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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)
Lindsay Clancy's Case Proves THIS About Mental Illness
The facts in the Lindsay Clancy case are not in dispute. She killed her three children. Her defense admits it. Her husband admits it. The question splitting the public is whether she is a murderer or a casualty — and Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski why almost nobody watching can sit with the possibility that both might be true.The prosecution says Lindsay timed her husband's departure. The defense says she was terrified to be alone. The public picks a side and digs in. Shavaun explains why the binary — planned or psychotic, monster or patient — is the wrong framew...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 15m 59s
Who Turned Joseph Duggar In to the Police?
The Joseph Duggar case keeps drawing comparisons to 2003 — and the family at the center of it is the reason why. When Kendra Duggar’s relatives discovered a child had been harmed, they made the call the Duggars never made a generation ago. This is the Joseph Duggar update that shows exactly what that kind of courage costs.Here are the facts. Joseph Duggar, thirty-one, seventh of nineteen Duggar children, faces two felony counts in Bay County, Florida — one a life felony involving a girl who was nine years old at the time. He has pleaded not guilty. Police...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 20m 3s
Lindsay Clancy's Medication Did THIS To Her Mind
Before January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy had done everything a struggling mother is supposed to do. She sought treatment. She called hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She filled every prescription. The defense argues the system that was supposed to save her chemically destabilized her instead.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to examine what was happening to Lindsay clinically — not the legal arguments but the treatment. Thirteen medications over four months from providers who allegedly were not sharing records or coordinating care. Three benzodiazepines. An antipsychotic her husband said made her ten thousand times worse. Dosages th...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 20m 54s
Lindsay Clancy's Condition Was NOT What They Treated
Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Her defense concedes she killed them. They argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and could not appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions. The prosecution says her behavior that day proves intent.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, sits down with Tony Brueski to examine the clinical foundation the entire case rests on. The public treats postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis as the same condition at different severity levels. They are not. Depression is a mood disorder. Psychosis is...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 21m 49s
Why Nolan Wells' Friends Can't Escape The Grand Jury
The DA informed Nolan Wells' family that the case will go before a grand jury. The internet heard "criminal charges." The DA's office meant something else entirely — a procedural checkpoint Jackson County applies to any death that remains unexplained. One of those readings made national news. The other disappeared.This episode lays out how the Mississippi grand jury system actually functions, what authority it holds, and why the distance between public expectation and legal reality could shape whether this family ever gets answers.Mississippi runs its grand juries behind a wall. A panel of citizens dr...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 28m 44s
Why Lindsay Clancy's Career Is Being Used Against Her
In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the prosecution wants the jury to know what she did for a living — and to draw a very specific conclusion from it.She was a labor and delivery nurse. The Commonwealth's argument is that a woman with that training knew how the mental health system evaluates a patient, knew what to report, and knew how to shape what people saw. Kevin Reddington's answer is that she was the one patient in the entire chain who could name what was happening to her, and every institution she named it to still sent he...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 44s
What Got Removed From Lindsay Clancy's Case In Eleven Days
The pattern matters more than any single ruling. In eleven days, the prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial made three moves that all point the same direction: narrowing who gets to explain her mind to the jury.On July 9, prosecutors dropped all three strangulation charges. They called them redundant, and legally that is correct. But strangulation charges sitting next to murder charges give a jury room to land somewhere in the middle. Without them the only options are first-degree murder, life, mandatory — or not criminally responsible.On July 13, Judge William Sullivan blocked the defense from ca...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 19m 0s
Why Lindsay Clancy Never Walks Out Of That Courtroom
The Lindsay Clancy verdict has two possible outcomes, and neither one of them ends with her going home. Most people following this trial do not realize that.A finding of lack of criminal responsibility in Massachusetts leads toward commitment in a state psychiatric hospital, with reviews to determine whether release is ever appropriate. A first-degree murder conviction carries mandatory life without parole, with no discretion left to the judge at all. One path is a locked hospital, the other is a locked prison, and the jury is choosing between them based on what it concludes about a...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 19m 3s
Did Josh Duggar Really Say He Never Wrote His Confession?
In 2015, a statement went out under Josh Duggar's name that admitted he'd been living a double life, admitted he'd been unfaithful, and admitted in his own words that he had "acted inexcusably" and "hurt others." It ended his television show. It ended his public career. The entire country read it.In 2025, Josh Duggar told a federal judge he never wrote it.That's the argument sitting inside a motion he filed asking for a new trial. He claims television producers put those words in his mouth, that the confession America watched him make was somebody else's...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 15m 44s
Lindsay Clancy's Best Witnesses Will Never Testify
The Lindsay Clancy insanity defense has a problem, and it is not the evidence — it is who a Massachusetts judge will and will not let into the courtroom.Kevin Reddington's plan was to have women who have survived postpartum psychosis describe it to the jury themselves. Real people, real experiences, no expert reports. Judge William Sullivan shut that down. Only clinicians retained for the trial may explain the condition, which puts the defense in the position of asking twelve people to believe in something they will only ever hear about secondhand and on somebody's dime.Th...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 24m 41s
Lindsay Clancy's Own Note Says THIS About Her Kids
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court, and the Commonwealth's most damaging piece of evidence may be something she wrote herself.Prosecutors have told the court that months before her three children died, Lindsay Clancy left a note on her phone about her two older kids. It has been read aloud in a courtroom already. It will be read again in front of a jury, and everybody in that room knows exactly what it does to a person hearing it cold.Around it sits a timeline the state has assembled out...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 19m 39s
What Lindsay Clancy Was Hearing That Her Doctors Missed
Between September 2022 and January 2023, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed at least nine psychiatric medications by providers who diagnosed her with anxiety and depression. According to both civil lawsuits filed in her case, what she was actually experiencing was something entirely different — auditory hallucinations, command voices, and a psychiatric emergency her providers never identified.This episode explains what postpartum psychosis is and why most people — including many medical professionals — confuse it with postpartum depression. They are not the same condition. They are not on the same spectrum. Postpartum depression involves sadness, fatigue, and difficulty bonding. Postpartum psychosis involves a break...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 18m 38s
Nolan Wells And Lindsay Clancy Keep Hitting THIS Wall
Nolan Wells died off a Mississippi barrier island and nobody will say how. Lindsay Clancy is facing a Massachusetts jury and nobody can say what she understood. Two cases, one mailbag.Nolan Wells was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College, out at Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends from Ocean Springs. The island is uninhabited and sits roughly ten miles offshore — no shelter, no water, no signal. His friends made it back. A National Park Service ranger found him in the water two mornings later. Two examinations exist, neither released, cause an...
Published: Jul 22, 2026Duration: 1h 6m 42s
Nolan Wells' Last Day In Full — What Every Minute Shows
A full breakdown of the Nolan Wells case in the order it actually happened — every logged timestamp, every competing account, start to finish.Two piles of material come out of that exercise and they don't weigh the same. One is verifiable: departure and arrival times, a distress call to a towing company, a run back through Fort Bayou, a recovery time on Monday morning. The other is everything people have stacked on top of those numbers, and it's guesswork all the way down — well-informed in spots, but guesswork.The sequence hits the stretch of afternoon nobo...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 35m 49s
What Prosecutors Say Lindsay Clancy Knew That Night
Everybody knows Lindsay Clancy was sick. The defense will prove it, the prosecution won't seriously contest it, and her husband has been saying it publicly since the beginning. That's not the fight. The fight is what she understood while it was happening.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, has argued for years that she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated and that what followed was psychosis she could not control.<...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 19m 34s
Two Families, Two States, And One Difference
The Siders family in Ohio and the Duggar family in Arkansas have never been mentioned in the same breath. After you hear this, you will not be able to separate them.Sixteen children were pulled from a Hamden, Ohio house on June thirtieth of 2026 — found by accident, when deputies arrived to serve a warrant on something else entirely. The oldest is eighteen. She cannot spell her own name. Four adults face sixteen felony counts each and have pleaded not guilty.Months earlier and hundreds of miles away, the state removed all four of Joseph and Ke...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 19m 26s
What Nolan Wells' Second Autopsy Was Supposed To Settle
A second autopsy is supposed to be a backstop. In the Nolan Wells case it has become the whole argument — because the family arranged one, sent their eighteen-year-old's body to Washington, D.C. for it, and still doesn't have an answer.Neither examination has been released. Not the one done by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office, and not the one the family paid for. Cause and manner of death remain undetermined. Attorney Ben Crump initially suggested the independent findings would land quickly, then said he hoped to share them soon.Tony Brueski takes the ma...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 20m 59s
Nolan Wells' Friends Left Him On An Island With THIS
Everybody arguing about the Nolan Wells case online is arguing about the wrong hour. Not the autopsy. Not the phone. The boat ride home — the moment a group of eighteen-year-olds untied from a barrier island and left one of their own behind on it.Horn Island sits about ten miles off Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The National Park Service keeps it undeveloped. There is no shelter out there, no drinking water, no store, no cell tower. For one day a year it's the best party on the coast. Every other hour of the year it's empty, and after da...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 26m 48s
How Did Nolan Wells End Up Alone on That Island?!
There's a photograph from a Fourth of July boat trip, and Nolan Wells is the only person of color in it. Days later, he's the only one from that group who isn't coming home. That single fact is why the Nolan Wells case has gripped the country — and why the questions around it are so hard to put down.Wells, an 18-year-old from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, went out to Horn Island with friends and never made it back. His body turned up in the water off the northwest tip of the island. The sheriff said he chose to...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 19m 59s
Clancy, Nolan Wells, and the Siders 16 Kids: Coffindaffer on WHAT?!
One conversation. Three cases. Every angle covered.Lindsay Clancy's murder trial begins with jury selection July 20. The prosecution's key evidence: she allegedly checked Apple Maps to time her husband's fifty-four-minute errand. The defense: nine medications, command hallucinations, and a medical system that failed her at every checkpoint. The judge blocked mothers from testifying about their own psychosis.Nolan Wells went to Horn Island for the Fourth of July with friends who came home without him. His body was found two days later. The friends are telling investigators different stories. The family says his digital data...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 59m 4s