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During Lindsay Clancy's trial, Kevin Reddington never denied she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. His defense was postpartum psychosis — she did it, but she wasn't criminally responsible. He offered to stipulate the act in writing. The jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquittal, and the judge declared a mistrial. Then Reddington walked into court and argued there is no evidence Clancy killed her children at all. The Rule 25 motion is a request for the judge to dismiss the case outright. Prosecutors were stunned, calling it the first time they'd heard this argument. The hearing set for November 2 will determine whether the motion has legs — or whether this is a calculated play to build an appellate record before the retrial. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #Rule25 #PlymouthCourt #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #Duxbury #MassachusettsCrime

A jury convicted Caleb Flynn of aggravated murder in under three hours. But the guilty verdict raises a question the criminal case never touched. Alleigha Botner, Flynn's 24-year-old mistress, spent eighteen months reading texts where he described hating Ashley and fantasized about her death. She admitted on the stand that she herself once texted about wanting Ashley dead. She lied to the FBI. She stayed in the affair right up until Ashley was shot. Criminal charges against Botner are unlikely, according to legal experts. But civil court operates on a different standard and a different set of tools. Could a wrongful death claim force the mistress into a deposition chair and expose what she knew, what she deleted, and what she did with all of it? Flynn has been convicted. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent of any uncharged conduct until proven guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulDeath #CivilLiability #MiamiCountyOhio #JusticeForAshley

He met her at church. He told her his wife was a roommate. He gave her AI-generated love songs and matching tattoos. He made her wait eighteen months. Then Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head while their daughters slept down the hall. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to trace the full arc — from worship leader to murder defendant — across a three-part interview.Part one dissects the foundation. Flynn was 36 and embedded in church leadership at CLC in Miami County, Ohio. Botner was 21 and interning. Scott maps the power imbalance — the age gap, the spiritual authority, the “roommate” narrative — and explains why those details aren't background. They're the conditions that made everything that followed possible.Part two follows the holding pattern. For eighteen months, Flynn maintained a double life — his wife Ashley, his children, his reputation, and Botner waiting in the margins. She gave him a deadline in January to leave Ashley. He blew past it. On Valentine's Day, he returned. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and sunk-cost fallacy that made leaving impossible for Botner and unnecessary for Flynn.Part three takes on the 107,000 texts and their escalation to casual discussions of Ashley's death. Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her.” The public is split on whether she was pushing for murder or divorce. Scott reads both psychologies, then raises the question most people haven't reached: if Flynn had stayed with Ashley, how much danger was the woman holding his secrets in?Whether you've followed every day of the trial or you're hearing about this relationship for the first time, this three-part interview maps the full arc.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #RelationshipPsychology

The public is fighting over one question about the Caleb Flynn murder trial: was his mistress pressuring him toward murder, or toward divorce? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski both readings miss the most dangerous part of this case.In this interview, Scott takes on the 107,000 text messages exchanged between Flynn and Alleigha Botner over eighteen months. The public knows the destination — Ashley Flynn shot twice in the head while sleeping. Scott maps the road. The normalization of violent language in a text thread happens through a process she's studied: each message escalates only slightly past the previous one, and the gradual shift is invisible from inside the conversation. By the time Botner testified she'd texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley, both she and Flynn had been marinating in that language for months. Scott says the words stopped carrying their literal weight long before anyone died.The complicity debate is real. Botner says she wanted a divorce, not a death. Prosecutors allege Flynn's actions tell a different story. Scott approaches it through the collision of two psychologies: Botner's desperation for Flynn to leave his wife, and Flynn's absolute refusal to sacrifice his image through a divorce. When those two forces met, murder became the option that satisfied both needs — his reputation and her demand that Ashley be gone.Then Scott turns the question: if Flynn had chosen Ashley, how much danger was Botner in? She held every text, every admission, every escalation. She was both the most powerful person in Flynn's orbit and the most exposed. Scott traces the danger that ran in both directions — and identifies the exact behavioral marker that separates an unstable affair from a lethal situation.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderTexts

She spent holidays alone. He sat at his family's table, played the devoted husband, then texted her after the kids went to bed. For eighteen months, that was the pattern — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski it wasn't just toxic. It was a behavioral trap.Scott maps the psychology of why Alleigha Botner couldn't walk away from Caleb Flynn despite getting nothing she was promised. The pattern has a clinical name: intermittent reinforcement. Long stretches of empty reassurance punctuated by sudden bursts of attention and reconnection. Scott says it triggers the same reward pathways as gambling — the occasional hit after extended deprivation creates a chemical dependency stronger than consistent love.The January deadline was the clearest proof. Botner told Flynn to leave his wife or it was over. He ignored it entirely. They broke up. On Valentine's Day he came back, and she let him. Scott says that moment maps perfectly onto the reinforcement cycle: the longer the deprivation, the more powerful the return feels. Botner wasn't weak. She was locked into a pattern designed to override judgment.Flynn's psychology is its own problem. Scott profiles a man who believed he was entitled to a wife, children, a church reputation, and a mistress — indefinitely, without consequences. That's not garden-variety cheating. It's a specific form of compartmentalization where two contradictory realities coexist because the person refuses to acknowledge either one fully.After eighteen months of investment — emotional, social, psychological — walking away felt like losing everything. The sunk-cost fallacy made staying feel rational. Scott explains what that trap looks like from the inside and what it takes to pull someone out of it from the outside.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ToxicRelationship

She was 21. He was 36 and married with children. They met at a church where he volunteered on the worship team and she was an intern. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to explain why every one of those details matters — and why they mattered before Caleb Flynn ever sent a text message about his wife.Scott starts with the age gap. At 21, Alleigha Botner's brain was still developing the capacity to evaluate risk and read long-term consequences. Flynn was a decade and a half ahead of her with a marriage, children, and a reputation he'd built at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Scott says that differential alone creates a power gap most people outside clinical practice don't fully appreciate.The church multiplied it. Scott explains how spiritual authority creates what clinicians call a “halo effect” — a shortcut where a man's connection to worship becomes a proxy for trustworthiness. Red flags don't land as warnings. They land as signs of a deep bond. When Flynn told Botner his wife was “just a roommate,” that narrative hit a 21-year-old in a church environment differently than it would've anywhere else. Scott says it activated a fixing instinct — the pull to rescue instead of run.Flynn gave Botner AI-generated love songs. They got matching hidden Harry Potter tattoos. Scott says those gestures aren't just immature or theatrical — they're the construction materials for a fantasy world where two people live inside a shared secret. The secrecy the affair demanded finished the job. Botner couldn't turn to the friends or family who would've seen through it. A psychotherapist can see the design. Scott explains why Botner couldn't.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdol #TrueCrimePodcast #ChurchAffair

Defense attorney Bob Motta and I sit down with the full Indiana Court of Appeals hearing on Richard Allen's Delphi murders conviction, argued September 21, 2026, and we play the clips that decide it.The center of the appeal is a cell. Allen was moved to Westville Correctional Facility under a safekeeping order in November 2022 and spent thirteen months in a segregation unit before his trial. The confessions the jury heard, 61 by the state's count, all came from that unit in the spring of 2023.Mark Leeman, arguing for Allen, told the judges the state took a pretrial detainee straight to the hole, watched him descend into psychosis, and used what he said there. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender told the same judges that Allen could not survive general population and that the unit's conditions were ordinary. A replacement tablet, a new window, and visits from his wife, she argued, show he was treated better than other inmates.We also cover the two fights that could matter as much as the confessions. The first is Brad Holder, a man state police investigated in 2017 and never charged. The defense says his hand tattoo and social media posts point to a ritual staging of the scene; the state says he was at work 25 miles away. The second is what's left without any confession at all: an unfired cartridge, an excluded eyewitness sketch, and Allen's own 2017 statement to a conservation officer that he was on the trail.Bob takes each rule apart in plain English: voluntariness and who has to prove it, the direct-connection test for another suspect, and harmless error.Richard Allen is serving 130 years for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Three judges are deciding whether he gets a new trial.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimePodcast

Defense attorney Bob Motta and I take on the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal that asks the simplest question: without the confessions, what is there?On September 21, 2026, Richard Allen's appeal lawyer told the Indiana Court of Appeals that no witness ever identified his client as the man in Libby German's video and that no DNA connects him to Abby Williams or Libby. The state did not argue otherwise. What it argued is that Allen's own words to police in 2017, placing himself on the trail and the bridge's first platform, are the most powerful evidence it has. A single unfired cartridge found between the girls, it added, ties him to the scene through his own pistol.Leeman attacked the cartridge match as junk science. William Tobin, the former FBI metallurgist Judge Frances Gull excluded, would have explained why a round found in a field can't be matched the way the state's examiner claimed, he told the panel. The state says the defense's other expert covered that ground and Tobin isn't qualified on firearms.Leeman's rebuttal was about a face. He held up the sketch Betsy Blair helped police draw of the man she saw on the bridge, a sketch the jury was never shown, and argued that Blair saw the killer and did not see Richard Allen. The state told the judges Blair identified the Bridge Guy image at trial, mostly by his clothing, and that a composite sketch is an investigative tool that can't identify or rule out a suspect.Bob explains what the judges meant every time they asked about harmless error, and why the search warrant fight came down to Allen's own 2017 statement. He also takes on what a defense attorney does with a case where the strongest witness against his client is the client.Allen is serving 130 years while the panel decides.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal his supporters have argued about for years and a jury never got to weigh: the Odinism theory, and the man at its center.At the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, Mark Leeman named Brad Holder, a man state police looked at in 2017 who has never been charged. Leeman said Holder's voice and appearance were flagged in tips that March, that police accepted a landfill time card as his alibi, and that state police later received something new.Holder, according to Leeman, had drawn a bind rune on his hand and published it, and that symbol matches the arrangement of sticks on Abby Williams. He described posts of girls posed as if dead with sticks across them. An officer asked to reopen the case, Leeman said, and his boss refused.The state says none of it belongs in front of a jury because Holder could not have been there. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender told the panel he was at work in Buffalo, Indiana, 25 miles from the trail, at 2:13 when the girls were confronted and at 2:32 when Libby German's phone went still. She added that the FBI's own analyst saw no clear runes in the sticks, and that the defense's ritual expert could not say what symbol they formed.Bob and I get into the rule that decides this, Indiana's direct-connection requirement for third-party suspects, and the question Judge Nancy Vaidik put to Leeman: was he asking three judges to reweigh evidence, or to fix an error?Allen is serving 130 years for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. The panel has the case under advisement, and a decision could come at any point in the months ahead.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #Odinism #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal that everything else depends on: the cell that produced the confessions. Allen's appeal was argued at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, and his lawyer opened with what the prison's own psychiatrist saw on April 14, 2023.Allen's trial lawyers filed an emergency request on April 5, 2023, to get him out of Westville, writing that his conditions were like a prisoner of war's. Nine days later, according to Mark Leeman, the state filed its response, the psychiatrist walked into the cell and found Allen unable to communicate and covered in filth, and Judge Frances Gull denied the request without a hearing. The psychiatrist's own order put the onset of the breakdown at April 4 and started forced antipsychotic injections.Leeman's argument is that this is what coercion looks like when there's no interrogation room: a state that watches a man decompensate and argues to keep him in place. The state's argument is that Westville held him because a jail could not protect a man accused of killing two girls, that the unit's conditions were ordinary, and that Indiana courts have never called ordinary custody coercion.We talk through why Indiana puts the burden on the state to prove a confession was voluntary, and why Leeman says Judge Gull flipped that burden twice in her order. The judges kept asking one question: with no detective in the room, who exactly coerced Richard Allen?Allen has been serving 130 years since December 2024 for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Three appellate judges are deciding whether the statements that convicted him should ever have reached a jury.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimePodcast

Two interrogations on the same morning. Nine clips played back for the audience. Three segments covering every dimension of how Caleb Flynn sat in that room — what he brought, what the detective deployed, and where the story cracked. Retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke reads every moment.The performance: a phone wiped clean, a marriage described as problem-free, two strangers offered as suspects, and a church referenced as proof of character — the church where prosecutors allege the affair happened. The detective's game: Morgan closed every exit with evidence Caleb didn't know they had — the door forced from the inside, the shooter placed at the foot of the bed, the neighbor who'd already talked. The cracks: an accusation nobody made, a timeline that shrank under questioning, and a gun that disappeared from a truck console only the family knew about.Tony and Robin break down the craft and the collapse across all three segments.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnInterrogation #CalebFlynnTrial #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCityOhio #RobinDreeke #MiamiCountyOhio #TrueCrime

Robin Dreeke spent decades in the FBI watching people crack in rooms like this. He says the confession is not the moment — the cracks are. A number that changes. An answer nobody asked for. A fact that closes the circle.In Part 3 of the interrogation breakdown, Tony and Robin play three clips from the moments Caleb Flynn's story fell apart. The unprompted accusation — it feels like you guys are pointing it to me — when the detective was talking about paperwork. The timeline that went from two to five minutes down to five seconds when Morgan played it back. And the missing gun — Caleb's own handgun in his own truck, console open, gun gone, never recovered, known only to his children and his wife.Robin reads each moment in real time: what the detective was watching for, what the behavioral shift means, and why these three cracks told Morgan everything the story itself had been hiding.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnInterrogation #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MissingMurderWeapon #TippCityMurder #MiamiCountyTrial #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Detective Mike Morgan walked Caleb Flynn through the evidence from the crime scene in their second interview. It sounded like he was giving a grieving husband updates. Robin Dreeke, retired FBI, says that is not what was happening. Morgan was deploying evidence and watching what Caleb did when each exit closed.Three clips, three moves. The garage side door was damaged but never latched — forced open from the inside, not the outside. The blood pattern in the bedroom put the shooter at the foot of the bed, standing exactly where Caleb said he stood when he went to check on Ashley. And when Caleb told Morgan to ask any neighbor whether they'd argued, Morgan told him they already had.Tony and Robin play each clip and break down the interrogation craft — what Morgan was actually testing with each reveal and what Caleb's flat responses told him. A detective knows what it means when a suspect agrees with evidence that should disturb an innocent person.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and all related charges. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynnMurder #CalebFlynnInterrogation #DetectiveMorgan #TippCity #StagedCrimeScene #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Caleb Flynn told Detective Mike Morgan his marriage was perfect. He said he deletes texts because his wife sends too many pictures. He brought two strangers to the table as suspects before the detective asked for one. He said they go to church. Retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke watched every second of these clips — and what he sees in that chair tells a different story than the one Caleb Flynn was selling.In Part 1 of the full interrogation breakdown, Tony and Robin play three clips from the February 16 police interview. They dissect what Caleb Flynn had pre-loaded before he walked through the door. According to prosecutors, his phone allegedly held more than a hundred thousand messages with a twenty-four-year-old worship singer from his own church. Prosecutors allege those messages included threats against Ashley and a text sent hours before the interview: I choose you, I'm free, actions will come tomorrow.Robin reads the behavioral indicators the detective was already seeing — what over-denial looks like and what it means when someone explains missing evidence before the detective knows it's missing. A pre-built story tells an investigator everything about the person telling it.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynnInterrogation #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdolMurder #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #MiamiCountyOhio

Hidden Killers Live, the full Botner panel in one sitting. The clip that holds it together is from September 2, 2025: Caleb Flynn tells Alleigha Botner what he's going to do while Ashley is asleep, and she tells him to be careful and asks what his excuse will be. Five months later Ashley Flynn was shot in her sleep.Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer, both retired FBI, with me live for nine clips. Part one, his: "hire someone," "please take her out," "ways to kill her and not go to jail." Part two, hers: the July 10 message she says she didn't mean, the phone plan, "time is ticking." Part three, the cross: her Google searches in the days after the murder, "I don't think he could ever be capable," and the close, where police never searched, swabbed, printed, or charged her, and never offered a deal.Caleb Flynn is charged with aggravated murder in Tipp City, Ohio. Prosecutors say he staged a break-in. He says an intruder did it. Two days of the state's own witness, and the chat gets to decide who she hurt more.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial

Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea in the Idaho student murders looked final in July 2025. A memo unsealed on September 22, 2026 has his new lawyer arguing otherwise. The sealed May 20, 2025 filing from his original team, led by Anne Taylor, told Judge Steven Hippler that Kohberger was having trouble processing the rulings going against him and weighing his options, including whether to take a deal. The same lawyers stated that they were not claiming he was incompetent. Hippler denied their request for more time on June 26, 2025. Kohberger pleaded guilty on July 2. Greg Rauch now calls that six-day gap a central issue, and a hearing on his motion to remove Hippler is set for October 15, 2026. Prosecutors are leaning on the plea transcript, where Kohberger said he understood. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, tells me whether a former criminology PhD student can argue he didn't understand.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillersLive #Kohberger #AnneTaylor #GregRauch #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #IdahoFour #TrueCrime

Hidden Killers Live, part three, and the defense finally got its turn with Alleigha Botner. The first thing Emily Smith asked about was Google. What Caleb Flynn's mistress searched for in the three days after Ashley Flynn died, read back to her line by line, and confirmed.Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer, both retired FBI, join me live for three clips from the cross. The searches. The exchange where the state's witness says she never believed Caleb "could ever be capable of doing something like that." And the closing run: she suspected him, went to Ashley's parents' house anyway so she wouldn't "look suspicious," told no one, and was never searched, never swabbed, never charged.Caleb Flynn is charged with aggravated murder in the February 16, 2026 shooting of his wife in Tipp City. Prosecutors say he staged a break-in. The defense says police never looked past the husband. Tonight the chat gets to ask the question the panel can't dodge: did investigators clear her, or skip her?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial

Live on Hidden Killers, part two of our panel on Alleigha Botner, and this one is about her. On the stand in the Caleb Flynn trial she read a message she sent about Ashley Flynn on July 10, 2025, told the jury she didn't mean it, and then confirmed she wrote it. Caleb's answer was "that makes two of us."Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer, both retired FBI, are with me for three clips. The July 10 thread. A September 2 conversation about whether Ashley still had photos of their messages, in which Caleb offers to check his wife's phone while she's asleep and Botner tells him to be careful, asks what his excuse will be, and says "Perfect." And her August 22 reply to his 4 a.m. message, "I'm not asking that you take her life, obviously," which ends with "her or me" and "time is ticking."Prosecutors say Caleb shot Ashley twice in the head on February 16, 2026 and staged a break-in. On cross, Botner said she has no charges and no promises from the state. The chat is going to split on her, and that's the point. Bring it.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial

Hidden Killers Live, and the Caleb Flynn trial just handed us the most direct message a jury has heard yet. On June 12, 2025, Caleb Flynn told Alleigha Botner who he wanted her to hire, and what for. She read it to the jury herself. Then she read her reply.Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer, both retired FBI, join me live for three clips from her testimony. The June 12 thread that ends with "I've never joked about it." The July 4 exchange: "please take her out," "not even for a second," "praise God." And the August 22 message where he says he spent the night thinking of ways to kill his wife without going to jail, then tells her he's been sitting outside her workplace crying.Ashley Flynn was shot in her sleep on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors say her husband did it and staged a break-in. He says an intruder got in. Between those two stories sit 107,000 messages, and these are the three the panel thinks matter most.Bring your questions. This is live, and the chat is part of it. Then stick around for part two, where the defense's version of Alleigha Botner starts to show.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TippCity #OhioTrial #MurderTrial

Alleigha Botner testified that she was using ChatGPT on February 15, 2026 while Caleb Flynn was promising that the next day would finally bring action. What she searched, what she sent him, and what she later deleted now sit inside one of the most contested stretches of the Caleb Flynn trial.Botner said Flynn told her he would leave Ashley on February 16. She testified that she understood phrases including 'actions will come tomorrow' and 'tomorrow's a big day' as references to divorce. That evening, she said, she sent Flynn ChatGPT screenshots involving divorce proceedings, proof of an affair, and deleting messages. Flynn also described steps he planned to take with family, his daughters, work, a hotel, and moving out.Hours later, Ashley Flynn was found dead in the family home. Flynn told police an intruder was responsible. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley and staged the scene, while Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Botner testified that she asked him whether he was involved after hearing the news and later deleted those messages. She said she feared investigators finding the affair, and she admitted she initially lied to the FBI about the relationship.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on the question jurors have to untangle: which parts of this digital trail speak to Flynn's alleged intent, and which parts may instead show two people trying to conceal an affair?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime

One defendant in the Siders family case has already been found unable to stand trial. The other three have asked the court to evaluate them too. Gary Siders Sr. was declared incompetent and not restorable on September 9, after a forensic evaluation concluded his condition would not improve enough for him to understand the proceedings or assist his lawyer. That ruling does not decide whether the allegations against Gary Sr. were true. It decides whether the criminal case can constitutionally move forward against him. He remains free on a recognizance bond with GPS monitoring while Vinton County Prosecutor William Archer considers dismissal or civil commitment. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty to four additional felony counts involving a teenage relative. Those charges are separate from the child-endangerment case involving the 16 children found in the Hamden home on June 30. Combined with the child-endangerment counts, Elizabeth faces 23 charges and a total bond of $550,000. Her competency report had not yet been filed at her September 16 arraignment. Gary Siders Jr. and Christina Siders have also requested competency evaluations. The legal issue now running through this family is not whether competency excuses alleged conduct; it does not. The issue is whether each defendant can understand the case and participate in a defense. Hidden Killers Live tracks how that threshold could determine who actually reaches trial and who never gets there. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SidersFamily #GarySiders #HiddenKillersLive #ElizabethSiders #VintonCounty #OhioCrime #Competency #ChildEndangerment #TrueCrimeLive #CourtWatch 

Bryan Kohberger's family is publicly supporting his attempt to undo the guilty plea that ended the University of Idaho murder case. Now a newly unsealed filing shows that, before the plea, his own defense team had already told Judge Steven Hippler that Kohberger was having difficulty rationally absorbing adverse rulings and understanding what those rulings meant for the case as a whole. His former lawyers asked for more time and expert assistance to help communicate with him about consequential decisions, including whether to go to trial or accept a deal. They expressly said they were not claiming he was legally incompetent. Judge Hippler denied the request for additional time, and six days later Kohberger entered guilty pleas to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary. Kohberger is now serving four consecutive life sentences without parole plus ten years. His new attorney Greg Rauch says the six-day sequence does not, by itself, establish that the plea was invalid. But the defense says it may matter when the court decides whether Kohberger meaningfully understood and participated in the decision that resolved the case. That legal question is unfolding at the same time Kohberger's parents and sisters are stepping into the public fight. They told ABC News they want the complete truth addressed through a trial and say they continue to support him. Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the psychology of a family standing behind a convicted relative who now says his confession was false. The next court date is October 15, 2026, on Kohberger's request to remove Judge Hippler and move the post-conviction proceedings. The evidentiary hearing on his plea challenge is scheduled for June 17, 2027. The family statement is emotional. The unsealed filing is procedural. Together, they put new pressure on the exact moment this case ended without a trial. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #BryanKohberger #Idaho4 #HiddenKillersLive #KohbergerFamily #KohbergerPlea #IdahoMurders #ShavaunScott #PostConviction #UniversityOfIdaho #TrueCrime 

Caleb Flynn's defense wants jurors to separate a failed marriage from a murder charge. Prosecutors want them to connect the private messages to the emergency call. That collision is now one of the clearest fights in the trial. Caleb called 911 from his Tipp City home and said an intruder had broken in and shot Ashley Flynn. The released audio has him reporting two shots to her head, mentioning the open garage, and telling dispatch that his daughters were in the house. Prosecutors say the call must be heard against more than 100,000 messages exchanged during an affair. Paul Watkins told jurors that some messages attributed to Caleb described trying to think of ways to kill Ashley without going to jail and said he would do it "in a heartbeat" if hell were not the consequence. The defense has not asked the jury to admire Caleb's conduct. Emily Smith acknowledged the affair in opening statement and argued that a man can fail as a husband without being a murderer. Caleb has pleaded not guilty, and the state still carries the burden of proving the charged crimes beyond a reasonable doubt. Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke break down what the 911 call can and cannot tell us, then examine why the prosecution is using the texts as motive evidence. The key question is whether jurors treat the call and messages as two different stories about the same troubled marriage or as one continuous account of intent, action, and aftermath. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #CalebFlynnTrial #911Call #MotiveEvidence #RobinDreeke #MiamiCounty #TextMessages #TrueCrime 

Two dates now matter in the Nick Reiner case: September 15, 2026, when prosecutors removed the death penalty, and September 14, 2023, when Reiner says roughly $558,000 from his personal trust should already have become his. Those dates put the murder case and the probate case on a collision course. District Attorney Nathan Hochman says his office reviewed aggravating and mitigating factors and spoke with Nick's siblings before deciding not to seek capital punishment. California has not carried out an execution since 2006 and remains under a gubernatorial moratorium, but a death sentence was still legally available in a special-circumstance murder case until prosecutors took it off the table. Nick now faces life without parole if convicted as charged. The probate fight asks a different question: can Reiner use money his parents placed in a trust for him before they died? His lawyers say the 1993 trust required half to be paid at age 30 and the rest at 35. He turned 30 in 2023 and says he never received the first mandatory distribution. They argue the slayer statute should not block money that was already due before the alleged crimes. The trustee side has challenged releasing funds while the criminal case remains pending. Reiner's former private lawyer, Alan Jackson, has said he could return if the defense is funded. Reiner currently has public defenders and has pleaded not guilty. Mental-health evidence may become important, but an insanity plea has not been publicly established. The next probate hearing is October 23. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NickReiner #HiddenKillersLive #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #TrustFund #SlayerStatute #DeathPenalty #TrueCrime #LosAngeles #CriminalDefense 

Alleigha Botner testified that she was using ChatGPT on February 15, 2026 while Caleb Flynn was promising that the next day would finally bring action. What she searched, what she sent him, and what she later deleted now sit inside one of the most contested stretches of the Caleb Flynn trial.Botner said Flynn told her he would leave Ashley on February 16. She testified that she understood phrases including 'actions will come tomorrow' and 'tomorrow's a big day' as references to divorce. That evening, she said, she sent Flynn ChatGPT screenshots involving divorce proceedings, proof of an affair, and deleting messages. Flynn also described steps he planned to take with family, his daughters, work, a hotel, and moving out.Hours later, Ashley Flynn was found dead in the family home. Flynn told police an intruder was responsible. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley and staged the scene, while Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Botner testified that she asked him whether he was involved after hearing the news and later deleted those messages. She said she feared investigators finding the affair, and she admitted she initially lied to the FBI about the relationship.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on the question jurors have to untangle: which parts of this digital trail speak to Flynn's alleged intent, and which parts may instead show two people trying to conceal an affair?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime

A restraining order, a dismissed domestic assault case, eviction proceedings, and allegations of cellphone use now sit inside the post-mistrial fight in Lindsay Clancy's case. Her lawyers want Judge William Sullivan to examine whether holdout juror Michael Desronvil answered the court's confidential questionnaire truthfully and whether anything happened during deliberations that should have triggered a judicial inquiry before the mistrial was declared. The defense filing matters because the Massachusetts juror form specifically asks about arrests, criminal charges, lawsuits, court orders, and other contact with the legal system. Desronvil's restraining order was active when he was selected. His attorney rejects the defense effort and argues that investigating a dissenting juror after the fact threatens jury independence. Desronvil has also said he did not harbor the reasonable doubt other jurors attributed to him. At the same time, Patrick Clancy's first major interview after the trial is forcing a different conversation. Patrick told 60 Minutes that mental illness can be 'tragically deceptive.' He described Lindsay's worsening insomnia, depression, intrusive thoughts, emergency care, and her admission to McLean Psychiatric Hospital at the end of December 2022. He said that when he later asked whether she remembered killing Cora, Dawson, and Callan, Lindsay told him it felt like a dream. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to separate behavior from proof. Patrick's observations cannot diagnose what Lindsay understood on January 24, and a juror's difficult personal history does not by itself establish dishonesty or misconduct. The live question is narrower and more consequential: did the court receive accurate information before this juror was seated, and did Judge Sullivan have enough reason to investigate before declaring the jury hopelessly deadlocked? That fight returns to Plymouth Superior Court on September 29. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillersLive #PatrickClancy #RobinDreeke #HoldoutJuror #KevinReddington #MichaelDesronvil #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimeLive #PlymouthSuperiorCourt 

The Caleb Flynn defense did not begin by fighting every ugly fact. Emily Smith began with Proverbs, acknowledged that Flynn had an affair and lied about it, and told jurors those admissions describe a failed husband without answering who killed Ashley Flynn. That is the line the defense is asking the jury to hold through the entire case. Flynn's version is that a burglar took his 9mm handgun from his Ford truck and entered the Tipp City home while he and the couple's daughters were nearby. Prosecutors allege Flynn created the burglary story after killing Ashley and staging the scene. The gun remains missing. The state's scene evidence is already under attack. BCI Special Agent David Hammond testified that the garage entry door lacked signs he associated with forced entry. Defense questioning emphasized that the locks were unlocked and that Hammond could not say when the damage around the door occurred. The private-life evidence now has witnesses attached to it. Prosecutors have identified the woman tied to Flynn's alleged affair as a witness, while Flynn's daughters are also expected to testify. The court will keep video cameras off the juveniles but has allowed audio recording of their testimony. Tony Brueski, Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer examine whether conceding the affair gives the defense credibility or simply clears the way for harder evidence. They also correct one early scene assumption: the towel over Ashley's head was not unexplained conduct in the trial record. The first officer testified that Flynn said the dispatcher told him to cover her head. Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #AshleyFlynn #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #DefenseStrategy #MiamiCounty #MurderTrial #TrueCrime

Bryan Kohberger admitted guilt in court, but his family now supports a challenge to that plea while alleged unredacted Idaho crime-scene photos are reaching online creators. One dispute concerns a confession he wants undone. The other concerns images the families and the state fought to keep from unrestricted public circulation. The photo controversy escalated on September 15, 2026. The Latah County Prosecutor's Office, Moscow Police and Idaho State Police said unredacted photographs had allegedly been provided to journalists and social-media creators by an unknown source. A YouTube host with more than 9,000 subscribers had already told followers, "We have them," and said she was waiting for more. The alleged leak came after Idaho tightened access. Judge Megan Marshall required bodies and immediately surrounding blood to be blacked out in City of Moscow releases. Idaho State Police then posted nearly 2,800 images in January 2026 before removing them the same day. The Goncalves family said the images were live by the end of a 12-minute warning call. Idaho later exempted death-investigation photographs from public disclosure. On September 17, Kohberger's family said it supports his effort to withdraw the 2025 plea and wants the complete truth tested through a trial. Kohberger alleges that his lawyers pushed a false confession through bad advice, false promises and threats. But during the July 2, 2025 plea hearing, he told Judge Steven Hippler that no one threatened him, no one told him to be untruthful, and he was pleading guilty voluntarily because he was guilty. He also said he was satisfied with counsel. Kohberger has also cited hair recovered from Ethan Chapin's right hand. Defense expert Ruth Ballard had already examined one hair from that location and found it morphologically consistent with Chapin's own reference hair. The court must now decide what his new evidence can prove against the plea record, while authorities still do not publicly identify the alleged source of the unredacted images. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #BryanKohberger #Idaho4 #HiddenKillersLive #KohbergerPlea #IdahoMurders #KohbergerFamily #CrimeScenePhotos #UniversityOfIdaho #CourtCase #TrueCrime 

Caleb Flynn's intruder story started with a frantic 911 call and an open garage door. Flynn told dispatch that somebody had broken into his Tipp City home and shot his wife Ashley. He also said their daughters were in the house, and he repeatedly directed attention toward the garage as officers were still on the way. That is where the state's physical case pushes back. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley, then arranged the scene to look like a burglary. Ohio BCI Senior Special Agent David Hammond testified that the garage side-door damage did not resemble the forced entries he had encountered in burglary cases. Flynn has pleaded not guilty, and the defense has criticized investigators for what it describes as a fast move toward Caleb as the suspect. The live discussion brings Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer into the same evidence lane: the words on the call and the condition of the door. The point is not whether a caller sounds emotional enough. The useful questions are concrete. What did he claim? What could police verify? What did the scene show when investigators finally had time to process it? Tony also tracks the legal stakes surrounding those questions. A Miami County grand jury indicted Flynn on 11 counts, including aggravated murder, three murder counts, two felonious-assault counts, three tampering-with-evidence counts, and two intimidation counts. Ashley Flynn was 37, a coach, substitute teacher, and mother of two. The jury must decide whether the garage evidence fits an intruder entering the home or a scene prosecutors say was staged after Ashley was killed. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCity #OhioTrueCrime #911Call #CrimeSceneEvidence #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer 

Eric Faddis and I take on two questions: did Caleb Flynn mean it, and did Bryan Kohberger understand what he signed? In the Flynn trial, Alleigha Botner testified that he told her he'd been up late thinking about ways to kill his wife, Ashley. She read the jury the text where she asked, "What can I do?" She said his final messages on February 15, 2026 ended with "tomorrow's a big day." Ashley was shot twice in the head hours later, and Flynn, who has pleaded not guilty, blamed an intruder. Botner admitted lying to the FBI and deleting messages. In Idaho, an unsealed memo shows Kohberger's defense wanted time and an expert to help communicate with him weeks before his July 2025 guilty plea. His new lawyer, Greg Rauch, is using it to try to remove the judge and withdraw the plea. Faddis gives his read on both.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillersLive #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #EricFaddis #OhioMurderTrial #TrueCrime

Eric Faddis and I dig into what Alleigha Botner knew, and what she did, in the Caleb Flynn case. Flynn's former girlfriend told jurors that on the eve of Ashley Flynn's shooting, she was sending him material about his phone. Her fear, she said, was that a messy divorce would expose their texts and cost her her job. The next morning, she testified, she messaged Flynn asking if he was involved in Ashley's death, got no reply, and erased her own message. She also conceded she wasn't honest with FBI agents in her first interview. Asked how she feels about Flynn, she told the jury she hates him and thinks he killed his wife. Flynn denies the aggravated murder charge. Faddis explains how a jury sorts a woman who was lied to from a witness protecting herself.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime

Eric Faddis and I go through the final weekend before Ashley Flynn was killed, as Caleb Flynn's former girlfriend described it under oath. Alleigha Botner testified she cut Flynn off after he blew her last deadline on January 11, 2026. On February 14, she told him she had a date in March. Two days later, Ashley was dead. Botner said that Sunday night Flynn told her he'd protect her "at all costs" and called February 16 "a day I'll never forget." She told the jury she asked for that protection because she didn't want to lose her job. Flynn, who is charged with aggravated murder, has pleaded not guilty and told police an intruder shot his wife. Faddis explains whether a jury can call that weekend a motive, and what the defense does with a witness who says all she heard was divorce.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime

Eric Faddis has prosecuted and defended cases built on a defendant's own words, and I asked him about the Caleb Flynn murder trial. Alleigha Botner testified for the state that Flynn first talked about wanting his wife Ashley to die after the couple's August 2025 anniversary cruise. She said the talk kept coming, at least once a month, and that it got worse each time. First, by her account, he wanted Ashley gone. Then he said he'd kill her if he could stay out of jail. Then came one late night she described to the jury in detail. Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head while she slept on February 16, 2026, and Flynn told police an intruder did it. He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder. Faddis explains what jurors can actually do with a man's words, and how the defense turns Botner's own words against her.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #AshleyFlynn #AlleighaBotner #EricFaddis #TippCity #OhioMurderTrial #AmericanIdol #TrueCrime

Two cases. One psychotherapist. Three arguments the audience is already having.Caleb Flynn is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for allegedly shooting his wife Ashley while she slept. Prosecutors say he sent more than 100,000 messages to his mistress, some describing plans to kill Ashley. The defense says it was ugly talk to keep a girlfriend happy.Bryan Kohberger confessed to killing four University of Idaho students, was sentenced to four consecutive life terms, and is now claiming the confession was forced. His family just released a public statement backing his innocence.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to break down what's behind the mask in both cases. Part one covers the mistress's psychology. Part two examines the worship pastor persona and the ego behind it. Part three asks whether Kohberger's family is in denial, acting on their own, or being directed from a prison cell.Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Kohberger's hearing is set for June 2027.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #BryanKohberger #AshleyFlynn #IdahoMurders #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdolMurder #CalebFlynnTrial #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the Idaho student killings and is serving four consecutive life sentences. A year after his plea, he filed a handwritten petition claiming he was pressured into a false confession by his own attorneys.His family just made a public move. In a statement to ABC News, the Kohbergers say they fully support his bid to withdraw the guilty plea. They want the case resolved through "a proper trial."Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the timing and the psychology. Why go public now, when silence is safer? Is this genuine denial from parents who cannot reconcile their son with a quadruple murderer, or is Bryan manipulating the people who saved his life from the death penalty into serving his next campaign? And does that unwavering family support embolden a convicted killer's belief that he was wronged?The first evidentiary hearing on Kohberger's petition is scheduled for June 2027.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #KohbergerFamily #IdahoMurders #KohbergerPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #KohbergerInnocence #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast

Every Sunday, Caleb Flynn stood in front of a congregation and led worship. He appeared on American Idol and talked about how much he loved his wife. He worked at Ashley's family company. The community saw exactly the man he wanted them to see.Now prosecutors in Miami County, Ohio, allege that same man was sending his mistress texts about killing Ashley without going to jail, and ultimately shot her in the head while she slept. His defense attorney conceded the affair and told the jury: being a terrible husband doesn't make you a murderer.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the fierce loyalty congregations develop toward charismatic leaders and how it blinds them. What happens psychologically when an aspiring celebrity pivots to church leadership? And how does the collapse of a narcissist's public image affect his psychology as he sits on trial?Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and related charges.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #AmericanIdol #WorshipPastor #CalebFlynnTrial #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #NarcissistKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast

Prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn sent more than 100,000 messages to his mistress in the year before his wife Ashley was found shot to death in their Tipp City, Ohio, home. Among those messages: texts where Flynn allegedly described trying to figure out how to kill Ashley without going to jail. At the same time, prosecutors say, he was sending Ashley warm, loving messages.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine what happens in the mind of a woman who receives messages like that from a married lover. How does someone read detailed murder planning and rationalize it? Is the defense claim that Flynn was simply "appeasing" his mistress psychologically plausible? And what does a therapist see in the split between the man texting his wife love and the man texting his girlfriend about killing her?Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence. His trial is underway in Miami County.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynnTexts #ShavaunScott #AmericanIdolMurder #WorshipPastorMurder #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast

Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke deliver the most comprehensive analysis of the Caleb Flynn murder case in one extended episode, covering the 911 call, the affair, and the courtroom strategy from every behavioral angle.The conversation opens with the recorded 911 call. At 2:30 a.m., Caleb Flynn told dispatch his wife Ashley had been shot. He claimed he was sleeping in another room and froze when he heard the gunshot. Robin walks through the tape second by second, identifying what he says are the behavioral markers of a caller who may have been performing a reaction rather than experiencing one -- the narrative structure, the premature suspect theory, and the language that reportedly distances the caller from the event.The middle portion of the episode digs into the digital evidence that prosecutors say establishes motive. Over 100,000 texts to a mistress. One message reportedly stating he would kill Ashley in a heartbeat if he could avoid going to hell. Robin analyzes the psychology of the kill text, the personality profile revealed by the volume of secret communication, and the behavioral mechanics of compartmentalization that reportedly allowed Caleb to lead worship services and maintain a marriage while conducting an affair of this scale.The episode closes with the trial. Robin and Tony break down the defense's decision to open with Proverbs and admit the affair, the prosecution's crime scene testimony about the towel over Ashley's head and the allegedly staged break-in, and the haunting detail that Caleb was found outside with his dogs instead of at his wife's side. Robin connects the behavioral threads across all three segments, examining whether the evidence from the call, the texts, and the scene allegedly tell a consistent story.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #BehavioralAnalysis #MurderTrial #FBI #FullEpisodeBreakdown

When the first officer arrived at the Flynn home minutes after the 911 call, Caleb Flynn was not inside performing CPR. He was not on the phone begging someone for help. He was standing outside the house with his two dogs, reportedly waiting for police in the yard. That image -- a husband standing with his pets while his wife lay dead in the bedroom -- is one of the most damning behavioral details to emerge from the Caleb Flynn murder trial.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke spend this segment dissecting every piece of evidence from the courtroom proceedings. They start with the defense's opening statement, which began with a verse from Proverbs and an immediate admission that Caleb had an affair. Co-counsel Emily Smith reportedly looked the jury in the eye and told them a man can fail as a husband without being a murderer. Robin explains the psychological calculus behind that gamble -- why the defense chose to lead with the worst version of their client's character in hopes of inoculating the jury against the prosecution's motive evidence.They turn to the crime scene testimony. A first responder testified that Ashley was found with a towel placed over her head. Robin explains why that detail is a known behavioral indicator of an intimate killing -- a murder committed by someone who allegedly had a personal connection to the victim and could not stand to look at what they had done.The alleged staged break-in is examined next. The front door was unlocked. The damage was reportedly caused by multiple tools and did not match a genuine forced entry. Robin walks through the behavioral science of staging and why perpetrators almost always allegedly overcomplicate the evidence in ways that investigators can identify.And then Robin returns to the dogs. He explains what it means when a suspect's first instinct in a reported crisis is to secure the family pets rather than stay with the victim.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #StagedScene #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #MiamiCounty

When investigators pulled the digital records from Caleb Flynn's devices, they did not find a handful of inappropriate messages. They found over 100,000 text exchanges with another woman -- a mountain of communication conducted entirely in secret while Caleb was married to Ashley, raising their family, and leading worship services at their church. Prosecutors say the sheer volume of those messages is evidence of more than infidelity. It is allegedly evidence of a man who had perfected the art of deception.But the message that allegedly matters most is just one line. Caleb reportedly texted his mistress: 'If I could literally kill her and not go to hell, I would do it in a heartbeat.' One sentence. Prosecutors say it reveals the motive for everything that followed.Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke examine the psychology of that statement from every angle. Robin explains how investigators evaluate language like this -- whether the specificity, the conditional framing, and the moral negotiation embedded in the words point to genuine lethal ideation or are consistent with a frustrated person blowing off steam. The answer reportedly depends on what surrounded the message: the escalation pattern, the frequency of similar statements, and whether the sender showed evidence of planning beyond the words themselves.They also examine the defense strategy of openly admitting the affair. The calculation is clear -- if the defense can get ahead of the infidelity evidence and frame Caleb as a flawed husband rather than a killer, they may be able to separate the moral failure from the criminal accusation. Robin walks through the behavioral science of how juries process that kind of dual revelation and why the combination of religious hypocrisy and violent language can reportedly be devastating in front of twelve everyday people.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurderMotive #Affair #TextMessages #RobinDreeke #OhioMurderTrial

Every murder investigation has a starting point. For the case against Caleb Flynn, that starting point is a 911 call made at 2:30 in the morning on the night his wife Ashley was found shot dead in their bed. Caleb picked up the phone and told dispatch he had been asleep on the couch. He said he had a cough that sent him to the living room. He said he heard a gunshot and froze. And then, prosecutors allege, he did what no genuinely panicked spouse typically does -- he reportedly started building a suspect profile for the dispatcher before anyone even asked.Tony brings in Robin Dreeke, a former FBI behavioral analysis expert, to go through the call with surgical precision. Robin explains the difference between what real panic sounds like on a recorded line and what a reportedly rehearsed performance sounds like. He identifies the vocal signatures, the emotional inconsistencies, and the narrative choices that trained analysts flag when evaluating a 911 call for authenticity.They examine the freeze claim from a scientific standpoint. People do freeze under extreme stress. But Robin lays out the conditions under which that response actually occurs versus the conditions that trigger the far more common fight-or-flight instinct -- the desperate, involuntary drive to sprint toward a loved one in danger. The question is not whether freezing is possible. The question is whether it is plausible in this specific scenario.The language on the call matters too. Robin identifies patterns of distancing language that may indicate a caller is not processing a genuine trauma but is instead allegedly creating emotional distance from the event. When you listen to the tape after hearing Robin's analysis, you hear a very different call.Links:Subscribe on Substack: hiddenkillers.substack.comYouTube: youtube.com/@HiddenKillersInstagram: @HiddenKillersPodcastFacebook: facebook.com/HiddenKillersPodcastTikTok: @HiddenKillersPodcastX/Twitter: @HiddenKillersPodLegal Disclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #TrueCrimeToday #911Call #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BehavioralAnalysis #RobinDreeke #OhioMurderTrial #CrimeAnalysis

At Boston Children's Hospital, Patrick Clancy stood over his 8-month-old son and bargained. He told 60 Minutes he believed Callan had a chance. He described the plea he made — three words he repeated while the rest of his world was already gone. Callan didn't make it. Patrick's full interview with CBS covered everything: Lindsay talking her way out of McLean Hospital five days before the killings, the hidden panic attack during the trial, the forgiveness he gave without being asked, and the first date where he dropped the heaviest truth a stranger has ever heard at a coffee shop. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for the complete analysis of Patrick's 60 Minutes revelations — from the hospital room to the courtroom to the moment he decided to rebuild.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #RachelDanis #HiddenKillersPodcast

On his first date with Dr. Rachel Danis, Patrick Clancy pulled out his phone at a coffee shop and showed her pictures. She asked who the children were. Patrick gave her the truth immediately. He told 60 Minutes he moved to New York to become anonymous — to cry on the street without being recognized. He admitted he was waiting to die. He didn't think he'd make it to 35. Then he met Rachel running in Central Park. They're married now and expecting a baby. Patrick told CBS he talks to Cora, Dawson, and Callan all the time. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze Patrick's path from collapse to a new family — and what his decision to tell the hardest truth immediately says about the only honesty that lets someone start over.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #RachelDanis #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillersPodcast

Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview revealed something the trial cameras never captured. Before he took the stand at Plymouth Superior Court, Patrick had a massive panic attack in a back room. He told CBS he nearly couldn't finish testifying. The internet saw a man who appeared calm and used his composure to fuel conspiracy theories. Patrick also told 60 Minutes he forgave Lindsay without her ever asking — he read the "Killer Mom" and "Monster" headlines and decided forgiveness was the only way to survive. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break down what Patrick's hidden courtroom breakdown tells us about how grief and trauma actually work — and how online mobs have created a standard for mourning that no real human being can meet.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #OnlineHarassment #HiddenKillersPodcast

Patrick Clancy broke his silence on 60 Minutes and revealed what happened when Lindsay Clancy was inside McLean Hospital — one of the top psychiatric facilities in the country. She checked in on New Year's Day 2023. Five days later, she convinced her doctors she was ready to leave. Patrick said no one told him not to leave the children with her. He described mental illness as "tragically deceptive" and admitted there were things he missed. Nineteen days after her discharge, Cora, Dawson, and Callan were dead. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to unpack what Patrick's interview reveals about how Lindsay's condition hid from her husband, her doctors, and a system that was supposed to catch exactly this.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #60Minutes #PostpartumPsychosis #McLeanHospital #TrueCrime #MentalHealthAwareness #LindsayClancyTrial

A worship leader accused of murdering his wife while their daughters slept down the hall. A megachurch pastor facing federal charges for allegedly terrorizing his estranged wife for two years before she died. Two men who stood on stages and told audiences they were devoted husbands. Two investigations that allege they were something else entirely. Caleb Flynn is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for the aggravated murder of Ashley Flynn, 37. Prosecutors allege he shot her twice in the head on February 16, 2026, staged their Tipp City home to look like a burglary, and called 911 with a story that fell apart before investigators left the scene. He was arrested in 82 hours and indicted on 11 charges including aggravated murder, felonious assault, and witness intimidation. His alleged mistress and daughters are on the witness list. His bond is $3.5 million. John-Paul Miller is charged with federal cyberstalking and making false statements. The indictment alleges he tracked Mica Miller's car, called her 50-plus times in a single day, and posted intimate images without her consent. Mica died at Lumber River State Park on April 27, 2024. Her death was ruled a suicide. His trial is set for October 2026. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer join the panel to dissect the evidence in both cases, the defense strategies, and the FBI's investigation into Miller's network. Both defendants have pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #JPMiller #AshleyFlynn #MicaMiller #CalebFlynnTrial #JohnPaulMiller #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Solid Rock Church is closed. John-Paul Miller is on $100,000 bond with an ankle monitor. His federal trial for cyberstalking and making false statements has been pushed to October 2026. And the people who were closest to him during the years prosecutors allege he terrorized his estranged wife Mica are watching a Netflix documentary play their world back to a national audience. Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park on April 27, 2024. Her death was ruled a suicide. A federal grand jury indicted Miller in December 2025, alleging he tracked her vehicle, called her more than 50 times in a day, posted intimate images of her online, and lied to federal agents about all of it. He pleaded not guilty in January 2026. The documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife, released in August 2026, reconstructed Mica's life inside the marriage and the church. Meanwhile, the court docket shows continuances that Miller's own attorneys requested while they reviewed evidence, interviewed witnesses, and obtained records. Jennifer Coffindaffer, former FBI Special Agent, walks through the federal playbook. How investigators use the window before trial to pressure associates. Whether superseding indictments are realistic. And what the people who think they can wait it out don't understand about the reach of a federal task force. Miller has pleaded not guilty to all charges.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #JohnPaulMiller #SolidRockChurch #DeathOfThePastorsWife #FBIInvestigation #Cyberstalking #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

The coincidence at the center of Caleb Flynn's defense is the kind of story that either saves him or buries him. He claims someone broke into his Ford pickup truck and stole his 9mm handgun. Then that person entered his Tipp City home and used the weapon to shoot his wife Ashley twice in the head. All on the same night, while Caleb and their daughters were in the next room. The prosecution says Caleb staged the entire thing. He was arrested within 82 hours and indicted on 11 counts including aggravated murder. His bond was set at $3.5 million. Ashley was 37, a volleyball coach and substitute teacher in Tipp City. Now the trial is underway in Miami County, and the defense is facing an uphill battle on multiple fronts. A judge ruled that the woman with whom Caleb was allegedly having an affair can testify. His own daughters are on the prosecution's witness list and will provide testimony via audio recording only. And the physical evidence at the scene — which investigators from three agencies flagged as staged almost immediately — will be laid out for twelve jurors to evaluate. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer examine the stolen-gun theory and the defense's options when a client's secret life is about to be broadcast from the witness stand. Was Caleb Flynn's bet on a jury trial the biggest miscalculation of all? He has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MiamiCounty #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCity #CrimeStagging #JusticeForAshley #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

It took investigators 82 hours to arrest Caleb Flynn for the murder of his wife Ashley. That's how fast the home invasion story fell apart. On February 16, 2026, Caleb called 911 claiming an intruder broke into their Tipp City, Ohio, home and shot Ashley while he was in the next room with their daughters. He was hysterical. He was specific. And he was, according to prosecutors, lying about all of it. Ashley was 37 years old. She was a middle school volleyball coach and a mother of two. She was shot twice in the head in her own home. Investigators from Tipp City police, the Ohio BCI, and the FBI found physical inconsistencies in the scene that didn't match an outside break-in. The initial charging documents acknowledged that officers were initially led astray by the staging but quickly identified it as manufactured. Caleb was indicted on 11 counts — aggravated murder, three counts of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and witness intimidation. He's been held in the Miami County Jail on $3.5 million bond since February. Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer examine the prosecution's case. How the 911 call gave Caleb away. Why the staging collapsed under forensic scrutiny. And the evidence trail that turned a grieving husband into a murder defendant in less than four days. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdol #MiamiCounty #RobinDreeke #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to connect two parts of the Mica Miller story that are usually discussed separately: what Mica left in writing and what JP Miller's life looked like after she was gone. Scott starts with the behavioral question — how coercive control can be experienced as an everyday system of pressure even when each individual act looks too small or too scattered to trigger the law. Mica's family says her journals and diaries described forced medication, unwanted injections and severe sleep deprivation. Her police contacts also documented allegations involving tracking and harassment. JP now faces federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements. Prosecutors allege unwanted communications, financial interference, tire damage, an intimate image posted without consent and tracking devices placed on Mica's vehicle. He has pleaded not guilty, denies wrongdoing and has not been charged in connection with Mica's death. The family's legislative answer has been Mica's Law. South Carolina SB 702 would criminalize coercive control and broaden the state's response to patterns involving psychological and financial domination. The bill stalled in 2026. Scott explains the practical consequence: when the law only reacts to isolated events, the target can spend years describing a pattern that everyone hears but no agency owns. JP married Suzie Skinner in June 2025. Her former husband Chris Skinner, a U.S. Army veteran and quadriplegic motivational speaker, died in September 2021 after being found unresponsive in a neighborhood pool. His death was ruled accidental. His family has publicly questioned that conclusion, and the case has reportedly been revisited. No one has been charged in his death, and JP has not been charged in connection with either death. Friends featured in Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife alleged JP and Suzie were involved earlier than JP has acknowledged. JP denies an earlier affair and has said they began dating in January 2025. Scott examines the psychology of that public reset without treating disputed relationship claims as settled fact. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #MicaMiller #JPMiller #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #MicasLaw #CoerciveControl #SuzieSkinner #DeathOfThePastorsWife #FederalTrial #TrueCrime 

Sandra Birchmore's case reaches federal court with the original death ruling already rewritten. The Massachusetts medical examiner once classified her death as suicide. On April 30, 2026, the office changed the manner to undetermined and shortened the listed cause from asphyxia by hanging to asphyxia. That matters because Matthew Farwell's defense is preparing to argue suicide. Judge Denise Casper has ruled that jurors may hear evidence about Sandra's mental-health history and prior suicidal thoughts. The defense says those records support its theory. Prosecutors say the jury should also hear how Sandra's relationship with Farwell began and why they believe her death was staged. Sandra entered the Stoughton Police Explorers program at 12. Federal prosecutors allege Farwell, then a police officer and program instructor, began an unlawful relationship with her when she was 15 and he was 27. They allege he later killed her to stop disclosure of his conduct. Farwell denies killing Sandra and has pleaded not guilty. The Stoughton Police Department's own internal review found that three former officers — Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William, and former deputy chief Robert Devine — had inappropriate relationships with Sandra. William Farwell and Devine are not defendants in the federal criminal case. Prosecutors say the initial death investigation treated the scene as noncriminal almost immediately. In federal court papers, they say local investigators reported “no foul play” to the medical examiner within roughly an hour. They also say investigators did not compel Farwell's DNA or seize his electronic devices during that early work. The federal prosecution now points to evidence it says was missed or never pursued. Prosecutors have said Farwell was a major DNA contributor on the duffel-bag strap found at the scene. The defense disputes how that evidence should be read. The trial is scheduled to begin October 5, 2026. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #Birchmore #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #FederalTrial #Massachusetts #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra