Duggar Family Calls Arrests "Persecution" — A Psychotherapist Explains the Psychology
Two Duggar family members have been arrested. Joseph Duggar faces charges involving a child — charges he allegedly admitted to twice. His wife Kendra faces separate child endangerment charges after investigators reportedly found locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. And according to sources close to the family, some members are framing the situation as a witch hunt motivated b...
26m Apr 02
26m
LISK Guilty Plea: Gilgo Beach Killer Ran Out of Moves
The accused Long Island Serial Killer ran out of moves. The Gilgo Beach DNA evidence survived two court challenges. The judge refused to split seven Gilgo Beach murder charges into separate trials. The prosecution had a 723-page evidence inventory, burner phone records, and files from the LISK suspect's own computer that prosecutors described as a planning document for how to kill and avoid cap...
19m Apr 02
19m
Delphi Murders: Full Panel on Richard Allen's Appeal
Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's serving 130 years. His defense has appealed, raising serious questions about the search warrant, his confessions, and evidence the jury never heard. The Indiana Attorney General just filed their formal response. And defense attorney Bob Motta ...
1hr 2m Apr 01
1hr 2m
The Duggar Sisters Were Harmed. The Church Elders Decided That Was Sufficient.
Jim Bob Duggar knew his son had been harming his daughters since March 2002. He did not call police. He called church elders. What followed was a series of choices — each one designed to keep it inside the family and the church. In Part 3 of this five-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines every decision in the full coverup timeline. The IBLP labor facility...
28m Apr 01
28m
Delphi: Can Richard Allen's Appeal Actually Win?
Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's serving 130 years. His defense has appealed. The Indiana Attorney General has responded. Now three appellate judges have to decide. They won't decide whether he's guilty. That's not what the appeals court does. They'll decide whether the tria...
17m Apr 01
17m
Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes: What Savannah Didn't Say — and What History Proves
When Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb she believes two of the ransom notes are real, she wasn't making an investigative claim. She was holding onto the only thread that keeps the worst outcome at bay — the possibility that her mother is alive and someone, somewhere, is willing to give her back. That's not a fact. That's a prayer dressed up as a belief. And the distinction matters. The notes ref...
26m Apr 01
26m
Lindsay Clancy: Thirteen Medications and a System That Failed
In January 2026, two civil lawsuits were filed against the medical providers who treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before January 24th, 2023. One by Lindsay. One by her husband Patrick. Both point at the same failures. Both describe the same chain of alleged negligence. Part 3 of the Lindsay Clancy five-part series covers the complete medical timeline: the Women & Infants Hospital assessmen...
26m Apr 01
26m
Delphi: Did Richard Allen's Confession Prove He Wasn't There?
In the Richard Allen murder trial, prosecutors told the jury that a detail in Allen's confession proved it was real — he mentioned seeing a van, and a real neighbor really did drive that road at the right time. They called it the detail only the killer would know. It was their most powerful argument. Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby Germa...
25m Apr 01
25m
Delphi Murders: Indiana Responds to Richard Allen's Appeal
Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's serving 130 years. His defense has appealed that conviction — and the Indiana Attorney General just filed their formal response. Their position: everything was done right, the trial was fair, and Richard Allen should serve every day of that s...
21m Apr 01
21m
Inside the Eleven Charges Against Caleb Flynn
Ashley Flynn was a volleyball coach, a substitute teacher, and a mother of two. She was found shot in her bed in the early morning hours at her Tipp City, Ohio home after her husband called 911 claiming a burglar had broken in. Three days later, he was in handcuffs. Now he's facing aggravated murder and ten additional charges — and the evidence that put him there paints a picture the defense ha...
18m Apr 01
18m
Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke is one of the most credentialed behavioral analysts in the country. Today he's taking listener questions across three of the most significant active true crime cases — and the
Three cases. Three distinct legal landscapes. And one conversation that gets to the procedural questions that matter most. Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty on April 8 in the Gilgo Beach killings — a plea that has not yet been entered and could still fall apart. If it holds, it would resolve charges connected to seven victims while closing the courtroom before a trial — no t...
1hr 8m Mar 31
1hr 8m
What TLC Knew About the Duggars — And Kept Filming Anyway
By 2014, Nineteen Kids and Counting was TLC's highest-rated program. The Duggar family had become the most famous face of conservative Christian family life in America — wholesome, modest, joyful, and profitable. Their own children tell a different story. In Part 2 of this five-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines the Duggar brand — the financial control...
17m Mar 31
17m
Duggar Charges: What the Legal Record Actually Demands Accountability For
The legal record surrounding the Duggar family has expanded significantly, and it raises accountability questions that the existing charges do not fully resolve. Josh Duggar is serving a federal sentence of twelve and a half years for possession of child sexual abuse material. Joseph Duggar has now been arrested and faces felony charges in Florida — accused of molesting a then-9-year-old girl ...
17m Mar 31
17m
Delphi Murders: The State Responds — Here's What's Missing
Indiana's Attorney General just responded to Richard Allen's appeal in the Delphi murders case — and they want the court to let a 130-year conviction stand without a second look. Richard Allen was convicted in the 2017 killings of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's been appealing that conviction, and the State just f...
17m Mar 31
17m
Lindsay Clancy: The Nurse Who Couldn't Save Herself
Every true crime story has a before. In the Lindsay Clancy case, the before is everything. Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital — a woman who worked the room where lives begin and who dedicated her professional life to supporting mothers through their most vulnerable moments. When she became a mother herself, those professional instincts kicked in imm...
13m Mar 31
13m
Nancy Guthrie Case: When the Investigating Department's Record Is the Problem
The Nancy Guthrie abduction sits inside one of the most legally and institutionally complicated investigative contexts in recent memory. Nancy Guthrie — 84 years old, medically vulnerable, abducted from her Tucson home — has had ransom notes arrive demanding cryptocurrency payment, two deadlines pass, and more than 18,000 tips submitted to investigators. No suspect has been named publicly. No ...
26m Mar 31
26m
Rex Heuermann's Expected Plea: Four Families Still Have No Charges
Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case at a court appearance on April 8. The deal is still being finalized. It has not been entered. But if it holds, it would represent a legal resolution for seven victims' families while leaving four other families — whose loved ones are connected to this investigation — with no charges and no trial. That g...
27m Mar 31
27m
The Children the Kouri Richins Verdict Left Behind
Kouri Richins was convicted of murdering her husband in one of the most unusual cases in recent true crime history — a Utah mother who poisoned Eric Richins with fentanyl, then wrote a children's book about his death and appeared on television to promote it. According to investigators, that promotion is part of what put the case back under the microscope. The jury convicted her on all counts in...
12m Mar 31
12m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation, Nanos Under Oath, and Duggar Charges: Legal Analysis
Three major cases examined in full with Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer. In the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Savannah Guthrie's first public interview confirmed that the suspect made two separate visits to the residence prior to the disappearance, and that investigators are actively pursuing the theory that the individual on doorbell camera footage was functioning as a lookout ...
52m Mar 30
52m
How Bill Gothard Built the World the Duggars Called Home — And Faced Zero Consequences
The Duggar family spent a decade on national television as the wholesome face of fundamentalist Christianity. What viewers didn't see was the organization behind the image — and the man who built it. Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles in 1961. By the 1970s and 80s, he was filling convention centers with ten thousand people per event. He had endorsements from sitting go...
12m Mar 30
12m
Joseph Duggar: Child Abuse Charges, Kendra's Arrest, and the Legal Road Ahead
Former reality television personality Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested March 18 in Tontitown, Arkansas, on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior involving a child under 12, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the Bay County Sheriff's Office in Panama City, Florida. Duggar subsequently waived extradition and is awaiting transfer to Bay County to face those charges. According to the affid...
14m Mar 30
14m
Rex Heuermann's Guilty Plea — The Case That Cornered Him
He said not guilty for nearly three years. Seven women. Seven charges. Not guilty, every single time. Now, according to multiple sources confirmed by the Associated Press, NBC, CNN, and Fox News, Rex Heuermann — the Long Island architect at the center of the Gilgo Beach murders — is expected to change that plea on April 8. Life without parole. No trial. The families have been notified. I want ...
28m Mar 30
28m
Lindsay Clancy: The Night That Destroyed a Family
Patrick Clancy came home with dinner on January 24th, 2023. His wife was injured in the backyard. His three children were in the basement. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Within 72 hours, all three were gone. Lindsay Clancy — a devoted mother and labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital — allegedly strangled all three children with exercise bands...
11m Mar 30
11m
Nancy Guthrie: Sheriff Nanos, Sworn Testimony, and a Career Under Legal Scrutiny
The legal pressure surrounding Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos reached a significant threshold this week, with direct implications for the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke state law compelling Nanos to provide sworn reports regarding his department — with non-compliance creating a legal pathway to his...
13m Mar 30
13m
Nancy Guthrie: New Details Point to a Coordinated, Premeditated Abduction
The investigative picture in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance grew significantly more complex this week following Savannah Guthrie's first public interview since her mother was reported missing from her Tucson-area home. Key details confirmed: the suspect made two separate visits to the residence prior to the night of the alleged abduction. Investigators are actively pursuing the theory that the...
25m Mar 30
25m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Bench Trial: Defense Rests, Verdict Imminent — Full Legal Analysis
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons bench trial has concluded its evidentiary phase. Both sides have rested. Closing arguments are pending, with a verdict potentially to follow the same day. A single judge will determine whether the single count — assault with a dangerous weapon — is supported beyond a reasonable doubt. The central factual dispute: the prosecution contends that Fitzsimmons, a former North ...
50m Mar 30
50m
Nancy Guthrie: The Nanos Compliance Question, the Statute's Limits, and Dreeke's
The legal and institutional framework surrounding Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos now involves three simultaneous tracks: a 241-0 no-confidence vote from the deputies' union, a unanimous Board of Supervisors invocation of a territorial statute requiring sworn statements under threat of removal, and an active recall campaign. Supervisor Matt Heinz publicly characterized Nanos's 42-year Pima Coun...
35m Mar 29
35m
Kouri Richins Convicted: The Coercive Control Pattern the Evidence Revealed
The conviction of Kouri Richins closed the criminal case. The behavioral and psychological record it produced is worth examining on its own terms — because it maps precisely onto a pattern that shows up in case after case, and understanding that pattern is what makes prosecution and prevention possible. This week on True Crime Today, Tony Brueski, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, and retired FBI...
1hr 18m Mar 29
1hr 18m
Duggar Family: The Institutional Framework Behind the Pattern
The criminal cases involving members of the Duggar family do not exist in a vacuum. They exist inside a documented institutional framework — and understanding that framework is essential to understanding how these cases developed, why disclosure took years, and why accountability has been so difficult to reach at every level. This week on True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines the Institute i...
46m Mar 29
46m
Sheriff Nanos: The Deposition Record, the Board Vote, and What It Means for the Guthrie Investigation
In December 2025 — six weeks before Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home — Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gave a sworn deposition. Asked directly whether he had ever been suspended during his law enforcement career, he answered no. El Paso Police Department employment records obtained by the Arizona Republic show eight suspensions and 37 days without pay between 1977 and 1982, includ...
40m Mar 29
40m
Joseph and Kendra Duggar: Florida Life Felonies, Arkansas Misdemeanors, and a Multi-Jurisdiction Case Breaking Down
Two arrests. Two states. Two distinct charging frameworks. The Duggar family is now navigating simultaneous criminal exposure in Florida and Arkansas — and the legal specifics of each case matter in ways that most coverage failed to separate. This week on True Crime Today, Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta break down the precise legal architecture of both cases. Joseph Dugg...
1hr 3m Mar 29
1hr 3m
Kouri Richins Verdict: The Appeal Record, the Pending Felonies, and What the Jury's Own Words Reveal
A Summit County jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict against Kouri Richins on charges of murdering her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl. No murder weapon was physically recovered. The state's star witness sustained credibility damage on cross-examination. The defense presented zero witnesses. The jury, by its own public account, walked into deliberations hoping to find innocence ...
29m Mar 28
29m
Joseph Duggar Arrested: Alleged Admissions, Extradition, and a Family's Documented History With Law Enforcement
The arrest of Joseph Duggar on serious charges involving a minor has renewed scrutiny of a documented institutional pattern inside one of America's most publicly visible fundamentalist families — and raises substantive legal and procedural questions that extend well beyond the current charges. This week on True Crime Today, we examine the full legal and evidentiary record. Joseph Duggar, seven...
1hr 10m Mar 28
1hr 10m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Chain of Custody Questions, a Sheriff's Disputed Sworn Record, and a Recall Underway
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has produced one of the most procedurally complicated missing persons investigations in recent memory — and a new layer of legal and institutional concern has now been added to an already troubled picture. This week on True Crime Today, we examine the full procedural and evidentiary status of the Guthrie investigation. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos — who co...
40m Mar 28
40m
Kouri Richins Verdict: Immunity Deals, Defense Misconduct Claims, and What the Jury Decided
A Utah jury has convicted Kouri Richins of first-degree murder in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband Eric Richins. The verdict closed the criminal case. The legal and procedural questions it leaves behind are another matter entirely. This week on True Crime Today, we examine the Richins conviction through the lens of what the trial's final chapter revealed — and what it left unresolve...
36m Mar 28
36m
Why Nobody Could Have Predicted Bryan Kohberger — And What That Costs Us
The people who knew Bryan Kohberger heard his name on the news and reportedly felt not shock but recognition. Of course. A clarity that presented itself as something that had always been there. Except it hadn't. Before his name was connected to what allegedly happened in Moscow, Idaho, those same people were living with discomfort, not certainty. The certainty came after — assembled by a brain ...
17m Mar 28
17m
Nancy Guthrie, Nanos, and Kelsey Fitzsimmons: Legal and Investigative Breakdown
True Crime Today examines the legal and investigative dimensions of two active cases that, together, raise pressing questions about institutional accountability in American law enforcement. On the Nancy Guthrie investigation: Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills, Arizona home since February 1, 2026. The FBI and Pima Cou...
1hr 1m Mar 27
1hr 1m
Jared Bridegan Murder-For-Hire: The Psychology of Why Nobody Stopped It Before It Was Too Late | Pt. 5
In premeditated targeted violence cases, the research is consistent: there are almost always people in the periphery who held information, observed behavior, or carried a feeling they couldn't name that, in hindsight, was a warning sign. Someone knew something was wrong before Jared Bridegan was killed on February 16th, 2022. Part 5 — the finale of One Mile From Home — examines why that knowl...
14m Mar 27
14m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial: Assault Charge, Conflicting Accounts, Verdict Pending
The bench trial of former North Andover, Massachusetts police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons concluded arguments before Essex Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp, with a decision expected imminently. Fitzsimmons, 29, faces a single count of assault with a dangerous weapon. She has pleaded not guilty. The charge stems from an incident on June 30, 2025, in which North Andover officer Patrick Noonan sh...
19m Mar 27
19m
Nanos: Fruit of a Poison Tree — Career Built on Fraud?
Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz — a fellow Democrat — used three words to describe Sheriff Chris Nanos's 42-year career in Pima County: fruit of a poison tree. The argument is straightforward and damning. If Nanos omitted a forced resignation and eight suspensions from his 1984 Pima County job application — and the records now suggest he did — then the career built on that application was com...
16m Mar 27
16m
Cosby Ordered to Pay $59M — The Legal Path That Made It Possible
A California civil jury has delivered the largest judgment Bill Cosby has ever faced. Here's how a case from 1972 made it to a Santa Monica courtroom in 2026 — and what the verdict actually means legally. On March 23, 2026, jurors found Cosby liable for the sexual battery and assault of an intoxicated person under California civil law, awarding plaintiff Donna Motsinger $17.5 million in past n...
28m Mar 27
28m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Institutional Fallout and Where the Investigation Stands
The legal and investigative dimensions of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance have grown increasingly intertwined, and True Crime Today examines what the current conditions mean for the active case. From an investigative standpoint: Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills, Arizona home since early February. The FBI and Pima Co...
19m Mar 27
19m
Nancy Guthrie Case: Nanos, Sworn Testimony, and the Record He Buried
The legal picture surrounding Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has sharpened considerably, and the implications for the Nancy Guthrie investigation are significant. Under sworn testimony, Nanos stated he had never been suspended during his law enforcement career. Documented records from his tenure with the El Paso Police Department indicate otherwise, revealing a history of suspensions and cond...
23m Mar 27
23m
What It Costs To Fit The Kohberger Profile — When You've Done Nothing Wrong
The characteristics assembled around Bryan Kohberger after his arrest — socially awkward, intensely focused, isolated, preoccupied with dark subject matter — describe an enormous population of people who have never harmed anyone and never will. And nobody is talking about what it costs those people when a profile like this gets built. True Crime Today presents Part Four of The Shape of Him fro...
16m Mar 27
16m
The Complete Duggar Psychology Breakdown — System, Perpetrators, and Survivors With Forensic Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott
Two Duggar brothers are facing criminal charges. One is in federal prison. Their father has faced no legal consequences. The organization that produced this family is still running. And a 14-year-old girl is in the middle of an active criminal investigation involving one of the most recognized families in reality television history. In this complete three-part series from Hidden Killers and Tr...
1hr 4m Mar 26
1hr 4m
Jared Bridegan Murder: Kirsten Bridegan's Fight for Justice and the System That Made It Necessary | Pt. 4
When Kirsten Bridegan opened her door on the night of February 16th, 2022 and found Bexley without her father, she faced two things simultaneously: the worst moment of her life, and the accurate knowledge that the case would go as far as she pushed it. She chose to push. Part 4 of One Mile From Home is about what that choice cost her, and what it reveals about the systems surrounding this cas...
12m Mar 26
12m
The Duggar Victims and What Comes Next — A Psychotherapist on Healing From a System Like This
Jill Duggar was one of Josh Duggar's victims. She said on national television as a young adult that her parents handled it correctly. She is now publicly condemning abuse and supporting victims. What happened between those two moments — and what it took to get there — is a story that matters far beyond the Duggar family. In Part 3 of this three-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime To...
21m Mar 26
21m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Day 4: Judge Jeffrey Karp — NOT GUILTY!
Judge Jeffrey Karp renders his verdict in the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June 2025. Prosecutor...
11m Mar 26
11m
Larry Millete: Spell Casters, Rohypnol Searches & the Wife Who Said "It Was Him"
Five years ago, Maya Millete disappeared from her Chula Vista home the same afternoon she called a divorce attorney. Her husband Larry sent his last email to a spell caster two minutes before she drove up. A neighbor's camera caught loud banging sounds from the house that night. She was never seen or heard from again. The case investigators built against Larry Millete is one of the most docume...
20m Mar 26
20m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Day 4: Closing Arguments — The Final Showdown
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings closing arguments from the Commonwealth and defense. The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June...
54m Mar 26
54m