The Crash: Every Way Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Team Let Her Down

The OTHER Person Rex Heuerman Took To The Grave

Eight women. That’s what Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to. Seventeen years of killing. But former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has said the likelihood the number stopped at eight is “limited to none.” If Dreeke is right, there are families out there who don’t know the Gilgo Beach case has anything to do with them — people whose loved ones disappeared and were never connected to Heuermann. The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit interview, built into the plea deal, may be the only way those names surface. The same interview program confirmed Samuel Little as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history after he confessed to ninety-three murders in a dozen states. Many of Little’s victims had been written off — deaths ruled overdoses or accidents, cases closed without answers. The interview reopened every one of them. Tony digs into why the FBI has been interviewing convicted killers since the 1970s and what the program has actually produced: a national crime database, a behavioral classification system used worldwide, and the recovery of remains that families had waited decades to bury. Gary Ridgway’s six months of FBI interviews led investigators to four women whose families had never been able to lay them to rest. The criticism of the Heuermann interview is understandable — it gives a convicted killer attention. The FBI’s fifty-year track record says the attention is a tool, not a reward. What it produces is the point. And what it might produce here is the answer to whether eight is the real number or just the floor. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer 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. Hashtags #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #TrueCrimeToday #GilgoBeachKiller #FBI #LISK #SerialKiller #ColdCase #SamuelLittle #TrueCrime

Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Promised Her Boyfriend That He Actually Believed

Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct Netflix — she told Wade Griffin she was heir to an oil fortune worth millions. She told him her mother was blocking the inheritance out of spite. She had him making offers on a four-million-dollar Oklahoma ranch, financing a ninety-two-thousand-dollar truck, and buying a car for his own mother — all with money that did not exist and never had. Then she handed him an eight-million-dollar check and he walked into a bank and tried to cash it. The bank flagged it. Wade's response under oath: "I had never received or dealt with anything that large." Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott takes on the Wade Griffin question in this conversation — the question that has split the Maternal Instinct audience right down the middle. Was Wade a victim of a master manipulator, or was he a man who wanted to believe the fantasy so badly that he let himself be used? Taylor's ex-husband tried to warn Wade's brother. His mother Connie told him directly. His friend Stephanie tracked down proof. Taylor's own aunt called to sound the alarm. Wade chose Taylor every time. People in his town avoid him. Reagan's widower holds him partly responsible. And Wade himself admitted something was off — said the words "this is all happening way too fast" — and kept right on going. This segment of the three-part Shavaun Scott interview puts the responsibility question front and center. The psychology behind why some people feel the warning and override it is more complicated than the documentary lets on. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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. #MaternalInstinct #TaylorParker #TrueCrimeToday #WadeGriffin #ShavaunScott #Netflix #DeathRow #TrueCrime #ReaganHancock #FakePregnancy

Maternal Instinct: What Taylor Parker Faked on Video Before She Ever Met Wade Griffin

Taylor Parker Maternal Instinct Netflix — before she faked a pregnancy, she faked a stroke. On camera. With a droopy face convincing enough that her friends rallied around her. Before that, she told them she had cancer, MS, a brain tumor. Every lie landed. Every lie went unchallenged. And every lie that stuck gave her permission to aim bigger. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott digs into the full pattern behind Taylor Parker's deception in this interview. The fake illnesses. The fixation on a friend's real pregnancy that got Taylor cut off and forced her to relocate to a new town. The brother's testimony that weight loss surgery marked a turning point in her entire personality. And the question that runs underneath everything: if the pattern was this visible in hindsight, why did nobody connect the dots until after Reagan Simmons-Hancock was dead? This is the first of three conversations exploring the psychology, the relationships, and the system failures behind the Taylor Parker case. This segment stays with Taylor — who she is, what drives the need to fabricate an entire identity, and whether the performance ever had an off switch. Shavaun Scott's answer to whether anyone around Taylor ever stood a real chance of seeing through her is not what you'd expect. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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. #MaternalInstinct #TaylorParker #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganHancock #ShavaunScott #Netflix #DeathRow #TrueCrime #FakePregnancy #WadeGriffin

What Asa Ellerup Said on Camera About Her Phone Calls With Rex Heuermann

Asa Ellerup was married to Rex Heuermann for twenty-seven years while he killed eight women. She filed for divorce after his arrest. But she kept visiting. She kept calling. And after he personally confessed to her — told her the number, told her seven happened in their basement — she went home and moved into the room where he said he did it.Then she told a documentary crew something about their phone calls that no one was prepared to hear. It was not a confrontation. It was not anger. It was a woman still managing a relationship on the other person’s terms — thirty years in, eight confessions later, from the room where the evidence was found.The imprisoned Rex Heuermann cannot disappear. He calls on a schedule. He needs her. And for a woman who spent her life holding onto someone who was never fully there, that might be exactly what she wanted. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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. #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #AsaEllerup #GilgoBeachKiller #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrimePodcast #GilgoBeachMurders #SerialKiller #TrueCrimeCommunity

What Nobody’s Telling You About Both Sides of the Murdaugh Retrial

Everyone is covering the Alex Murdaugh retrial. Almost nobody is reading both sides the way a defense attorney does. Bob Motta has spent his career at the defense table and he sees patterns in what Harpootlian, Griffin, and Creighton Waters are doing that most commentators are missing. The defense is not just preparing for trial — they’re running a parallel investigation through a federal lawsuit. They’re publicly announcing strategies that defense attorneys almost never reveal in advance. They’re hiring new experts and pushing DNA evidence that was collected from the murder victim and never checked against the national database. The prosecution is recalibrating a case that just lost the twelve-and-a-half-hour financial crimes narrative that made the first conviction feel inevitable. What’s left is circumstantial — the kennel video, the lie, and no physical evidence tying Alex to the murders. The AG is floating the death penalty. Waters says the genie is out of the bottle. And somewhere in the middle is the question of whether Becky Hill was really the only person who got to that jury. Bob Motta covers all three lanes. Tony Brueski, Robin Dreeke, and Bob Motta. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #BeckyHill #KennelVideo #MaggieMurdaugh #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers