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Hidden Killers Live! is your daily true crime podcast delivering two hours of nonstop coverage every weekday. Hosted by Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke, this show dives into the most compelling stories in the true crime world — from murder trials and cold cases to criminal psychology, investigations, and the dark motives behind real-life crimes. Each episode brings a mix of breaking crime news, courtroom analysis, and raw conversation that takes you beyond the headlines. Whether it’s exploring how investigators crack cases, uncovering the psychology of killers, or following the twists of ongoing trials, you’ll get sharp, unfiltered insight every time. Unlike recap shows, Hidden Killers Live! is true crime talk in real time — asking the tough questions, cutting through the noise, and giving listeners the context they need to understand today’s biggest cases. If you crave smart, binge-worthy true crime content with expert commentary, emotional depth, and daily updates that keep you ahead of the story, this is the podcast for you.
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- Yesterday30 min
Alex Murdaugh: Can a Grand Jury Error Undo THIS Case?!
What separates a detective's bad information from testimony serious enough to invalidate an indictment? That question now sits in front of Judge Debra McCaslin as Alex Murdaugh prepares for another murder trial in South Carolina. His legal team has asked that four indictments be dismissed without prejudice, pointing to what SLED lead agent David Owen told grand jurors about evidence from the deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.The first issue is the shirt. Owen said an outside expert found blood spatter linked to the victims. A SLED report from 2021 found no human blood in samples from the garment. On cross-examination during the original trial, Owen agreed the grand jury had been given incorrect information. His explanation: he hadn't seen the negative report when he testified and didn't intend to mislead anyone.Then comes the shotgun claim. Investigators questioned Murdaugh using a statement about ammunition supposedly matching the type used to kill Paul. Owen later called the interview tactic trickery. The defense says the problem isn't what he told a suspect; it's what he told a grand jury under oath. That legal distinction could determine whether prosecutors must return to a new panel and begin again.The state has answered the motion. Its November 9 filing denies fabrication, cites other blood-related testing and an expert who continued to support his spatter interpretation, and argues there was ample evidence beyond the challenged testimony. Neither account has yet been adopted as the court's finding.Tony Brueski is joined by Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, to break down the actual remedy requested, the competing versions of the forensic record, and why an indictment dispute is not the same thing as deciding guilt. The November 13 hearing comes ahead of a planned April 2027 retrial. Murdaugh maintains his denial of the murders.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 #MurdaughMurders #HiddenKillers #SLED #DavidOwen #MurdaughRetrial #GrandJury #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #EricFaddis
- Yesterday31 min
Matthew Farwell: His Own Witness Opened WHAT Question?!
Matthew Farwell’s defense called a former chief medical examiner to support its suicide theory. Then prosecutors questioned him about injuries and what might happen if someone did not fight back. It is the kind of exchange that can sound decisive in a courtroom clip—until you put the whole testimony next to the digital evidence.Tony Brueski brings former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer into the same conversation. Faddis presses the strongest points against the government’s theory. Coffindaffer works through the surveillance, phone activity, evidence on the ligature, and an internet search prosecutors say was made on Farwell’s work-issued phone days later.The prosecution says Sandra Birchmore, 23 and pregnant, was strangled by Farwell in February 2021 and that her death was staged as a hanging. The defense says she died by suicide after he came to end the relationship. Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal charges involving the killing of a witness or victim and an unborn child.Here is the timeline the government wants jurors to remember. Sandra allegedly asked about clothes for the baby that evening, told Farwell the door was open, and was seen on building surveillance through his arrival and departure. Prosecution experts said her phone counted no steps after 9:40 p.m. Farwell left at 9:43. His attorneys say that timing does not prove what happened in the apartment.Dr. Thomas Andrew disputed the prosecution’s interpretation of the neck findings and described why hanging remained possible in his view. That tension matters as much as any single screenshot. After November 6 closings, jurors reported they were deadlocked November 9; the judge sent them back to deliberate November 10. Faddis and Coffindaffer explain why a hard question is not automatically a resolved one.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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #EricFaddis #JenniferCoffindaffer #FederalTrial #JusticeForSandra #TrueCrime
- Yesterday24 min
Nancy Guthrie: Did Investigators Lose the Critical HOURS?!
There was blood near Nancy Guthrie’s front door. There was footage of a masked person. And there were questions almost immediately about how the missing woman’s Tucson property was handled. Months later, a separate reported phone-data lead points back to January, before the suspected abduction. Are these unrelated clues, or two chances to build a clearer timeline?Tony Brueski sits down with former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke to examine what investigators can establish and what remains speculation. Nancy was last seen with family January 31, 2026. Investigators believe someone took her from her home overnight. The masked person seen on doorbell footage has not been publicly identified in this account.The Wall Street Journal raised concerns about crime-scene access and the initial protection of the porch. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos disputes elements of that reporting and has said the investigation is active. He has also acknowledged that releasing the scene too early was a legitimate criticism. A separate report said federal officials preferred DNA testing at Quantico while local investigators used a private Florida facility. Nanos maintained that was a sound investigative choice.Coffindaffer breaks down what effective coordination would look like: securing the scene, tracking who entered, preserving biological evidence, gathering January video and validating the private analyst’s cell-phone leads through appropriate records. A phone ping near a home is not a suspect; it may be a starting point for further work.Dreeke considers the behaviors visible on camera and the possibility of preparation, while resisting the urge to turn an unknown person into a complete psychological profile. He also discusses why a seemingly calculated act may still involve more than one explanation. Nancy remains missing, and no publicly confirmed identification closes the case. We follow the evidence—and ask which decisions can still be revisited.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 #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #Tucson #PimaCounty #MissingPerson #FBI #TrueCrime
- Yesterday1h 0m
Was Jensen Huang Lonely at the Top? Ask an Ex-FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief
Jensen Huang runs the company behind much of the AI boom, and he has admitted in a memo to Nvidia employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife. Reports say the woman was Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was a Chinese intelligence asset, and I go through the whole story with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, starting with whether life at the top can leave a man open to someone new.Robin ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program and spent years recruiting sources. China calls the reports groundless speculation, and Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised.We talk about how a brilliant man misjudges the woman he's involved with, what would separate a spy operation from a messy affair, and how investigators would question Huang about what he knew. Then we go past the established facts into blackmail. We finish with separate cases where spying turned deadly, including Aldrich Ames, whose information led to the execution of at least ten CIA and FBI sources, according to a Justice Department review. The Justice Department also says Iran's government directed a plot to murder journalist Masih Alinejad, and Robin explains what makes someone a target.Alice Huang hasn't commented, and no one in the Nvidia case has been charged.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.#NvidiaSpyScandal #JensenHuang #HiddenKillersLive #AliceHuang #AldrichAmes #MasihAlinejad #RobinDreeke #Espionage #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
- Yesterday11 min
Masih Alinejad and Aldrich Ames's Sources Defied Their Regimes. Is That a Death Sentence?
Masih Alinejad, a journalist and human rights activist who has spoken out against Iran's government, was the target of what the Justice Department described as a murder-for-hire plot directed by Iran in New York. Carlisle Rivera was sentenced to fifteen years for his role, and I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke whether defying a regime is enough to make someone a target for murder.Robin ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. We also look at Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer whose information, a Justice Department review found, led to at least ten CIA and FBI sources being exposed and executed after he gave it to the KGB. Prosecutors say Farhad Shakeri offered Rivera $100,000 to locate and kill Alinejad, and Shakeri remains at large.I ask Robin who else is in danger when names get passed along, including people who never had anything to do with the spying, and how someone tells himself he's just passing along information when people could die. These are separate cases from Nvidia, and I ask whether anything reported in the Nvidia case points to a safety risk or whether that's getting ahead of the facts.Robin also tells me what it's like to be the agent a source is counting on to keep their family safe.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.#AldrichAmes #MasihAlinejad #HiddenKillersLive #Espionage #KGB #CIA #RobinDreeke #Counterintelligence #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
- 2 days ago17 min
Jensen Huang's Affair Could Have Ended His Marriage and Career. Is That All a Spy Needs?
Jensen Huang told Nvidia employees in a memo that he had been unfaithful to his wife, and reports say U.S. intelligence concluded the woman was a Chinese intelligence asset. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins me to go beyond what's been established in the Nvidia case and talk about blackmail, starting with whether someone who knows what could end your marriage and your career even needs to make a threat.Robin ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Security experts say romance-based spy schemes can lead to coercion or blackmail, and Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised. Alice Huang, the woman named in reports, hasn't responded to requests for comment.I ask Robin what fear of losing your family can make you agree to, what stops the demands from getting bigger after you give in once, and whether a recruiter can be trapped by the same kind of threat. We finish on whether Huang's decision to go public would take the power away from anyone who might have been holding his secret.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.#NvidiaSpyScandal #JensenHuang #HiddenKillersLive #AliceHuang #Nvidia #Blackmail #RobinDreeke #Espionage #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
- 2 days ago17 min
Nvidia's Board Backs Jensen Huang. How Would It Know Nothing Leaked?
Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised in the Jensen Huang affair, and that it has confidence in its CEO. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke tells me how the board, or anyone else, would actually know nothing leaked.Reports say U.S. intelligence concluded the woman, Alice Huang, was a Chinese intelligence asset, and Huang admitted in a memo to employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife. Robin ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program and spent years recruiting sources. The board's independent directors are running their review with outside lawyers, and Nvidia says its cloud customers in Asia receive ordinary business information, not secrets.I ask Robin what he would need to see before calling this a spy operation, and how he would interview Huang, who first described his dealings with Alice Huang as normal business, about what he really knew. We talk about whether the FBI would ask a person who may have been used to keep talking to the suspected spy, what makes someone able to handle that, and how you get employees to tell the truth when it could hurt the boss.Alice Huang hasn't commented, and no one has been charged.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.#NvidiaSpyScandal #JensenHuang #HiddenKillersLive #AliceHuang #Nvidia #FBI #RobinDreeke #Counterintelligence #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
- 2 days ago15 min
Did Ego Blind Jensen Huang to a Suspected Spy? Ask an Ex-FBI Counterintel Behavior Chief
Jensen Huang admitted in a memo to Nvidia employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife, and reports say the woman was Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was a Chinese intelligence asset. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins me to get at how a man this sharp at work gets into this kind of mess in his personal life.Robin led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program and spent years recruiting and working with sources. Alice Huang, also called Huang Le, had been a top executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore buyer of billions of dollars in Nvidia chips. Nvidia's board has brought in outside lawyers, and China calls the reports groundless speculation.Robin and I talk about whether ego can keep a brilliant man from seeing who someone really is, and why a man with money, power and praise can still be drawn to someone new. I ask how a business relationship makes it easier to get close to someone powerful, and whether a spy can fall for the person she's supposed to be using. We finish with what a coworker can do when something about a new relationship doesn't add up.Alice Huang hasn't responded to requests for comment, and no one has been charged.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.#NvidiaSpyScandal #JensenHuang #HiddenKillersLive #AliceHuang #Nvidia #Megaspeed #RobinDreeke #Espionage #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
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