Adelsons’ Dark Holidays, D4VD’s Body in the Trunk, Rex Heuermann’s Trial Tightrope
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, the conversation swings from lighthearted Halloween chatter into some of the darkest cases dominating headlines today.
The show opens with pumpkins, pasta sauce, and a creepy animatronic doll that leaves Harper screaming — but the mood shifts quickly as the hosts turn their attention to the Adelson family. Once known for wealth and influence, the Adelsons now face prison cells, empty chairs at holiday tables, and children left in the middle of a murder-for-hire plot. What do the holidays look like for a family split between freedom and incarceration? And how does Jeff Lacasse’s painful, raw testimony continue to shape public perception of Wendi Adelson and the damage she left behind?
From Florida, the spotlight moves west to Hollywood. Rising star D4VD’s career collapsed overnight after the decomposed body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered in the trunk of his Tesla. Tony is joined by defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack the legal nightmare: ownership vs. possession of the vehicle, the disturbing revelation of matching tattoos, grooming allegations, missing-person timelines, and deleted social media trails that may point to destruction of evidence. Is this the fall of a star — or could someone in his inner circle be framing him?
Finally, the team shifts to Long Island, where accused serial killer Rex Heuermann faces a consolidated mega-trial after a judge ruled that seven murder charges will be tried together. With groundbreaking DNA technology, victim dignity concerns, and family fallout all in play, the Gilgo Beach case has become one of the most complex trials in recent memory. Can Heuermann’s ex-wife Asa Ellerup or even his daughter be called to testify? Can jurors truly remain impartial under this level of public scrutiny? And will new forensic science set precedent for murder prosecutions across the country?
This episode blends sharp analysis, dark humor, and deep dives into three of the most haunting cases of our time — the Adelsons, D4VD, and Rex Heuermann — exposing not only the crimes, but the rippling human cost.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:11.4 | Hi. |
| 0:14.2 | I guess the intro didn't work, but hi. |
| 0:17.3 | We saw it. |
| 0:18.0 | I saw it. |
| 0:18.9 | You saw the whole thing? |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:20.8 | I saw like two seconds of it. It said, |
| 0:22.7 | this is. And then it did the scrolling circle on my end. But I'm glad we're all here today. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the program, hitting killers live for this Tuesday. |
| 0:54.1 | Uh, 2020. Wow. We're almost one month away from Halloween. Who's excited for that? Um, yeah, it's kind of crazy to think about, isn't it? Um, is it, so is it acceptable to get pumpkins at this point? Yes. Okay. Complete. We're going to a pumpkin patch this weekend. That's, yeah. |
| 1:00.4 | I like to go to the pumpkin patches at the first weekend or the end of September because it ain't too busy yet. |
| 1:08.5 | And you can kind of enjoy everything without, you know, all the children, you know, running around and ruining it for us adults who like to go to the pumpkin patch. |
| 1:12.6 | So is that, |
| 1:13.5 | that's like, is that girlfriend things that you're doing? |
| 1:16.3 | Or is that going to be with Harper? |
| 1:18.7 | All of the, |
| 1:19.4 | all of the above, actually. |
| 1:21.6 | Me and Harper go every year regardless. |
| 1:23.4 | But my girlfriend is, |
| 1:24.7 | and daughter are coming this weekend. |
| 1:26.4 | And we're also making pasta sauce on Saturday as well. |
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