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  • When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks Free, Susan Lorincz Threatens Her Victims | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down-WEEK IN REVIEW

    When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks Free, Susan Lorincz Threatens Her Victims | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down-WEEK IN REVIEW
    Nov 9 2025
    Two cases. Two very different crimes.
    One system that failed both sets of victims.

    In this Hidden Killers double feature, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack two stories that expose the cracks in American justice — one soaked in leniency, the other in cruelty.

    First: Jesse Mack Butler.
    Eleven felony charges. Two teenage girls. One nearly strangled to death.
    Video evidence. Doctors saying seconds more and she’d be gone.
    Yet somehow, Stillwater, Oklahoma’s court system gave him a second chance — turning seventy-eight years of possible prison time into one year of supervision under the Youthful Offender statute.
    Eric and Tony dig into how the legal definition of “youth” became a shield for violence, how privilege masqueraded as compassion, and how prosecutors and judges rationalized a decision that left two survivors behind.

    Then: Susan Lorincz.
     The Florida woman convicted of shooting Ajike “AJ” Owens through a locked door — killing the mother of four in front of her children.
    From prison, Lorincz has now written a four-page letter threatening to sue Owens’s children and mother for defamation — accusing them of trespassing, lying, and “ruining her reputation.”
    Tony and Eric expose the psychological rot behind that letter — how denial becomes control, how narcissism replaces remorse, and how the legal system still lets killers weaponize paperwork against the families they destroyed.

    Two stories. Same disease.
    A justice system too soft on those who harm and too silent for those who suffer.

    🎧 Watch both breakdowns in one powerful conversation — legal truth, human cost, and why real justice requires more than conviction.

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  • From Refugee to DA: Thien Ho’s Fight to Bring the Golden State Killer to Justice-WEEK IN REVIEW

    From Refugee to DA: Thien Ho’s Fight to Bring the Golden State Killer to Justice-WEEK IN REVIEW
    Nov 9 2025
    Imagine fleeing a war as a child, arriving in America unable to speak the language — and decades later, becoming the prosecutor who takes down one of the nation’s most infamous serial killers.

    That’s the real-life journey of Thien Ho, Sacramento County’s District Attorney and author of The People vs. The Golden State Killer. In this Hidden Killers exclusive, Tony Brueski sits down with Ho to unpack the extraordinary story behind both the man and the case: the trauma that drove him, the promise he made to a survivor, and the moment he finally saw justice done.

    Ho shares never-before-heard insights into Joseph James DeAngelo’s double life — a police officer by day, a sadistic predator by night — and explains how the prosecution dismantled his decades-long facade of control. He also opens up about his personal mission to shift true crime’s focus away from the monster and toward the heroes: the survivors and investigators who never stopped fighting.

    It’s a conversation about justice, redemption, and the moral courage it takes to stand in the face of real evil — and win.

    #ThienHo #GoldenStateKiller #JosephDeAngelo #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeToday #JusticeServed #ColdCase #SurvivorVoices #DNAJustice #EastAreaRapist


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    47 m
  • From Army Misconduct to Badge & Gun: Bob Motta On The Murder Of Sona Massey-WEEK IN REVIEW

    From Army Misconduct to Badge & Gun: Bob Motta On The Murder Of Sona Massey-WEEK IN REVIEW
    Nov 8 2025
    Before he killed Sonya Massey, Deputy Sean Grayson was already a walking liability — fired from department after department, discharged from the Army for misconduct, arrested for DUI, and still somehow cleared to wear a badge in Illinois.

    In this powerful conversation, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels and attorney Bob Motta expose how that happened — and why it keeps happening.

    From failed background checks to lax hiring standards, the system designed to protect the public instead recycles problem officers. The result: tragedy after tragedy.

    Grayson’s conviction for second-degree murder feels hollow when the larger machine that put him in that kitchen still runs unchecked. Tony and Bob unpack the loopholes, the union protections, and the culture of silence that let Grayson slip through every filter.

    They also explore Illinois’ new “Sonya’s Law,” the state’s attempt to patch the holes after it was too late — and whether any of it will stop the next preventable death.

    Hidden Killers — where we hold the system accountable, one case at a time.

    #SonyaMassey #SeanGrayson #PoliceReform #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #BobMotta #TrueCrime #JusticeForSonya #SystemicFailure #LawEnforcement #Accountability #Podcast

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    55 m
  • Melodee Buzzard & The Great Vanishing: How California Lost 150,000 Kids-WEEK IN REVIEW

    Melodee Buzzard & The Great Vanishing: How California Lost 150,000 Kids-WEEK IN REVIEW
    Nov 8 2025
    Melodee Buzzard’s disappearance isn’t an anomaly — it’s the warning sign of a statewide collapse.

    Between 2019 and 2022, California’s public-school rolls dropped by 270,000 students.
    Roughly 150,000 of them remain unaccounted for in any school, private affidavit, or relocation record.
    They didn’t all move — many simply vanished from the data, the same way Melodee vanished from oversight.

    In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and the panel connect the dots between one missing-child case and the larger crisis of invisible minors.
    We’ll analyze state education reports, CPS workload numbers, and how “independent study” loopholes became a hiding place for abuse and neglect.

    We’ll also ask the uncomfortable question:
    If a state can lose track of 150,000 children on paper, how many are in real danger off the record?

    This is not fear-mongering — it’s a forensic look at bureaucratic blindness and the cultural apathy that lets it continue.

    #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #MelodeeBuzzard #GreatVanishing #MissingKids #CaliforniaCPS #EducationCrisis #SystemFailure #TrueCrimeToday #LawAndCrime #GroupDiscussion #PostCovid #DataInvestigation #ChildSafety

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    57 m
  • She Killed Their Mother—Now "The Perfect Neighbor” Threatens to Sue the Kids

    She Killed Their Mother—Now "The Perfect Neighbor” Threatens to Sue the Kids
    Nov 7 2025
    She killed their mother—and now she wants to sue them.

    Convicted shooter Susan Lorincz, the woman who fired through a locked door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens in Ocala, Florida, is back in the headlines. From her prison cell, Lorincz penned a four-page handwritten letter threatening to sue Owens’s children and mother for defamation—accusing them of lying, trespassing, and “ruining her reputation.”

    In this episode of Hidden Killers, host Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack the legal and moral insanity behind this letter. Could Lorincz actually file a lawsuit from prison? What’s her endgame—justice or control? And how does a system even allow a convicted killer to weaponize paperwork against the very family she destroyed?

    Eric Faddis breaks down the reality: why this “defamation threat” has no legal ground, how narcissism and denial often drive post-conviction behavior, and what reforms could stop offenders from re-victimizing families through civil filings.

    Tony and Eric go beyond the law—into the psychology of entitlement, the trauma inflicted on AJ Owens’s children, and the failure of a justice system that still lets a killer’s words reach the people she hurt most.

    👉 Watch the full conversation for the legal truth, the human cost, and the moral bottom line of Susan Lorincz’s latest attempt to rewrite reality.

    🕊️ AJ Owens’s family deserves peace—not another letter.

    #HiddenKillers #SusanLorincz #AjikeOwens #TrueCrimePodcast #EricFaddis #TonyBrueski #CourtTV #JusticeForAJ #FloridaCrime #PrisonLetter #VictimBlaming #TrueCrimeToday #LegalAnalysis #Manslaughter #Ocala #HiddenKillersLive


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    13 m
  • Justice on Trial: How Jesse Butler Turned 11 Felonies Into a Year of Freedom | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down

    Justice on Trial: How Jesse Butler Turned 11 Felonies Into a Year of Freedom | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down
    Nov 7 2025
    Eleven felony charges. Two teenage victims. One nearly strangled to death.
    And somehow—no prison time.

    In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony, Stacy, and Todd to unpack how Stillwater, Oklahoma’s justice system transformed one of the state’s most brutal sexual-assault cases into a single year of “rehabilitation.”

    Eighteen-year-old Jesse Mack Butler was originally charged with rape, attempted rape, sexual battery, and assault and battery by strangulation after attacking two 16-year-old girls.
    Police recovered partial phone-video evidence of the assault; one victim required neck surgery after nearly dying.

    Because Butler was 17 at the time, his defense argued for Youthful Offender status. The court agreed. A potential 78-year sentence vanished, replaced with one year of supervision.

    Tony and Eric break down:

    • How a no-contest plea erased accountability.

    • Why prosecutors accepted leniency despite overwhelming evidence.

    • The legal loopholes in Oklahoma’s Youthful Offender statute.

    • Whether empathy or privilege decided the outcome.


    From both sides of the courtroom—prosecutor and defense—Eric Faddis explains how mercy became protection, how the law failed its victims, and what reforms could stop it from happening again.

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  • When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks Free, Susan Lorincz Threatens Her Victims | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down

    When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks Free, Susan Lorincz Threatens Her Victims | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down
    Nov 7 2025
    Two cases. Two very different crimes.
    One system that failed both sets of victims.

    In this Hidden Killers double feature, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack two stories that expose the cracks in American justice — one soaked in leniency, the other in cruelty.

    First: Jesse Mack Butler.
    Eleven felony charges. Two teenage girls. One nearly strangled to death.
    Video evidence. Doctors saying seconds more and she’d be gone.
    Yet somehow, Stillwater, Oklahoma’s court system gave him a second chance — turning seventy-eight years of possible prison time into one year of supervision under the Youthful Offender statute.
    Eric and Tony dig into how the legal definition of “youth” became a shield for violence, how privilege masqueraded as compassion, and how prosecutors and judges rationalized a decision that left two survivors behind.

    Then: Susan Lorincz.
     The Florida woman convicted of shooting Ajike “AJ” Owens through a locked door — killing the mother of four in front of her children.
    From prison, Lorincz has now written a four-page letter threatening to sue Owens’s children and mother for defamation — accusing them of trespassing, lying, and “ruining her reputation.”
    Tony and Eric expose the psychological rot behind that letter — how denial becomes control, how narcissism replaces remorse, and how the legal system still lets killers weaponize paperwork against the families they destroyed.

    Two stories. Same disease.
    A justice system too soft on those who harm and too silent for those who suffer.

    🎧 Watch both breakdowns in one powerful conversation — legal truth, human cost, and why real justice requires more than conviction.

    💬 Join the discussion: #HiddenKillers #JesseButler #SusanLorincz #EricFaddis #TrueCrimePodcast #TonyBrueski #JusticeForAJ #YouthfulOffender #FloridaCrime #OklahomaJustice #CourtTV #VictimBlaming #TrueCrimeToday #LegalAnalysis #HiddenKillersLive

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    46 m
  • Golden State Killer Prosecutor Thien Ho Reveals What Joseph DeAngelo Was Really Like Behind the Scenes

    Golden State Killer Prosecutor Thien Ho Reveals What Joseph DeAngelo Was Really Like Behind the Scenes
    Nov 6 2025
    When Joseph DeAngelo — the Golden State Killer — was finally unmasked in 2018, the world saw an old man slumped in a wheelchair. But according to Sacramento DA Thien Ho, it was all an act.

    In this exclusive conversation, Tony Brueski goes behind the headlines with Ho, the man who stood across the courtroom from one of America’s most elusive serial predators. From the whispered “crazy act” DeAngelo tried to pull in the interrogation room to the frail performance he staged in court, Ho explains how the prosecution saw through every layer of manipulation.

    But this story isn’t about glorifying a killer — it’s about the survivors. Ho shares how he centered their voices, the emotional weight of their impact statements, and the unforgettable moment one woman told DeAngelo, “I’m not afraid of you anymore.”

    The People vs. The Golden State Killer gives us the first insider look at the battle between truth and illusion — and how one prosecutor helped make history by exposing the evil hiding behind a mask of normalcy.

    #GoldenStateKiller #ThienHo #JosephDeAngelo #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #Justice #Prosecution #DNAEvidence #EastAreaRapist #CrimeStories


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    21 m