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🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
0:02.3 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
0:05.1 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
0:08.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
0:12.5 | Let's talk about James Craig, the alleged killer dentist. |
0:17.7 | We've looked at the mask, the method, the manipulation. |
0:22.5 | Now, it's time to step back and ask the bigger question. Who is James Craig really? Because what happened here wasn't |
0:28.6 | just a betrayal, or even just a murder, allegedly. If the allegations hold, this was a |
0:33.8 | multi-stage calculated emotionally anesthesed attack carried out by someone who knew what he was doing |
0:44.4 | and knew how to look good doing it. |
0:50.3 | I'm going to strip away the last layer here, the psychology beneath the surface, the wiring behind the charm, the disorder behind the clean white coat. |
0:59.6 | Because when somebody allegedly poisons their spouse over the course of days, pretends to be carrying while she's slipping into a coma, and then writes a deep fake suicide script from jail, you're not just looking at a criminal, |
1:15.7 | you're looking at pathology. With me, a psychotherapist, Chavon Scott, and we're pulling together everything we've discussed, not to diagnose Craig officially, but to map the territory. What kind |
1:21.6 | of traits line up with his behavior? Narcissism? Psychopathy? Something more complex? And how do you identify people like this before they |
1:33.4 | escalate? We'll talk about narcissistic collapse. It's when someone's sense of control, |
1:39.8 | identity or status is threatened and they lash out in destructive, often calculated ways. |
1:45.1 | We'll look at how fantasy thinking, power dynamics, and public image maintenance all contribute |
1:50.1 | to someone who's capable of not just committing murder, but allegedly doing it in such a |
1:54.7 | clinically detached and self-protective way. And most importantly, we'll talk about the kind of profile means for people around |
2:05.2 | them. Who is this guy? Their families, coworkers, and communities. How do you recognize this? And how can we |
2:11.5 | stop confusing nice guy with safe guy? Because the scariest predators aren't the ones who come in angry. |
2:19.6 | They're the ones who smile when they're doing it. |
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