What Happened to Brianna Aguilera?-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Within days, Austin Police held a rare press conference to announce they were treating her death as a suicide - citing a deleted suicide note found on her phone, text messages indicating suicidal thoughts, and prior statements to friends. They say all evidence points away from foul play.
But Brianna's family isn't buying it.
Her mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, has publicly accused police of a rushed investigation and believes someone in that apartment is responsible for her daughter's death. She says Brianna was afraid of heights, was actively planning her future, and would never have taken her own life. The family has now retained high-profile attorney Tony Buzbee to pursue their own investigation.
The questions are piling up: Why wasn't the mother notified for almost 15 hours? What happened in the two minutes between Brianna's phone call with her boyfriend and the 911 call? Why did none of the three women in the apartment see or hear anything? And what about the witness who says she heard screaming and running that night?
Adding another layer to this case: another Texas A&M student, Grant Hernandez, died at the exact same apartment complex in 2019 under strikingly similar circumstances. His death was also ruled a suicide. His father says he never got the answers he wanted.
In this video, I break down everything we know about the Brianna Aguilera case - the timeline, the evidence, the family's concerns, and the questions that still need answers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:08.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.0 | At 1246 in the morning on November 29th, 2025, a bystander walked near an apartment complex in Austin, Texas and heard a thud. |
| 0:23.9 | When they looked towards the sound, they found the body of a 19-year-old woman on the ground. |
| 0:29.8 | She had fallen 17 stories from a balcony above. |
| 0:34.5 | Her name was Brianna Aguilera. |
| 0:36.7 | She was a Texas A&M student with dreams of becoming a criminal defense lawyer. |
| 0:42.1 | Within a week, the Austin police held a press conference declaring her death a suicide. |
| 0:48.5 | Within 24 hours of that press conference, high-profile attorney Tony Busby held his own, |
| 0:52.8 | calling the investigation lazy and |
| 0:55.1 | incompetent and demanding the Texas Rangers takeover. He revealed that a TikTok video allegedly |
| 1:01.5 | shown an altercation at the apartment that night with someone screaming, get off me. |
| 1:07.4 | This is Busby's allegation. He revealed that a rape kit is pending and that suicide note police |
| 1:16.3 | kept talking about busby claims it wasn't a suicide note at all he says it was a creative |
| 1:21.3 | writing assignment this case just exploded so let's talk about what happened to Brianna Aguilera. |
| 1:29.1 | And in the comment section on YouTube, I'd love to hear your thoughts and your feedback. |
| 1:35.3 | Also, press subscribe while you are there. |
| 1:38.8 | Love to get that. |
| 1:40.0 | And if you're listening to us on Apple Podcasts right now, if you don't mind, if you like what we're doing, you like our coverage of this in many cases. |
| 1:47.2 | Please leave us a review there on Apple Podcasts. All right. First, let me tell you who this young woman was because context matters. |
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