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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama—giving you the full story behind the headlines. From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention, we break down what really happened and why.
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- Today15 min
What Kouri Richins Is Planning After Her Life Sentence
On the day Kouri Richins’ defense team was supposed to respond to prosecutors, they didn’t. They filed a sealed motion instead — hidden from public view — asking the judge to pause her entire case. Prosecutors call the reason she gave ‘a misleading pretext.’Richins was convicted of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. She tried it first on Valentine’s Day with a laced sandwich, then two weeks later with a cocktail at their home near Park City. The jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts in under three hours. She’s serving life without parole.Her defense has pushed multiple post-conviction challenges. A new trial motion alleging judicial hostility. A motion to disqualify Judge Richard Mrazik. A separate judge denied the disqualification, finding no extreme behavior or deep-seated antagonism in the trial record. Mrazik returned to the case.The sealed motion the defense filed asks the court to wait for a separate obstruction investigation to play out before ruling on the new trial motion. Prosecutors say the real purpose isn’t to support the existing arguments — it’s to build entirely new ones. The original claim was about the judge’s conduct during the trial. The new claim is about what happened in a closed hearing before trial. Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth wrote that the two complaints don’t connect.At the center of the obstruction investigation is a detective who worked the Richins case, a sheriff running for reelection who allegedly tried to use anonymous allegations against that detective, and a recorded jail call where a man described as Kouri’s admirer explains why he helped that sheriff’s campaign. The explanation goes straight back to the detective who built the case against her.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #truecrime #MisleadingPretext #SealedMotion #fentanyl #ParkCity #lifewithoutparole #postconviction
- Today13 min
What Christa Pike Did After the State Gave Her Two Lethal Injections
Christa Pike survived two lethal injections on September 30, 2026. The state of Tennessee gave her two doses of pentobarbital — the drug used in its execution protocol — and neither one worked. Witnesses reported Pike breathing on the gurney, saying her arm felt like it was about to burst, and audibly snoring. Corrections officials stopped the execution and called an ambulance. Pike was transported to a hospital. Governor Bill Lee halted all executions statewide and ordered a third-party review. Pike murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in January 1995 at a Job Corps center in Knoxville. Slemmer’s family has waited more than 31 years for closure. Instead, they watched the state bungle the execution and wheel the killer to a hospital. Tennessee now faces a question it cannot answer: how does this happen with unlimited resources and months to prepare?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#ChristaPike #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #GovernorLee #Justice
- Today27 min
What Nancy Guthrie’s Extortionist Knew About a Former FBI Agent
Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer was personally targeted by an extortionist claiming to hold Nancy Guthrie. The ransom demand arrived at a private personnel email address — and used a middle name Coffindaffer doesn’t go by publicly. Those two details suggest access to information that should be impossible to find on someone who spent a career in federal law enforcement. Coffindaffer immediately reported it to the FBI, but local authorities publicly dismissed the notes as fakes while real, sophisticated extortion was actively happening. Nancy’s friend Lauren Serpa received a separate demand for six bitcoin — approximately half a million dollars — with claims Guthrie was alive in Mexico. Crypto wallets masking IP addresses and AI-generated proof-of-life images reveal the level of organization behind these demands. Nancy Guthrie vanished from Catalina Foothills, Arizona on February 1, 2026. She is 84 years old.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NancyGuthrie #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #Arizona #FBI #RansomNote #ColdCase #CatalinaFoothills
- Yesterday44 min
Caleb Flynn’s 107,000 Messages Met a Two-Hour Verdict
Caleb Flynn's murder trial gave jurors a digital record few cases ever produce. Prosecutors introduced 107,000 messages between Flynn and Alleigha Botner, organized into thirty-four books. Jurors heard messages about hatred toward Ashley Flynn, talk of killing her, and promises that Flynn would soon be free to start a new life.Investigators also testified about data recovered from Flynn's devices after apps had been removed. The State used phone, Apple Watch, AirPods, surveillance, and other digital evidence to challenge Flynn's claim that an intruder entered the home and killed Ashley while he was elsewhere in the house.The defense argued that the missing murder weapon mattered and that an affair was motive evidence, not proof. It called no witnesses after the prosecution presented forty. On September 29, the jury found Flynn guilty on all nine charges, including aggravated murder. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5.This combined episode then turns to psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for a behavioral analysis of the relationship Flynn maintained with Botner. Scott explains how intermittent reinforcement can keep someone returning after repeated disappointment, how sunk-cost thinking makes leaving harder, and how compartmentalization can support a double life.Scott's analysis did not convict Flynn and was not evidence before the jury. It helps frame the relationship dynamics around evidence the jury did hear.Tony Brueski separates those two questions: what proved the criminal case, and what may explain the long pattern of promises, secrecy, and delay that surrounded it.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #TrueCrimeToday #AlleighaBotner #ShavaunScott #CalebFlynnTrial #GuiltyVerdict #DigitalEvidence #OhioCrime #TrueCrime
- Yesterday33 min
Delphi Appeal: What Richard Allen Says His Jury Was Denied
Richard Allen’s direct appeal is not a second trial. It is a challenge to decisions that determined what his 2024 jury could and could not hear before convicting him of the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to examine two connected parts of that argument: evidence about another man investigated in the case, and evidence the defense says would have undercut the State’s proof against Allen.The alternate-suspect issue centers on Brad Holder, who was investigated in 2017 but has never been charged. Allen’s appellate lawyer Mark Leeman told the Indiana Court of Appeals that Holder later posted a rune-like marking on his hand and social-media material the defense believed had similarities to the scene. Judge Frances Gull excluded the theory at trial because Indiana requires a direct connection between a third party and the charged crime. The State says Holder’s work records placed him at a landfill roughly 25 miles away at the relevant time.The second fight concerns the State’s cartridge evidence and Betsy Blair’s eyewitness account. A State Police examiner testified that an unfired .40-caliber round found near the girls had been cycled through Allen’s handgun. Gull excluded former FBI metallurgist William Tobin, whom the defense wanted to use to challenge that methodology. She also excluded the Blair sketch as hearsay, although Blair testified that the man in Libby German’s Bridge Guy image was the man she had seen.Bob Motta explains how appellate judges evaluate those rulings: not by deciding which theory sounds better, but by asking whether Gull applied the right legal rules and, if not, whether the error was harmless. The panel has not yet ruled.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrimeToday #DelphiAppeal #BradHolder #BobMotta #BridgeGuy #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #TrueCrime
- Yesterday29 min
Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Moved Amid New Weapons Allegations
Alex Murdaugh’s second murder trial is now scheduled for Sumter County, about eighty miles from the courthouse where he was convicted in 2023. Judge Debra McCaslin moved the case after finding that Murdaugh could not receive a fair and impartial retrial in Colleton County or elsewhere in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit. The first jury-selection process had already disqualified most of the people summoned, and McCaslin said later publicity and the Becky Hill jury-interference case only deepened the problem.The defense had pushed for Charleston and offered to waive any future appeal based on venue if the judge accepted that request. McCaslin instead picked Sumter after reviewing jury-pool size, courthouse capacity, security, transportation, and technology. The retrial is set for April 5, 2027.Meanwhile, state investigators and statewide grand-jury prosecutors are reportedly examining allegations involving the still-missing murder weapons. Recent reports identify Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander and another officer as subjects of questions about weapons and bloody clothing allegedly moved after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. Alexander has not been charged. His attorney says the allegations are unfounded and has called the reporting ridiculous rumors.The new inquiry does not erase the evidence presented in the first trial, and it does not establish who handled the missing guns. But it gives both sides another factual dispute to investigate before the retrial. Tony Brueski looks at how a new venue and an unresolved evidence question could reshape the second prosecution of one of South Carolina’s most scrutinized criminal cases.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #SumterCounty #GregAlexander #MurdaughMurders #SLED #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #TrueCrime
- Yesterday28 min
JP Miller Delayed His Trial Again — And the Demon Talk Is Back
JP Miller is headed toward a January 2027 federal trial after his defense obtained a sixth continuance. The former Myrtle Beach pastor has pleaded not guilty to cyberstalking Mica Miller and making false statements to federal investigators, and the allegations in the indictment are concrete: unwanted communications, tracking devices, interference with finances and daily life, vehicle damage, and alleged lies to the FBI.Then there is the much stranger public record. In October 2023, Miller told his Solid Rock Church congregation that he was going through deliverance sessions and that demons were coming out of him. There is no indication that demonic possession has been raised as a defense in his federal case. But the statements matter because of what was happening around the same period and because of how Miller described his own behavior elsewhere.Mica's brother Nate Francis said in a sworn affidavit that JP sent Mica an email acknowledging that when he felt hurt, he would try to hurt back, attack, and cause pain. That language is not mystical. It is personal, direct, and potentially far more relevant to how viewers understand the allegations now before a federal court.The demon-defense comparison has legal history, too. In 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson's attorney tried to present demonic possession as an explanation for a fatal stabbing. Judge Robert Callahan barred the argument as irrelevant and unreliable, and Johnson was convicted of manslaughter.Tony Brueski looks at why the Miller case is not really about demons at all. After six delays, the central issue is whether prosecutors can prove the charged conduct beyond a reasonable doubt and whether the defense can undercut the government's digital, documentary, and witness evidence when the case finally reaches trial.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #TrueCrimeToday #FederalTrial #Cyberstalking #DemonDefense #MyrtleBeach #SolidRockChurch #MicasLaw #TrueCrime
- Yesterday37 min
What Alleigha Botner's Texts Revealed About Caleb Flynn
Alleigha Botner’s testimony forced the Caleb Flynn trial to confront both halves of the affair. Prosecutors did not only show jurors Flynn’s statements about wanting Ashley Flynn gone. They made Botner claim her own words. In one July 2025 exchange, she acknowledged writing that she wanted Ashley dead. Flynn replied, “that makes two of us.” Botner testified that she did not mean it literally.Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI special agent, and Robin Dreeke examine how those messages fit into the broader behavioral record. That includes the September 2 conversation after Ashley found evidence of the affair, when Flynn suggested taking Ashley’s phone while she slept and Botner responded “be careful,” asked what excuse he would use, and later wrote “Perfect.” The issue is not whether one ugly message proves a crime. It is how the sequence, repetition, and practical planning were presented to the jury.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the relationship from the other end of the timeline. Botner was a young church intern when she met Flynn, an older married worship-team volunteer. Scott discusses how age, religious trust, secrecy, Flynn’s claim that Ashley was merely a roommate, matching hidden tattoos, and AI-generated love songs can help create an insulated relationship in which outside objections lose force.The jury ultimately convicted Flynn on September 29, 2026, of aggravated murder and eight other charges. His lawyers had argued that the state never proved he fired the gun, that an intruder killed Ashley, and that the affair evidence was emotionally powerful but not direct proof. Sentencing is scheduled for October 5. Coffindaffer and Scott bring two different expert lenses to the same question: how much of this case lives in what was said, and how much lives in the relationship that made those conversations possible?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #JenniferCoffindaffer #ShavaunScott #TrueCrimeToday #RobinDreeke #CalebFlynnVerdict #OhioCrime #TrueCrime
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