True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Kouri Richins is watching her story collapse in Utah. The friend who testified. The boyfriend. The housekeeper. The financial records.
One by one, people are talking.
This is Part 5 of The Perfect Wife — examining why the long con always ends.
Denise Williams held hers together for seventeen years.
Mike Williams disappeared December 2000. Duck hunting. Drowned, eaten by alligators.
Denise collected $1.75 million in insurance. Five years later, she married Brian Winchester — Mike's best friend. The man who shot him.
They raised Mike's daughter together. Built a life on top of what they'd done.
Mike's mother Cheryl spent seventeen years fighting. Being called paranoid. Refusing to stop.
She was right.
Brian cracked in 2016. Divorce made the math simple: his survival mattered more than their secret. He confessed. Led investigators to Mike's body.
Every perfect crime has witnesses. And witnesses talk when their survival is on the line.
Kouri's foundation is cracking. The texts. The testimony. The financial records.
The long con always ends. Not through brilliant detective work. Through human nature.
People talk.
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=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This 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 #DeniseWilliams #MikeWilliams #TrueCrimeToday #LongCon #BrianWinchester #PerfectWife #TrueCrime2026 #TheUnraveling #AccompliceTalks

A murder conviction that shut the courtroom doors but opened a flood of new questions about what’s next — that’s Kouri Richins. A disappearance now stretching into its seventh week, packed with leads but still no arrest — Nancy Guthrie. And a cop-on-cop shooting where the officer who was shot now faces trial in front of a judge alone — Kelsey Fitzsimmons.
Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke dig into what no one else will: the holes in the stories, the decisions that don’t make sense, and the people left waiting for real answers. No summaries, no soft takes — just the hard questions these three stories demand.
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=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This 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 #NancyGuthrie #KelseyFitzsimmons #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderVerdict #TucsonKidnapping #PoliceShootingTrial

The Murdaugh name meant power for a hundred years. Now it means murder.
Part 5 of "The Name" explores what remains after the collapse. The victims still suffering — Gloria Satterfield's sons, Mallory Beach's family, every client Alex robbed. The survivors trying to rebuild.
And Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son, carrying a name that will never mean what it used to mean.
This episode asks the question anyone who's escaped a toxic family knows: How do you separate yourself from a legacy you didn't choose?
The dynasty is over. The wreckage keeps spreading. And the people holding it didn't all choose to be there.
You can't choose your family. But you can choose what you carry forward.
Join Our Substack for AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter: https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This 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.
#BusterMurdaugh #MurdaughAftermath #MurdaughLegacy #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughVictims #TrueCrime #GenerationalTrauma #MurdaughDynasty #BreakingFamilyPatterns

Kelsey Fitzsimmons is a North Andover, Massachusetts police officer who was shot in the chest by a fellow officer at her own home in June 2025 — and she's the one facing criminal charges. Her trial on assault with a dangerous weapon begins March 23, and today she waived her right to a jury trial, placing her fate entirely in a judge's hands. The circumstances of the case are genuinely contested. Officers say Fitzsimmons pointed her service weapon at them when they arrived to serve a restraining order obtained by her fiancé and remove her infant son. Fitzsimmons says she pointed the gun at herself — that she was in the grip of a postpartum mental health crisis and was trying to take her own life. There is no footage of the moment the gun was raised. Her legal team alleges her ex-fiancé subsequently broke into her home while she was hospitalized and allegedly stole money and personal records — and that prosecutors have declined to charge him. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke walk a new audience through every layer of this case and take on the questions that get to the heart of it: about mental health, about the system, about accountability, and about what justice looks like when the facts are this disputed.
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=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This 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.
#KelseyFitzsimmons #TrueCrimeToday #RobinDreeke #NorthAndoverPolice #TrueCrime #PostpartumDepression #PoliceShootingTrial #CriminalTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #AssaultCharge

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons assault trial opens Monday in Massachusetts — and two developments this week changed the entire shape of what happens next.
Fitzsimmons waived her right to a jury trial. Judge Jeffrey Karp alone will decide whether the former North Andover police officer is guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly pointing her service weapon at a colleague who came to serve a restraining order. She says she was pointing it at herself. He says she pointed it at him. There is no body camera footage. One judge picks.
And the June 30th text exchange between Fitzsimmons and former fiancé Justin Aylaian — the messages sent on the day of the shooting — was unsealed and admitted as evidence.
Those texts are the story. And the story they tell is one that true crime coverage has been largely unwilling to say plainly.
Read the patterns in that exchange. The dismissal of Aylaian's physical abuse allegation in four words. The child deployed as emotional leverage every time he tries to state a boundary. The financial threats pulled in rapid succession. His debit card and ID in her possession leaving him unable to move. His entire support network dismissed as liars. His tone — measured, factual, calm — against an escalation that never stops.
Now ask the question True Crime Today is asking: if those messages had come from him, what would we call it?
There would be no conversation about mental health softening the read. There would be a victim and a restraining order we would call necessary. The behavior in those messages has a name when a man sends it. It does not always get that name when a woman does.
This episode examines the texts pattern by pattern, breaks down the bench trial decision from both strategic directions, and addresses the system failure that sent officers to that door with no crisis plan for a situation already flagged as dangerous. Both sides. Full context. The question the verdict won't answer.
Trial starts Monday. This is the coverage 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=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This 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.
#KelseyFitzsimmons #NorthAndoverPolice #TrueCrime2026 #PostpartumDepression #HiddenKillers #JustinAylaian #BenchTrial #MaleAbuse #CoerciveControl #TrueCrimePodcast