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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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#JaredBridegan #BexleyBridegan #OneMileFromHome #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePsychology #CustodyChildren #Parentification #HighConflictDivorce #ShannaGardner

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.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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KelseyFitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #LiveTrial #NorthAndoverPolice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews #CourtTV #TrialWatch #BreakingCrime

Aaron Spencer is scheduled for trial on June 22nd in Arkansas on charges stemming from the killing of Michael Fosler — a man who was released on bond while facing 40 counts of child sexual abuse. The case involved a judicial removal and significant pre-trial public statements from the prosecution, which has indicated that the jury will hear information that contradicts the public's current understanding of events. The defendant has given media interviews and maintained an active public profile. His attorneys have made public statements on strategy and their confidence in the defense.On True Crime Today, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski analyze the legal framework of the Spencer case with the specificity it requires.The panel examines: the operative Arkansas self-defense and defense-of-others statutes and what the defense must establish to meet those thresholds at trial; whether Fosler's 40 pending child sexual abuse charges have legal standing inside the Spencer proceeding or are excluded from evidentiary consideration; the legal implications of prosecution pre-trial public statements and what they indicate about the state's trial strategy; the evidentiary and procedural dimensions of a child victim potentially being called to testify; what Spencer's own public statements — including a CNN appearance — mean for the defense's in-court posture; and the most critical pre-trial motion or strategic action the defense must prioritize before June 22nd.Robin Dreeke adds behavioral analysis on jury selection dynamics in high-profile cases where public narrative has crystallized before the proceeding begins, and how the behavioral context of the case affects the way a jury is likely to process the evidence presented.June 22nd is a fixed point. True Crime Today examines what has to happen before it arrives.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#AaronSpencer #MichaelFosler #SpencerTrial #TrueCrimeToday #ArkansasLaw #SelfDefense #CriminalLaw #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #RobinDreeke

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Maureen Torrisi, neighbor of 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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KelseyFitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #LiveTrial #NorthAndoverPolice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews #CourtTV #TrialWatch #BreakingCrime

The trial of former North Andover police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons took a significant turn during cross-examination of the officer who shot her — and the inconsistencies that surfaced are exactly the kind a judge remembers when it's time to decide.Fitzsimmons faces one count of assault with a dangerous weapon, accused of pointing her service weapon at Officer Patrick Noonan as he and colleagues served her a restraining order obtained by her then-fiancé. She has pleaded not guilty. Her defense maintains she was in a severe mental health crisis, that the gun was aimed only at herself, and that Noonan fatally misread what he was seeing. With no body cameras and no video of the shooting itself, everything the court has to work with is testimony — and that testimony is now under serious scrutiny.Defense attorney Timothy Bradl confronted Noonan with conflicting statements about the number of shots fired and how quickly they came. He raised a prior call both officers responded to — a murder-suicide involving a mother and her baby, while Fitzsimmons was twenty weeks pregnant — and the personal text exchange that followed, in which Noonan shared that he'd once been in a dark place himself. He pressed Noonan on prior testimony describing the immediate aftermath of the shooting that Noonan had apparently forgotten to mention this time around.Noonan acknowledged he briefly considered, in the moment, whether the gun might not have been aimed at him at all.The day's final witness was Michelle Mitchell, a friend and would-be bridesmaid, who testified she watched Fitzsimmons drive past the house where the decision to file the restraining order was being made — crying, saying she needed Justin — with no idea what was being decided inside.The judge has approved a visit to the home where the shooting occurred. He will see the room for himself. Whatever that space tells him becomes part of the evidence. This case is nearly at its close — and the verdict rests with one judge and what he makes of a story that two people tell very differently.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #CopOnCopShooting #PatrickNoonan #BenchTrial #TrueCrime #MassachusettsTrial #AssaultWithADangerousWeapon #PostpartumDepression #TrueCrimeToday

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings David Strong with the Massachusetts State Police 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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KelseyFitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #LiveTrial #NorthAndoverPolice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews #CourtTV #TrialWatch #BreakingCrime

The trial of Kelsey Fitzsimmons — a former North Andover police officer charged with assault with a dangerous weapon — is underway before a judge in Massachusetts. The defendant waived her right to a jury trial. The grand jury declined to return the top charge of armed assault with intent to murder, reducing the case to a single count. The defense team includes Martha Coakley, the former Massachusetts Attorney General. The prosecution has sought to introduce text messages from the hours before the incident to establish state of mind. The defense has raised the absence of internal affairs statements that the department says do not exist because a third party conducted those interviews.On True Crime Today, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski analyze the Fitzsimmons trial with the legal specificity it requires.The panel addresses: the strategic rationale for a bench trial and its real risks; what the grand jury's charge reduction communicates about the prosecution's evidentiary foundation; how the defense constructs an argument from the language a prosecution witness used in the moment — specifically the phrase "Kelsey, no" — as behavioral evidence of what that witness understood was happening; the legal and evidentiary implications of internal affairs statements that may never be produced; how postpartum depression, documented prior traumatic exposure, and post-incident clinical clearances are deployed as evidence without enabling the prosecution to reframe them as proof of instability.Robin Dreeke provides the behavioral framework: observable distinctions between suicidal crisis and assault preparation, and how those distinctions translate — or fail to — under eyewitness testimony delivered under stress.This case turns on one contested moment. True Crime Today examines what the legal record says about it.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #FitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #BenchTrial #CriminalLaw #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #MassachusettsLaw #PoliceTrial

Joseph Duggar is facing felony child sex abuse charges in Florida — molestation of a victim under 12 and lewd and lascivious conduct — and is currently in an Arkansas county jail awaiting extradition. He reportedly confessed to the alleged abuse on two separate occasions: once to the victim's father, and again to Tontitown police detectives during what is described as a recorded phone call. He waived his extradition hearing. In Arkansas, both Joseph and Kendra Duggar have each been charged with four counts of child endangerment and false imprisonment — counts Tontitown police describe as legally distinct from, but investigatively connected to, the Florida case.On True Crime Today, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski analyze the legal architecture of this case with the precision it demands.The panel addresses the core strategic and evidentiary questions: what a defense attorney does when a client has made pre-representation statements to both a civilian and law enforcement; whether waiving extradition was sound strategy; how a defense manages simultaneous exposure across two states with different statutes; what Florida law requires when handling a six-year delayed disclosure from a minor victim; and how Kendra Duggar's separate misdemeanor charges — with bond posted in under 90 minutes — fit into the broader legal framework.Robin Dreeke provides behavioral analysis on how a family system structured around internal disclosure management responds when that system becomes a focal point of a multi-jurisdiction criminal investigation.This is a case with documented statements, a dual-state charging structure, and a defendant whose family history creates a legitimate challenge to seating an impartial jury. True Crime Today examines the law as it stands — and what it demands from everyone in that courtroom.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#JosephDuggar #KendraDuggar #DuggarCase #TrueCrimeToday #CriminalLaw #ChildSexAbuse #FelonyCharges #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #RobinDreeke

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Timothy Houston, 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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KelseyFitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #LiveTrial #NorthAndoverPolice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews #CourtTV #TrialWatch #BreakingCrime

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial brings Lieutenant Michael Bonasoro with the Massachusetts State Police 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.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #KelseyFitzsimmonsTrial #TrueCrimeToday #LiveTrial #NorthAndoverPolice #MassachusettsCourt #TrueCrimeNews #CourtTV #TrialWatch #BreakingCrime