This is the big breakdown.

A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

Is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

This is a story that starts like so many do with something relatively ordinary. A hotel booking, a confused charge, a front desk

clerk, just trying to do her job. By the end of this brief and otherwise forgettable summer

shift, she'd find herself chatting with a man about knives, sheaths, and self-defense.

A man who just a few months later would be arrested and accused of butchering for college students in the middle of the night.

A man who'd become a household name associated with one of the most horrifying

murder cases in recent memory. Of course, we are talking about Brian Koberger. This isn't the

story of a crime scene or a police chase or really even the trial, this is a smaller, quieter story.

It's one of those that we're learning about after the fact,

one of those that were diving deeper into

as one of the many warning signs

that were out there about Brian Coburger,

but one of the many warning signs that

although you may see something and you may say something, there's not a lot of you can do

when something like this takes place. If there's no crime, just very, very uncomfortable,

odd behavior. One may call it haunting. It is a story of an ordinary woman working

an ordinary shift who found herself face to face with something off, something wrong. But at the

time, it just seemed like a strange conversation with an awkward guest. I mean, think of it. You work

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