Brianna Aguilera: Neighbor Heard Screaming Before 17-Story Fall — Police Ruled Suicide BEFORE Autopsy
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Brianna Aguilera was a 19-year-old Texas A&M student who fell 17 stories from a West Campus apartment in Austin on November 29, 2025. Austin Police ruled her death a suicide just five days later — before the autopsy was completed, before toxicology came back, and before a rape kit was even processed. But the family isn't buying it. And neither is the neighbor who heard everything through the walls that night.
Dannah Rodriguez lived directly across the hall from the apartment Brianna was visiting. At attorney Tony Buzbee's January 2026 press conference, she described hearing loud arguing, a girl's voice fighting with multiple people, and screaming — the kind of scream you make when something goes wrong. Her father thought the arguing was coming from the balcony. Minutes later, Brianna was dead.
According to the neighbor, the resident of that apartment vacated almost immediately after Brianna's death. And she claims police never entered the unit during their investigation. So what were they actually investigating?
Brianna's parents have now filed a $1 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Austin Blacks Rugby Club and the UT Latin Economics and Business Association, alleging their daughter was illegally overserved alcohol at a tailgate earlier that evening. But attorney Tony Buzbee says the lawsuit is really about one thing: subpoena power. If police won't investigate, the family will do it themselves.
The autopsy still isn't complete. The toxicology still isn't back. The witnesses in the apartment have allegedly been told not to talk. And a mother is demanding the Texas Rangers take over the case.
This is the story of Brianna Aguilera — and the questions nobody in Austin seems willing to answer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.3 | What happened to Brianna Aguilera? |
| 0:12.2 | That's the question a lot of people have been wrestling with now for several weeks. |
| 0:19.1 | There's a new information in the case. |
| 0:20.7 | We're going to go through it. |
| 0:22.5 | Before we do, I'd love to get your thoughts on this as we work our way through it. Two ways to do |
| 0:28.1 | that in the comment section on YouTube. Hit in Killers with Tony Brewski is our channel in case |
| 0:33.4 | you're not there. Or on our substack, kidding killers.substack.com. |
| 0:38.4 | The link is in the episode description as well. |
| 0:41.3 | You can join us there and communicate directly with me |
| 0:44.2 | here in the studio on this case. |
| 0:46.6 | I'd love, I always love hearing you guys' thoughts |
| 0:49.4 | because it makes me think. |
| 0:51.3 | I hope I make you think. |
| 0:52.5 | And together we can all think more together. What a thought. What a process. We all collectively use our brains to decipher cases and try to come to conclusions and answers and finding the truth. Not just digging our heads into the sand deeper in deeper as others scream. |
| 1:13.4 | Look at this piece of evidence. |
| 1:15.4 | No, it's okay to be wrong. |
| 1:17.7 | On any case, I don't know the answer to this one whatsoever. |
| 1:21.0 | That's why I really love to hear your thoughts as we go through it. |
| 1:26.1 | So let's do just that. A neighbor woke up around 1230 in the |
| 1:30.3 | morning to the sound of people screaming not party screaming not oh my gosh you're here |
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