Melissa Barthelemy: How Heuermann Allegedly Taunted a Teen After Gilgo Kill
The calls came from Madison Square Garden. From Times Square. From packed Midtown locations where surveillance cameras are useless. A man, using Melissa Barthelemy's phone, calling her 15-year-old sister Amanda. Five calls over five weeks. Each under three minutes — as if the caller knew exactly how long law enforcement needs to trace a signal. Vulgar. Mocking. Controlled. In the final call, he...
14m Apr 10
14m
Heuermann Plea and Duggar Charges: Psychology of Family Denial
Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with seven counts of murder in the Gilgo Beach serial killings and is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea. If accepted, he faces life without the possibility of parole. His ex-wife Asa Ellerup shared nearly three decades with him and has maintained she would have known if something was wrong. Prosecutors allege he timed the crimes for when his family was awa...
1hr 1m Apr 09
1hr 1m
Fingers Through the Slats: How Bateman Was Caught
A routine traffic stop in Flagstaff, Arizona, became the beginning of the end for Samuel Bateman when a trooper found three girls locked inside an unventilated cargo trailer. But "the end" took longer than it should have — and cost more than it needed to. Bateman was arrested and bonded out. He returned to Colorado City and immediately began instructing followers to destroy evidence. The FBI r...
24m Apr 09
24m
Michelle Duggar reportedly knew about Josh's abuse of her own daughters as early as 2002. She and Jim Bob reportedly sent him to manual labor for a family friend rather than professional treatment. Weeks later, she wrote a national parenting magazine arti
The record on Michelle Duggar is not ambiguous. According to police reports and her own statements, she was aware that her eldest son Josh was sexually abusing her daughters as early as 2002. She and Jim Bob reportedly sent Josh to a program that was not licensed counseling but manual labor for a family friend. Josh Duggar was subsequently convicted in federal court in 2021 for possession of ch...
15m Apr 09
15m
Maureen Brainard-Barnes: The Gilgo Four Mother Heuermann Allegedly Targeted
Maureen Brainard-Barnes was a songwriter. An artist. A mother of two fighting to keep her kids. And on the night of July 9, 2007, she walked out of a Midtown Manhattan hotel to meet a client and never came home. She was 25 years old, four feet eleven, and desperate enough to take the train from Connecticut to the city because the eviction notice was real and the custody hearing was coming. Epi...
14m Apr 09
14m
The Law May Finally Reach Jim Bob Duggar
Jim Bob Duggar has spent two decades on the protected side of expired statutes and managed silence. That position is no longer guaranteed. When his son Joseph was arrested on allegations of molesting a child during a 2020 family vacation — and allegedly confessed twice — it didn't just expose Joseph. It reopened the question of what the patriarch knew and when. The documented record from the J...
24m Apr 09
24m
Kendra Duggar Charges: The Psychology of Religious Conditioning
Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges in Bay County, Florida, of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under twelve and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person eighteen or older — stemming from an alleged 2020 incident during a family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to the arrest affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old victim disclosed that Duggar allegedly molested her when she was nine. T...
24m Apr 09
24m
Rex Heuermann Plea: Psychology Behind Asa Ellerup's Denial
Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with seven counts of murder in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings — women who vanished between 1993 and 2010 along Long Island's south shore. He is reportedly expected to enter a guilty plea, which, if accepted by the court, would result in a sentence of life without the possibility of parole and eliminate the scheduled September trial entirely. The l...
23m Apr 09
23m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation Follows a Terrifying Historical Pattern
The Nancy Guthrie case has drawn national scrutiny — not just for the disappearance of an 84-year-old woman from her Tucson home, but for mounting questions about whether the investigation was compromised from the start by the leadership overseeing it. Tony Brueski pulls the lens back and places the Guthrie case alongside four of the most notorious law enforcement failures in modern American h...
17m Apr 09
17m
Duggar Felony Defense and Heuermann Plea: Legal Breakdown
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta provides precision legal analysis on two major cases in a single episode. Joseph Duggar faces Florida felony charges of lewd and lascivious behavior — molestation of a victim under twelve — after allegedly confessing to the abuse before retaining counsel. According to the Bay County arrest affidavit, Duggar admitted to the conduct when the victim's father co...
1hr 7m Apr 08
1hr 7m
How Two Civilians Took Down FLDS Prophet Bateman
The FBI couldn't get inside. Police had questioned Bateman twice and left empty-handed. The FLDS community was built over a century to resist outside scrutiny, and it was working. The formal institutions designed to protect children had failed to penetrate the wall. So two people who weren't part of any institution did it instead. Christine Marie is a cult researcher who moved to Short Creek w...
16m Apr 08
16m
Heuermann's Expected Gilgo Beach Plea Analyzed
Rex Heuermann, 62, the former Massapequa Park architect charged with seven counts of murder in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings, is reportedly expected to change his plea from not guilty at his next scheduled court appearance. Sources familiar with the case indicate victims' families and Heuermann's own family have been notified. The expected sentence is life without the possibil...
18m Apr 08
18m
Jessica Taylor: The Surgical Drape Linking Heuermann to Gilgo
A surgical drape. Found underneath the body of a 20-year-old woman in the woods of Manorville, Long Island. A hair on that drape matched Rex Heuermann's DNA profile, according to prosecutors. That single forensic detail tells you something critical about what prosecutors allege happened to Jessica Taylor — this wasn't impulsive. Someone came prepared. Episode 3 of "The Seven." This one centers...
17m Apr 08
17m
Joseph Duggar's Arrest and the Caldwell Family Questions Nobody Will Ask
Kendra Duggar's own parents are crowdfunding for legal representation and emergency housing. The home they'd been living in — once transferred to them by Joseph and Kendra — was quietly deeded back months before the arrest made headlines. From a jail phone, Kendra confirmed her family's move-out timeline. And Paul Caldwell, the Baptist pastor who officiated Joseph and Kendra's wedding, went fro...
31m Apr 08
31m
Duggar Family Statements Fuel Prosecution's Record
The legal exposure in the Duggar case extends well beyond the defendant. Kendra Duggar, 27, faces separate misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment — filed after a home investigation reportedly discovered exterior locks on the children's bedroom doors. She retained independent counsel an...
23m Apr 08
23m
Joseph Duggar's Felony Defense Meets Alleged Confessions
Joseph Duggar faces Florida felony charges of lewd and lascivious behavior — molestation of a victim under twelve — stemming from allegations during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach. According to the arrest affidavit filed by the Bay County Sheriff's Office, the victim disclosed the abuse through a forensic interview after her father confronted Duggar directly. Law enforcement states...
27m Apr 08
27m
Three Juries All Agreed — Lori Vallow Daybell Is Guilty
She's been convicted three times. In two states. By three different juries. She's serving seven life sentences. And Lori Vallow Daybell is still trying to find a way out. Her Idaho appeal is now fully briefed and sitting before the state Supreme Court. Five constitutional claims. A fifty-nine-page prosecution response. And a reply brief that tries to repackage the same arguments the state alre...
15m Apr 08
15m
FBI Behavioral Expert Analyzes All of Joseph Duggar's Jail Communications
Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down every piece of communication from Joseph Duggar's time at Washington County across a three-part series. Jim Bob's email compares Joseph to King David and edits the alleged victim out entirely. The first call reveals Joseph doing workouts and comparing Bible translations while Kendra can barely function — and confusing his ...
59m Apr 07
59m
How FLDS Parents Became Bateman's Supply Chain
In most child abuse cases, parents are the first line of defense. In Samuel Bateman's case, they were the first line of supply. Fathers voluntarily gave their underage daughters to a man they knew was having sexual contact with minors — and when police came asking questions, those same fathers lied to protect the operation. This episode examines the human infrastructure behind Bateman's abuse....
27m Apr 07
27m
FBI Behavioral Expert Catches What Everyone Missed in Joseph Duggar's Later Jail Calls
Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down the later calls between Joseph and Kendra from Washington County. Kendra warns Joseph to trust no one. She's physically collapsing — IVs, fragments of sleep, telling Joseph she hasn't died yet. Michelle Duggar prays with her to stop the spiral. Joseph calls his cell a prayer closet. He's having breakthroughs. He reads a de...
14m Apr 07
14m
Valerie Mack: Rex Heuermann Charged in LISK Jane Doe Murder
She was 24 years old when she was killed. She sat unidentified for twenty years. And when genetic genealogy finally gave her back her name in 2020, her own son — now an adult — was the one whose DNA confirmed it. Valerie Mack's story is one of the most devastating in the Gilgo Beach case. Episode 2 of "The Seven." Valerie was born in Atlantic City, placed in foster care, adopted by the Mack fa...
17m Apr 07
17m
Inside Joseph Duggar's Jail: Calls, Emails, and a Silent Victim
Public records from Washington County have blown the doors open on what happened inside the Duggar family while Joseph sat in solitary confinement facing allegations of harming a child. Anna Duggar — whose husband Josh is serving twelve and a half years for federal charges involving child sexual abuse material — emailed Joseph and walked him through jail logistics with the precision of someone...
34m Apr 07
34m
FBI Behavioral Expert Hears What You Missed in Joseph Duggar's Jail Call
Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski break down the first extended call between Joseph and Kendra Duggar from Washington County. Joseph is doing workouts in solitary and comparing Bible translations while Kendra can barely walk. He tells her the Biblical Joseph reminds him of himself. She asks about his charges and he thinks she means a newspaper. They move to business ...
23m Apr 07
23m
Jim Bob Duggar's Letter to Joseph Decoded by FBI Behavioral Expert
Ret. FBI Behavioral Unit Chief Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski go through Jim Bob Duggar's email to his son Joseph line by line. Joseph sits in solitary facing allegations of harming a child. Jim Bob tells him he's made terrible decisions — then compares him to King David who found redemption and the Biblical Joseph who turned prison into purpose. He calls Kendra's arrest "ridiculous." He tells ...
23m Apr 07
23m
Why Millions Went Numb Over Brian Thompson's Death
There's something deeply wrong when a country full of compassionate people hears about a man being killed and the dominant response isn't grief — it's recognition. Not approval. Not celebration. Just a grim, exhausted acknowledgment that the system finally produced the kind of consequence it had been building toward for decades. Brian Thompson was a real person. A father who coached his sons i...
27m Apr 07
27m
Guthrie, Duggar, Gilgo: Legal and Investigative Breakdown
Three active cases. Three distinct investigative landscapes. One episode breaking down the legal exposure, procedural questions, and systemic issues at the center of each. Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, Arizona, since February 1st. Authorities believe she was abducted. Blood confirmed as hers was found at the scene. Sourced reporting has revea...
1hr 1m Apr 06
1hr 1m
Samuel Bateman: The False Prophet of Short Creek
The FLDS put Warren Jeffs in prison for life. Then the same community, the same theology, and the same obedience structure produced Samuel Bateman — and he did it all over again. More than twenty wives. Children as young as nine. Fathers volunteering their own daughters. An interstate operation spanning four states. And a fifty-year federal sentence that might still not be enough to break the c...
20m Apr 06
20m
Heuermann Expected to Plead Guilty in Gilgo Murders
After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, Rex Heuermann is expected to change his plea to guilty at an April 8th court appearance, according to sources familiar with his decision. If a judge accepts the plea, the case would end without a trial. Heuermann reportedly faces life without the possibility of parole. Heuermann, 62, a former architect from Massapequa Park, New York, has b...
14m Apr 06
14m
Sandra Costilla: How Rex Heuermann Was Linked to 1993
Before Melissa. Before Megan. Before Amber. Before any of the women we came to know as the Gilgo Four — there was Sandra Costilla. Found in the woods of Southampton in November 1993. Twenty-eight years old. From Trinidad and Tobago. And for thirty years, completely disconnected from the Gilgo Beach investigation. Prosecutors say that was a mistake — and that advanced DNA evidence now links her ...
17m Apr 06
17m
Did Michelle Duggar's Toxic Positivity Shield Abuse?
The Duggar household ran on a doctrine that made silence feel like obedience and obedience feel like love. At the center of that system — more visible than Jim Bob, more present than any church elder, more constant than any camera crew — was Michelle Duggar and the performance she maintained for over two decades. On True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines how Michelle's specific application of...
33m Apr 06
33m
Duggar Charges: Two States, Two Cases, One Family
The legal exposure facing the Duggar family now spans two states and two distinct sets of criminal proceedings. In Florida, Joseph Duggar, 31, faces charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and lewd and lascivious contact in Bay County. According to the arrest affidavit, a 14-year-old girl disclosed that Joseph allegedly molested her repeatedly during a 2020 family vacati...
27m Apr 06
27m
Guthrie Case: Sergeant Had No Homicide Experience
The first hours of an abduction investigation are the hours that matter most — and in the Nancy Guthrie case, new reporting raises serious questions about who was making the calls during that critical window. Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from her home in the Catalina Foothills near Tucson, Arizona, since February 1st. Authorities have said they believe she was taken against her will. Bl...
21m Apr 06
21m
Nancy Guthrie: The Statute, the Loophole, and the April 7 Question
The legal question that will determine whether Sheriff Chris Nanos remains in charge of the Nancy Guthrie investigation comes down to a single word in a territorial-era statute: refusal. This week's look back at the most consequential legal developments examines the procedural mechanism the Pima County Board of Supervisors has invoked and why it may not accomplish what the public expects. Ariz...
31m Apr 06
31m
Duggar Family: Federal Conviction, Active Charges, and the Accountability Ledger
The legal record of the Duggar family now spans federal conviction, active felony charges in a second case, misdemeanor charges against a spouse, and a documented history of institutional and familial failures to report that have produced no legal consequences for the individuals who made those choices. This week's look back at the most consequential legal developments examines the full proced...
35m Apr 05
35m
Lindsay Clancy: Malpractice Lawsuits, Prosecution Strategy, and a DSM Gap
The Lindsay Clancy case now operates on two legal tracks that directly contradict each other — and the collision between them will define her July 2026 trial. In January 2026, both Lindsay and her husband Patrick filed separate civil lawsuits in Norfolk Superior Court alleging medical malpractice by her psychiatric providers. Those lawsuits describe a woman in severe psychiatric crisis who soug...
39m Apr 05
39m
Duggar Family: Institutional Immunity, Generational Exposure, and Unanswered Legal Questions
The legal questions surrounding the Duggar family extend well beyond the individuals currently facing charges. They reach into the institutional framework that shaped the family's worldview and its documented approach to handling allegations of harm — and into the generational history that predates the television era entirely. This week's look back at the most consequential legal dimensions in...
31m Apr 05
31m
Nancy Guthrie: Ransom Forensics and a Sheriff Under Oath
The evidentiary questions in the Nancy Guthrie case are now running on two separate tracks — and both demand legal scrutiny. The first involves ransom communications whose forensic profile doesn't behave like legitimate kidnapping-for-ransom demands. The second involves a sheriff whose documented history, according to reporting by the Arizona Republic and AZPM, may constitute fraud in his emplo...
40m Apr 05
40m
Duggar Family: Statute of Limitations, Mandated Reporting Failures, and a Federal Judge's Ruling
The legal architecture of the Duggar coverup is what makes this story about more than one family's failures. It's about how specific legal mechanisms — mandated reporting, statutes of limitations, and the intersection of private settlement with public accountability — were exploited or circumvented at every critical juncture. This week's look back at the most consequential legal developments e...
45m Apr 05
45m
Delphi & Richard Allen: The Harmless Error Doctrine Under Appellate Scrutiny
The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal relies on a single legal framework to address every contested ruling: harmless error. Each evidentiary exclusion, each procedural decision, each limitation placed on the defense — all characterized as errors, if they were errors at all, that could not have changed the outcome because the remaining evidence was overwhelming. Wheth...
1hr 20m Apr 04
1hr 20m
Joseph Duggar: Dual Jurisdiction Charges and Systemic Questions
Joseph Duggar now faces criminal charges in two states — felony molestation charges in Florida and misdemeanor endangerment and false imprisonment charges in Arkansas — creating a dual-jurisdiction prosecution with distinct legal timelines and evidentiary standards that both point back to the same household. This week's look back at the most consequential legal developments in true crime exami...
31m Apr 04
31m
Rex Heuermann: The Legal Calculus Behind a Gilgo Guilty Plea
The expected guilty plea in the Gilgo Beach case isn't an admission driven by conscience — it's a legal calculation with specific procedural consequences that deserve examination. Rex Heuermann, 62, is reportedly set to change his plea on April 8 in Suffolk County court, entering guilty pleas to the murders of seven women over a period spanning from 1993 to 2010. The deal is reportedly being ne...
46m Apr 04
46m
Nancy Guthrie: Institutional Crisis Meets Stalled Investigation
An abduction with no named suspect. A law enforcement agency in freefall. And an 84-year-old woman still missing as the case enters its third month. The Nancy Guthrie investigation now sits at the intersection of evidentiary stagnation and institutional collapse — and the developments revealed this week make both problems harder to ignore. This week's review examines the legal and procedural f...
51m Apr 04
51m
FL v. Courtney Clenney — OnlyFans Trial Recordings Suppressed
Before Christian Obumseli was stabbed to death in his Miami apartment, he hid his phone and recorded Courtney Clenney without her knowledge. More than fifteen times, according to court filings. What he captured is brutal to listen to — racial slurs, screaming, a demand to be allowed to hit him, the audible sound of a slap. Prosecutors say one recording captures Clenney telling Obumseli to "enjo...
28m Apr 04
28m
LISK Case: Rex Heuermann, Gilgo Beach Killer — The Full Breakdown with Eric Faddis
Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders. The accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer maintained his innocence for nearly three years. His defense team lost every major pretrial motion. And now, according to multiple sources, the LISK case is heading toward a plea instead of a September trial. I brought in Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former ...
57m Apr 03
57m
The Duggar Family Final Accounting: What This System Built and Who It Protected
In March 2026, Joseph Duggar was arrested in Arkansas on serious charges involving a minor, according to an arrest affidavit from the Bay County Sheriff's Office in Florida. According to that affidavit, a girl told investigators Joseph allegedly harmed her multiple times during a family vacation in 2020, when she was nine years old. According to the affidavit, when confronted by the girl's fath...
18m Apr 03
18m
Gilgo Beach Killer: What Rex Heuermann's LISK Plea Leaves Behind
A guilty plea from the accused Long Island Serial Killer resolves seven cases. It doesn't touch the rest. Eleven sets of remains were found along that stretch of Long Island, and authorities have said they don't believe Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is responsible for all of them. Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to examine what falls th...
20m Apr 03
20m
Joseph Duggar Files Not-Guilty Plea as Duggar Family Fractures
Joseph Duggar walked out of a Florida jail on $600,000 bond the same day he appeared in court on charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Jim Bob Duggar was in the courtroom, ready to post bond for his son. According to court records, Joseph had already filed a written not-guilty plea and demanded a jury trial — two days before t...
20m Apr 03
20m
Lindsay Clancy Trial 2026 — Can Justice Handle This Case?
The trial is scheduled for July 2026. It is the fourth date that has been set after three prior delays. Her attorney has warned the court she may not survive it. And the legal fights before a single piece of evidence is heard — bifurcation motion, Fifth Amendment arguments, psychiatric evaluation disputes — tell you everything about how complicated this case truly is. Part 5 of the Lindsay Cla...
13m Apr 03
13m
LISK: A Pizza Crust and a Deleted File Ended Heuermann's Fight
Investigators surveilling Rex Heuermann recovered a pizza crust the accused Gilgo Beach Killer threw in the trash. It gave them a DNA match to hairs found on and near multiple LISK victims. On his basement hard drive, prosecutors say they found a deleted Word document — allegedly a blueprint for selecting victims, carrying out killings, and avoiding detection. Eric Faddis — defense attorney an...
16m Apr 03
16m
LISK Case: The Prosecution That Cornered Rex Heuermann
Multiple sources confirm Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women whose remains were found across Long Island. For nearly three years, the LISK defense fought the charges at every turn. They lost every fight that mattered. I brought in Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — to explain what happens ...
21m Apr 03
21m