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The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial reached its most significant moment when Fitzsimmons herself took the stand and testified in her own defense. The former North Andover police officer — charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after a colleague shot her while serving a restraining order — told the court she never pointed her weapon at anyone but herself. That she was in crisis. That she grabbed the gun and raised it to her own head. That she pulled the trigger twice. That in the ambulance afterward she kept saying she was an idiot for trying to kill herself with an unloaded gun, and kept removing her oxygen mask because she still wanted to die.

The prosecution's cross-examination was pointed: as a trained officer, she agreed that a person in mental health crisis with guns present is a danger to everyone in the house. A judge weighing intent will weigh that answer.

The defense also called Noonan's neighbor, who testified under oath that Noonan called Fitzsimmons a "f---ing whackjob" in a conversation where she questioned why no social worker was present. Fitzsimmons's mother testified she heard the shots from downstairs and never heard her daughter say anything.

Both sides rested. The site visit the defense had fought to secure was cancelled without explanation after Fitzsimmons completed her testimony. Closing arguments are next, with a verdict potentially arriving the same day.

This episode covers all of it — and asks the question sitting underneath the legal proceedings that no verdict will resolve: at least one officer walked into that house knowing Fitzsimmons had been involuntarily committed for postpartum depression, and there was still no mental health professional anywhere in that response. Not because of negligence. Because the system was never designed to put one there. That failure happened before anyone knocked on the door — and it put everyone inside in danger.

A verdict is coming. The larger question isn't.

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One Duggar brother is in federal prison. Another was arrested this week on charges he allegedly admitted to — twice. Their father knew about abuse inside his own family since 2002 and has faced no legal consequences. A federal judge has already put his finding about Jim Bob's sworn testimony on the public record: not credible.

In Part 2 of this three-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, hosts Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke talk with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott about the psychology of Josh Duggar, Joseph Duggar, and Jim Bob Duggar. Scott has spent thirty years working with perpetrators of violence across forensic mental health programs, domestic violence shelters, and private practice.

What does Josh's pattern look like to a clinician? What does Joseph's alleged admission — and his apparent apology to the girl at the time it happened — tell us psychologically? What is Jim Bob doing when he chooses internal church handling over law enforcement, repeatedly, and then claims he can't remember any of it?

This conversation also covers Anna Duggar — still married to Josh with seven children while he serves his sentence — and Kendra Duggar, arrested this week on separate charges involving their own four children.

This is Part 2 of 3.

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The Duggar family didn't exist in a vacuum. They were the most famous product of the Institute in Basic Life Principles — a fundamentalist Christian organization whose doctrine demanded total submission, isolated children from outside institutions, and used the language of faith to make silence feel like obedience.

In Part 1 of this three-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, hosts Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — a thirty-year licensed clinician specializing in trauma recovery and the psychology of violent behavior, and a survivor of fundamentalist religious upbringing herself, documented in her memoir Nightbird.

IBLP's own published materials described leaving paternal authority as witchcraft, fear of dying in pregnancy as satanic, and rock music as more addictive than crack cocaine. Their homeschool curriculum deliberately excluded sex education. Their doctrine gave fathers absolute authority over every person in the household.

This conversation examines how an organization gets that level of control, what it produces in the families who live inside it, and why systems like this survive long after everything comes out.

Two Duggar brothers are now facing criminal charges. One is in federal prison. This part of the conversation is about the world that produced all three of them.

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The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Steven Corr, North Andover Police Officer, to the stand in this segment.

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June 2025. Prosecutors say she raised the gun at Noonan and pulled the trigger — the gun did not fire because there was no round in the chamber. The defense maintains Fitzsimmons was in the grip of a postpartum mental health crisis and the gun was turned on herself, not on Noonan. She has waived her right to a jury, leaving her fate entirely in the hands of Judge Jeffrey Karp.

True Crime Today delivers real-time trial coverage as it happens — key testimony, critical cross-examinations, and the moments that matter. No waiting for nightly recaps. Watch the case unfold live.

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A Utah mother of three was just convicted of murdering her husband by slipping five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into his drink. But the story of Kouri Richins has never really been about the crime alone. It's been about what she did after.

She wrote a children's grief book. Dedicated it to the husband prosecutors say she poisoned. Went on television to talk about healing. Told her housekeeper — the same woman who allegedly sold her the pills — that her husband died of a brain aneurysm. And when she was arrested, she didn't crumble. She said, on camera: "This means war."

A jury just answered that declaration. Unanimously. In three hours.

What makes this verdict remarkable isn't the speed — it's what the jurors said afterward. They didn't want to find her guilty. They walked in hoping the defense's version would hold up. They were, in one juror's own words, "really sad" that it didn't. Eight people who wanted to believe her couldn't find a single reason to.

On True Crime Today, we're breaking down what comes next. The appeal process — and the significant legal obstacles standing in its way. The separate trial on twenty-six financial felony charges that hasn't even been scheduled yet. And the psychological portrait of someone who responds to every crisis in this story the same way: by constructing a new narrative. A grief book before arrest. A scripted six-page letter from jail after. When the story needs protecting, she writes.

Sentencing comes May 13th — what would have been Eric Richins' 44th birthday. Three boys will grow up knowing both versions of this story. The one their mother told them, and the one a jury just confirmed.

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Multiple people across multiple years felt something wrong around Bryan Kohberger. A delivery driver. Classmates. Fellow graduate students at Washington State. People who created distance without being able to name what they were moving away from. People who mentioned their discomfort and watched the conversation end there — because a feeling has nowhere to go in a system built to require evidence.

True Crime Today presents Part Three of The Shape of Him from Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski — a direct examination of the gap between social threat detection and institutional action, and what it costs the people caught in between.

This episode explains the neuroscience behind that gut feeling: why it's real, why it fires around harmless people too, and why that imprecision is exactly why systems require something more. It walks through every threshold Kohberger fell below — mandatory reporting, threat assessment, HR, mental health intervention, law enforcement — and makes the honest case that the architecture that let him move freely is the same architecture that protects all of us.

And then it speaks to the people carrying guilt about a feeling they had and nowhere to take it. And to the professionals who saw something and hit the wall of what the system allows. Both conversations are long overdue. Part three of five.

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Three criminal proceedings. Three distinct legal frameworks. And in every one of them, the gap between what the public understands and what the law requires is wider than it looks.

Joseph Duggar faces felony child sex abuse charges in Florida and, alongside his wife Kendra, misdemeanor charges in Arkansas. He reportedly made admissions to the victim's father and to Tontitown police detectives prior to retaining counsel — statements that are described as having been recorded. He waived his extradition hearing. The Arkansas and Florida cases are legally distinct but investigatively connected, creating a dual-jurisdiction exposure that the defense must manage simultaneously under two different statutory frameworks.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons is before a Massachusetts judge on a single count of assault with a dangerous weapon. A grand jury declined to return the original charge of armed assault with intent to murder. The defense has challenged the prosecution's access to internal affairs statements that the department claims do not exist. The central evidentiary question — which direction the defendant's weapon was pointed — is a matter of competing witness interpretation of a moment that lasted seconds.

Aaron Spencer goes to trial June 22nd in Arkansas on charges stemming from the killing of Michael Fosler, who was on bond while facing 40 counts of child sexual abuse. The prosecution has stated publicly that the jury will receive information that contradicts the public narrative around the case. The defendant has made public statements including a national media appearance. The child victim may be called to testify. The 40 counts against Fosler carry no evidentiary weight in the Spencer proceeding.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski examine the legal and behavioral architecture of all three cases with the precision each demands. True Crime Today is where the law gets examined — not simplified.

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The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Fitzsimmons to the stand in this segment.

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June 2025. Prosecutors say she raised the gun at Noonan and pulled the trigger — the gun did not fire because there was no round in the chamber. The defense maintains Fitzsimmons was in the grip of a postpartum mental health crisis and the gun was turned on herself, not on Noonan. She has waived her right to a jury, leaving her fate entirely in the hands of Judge Jeffrey Karp.

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In the coverage of the Jared Bridegan murder case, the children are mentioned and then moved past. This episode doesn't do that.

Part 3 of One Mile From Home stays with the children — Bexley, who was in the backseat when her father was shot at two years old, and the twins, who grew up moving between two households at war and will spend the rest of their lives integrating what that war allegedly produced.

Tony Brueski examines parentification and loyalty conflict — the documented developmental damage that occurs when children are placed inside adult conflicts as participants rather than protected bystanders. What it does to a child who learns to manage a parent's emotional state before having space to develop their own. The split selves, the hypervigilance, the exhaustion carried quietly into adulthood.

He also addresses where the twins ended up: after the arrests, guardianship was granted to Shanna Gardner's parents in Washington state. Through no choice of their own, the children now live with the family of the woman accused of killing their father.

This episode is built for adults who grew up in high-conflict custody situations and have never heard their experience named this honestly. The children in this case paid the cost. It was not collateral. And it deserves to be treated as the central tragedy it is.

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The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Lauren Page, Kelsey's mother to the stand in this segment.

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial is underway in Essex Superior Court in Massachusetts. Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly pointing her service weapon at fellow officer Patrick Noonan during a restraining order service at her home in June 2025. Prosecutors say she raised the gun at Noonan and pulled the trigger — the gun did not fire because there was no round in the chamber. The defense maintains Fitzsimmons was in the grip of a postpartum mental health crisis and the gun was turned on herself, not on Noonan. She has waived her right to a jury, leaving her fate entirely in the hands of Judge Jeffrey Karp.

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