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
Nancy Guthrie: The Incredible Life You Haven't Heard
Before she was a missing person, Nancy Guthrie was a force. A Kentucky girl who became a college journalist, a wife, a mother of three, and eventually the woman who held an entire family together when everything fell apart. This episode isn't about the investigation. It's about her. Nancy married a man she spotted at a blind date and told the world he was the one before he even spoke. They tra...
15m Apr 03
15m
The Duggar Family: What Nobody's Asking — Three-Part Psychotherapist Series
The Duggar arrests have generated wall-to-wall coverage. The charges. The family's statements. The courtroom dates. But the psychology underneath — the mechanisms that allowed this to happen, the children caught in the middle, and the mother who knew Josh was abusing her daughters for years and never acted — that's what this series examines. Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psyc...
59m Apr 02
59m
From the Duggar Family Living Room to Federal Prison: The Double Life of Josh Duggar
He lobbied Congress for the protection of children and the sanctity of the American family. He was the executive director of FRC Action — the political action committee of the Family Research Council. At his federal trial in December 2021, an investigating agent testified about what was found on Josh Duggar's work computer. The material included images of children as young as eighteen months o...
17m Apr 02
17m
Michelle Duggar Knew Josh Was Abusing Her Daughters. A Psychotherapist Examines the Cost.
Josh Duggar's abuse of his sisters started in 2002. Michelle Duggar knew. She deferred to her husband. Josh was sent away — not for counseling, as she later admitted to police, but to help a family friend with a construction project. Two months after he returned, she wrote an article for Parents magazine about how well her family functioned. A decade of national television followed. A brand bui...
16m Apr 02
16m
Jimmy Lee Duggar: The Predator That Started It All
The Duggar family's problems didn't start with Josh. They didn't start with Joseph. They started a generation earlier with a man named Jimmy Lee Duggar — Jim Bob's father — who was identified within the family as a predator long before any of his grandchildren became famous. Amy Duggar King revealed in her 2025 memoir Holy Disruptor that she wasn't allowed to be alone with her grandfather as a...
18m Apr 02
18m
Patrick Clancy: The Man Who Forgave the Unforgivable
In the days after the deaths of his three children, Patrick Clancy released a public statement. He said he was completely lost without them. And then he said he had already forgiven Lindsay, and asked the country to follow. Part 4 of the Lindsay Clancy five-part series covers the human response to one of the most divisive criminal cases in recent memory — centering on a man whose choice to sta...
18m Apr 02
18m
Blanket Training and Locked Doors — A Psychotherapist on the Duggar Children
The Duggar arrests have dominated headlines. The charges against Joseph. The charges against Kendra. The family's reported response. But almost no one is talking about the children at the center of all of it. Four children under the age of eight in Joseph and Kendra's home — both parents arrested, locks on the outside of their bedroom doors, their father transported to Florida on felony charge...
19m Apr 02
19m
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