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Before she was a missing person, Nancy Guthrie was a force. A Kentucky girl who became a college journalist, a wife, a mother of three, and eventually the woman who held an entire family together when everything fell apart. This episode isn't about the investigation. It's about her.Nancy married a man she spotted at a blind date and told the world he was the one before he even spoke. They traveled from Kentucky to Melbourne, Australia, to the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, where they raised three children in a desert home she'd love for five decades. When her husband died suddenly at forty-nine, Nancy was left alone with her kids, her mother, and a brother with Down syndrome. She had never worked outside the home.She got up. She decided and did. She took a position at the University of Arizona so her daughters could go tuition-free. She created a program bringing live music to hospital patients. She rose to leadership in public relations and was elected president of her regional professional association. She raised a fighter pilot, a poet, and Savannah Guthrie — who has said publicly that her mother is the reason any of them became anything.This is the Nancy behind the headlines. Spunky, faithful, funny, and unbreakable. Her story is worth knowing.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #HiddenKillers #PimaCounty #FindNancy #JusticeForNancy #BringNancyHome

The Duggar arrests have generated wall-to-wall coverage. The charges. The family's statements. The courtroom dates. But the psychology underneath — the mechanisms that allowed this to happen, the children caught in the middle, and the mother who knew Josh was abusing her daughters for years and never acted — that's what this series examines.Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for a three-part conversation that goes deeper than any news report can. Scott brings thirty years of clinical expertise in trauma recovery, criminal psychology, and religious control — plus her own experience inside a fundamentalist system, documented in her memoir Nightbird.Part 1 — Sacred Denial — examines the family's reported witch hunt framing and the psychology of using faith to avoid accountability. Part 2 — Behind Locked Doors — examines the children at the center of this story who can't speak for themselves: four kids under eight with both parents arrested, locks on the outside of their bedroom doors, and a documented practice of striking infants to break their will. Part 3 — The Mother Who Stayed — examines Michelle Duggar's knowledge that Josh was abusing her daughters from 2002 forward and what that specific maternal betrayal does to the children who lived through it.Three parts. Everything the headlines aren't covering.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#DuggarFamily #ShavaunScott #IBLP #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MichelleDuggar #JosephDuggar #DuggarFamilySecrets #ReligiousTrauma

He lobbied Congress for the protection of children and the sanctity of the American family. He was the executive director of FRC Action — the political action committee of the Family Research Council.At his federal trial in December 2021, an investigating agent testified about what was found on Josh Duggar's work computer. The material included images of children as young as eighteen months old. The agent described it as among the most serious content he had encountered in his career.In Part 4 of this five-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines Josh Duggar's complete adult arc — from his 2008 TLC wedding through the FRC lobbying career, a 2015 civil lawsuit alleging serious misconduct settled without court adjudication, the Ashley Madison data breach, the federal investigation of his Arkansas car dealership, and the federal arrest in April 2021.In August 2015, after the Ashley Madison breach, Josh issued a public statement admitting to infidelity and describing a pornography addiction. He called himself the biggest hypocrite ever. He said it years before any of us knew what was on his work computer.While Josh awaited trial, Jim Bob Duggar announced his Arkansas State Senate campaign. Platform: pro-family. He ran. He finished third.December 9, 2021: guilty on both counts. May 2022: twelve years and seven months in federal prison. Initial appeal denied.This is Part 4 of 5.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#JoshDuggar #DuggarFamily #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FederalConviction #FRCAction #DuggarFamilySecrets #19KidsAndCounting #AshleyMadison

Josh Duggar's abuse of his sisters started in 2002. Michelle Duggar knew. She deferred to her husband. Josh was sent away — not for counseling, as she later admitted to police, but to help a family friend with a construction project. Two months after he returned, she wrote an article for Parents magazine about how well her family functioned. A decade of national television followed. A brand built on devoted motherhood. And not once — across all of it — did Michelle Duggar publicly acknowledge what her silence cost her daughters.Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for Part 3 of a three-part conversation on the Duggar family. This installment focuses entirely on the psychology of maternal betrayal — the specific wound that comes from the mother who knows and stays. Not the abuser. The parent who was supposed to be the last line of protection.Scott examines what happens inside a mother who makes those choices year after year. What it does to a child to watch their mother prioritize the family's image over their safety. Where a mother's own history inside a controlling system stops being an explanation and starts being a choice. And whether Kendra Duggar — a young mother now facing her own charges inside this same system — can still break the pattern.This is Part 3 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#MichelleDuggar #DuggarFamily #MaternalBetrayal #IBLP #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #DuggarFamilySecrets #KendraDuggar

The Duggar family's problems didn't start with Josh. They didn't start with Joseph. They started a generation earlier with a man named Jimmy Lee Duggar — Jim Bob's father — who was identified within the family as a predator long before any of his grandchildren became famous.Amy Duggar King revealed in her 2025 memoir Holy Disruptor that she wasn't allowed to be alone with her grandfather as a child. Her grandmother and mother built physical boundaries around her for years. Nobody told her why. It wasn't until after Jimmy Lee's death in 2009 that Deanna finally named what the family had been quietly managing: he was a predator. According to Amy, he was also violently abusive, allegedly beating and strangling Deanna on separate occasions. Jim Bob reportedly intervened during one attack. He saw his father's violence up close.That knowledge didn't lead anywhere. When Josh began abusing minors — including four of his own sisters — the family handled it internally. A state trooper gave Josh a talk and took no action. That trooper was later sentenced to 56 years on his own child exploitation charges. Amy brought Jim Bob evidence from Josh's old computer. He dismissed it. Homeland Security later came asking about that same device.In March 2026, Joseph Duggar was arrested for allegedly abusing a nine-year-old during a 2020 Florida vacation. He allegedly admitted it — to the victim's father and to detectives. He faces life felony charges in Bay County. Kendra faces child endangerment and false imprisonment charges in Arkansas.Amy named the generational cycle on the record five months before Joseph's arrest. A family member called her "troublesome." Two months later, Joseph was arrested. Three generations. One family. One pattern nobody with power was willing to break.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#JimmyLeeDuggar #DuggarFamily #JosephDuggar #AmyDuggarKing #HolyDisruptor #JoshDuggar #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeToday #GenerationalSilence #ChildSafety

In the days after the deaths of his three children, Patrick Clancy released a public statement. He said he was completely lost without them. And then he said he had already forgiven Lindsay, and asked the country to follow.Part 4 of the Lindsay Clancy five-part series covers the human response to one of the most divisive criminal cases in recent memory — centering on a man whose choice to stay rather than condemn set off a debate that has never stopped.Tony Brueski traces Patrick's full arc from the forgiveness statement through his October 2024 New Yorker interview, the January 2026 wrongful death filing against the medical providers, and the February 2026 courthouse moment where Lindsay appeared in a wheelchair for the first time and her parents stood outside in tears. He covers the community of mothers who wrote to the court in Lindsay's support, the counter-narrative demanding full accountability, and what it means to carry grief and love simultaneously when the world expects you to choose between them.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ForgivenessTrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #WrongfulDeath #TrueCrimePodcast

The Duggar arrests have dominated headlines. The charges against Joseph. The charges against Kendra. The family's reported response. But almost no one is talking about the children at the center of all of it.Four children under the age of eight in Joseph and Kendra's home — both parents arrested, locks on the outside of their bedroom doors, their father transported to Florida on felony charges. Seven children being raised by Anna Duggar while Josh serves a federal prison sentence. And a documented family child-rearing practice — blanket training — that involves physically striking infants who try to crawl off a designated blanket in order to break their will.Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for Part 2 of a three-part conversation examining what these children are actually living through. Scott brings thirty years of clinical expertise in trauma and child development, along with her own experience growing up inside a fundamentalist religious system.What does a child under eight actually process when their entire world collapses? What does blanket training do to a developing brain? And can children raised inside a system of total control grow into healthy adults?This is Part 2 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#DuggarFamily #DuggarChildren #BlanketTraining #IBLP #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #ChildDevelopment #DuggarFamilySecrets

Two Duggar family members have been arrested. Joseph Duggar faces charges involving a child — charges he allegedly admitted to twice. His wife Kendra faces separate child endangerment charges after investigators reportedly found locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. And according to sources close to the family, some members are framing the situation as a witch hunt motivated by hostility toward their Christian faith.Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for the first installment of a three-part conversation examining the psychology underneath the Duggar family's response. Scott has spent thirty years working with people whose religious belief systems became the primary barrier to facing what they've done — and she grew up inside a fundamentalist system herself, which she documents in her memoir Nightbird.This conversation examines what the family's persecution framing actually reveals, what Jim Bob Duggar was building inside his family when he reportedly warned them for years that the world would be hostile to them, and what it looks like clinically when someone confesses to harming a child and immediately retreats into the same religious framework that shaped the environment where that harm occurred.This is Part 1 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#DuggarFamily #JosephDuggar #IBLP #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SpiritualBypassing #ShavaunScott #DuggarFamilySecrets #ReligiousTrauma

The accused Long Island Serial Killer ran out of moves. The Gilgo Beach DNA evidence survived two court challenges. The judge refused to split seven Gilgo Beach murder charges into separate trials. The prosecution had a 723-page evidence inventory, burner phone records, and files from the LISK suspect's own computer that prosecutors described as a planning document for how to kill and avoid capture.So Rex Heuermann is reportedly doing what he's allegedly always done — making a calculated decision while the walls close in.I break down the legal and psychological reasons the accused Gilgo Beach killer is expected to plead guilty to murdering seven women. The sentence doesn't change — life without parole was the ceiling at trial and it's the result of the plea. But the plea controls everything else. It avoids a months-long Gilgo Beach trial. It potentially limits what his family endures. It eliminates appellate challenges on the novel DNA evidence that anchored the entire LISK prosecution. And for the man prosecutors allege was the Long Island Serial Killer — a man whose alleged criminal life was built entirely on compartmentalization and control — it is, arguably, the final act of both.I also cover the broader Gilgo Beach picture — why Andrew Dykes' arrest proved the LISK investigation was never a one-killer story, and what remains unresolved along Ocean Parkway even if this plea goes through on April 8.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#LISK #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #GilgoFour #OceanParkway

Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's serving 130 years. His defense has appealed, raising serious questions about the search warrant, his confessions, and evidence the jury never heard. The Indiana Attorney General just filed their formal response. And defense attorney Bob Motta went through all of it with us.This complete three-part panel is the most thorough picture of where the Richard Allen appeal stands.The State's response calls the evidence "conclusive and irrefutable" — but never addresses the documented fact from the defense's brief that Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot.In the first session, Bob breaks down the State's strategy — procedural waiver, the coercion argument, the religious conversion claim, harmless error on every ruling that went against the defense.In the second session, he goes through the two factual problems at the core of the case. The van the prosecution called the detail only the killer would know — and the surveillance footage and FBI data suggesting it arrived after the timeline ended. And the wrong cause of death in the confession — met with complete silence in the State's 94 pages.In the third session, Bob faces forward. What the reply brief needs to accomplish. What oral arguments allow. What reversal looks like. What this means for the families. And an honest answer about the five percent reversal rate.Whether you've followed this from the beginning or are just catching up — this is where you start.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #TrueCrimeToday #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #WrongfulConviction #MononHighBridge #DelphiCase