The Prosecution’s Playbook for Convicting Murdaugh Was Just Declared Unconstitutional
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions were overturned unanimously by the SC Supreme Court — and the ruling didn’t just vacate the verdict. It told the prosecution exactly where their case went wrong. The court said weeks of financial crimes testimony was excessive, prejudicial, and unnecessary to prove motive. That testimony was the engine of the first conviction. Without it, the state has to rebu...
15m May 18
15m
Did Word of Faith Ministers Really Hand Out Birth Control to Decide Who Had Children?
Jane Whaley had no seminary degree, no ordination, and no formal ministry credentials. She was a former high school math teacher from rural North Carolina. And according to former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship, she allegedly controlled which of her followers could date, marry, have intimate relations with their own spouses, and have children. The church reportedly started in a convert...
21m May 18
21m
Why Is Dick Harpootlian Threatening Subpoenas Before the Murdaugh Retrial?
The first jury heard twelve hours of financial crimes testimony before they ever weighed the physical evidence. Three-hour conviction. The Supreme Court just said that can’t happen again. Round two is a fundamentally different trial. Creighton Waters has to convict on what SLED actually found — and what they didn’t find. No weapon. No DNA on Alex Murdaugh. A crime scene degraded by weather and...
18m May 18
18m
Why Would Buster Murdaugh Call Alex a 'Selfish Old Man'?
He was the loyal son. He sat in the courtroom, testified for the defense, told a jury his father wasn’t the man prosecutors claimed. Then Alex Murdaugh got convicted, and Buster disappeared. Three years of near-silence, almost no prison visits, and a life rebuilt at arm’s length from the Murdaugh name. Now the conviction is gone, the retrial is coming, and Buster reportedly isn’t relieved. He’...
17m May 18
17m
Why Do The “Rules” Keep Changing Around Alex Murdaugh’s New Trial?
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal sat individual jurors down and asked them whether Becky Hill's comments changed their votes. The South Carolina Supreme Court said she had no right to do that. Rule 606(b) protects the privacy of jury deliberations — you can ask whether external contact happened, but you cannot ask jurors how they voted or why. Toal crossed that line, and the Supreme Court correct...
50m May 18
50m
Supreme Court Says Alex Murdaugh Gets A New Trial!
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Alex Murdaugh's motion for a new trial by requiring him to prove the Clerk's comments actually harmed his case. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that she had it backwards. Under federal law, the burden falls on the State to prove there is no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced. All five justices found the State couldn't ...
50m May 17
50m
Why Did Kouri Richins Tell Her Sons to 'Be Like’ The Dad She Murdered?
Kouri Richins stood up in a Park City courtroom and spoke for forty minutes. She looked at her three sons and told them to "be like your dad." Eric Richins. The man she was convicted of poisoning with a lethal dose of fentanyl. The man whose forty-fourth birthday fell on the same day the judge sentenced her to life without the possibility of parole. She told her boys to emulate the father she t...
1hr 4m May 17
1hr 4m
Why Did the Person on Nancy Guthrie's Porch Try to Hide the Camera With Her Own Weeds?
The person on Nancy Guthrie's porch allegedly tried to conceal the doorbell camera using foliage ripped from her own yard. Not professional equipment. Not a signal jammer. Weeds from the garden. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says that detail tells you more about who this person is than almost anything else in the case — someone who understood enough to try, but not enough to s...
42m May 17
42m
Who Staged The Murdaugh Murder Crime Scene?
Maggie Murdaugh’s pajamas were laid out in the laundry room doorway when Blanca Simpson walked into the house twelve hours after the murders. Underclothes were set out with them. Blanca knew immediately — Maggie never wore underclothes to bed. In fifteen years of cleaning that home, washing those clothes, knowing that routine inside and out, Blanca says she recognized the setup for what it was....
50m May 17
50m
EVERYTHING The Jury Never Heard In The Delphi Murder Trial
In a recorded jailhouse call, Richard Allen asked his own father how much longer he could stay lucid. That call was excluded from trial. The jury that convicted him on a 130-year sentence never heard it. But three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record — including the calls the jury didn't get and the confessions that don't match the forensic evidence. Allen tol...
47m May 17
47m
How Did Alex Murdaugh Go From 'A Loving Family Man' To Evil Incarnate?
Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called "anomic" — men who see their families as symbols of their own success and destroy them when the facade collapses. James Lasdun's new book The Family Man places Alex Murdaugh alongside documented cases that mirror his almost exactly. The most disturbing constant: in every single one, the people closest to the killer described him as...
49m May 16
49m
Anna Duggar Is the “Stand By Your Predator” Template — Now Kendra Is Being Pointed Toward the Same Playbook
Anna Duggar used the monitored jail system to send Josh private photos and messages while he served a federal sentence for possessing child sexual abuse material a Homeland Security agent described as among the worst he'd examined. He asked for more. She engaged. Days before sentencing, he was allegedly writing about "taking things up a notch." She never left. She never confronted anyone public...
58m May 16
58m
Why 84-Year-Old Nancy Guthrie - With Medical Needs Isn't a Ransom Target
Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old, medically vulnerable, and requires medication. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says she is not a rational target for a kidnapping-for-profit operation — the risk-to-reward math doesn't work. The ransom communications that surfaced after her disappearance from her Tucson home are what Hidden Killers has consistently called opportunistic noise: someo...
34m May 16
34m
Paul Murdaugh Kept Mallory Beach’s Obituary in His Truck — What Nobody Else Saw
Paul Murdaugh kept Mallory Beach’s obituary tucked into the door frame of his truck. Every time he climbed in, it was right there. Blanca Simpson saw it because she’d been inside the Murdaugh home for fifteen years and knew things about that family the cameras and courtrooms never captured. In this interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca tells the story of who the Murdaughs actually were behind the...
41m May 16
41m
Why Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Terrified Children She’s Coming to Get Them?
Her children begged a judge to keep her locked away forever. Kouri Richins responded by telling them she’s coming home — and everything she said in between is worse than you think. Minutes after therapists read the handwritten words of three boys into the court record — words describing locked rooms, neglect, dead animals, and a childhood spent in fear — Kouri stood and delivered a fifteen-min...
49m May 16
49m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Former Prosecutor on the Ruling, the Evidence, and the Fight
The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, restricted the evidence that dominated his first trial, and rewrote the legal standard for jury tampering claims in the state. Eric Faddis — a former prosecutor who now practices defense — provides the full analysis. The ruling: Toal placed the burden on Murdaugh, violated evidence rules by questioning jurors about ...
55m May 15
55m
Did Kouri Richins Really Scoff While Her Own Kids Told the Court What She Did to Them?
The courtroom heard from three boys who still can’t stand in front of Kouri Richins and speak. Their therapists did it for them — reading handwritten words about a childhood prosecutors say was defined by neglect, fear, locked doors, and a father taken by fentanyl. One child wrote about being forced to parent his younger siblings while the woman in the house disappeared with neighbors or staye...
29m May 15
29m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial: Former Prosecutor on What Both Sides Gained in Three Years
Three years between the verdict and the reversal. In that time, the defense picked up a perjury conviction against the clerk who tampered with the jury and a Supreme Court opinion restricting the financial evidence that dominated the first trial. The prosecution picked up a complete transcript of Murdaugh’s testimony and additional time to refine its forensic case. Eric Faddis weighs the advan...
15m May 15
15m
Yogurt Shop Murders Case Solved: Serial Killer Identified Through DNA
In late September 2025, the Austin Police Department announced a forensic breakthrough in the 1991 yogurt shop murders. Cold case detective Dan Jackson, who took over the investigation in 2022, resubmitted a .380 shell casing recovered from a floor drain at the crime scene to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network. Improved software produced a match to an unsolved 1998 homicide i...
14m May 15
14m
Yellow Deli Might Be in Your Town. Meet 12 Tribes.
There may be one in your town. A charming restaurant with handcrafted furniture, homemade bread, and staff who seem unusually warm and attentive. There are at least thirty-three Yellow Deli locations worldwide, and every one of them is reportedly run by unpaid members of the Twelve Tribes — a group the SPLC classifies as a Christian fundamentalist cult. In this episode, Tony Brueski asks why t...
19m May 15
19m
Alex Murdaugh Retrial Evidence: Former Prosecutor on What the State Can Still Use
The Supreme Court said the prosecution went "far too long and far too deep" into Alex Murdaugh’s financial crimes at the first trial. They singled out testimony with "zero probative value" on motive that existed only to make Murdaugh look like someone who takes advantage of the helpless. Any retrial has to be leaner. The question is whether lean is enough. Eric Fadds brings his prosecutorial e...
20m May 15
20m
Alex Murdaugh Conviction Reversed: Former Prosecutor on How Toal Got the Law Wrong
A former Chief Justice of South Carolina evaluated Becky Hill’s jury conduct and concluded Alex Murdaugh wasn’t prejudiced. Five sitting Supreme Court justices looked at the same record and said she applied the wrong legal standard entirely. The conviction is gone. Eric Fadds brings his experience as both a former prosecutor and current defense attorney to the question of how that happened. Th...
20m May 15
20m
Alex Murdaugh: The Book That Exposes What the Trial Couldn't
James Lasdun spent years investigating the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker and his book The Family Man. This interview covers it all — the manipulation patterns that started long before the murders, the evidence that was kept from the jury, and the psychology that finally explains how a father kills his own family. The book reveals that the boat crash narrative may have been built after the f...
1hr 4m May 15
1hr 4m
Why They Couldn’t Leave — The Psychology Behind Miller, Ellerup, Richins, and Murdaugh
Why didn’t she just leave? The question gets asked in every domestic violence case, every coercive control prosecution, every murder where the warning signs were visible to everyone except the person inside the relationship. The answer the public settles on almost always blames the victim. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has a different answer — one grounded in neuroscience, clinical experience,...
1hr 2m May 14
1hr 2m
Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Trial: The Defense Is Sprinting. Here’s What They Know.
The defense has seen the FBI reports. They’ve seen the forensics. They’ve seen whatever is in the autopsy report the Miami-Dade medical examiner won’t release to the public. And after reviewing all of it, they’re not asking for more time. Anna Kepner’s trial starts June 1. Timothy Hudson, the sixteen-year-old stepbrother accused of killing Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon, signed a written w...
23m May 14
23m
A Therapist Explains Why Maggie Murdaugh Went to Moselle When She Didn’t Want To
The window between deciding to leave and actually being gone is the most dangerous place a person can stand. Most people do not know that. Most people think the decision is the breakthrough — that once you have made up your mind, the hardest part is over. The data says the opposite. Maggie Murdaugh had reportedly already made that decision. According to reports, she had met with an attorney. S...
20m May 14
20m
Kouri Richins Sent a Message After Her Conviction — It Ended With a Winking Emoji
After a jury convicted her unanimously on every count — including the fatal poisoning of her husband Eric Richins — Kouri Richins sent a message from jail to an unidentified "admirer." She promised to expose the judge, the prosecutors, the investigation, and Eric's entire family. She said they "picked the wrong one." And she signed off with a winking emoji and a threat: "They haven't seen anyth...
32m May 14
32m
Yogurt Shop Murders Aftermath: Freed But Never Exonerated
When Y-STR DNA testing revealed that the genetic material at the yogurt shop crime scene belonged to an unknown male — excluding all four accused men and over 130 other tested individuals — it should have been the end. Instead, it was the beginning of a 17-year limbo. Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg dismissed the charges against Springsteen and Scott in 2009 but issued a public statement aff...
16m May 14
16m
They Left 12 Tribes’ Yellow Deli. Then Joined Another Cult.
You walk out the door of a Twelve Tribes compound with nothing. No bank account. No driver’s license. No work history. No understanding of how to rent an apartment, apply for a job, or file a tax return. The community you just left reportedly considers you dead. And there is no system waiting to catch you. In this episode, Tony Brueski examines the aftermath of leaving the Twelve Tribes — the ...
17m May 14
17m
A Therapist on Why Asa Ellerup Defended Rex Heuermann Until the Day He Confessed
The most dangerous kind of erosion leaves no bruises and makes no noise. It works through small compromises that feel reasonable in the moment and catastrophic only in retrospect. And it can last decades without the person inside it ever realizing what has happened. This episode puts two cases side by side. Asa Ellerup was married to Rex Heuermann for 27 years and says she had no knowledge of ...
15m May 14
15m
The Psychology Behind Why Mica Miller Couldn’t Leave Pastor John-Paul Miller
She could name it. She told police her husband was grooming her. She took legal action. And according to the timeline, she went back. The assumption most people carry — that awareness is protection, that seeing the trap means you can escape it — collapses the moment you look at what happened to Mica Miller. A federal indictment alleges John-Paul Miller cyberstalked his estranged wife for 528 c...
27m May 14
27m
Alex Murdaugh: Researchers Have a Name for This Type of Killer
The trial proved guilt. It never explained how. James Lasdun's The Family Man does what no other Murdaugh book has attempted — it uses decades of criminal psychology research to build a framework for understanding how Alex crossed the line from liar and thief to the killer of his own wife and son. The book places Alex alongside documented family annihilators. Jean-Claude Romand faked a medical...
17m May 14
17m
How Indiana Backed Itself Into A Corner On The Delphi Appeal
The Richard Allen appeal has moved into its final procedural stretch. The defense filed its reply brief at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed alongside it. The case is now fully briefed. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are reading the record. A decision is coming. This is what is actually on the table. The defense's reply brief identifies a van timeline con...
1hr 1m May 13
1hr 1m
Disney Cruise Workers Arrested for What Was on Their Phones — Then SET FREE!!
Federal agents boarded eight cruise ships in San Diego between April 23rd and 27th. According to CBP, 27 crew members were allegedly involved in exploitation material. Ten came from the Disney Magic — the single largest group from any ship, 37 percent of the entire operation. Disney’s official response called it “a very small number.” A passenger on the Disney Magic watched her family’s head se...
34m May 13
34m
Kouri Richins Sentenced After Guilty Verdict in Eric Richins Murder
Kouri Richins has been sentenced to Life Without Parole after a Utah jury found her guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, by poisoning him with fentanyl. She faces consecutive sentences for the other four charges. The sentencing marks a major conclusion in a case that captivated true crime audiences across the country. Prosecutors argued Richins killed Eric for insurance money and fin...
52m May 13
52m
Kouri Richins Sentencing: "She's Not a Monster" — What Her Defense Just Argued
Description: The trial is over. The conviction is on paper. And yet, inside that courtroom at sentencing, Kouri Richins' defense team argued as if the fight was nowhere close to finished. Defense attorney Wendy Lewis opened by addressing what the court couldn't ignore — the absence of remorse. Her answer was direct: Richins can't express remorse for something she maintains she didn't do. Lewis...
1hr 43m May 13
1hr 43m
Every Delphi Brief Is Filed. Three Judges. One Decision Left.
Richard Allen's appeal is fully briefed. The reply brief landed at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed behind it. The State of Indiana has not joined that motion. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record with no further paper coming. This is the procedural posture that determines whether the Delphi conviction survives. Not a press confe...
16m May 13
16m
Kouri Richins Gets Her Sentence — Eric's Family Gets Their Say
The conviction told us what happened. The victim impact statements told us who was lost. Kouri Richins has been sentenced to [INSERT SENTENCE] after a jury found her guilty of murdering her husband Eric with a fatal dose of fentanyl in March 2022 — a crime prosecutors argued was driven by debt, insurance money, and cold calculation. That part of the case is done. What happened in that sentenc...
1hr 1m May 13
1hr 1m
Yogurt Shop Murders Trial: Death Row on Zero Evidence
The 2001 and 2002 trials in the yogurt shop murders case are a case study in how criminal prosecution can produce convictions without physical evidence. Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott were convicted of capital murder based solely on confessions that both men maintained were coerced. No DNA, fingerprints, or forensic evidence of any kind connected either man to the crime scene. The prosecu...
21m May 13
21m
Alex Murdaugh Conviction Thrown Out: Becky Hill’s Comments Destroyed the Verdict
She was supposed to be neutral. Instead, she told jurors not to be fooled by the defense, coached them to scrutinize the defendant’s body language, and wanted a guilty verdict to sell her book. The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously reversed Alex Murdaugh’s convictions for killing his wife Maggie and son Paul, finding that former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill’s interference denied ...
25m May 13
25m
12 Tribes’ Founder Died. Yellow Deli Didn’t Close for a Day.
Gene Spriggs built the Twelve Tribes into a movement spanning four continents, approximately forty communities, and at least thirty-three Yellow Deli locations. He reportedly controlled what his followers ate, wore, read, and believed. He assigned marriages and forbade divorce. His teachings on race have been documented by the SPLC as white supremacist. And then his wife allegedly broke the on...
18m May 13
18m
Allen Told His Father He Was Losing His Mind Before The Delphi Confessions
Indiana has a theory for why Richard Allen confessed to the Delphi murders while sitting in solitary confinement at Westville. According to the State's appellate brief, Richard Allen found religion in his cell. He had a spiritual awakening. He decided to come clean. What the defense has documented is something else entirely. A man who lost 45 pounds in solitary. A man who tore up his legal mai...
14m May 13
14m
Indiana Never Searched One Delphi Suspect's Phone
According to Richard Allen's reply brief, Indiana investigators interviewed an alternative suspect in the Delphi murders, then allegedly recorded over the tape of that interview. His weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. And at trial, the judge ruled that presenting him as an alternative suspect was speculative. The defense's response to that ruling is a question. How is an...
32m May 13
32m
Alex Murdaugh Deleted His Phone Log the Week of the Murders
The jury convicted Alex Murdaugh. But they never saw the full picture. James Lasdun's The Family Man reveals evidence that prosecutors chose not to present — and it raises questions that still don't have answers. The complete SLED timeline from June 7th shows Alex in phone contact with men with criminal records hours before the murders. He deleted his call log from that entire week. Cousin Edd...
17m May 13
17m
D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, And Duggar Cases Allegedly Share The Same Systemic Failures
The procedural and legal questions across the D4VD, Nancy Guthrie, and Duggar cases reveal how alleged institutional failures compound regardless of the type of case. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke address the legal complexity, the alleged investigative missteps, and the systemic patterns that connect all three. The D4VD segment addresses federal jurisdiction questions — alleged interstate tran...
1hr 13m May 12
1hr 13m
The Coast Guard Wants This Sailboat in the Lynette Hooker Case
More than a month after Lynette Hooker disappeared off a dinghy in the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service has gone public with a request that tells you exactly where this case actually is. They are looking for the owner of a different sailboat — one that was moored near the Hookers’ yacht Soulmate in Aunt Pat’s Bay on the night Lynette vanished. They have grainy photographs. Th...
32m May 12
32m
Joseph Duggar's Recorded Jail Calls And Jim Bob's Email May Undermine His Defense
The legal dimensions of the Joseph Duggar case extend beyond the Florida charges into recorded communications that may carry evidentiary weight. Joseph faces charges of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under twelve in Bay County, Florida. His bond was set at six hundred thousand dollars. He has pleaded not guilty and was ordered to have no unsupervised contact with minors. But the jail c...
23m May 12
23m
Yogurt Shop Murders Investigation: Seven False Confessions and a Broken System
The Austin yogurt shop murders investigation was compromised from the start. The detective who ran early interrogations, Hector Polanco, was implicated in at least seven false confessions across multiple cases. His most notorious failure: extracting a false confession from Christopher Ochoa in the 1988 Nancy DePriest murder, leading to the wrongful conviction of both Ochoa and Richard Danziger....
17m May 12
17m
Germany Rescued the Kids. 12 Tribes’ Yellow Deli Stayed Open.
The Twelve Tribes — the group behind the Yellow Deli restaurant chain — has faced allegations of systematic child discipline across three continents and five decades. Former members describe a community where a rod was kept above every door, where children were allegedly struck for crying, and where a 267-page manual reportedly codified exactly how to deliver pain in the name of love. The manu...
26m May 12
26m
Nancy Guthrie's Evidence Allegedly Stalled Between Two Labs While She Stayed Missing
The procedural failures alleged in the Nancy Guthrie investigation reflect how institutional friction can compound across an active missing persons case. Three months after the eighty-four-year-old mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie was reportedly abducted from her Tucson-area home, questions about evidence processing remain unanswered. DNA evidence from the scene was reportedly confirmed as Nanc...
19m May 12
19m