police recordings, a Netflix documentary, and a civil lawsuit. He has consistently denied any involvement. Las Vegas police have publicly stated he has never been considered a suspect. Keffe D, the man on trial for orchestrating Tupac's killing, first made the allegation in a 2008 proffer session with LAPD and has repeated it in every format available to him since. In 2009, investigators sent Davis to New York as a confidential informant to try to verify the Combs connection. The operation failed. The intermediary Davis named as the money man, Eric "Zip" Martin, died in 2012. The alleged triggerman died in 1998. The two other men in the car died in 2004 and 2015. No payment trail has surfaced. Murder has no statute of limitations in Nevada. What the case lacks is not time — it is a single piece of independent evidence confirming what one man said.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/@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.#TupacShakur #Diddy #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #SeanCombs #TupacMurderTrial #Corroboration #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #MurderConspiracy
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She has been confined to a state psychiatric facility in Texas for twenty years. She has never been released. She has never been deemed safe for the public. Lindsay Clancy is facing the same legal question in Massachusetts, and the parallels between the two cases are the subject of this conversation.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to walk through what the two cases share. A mother in psychiatric crisis. Dead children. An insanity defense. And a public that struggled to reconcile mental illness with the worst outcome. He also examines where the cases diverge: Yates had a documented history of psychosis and prior suicide attempts; Lindsay's diagnosis path was different, with postpartum depression escalating through a cascade of over a dozen medications.Bob explains what commitment looks like under Massachusetts law versus Texas law, what the annual evaluation process involves, and what would have to happen for Lindsay to ever be deemed restored and released. He addresses the physical reality of Lindsay's life — paralyzed, medicated, confined to Tewksbury Hospital since 2023 — and whether the distinction between prison and a psychiatric facility is meaningful for a woman in her condition.The question at the center of this conversation is whether Lindsay Clancy ever leaves a locked building.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #InsanityDefense #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #BobMotta #AndreaYates #HiddenKillers #CriminalJustice #MurderTrial #JuryDeliberation
The Idaho murders case has already cost taxpayers more than eight million dollars. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to all charges. He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole. He waived his right to appeal. And now a court-appointed legal team — funded by the same public being told it doesn't understand — has a New York attorney releasing statements to national media claiming the case isn't what people think.Jason Goldman, who joined Kohberger's taxpayer-funded defense, told PEOPLE magazine the public should "caution against assuming" it knows the complete story. The verified record includes a teenage history of heroin addiction and breaking into homes, a Reddit survey asking criminals how they chose their victims, more than five hundred pages of police interviews describing Kohberger as "creepy" and dangerous to women, twenty-three phone pings near the victims' home in the months before the killings, DNA on a knife sheath left at the scene, and a car cleaned to what the prosecutor called "spotless."Kohberger said "guilty" four times in court — once for each of the four University of Idaho students he killed: Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. He told the judge he was doing so freely and voluntarily. One year later he says he was coerced. An evidentiary hearing is set for June 2027.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/@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.#BryanKohberger #Kohberger #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #KohbergerLawyer #JasonGoldman #KohbergerPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #CrimePodcast
ADA Jennifer Sprague argued Lindsay Clancy did not want her life anymore. She was depressed. She was exhausted. She was done. She did not want to try anymore. The prosecution's theory is that Lindsay killed her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — because they were her protective factor. As long as they were alive, she could not kill herself. Removing them was the plan.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the room when Sprague made that argument to a jury of nine mothers and three men. He joins Tony Brueski to assess whether it landed — or whether it sounded like a prosecutor telling a room full of parents that a sick mother resented her own children.The defense painted a different picture. Kevin Reddington argued Lindsay was a labor and delivery nurse who named her daughter Cora after the first baby she ever delivered. She sought treatment from multiple providers. She was prescribed over a dozen psychiatric medications in months. She documented her declining mental state in a journal whose handwriting deteriorated as the medications piled up. Reddington called the prosecution's case repulsive.Bob walks through both arguments from inside the courtroom — how Sprague built the resentment theory, how Reddington dismantled it, and which version the parents on the jury appeared to absorb. He also addresses the question millions of mothers watching this case are asking: where is the line between being overwhelmed and being broken?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/@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.#LindsayClancy #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #BobMotta #MaternalMentalHealth #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #KevinReddington #CriminalJustice
There was a moment inside Plymouth Superior Court when the entire room shifted. The families in the gallery felt it. The legal teams felt it. The jury's body language changed. And it was not on the broadcast.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the gallery for every day of Lindsay Clancy's five-week murder trial. He sat close enough to see Lindsay's hands, her eyes, and the way she carried herself through testimony about the deaths of her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan. He watched the nine mothers and three men on the jury absorb the prosecution's description of what happened in the basement on January 24, 2023.Bob tells Tony Brueski what the room held that the camera could never transmit. He describes the grief in the gallery — Patrick Clancy's family and Lindsay's parents occupying the same space for five weeks. He walks through the recesses, the hallway silences, and the off-camera exchanges that shaped the atmosphere inside the courtroom. He identifies which testimony hit the jury hardest and which landed differently than the legal teams expected.The human cost of this trial was visible from three feet away. The broadcast never got close enough to show it.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PlymouthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #Courtroom
For the first time, Mica Miller's friends and family spoke on camera about what they allege pastor John-Paul Miller did inside their marriage — and the Netflix documentary "Death of the Pastor's Wife" captured every word.Friend Bruna Pabon alleges Mica told her JP controlled every hour of her day, refused to let her rest when she declined his demands, and brought strangers into their home to commit acts against Mica without her consent. When Mica ran to her sister's house, Pabon alleges JP threatened to come armed. The documentary also plays JP's own sermon footage, where he tells his congregation that a wife who doesn't meet her husband's needs bears the blame.Mica's family attorney alleges JP gave Mica his own lithium without her knowledge, manufacturing the very symptoms he later used to have her involuntarily hospitalized. Her siblings allege he took her devices during that commitment and that private images were later posted online — conduct now charged in a federal cyberstalking indictment.JP Miller has pleaded not guilty and denied every allegation. He faces trial in October 2026. After Mica's death, Solid Rock Church closed and sold for $2.1 million. JP opened Mercy Church. He married Suzie Skinner, whose first husband drowned under circumstances still under review. Mica wrote in her divorce affidavit that she'd been abused in every way she could think of. She was thirty.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/@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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #JohnPaulMiller #SolidRockChurch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #CoerciveControl #MicasLaw
Sprague told the jury Lindsay Clancy left three children on the basement floor with exercise bands around their necks and went upstairs. She called them broken toys because she was done playing the game. Reddington held up a honeymoon wish jar and thirteen medications and called the prosecution the thing that ripped the soul out of a woman who never did anything wrong.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for a three-part interview as the jury deliberates. They disagree on this case and cover how the prosecution landed, how the defense landed, and what could happen next.The prosecution's own expert Kirk Heilbrun called the killings out of love. Defense expert Phillip Resnick called Clancy a puppet. The voice she described appeared once, lasted roughly eighteen minutes, and stopped the moment the children were dead. The prosecution's expert Gregory Saathoff called that pattern clinically unusual.Nine women and three men have five verdict options — first-degree murder, second-degree, manslaughter, not criminally responsible, or not guilty. Three and a half hours on day one with no verdict.Patrick Clancy's wrongful death lawsuit against the providers is already filed.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments #JuryDeliberations #MaternalMentalHealth
The lawyers who protected Hollywood's biggest names just walked out of d4vd's murder case. Blair Berk told the court on August 31 that her client wanted a public defender — then she left. Burke pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous lewd acts with a child under 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. His financial manager Benjamin Greger testified at the preliminary hearing that after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were found in Burke's Tesla, he told Burke's mother Colleen to transfer property titles out of her son's name. He testified they were trying to assemble two million for bail. He testified the team went to encrypted messaging. All while the singer's deal with Interscope was bleeding out — terminated December 2025, zero payments in 2026. Greger estimated Burke grossed over ten million dollars. Nobody has explained where it went. Co-counsel Marilyn Bednarski told Rolling Stone there's "no conflict." She declined to say how Burke qualifies as indigent. The public defender's office says they're committed to his defense. DA Hochman says the death penalty is still on the table. Where the money went and what it means for this case — the full breakdown.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/@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.#D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BlairBerk #PublicDefender #MurderTrial #DavidBurke #Interscope #Justice
Nine women and three men are deliberating Lindsay Clancy's fate. They sat for three and a half hours on day one at Plymouth Superior Court and came back with no verdict. Five options are on those slips: first-degree murder, second-degree, manslaughter, not criminally responsible, or not guilty.First-degree means life without parole. Not criminally responsible means a psychiatric facility — not freedom. Andrea Yates got that verdict twenty years ago and is still locked up. The judge added manslaughter at the defense's request, and Reddington's team called it a positive development.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury works. They disagree on this case and dig into what could happen — whether jury composition decides the outcome, whether manslaughter becomes the compromise, and what it means if the jury can't agree.Patrick Clancy has already filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Lindsay's providers. If the doctors who prescribed thirteen medications without coordinating care end up liable for the same deaths the state is prosecuting, the two outcomes collide.Every mother watching this case is watching those nine women.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #JuryDeliberations #NineWomen #MaternalMentalHealth
Duane "Keffe D" Davis is now the only person ever convicted in the murder of Tupac Shakur. A Las Vegas jury reached its guilty verdict after roughly three hours of deliberation — less time than the defense spent on closing arguments. Davis, 63, kept a straight face as the verdict was read, but what he did as officers escorted him out of the courtroom said more than anything his attorneys argued over nine days of trial. Prosecutors dropped the gang enhancement post-verdict, citing witness logistics. The conviction stands as first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. The case was built without a single piece of physical evidence tying Davis to the scene — no weapon, no vehicle, no phone records. Every fact that mattered came from Davis’s own mouth across four recorded formats. Sentencing is October 13. Davis has indicated he will appeal.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/@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.#KeffeD #TupacShakur #2Pac #TupacMurderTrial #GuiltyVerdict #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LasVegas #OrlandoAnderson #Justice
A male voice appeared on the afternoon of January 24, 2023 — the first time Lindsay Clancy had ever heard it. The voice told her this was her last chance. She had to kill her children and then kill herself. It lasted roughly eighteen minutes and stopped the moment the children were dead.The prosecution's expert called the pattern unusual. Defense experts Paul Zeizel and Phillip Resnick both diagnosed bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis and testified Clancy had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of what she did. Resnick called her a puppet. He is the same expert who testified for Andrea Yates.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates. They disagree on this case and dig into whether the defense's evidence — the voice, the medication history, the journal entries, the chaplain's testimony — actually blocked the prosecution from proving criminal responsibility.Reddington held up a wish jar from the Clancy honeymoon filled with handwritten wishes for healthy children. He held up a poster listing thirteen psychiatric medications. He blamed the pills and the doctors who never talked to each other.The jury — nine women, three men — has five verdict options on those slips.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #CommandHallucination #DefenseCase #JuryDeliberations
The prosecution called forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun to prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. He told the jury she committed a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing the children out of love.Heilbrun said Clancy retained moral awareness of what she was doing. But his own characterization — love as the motive, not cruelty — landed squarely in the defense's territory. A second prosecution expert, Gregory Saathoff, agreed on the stand that the prosecution's opening statement minimized what Clancy was going through.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates in Plymouth Superior Court. They disagree on this case and dig into how the prosecution's closing argument landed — and whether it survived its own witnesses.Sprague argued Clancy made a rational choice to end her life and removed her children because they were the protective factor keeping her alive. She told the jury Clancy left the children on the basement floor with exercise bands still around their necks and went upstairs to finish her plan.Nine women and three men are deliberating. Five verdict options sit on those slips.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments #JuryDeliberations #MaternalMentalHealth
Lindsay Clancy was a nurse who delivered other people's babies. She'd been inside a psychiatric facility less than three weeks before she killed her own three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. Both the prosecution and her defense at Plymouth Superior Court agree she was mentally ill when it happened. What the jury must decide is whether she was too ill to understand what she was doing.Postpartum psychosis is rare, affecting roughly one or two mothers per thousand births. Doctors say the name is misleading because the condition is closer to a mood disorder than what most people imagine when they hear the word psychosis. A mother in its grip can look fine to everyone around her. The biggest risk factors, including bipolar history, are well established in the medical literature.The cruelest part of the evidence: caught early, this illness is treatable and temporary. Weeks of treatment can end the acute danger. Yet suicide and overdose among new mothers now account for nearly a quarter of all pregnancy-related deaths in America. The CDC says more than eight in ten were preventable. Roughly four out of five American mothers leave a hospital after delivery without ever being screened for depression.The same courtroom fight played out twenty years ago when Andrea Yates drowned her five children. The same forensic psychiatrist, Phillip Resnick, testified for the defense in both cases. Survivor Meghan Cliffel lived through postpartum psychosis in 2015 and says the attention only arrives after a tragedy.END_LINKS: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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MaternalMentalHealth #PostpartumDepression #TrueCrime #MentalHealthAwareness #LindsayClancyVerdict #PlymouthSuperiorCourt
The prosecution says Lindsay Clancy chose the basement three times. The defense says her doctors piled on medications until her brain broke. The jury has five options for each child — prison, hospital, or freedom are all on the table.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the courtroom for the full trial. He joins Tony Brueski for the complete breakdown — prosecution, defense, the Patrick conspiracy, and what happens to Lindsay no matter what the jury decides.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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #PatrickClancy #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #CriminalJustice #MurderTrial
Judge Hippler scheduled Bryan Kohberger's evidentiary hearing for June 17, 2027 after prosecutors asked for the post-conviction petition to be dismissed outright. The hearing is a procedural step — not a ruling, not a signal of merit — but the timeline it creates puts a new attorney ten months from a hearing where Kohberger's former lawyers could be forced to testify.Kohberger claims Taylor, Massoth, and Barlow coerced him into confessing, hid evidence, and lied about what prison and death row would look like. He signed a nine-page questionnaire under oath saying none of that happened. The legal standard he has to clear — manifest injustice — is designed to make post-sentencing plea withdrawals nearly impossible.His new attorney Greg Rauch hadn't read the petition, the case file, or spoken to Kohberger as of his August 2026 appointment. He needs to drive 300 miles south to Kuna just to visit his client at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.And the expert his defense team hired to build his case is now working against him. Sy Ray told reporters that additional cellphone geolocation data places Kohberger near the house repeatedly before the murders. Ray's position is clear: bring back the death penalty and try this case again.LinksListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDisclaimerThis 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 #SyRay #HiddenKillers #KohbergerPlea #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #EvidentiaryHearing #GregRauch #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime
If the jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible, she does not go home. Massachusetts law allows the state to commit her to a psychiatric facility — six months initially, renewable every year, no maximum sentence. Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She is still committed twenty years later.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down the verdict options, the conspiracy theories blaming Patrick, and what the rest of Lindsay's life actually looks like.END LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #TrueCrime #ConspiracyTheory #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MedicalMalpractice #TrueCrimeCommunity
A Miller hearing is the only thing standing between Timothy Hudson and a life sentence. The 2012 Supreme Court ruling says a judge must examine a juvenile defendant's childhood — mental health, trauma, family environment, rehabilitation potential — before imposing life without parole. To build that examination, the defense needs parents, relatives, and anyone who witnessed the defendant's development. Records tell part of the story. Only a parent can tell the rest.Timothy Hudson's three public defenders have never handled a juvenile federal case. They told Judge Beth Bloom their access to "certain family members" has been blocked by a family dynamic they called "very unfortunate." The filing was deliberately vague. A custody fight between Timothy's biological parents — his mother is married to Anna Kepner's father, making her stepmother to the girl Timothy allegedly killed aboard the Carnival Horizon — exposes the fracture the defense was trying to keep off the page.Shauntel Hudson confirmed under oath that Timothy was taking ADHD and insomnia medication. She confirmed he'd skipped the insomnia meds the two nights on the cruise. FBI Agent del Valle testified that Anna's ex-boyfriend reported Timothy had tried to get into Anna's bed while she slept — months before the trip. Anna allegedly told the ex she was afraid and hesitant to tell her father. Shauntel's own stepmother went on CBS demanding charges against both parents for lack of supervision.The person whose testimony would anchor the Miller case is the same person who'd have to explain what she knew before that cruise and what she chose not to act on.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/@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.#AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #CarnivalHorizon #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CruiseShipMurder #MillerHearing #FederalTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice
Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney rattled off prescription after prescription for the jury. The defense argued her doctors kept piling on psychiatric medications without coordinating her care — and that the result was a woman whose brain broke before she ever walked into that basement.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside Plymouth Superior Court. He joins Tony Brueski to assess how the defense case played in the courtroom and whether the medication evidence moved the jury.END LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #CriminalDefense #MurderTrial
Patrick Clancy came home and found all three of his children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks. The prosecution says Lindsay put them there deliberately. The defense says her brain was in psychosis and she could not have stopped herself.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the Plymouth courtroom. He joins Tony Brueski to break down how the prosecution's closing argument landed with the jury — the puppet analogy, the phone call, and whether the state proved Lindsay knew what she was doing.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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #ClosingArguments #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCourt #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #CriminalJustice
Jared Bridegan's killer is going to prison. His wife's trial just got more complicated than anyone expected. Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation for shooting Bridegan in a Jacksonville Beach street in 2021, staged to look like a carjacking. Jurors took less than four hours. He's facing life without parole. Then, one day after that verdict, prosecutors filed two brand-new felony charges against Fernandez — both involving children, unrelated to Bridegan's murder, one tied to a girl who was around eight when the alleged conduct began. Shanna Gardner's own trial was supposed to start days later. Instead, Judge London Kite granted a continuance to May 2027 so her defense can investigate whether the new charges reveal a motive of Fernandez's own — separate from, or tangled up with, hers. Fernandez had already told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture," a comment that predates the new charges by years. None of that changes what prosecutors already have waiting for Gardner's jury: her own text messages, read by prosecutors as evidence of intent rather than frustration. A friend, Kim Jensen, texted someone about finding Gardner "a guy" who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plot goes back to 2015. Gardner still faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge connected to her twins. Her attorney, Jose Baez, already has Casey Anthony's acquittal on his résumé, and he's accusing the state of mischaracterizing evidence before a single juror is seated. The jury pool has been doubled to 500. May 2027 is a long way off, and the story keeps changing before it gets there. LINKS 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 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 #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JoseBaez #BrideganCase #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HenryTenon
There's no version of this verdict where Lindsay Clancy walks out of a courtroom and goes home. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis lays out exactly what waits for her down each of the two paths this jury can choose. Path one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Under Massachusetts law that doesn't mean release — it triggers up to forty days of court-ordered observation, after which the state can petition for civil commitment with no time limit written into the statute. Andrea Yates walked that same road in Texas after drowning her five children in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She remains committed to this day, declining her annual release hearing every single time it's offered. Path two: first-degree murder. Massachusetts has no sentencing hearing for that charge — the penalty is automatic life without parole, and the case is automatically appealed to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, which will review every piece of psychiatric evidence the jury just weighed and set aside. Faddis explains what makes a jury choose second-degree murder instead — the option that actually carries eventual parole eligibility — and why almost no one convicted of first-degree murder ever sees the outside of a facility again. Then there's the body this all has to move. Clancy is paralyzed from the waist down and has been under suicide watch since January 2023, housed at Tewksbury Hospital since that May. Conviction means transferring that care into a prison system that isn't built for it. Two verdicts. Two very different buildings. Neither one is a door marked exit. 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 Legal 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 #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates
Duane "Keffe D" Davis spent decades telling anyone who'd listen exactly what happened the night Tupac Shakur died. This week his own recorded words became the prosecution's closing argument. This recap covers Wednesday's and Thursday's testimony in the Keffe D murder trial in one pass — the case the defense says was never anything but a paid fiction, cooked up for a book deal. The state opened this stretch with retired Compton gang detective Robert Ladd, who spent years inside the department's two-man gang unit tracking the South Side Compton Crips. Ladd told the jury the specific rank Davis held in that gang, and why it matters — it's the difference between someone who follows an order and someone who hands one down. Tupac's childhood friend Malcolm Greenidge followed him to the stand, laying out where the shots actually came from that night and what Tupac had lined up before it all ended, from a new label to a sit-down already booked with Quincy Jones. Crime scene analysts then detailed what a 2023 raid on Davis's Henderson home turned up — including his own memoir and newspaper clippings about the murder that had apparently sat untouched in that house for years. By the close, prosecutors had called twenty-five witnesses over eight days, and they ended on jail calls: Davis complaining that his own statements were being used against him, Davis promoting his book on YouTube as "the real truth," and one call in particular where Davis's description of Tupac goes straight at motive. The defense opens its own case next with a detective and two police officers on the witness list. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday, and by then Davis will have decided whether he testifies in his own defense. Links & Legal: 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/@hiddenkillerspod?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/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. Hashtags: #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac
Lindsay Clancy was sitting across from her psychiatrist on January 23, 2023, one day before she killed her three children. Jennifer Coffindaffer, 25 years in the FBI and no stranger to the guilty camp, joins Tony Brueski to hold every argument for Lindsay's guilt up against what actually made it into the record. The paper trail is the starting point. Beyond that psychiatrist visit, Lindsay had two nurse practitioners, a therapist, two December calls to a suicide hotline, and a five-day inpatient stay at McLean Hospital that ended nineteen days before the killings. The planning argument leans on errands, timing, and exercise bands as proof she knew what she was doing, but Dr. Phillip Resnick, who examined both Lindsay and Andrea Yates, told this jury she was following a command voice. The theory that a search about treating a sociopath proves she was faking runs into Resnick's own testimony that the Commonwealth's testing found no evidence of faking, and that she downplayed her symptoms rather than exaggerated them. The staged-jump theory doesn't hold up against a woman who cut her own wrists, cut her own neck, is paralyzed for life, and remains on suicide watch at Tewksbury Hospital. Prosecutors have countered with Dr. Avram Mack, who interviewed Lindsay in April 2026, testified she could tell right from wrong, and told the jury she said "go to God" to her children during the killings, a statement that sits uneasily next to what she told a hospital chaplain a week later and Dr. Resnick months after that. Closings are next. Lindsay's plea is not guilty on three counts of murder, on the ground that she lacked criminal responsibility. Coffindaffer and Brueski ask how sick someone has to be before a jury calls it not responsible. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #PhillipResnick #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #AndreaYates #AvramMack #TrueCrime #MurderTrial
State Police Sgt. Timothy Chiappini and Cellebrite examiner Ian Whiffin pulled two sets of messages off Lindsay Clancy's phone, one day apart, and prosecutors and defense attorneys are now building opposite cases out of the same device. On January 20, a message asks whether a sociopath can be treated. Prosecutors point to that line as evidence of a woman thinking strategically, not psychotically. The day before, on January 19, other messages describe hallucinations and symptoms of postpartum psychosis, and a second message on the 20th uses the word "intrusive." The defense says that's the real record of what was happening in her head. The digital evidence sits inside a bigger fight over who Lindsay Clancy told what, and when. The prosecution's own psychiatrist, Dr. Avram Mack, testified she described a male, laughing voice telling her it was her last chance, the same account she gave everyone else, including a hospital chaplain in the first week after her arrest, back in January 2023. Dr. Phillip Resnick and Dr. Paul Zeizel both separately diagnosed bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis after spending hours and, in Zeizel's case, roughly sixty sessions with her. Mack disagrees and says he found no evidence of mania. Her family had already tried to intervene. She told them in December 2022 that she'd had thoughts of harming the kids, and they got her admitted to McLean Hospital, which sent her home as low risk nineteen days before the deaths. Her outpatient providers knew about those thoughts too, well before anyone examined a single text message. Closings are next. She's pleaded not guilty on three murder counts on the ground that she wasn't criminally responsible. Prosecutors allege planning and a faked suicide attempt. Tony Brueski walks through what the phone actually shows, and what it doesn't. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #IanWhiffin #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #CellebriteEvidence #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #Duxbury #TrueCrime #MurderTrial
Public records place Patrick Clancy in Manhattan by May 2023, four months after burying his children, with a new sales job at Microsoft and, according to reporting, solo trips through Latin America and Europe not long after. To some corners of the internet, that timeline reads like guilt. To Lindsay's own defense attorney, who told the jury in opening that Patrick suffered one of the worst tragedies imaginable, it reads like a man trying to survive. The actual testimony sits between those two extremes. Weeks before the killings, nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta raised bipolar disorder with the couple directly, and Patrick responded in five words that have since been picked apart online by commenters, some of whom present themselves as former FBI profilers with no record of ever working there. He filed for divorce in February 2024, was already involved with Dr. Rachel Danis that month, and married her in Central Park this April, three years and three months after the day his children died. He was never a suspect. He was never charged. He testified for the prosecution across two days. Andrea Yates' husband Rusty, who lost five children the same way in 2001, reached out to Patrick during the trial with a message built from twenty-five years of living through the same public scrutiny, only louder now that social media exists to fuel it. Patrick's new wife has already received death threats tied to accusations his attorneys call defamatory, aimed at a man both sides of the courtroom agree did nothing but come home to catastrophe he never saw coming. Tony Brueski separates what the timeline actually proves from what the comment section has decided it means. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #PatrickClancy #RachelDanis #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #LindsayClancy #RustyYates #Duxbury #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #MentalHealth
Two days of testimony, one recorded voice, and a story that keeps changing depending on who's listening. This recap combines Monday's and Tuesday's sessions — Day 5 and Day 6 — in the Duane "Keffe D" Davis murder trial, and the tapes jurors heard do a lot of the talking. On the 2009 recording, Davis tells detectives about the night Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas: the drive from Club 662, a hidden Glock, his nephew Orlando Anderson as the shooter, and his own claim that the bullets were meant for Suge Knight, not Tupac. Jurors also heard from a BET director who testified Davis was paid to sit for documentary interviews, calling himself the last man alive who could tell the real story, built partly on a sealed police tape that made its way to production through consultants connected to the original case. Tuesday's tape, recorded for Death Row Chronicles in 2017, adds a name to the story: Sean "Puffy" Combs, who Davis says wanted Suge Knight "taken care of." Davis says he called Combs after the shooting. Combs never called back. The defense fought to keep the tape out, calling it prejudicial. The judge disagreed. And when Davis was finally asked, on record, whether he had anything to say to Tupac's family, what came out of his mouth wasn't an apology. Davis remains the only person ever charged in connection with Tupac's 1996 murder. Combs has denied any involvement in the case and has never been charged. Two days, two tapes, one man's own words working against him in real time. 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. Hashtags #KeffeD #DuaneDavis #TupacShakur #HiddenKillers #TupacMurderTrial #OrlandoAnderson #SugeKnight #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #TrueCrime
Patrick Clancy took the stand for the prosecution in his own children's murder trial and called Lindsay a wonderful, loving mother. Her friends said the same thing. Her coworkers said the same thing. Every single prosecution witness who actually knew Lindsay personally testified to her character, which meant the defense never had to call a character witness of its own. That's the strange shape of a fourteen-day, seventy-witness case built on a fact nobody disputes. The defense told this jury before opening statements that Lindsay killed her three children. The only question left is whether she was criminally responsible. Dr. Paul Zeizel, the forensic psychologist who has met with her more than sixty times, testified a male voice ordered her to kill the children and herself, and that she had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of it. Prosecutors challenged him hard on cross, pointing out that the only time she ever described hearing that voice was when she talked about January 24th specifically. Her hospital records list her as "critically ill, postpartum psychosis." A hospital psychiatrist who saw her days later called her "calm and cooperative." Meanwhile, a piece of internet mythology about a rope tied to her bedroom door has spread far past what the record actually says. Patrick found the door locked when he got home and testified that was the moment he knew something was wrong. The prosecution's own rebuttal psychiatrist, Dr. Avram Mack, testified Lindsay told him she never locked it at all. The exercise bands investigators found were sitting in the basement next to a laptop, not anywhere near that door. Eric Faddis breaks down what a prosecution proves when even its own witnesses keep defending the woman on trial. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PaulZeizel #InsanityDefense #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #MurderTrial
Lindsay Clancy's own defense doesn't dispute what happened to her three children. The trial is about what was happening inside her mind, and the prosecution just spent fourteen days at Plymouth Superior Court trying to convince a jury it was less than it looks. The prosecutor opened by calling Lindsay "controlling, meticulous, and manipulative" and told the jury she faked a suicide attempt. Lindsay is paralyzed from the waist down. She cut her own wrists and neck before jumping from a second-story window, and the jury has watched her sit in a wheelchair through every day of testimony since. On cross-examination, the prosecutor asked Lindsay's former mother-in-law, who called her a wonderful and nurturing mother, whether she knew murder was a mortal sin. The judge struck the question before it could sit with the jury. When Lindsay's own mother testified that her daughter had said the medication was destroying her mind, the prosecutor asked why she never had Lindsay committed. Then came the recess. During autopsy testimony for eight-month-old Callan, Lindsay sobbed hard enough that the judge stopped the proceedings. The next morning, defense attorney Kevin Reddington accused someone on the prosecution's side of being caught on a hot mic saying "shut her up." The DA's office insists the words were "shut it off." None of this changes what a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict would actually cost Lindsay. Massachusetts law allows the state to keep refiling commitment petitions every six months, indefinitely, and Andrea Yates, acquitted the same way back in 2006, is still institutionalized today. Eric Faddis and Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to weigh a prosecution strategy that could be alienating the jury it needs, against a verdict that might not free her at all. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #PlymouthDA #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #KevinReddington #InsanityDefense #AndreaYates #MentalHealth #TrueCrime
Nolan Wells died on Horn Island, Mississippi on July 4, and the sheriff's office ruled out foul play within two days, before the state autopsy was finished, before anyone official had opened his phone. Seven weeks later, that phone still hasn't been forensically examined. The device left the island with Nolan's friends. His mother retrieved it from them in the first days and, before any forensic protocol existed, went through it herself with her sister. Both of his Snapchat accounts were completely empty. On July 15, the family's lawyers and District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath agreed to a joint forensic exam at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, with both sides' experts and possibly the FBI in the room. No date was ever scheduled. Nearly a month passed before the DA's office sent a letter giving the family 48 hours to hand the phone over, while Nolan's parents were out of state. The three friends who were with Nolan that weekend handed their own phones directly to federal agents, no subpoena needed. The family still has Nolan's phone and says it's ready to go the moment there's a real chain-of-custody protocol in writing. Forensic examiners say deleted data can often be recovered from a device like this one, but platforms purge their own servers over time, and every week of delay narrows that window. No charges have been filed. The friends deny any tampering. The family has already subpoenaed Snapchat, Meta, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Life360 for the server-side records the phone itself can't hold. Tony Brueski breaks down how a sheriff's office reached a conclusion about Nolan Wells' death before the evidence that could confirm or contradict it was ever examined, and why that order of operations should bother everyone paying attention. Links & Legal Footer: 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. Hashtags: #NolanWells #HornIslandSheriff #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #Mississippi #DigitalForensics #FoulPlay #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #GrandJury
Three witnesses. Under two hours. The defense in the Keffe D murder trial rested on Day 9 — and the witness they built their case around may have done more for the prosecution than the defense.Dan Long, the retired detective who led the Tupac Shakur investigation for fifteen years, testified he couldn't verify key parts of Davis's story. But on cross-examination, he confirmed Davis identified the same four men the investigation had already developed as suspects. Then he told the jury he tried to seek a murder arrest warrant in 2009 because he believed there was probable cause — and prosecutors told him to stand down.Davis did not testify. Two former officers described seeing the Cadillac at Suge Knight's house and leaving in a convoy with Tupac's BMW. Closing arguments are Monday.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/@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.#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac
This jury has three options on the verdict slip. Guilty of first-degree murder — life without parole, automatic appeal, a transfer from a hospital to a prison. Guilty of second-degree murder — life with eventual parole eligibility. Not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility — commitment to a psychiatric facility with no time limit. Every path leads somewhere the audience does not expect.Eric Faddis walks through all three as a defense attorney and former prosecutor. He starts with the deliberation itself — how the burden of proof sits with the prosecution in Massachusetts, how the two-prong legal test works, and what the prosecution's own expert conceded when he acknowledged Clancy had a severe mental illness but drew the line at psychosis. The legal standard says mental disease or defect and does not specify a diagnosis.On the not-guilty path, Faddis explains the commitment process under MGL Chapter 123. The court can order 40 days of observation, then the state petitions for involuntary commitment. There is no cap. Andrea Yates has been committed for twenty years. Periodic review hearings give the state a chance to prove Clancy still meets the standard. Her attorney still has a role.On the guilty path, Clancy leaves Tewksbury Hospital — where she has been since May 2023, paralyzed and on suicide watch — and enters the corrections system. The automatic SJC appeal carries the full trial record, including every piece of mental health evidence the jury rejected. Faddis explains what that review examines and whether the rejected defense has a second life.The jury must be unanimous. If it deadlocks, the judge can issue a last-resort instruction. If that fails, the result is a mistrial.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #NotGuiltyInsanity #LifeWithoutParole #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalAppeal #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime
New felony charges against Fernandez were filed the day after his murder conviction. Both involve crimes against children. Gardner's trial, set to begin this week, has been pushed to May 2027 after an unopposed defense continuance.Gardner's defense indicated the new charges may give Fernandez an independent motive for Bridegan's murder. She married Fernandez in April 2018, months after he received an other-than-honorable discharge from the Army following allegations involving a recruit. Both told police they barely knew each other. Gardner called it a marriage of "convenience" tied to the custody arrangement.The prosecution's answer runs through the timeline. Gardner's messages go back to 2015 and 2016, years before the first child's allegations began in April 2020. A friend told investigators Gardner said Fernandez could "take care of" Bridegan. The state has proposed trying Gardner alongside alleged gunman Henry Tenon in May 2027.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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#MarioFernandez #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #BrideganCase #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Lindsay Clancy has been at Tewksbury Hospital for over three years. She is paralyzed from the waist down. She has been on 24-hour suicide watch since January 2023. If this jury convicts her of first-degree murder, she leaves that facility and enters the Massachusetts corrections system. The sentence is mandatory — life without parole.Eric Faddis breaks down what that transition looks like. The prison system must accommodate Clancy's physical condition — around-the-clock medical care for a paraplegic inmate — on top of her psychiatric needs. In a treatment facility, she is a patient. In prison, she is an inmate who happens to need care. The institutional mission changes, and with it the daily structure, the staffing, and the access to mental health treatment.Faddis covers what Reddington can do for Clancy once she is inside the system. Advocacy for an incarcerated client includes fighting for placement, conditions of confinement, medical care, and mental health treatment access. The attorney-client relationship does not end with the verdict.Every first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts triggers an automatic appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court. The trial record — including all of the mental health testimony the jury heard — goes up for review. Faddis explains what the SJC looks for and whether the rejected insanity defense evidence has any life on appeal.The verdict slip gives this jury a second option. Second-degree murder carries a life sentence with parole eligibility after 15 years. How a jury reaches that verdict when the act itself is undisputed depends on how they weigh the mental health evidence without fully accepting the insanity defense.First-degree life without parole has two exits — commutation by the governor or a successful appeal. Both are rare.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #FirstDegreeMurder #LifeSentence #CriminalAppeal #PostpartumPsychosis #PrisonSystem #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime
Reddington held up a list of Lindsay Clancy's prescriptions and started reading. Lorazepam. Sertraline. Hydroxyzine. Lorazepam again. Buspirone. More lorazepam. Trazodone. "It goes on and on and on and on and on." She took them as she was told, Reddington said. The system gave her medication after medication and still couldn't catch what was happening.He called her a "darn good mother," held up a honeymoon wish jar filled with hopes for healthy children, and showed photos of Clancy smiling with her son Dawson. "They would have you think she killed him first, cruelly because she didn't like him," Reddington told the jury. "That is repulsive."The prosecution answered with a closing that conceded mental illness and reframed the case around a single question: did Clancy know right from wrong? ADA Sprague pointed to thoughts Clancy hid from every medical provider in December 2022 while disclosing them to her family — and called that concealment proof of rational thinking. The jury is now deliberating. Four options on the verdict slip.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #ClosingArguments #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday
Not guilty does not mean free. If this jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, she enters a commitment process governed by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123. That process has no end date.Eric Faddis explains the legal mechanics. The court can order Clancy hospitalized for 40 days of observation and evaluation. After that window, the DA or hospital superintendent petitions for involuntary civil commitment. The commitment is reviewed periodically — the state must prove at each hearing that Clancy remains mentally ill and poses a danger. If the state fails to make that case, release is possible. If it succeeds, the commitment continues.Clancy is already at Tewksbury Hospital, where she has received court-ordered treatment since May 2023. She is paralyzed and on 24-hour suicide watch. A commitment facility would provide daily psychiatric care — therapy, medication oversight, structured evaluation. The environment is built around treatment in a way that prison is not.The question the audience keeps asking is whether Reddington still has work to do after an acquittal. Faddis explains why the answer is yes — the commitment hearings require legal representation, the conditions of confinement require advocacy, and the periodic reviews are adversarial proceedings where the state must carry its burden.Andrea Yates has been in a state psychiatric facility for twenty years after a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict in the drowning deaths of her five children. She declines her annual release hearing every year. Faddis walks through whether that path is the most realistic comparison for Clancy's case — or whether Massachusetts law creates a different outcome.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #NGRI #PsychiatricCommitment #MentalHealthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial
Most people following the Lindsay Clancy trial assume the defense has to prove she was insane. Massachusetts law says the opposite. Once the defense raises mental illness, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. That burden does not shift back.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through the legal standard this jury was handed and why it matters. The McHoul test requires the Commonwealth to prove two things — that Clancy could appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions and that she could conform her conduct to the law. Fail on either, and she is not criminally responsible. The standard says mental disease or defect. It does not require a diagnosis of psychosis.Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution's own rebuttal psychiatrist, told this jury Clancy had a severe depressive episode. He stopped short of psychosis. The legal question is whether that distinction matters under a test that never uses the word.Faddis also covers the mechanics of deliberation — how jurors choose a foreperson, how holdouts shape the conversation, and how long a judge allows a deadlocked jury to continue before stepping in. The Tuey-Rodriguez instruction is a last-resort tool Massachusetts judges use to push past an impasse. In the Karen Read case, it did not work.This jury heard from 84 witnesses across 21 days of testimony. What they do with it begins after closing arguments Thursday.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #CriminalResponsibility #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial
Twenty-five witnesses. Eight days. The prosecution in the Keffe D murder trial rested its case on Day 8 — and chose a recorded jail call as the last thing the jury would hear before the break.Duane "Keffe D" Davis was recorded on a Clark County Detention Center phone line saying something the fiction defense can't account for. In a separate call, he complained that authorities were using his statements against him. The prosecution also played a YouTube clip of Davis promoting his book as "the real truth." A separate video showed Davis explaining why his side had reason to retaliate after the MGM Grand brawl.The defense begins Thursday with a detective and two officers. Davis has to decide overnight whether to testify. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday.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/@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.#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac
One trial, three reckonings. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits with Tony Brueski for the complete interview on what the verdict coverage leaves out: the prison that waits, the hospital that never lets go, and the husband strangers decided to put on trial themselves.The prison conversation confronts the physical truth first: a conviction sends a woman who cannot stand into a facility built on the assumption that inmates can. Shavaun, drawing on decades in forensic settings, describes the collision between mandatory life without parole and a defendant this dependent — and what becomes of a mind serving a sentence with no end date and no one left to visit.The hospital conversation flips the script on the insanity verdict. Renewable commitments, a release standard nearly impossible to meet with a permanent diagnosis, dueling experts whose conflicting testimony will shape her treatment for years — and the Andrea Yates precedent hanging over all of it like a forecast.The final conversation is Patrick's. The accusations his attorneys call patently false. The threats against his new wife. The testimony about a happy afternoon that ended in catastrophe. And the counsel of Rusty Yates, who has spent twenty-five years surviving what Patrick is just beginning.Three parts, one question underneath: when the crime is this entangled with illness, what does justice even mean? Shavaun's answer earns the full runtime.END LINKS: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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #Massachusetts #MentalHealth
The man the prosecution called the only link between Bridegan and the gunman was convicted in under four hours. Gardner's jury selection starts August 31 — and the evidence profile is a different case entirely.Against Fernandez, the prosecution had financial records and phone data but no evidence he ever expressed a desire to harm Bridegan. Against Gardner, prosecutors have her own texts to friends expressing exactly that. They have Jensen's messages about finding someone for Gardner. They have wiretaps from Gardner's phone and Apple Watch that survived a defense motion to suppress.But Gardner's connection to Henry Tenon runs through Fernandez. She never paid Tenon directly. Her case requires the prosecution to prove she directed the killing, not just that she wanted it. Jose Baez has been fighting pretrial harder than Fernandez's defense team did — accusing the state of withholding evidence, challenging the wiretaps, and arguing the texts are taken out of context. The conspiracy charge Fernandez didn't face at trial is still live against Gardner. Deliberations in Fernandez's case took four hours. Gardner's trial is scheduled for three weeks.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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#ShannaGardner #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #BrideganTrial #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
There is no support group for what happened to Patrick Clancy. The research on parents who survive what he survived barely exists, because so few ever have. But one man has — and his road map is at the center of this episode. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the loneliest grief in true crime.Shavaun starts where the pain starts: a father who came home to find his three children gone, taken by the woman he loved and built a family with. She explains why this loss breaks the grief playbook therapists rely on. The perpetrator and the co-mourner are the same person, the anger and the love have the same address, and the standard stages of grief have no chapter for it.Then the pile-on. While Patrick relived that night on the witness stand, strangers online accused him of orchestrating it — allegations his attorneys have condemned as patently false, allegations that brought death threats to his new wife's door. Shavaun details what public blame does to private trauma, and why survivors of family tragedies so often become the internet's suspects.The episode closes with Rusty Yates — the father who lost five children to Andrea Yates' psychosis in 2001 — and the hard-won advice he offered Patrick. Tony asks whether wisdom like that can actually hold a person up. Shavaun's answer is the most honest thing you'll hear about grief this year.END LINKS: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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #RustyYates #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #HiddenKillers #Massachusetts #GriefSupport
Judge William Sullivan ruled on August 26 that Lindsay Clancy's jury can consider involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense — over the prosecution's objection. The Commonwealth charged Clancy with first-degree murder and fought to keep manslaughter off the verdict slip. Sullivan put it there anyway.The ruling came after the prosecution's final expert gave the Commonwealth the clinical testimony it needed — and then undercut the prosecution's own rhetoric under cross-examination. FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff had told the jury Clancy was in control and her account of the voice was unconvincing.Reddington then read the prosecution's own opening statement aloud — the version that called Clancy's decision "the selfish choice." He asked the FBI psychiatrist if he agreed with the prosecution's words.Saathoff told the jury the characterization "really minimizes what she was going through." The Commonwealth's final witness rejected the Commonwealth's own rhetoric.The jury now has four possible verdicts: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, or not criminally responsible. Reddington also asked for a jury instruction on inadequate police investigation, arguing officers "didn't investigate anything" and didn't test blood at the scene. Sullivan declined that instruction. Closing arguments Thursday.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday
The state closed its case against Lindsay Clancy this week, and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague didn't waste time on subtlety. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington has spent the trial arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis, compounded by psychiatric overmedication.Sprague's closing went straight at that argument's foundation. She reminded jurors that Clancy had 18 weeks of maternity leave, support from family on both sides, and access to mental health treatment most people never get close to. Yes, she was depressed — Sprague conceded that much. But she argued the providers treating Clancy weren't negligent; they worked with what they were told, and Clancy never told a single one of them she was having thoughts of hurting her children. Why not? Fear the state would take her kids away. Sprague turned that fear into her strongest weapon, calling it evidence of a woman who understood exactly how wrong her thoughts were. She also took aim at the overmedication theory directly, noting Clancy was on only two medications at the time and that no doctor ever flagged signs of psychosis. Her closing line to the jury: this wasn't psychosis, it was premeditation — Clancy killed her children first, then tried to kill herself.Clancy allegedly attempted suicide afterward by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. Deliberations are expected soon 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer Content on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice.Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #JenniferSprague #ClosingArguments #TrueCrimeToday
An hour is a long time to spend telling a jury they've been played, but that's what Kevin Reddington did in closing arguments for Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with 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. His pitch to jurors: the prosecution manufactured a heartless, controlling caricature of a woman who was, according to the defense, drowning in psychosis.Reddington took particular aim at how prosecutors framed Clancy's suicide attempt. She allegedly jumped from a second-story window after the killings and is now paralyzed from the waist down — and Reddington argued the state tried to cast even that as manipulation rather than the desperate act it appears to be. That's a hard sell in front of twelve people who've heard the medical details.Then came the expert witnesses, and Reddington didn't hold back. He claimed the state's own experts brought credentials from entirely different worlds — one with a background hunting terrorists, another focused on juvenile offenders, a third who allegedly conflated schizophrenia with psychosis. None of that, he argued, adds up to real expertise on postpartum mental illness. His closing message was simple: reasonable doubt doesn't require jurors to know what happened inside Clancy's mind that day. It just requires the state to have failed to rule out psychosis, and he says they did.Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. The case is in Plymouth Superior Court, and the jury's next move decides everything.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer 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 #ClosingArguments #TrueCrimeToday
Two mothers. Two psychotic episodes, according to their defenses. Two insanity verdicts — one already delivered, one hanging over a Plymouth County jury room. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map the road Andrea Yates has traveled since 2006 and measure how much of it waits for Lindsay Clancy.Yates was acquitted by reason of insanity two decades ago. She has spent every year since inside a state facility, and the people closest to her case say she remains there because the system has no exit built for someone with her history. Shavaun explains the machinery that produces that result: commitment renewals with no limit, and a release standard that demands proof of safety from a person whose diagnosis is permanent. The doctors inherit total authority over a life the moment the verdict lands.For Clancy, one wrinkle makes it heavier. Her trial featured experts who couldn't agree on what she has — her defense described bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis, while a prosecution expert testified he found evidence of neither. Shavaun unpacks who resolves that dispute once the jury goes home, and why the answer matters more than the verdict itself.Tony closes with the question every listener will be arguing about: whether the hospital is the compassionate outcome everyone assumes — or a quieter version of forever.END LINKS: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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #AndreaYates #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #MentalHealth #HiddenKillers #Massachusetts
A guilty verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial sends her somewhere no expert has fully described on camera — until now. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the prison episode: what life without parole actually means for a woman who cannot move her own body and whose mind is the entire reason this trial exists.The reputation problem comes first. Prisons run on hierarchy, and inmates convicted of harming children sit at the bottom of it. Clancy would enter as the most famous face in the facility, convicted of the act other incarcerated mothers consider unforgivable, unable to walk away from a single confrontation. Shavaun explains how a person survives that — or doesn't.Then the machinery. The Department of Justice found Massachusetts prisons answering psychiatric emergencies with isolation cells, holding dozens of people alone for a month or longer. Clancy has needed constant supervision since the night her children died. The tool the system reaches for and the condition she carries are a dangerous match, and Shavaun walks through exactly why.And underneath it all, the clock. She is thirty-six. There is no parole in a first-degree sentence, no date to count toward, and no family waiting — her children are gone and her husband ended the marriage. Shavaun addresses what hope does when it has nowhere to go, and Tony asks the question the audience keeps circling: punishment, or something we don't have a word for?END LINKS: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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #Massachusetts #PrisonSystem
Day 7 ended Mario Fernandez's murder trial with closing arguments from both sides and a prosecution rebuttal. The defense had called just two witnesses — staff from the Discovery School who described Fernandez and Gardner as caring, involved parents — before resting its case.The prosecution's closing asked the jury to see the totality: the checks, the trust clause, the phone gaps, the January visit to the man who once owned the murder weapon type. Stifler told them Fernandez is the thread connecting every piece of evidence. Dreicer fired back, accusing the prosecution of misstating the financial evidence and presenting two theories about Fernandez that contradict each other. He reminded the jury that Henry Tenon is alive and could have testified but the prosecution chose not to put him on the stand.Mizrahi closed the day with the prosecution's final words: this defendant is not the unluckiest man alive, he's just guilty. Deliberations begin Wednesday.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #BrideganTrial #ClosingArguments #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Every segment of this episode has one comment that turned out to be true, and in each case it hurt the person who posted it.The Patrick-did-it crowd said a nurse would never search for the carotid artery. The search is on Lindsay Clancy's phone, and her own defense attorney displayed it during his cross of Sgt. Timothy Chiappini, because it supports his argument that she was researching her own death. Prosecutors had framed the same history as searching for ways to kill. Chiappini didn't recall the search at first, then agreed the device identifier matched her phone.The she's-a-sociopath crowd said she lied to her doctors and refused treatment. Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta did testify Lindsay wanted to change or stop her medications almost daily, and that on Dec. 15, 2022 she chose the ER over admission. Jollotta also testified she was an honest, engaged patient who advocated for herself, and that the Rhode Island hospital recommended tapering Seroquel. On Jan. 1 she checked herself into McLean.The Patrick-failed-her crowd said he moved to New York four months after the funerals. Public records put the move in May 2023. Jollotta also testified that when she raised bipolar disorder with the couple, Patrick said his wife was not bipolar.Fifteen comments, three fights, every claim next to the testimony that answers it. The rope, the window, the knife, the mistress, the Europe trip. The on-off psychosis, the Andrea Yates conversation, the OCPD bet, the sent-him-to-the-store argument. The FBI profiler who never was, the thirteen drugs, and what each verdict does.Lindsay Clancy admits she killed her children. Everything after that sentence is either in the record or it isn't.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #AndreaYates #Duxbury #TrueCrimePodcast #ClancyTrial
The prosecution spent Day 7 connecting a gang title to a murder charge. A retired Compton Police Department detective took the stand and told the jury exactly where Duane "Keffe D" Davis sat in the hierarchy of the South Side Compton Crips.Robert Ladd tracked Davis and the gang for years. He identified Davis by a specific title — and explained to the jury what that title means when the gang acts. Tupac's childhood friend Malcolm Greenidge, court-ordered to testify, told the jury the shots came from the back seat of the white Cadillac. Davis was in the front. Ladd's testimony explains why the front seat carries the charge. He also testified about witnessing Orlando Anderson's gang initiation and the code of respect that drives retaliation.Crime scene analysts showed the jury what police found in Davis's Henderson home during a September 2023 search — his own book about the shooting and newspaper clippings about the murder stored in bins for decades.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/@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.#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac
An FBI profiler thinks Lindsay Clancy is a psychopath who was sick of her kids. That's how one commenter puts it, citing Pat Brown, with Matt Walsh as a second vote. The commenter rejects both of them. She's closer to the record than the people she quoted.Pat Brown was never in the FBI. She's an independent, self-taught profiler with a criminal justice master's who has written that she felt too old to join the Bureau and built her own practice instead. She has posted videos arguing Lindsay fabricated her psychosis. Matt Walsh is a political commentator who wrote that the real source of Lindsay's depression was a selfish hatred of her children. Neither has examined her or testified."Sick of her kids" isn't a fringe idea, though. It's the prosecution's theory in plainer words. Prosecutors told the jury Lindsay was controlling and killed the children because she was no longer satisfied with her life. That's a claim being weighed, and the jury hasn't ruled on it."Psychopath" is something else entirely, and the difference is the whole trial. A psychopath knows exactly what's real and doesn't care. Psychosis means losing track of what's real. The defense experts diagnosed postpartum psychosis. The prosecution's experts rejected that and said major depression or bipolar II. No one who examined her, either side, said psychopath or personality disorder.This segment covers five comments about Patrick and the system. What he did in December 2022, dated by testimony. The five words he said when a nurse raised bipolar. The Manhattan move that happened exactly when the comment says it did. The thirteen medications, which are documented. And what happens to Lindsay under each verdict.Opinions about Patrick are fair. Credentials are checkable. Diagnoses come from the witness stand.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #TrueCrimePodcast #ClancyTrial #MassachusettsTrial
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who works with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, 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 running an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Reddington spent cross-examination taking Saathoff's testimony apart piece by piece. Saathoff admitted that on the 911 call, he never actually heard Clancy say she tried to kill herself — just grunts. That detail came from Patrick Clancy's account instead. Same story with the pills: Saathoff said he got the information about Clancy allegedly crushing medication straight from Patrick — nothing was ever tested to confirm it. Reddington then asked the obvious follow-up nobody had an answer for: how did the empty pill bottles end up in a drawer? Saathoff also conceded that a person in psychosis can generate false memories and misremember events entirely — which doesn't exactly help a case built on secondhand recollection. He testified he never reached out to Clancy's mother himself, relying only on the DA's office telling him she wouldn't talk.Prosecutors argue Clancy understood what she was doing despite the 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. Husband Patrick Clancy, out running errands at the time, has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis 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
Kirk Heilbrun told twelve jurors that Lindsay Clancy is still grieving her children. That she spent months trying to get help. That she is not self-centered. That she used the words "I have lost everything, and I don't want to be here." He said he would not consider her a beast.Then he told those same twelve people that she's criminally responsible for killing Cora, Dawson, and Callan — and that her moral awareness was "influenced" by suicidal despair but never extinguished. He was paid $54,000 by the Commonwealth to reach that conclusion. His last encounter with a postpartum psychosis patient was forty-four years ago. Reddington attacked his credentials, his compensation, and his lack of published work on postpartum conditions.The prosecution's final witness, FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, took a different approach — comparing Clancy's accounts across multiple interviews and finding discrepancies the defense will have to answer in closing. Clancy gave different timelines for when the voice started, and a detail about what the children were doing in the kitchen doesn't match the crime scene evidence. Closings expected Thursday.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is standing trial for the murders of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her defense, led by Kevin Reddington, is built around an insanity claim: severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Cross-examination is where the prosecution's expert stopped having it easy. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, the FBI-affiliated forensic psychiatrist who diagnosed Clancy with bipolar II and testified she was criminally responsible, admitted under Reddington's questioning that he wasn't brought onto this case until January or February of 2026 — well after the killings — and that he didn't even know how much his own university employer got paid for his testimony. Reddington didn't let that sit quietly, either, pressing the point that Saathoff's expert work runs almost exclusively for prosecutors, prisons, and the institutions that write his paychecks.It got more pointed from there. Saathoff confirmed Clancy did tell her husband and mother about homicidal ideation — but when Reddington asked whether she'd complained to doctors, friends, and family about dark, intrusive thoughts of suicide and homicidal ideation more broadly, Saathoff wouldn't concede the homicidal piece. He did admit she kept reaching out for help, and that she told her doctors about dark thoughts and suicidal ideation. What never got asked, notably: whether those thoughts were just thoughts, or whether she experienced them as voices.Saathoff also testified he treated women with postpartum depression back in the 1980s and '90s, background the defense clearly wants jurors weighing against his conclusions today.Clancy is now paralyzed from the waist down after allegedly jumping from a second-story window. Husband Patrick Clancy has relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #ExpertWitness #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #CrossExamination #Breaking
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for the murders of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — allegedly strangled 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 defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, is arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication when it happened.Today the prosecution's expert took the stand, and he didn't hedge. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, testified that whatever voice Clancy said she heard never told her how to kill her children or where to do it — a detail the prosecution wants the jury sitting with. He described Clancy as gripped by a sense of "burdensomeness," convinced she couldn't return to work and that the family couldn't survive financially with her in it. He called her suicide attempt "very, very serious," pointing to the fact that she tried multiple methods as proof she meant it.Saathoff landed on a diagnosis — bipolar II — and said Clancy was suffering from a genuine mental disease at the time. But he drew a hard line after that: disease or not, he testified she understood right from wrong, and she was criminally responsible for what happened.That's the needle prosecutors are threading — real illness, real tragedy, but not legal insanity. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Husband Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #BipolarII #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #FBIProfiler #Breaking
Lindsay Clancy is right-handed, Patrick Clancy is left-handed, and the knife on the nightstand was set down by a lefty. That's a real comment on this channel, and it's the kind of detail that sounds like evidence until you check whether anyone testified to it.No one did. State Police analyst Sherri Crook told the jury the knife had been moved about an inch on the nightstand, leaving an outline in blood, and that she couldn't say where it sat before that. Investigators recovered no usable fingerprints from it. No witness in this trial has said a word about which hand either Clancy favors.The same commenter says a nurse would never search for the carotid artery. Lindsay did. "Where is the carotid artery" is in her phone extraction, next to a search about how to end her life. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington put those searches on poster boards during his cross of Sgt. Timothy Chiappini, because they support his argument that she was planning her own death rather than researching harm to her children. Prosecutors had characterized the same history as searches for ways to kill. Chiappini initially didn't recall the carotid search, then agreed the device identifier matched her phone.That's the pattern across this whole segment. The theory reaches for a detail, the record has the detail, and the detail cuts the other way.Five comments, each one taken seriously and checked against testimony: the rope, the knife, the window, the psychosis admission, and the claim that Patrick fled the country. What Lindsay Clancy did is admitted by her own attorney. What her illness means is for the jury. Everything else in those comments is answerable, and I answer it.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #ClancyTrial #Duxbury #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #PlymouthSuperiorCourt
Day 6 of the Fernandez trial ended with the prosecution resting and the defense asking Judge London Kite to throw the case out. The motion argued what the defense has pressed all trial: the solicitation charge requires evidence of a communicative act, and six days of testimony produced nothing showing Fernandez asked Tenon to kill Bridegan. No message, no witness, no recording.The prosecution's answer was the boldest legal theory of the trial. An "earnest ask" isn't needed, they told the judge, because the murder is the proof. Fernandez is the only connection between the alleged gunman and the victim. The checks, the trust clause, the phone data gap during the hour of the shooting, and a January visit to the man who once owned a 10mm Glock matching the shell casings form the web. That web, prosecutors argued, is the communicative act.Judge Kite denied the motion. Before the jury entered the courtroom that morning, prosecutors had tried one more thing. Kim Jensen, a friend of Gardner's, testified under immunity about Fernandez allegedly asking his wife if there was anything "he wanted her to take care of." Marital privilege blocked most of her statements. The jury never heard her. Defense closes Wednesday morning. Deliberations could follow that afternoon.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #BrideganTrial #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JuryDeliberation
The Commonwealth called Dr. Avram Mack to prove Lindsay Clancy was responsible and got a witness who repeated her account of the voice. Jackson County's DA promised a grand jury every piece of evidence her office collected and never collected Nolan Wells' phone. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired from the Bureau after 25 years, joins Tony Brueski for the full interview on both.Clancy's side rested August 21, 2026. The closer was Resnick, the psychiatrist from the Andrea Yates acquittal, who told jurors she was psychotic and obeying a command voice on January 24, 2023. Coffindaffer has been on the guilt side since day one. Each of her arguments meets the record. Yates planned too. Testing done for the state found no faking. The paper trail includes a psychiatrist session the day before. The window left her paralyzed and on suicide watch.The credibility war follows. Resnick is 88 and evaluated her at four months; Mack evaluated her at three years. The chaplain who heard about the voice in their earliest meetings has visited about two hundred times; the malpractice suit came three years later. Her family got her a bed at McLean, and McLean sent her home as low risk nineteen days before the children died.Nolan Wells was found dead on Horn Island two days after a July 4 boat trip. His phone rode home with his friends, his mother recovered it within days, and she says the July 4 texts and pictures were gone. The friends say nobody touched it. Seven weeks later, no forensic exam. A July 15 agreement with no date. A two-day ultimatum from the DA in mid-August. A four-day counteroffer from the family. Silence since.Clancy's not guilty plea rests on lack of criminal responsibility, and the Wells case has produced no charges. Two offices, two rooms full of citizens waiting, and two pieces of evidence the state would rather not explain.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #NolanWells #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ClancyTrial #HornIsland #PostpartumPsychosis #Mississippi #NolanWellsPhone #TrueCrimePodcast
Eleven hours. That's how long forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff, who's worked with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, spent interviewing Lindsay Clancy over Zoom across May and June 2026 — and today he told a Plymouth Superior Court jury what came out of it. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (7 months) — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Saathoff isn't a stranger to this specific horror — he testified he's diagnosed and treated five to seven women in the prison system who killed their children, and co-authored a 1980s paper on postpartum psychosis with four colleagues. He explained to jurors that psychosis itself isn't a disease but a symptom, and distinguished Serious Mental Illness like schizophrenia and bipolar I from the broader Any Mental Illness category that covers things like anxiety disorder and PTSD.Then came the substance: Saathoff testified Clancy described an external voice that started while she was making the kids' dinner, right after a call with Patrick Clancy — telling her this was her last chance, that she had to kill the children and then herself. The voice, he said, stopped after she strangled Callan, her youngest — though it had already gone silent before her own suicide attempt. He called it unusual that this was the first time she'd ever heard it. He also noted inconsistencies between Clancy's account and collateral witness statements, pointing specifically to the Three V takeout order and Clancy allegedly asking her husband to run an errand to a particular drugstore.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis 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 #GregorySaathoff #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #PlymouthCounty #KevinReddington #CoraDawsonCallan #TrueCrimeToday
Day 6 of the Keffe D murder trial brought the 2017 Death Row Chronicles recording into the courtroom — and one exchange between the interviewer and Duane Davis landed harder than any confession the jury has heard so far.Davis described the night Tupac Shakur was shot, named his nephew as the gunman, and discussed Sean Combs and money. He said Combs wanted Suge Knight "taken care of" and then ghosted him when the situation got hot. The defense fought to keep the recording out, arguing it contained references to other crimes. The judge admitted it with limiting instructions — every version of Davis telling this story chips away at the fiction defense.Prosecution witness Michael Dorsey, the filmmaker behind Murder Rap, testified about recording the interview on his own phone and later alerting Las Vegas police. His phone recording captured audio the official production recorder missed. Combs has denied any involvement and has never been charged in connection with the case.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/@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.#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who's consulted with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, spent today explaining what he found when he sat down with 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's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Saathoff isn't new to this territory — he told the court he's evaluated and treated five to seven women in the prison system who killed their children, and co-authored a paper on postpartum psychosis back in the 1980s. He drew a line for jurors between psychosis, which he called a symptom rather than a standalone illness, and the diagnoses that can produce it. He also walked through the difference between Serious Mental Illness — schizophrenia, bipolar I — and Any Mental Illness, the broader category that includes things like anxiety and PTSD.The heart of his testimony: after interviewing Clancy over Zoom for roughly 11 hours across May and June 2026, Saathoff said she described an external voice that surfaced while making dinner, right after hanging up with Patrick Clancy — telling her this was her last chance, that she had to kill the kids and then herself. He testified the voice stopped once she strangled Callan, her youngest, but had already gone quiet before she attempted suicide. He flagged that as unusual, along with inconsistencies between her account and what collateral witnesses told him — including the decision to order Three V takeout, and Clancy allegedly steering her husband toward a specific drugstore to keep him out of the house longer.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis 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 #GregorySaathoff #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #PlymouthCounty #KevinReddington #CoraDawsonCallan #HiddenKillers
Seven weeks. Nolan Wells died on Horn Island, Mississippi over the July 4 weekend, and the phone his family says was wiped has never been opened by a forensic examiner. Not by the sheriff, the DA, or the FBI. Jennifer Coffindaffer, who retired from the FBI after 25 years, sits down with Tony Brueski on why the single test that ends the argument still hasn't happened.The timeline is short and ugly. The friends brought the phone back to the mainland. Nolan's mother collected it from them in the first days and says the July 4 messages and photos were gone. The friends say they never touched it. On July 15, District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath and the family's lawyers agreed to examine it together at a community college digital lab. No date followed.Then a 48-hour ultimatum from the DA on August 12, sent while the parents were away. Then a four-day offer from the family on August 17. Nothing has been announced. The DA's only statement since didn't say the word "phone" but promised the grand jury all the evidence collected. The phone was never collected.Coffindaffer's FBI career is the lens. The sheriff's no-foul-play call came two days after Nolan disappeared and before any autopsy, while the phone sat with the family and no one in law enforcement asked for it. A congressional caucus requested a DOJ review, the NAACP came aboard the family's legal team, and Sharpton called the phone erased. All of it before one extraction.The three friends turned their own devices over to federal agents voluntarily. The family has served subpoenas on five tech companies for server records. Those companies keep logs a phone doesn't.Nobody has been charged. The friends deny tampering. The question for the people in charge is simple: does anyone actually want to know what's on it?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/@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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #NolanWellsPhone #BenCrump #JacksonCounty #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrimePodcast
The prosecution's rebuttal case in the Lindsay Clancy trial took an unexpected turn when its second expert witness handed the jury a motive rooted in love instead of premeditation.Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist who examined Clancy at Tewksbury Hospital over three days, testified that her account of hearing a commanding voice on the night of the killings is clinically inconsistent. The voice appeared for eighteen minutes and never returned. She reported no accompanying delusions and made no attempt to resist it. He called the psychosis theory "a convenient way of lessening your own culpability."His alternative: Clancy was suicidal and took her children with her because she couldn't stand the idea of them suffering without her. He used the forensic term "altruistic filicide" — killing your children out of love. The first words Clancy spoke to Patrick when he walked through the door were about her own death, not the voice.Then a prosecution witness mentioned Catholic doctrine and the word "mortal sin" from the stand — the second time in eight days the prosecution injected faith into the trial. Judge Sullivan denied a defense mistrial motion, struck the testimony, and sent the jury home. Closing arguments expected Wednesday.END_LINKSListen 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/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist called as a prosecution rebuttal witness, spent another day on the stand 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 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.Cross-examination resumed after a morning recess, and Reddington kept working the same angle he's been on for days — how severe was this, really, and why hasn't Heilbrun published on postpartum psychosis specifically. He walked through a list of symptoms and got Heilbrun to agree they line up with postpartum depression, all of which Clancy reported having. On redirect, Heilbrun pushed back on the framing: those same symptoms, he said, also track with major depressive disorder, general depression, and bipolar II — and he testified he's had more case material here than in any matter he's ever handled. He clarified Clancy wasn't experiencing thought broadcasting; she believed her own intrusive, unwelcome thoughts were somehow audible to others. The prosecution then had him confirm the harder fact: Clancy never told a single healthcare provider she wanted to hurt her children, repeatedly denied suicidal ideation, and showed no observed or reported signs of psychosis before that day. On re-cross, Heilbrun held the line — no lying, no faking, no malingering, on any of it.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, 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial in Plymouth Superior Court on three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, accused of killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is running an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.If direct examination was about Dr. Kirk Heilbrun's conclusions, cross was about his credentials — and Reddington went at them hard. He got Heilbrun to admit his evaluation of Clancy happened roughly three years after the killings, and got him to concede on the record that earlier is better when it comes to assessing someone's mental state after an offense. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his own methodology. Heilbrun also testified he'd treated four or five women who'd killed their children — about 44 years ago. Reddington didn't let that sit quietly either.Then came the CV. Reddington walked through roughly 70 pages of it and pointed out what wasn't there: no articles on pregnancy or postpartum depression, no postpartum psychosis research — just juveniles, prisoner reintegration, and sexual abuse work, plus a career mostly spent consulting for prosecutors and corrections. Heilbrun admitted he's coached both prosecutors and defense attorneys on presenting expert witnesses, but Reddington made sure jurors knew which side he's usually on. He also confirmed he'd never met co-evaluator Avram Mack in person until Tewksbury Hospital, and that his total time with Clancy came to 10.5 hours across three days.Clancy allegedly attempted suicide afterward by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Husband Patrick Clancy, running errands at the time, has since relocated to Manhattan.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KevinReddington #KirkHeilbrun #CrossExamination #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers
Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old 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, is back in Plymouth Superior Court, and this week the prosecution brought out its heaviest hitter yet. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington is running an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Monday got messy before the end. Reddington moved for a mistrial after "mortal sin" came up for the second time from the prosecution's side. Judge William Sullivan said no, but told jurors to strike anything about sin or religiosity from Dr. Kirk Heilbrun's testimony — and made it clear the prosecution needed to keep their own witness on a shorter leash. When Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist, came back Tuesday, he laid out a different diagnosis than the defense wants jurors thinking about: bipolar II, yes, but what happened that day looks like a serious suicide attempt paired with altruistic filicide — not psychosis. He testified Clancy understood the legality of what she was doing and could have stopped herself. His opinion: criminally responsible. He also flagged something jurors probably won't forget — Clancy calling her husband back mid-crisis — and said that doesn't read as self-centered, it reads as a mother already grieving.After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Husband Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KevinReddington #KirkHeilbrun #InsanityDefense #CriminalResponsibility #HiddenKillers
A commenter who studied psychology at the university level has two objections to the Lindsay Clancy defense. Psychosis doesn't surface one second and vanish the next. And a truly psychotic woman wouldn't ask for a lawyer the moment she came out of a coma.Both are in the record, and both got an answer from witnesses the prosecution called.Dr. Sejal Shah, testifying for the Commonwealth, agreed on cross that a person can be in psychosis and still communicate and make plans. Defense psychologist Paul Zeizel told the jury hallucinations come and go like waves at the beach. No expert on either side described psychosis as a steady state.The lawyer question is true. Dr. Jhilam Biswas testified that on Jan. 26, 2023, still intubated, Lindsay wrote on paper that she felt horrified, asked whether she had an attorney, asked where her family was, and asked whether her body was broken. What that shows about her mind two days earlier is for the jury.The commenter's strongest point is also in the record. Zeizel conceded that none of Lindsay's treatment records from September 2022 to Jan. 23, 2023 document a voice telling her to kill. He also testified she hasn't heard voices since 2023. The defense's answer is three years of medication and one-to-one supervision at Tewksbury. Both sides own that fact.This segment runs five comments through the testimony. The on-off psychosis argument. The Andrea Yates search that has no record, and the conversation about Yates that does. The OCPD diagnosis no expert made. The "she sent him to the store" argument. And the prosecution's case, stated as fact by people who should know it's a claim.The illness is the trial. The comments have it decided. The witnesses don't.END LINKSListen 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/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #AndreaYates #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense
To the prosecution's psychiatrist. The Commonwealth put Dr. Avram Mack on the stand in the Lindsay Clancy trial to say she was responsible for her actions. Under oath, he repeated what she'd told him: a man's voice, laughing, saying this was her last chance. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired from the Bureau, argues the guilt side of the credibility war with Tony Brueski.Attacking witnesses is the whole second half of this trial. Resnick is too old and got to her too late, at four months. Mack got to her at three years. The chaplain isn't a clinician, and her notes never mention a voice. She also told jurors Clancy raised the voice with her in their earliest hospital visits, and she's made roughly two hundred visits since.The malpractice suit the voice was supposedly built for was filed in January 2026. The chaplain's account dates the voice to January 2023. Face-readers say Clancy smirks in court. Zeizel, sixty meetings in, said her children are on her mind every day. Mack said she cried in front of him and doesn't want to live.Mack also testified he found no evidence of mania and that Clancy herself doubts the bipolar label. Zeizel and Resnick each diagnosed bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis. Denying the illness is a symptom of the illness.Blame has landed on the family for hearing harm thoughts in December 2022 and not taking the children. What they did was get her a bed at McLean. A psychiatrist there found no safety concerns and released her. The children died nineteen days later, and her outside providers had the same warning in their files.Clancy's not guilty plea rests on lack of criminal responsibility; prosecutors allege planning and a staged suicide attempt. A calculating killer doesn't warn her own mother. If the warnings were obvious, she was obviously sick.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #AvramMack #Duxbury #MurderTrial #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimePodcast
Lindsay Clancy's final psychiatric appointment was January 23, 2023. The killings were January 24. That single date is where the Lindsay Clancy trial's guilt arguments start to wobble, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired from the FBI after 25 years, is here to defend them anyway.The defense rested on August 21, 2026, after Dr. Phillip Resnick testified by video that Clancy was psychotic the day she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Resnick helped acquit Andrea Yates in 2006. He told this jury the command voice ran for some time before January 24 and that Clancy felt she had to obey it.Coffindaffer argues planning proves awareness. Tony puts Yates next to Clancy: both waited for a husband to leave, both acted methodically, one was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Coffindaffer argues the paper trail is thin. The record shows a psychiatrist, two nurse practitioners, a therapist, suicide hotline calls in December 2022, and a five-day stay at McLean Hospital that discharged her as low risk nineteen days before the deaths.The sociopath theory gets tested against the Commonwealth's own psychological testing, which Resnick said showed no faking and a tendency to minimize. The staged-jump theory gets tested against a neck wound, slashed wrists, paralysis from the waist down, and an ongoing suicide watch at Tewksbury Hospital.Prosecutors opened their rebuttal with Dr. Avram Mack, who met Clancy in April 2026 and testified she knew what she did was wrong. Mack is the source for the jury hearing that she told the children to "go to God." The chaplain who saw her on January 31, 2023, testified the first thing Clancy said was that she was glad her children were safe.Clancy's not guilty plea rests on a claim of no criminal responsibility. Closings are next. Does a guilty person spend three years saying she saved them?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/@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.#LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #MurderTrial #Duxbury #AndreaYates #McLeanHospital #TrueCrimePodcast
Two phones defined August 21 in the Jared Bridegan murder case, and the court could only reach one of them. The first belongs to Kirsten Bridegan. A judge halted Mario Fernandez's trial mid-testimony because Kirsten defied an order to surrender that phone for extraction on behalf of Shanna Gardner's lawyers. Gardner's attorneys say the material includes Kirsten's messages with the two children Gardner shares with Jared, both listed as witnesses, and argue the phone may show whether testimony was influenced. The show-cause order that followed put Jared's widow one hearing away from a contempt finding, until an appeals court stepped in hours later and gave her three business days to fight.The second phone belonged to Fernandez, and according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office detective, it was factory reset on August 26, 2022, six months after the killing and the same day as a T-Mobile store purchase. Prosecutors say Fernandez kept right on using the wiped device, logged back into 35 accounts, and never exchanged another message with Henry Tenon, the man accused of pulling the trigger. Before the wipe, the state's chart shows their contact collapsing from dozens of monthly exchanges around the murder down to nothing. What survived came from other devices: Tenon's old LG still held a January 4, 2022 text from Fernandez reading "I'm here brother," sent on the very date prosecutors say the conspiracy began.Fernandez's attorneys spent cross-examination cutting it down. Resets happen around upgrades, landlords call tenants, and the state's own analyst admitted she cannot connect a single deletion to Jared's death. Then, with the jurors gone, prosecutors previewed an inmate who claims Fernandez took credit for the plan. The judge hasn't decided whether a jury will ever hear him. Fernandez maintains his innocence on both counts, and the fight over what these phones remember is far from settled.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/@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.#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #KirstenBridegan #HenryTenon #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #Jacksonville #TrueCrimeCommunity #CourtNews
Nolan Wells’ DA and the family agreed to a joint forensic examination of the phone that left Horn Island with his friends. A month passed. The DA sent a 48-hour letter. The deal collapsed. That phone has been sitting in a drawer for six weeks while Snapchat and WhatsApp servers purge data.Lindsay Clancy’s prosecution spent three weeks proving premeditation against a defendant who had already admitted to the killings. Their own witnesses called her a wonderful mother. Their own psychiatrist never met her in person. They asked her mother-in-law about mortal sin. They told the jury she faked a suicide attempt while she sat in front of them in a wheelchair.Two cases where the prosecution’s own conduct may be doing more harm to their case than anything the defense has put on. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down the mistakes and where both cases go from here.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/@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.#NolanWells #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillersPodcast #EricFaddis #ProsecutionBlunders #PostpartumPsychosis #HornIsland #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense
Day 5 of the Duane "Keffe D" Davis trial belonged to a question detectives asked him in 2009: what went through your head when Tupac Shakur died? His recorded answer opens this episode, and everything that follows tracks who profited from the story he's told for years. The retired detective who took his 2008 confession put it in a book. Two consultants from that world helped build a BET docuseries — one of them wrote the interview questions and recorded the session on his phone. The director admitted cutting sealed police audio into the show and paying Davis to sit for it. Prosecutors say all that talking is precisely why the confession can now be used to convict him. The episode also covers Leonard Jefferson, whose photo of Tupac and Suge Knight at a stoplight became the last image of the rapper alive, and whose release from the scene a detective later called a mistake. On tape, Davis insists the shooting grew out of a beating at the MGM Grand, that the crew hunted Suge Knight first, and that his nephew fired the shots. Sean Combs surfaces in Davis's account as well — Combs denies everything, was never a suspect, and has never been charged. It closes with Davis confronting the prosecutor in open court. One man told this story to everyone who'd pay. Now twelve jurors get it for free.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/@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.Hashtags: #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacMurderTrial #DuaneDavis #SugeKnight #TrueCrime #LasVegasTrial #CrimePodcast #2Pac
The prosecution rested after fourteen days and more than seventy witnesses. Before trial, the defense conceded that Lindsay Clancy killed her children. The prosecution’s job was to prove she was sane and acting with premeditation when she did it. After three weeks, what they may have proven instead is how badly her medical providers failed her.Patrick Clancy, their first witness, testified he was never told not to leave Lindsay alone with the children and that he didn’t know what psychosis was until after January 24th. The prosecution’s own psychiatrist admitted under cross that she never met Lindsay in person across fourteen appointments.The defense psychologist has met with Lindsay more than sixty times and diagnosed her with bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis. He testified she had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act. Lindsay’s mother and mother-in-law both took the stand and described a woman begging for help that never came in the form she needed.Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, evaluates whether the prosecution accomplished what it needed to and where this jury is likely to land.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillersPodcast #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #KevinReddington #DrPaulZeizel #TrueCrime #Duxbury
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist called by the prosecution, 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 building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Heilbrun evaluated Clancy three years after the killings, and testified she tended to underreport or minimize her own symptoms — which, coming from a rebuttal witness, is not a throwaway line. He didn't dispute that her suicide attempt was serious; he said the opposite, noting she remains on one-to-one suicide precautions at Tewksbury and is still considered at risk. What he disputed is the cause of the children's deaths. Heilbrun testified he doesn't believe psychosis was behind it — he believes Clancy killed her children to spare them from suffering after she died. He said the symptoms only showed up during the offense itself, with no related delusions, and that the voice telling her "this is your last chance" reads to him as intrusive thoughts, not a command hallucination. He also pointed to her first words to her husband after the attempt: "I tried to kill myself" — not that she'd followed a voice's instructions.Prosecutors are expected to lean on that distinction hard. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court, where Judge William F. Sullivan is presiding over what's shaping up to be a battle of competing psychiatric narratives, not competing facts.LinksJoin 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerContent on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice.Hashtags#LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist called as a prosecution rebuttal witness, spent hours on the stand laying out a timeline that doesn't do the prosecution any favors 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, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Heilbrun opened by explaining retention bias — the tendency to lean toward whichever side hired you for the evaluation — before detailing his own work: roughly 180 hours reviewing police records, medical records, court documents, and surveillance footage, plus 10.5 hours testing and interviewing Clancy and 1.5 hours in collateral interviews. He testified that before September 2022, Clancy's medical history was limited, mostly some anxiety. After October 2022, that anxiety and depression worsened, and by December 2022 she was experiencing intrusive, unwanted thoughts about harming herself and, occasionally, the children — thoughts he was careful to distinguish from auditory hallucinations.On the diagnostic question, Heilbrun said he found no record of mania or hypomania that would point to bipolar disorder, despite Tewksbury Hospital's chart carrying that diagnosis for three and a half years. His own diagnosis: bipolar II. He also walked the jury through the legal standard for criminal responsibility — mental disease or defect, capacity to know the conduct was wrong, and ability to conform behavior to the law. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #HiddenKillers #Breaking
Lindsay Clancy's murder trial now turns on a sentence she said in her basement on January 24, 2023. The Plymouth County DA's psychiatric expert, Dr. Avram Mack, testified she told him she said "go to God" as she strangled each child, and he told the jury that proves she understood her actions were wrong.Hours earlier, defense psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick told the same jury she was frankly psychotic that day, heard a command, felt her body controlled by an outside force like a puppet, and believed sending her children to heaven was the right thing to do. He examined her four months after the deaths. Mack first met her more than three years later.Mack conceded a severe major depressive episode but found no psychosis and no mania in the months before the killings. He testified that psychosis on its own doesn't prevent someone from knowing right from wrong. Tony Brueski argues that line does as much damage to the prosecution as to the defense, because the state spent eighteen days proving Clancy wasn't psychotic and the jury will be instructed that capacity, not diagnosis, is the question.Reddington's cross-examination challenged Mack's background, his claim that Clancy resisted medication, and whether postpartum psychosis belongs in the DSM. Resnick faced his own cross, acknowledging Clancy never told providers about the impulse to harm her children. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors allege she planned the killings. The Commonwealth carries the burden of proving she was criminally responsible. Two more prosecution experts remain before closings.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #AvramMack #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ClancyTrial #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #PhillipResnick #Duxbury #TrueCrimePodcast
Redirect testimony from Dr. Avram Mack turned into a battle over diagnostic fine print Monday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is 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. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her defense is built on a claim of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication led by attorney Kevin Reddington.After Reddington spent his cross picking at Mack's credentials and motives, prosecutors used redirect to reframe the whole diagnostic argument. They had Mack explain that while postpartum psychosis isn't its own DSM diagnosis, "postpartum onset" is a recognized specifier that can attach to conditions like bipolar disorder and depression — meaning the clinical reality the defense is describing has a home in the manual, just not under the name they're using. From there, testimony settled into the unglamorous stuff that actually decides whether jurors trust an expert: precise definitions of what counts as "postpartum," another pass through Mack's qualifications, and other procedural detail work. Reddington kept pushing to keep the credibility damage on the record; the prosecution kept working to shore it up.No new revelations, but plenty riding on it — this is the tug-of-war over whether the jury walks away trusting Mack's opinion or writing it off entirely. 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 running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Monday's session in the Lindsay Clancy trial belonged to the defense, as attorney Kevin Reddington took apart prosecution rebuttal witness Dr. Avram Mack piece by piece. Clancy, the 34-year-old 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, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her defense rests on an insanity argument built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Reddington's cross covered a lot of ground fast. He brought up past cases where Mack was found not credentialed enough to testify, then asked about money — Mack said expert testimony nets him several hundred thousand dollars a year. Reddington had him define confirmatory bias, then asked if he'd exhibited it evaluating Clancy; Mack said no. Mack testified his own evaluation didn't happen until 2026, three years after the incident, and that he came in already holding defense records, DCF files, and medical history. The actual sit-downs with Clancy ran about eight hours combined across two doctors, plus a separate day of psychological testing. He also laid out the diagnostic disagreement at the heart of this case: Drs. Heilbrun, Resnick, and Zeizel diagnosed bipolar 2, a different doctor diagnosed bipolar 1, and Mack pointed out postpartum psychosis doesn't even appear in the DSM as a standalone diagnosis.Prosecutors still intend to argue Clancy knew what she was doing at the time. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping 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 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #DrAvramMack #Breaking
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial hit a rough patch Monday for the prosecution, as its own rebuttal witness, psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack, spent hours under cross-examination from defense attorney Kevin Reddington. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is 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. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorneys are pursuing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Reddington didn't ease in. He started with prior cases where courts had ruled Mack unqualified to testify, then moved to money — Mack testified he pulls in several hundred thousand dollars a year doing expert witness work. Asked to define confirmatory bias and then asked point-blank if he'd shown it evaluating Clancy, Mack said no. He testified he met with Clancy in 2026, three years removed from the killings, having already reviewed defense records, DCF documentation, and medical history — the evaluation itself ran roughly eight hours across two doctors and multiple days, including a full day of testing. He also acknowledged the diagnostic split in the case: Drs. Heilbrun, Resnick, and Zeizel diagnosed bipolar 2, another doctor diagnosed bipolar 1, and postpartum psychosis, he noted, isn't a recognized DSM diagnosis at all.Despite the rough cross, prosecutors are still expected to argue Clancy understood what she was doing regardless of her mental state. 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 running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
The prosecution has rested its case against Lindsay Clancy. After three weeks and more than seventy witnesses, some of the prosecution’s most damaging moments came from their own conduct in the courtroom.On cross-examination of Lindsay’s former mother-in-law, the prosecutor asked whether she was an active Catholic, then asked if she was aware that murder is considered a mortal sin. The judge called a sidebar and instructed the jury to disregard the question. Lindsay’s mother took the stand and testified that her daughter said the medication was destroying her mind. The prosecution’s cross: why didn’t you have her committed? During autopsy testimony, Lindsay sobbed until the judge halted proceedings. The next morning brought a hot-mic dispute — the defense alleging someone said “shut her up,” the DA’s office claiming the words were “shut it off.”The prosecution opened the trial by calling a paralyzed woman’s jump from a second-story window a faked suicide attempt. Their own psychiatrist treated Lindsay exclusively by telehealth and admitted she never met her patient face to face.Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down the prosecution’s courtroom conduct and how a jury processes these moments.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/@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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillersPodcast #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #KevinReddington #MortalSin #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #Duxbury
The family agreed. The DA agreed. A joint forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ phone at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Both sides’ experts in the room, possibly the FBI. Then a month went by without a date being set, and the DA sent a letter: hand over the phone in 48 hours.The phone had already been through civilian hands. Nolan’s mother and her sister opened both Snapchat accounts before any forensic protocol existed and found them empty. Meanwhile, the three friends who were with Nolan on Horn Island turned over their own devices to the FBI without being asked twice.Forensic experts say the longer that phone sits unexamined, the more data Snapchat and WhatsApp purge from their servers. The state autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is supposedly reviewing the case. And the phone that might answer what happened on July 4 has not been touched by a single forensic tool.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down who is responsible for the collapsed deal and whether the evidence can still be recovered.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/@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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersPodcast #Snapchat #PhoneEvidence #Mississippi #GrandJury #DigitalForensics #TrueCrime #JusticeForNolan
Lindsay Clancy sat through fourteen telehealth sessions with her psychiatrist in the weeks before her three children died in their Duxbury home, and that doctor told the jury she never appeared psychotic. Then came the hospital chaplain — the person who has spent more hours with Clancy than nearly anyone alive, roughly two hundred visits across three years at Tewksbury Hospital. She testified that Clancy described a male voice commanding her to kill her children and then herself, or none of them would be safe. On cross-examination, the prosecutor got her to admit something the defense didn't want said out loud: in two hundred visits, she never wrote that voice down. That gap now sits at the center of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Once an insanity defense is raised under Massachusetts law, the burden shifts — prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when she used exercise bands on her three children. To carry that burden, the state needs jurors to conclude the chaplain either missed the most important thing Clancy ever told her, or that Clancy invented it after she survived her own suicide attempt. Phone forensics don't make the answer easier — Clancy had searched "symptoms of postpartum psychosis," timed her husband's errand, and ordered the takeout that cleared him out of the house. The defense calls it a woman failed by a medical system that kept adjusting her prescriptions without hearing her. The prosecution calls it premeditation with a convenient excuse attached. Tony Brueski lays out both sides of a case that keeps getting harder to call, with closing arguments expected the week of August 24. 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 #ClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #DuxburyMom #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #PlymouthSuperiorCourt
A psychiatrist who prescribed twelve of Lindsay Clancy's thirty medications in four months sat on the stand at Plymouth Superior Court and couldn't defend her own paperwork. Dr. Jennifer Tufts treated Lindsay exclusively over telehealth, never meeting her face to face, and never pulled records from another clinic treating her at the same time. When defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked if she had, she said no. "Seriously?" he replied. Then he confronted her with her own chart notes documenting pressured speech — a potential mania symptom — and she told the jury the notes didn't reflect what she meant. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke were both in the room for it, and Tony Brueski combines their breakdowns of a prosecution witness who may have done more for the defense than the defense did for itself. Nurse practitioners also testified, describing Lindsay pleading to change medications that were making her worse, while one nurse told the prosecution directly she saw no signs of postpartum psychosis. Patrick Clancy opened for the prosecution, describing his wife's "best day" hours before their children died, followed by months of intrusive thoughts and a growing list of prescriptions. After fourteen days and more than seventy witnesses, this episode asks the question the jury is now sitting with: did the Commonwealth's own case just make the defense's argument for them? 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 #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #DefenseDiaries #MurderTrial
A South Carolina county of 37,000 people, where the Murdaugh family ran the local prosecutor's office for three generations, will not be hosting Alex Murdaugh's retrial. Judge Debra McCaslin pulled the case entirely outside the 14th Judicial Circuit at an August 14 pretrial hearing, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down everything else that happened in that courtroom. Murdaugh's defense told the court that weapons from a recent Allendale County homicide may be ballistically linked to the Moselle murder weapons — information prosecutor Creighton Waters said he'd never heard, despite daily contact with SLED. McCaslin ordered independent lab testing on unidentified male DNA recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails, siding with the defense's argument that SLED's own retesting process risked destroying the sample. She ruled Murdaugh's 2023 sworn testimony — including his admission that he lied about being at the kennels the night his wife and son died — can be replayed for the new jury. She's also now personally managing jury summons after questions arose about whether court official Becky Hill's interference in the original trial began earlier than previously understood. Murdaugh's team separately wants the murder charges voided outright, alleging a SLED agent fabricated evidence presented to the grand jury; that motion has not been ruled on. The next hearing lands November 14, with the retrial set for April 5, 2027. 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #PaulMurdaugh
Nobody disputes what happened to Lindsay Clancy's three children. Not the prosecution. Not her own defense attorney, who told the jury in opening statements that she did it. Patrick Clancy testified about finding Cora, Dawson, and Callan in their Duxbury home. Surveillance footage, phone records, and the 911 call all corroborate the same account. And still, a massive online audience has decided the entire case is a cover-up. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, joins Tony Brueski for a two-part conversation on why agreement from both sides of a courtroom isn't enough to satisfy people who've already made up their minds. She breaks down why a tragedy this size creates a psychological need for a villain worse than a mother suffering catastrophic psychosis — and why every fact introduced to correct the record just adds fuel instead of putting it out. Then the conversation turns to the people doing the posting themselves. They report real physical symptoms — shaking hands, sleepless nights, rage over strangers they will never meet. Scott explains how the case has become an outlet for something that has nothing to do with Duxbury, and what it's costing the people it's aimed at. Patrick Clancy is now receiving death threats over a version of events even Lindsay's own lawyer has never argued. Scott closes with what she'd say to someone who is completely certain of a story the evidence doesn't support. 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 #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #ConspiracyTheories #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePsychology
A man who already confessed to killing Jared Bridegan stood up in a Jacksonville Beach courtroom in February 2026 and asked for a trial. Henry Tenon had pleaded to second-degree murder, agreed to fifteen years minimum, and signed on to testify against the two people prosecutors say paid him to do it. Then he changed his mind — and turned his own confession into something the state now has to prove without his cooperation. The man on trial in his place, for now, is Mario Fernandez, Tenon's former landlord, charged with first-degree murder and solicitation to commit a capital felony. An FBI agent walked jurors through Tenon's phone on a Saturday eighteen days before the murder — a drive from Fernandez's rental property toward Bridegan's neighborhood and his kids' gymnastics facility, then back. Prosecutors call it a rehearsal. The defense calls it a renovation errand and points to video of Fernandez meeting contractors at the property that same window. No DNA, fingerprints, or surveillance ties Fernandez to the truck linked to the ambush, and the lead detective has already conceded there's no physical evidence tying him to the gun. Three checks from Fernandez to Tenon, ten thousand dollars total, are dated weeks after Bridegan was killed — memo lines reading "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" And a prosecutor let slip that a second person was there the night Bridegan died, someone still uncharged. Bridegan was thirty-three, a father of four, killed after stopping on a dark road to move a tire while his two-year-old rode in the back seat. Gardner's trial starts in September. Tenon's comes in 2027. His widow is watching all three unfold. 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 #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #BrideganTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
None of the four providers treating Lindsay Clancy in the months before her children died ever spoke to one another. Her nurse practitioner didn't know she'd seen her psychiatrist fourteen times in four months. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to break down what that disconnect — and what came after it — mean for the jury at Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy searched "hallucinations" on her phone five days before the killings. A postpartum program turned her away for being overmedicated. After the deaths she jumped from a second-story window, breaking her spine and leaving her permanently paralyzed; she also slashed her neck and wrists and went into cardiac arrest in the ICU. The Commonwealth rested its case after fourteen days and more than seventy witnesses, and the defense started that same afternoon with three: Lindsay's mother, her sister, and a former coworker. Her mother testified about a daughter who texted that something was wrong. Patrick told the jury Lindsay described hearing a man's voice telling her to act — prosecutors have never disputed that she heard it, only argued she could have resisted. None of the prosecution's own psychiatrists or nurse practitioners had ever treated a patient with postpartum psychosis before this case. This episode traces the missed coordination, the witness gap, and what the jury is now weighing. 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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #MurderTrial
Every other person who was in that white Cadillac the night Tupac Shakur died is dead. Duane "Keffe D" Davis is the only one left to tell it — and the Tupac Shakur murder trial in Las Vegas is now entirely about whether his version can be trusted. Davis says he rode in the front passenger seat on September 7, 1996, watched Shakur pull up in a black BMW driven by Marion "Suge" Knight, and passed a handgun into the back seat. He says his nephew, Orlando Anderson, took it and opened fire. Shakur died six days later at 25. Anderson was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated shooting years ago. Knight isn't cooperating. The driver of the Cadillac is gone too. That leaves one voice, and it belongs to the man prosecutors say organized the whole thing. Davis told this story to a detective in 2008 who promised him immunity from anything he said in that room. He told it again in a BET documentary, in a 2019 memoir, and in paid interviews — after a retired detective published details first in a 2011 book. He was indicted in September 2023 and has pleaded not guilty, facing life in prison. His attorneys call the state's case fiction dressed up as fact, and they point out that with everyone else gone, there's no one left to check his story against. That's the problem sitting at the center of this trial. A story with no living witness to contradict it isn't the same as a proven story — but juries convict on testimony like this all the time. Hidden Killers lays out what Davis said, when he said it, and why being the last man standing might be the most dangerous position he's ever been in. Links & Legal Footer 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. Hashtags #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #DuaneDavis #TupacMurderTrial #OrlandoAnderson #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #LasVegas #SugeKnight
Nobody in the Lindsay Clancy courtroom has accused Patrick Clancy of anything. Online, it's a different story entirely. Retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to unpack how a man who testified about burying his own three children became a target for two opposite theories running at the same time. On TikTok, a blood-stain expert's testimony about the windowsill turned into a fully built scenario overnight: Patrick shoving Lindsay through the glass. Photos of his new wife got placed next to old photos of Lindsay, hair and build matched up, and a wedding three years after his children's deaths became evidence of a plan. On a separate front, the case has split almost cleanly by gender. Men on X want maximum punishment for Lindsay and no engagement with the psychosis defense or the thirteen medications from five prescribers. Women online have taken the opposite position, casting Patrick as a narcissist and invoking Chris Watts by name. Patrick told the jury directly that he wasn't married to a monster. Lindsay's own attorney has told the jury she killed her children. Dreeke and Scott trace how a medical symptom got recast as a motive, why remarriage reads as guilt to both camps for opposite reasons, and what it costs a father to be tried by an audience that was never in the courtroom. 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. #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #ConspiracyTheory #GenderWar #Duxbury
Brian Thompson's widow sat in the front row of a federal courtroom and cried while the man who killed her husband described the killing without a flicker of remorse. Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking in Thompson's death — no deal, no negotiation, nothing traded away. In his own statement to the judge, Mangione admitted he stalked the UnitedHealthcare CEO to an investor conference, posed as an investor overseeing tens of billions of dollars to learn exactly where and when Thompson would be, 3D-printed the gun, and traveled to New York intending to kill him. He referenced a broken back. He referenced the health insurance system. He never once mentioned Brian Thompson as a husband, a father, a person Paulette Thompson loved. Within hours of the plea, his defense team filed to dismiss the separate state murder case on double jeopardy grounds — the same case where jury selection had been set for September 8. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer sits down with Tony Brueski to unpack a defendant who has now beaten a terrorism charge, beaten the federal death penalty, and may be about to beat a state murder trial too. Federal sentencing is set for December 18; the guidelines suggest twenty-four to thirty years, but prosecutors outside the courthouse said they're pushing for life. Mangione is twenty-eight years old. This episode covers the confession, the legal maneuvering nobody saw coming until it happened, and what a stalking conviction actually means for a man who admitted to murder on the record. 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. #LuigiMangione #BrianThompson #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #GuiltyPlea #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime #UnitedHealthcare #PaulletteThompson #CriminalJustice