LISK: Eric Faddis on the Gilgo Beach Killer Plea, Evidence, and What's Left

Christian Obumseli was afraid of something. Or he was building something. Depending on which lawyers you listen to, the more than fifteen secret recordings he made of Courtney Clenney inside their Miami apartment are either the desperate documentation of a man being abused — or a calculated system of psychological control designed to manufacture leverage over a woman whose public career could be destroyed by what was on those tapes.On the recordings, Clenney is heard screaming, calling Obumseli racial slurs, and demanding to strike him. One recording captures what prosecutors describe as her telling him to "enjoy the hospital" after reportedly splitting his lip. In the lobby recording — one of only two a judge has allowed the jury to hear — Obumseli's voice comes through quiet and controlled: he tells her she hit him and that what she said was a threat.The defense's court filings argue he provoked every one of those reactions deliberately. That he knew her patterns, pushed until she broke, then captured the explosion while keeping his own behavior off tape. They call the recordings manipulative gaslighting and describe them as one example of the mental and physical abuse Clenney endured.Judge Andrea Wolfson ruled most of the recordings inadmissible — suppressed under Florida's surreptitious recording law because Clenney had a reasonable expectation of privacy inside her own apartment. The jury hears the lobby and balcony recordings only. The apartment audio — the slurs, the slap, the "enjoy the hospital" statement — stays out.That ruling means the clearest audio evidence of what this relationship sounded like behind closed doors will not be in the courtroom. Whether that is a violation of a dead man's attempt to be believed or a correct application of privacy law is a question with no comfortable answer.Hidden Killers breaks down every recording, both frameworks for understanding them, the financial dynamics that made the tapes potent leverage, and what the suppression means for the trial ahead. Both sides. Full analysis. No verdict from us.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.#CourtneyClenney #ChristianObumseli #TrueCrime2026 #OnlyFansMurder #MiamiMurderTrial #HiddenKillers #SuppressedEvidence #FloridaMurderTrial #CourtneyTailor #TrueCrimePodcast

Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders after nearly three years of fighting the charges. Every defense motion failed. The evidence was ruled admissible. And now, according to multiple sources, the accused LISK is ready to enter a plea.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me for an extended conversation covering the entire Gilgo Beach Killer case. We break down the prosecution strategy that reportedly forced the plea, the deleted planning document and DNA evidence that made the case unwinnable, and the questions that remain unanswered even if Rex Heuermann pleads guilty.Faddis brings the perspective of someone who has sat in both chairs. He explains what happens inside a defense when every legal avenue closes. He walks through the Frye hearing that admitted whole genome sequencing for the first time in New York. He examines the behavioral evidence — the planning, the timing, the alleged double life — and what it reveals about the accused Long Island Serial Killer's compartmentalized existence.And he addresses what the Gilgo Beach Killer plea doesn't touch. Shannan Gilbert. The Bittrolff reversal. The remaining LISK victims. The families who get a hearing instead of a trial.This is the complete conversation. Faddis holds nothing back — and neither do I.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.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #LongIslandSerialKiller #GuiltyPlea #DNAEvidence #ShannanGilbert #TrueCrimePodcast

In March 2026, Joseph Duggar was arrested on serious charges involving a minor, according to a Florida arrest affidavit. According to that affidavit, a now-fourteen-year-old girl told investigators Joseph allegedly harmed her during a family vacation in 2020 when she was nine years old. According to the affidavit, he allegedly admitted to the conduct when confronted by the girl's father — and admitted again when the father called back with a detective on the line. Joseph has waived extradition and faces transfer to Florida to answer the charges there.Joseph Duggar is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.His brother Josh Duggar is serving twelve and a half years in federal prison. Conviction upheld on appeal.In the final episode of Hidden Killers' five-part series, Tony Brueski delivers the complete accounting. Gothard: more than thirty accusers, zero criminal charges, still online, denies everything. Josh's earliest victims — no criminal prosecution for those specific acts. Josh's conviction upheld. Joseph charged, case active, presumed innocent. Jim Bob: a federal judge called his sworn testimony not credible in writing. No legal consequences. IBLP: never charged, still exists.Jill Duggar Dillard has spoken out in support of the victim. The system she survived is still intact in thousands of homes no camera ever entered.This is the ledger. This is what the system built.This is Part 5 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.#JosephDuggar #JoshDuggar #DuggarFamily #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DuggarPattern #IBLP #BillGothard #DuggarFamilySecrets #DuggarArrest2026

A plea answers for seven women. It doesn't answer for eleven. It doesn't explain Shannan Gilbert. It doesn't resolve the fact that prosecutors once said a different convicted killer was responsible for Sandra Costilla's murder before charging the accused LISK instead.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to walk through what a Gilgo Beach Killer guilty plea leaves behind. We talk about the families still waiting. The credibility of a prosecution that reversed its own theory on a suspect. The behavioral evidence — the alleged timing of killings when Rex Heuermann's wife and children were away from the Long Island home, the planning document, the internet searches — and what it reveals about the kind of compartmentalized existence the accused Long Island Serial Killer allegedly maintained for years.Faddis addresses whether the remaining LISK cases stay active once the headline defendant is resolved, whether the Bittrolff argument could come back in an appeal, and how the legal precedents set in this case change serial investigations going forward. And he answers the question that sits at the center of everything: if the Gilgo Beach Killer case ends with a plea instead of a trial, is that justice — or just an ending?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.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #ShannanGilbert #LongIslandSerialKiller #JohnBittrolff #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Joseph Duggar appeared in a Florida courtroom on March 31 facing charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. He posted $600,000 bond and was back in Arkansas by evening. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, his father Jim Bob was in Florida and ready to post bond. According to court records reported by multiple outlets, Joseph had filed a written not-guilty plea and demanded a jury trial two days before the hearing — from a jail cell.The charges in Florida are classified as a life felony. In Arkansas, both Joseph and his wife Kendra face separate charges reportedly connected to exterior locks found on bedroom doors in their Tontitown home. That specific detail echoes something the Duggar family disclosed decades ago — locks placed on doors to keep Josh Duggar separated from his siblings after his own abuse was revealed. A second Duggar household. The same solution. A generation later.But the story inside the family is moving just as fast as the legal case. According to a recorded jailhouse call reported by TMZ, Kendra reportedly retained the family's longtime attorney for herself, not for Joseph. She left the family home with the couple's children and has not returned. Amy Duggar King told Fox News she was not surprised another alleged predator had come out of what she called a toxic system. Jim Bob's sister Deanna publicly called for Kendra to divorce Joseph. Jim Bob and Michelle issued a statement through a spokesperson supporting Kendra and the children — not Joseph.This monologue covers every detail — the courtroom, the charges, the bond conditions, the family fracture, and the road ahead. Tony Brueski breaks it all down.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.#JosephDuggar #DuggarFamily #KendraDuggar #JimBobDuggar #19KidsAndCounting #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DuggarArrest #BayCountyFlorida #JoshDuggar

Kevin Reddington told a Plymouth Superior Court judge that his client continues to experience thoughts of self-harm, needs monitoring throughout the day, and that if she dies before or during trial, that is on somebody. And it is not him. That is where we are.The final chapter of our five-part series is Tony Brueski's examination of the courtroom, the constitutional battles, and the question that no verdict in Plymouth will fully resolve: what does criminal responsibility mean when a defendant's own defense doesn't contest the acts — only the mind behind them?This episode covers the bifurcation fight and the Fifth Amendment argument at its core; the prosecution's premeditation theory; the defense's psychosis argument; the psychiatric evaluation ahead of trial; and the parallel civil malpractice suits that may produce more lasting change than any criminal verdict. It closes with the structural reality no verdict will fix: postpartum psychosis still isn't in the DSM, and the system that processed Lindsay Clancy is still running.The verdict is coming. The questions already belong to all of us.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.#HiddenKillers #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #CriminalJustice #MaternalMentalHealth #JusticeSystem #TrueCrimePodcast

A deleted Word document allegedly outlining how to carry out the Gilgo Beach killings and avoid detection. DNA recovered from a discarded pizza crust matching hairs found on multiple LISK victims across multiple crime scenes. A Frye hearing ruling that admitted a DNA technology never before used in a New York trial.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to walk through the evidence that reportedly ended the Gilgo Beach Killer's fight. Faddis breaks down why the planning document is so devastating from a prosecution standpoint, what whole genome sequencing actually is and why the Long Island Serial Killer defense couldn't get it excluded, and how investigators extracted deleted files from over 350 seized electronic devices.We examine the document's alleged references to "Mindhunter" and how a prosecutor builds a premeditation case from a defendant allegedly studying serial crime investigation methodology. We follow the evidentiary chain from a piece of trash to the DNA match that connected Rex Heuermann to victims spanning years. And Faddis answers the question every attorney following the LISK case is asking — which single piece of evidence tipped the scales toward a plea?If you want to understand what the prosecution was prepared to present at the Gilgo Beach Killer trial — and why it reportedly became a case the defense couldn't take to a jury — this is the conversation.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.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PlanningDocument #DNAEvidence #LongIslandSerialKiller #WholeGenomeSequencing #TrueCrimePodcast

After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women on Long Island. Every defense strategy his LISK legal team attempted was denied by the court.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to walk through what actually forces a defendant's hand when every legal door closes. This isn't speculation. Faddis has been in that room. He's made the case from both sides of the aisle, and he explains the mechanics of how a plea negotiation works when seven murder charges are stacked against you and the evidence has already survived every challenge.We get into DA Tierney's public posture, the defense's failed omnibus motion, what leverage Michael Brown has left at the negotiating table, and whether a judge could still reject the Gilgo Beach Killer's plea. We also talk about the families of the LISK victims — people who have waited over a decade for some form of accountability — and whether a plea gives them closure or robs them of the public reckoning a trial would have provided.Faddis doesn't soften the reality. This is one of the most consequential legal decisions in the history of Long Island, and he treats it with the gravity it deserves.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.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #CriminalDefense #TrueCrimePodcast

Everybody knows the case. The missing poster. The FBI investigation. The doorbell camera footage. But almost nobody outside of Tucson, Arizona, knows who Nancy Guthrie actually is — and that gap between the headline and the human being is where this episode lives.Nancy Ellen Long grew up in Fort Wright, Kentucky, wrote for her college newspaper, married a mining engineer she spotted at a blind date to a basketball game, and followed him from Kentucky to Australia to the Arizona desert. She was a full-time mother for nearly two decades. Then her husband died suddenly at forty-nine, and Nancy was left at forty-six with three children, an aging mother, and a brother with Down syndrome who all needed her. She had no career and no safety net.She went to work at the University of Arizona so her daughters could attend tuition-free. She built a career in public relations from the ground up. She brought live music into a hospital. She raised a fighter pilot, a published poet, and one of the most recognized broadcast journalists in America. She attended the same church every Sunday for thirty years — so consistently that one missed service triggered the alarm that she was gone.This is the Nancy no one knew. The grandmother. The survivor. The woman still laughing about javelinas in her garden. Her story deserves to be told.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 arrests made headlines. The charges made headlines. The family's response made headlines. But the psychology underneath all of it — the denial, the children, the mother who knew Josh was abusing her daughters for two decades — that's what this series is about.Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for a three-part conversation covering the Duggar family from angles nobody else is examining. Part 1 breaks down the family's reported persecution framing and what that reveals about a family that has a pre-installed explanation for every consequence. Part 2 focuses on the children nobody is talking about — the ones behind locked doors, the ones being raised with blanket training, the ones living inside a system that was never designed to protect them. Part 3 examines Michelle Duggar — the mother who knew Josh was abusing her daughters starting in 2002, admitted he never got counseling, and spent a decade on television building a brand around motherhood without ever acknowledging what it cost them.Scott brings thirty years of clinical expertise and her own experience leaving a fundamentalist system to every part of this conversation.Three parts. All of it.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 #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MichelleDuggar #JosephDuggar #DuggarFamilySecrets #ReligiousTrauma #MaternalBetrayal