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True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates.

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Mario Fernandez Was Renovating a House. Prosecutors Say That's the Point.

Saturday, August 22, 2026 • Duration 13:57

Mario Fernandez's defense can show exactly where he was on January 29, 2022: at his own rental property on Potomac Avenue in Jacksonville, meeting contractors, hauling construction materials, on camera. In the Jared Bridegan murder trial's fourth day of testimony, prosecutors used that same day against him. FBI Agent Bobby Blythe traced Henry Tenon's phone leaving that exact property and running a route through Bridegan's life — his neighborhood, his children's gymnastics facility, Jacksonville Beach — eighteen days before Bridegan was shot dead beside a tire left in the road. The state calls it a practice run launched from the defendant's own address. The defense calls it a workday.

The rest of the day belonged to what investigators don't have. No DNA, fingerprints, or surveillance connect Fernandez to the blue Ford F-150. No physical evidence shows John Biggerstaff supplying him a 10mm, and records showed six 10mm purchases at a single Jacksonville gun store. Nobody ever searched the property where the truck was found — an omission detectives explained with 2023 information, disputed by the defense, that the weapon was destroyed shortly after the shooting.

Fernandez is charged with first-degree murder and solicitation as the alleged hirer, and the state's proof runs through a lease, a route, and $10,000 in checks to Tenon written in the six weeks after the murder. Jurors heard Fernandez's recorded calls from the days around Tenon's arrest and his 2022 police interview calling Bridegan "a keyboard warrior more than anything." Tony Brueski breaks down which side actually won Day 4 — and why the answer depends on which job the jury thinks is on trial. Testimony runs through August 28.

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Nolan Wells and Lindsay Clancy: Who Failed Them First?

Saturday, August 22, 2026 • Duration 57:23

In Mississippi, a joint forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ phone was agreed to and then torpedoed by a 48-hour ultimatum from the DA. The phone has been in civilian hands for six weeks. Both Snapchat accounts were empty when the family opened them. The state autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is waiting.
In Massachusetts, the prosecution rested its case against Lindsay Clancy after fourteen days and seventy witnesses. Their own witnesses called her a wonderful mother. Their own psychiatrist never met her in person. They asked about mortal sin. They called her injuries faked. The defense psychologist has met with Lindsay sixty times and diagnosed her with postpartum psychosis. The prosecution floated a theory he coached her. The investigator acknowledged no evidence supported it.
Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, examines the prosecution’s decisions in both cases and evaluates whether they can still win what they may have already given away.

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Why Keffe D's Defense Says His Tupac Murder Book Was Made Up

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 15:02

The prosecution opened by telling the jury that Keffe D is the one person who couldn't stay quiet about Tupac Shakur's murder. They described a pattern: FBI interviews, a federal task force session, on-camera appearances, and a published memoir called "Compton Street Legend" — all telling the same story about the night of September 7, 1996. The defense stood up and called the entire narrative fiction. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke sit down with the listener questions cutting through this trial. The prosecution concedes the book has inaccuracies and "at least one substantial lie." The defense says law enforcement knew for years that Keffe D was unreliable and never charged him because they had nothing. The case sat cold for nearly three decades. Orlando Anderson, the suspected shooter and Keffe D's nephew, died in 1998. The other two passengers in the white Cadillac are also dead. This trial may be the last chance to hold anyone accountable for one of the most famous unsolved killings in American music — and the jury has to decide whether a man's own repeated words are enough to prove he meant them.

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Lindsay Clancy's Jury Heard THIS From The Prosecution's Side

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 28:12

The state is prosecuting Lindsay Clancy for the deaths of her three children, and the state's witness list keeps producing character testimony a defense attorney would pay for — friends, the family's nanny, people describing a loving and dedicated mom. Tony Brueski hands the microphone to the audience for eight listener questions about the trial that has true crime split down the middle.

Listeners want the collision explained: prosecutors counting pills from nine bottles to show she skipped her medication, while the defense argues those same prescriptions caused a psychosis. They want to know whether planning and psychosis can share a brain. They want someone to account for the psychiatric hospital that discharged her 19 days before her children died. And after the medical examiner's testimony about 8-month-old Callan brought court to a halt, they want permission to feel two things at once about the woman sobbing at the defense table.

The set closes on the question that outranks every legal argument in that building: who stands up for Cora, Dawson, and Callan? However you've judged this case, at least one of these questions will move you.

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Patrick Clancy Faces A Trial No Courtroom Can End

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 19:20

Inside the Lindsay Clancy murder trial there's no dispute about who caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan — the defense conceded it on day one. Outside the courtroom, a second trial is running with no judge, no rules, and no end date, and Patrick Clancy is its defendant. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke take the online case against Patrick apart.

Every element of the theory gets its turn. The verified timeline and why conspiracy communities read it as too clean. The universal instinct that points at the husband. The armchair reads on his composure, his grief, and his remarriage. The detail the theory can't digest: Patrick sued Lindsay's doctors for failing her, putting his money behind the same argument her defense makes in court.

Robin's specialty is why smart people hold beliefs that evidence should kill. By the end of this conversation you'll understand what drives every internet mob you've ever watched form. You'll also know his honest answer on whether this one ever releases its grip.

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Who Idaho Gave Kohberger After He Turned on Anne Taylor

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 21:01

When Bryan Kohberger accused Anne Taylor's defense team of coercing his guilty plea, Idaho had to find him a brand-new lawyer, and the search ended at a small general-practice firm in Moscow. Greg Rauch got the appointment on August 3, 2026, through the state's Alternate Counsel Division, the office that hires private attorneys when the public defender has a conflict. The conflict here is unavoidable: Kohberger's handwritten petition, filed July 27, claims his original lawyers convinced him to falsely confess to the University of Idaho murders and hid favorable evidence, allegations that remain unproven and unruled upon. So the man who once had a defense operation reported at more than eight million dollars — including a DNA specialist who spent nine years attacking genetic evidence for San Francisco's public defender — is starting over with an attorney whose caseload runs through bankruptcy court and family court. Rauch's first public comments confirmed he hadn't read the petition or the case file and hadn't spoken with Kohberger. He grew up in Moscow, graduated from the same university the four victims attended, and will work this case surrounded by neighbors who lived through what happened on King Road. The endgame carries a twist worthy of the filing itself: if Rauch succeeds, the plea disappears, the case moves back toward trial, and the death penalty Kohberger bargained away comes back with it. The attorney general has promised his office is ready, and Steve Goncalves says his family is prepared and confident about the outcome. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin's loved ones thought this ended at sentencing. It didn't, and the next chapter runs straight through one unlucky lawyer's office. Follow along, because this appointment shapes everything that comes next.

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How the Guthrie, Murdaugh, and Clancy Cases Ended Up in the Same Place

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 01:03:05

What do the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have in common? In every one of them, the referee is also playing the game. That's the spine of this True Crime Today triple with Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, a career federal investigator grading the investigations everyone else takes on faith.

In Tucson, the sheriff's office running the Guthrie case accidentally published the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address. Coffindaffer's trace of that wallet shows no ransom was ever paid, just a single three-hundred-dollar FBI deposit sitting untouched. Direct messages to the wallet went unanswered for six months. Sheriff Nanos marked the half-year point by calling the FBI relationship great and admitting thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed.

In South Carolina, SLED investigated Becky Hill — the clerk whose verdict SLED's biggest conviction depended on. Her guilty plea skipped the jury tampering entirely, she served no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. Now Murdaugh's defense demands SLED search its own files and certify in writing that nothing favorable stays buried. The demand lands on a lead investigator already tied to a separate case dismissed over undisclosed evidence, and a shirt that tested negative for human blood before the lab's own chemical made retesting impossible.

In Massachusetts, the Lindsay Clancy trial narrowed to one question when the defense stipulated to the forensics: was her mind her own the night Cora, Dawson, and Callan died? Coffindaffer calls which of the state's mind-reading evidence will land with the jury and which is already backfiring.

Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Three cases, one standard. Coffindaffer applies it without flinching.

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Nurse Practitioner Says No Suicidal Ideation, Anxiety Never Let Up

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 48:22

The medication timeline in the Lindsay Clancy trial got a lot more detailed today, courtesy of Julie Paul, the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who treated her before the killings. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing insanity based on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Paul testified that Clancy's anxiety escalated once Patrick Clancy returned to work — and stuck around after that, no real relief. She also covered the sleep problems and walked through the different medications tried over time, laying out exactly the kind of trial-and-error record the defense wants jurors thinking about.

Except Paul also flatly said she never saw suicidal ideation in Clancy at any point. And she pushed back preemptively on the idea that switching medications repeatedly is itself suspicious — she called it standard practice in psychiatry, not a warning sign. Sometimes finding the right drug just takes attempts. That's not a cover-up, that's how the specialty works.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings, jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.

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A Mother Told Murdaugh's Investigator THIS Ten Years Ago

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 14:44

In 2015, a mother sat for an interview with a SLED agent investigating her daughter Sara's death. She later testified that she told him something that changed the picture — that Sara had talked about ending her own life, in the place and manner she died. Ten years later, that interview helped sink a murder case. The agent was David Owen, the same investigator who led the case against Alex Murdaugh.

Tony Brueski connects the collapse of the Michael Colucci prosecution to the Brady motion Murdaugh's defense filed August 5, 2026. Judge Roger Young threw out Colucci's indictment in June 2025, ruling the state failed to disclose the mother's account for nearly a decade. Owen testified he was never told. The judge sent prosecutors back to the grand jury with instructions to bring a fuller case.

Murdaugh's lawyers didn't put Owen's name in their motion. They didn't need names. The filing demands updated personnel files, internal affairs records, and misconduct findings on every officer who touched the investigation — along with new witness deals, changed statements, and a written promise from prosecutors that nothing favorable to Murdaugh sits in a drawer. It also reaches SLED's files on the Eddie Smith roadside shooting and the narcotics investigation.

The state will get to answer, and the likely answer is that this is a fishing trip built on cases that aren't this one. Judge Debra McCaslin hears it August 14, 2026. Alex Murdaugh, presumed innocent, goes to retrial in April 2027 for the murders of Maggie and Paul. The question this episode leaves behind is the one the defense is betting on: how much do you trust the file?

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Doctor Testifies No Signs of Psychosis, Then Notes Get Contested

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 48:04

A psychiatrist with four years of residency and roughly 50 postpartum depression patients under her belt told jurors today she's seen real psychosis up close — and she didn't see it in Lindsay Clancy. Dr. Jennifer Tufts returned to the stand for redirect in the Duxbury mother's murder trial, where Clancy, 34, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts's testimony cuts directly against that theory — she's not speculating, she's speaking from experience with patients who were genuinely in the grip of psychosis, and by her read, Clancy wasn't one of them.

On recross, Reddington didn't let it sit. He and Tufts sparred over her own clinical notes, disagreeing on what was written and, more importantly, what it meant. It's the kind of exchange that reminds you medical records aren't verdicts — they're interpretations, and this trial is going to be full of dueling ones.

After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.

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