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Two major true-crime cases just took sharp, unexpected turns — one in the courtroom, one in the civil arena.

First, Brian Walshe blindsided the court by pleading guilty to disposing of Ana Walshe’s remains and misleading investigators — but still maintaining he didn’t kill her. It’s a move that redefines the entire murder trial and forces huge strategic shifts for both sides.

Then, across the country, Washington State University is facing legal heat. The Goncalves family has filed a civil claim arguing WSU ignored repeated warnings about Brian Kohberger before the Moscow murders. More than a dozen co...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is already sitting in federal custody, already facing civil lawsuits, already under investigation for trafficking-related conduct — but now the entire landscape has shifted again. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has officially confirmed that they are investigating a new sexual assault allegation tied to an incident reported to have occurred in 2020. And this one? It’s not decades old. It’s not lost to history. It lives in the digital era, where timelines can be cross-checked, data can be recovered, and investigators can build a picture of the truth in ways that simply weren’t possible twenty years a...

When the Epstein files go public, the biggest shock won’t be a single name — it will be the realization of how many institutions failed, looked away, or quietly enabled a predator to operate at the highest levels of society. And once that truth lands, America is going to feel something profound: institutional betrayal.

In this riveting one-hour discussion, Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott dig into the psychology of what happens when the public discovers that the systems they trusted were protecting someone like Jeffrey Epstein. Governments. Universities. Financial institutions. Social circles. Even media figures. When the publ...

How does a grandmother, a former schoolteacher, a woman who spent decades projecting the image of a devoted matriarch, end up at the center of one of the most disturbing family-driven crimes in recent memory? Tonight, we go deep into the psychology behind the Donna Adelson case — not to excuse her actions, but to finally understand the mental scaffolding that allowed her to justify something most people couldn’t even imagine doing.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, we break down the narcissistic mindset that shaped Donna’s worldview for decades. We explore the internal story she built, one wh...

In the noise, chaos, and courtroom spectacle of the Murdaugh murders, one voice was never fully heard — and it may be the one that changes how you see this case forever. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, the Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper, has now broken her silence in a memoir packed with the kind of details only someone inside that home could recognize. And one revelation stands above the rest: Blanca does not believe Alex acted alone.

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we go deep into Blanca’s account — not the sanitized version from trial clips or headlines, but the raw observations she live...

Today, defense attorney Bob Motta and I take a hard look at one of the most troubling aspects of the Delphi murder investigation: the leads that were dismissed, minimized, or never meaningfully followed.

The depositions show something the public has never had a clear window into — investigators explaining why certain suspects weren’t pursued, why certain statements didn’t matter, why symbolic elements of the crime scene were ignored, and why potentially exculpatory information was either downplayed or outright forgotten.

In this conversation, Bob breaks down how two individuals tied to the Odinism angle — individuals whose behavior...

The story of Ana and Brian Walshe is not just another missing-person case. It’s a timeline filled with pressure, contradictions, and behavior that—when laid out piece by piece—paints an unsettling picture of a marriage heading toward a breaking point. And now, as Brian prepares to stand trial, prosecutors are preparing to bring every moment of that timeline into full view.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, I walk through the complete chronology: the instability leading up to Ana’s disappearance, the imbalance in the relationship, the rising pressure from Brian’s ongoing legal issues, and the future...

Four young women. One devastating crash. And a courtroom now wrestling with a question nobody wants to ask out loud: when does reckless behavior cross the line into murder?

In today’s episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we dive deep — not into outrage, not into assumptions, but into the uncomfortable space where law and emotion collide. The case of Fraser Michael Bohm, the 22-year-old accused of driving over 100 mph on Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway before striking parked cars and killing four Pepperdine students, is now shaping up to be one of the most complex legal and mo...

Some cases hit you in the gut, not because the details are complex, but because they’re painfully simple — and still, nothing happens. That’s the reality tonight as we look at the stories of Melodee Buzzard and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, two young girls caught in two different investigations that somehow keep producing the same baffling outcome: no real movement.

Nine-year-old Melodee is missing. Her mother, Ashlee — the last adult with her — spent days traveling across state lines in disguises, swapping licenses, behaving erratically, and allegedly holding a man in her home while threatening him with a blade. Every red...

The Jared Bridegan case has taken another sharp, chaotic turn — and it all comes down to the one person prosecutors absolutely need: the man who says he pulled the trigger. In today’s episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down the stunning courtroom moment when confessed shooter Henry Tenon suddenly claimed his own sworn statement was “false,” only to reverse himself the very next day.

This is the kind of twist that doesn’t just make headlines — it reshapes the entire courtroom battlefield.

Prosecutors say Tenon was the hired gun in what they describe as a carefully...

What happened aboard the Carnival Horizon the morning 18-year-old Anna Kepner died is disturbing enough on its own. But when you look at the people in that cabin with her — and the long, complicated history surrounding this blended family — the picture becomes even more unsettling.

In this episode, Tony Brueski takes you deep into the evolving investigation into the death of Florida teen Anna Kepner, whose body was discovered concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, and partially covered by life vests. The FBI boarded the ship the moment it docked in Miami, and new filings now reve...

The Goncalves family has taken the next step — not criminal, but civil. They’ve filed claims against Washington State University, arguing the school ignored repeated red flags about Brian Kohberger before the murders in Moscow.

And now the question becomes: Does the law agree?

In this deep-dive episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski sits down with former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis to unpack the legal claims, the duty-of-care standards, the foreseeability argument, and the staggering list of complaints that WSU allegedly received long before the killings.

Tony and Eric break down the core...

In this episode, Robin Dreeke — former FBI Special Agent and one of the country’s top behavioral analysts — joins me to examine the Delphi murders investigation through the only lens that can truly explain the depositions: human error.

Evidence doesn’t make decisions. People do. And the depositions show a team of people overwhelmed, overloaded, and psychologically boxed in. Robin and I break down why investigators contradicted themselves, why memories shifted, why certain information was minimized, and why the entire system seemed to lose its grip on objectivity.

Why did one investigator insist the FBI was removed...

Long Island wants to believe it caught the “one monster.”
The lone predator.
The man who stalked in silence until the handcuffs finally closed.

But the truth is far more disturbing: Rex Heuermann didn’t operate in a vacuum. He operated in an ecosystem — one built on silence, vulnerability, and decades of ignored danger. And when you step back far enough, you start to see something bigger than one suspect. You see a pattern. A landscape. A coastline that became a dumping ground for the unnoticed and the unclaimed.

In this episode of Hidden Killers...

Right before jury selection — right before the moment everything becomes real — Brian Walshe walked into court and detonated a grenade in his own case. He pled guilty to two critically important charges: misleading investigators and disposing of Ana Walshe’s remains. But he refused to plead guilty to murder.

It’s a strange split. A risky split. And a split that reshapes the entire murder trial.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and Stacy Cole sit down with former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis to break down exactly what this means — legally, strategically, and psycho...

The Epstein Files are finally coming — not rumors, not fragments, not those half-redacted pages we’ve been fighting over for years, but the full trove of documents that investigators, survivors, journalists, and the public have been demanding. What’s about to be released isn’t just a snapshot of Jeffrey Epstein’s life — it’s the operating manual for how he stayed protected, connected, and strangely influential long after he should’ve been radioactive.

In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we dive into what the public can actually expect when the files hit daylight. These aren’t neat litt...

Two major true-crime cases just took sharp, unexpected turns — one in the courtroom, one in the civil arena.

First, Brian Walshe blindsided the court by pleading guilty to disposing of Ana Walshe’s remains and misleading investigators — but still maintaining he didn’t kill her. It’s a move that redefines the entire murder trial and forces huge strategic shifts for both sides.

Then, across the country, Washington State University is facing legal heat. The Goncalves family has filed a civil claim arguing WSU ignored repeated warnings about Brian Kohberger before the Moscow murders. More than a dozen co...

In today’s episode, we take a hard, relentless look at Lieutenant Jerry Holeman’s testimony in the Delphi murders case — and what it reveals about the investigation that led to the conviction of Richard Allen. This isn’t speculation. This isn’t rumor. This is straight from the sworn record: the contradictions, the assumptions, the missing analysis, and the investigative gaps that no one watching the press conferences ever got to see.

Holeman was positioned as one of the state’s anchors — a senior Indiana State Police investigator expected to bring clarity and confidence to a deeply complex double...

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we’re diving into the lawsuit that could finally crack open the one part of the Bryan Kohberger story that’s been sealed tight: what Washington State University actually knew about his behavior before the Idaho killings — and what they did or didn’t do with it.

The Goncalves family has officially taken the first major step toward suing WSU, and the claims are explosive. They’re arguing that the university wasn’t just a backdrop in Kohberger’s life — it was an institution with warnings stacking up in its hallways, complaints piling on desks, and a gro...

The public sees headlines. Survivors feel earthquakes.

As the full Epstein files move toward release, America is fixated on the political implications. But for the survivors of Epstein and his network, this is something else entirely — a psychological rupture, a reopening of wounds, a wave of validation mingled with dread. And that emotional reality often gets lost in the noise.

In this gripping conversation, Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to break down what this moment truly means for survivors, both publicly known and privately suffering.

Shavaun explains why major truth-reveals can re...

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Robin Dreeke — retired FBI Special Agent and former head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — for a deep dive into the psychological collapse that happened inside the Delphi investigation. This isn’t about evidence. This is about behavior. The behavior of the investigators who shaped the case.

The depositions reveal an investigative team working under immense pressure. And according to Robin, that pressure didn’t make the team sharper — it made them fracture. He explains how emotional fatigue, leadership confusion, and cognitive bias can break down an investigation from the inside lon...

An 18-year-old girl goes on a family cruise and never comes home. That alone is heartbreaking. But when the details start to surface — when the reporting suggests she wasn’t simply found in her bed, but under it… wrapped… covered… hidden — the silence from authorities becomes its own kind of story.

In today’s episode, we take a deep, fact-driven look at the death of Anna Kepner, the bright Florida high-school senior whose life ended aboard the Carnival Horizon in circumstances that are anything but ordinary. This isn’t speculation. This is the complete picture of what’s publicly known rig...

The case of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez has just taken a dramatic turn — and not because the LAPD held a press conference. Not because charges were filed. Not because evidence was unsealed. The shift came from something much quieter, much more subtle, but far more consequential.

A single word.

According to multiple Los Angeles outlets — including NBC4, ABC7, and PEOPLE Magazine — anonymous law-enforcement sources now refer to singer D4vd as a suspect in the death investigation surrounding Celeste. LAPD hasn’t said it publicly. They haven’t confirmed it on the record. But inside the investigat...

The Epstein files are about to drop — not rumors, not whispers, not selectively leaked scraps — the full trove of documents America has spent years demanding. And while the legal system prepares for its moment, the rest of the country is bracing for something far deeper: the psychological shockwave that comes when long-buried truth finally hits daylight.

In this powerful hour-long conversation, Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine the emotional and psychological fallout that is about to ripple through millions of people. From survivors who will relive their trauma in real time, to families who have...

Brian Walshe’s courtroom strategy just blew apart. When he stood in front of a judge and admitted — in his own voice — that he willfully conveyed Ana Walshe’s remains and misled investigators, he didn’t just plead guilty to two charges. He detonated the core of the defense narrative he’s been hiding behind for nearly two years. Now he’s walking into a murder trial without the one thing most defendants in no-body cases cling to: deniability.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, we break down exactly how this guilty plea changes the entire trajectory of the trial and...

The case of Brian Walshe took a dramatic turn as breaking news revealed a sudden, unexpected shift inside the courtroom. In a move that stunned legal analysts and true crime followers alike, Walshe pled guilty to charges involving the disposal of his wife Ana Walshe’s body and interfering with the police investigation — yet he continues to deny murdering her. This unusual strategy has set off a wave of questions about what really happened inside the couple’s Massachusetts home and how this plea might reshape the trial ahead.

During a detailed legal discussion, experts broke down how this t...

When the Epstein files go public, the biggest shock won’t be a single name — it will be the realization of how many institutions failed, looked away, or quietly enabled a predator to operate at the highest levels of society. And once that truth lands, America is going to feel something profound: institutional betrayal.

In this riveting one-hour discussion, Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott dig into the psychology of what happens when the public discovers that the systems they trusted were protecting someone like Jeffrey Epstein. Governments. Universities. Financial institutions. Social circles. Even media figures. When the publ...

The true crime world is once again shaken by a disturbing case that raises more questions than answers. The tragic death of Celeste Rivas, who was discovered concealed inside the trunk of a Tesla belonging to David, has ignited a wave of public concern and investigative curiosity. Early reports from KTLA describe the 70-pound woman as dismembered, a detail that intensifies the urgency surrounding this unfolding story. Law enforcement has made it clear that while they acknowledge the concealment of a body, they have not yet brought homicide charges — not because they’ve ruled it out, but because the forensic pict...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is already sitting in federal custody, already facing civil lawsuits, already under investigation for trafficking-related conduct — but now the entire landscape has shifted again. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has officially confirmed that they are investigating a new sexual assault allegation tied to an incident reported to have occurred in 2020. And this one? It’s not decades old. It’s not lost to history. It lives in the digital era, where timelines can be cross-checked, data can be recovered, and investigators can build a picture of the truth in ways that simply weren’t possible twenty years a...

The final hearing before the murder trial of Brian Walshe wasn’t just a procedural stop — it was a preview of the evidence the jury may hear, the strategies both sides are preparing, and the enormous fight over what parts of Brian Walshe’s digital life will be allowed into this courtroom.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, we break down exactly what happened inside that Dedham courtroom: the arguments, the evidence battles, the tense moments, and the pieces of the investigation prosecutors say reveal a chilling timeline leading up to and immediately after Ana Walshe vanished.

Pr...

The tragic death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship has now escalated into a deeply complex FBI investigation, and newly uncovered court documents are shedding dramatic new light on the case. What began as a heartbreaking loss during a family vacation has quickly turned into a potential homicide inquiry involving a juvenile suspect, a custody battle, and allegations from Anna’s own relatives that she was murdered—not the victim of an accident or overdose.

This breaking true crime story unfolds against the backdrop of a cruise ship returning to Miami, where FBI agents imme...

In this episode, I sit down with defense attorney and trial analyst Bob Motta to examine the most explosive development yet in the Delphi case: the collapse of the timeline investigators built around the murders of Abby and Libby.

For years, the timeline was treated as settled. But when you read the depositions, the cracks spread fast. Bob and I break down how witness statements were reshaped, how the search-warrant affidavit reframed crucial descriptions, and how timelines were tightened or loosened depending on who was writing the report. This isn’t conjecture — it’s sworn testimony.

Bob wa...

In today’s episode, former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, Robin Dreeke, joins me for a breakdown unlike anything you’ve heard about the Delphi case. Forget the sanitized, press-conference version of this investigation. Robin and I go deep into the human psychology behind the breakdown — the way investigators acted, reacted, remembered, forgot, contradicted each other, shut out certain leads, and emotionally locked onto others.

The depositions don’t just reveal evidence issues. They reveal behavioral issues. And Robin reads those better than anyone.

Why did two lead investigators swear under oa...

Bryan Kohberger has just been ordered to pay for another part of the aftermath he created — this time, roughly $3,000 for two victims’ urns, on top of the more than $30,000 restitution outlined in his agreement. On the surface, it feels like a moment of overdue accountability in a case where nothing has moved fast enough, clean enough, or confidently enough. But as always in the Kohberger saga… the fine print tells a very different story.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski dives into the judge’s ruling — not just what it means for restitution, but what it quietly un...

In our latest interview, defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to dissect the one thing the public never truly got to see in the Delphi murders case: the investigators themselves, speaking under oath. And what those depositions reveal isn’t a unified, focused, evidence-driven investigative team — it’s a fractured, inconsistent, internally conflicted system struggling under the weight of its own decisions.

For years, the Delphi narrative has been kept clean and simple on the surface. But beneath that exterior is a record full of contradictions: investigators who cannot agree on whether the FBI was removed from the case…...

In the Delphi murders case, the public has only ever been shown one version of events — a clean timeline, a single suspect, and an investigation that supposedly marched in a straight line toward justice. But once you start digging into the actual depositions of the investigators who built the case against Richard Allen, that clean version evaporates fast.

What’s underneath is something entirely different: a fractured investigation full of contradictions, missing evidence, conflicting statements, and decisions that make you wonder how much of the original truth ever had a chance to survive.

Today, we’re taking...

Today, defense attorney Bob Motta and I take a hard look at one of the most troubling aspects of the Delphi murder investigation: the leads that were dismissed, minimized, or never meaningfully followed.

The depositions show something the public has never had a clear window into — investigators explaining why certain suspects weren’t pursued, why certain statements didn’t matter, why symbolic elements of the crime scene were ignored, and why potentially exculpatory information was either downplayed or outright forgotten.

In this conversation, Bob breaks down how two individuals tied to the Odinism angle — individuals whose behavior...

Four young women. One devastating crash. And a courtroom now wrestling with a question nobody wants to ask out loud: when does reckless behavior cross the line into murder?

In today’s episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we dive deep — not into outrage, not into assumptions, but into the uncomfortable space where law and emotion collide. The case of Fraser Michael Bohm, the 22-year-old accused of driving over 100 mph on Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway before striking parked cars and killing four Pepperdine students, is now shaping up to be one of the most complex legal and mo...

How does a grandmother, a former schoolteacher, a woman who spent decades projecting the image of a devoted matriarch, end up at the center of one of the most disturbing family-driven crimes in recent memory? Tonight, we go deep into the psychology behind the Donna Adelson case — not to excuse her actions, but to finally understand the mental scaffolding that allowed her to justify something most people couldn’t even imagine doing.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, we break down the narcissistic mindset that shaped Donna’s worldview for decades. We explore the internal story she built, one wh...

It’s one of the most unsettling cases in recent memory: fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, found deceased in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to recording artist D4vd, sealed inside a plastic bag, severely decomposed — and yet months later, the official cause and manner of death remain “undetermined.”

That one word has frozen the investigation in place. No homicide charge. No negligence charge. No clarity. Just a growing list of questions.

Tonight on Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down the enormous gap between what the public sees and what...