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🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast, bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski, we go beyond the headlines, featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal psychologists, and legal analysts. Whether it's the latest developments in cases like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow or deep dives into cold cases and unsolved mysteries, we uncover the hidden truths behind the crimes t...
Episodes(40 episodes)
Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Lied to the FBI About WHAT?
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 46m 57s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 5: Botner Gave Him WHAT Final Deadline?!
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.<...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 54m 57s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 5: Botner Said WHAT About Killing Ashley?!
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 51m 31s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 5: Alleigha Botner Read WHAT About Hiring Someone?!
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 54m 44s
Caleb Flynn Used His Pulpit to Build the Perfect Cover
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 15m 4s
Caleb Flynn Was Texting His Wife and Mistress at the Same Time
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 29m 21s
Junior Burdynski Vanished in 1993 — a Child Knows What Happened
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 11m 3s
Caleb Flynn Trial Analysis With Robin Dreeke Full Episode
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...
Published: Sep 24, 2026Duration: 56m 7s
Kohberger's Family Hired Lawyers to Fight His Own Confession
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 31m 30s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 4: Alleigha Botner Reads Caleb’s Messages Saying WHAT?!
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 56s
Caleb Flynn's Staged Scene and the Towel Over Ashley
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 12m 54s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 4: Botner Says Caleb Was Finally WHAT?!
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 s...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 1h 25m 43s
What Nolan Wells' Grand Jury Said About His Friends
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 34m 26s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 4: Sarah Stuchell's Hammer Test Found WHAT?!
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 wi...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 53m 33s
Even Caleb Flynn's 12-Year-Old Saw It Coming
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 23m 14s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 4: Farkus & Deamron Saw WHAT at Door?!
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 se...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 56m 7s
Caleb Flynn Trial Day 4: Kline and Moore Used WHAT From Break-In Door?!
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 l...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 56m 31s
Caleb Flynn's Double Life Built on 100,000 Lies
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 17m 55s
Inside Caleb Flynn's 911 Call the Night Ashley Died
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...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 25m 58s
The Woman Who Reported Jesse Calhoun to Police Before She Vanished
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 lo...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 13m 45s