Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

What does it take to convince yourself you have never lied? Elizabeth Holmes says exactly that in You Can See Everything, the new A24 documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The line lands against an unavoidable legal record: a federal jury convicted the Theranos founder of investor fraud, and she is serving a sentence of more than eleven years. The film ...

What if the decision Lori Vallow Daybell is challenging is not something the jury ever heard? Her November 2 appeal hearing centered on a December 2021 order removing her chosen lawyer, Mark Means, before the Idaho murder trial began. Lori was in a state hospital after being found incompetent to participate in her defense. Yet proceedings about who could represent her moved ...

Patrick Clancy is suing the people who treated his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, before the deaths of their children. Lindsay is suing some of those providers too. The two civil cases are different, but they run into the same uncomfortable question: what did medical professionals know, and what were they legally required to do with it?

At a hearing over whether Patrick’...

One officer allegedly tells a young woman to delete messages and protect his secret. A police department documents concerns about another officer, then hires him years later. The Sandra Birchmore story is not just a federal murder prosecution; it is also a record of opportunities for adults and institutions to intervene.

Tony Brueski puts the two timelines together wit...

The Nancy Guthrie case has two sets of unanswered questions: what happened on the road outside her Tucson home, and what investigators may have been able to recover from the porch. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI agent, has been pressing on both. Her reported visit to the Catalina Foothills neighborhood after midnight starts this combined conversation.

Coffindaffe...