Josh Duggar Said He Was the Biggest Hypocrite Ever. He Had No Idea What Was Coming.
Josh Duggar said it himself — in August 2015, after the Ashley Madison data breach revealed his paid account on a platform built for extramarital affairs, he issued a public statement admitting to infidelity and a pornography addiction. He called himself the biggest hypocrite ever. He said it about an affair. He said it about pornography. He said it years before anyone knew what federal invest...
17m Apr 02
17m
The Mother Who Knew — Michelle Duggar and the Psychology of Maternal Betrayal
Michelle Duggar knew Josh was abusing her daughters. She knew in 2002. She knew again in 2003. She admitted to police that Josh never got real counseling. She wrote a parenting article for a national magazine two months after he came home. She spent a decade on television presenting herself as the ideal mother. She told Fox News her daughters didn't know what Josh had done to them. Sworn testim...
16m Apr 02
16m
The Duggar Grandfather They Kept Secret — Three Generations of Silence
Jimmy Lee Duggar — Jim Bob's father, grandfather to Josh and Joseph — was a predator. That's the word his own granddaughter Amy Duggar King used in her 2025 memoir, describing what the family had known and hidden for decades. Amy wasn't allowed near him alone as a child. Her grandmother and mother enforced strict physical boundaries. Nobody explained why until after Jimmy Lee died in 2009. Acc...
18m Apr 02
18m
Lindsay Clancy: The Husband Who Didn't Leave
Most people, when they heard Patrick Clancy had publicly forgiven his wife for the deaths of their three children, had one of two reactions. Some wept. Some were furious. Almost no one knew what to do with a man who stood in the middle of that specific destruction and chose something other than rage. Part 4 of our five-part series is Tony Brueski's chapter about the human beings on the periphe...
18m Apr 02
18m
What the Duggar Children Are Actually Living Through — A Psychotherapist Explains
Both parents arrested. Locks on the outside of their bedroom doors. A father transported to another state on felony charges. A mother taken to a private location after her release. Four children under the age of eight in the middle of all of it. And across town, seven more children are being raised by a mother whose husband is serving a federal prison sentence for crimes involving other childr...
19m Apr 02
19m
The Duggars Are Calling It Persecution. A Psychotherapist Breaks Down What's Really Happening.
Joseph Duggar has been arrested on charges involving a child. His wife faces separate child endangerment charges. And according to sources close to the family, some members are framing the entire situation as persecution — a witch hunt targeting them for their Christian faith. Joseph allegedly admitted to what he did — twice. He's reportedly reading his Bible in solitary confinement. Jim Bob D...
26m Apr 02
26m
Why the Gilgo Beach Killer Is Pleading Guilty Now
Months ago, both sides of the Gilgo Beach case said no plea deal. The LISK defense attorney said they were preparing for trial. The DA said the same. So what happened between then and now that made the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer reportedly decide to admit to murdering seven women? I walk through the legal collapse of the LISK defense — two failed DNA challenges, a denied severance motio...
19m Apr 02
19m
Delphi: Richard Allen — The Complete Case Against Indiana's Response
We've been on this case from the beginning. We read the defense's appeal brief. We read the State's 94-page response. And now we're going through all of it — three sessions, one complete picture — with defense attorney Bob Motta. Here's what frames everything. The State calls the evidence against Richard Allen "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages they never address the documented fa...
1hr 2m Apr 01
1hr 2m
How the Duggar Family Buried It for 13 Years — And Almost Got Away With It
Jim Bob Duggar needed to handle a problem in 2003. His teenage son had admitted to harming his sisters. Jim Bob had already gone to church elders. Now he needed someone in law enforcement. He chose Arkansas State Trooper Joseph Hutchens — a personal friend — to handle it quietly. Hutchens gave Josh a stern talk. Filed nothing. Reported nothing to the Child Abuse Hotline as Arkansas law require...
28m Apr 01
28m
Delphi: Richard Allen — What Comes Next and What Justice Looks Like
The State filed. The defense replies. Three judges decide. And Richard Allen waits in a prison in Oklahoma while the system examines itself. In this session of our three-part panel, defense attorney Bob Motta turns to face forward — and the questions get harder. What does the defense's reply brief need to accomplish? The State left specific openings — places where procedure replaced substance...
17m Apr 01
17m
Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Exposed: Belief vs. Evidence in a Daughter's Nightmare
Savannah Guthrie believes two ransom notes about her missing mother are real. She said it publicly, through tears, in her first interview since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home. And when you hear the full weight of what she's carrying — the guilt, the grief, the fear that her own fame brought a predator to her mother's bedside — you understand why she needs those notes to be real. B...
26m Apr 01
26m
Lindsay Clancy: The Machine That Processed Her and Sent Her Home
She told them she was "messed up beyond repair." She said she felt numb to all emotion. She tested at the most severe levels for depression and anxiety. She kept going back. The machine kept processing her and sending her home. Part 3 of our five-part series follows the full medical trail — from May 2022 to the 17-minute virtual appointment the day before the killings — and documents, provide...
26m Apr 01
26m
Delphi: Richard Allen — The Van, Wrong Cause of Death, No Answers
We've told you about the van. We've told you about the confession that got the cause of death wrong. Now defense attorney Bob Motta tells you exactly what both of those things mean — and why the State's response to the appeal doesn't fix either one. The prosecution's centerpiece argument was a detail they said only the killer would know — that Richard Allen saw a van drive past and it changed ...
25m Apr 01
25m
The Indiana Attorney General filed 94 pages calling Richard Allen's conviction "conclusive and irrefutable." In those 94 pages, they never explain why the man who confessed to killing Abby Williams and Libby German told his prison psychiatrist he shot the
The Indiana Attorney General filed their formal answer to the Richard Allen appeal. Ninety-four pages. "Conclusive and irrefutable," they call it. We've read every word. And the thing that stands out most is what those 94 pages choose not to say. According to the defense's appeal brief, Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist that he shot the girls. Abby Williams and Libby German were not ...
21m Apr 01
21m
Caleb Flynn: From 911 Hysteria to Courtroom Silence
On the night Ashley Flynn was found shot in her bed in Tipp City, Ohio, her husband Caleb couldn't stop talking. He called 911 screaming that someone broke in. He called his mother. He called Ashley's mother. On bodycam, he sobbed so hard he threw up. He begged officers to tell him if she was gone. Weeks later, facing eleven criminal charges including aggravated murder, he sat in a courtroom a...
18m Apr 01
18m
Rex, Guthrie, and Duggar: Three Cases, One Expert: What the Evidence Still Demands
The evidentiary and investigative record across three active cases raises questions that an expected plea, an ongoing missing persons investigation, and a pair of criminal charges all leave unresolved in their own ways. Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings on April 8. Files recovered from his computer allegedly included a blueprint for the killings —...
1hr 8m Mar 31
1hr 8m
19 Kids, One Paycheck, and Jim Bob Duggar Had It All
Nineteen Kids and Counting was TLC's highest-rated program by 2014. It ran for years on the image of a joyful, faithful, perfectly modest family — living proof that the IBLP way of life worked. In Part 2 of Hidden Killers' five-part series, Tony Brueski examines what was underneath that image. The financial control structure that Derick Dillard has publicly alleged gave Jim Bob unilateral cont...
17m Mar 31
17m
The Duggar Charges: A Family System That Kept Choosing Silence
The investigative record on the Duggar family is extensive — and it keeps growing. Josh Duggar is serving a twelve-and-a-half-year federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material. Before his arrest, documentation shows that Jim Bob Duggar was aware of what Josh had done to family members and chose to handle it internally — no law enforcement contact, no formal accountability. Th...
17m Mar 31
17m
Indiana Says Richard Allen's Delphi Conviction Is Ironclad — We Disagree
The State of Indiana just filed its formal response to Richard Allen's appeal. Their position: the evidence is "conclusive and irrefutable," the trial was fair, and nothing the defense is raising should change a single day of a 130-year sentence. This episode is our answer to that. We've covered this case from the beginning. We've read the warrant. We've been through the appellant's brief. We...
17m Mar 31
17m
Lindsay Clancy: Everything She Was Before That Night
The photographs covering the walls of her Duxbury home showed a devoted mother. Her career was built on showing up for women at their most vulnerable. And when she became the patient who needed someone to show up for her, she did everything right — she asked, she documented, she returned to hospitals repeatedly, she described her symptoms with clinical precision. She was a labor and delivery nu...
13m Mar 31
13m
Nancy Guthrie: 18,000 Tips, a Corrupted Scene, and Still No Arrest
The evidentiary picture in the Nancy Guthrie abduction raises serious questions — not just about who took her, but about the investigation itself. Surveillance footage released by the FBI shows a masked man outside Nancy Guthrie's front door the night she disappeared. Ransom notes demanding cryptocurrency payment arrived in the days that followed — two deadlines came and went without resolutio...
26m Mar 31
26m
Rex Heuermann Expected Plea: The Evidence Trail His Family Never Knew Existed
Rex Heuermann is reportedly set to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing on April 8 — an expected move that, if it holds, would resolve seven murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case while leaving four other victims' families with no charges and no courtroom. The evidentiary record that built this case is worth examining carefully. Files recovered from Heuermann's computer allegedly inclu...
27m Mar 31
27m
Kouri Richins: After the Verdict, the Children
The jury took three hours. But the case that matters most now isn't in any courtroom. Three boys were 9, 7, and 5 when their father died of a fentanyl overdose in their Utah home. Their mother wrote them a children's book about grief, went on television to promote it, and was arrested for his murder. A jury convicted her on all counts. According to the lead investigator's trial testimony, the ...
12m Mar 31
12m
Nancy Guthrie, Nanos Exposed, and the Duggar Arrests: Full FBI Analysis
Three stories. All of them pointing at the same uncomfortable truth: the people and systems that are supposed to prevent harm have a way of failing at exactly the wrong moment. Savannah Guthrie's first public interview brought new investigative detail to the surface. The suspect made two visits before the night Nancy vanished. Her brother — a former military pilot — read the scene as a targete...
52m Mar 30
52m
Before the Duggars: The Man Who Built the Machine They Called Faith
Bill Gothard built one of the most influential fundamentalist Christian organizations in American history without a single credential to his name. Never ordained. Never married. No theological degree. Just a system — and the certainty to sell it. The Institute in Basic Life Principles reached millions of families through the 1970s, 80s, and beyond. Governors endorsed him. Senators sat on his b...
12m Mar 30
12m
Joseph Duggar: Two Brothers, One House, One Pattern of Abuse
The arrest affidavit is specific. During a family vacation to Panama City Beach, Florida, Joseph Duggar allegedly molested a child multiple times. She was 9 years old. She's now 14. When her father confronted Duggar this month, Duggar allegedly admitted to it. When Tontitown police had the father call again with a detective on the line — Duggar allegedly admitted again. He was arrested March 1...
14m Mar 30
14m
Rex Heuermann: The Evidence That Finally Ended It
For nearly three years, Rex Heuermann said not guilty. Seven women. Seven charges. Every time, not guilty. According to multiple sources confirmed by the Associated Press, NBC, CNN, and Fox News, that is expected to change on April 8. He's expected to plead guilty to all seven Gilgo Beach murders and accept life without the possibility of parole. The families have been called. The September tr...
28m Mar 30
28m
Lindsay Clancy: A Father Came Home to This
He came home with dinner. She was in the backyard. The children were in the basement. Part 1 of our five-part series on the Lindsay Clancy case begins exactly where the story begins — the night of January 24th, 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts — and doesn't let you leave until you understand why four more chapters are necessary to tell it right. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight...
11m Mar 30
11m
Nancy Guthrie: The Compromised Sheriff at the Center of This Case
The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance was always going to be difficult. An 84-year-old woman taken from her home in the middle of the night. No confirmed suspect. Ransom notes of uncertain origin. Nearly two months without proof of life. That's a hard case on its best day. This is not its best day. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has now had his own deputies vote 241 to zero to...
13m Mar 30
13m
Nancy Guthrie: Savannah's Revelations Reframe the Abduction
The suspect came twice. That's the detail that changes the picture. Not once — twice. Two separate visits to Nancy Guthrie's door before the night she disappeared. What happens on that first visit? What's being confirmed, mapped, or tested? And what does coming back tell you about how locked-in someone already was before they made their move? Savannah Guthrie spoke publicly for the first time ...
25m Mar 30
25m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Testimony, the Verdict, and the Question Nobody's Answering
The prosecution's version: she raised her service weapon, pointed it directly at Officer Patrick Noonan's face, pulled the trigger on an unchambered round, racked the slide, and was shot before she could fire again. The defense's version: the gun never left her own temple. This was a suicide attempt, not an assault — and she nearly died proving it. Kelsey Fitzsimmons took the stand and gave he...
50m Mar 30
50m
Nancy Guthrie: Nanos, the Compliance Loophole, and a Case Losing Momentum
Two hundred and forty-one deputies. Zero for confidence. Every ballot cast said the same thing: we don't trust the man running this investigation. The Board of Supervisors responded unanimously — invoke the statute, require sworn statements, or remove him. Supervisor Heinz called the entire 42-year career "fruit of a poison tree." Called the December deposition answer disqualifying. And then N...
35m Mar 29
35m
Kouri Richins: The Witnesses Are Talking — They Always Do
Every long con requires silence forever. Kouri Richins built hers on the cooperation of people around her — a friend, a boyfriend, a housekeeper. One by one, they took the stand in a Utah courtroom. One by one, the foundation cracked. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski examines the structural reality of the long con — and the documented case that proves how it always ends. Denise Willia...
1hr 18m Mar 29
1hr 18m
Duggar Family: The Doctrine That Made Abuse Inevitable
Before the arrests. Before the federal prison sentence. Before any of it went public — there was a system. And the Duggar family isn't the exception to what that system produces. They are the product of it. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski, Robin Dreeke, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examine the Institute in Basic Life Principles — the organization that shaped the Duggar family's ...
46m Mar 29
46m
Chris Nanos: The El Paso Record, the Deposition, and What It Means for Nancy Guthrie
The man leading the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance sat in a sworn deposition in December 2025 — six weeks before she vanished — and told an attorney under oath that he had never been suspended in forty years of law enforcement. Employment records obtained by the Arizona Republic say otherwise. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down the full documented record of...
40m Mar 29
40m
Duggar: Two Arrests, Two States, One Family System Finally Running Out of Room
Two arrests. Two states. Two separate criminal investigations running simultaneously — and they connect in ways that matter and diverge in ways most coverage didn't bother to distinguish. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the full picture of what the Duggar family is now facing legal...
1hr 3m Mar 29
1hr 3m
Kouri Richins Convicted: What the Verdict Actually Rested On — and What the Appeal Has to Overcome
A Summit County jury found Kouri Richins guilty of murdering her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl. No murder weapon recovered. The star witness credibility-damaged on the stand. The defense offering zero witnesses in response. A jury that walked in, by their own public account, hoping to acquit her — and came back unanimous anyway. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and retir...
29m Mar 28
29m
The Duggar Pattern: How a Family System Allegedly Turned Silence Into a Generational Strategy
The arrest of Joseph Duggar — on serious charges involving a minor — did not come out of nowhere. It came out of a family system that, by documented record, has treated institutional silence as both a theological obligation and a practical tool for more than two decades. This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski traces the full documented timeline of how allegations inside the Duggar family ha...
1hr 10m Mar 28
1hr 10m
Nancy Guthrie: Contradictions, a Sheriff's Disputed Record, and an Investigation That Keeps Raising Questions
The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has entered a new phase — one defined not just by what investigators haven't found, but by the credibility of the people running the search. This week on Hidden Killers, we examine the full scope of where this case stands. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who has been the public face of the investigation, was exposed for allegedly misst...
40m Mar 28
40m
Kouri Richins: How the Narrative She Built Became the Evidence That Convicted Her
The children's book. The morning show appearances. The carefully composed grief — all of it documented, all of it public, all of it now part of the permanent record of a woman a jury found guilty of murdering her husband with fentanyl. This week on Hidden Killers, we examine the architecture of Kouri Richins' self-constructed narrative — and how it collapsed under its own weight. This is Part ...
36m Mar 28
36m
The Shape of Him Finale: What Predicting Bryan Kohberger Would Have Actually Required
Hidden Killers presents the series finale of The Shape of Him — an unflinching examination of the certainty we build after catastrophe, and the harder truth about what we actually had before it. When Kohberger's name became public, many people who knew him reportedly felt not shock but recognition. Of course. Two words that feel like foresight. Two words the brain constructed after the fact fr...
17m Mar 28
17m
Nancy Guthrie, Nanos, and Kelsey Fitzsimmons: The Full Investigation
This episode covers two active cases, three distinct conversations, and one recurring theme across all of them: what does accountability actually look like when the institutions built to deliver it are part of the problem? Parts one and two: Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke responds to listener questions on Sheriff Chris Nanos and the Nancy Guthrie...
1hr 1m Mar 27
1hr 1m
Jared Bridegan: Henry Tenon, the Chain That Reached Him, and the Moments Nobody Interrupted | Pt. 5
A murder-for-hire requires a network. Communication. Agreement. Multiple people who knew something and either chose to be part of it or chose not to interrupt it. Every one of those people was an interruption point. Every one of those points was passed through without the chain breaking. Part 5 — the final episode of One Mile From Home — examines those interruption points, and the psychology t...
14m Mar 27
14m
Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial: Evidence, Contradictions, and What's Left Unresolved
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case was never going to produce a clean answer. A police officer shot by a colleague during a restraining order service. Two completely contradictory accounts of where the gun was pointed. No body camera footage. A documented mental health history that every officer entering that house knew about before they walked through the door. What the trial record established: Kel...
19m Mar 27
19m
The Sheriff Who Said "No" Under Oath
Under oath, in a sworn December deposition, Sheriff Chris Nanos was asked directly: had he ever been suspended during his law enforcement career? He said no. The Arizona Republic then published his El Paso Police Department employment file — eight suspensions, thirty-seven days without pay, a suspect in the intensive care unit, a grand jury, and a forced resignation in 1982. Nanos says he inter...
16m Mar 27
16m
Bill Cosby: What the $59 Million Civil Verdict Actually Revealed
The verdict number got the headlines. What happened inside that Santa Monica courtroom tells the fuller story. On March 23, 2026, a California civil jury found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting Donna Motsinger in 1972, awarding her $59.25 million — $19.25 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages after determining he acted with malice, oppression,...
28m Mar 27
28m
Nancy Guthrie Investigation: What the Case Actually Looks Like Right Now
Strip away the politics. Set aside the board meetings and the no-confidence votes. What is happening on the ground in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance — right now? That's the harder question. And it's the one this episode addresses directly. The facts as they stand: Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from her Catalina Foothills home since early February. Blood confirmed a...
19m Mar 27
19m
Nancy Guthrie Case: The Sheriff's Hidden Record Changes Everything
The case was always complicated. An 84-year-old woman abducted from her home in Catalina Foothills, her blood on the porch, ransom notes distributed to media, a backpack-wearing suspect captured on doorbell footage — and a multi-agency investigation under the national microscope from day one. What nobody anticipated was that the man running the investigation would become a story unto himself. ...
23m Mar 27
23m
The Shape of Him Part 4: The People Who Fit The Profile And Never Cross The Line
Hidden Killers presents Part Four of The Shape of Him — the episode that asks what it costs to fit the Kohberger profile and never do a single thing wrong. After every case like this, the profile gets built more carefully. More characteristics get added. And the population of people living inside that description — people who are odd, intense, isolated, fascinated by dark subject matter, socia...
16m Mar 27
16m
The Duggar Family, the System Behind Them, and the Psychology of All of It — Complete 3-Part Series With Shavaun Scott
The arrests are only part of the story. Understanding what's happening with the Duggar family — and why it keeps happening — requires understanding the organization that shaped them, the psychology of the men at the center of it, and what recovery from a system like this actually looks like. Hidden Killers hosts Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for a th...
1hr 4m Mar 26
1hr 4m