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Between 2010 and 2020, the federal government filed 412 cyberstalking cases across the entire United States. Roughly 40 a year. The overall federal conviction rate exceeds 90 percent. Prosecutors pick the cases they expect to win.JP Miller is one of those cases. A federal grand jury in South Carolina indicted the Myrtle Beach pastor in December 2025 on two counts — cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. The indictment alleges a course of conduct from November 2022 until the day Mica Miller died on April 27, 2024. The North Carolina medical examiner ruled her death a suicide.JP pleaded not guilty in January 2026. Since then, his defense team has filed six motions for continuance. Prosecutors consented to all six.Judge Joseph Dawson III signed every order. JP voluntarily waived his right to a speedy trial. The trial is now set for January 2027.Prosecutors allege JP tracked Mica's location, sent floods of unwanted messages, posted a private photograph, and tampered with her vehicle. Mica called police seven times. Officers responded every time. When Mica was involuntarily hospitalized in February 2024, JP allegedly showed up and took her purse and car keys.In January 2027, Mica's Law — the coercive control bill her family championed — is expected to be reintroduced. The bill stalled in the South Carolina legislature in 2026.JP Miller is free on $100,000 unsecured bond. He remarried thirteen months after Mica's death. He preaches at pop-up locations around Myrtle Beach. The system moved — and it's still waiting.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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CyberStalking #FederalTrial #MicasLaw #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
Caleb Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. The jury took under three hours. We're asking whether civil court could reach the woman who spent eighteen months reading Flynn's death texts and said nothing — his mistress Alleigha Botner. This episode also covers two bombshell developments in the Lindsay Clancy case: Kevin Reddington's Rule 25 motion claiming there's no evidence Clancy killed her children, and his demand to investigate the lone holdout juror who prevented an acquittal. Flynn has been convicted. Clancy has pleaded not guilty. 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 #LindsayClancy #AlleighaBotner #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #GuiltyVerdict #Mistrial #JusticeForAshley
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Mica Miller called police seven times between 2022 and 2024. She reported harassment and fear for her life. Officers responded every time.South Carolina's domestic violence statute did not cover coercive control. The law gave them nothing to work with.On March 11, 2024, a Horry County officer ordered JP Miller to stop contacting Mica. Six weeks later she was dead. When investigators sat JP down in October 2024, he allegedly told them that police had never given him that order. That alleged lie is now a federal charge.A grand jury indicted JP in December 2025 on two counts — cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators. He pleaded not guilty. Since January 2026, the trial has been delayed six times.All six continuances filed by the defense, consented to by prosecutors, signed by Judge Joseph Dawson III. JP waived his right to a speedy trial.The case now sits in January 2027. Federal cyberstalking prosecutions happen roughly 40 times a year across the entire country. The overall federal conviction rate exceeds 90 percent. The FBI picked this one.Digital evidence doesn't degrade with time. Every delay the prosecution agrees to takes a potential appellate argument off JP's table.Senator Stephen Goldfinch told WMBF News he plans to reintroduce Mica's Law — the coercive control bill named for her — in January 2027. The bill and the trial are scheduled for the same month.JP Miller is free on a $100,000 unsecured bond. He remarried thirteen months after Mica's death. He preaches at pop-up locations around Myrtle Beach.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.#JPMiller #MicaMiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CyberStalking #FederalTrial #MicasLaw #SolidRockChurch #MyrtleBeach #JusticeForMica
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Caleb Flynn's jury convicted him of aggravated murder in under three hours. His mistress Alleigha Botner read 107,000 texts where Flynn fantasized about killing his wife and never said a word. Could civil court force her to answer for what she knew? In the Clancy case, Kevin Reddington told a judge there's no evidence Lindsay killed her children — after offering to stipulate that she did. And he's demanding the court investigate the lone holdout juror who prevented an acquittal, a man who now has his own attorney. Three stories about what happens after the verdicts and mistrials — when the people around the case start facing their own reckonings. Flynn has been convicted. 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.#CalebFlynn #LindsayClancy #AlleighaBotner #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #GuiltyVerdict #Mistrial #JusticeForAshley
Did President Trump authorize the military to shoot down UAP?Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp are joined by Liberation Times journalist Chris Sharp to examine reports of a possible UAP shootdown order, alleged luring operations at White Sands, and the government's refusal to directly answer questions about what may be happening over sensitive test ranges.Chris walks through his reporting on White Sands, laser systems, suspected intelligence operations, and why repeated non-answers from both the Department of War and White House have kept the story alive.The conversation then moves into even more extraordinary territory: David Grusch's new account of seeing alleged UFO recovery footage involving non-human bodies, reports of competing non-human factions, crash retrieval programs, and the growing question of what congressional staff, intelligence committees, and the White House already know.At some point, more stories and more videos are not enough.Check out Chris' work at https://LiberationTimes.comGOT A TIP?Leave a message for us at +1 (323) 484-4738Reach out to us at WeaponizedPodcast@Proton.me•••MERCH : https://Weaponized-Shop.Fourthwall.comMAIN : https://YouTube.com/@JeremyCorbellCLIPS : https://YouTube.com/@WEAPONIZEDclipsMORE : https://WeaponizedPodcast.com•••Watch SLEEPING DOG movie : https://SleepingDogMovie.com•••Watch Corbell's six-part UFO docuseries titled UFO REVOLUTION on TUBI here : https://tubitv.com/series/300002259/tmz-presents-ufo-revolution/season-2Watch Knapp's six-part UFO docuseries titled INVESTIGATION ALIEN on NETFLIX here : https://netflix.com/title/81674441•••You can now watch all of Corbell's movies for free on YouTube here :BOB LAZAR : AREA 51 & FLYING SAUCERShttps://youtu.be/sZaE5rIavVAHUNT FOR THE SKINWALKERhttps://youtu.be/TczkJ6UAQ8APATIENT SEVENTEENhttps://youtu.be/gDVX0kRqXxE•••For breaking news, follow Corbell & Knapp on all social media.Extras and bonuses from the episode can be found at https://WeaponizedPodcast.com•••WEAPONED is produced by Michael Lazovsky https://MichaelLazovsky.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For eighteen months, Alleigha Botner received texts from Caleb Flynn describing how much he hated his wife and fantasizing about her death. Over 107,000 messages. She read them, stayed in the affair, and initially lied to the FBI after Ashley was shot twice in the back of the head. A jury convicted Flynn of aggravated murder. Could civil court offer the one thing criminal court couldn't — a reckoning with the woman who knew? What could a wrongful death lawsuit expose that prosecutors left untouched? What deleted texts, shared accounts, or private conversations are still buried? 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
Anne Taylor is the person the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murder case turns on. In a sealed filing submitted in May 2025, Kohberger's defense attorney told Judge Hippler that her client couldn't rationally understand the proceedings against him. She wrote that he struggled to comprehend adverse rulings and couldn't make consequential decisions about his own defense.Hippler denied Taylor's motion for more time on June 26. Six days later, Kohberger stood in a Boise courtroom and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Taylor stood beside him and told the court she was satisfied she'd had sufficient time. Kohberger answered every question.Kohberger's post-conviction petition now seeks to vacate that plea, alleging his attorneys withheld evidence and pressured him into a deal he didn't understand. The defense team's own forensic expert, Ruth Ballard, examined the hair evidence Kohberger says was concealed and concluded it physically matched victim Ethan Chapin. That analysis was completed a full month before the plea agreement was signed.Taylor's team never concluded Kohberger was incompetent and denied it explicitly. Brent Turvey, the forensic criminologist on the defense team, has said publicly that Taylor and her co-counsel will face “very difficult questions.”Arguments on whether Hippler should be disqualified are set for October 15. An amended petition is due in November. If the evidentiary hearing goes forward in June 2027, everything comes down to what Anne Taylor says under oath.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 #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #GuiltyPlea #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConviction #TrueCrimePodcast
It started with a lie in a church and ended with a murder charge in a bedroom. In between: eighteen months, 107,000 text messages, and a relationship that psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says followed a trajectory she's seen before — with an ending she says the psychology was always building toward.Scott joins Tony Brueski for a three-part interview covering the full arc of the relationship between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner in the case of Ashley Flynn's death. Part one starts at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio, where Flynn — a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant — met Botner, a 21-year-old intern. Scott dissects the power imbalance: the age gap, the spiritual authority, the “roommate” narrative, and the theatrical gestures — AI love songs, matching Harry Potter tattoos — that built a sealed world around a younger woman.Part two maps the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted wife, children, reputation, and mistress — all of it, permanently. Botner set deadlines. Flynn broke them. She left in January. He came back on Valentine's Day. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that made the pattern self-sustaining.Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and the escalation from marriage complaints to casual references to Ashley's death. Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her.” Scott reads the complicity debate through both psychologies and then turns the entire question: if Flynn had recommitted to Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying every text he'd ever sent?One arc. One question running underneath all three parts: was this always heading toward the ending it reached, or was there a moment it could've been stopped?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
Eleven jurors voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy by reason of insanity. One man held out. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington demanded the court investigate him, accused him of misconduct and of lying during jury selection, and identified his gender in a press conference. Media reported the man's name and personal background. He now has his own attorney. Judge Sullivan scheduled a hearing on Reddington's investigation motion for November 2 — alongside the defense's motion to dismiss the charges entirely. This segment examines whether a defense attorney targeting a holdout juror is aggressive lawyering or a calculated act of intimidation aimed at future jury pools. 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 #HoldoutJuror #JuryDuty #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthCourt #Duxbury #JurorRights
Kevin Reddington built Lindsay Clancy's entire defense on the premise that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan while in the grip of postpartum psychosis. He offered to stipulate it in writing. The jury deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal. A mistrial was declared. Then Reddington stood before Judge Sullivan and argued there is no evidence she did it. He called the police investigation nonexistent. He challenged the physical evidence. Prosecutors told the court they were hearing this argument for the first time. The judge took the motion under advisement and scheduled further hearings for November 2. This segment breaks down what Rule 25 actually is, whether it has any realistic chance, and what this pivot means for 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
Someone sent Nancy Guthrie's daughter a text on September 28 claiming her mother is alive in Mexico. Bitcoin demanded. The sheriff's department dismissed it in under 24 hours. A retired FBI agent says it's a recycled scam — same playbook she saw used against her in April, different target.The Nancy Guthrie case is eight months old. The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson after being dropped off by family the evening of January 31. By early morning February 1, her blood was on the porch, her doorbell camera was dark, and her pacemaker had stopped communicating with her phone.FBI-recovered footage from Google's servers shows a masked, armed individual at Nancy's front door before she was taken. No one has been able to identify the figure. DNA found at the scene in February doesn't belong to Nancy or her associates. Genetic genealogy analysis has been running since March, but sources say the sample quality is “low-level” and may not yield a usable profile.FBI Director Kash Patel publicly stated his bureau was kept out for the first four critical days. The Pima County deputies' union president called the early investigation a product of “leadership incompetence.” The crime scene was handed back to the family before federal agents had processed it, and the DNA was sent to a private lab in Florida instead of the FBI's facility at Quantico.Two ransom notes the FBI considers “potentially legitimate” contained details from inside the home. The first demanded four million dollars in Bitcoin. The second announced Nancy's death, claiming she was “buried in nature.”More than $1.2 million in rewards. No suspect named. No arrest. The case may hinge on what happens in that DNA lab.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.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ChrisNanos #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson
Federal prosecutors put it in a 2026 court filing: at no point was Matthew Farwell seriously considered as a suspect in a homicide. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story is the investigation that produced that sentence, from the hour her body was found to the federal courtroom where jury selection begins October 5, 2026.Canton police found Sandra on February 4, 2021, seated on her bedroom floor with a duffel-bag strap around her neck. A trooper checked the suicide box that day. By February 6 the state had video of Farwell entering her building masked and leaving 29 minutes later, and a caller's report that Sandra's police-officer boyfriend had said he would take care of the problem himself. Detectives met him in a parking lot, unrecorded. He told them it began in 2020; the department's own investigators put it at 2013, when she was 15.On February 9, the FBI says, Farwell used his Stoughton-issued phone to look up whether deleted iMessages can be recovered and whether consent can be revoked, then wiped both searches. In March his lawyer refused a DNA sample and the state didn't seek a warrant. In May the medical examiner ruled suicide. The lieutenant who supervised the case had been a Stoughton officer alongside the deputy chief who ran the Explorers program, and later worked the Karen Read investigation.The Norfolk DA's office declined to prosecute in 2022, citing Sandra's death. The FBI arrested Farwell in August 2024. Prosecutors' 2026 filings say his DNA is the major contributor on the strap; the defense says the strap carries a mixture from at least four people and that Sandra died by suicide. He 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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #NorfolkDA #StoughtonPolice #KarenRead #FarwellTrial #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
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Matthew Farwell had just handed his personal phone to State Police detectives on February 9, 2021, when, the FBI says, he picked up the phone the Town of Stoughton paid for and asked it two questions. Can deleted iMessages be recovered by Cellebrite, the tool police use to pull data off a phone? Can consent be revoked in Massachusetts? He deleted both searches. Part 2 of the Sandra Birchmore story starts there and follows the state's investigation to the courtroom.It had started within an hour of finding her, when prosecutors say local officers told the medical examiner's office there was no foul play. Troopers wrote no sign of a struggle. The doctor who ruled on her death never saw the room and didn't request scene photos until May. Two days in, detectives met Farwell in a school parking lot, didn't record it, and wrote him up as Matt. Prosecutors say he lied about when it started, how often he saw her, and when he left her apartment.By late December 2021, state investigators had a man on video, a fractured bone in Sandra's throat, and nearly 33,000 messages between the two of them, and the charge their own paperwork said they were building toward was larceny. The theory was that Farwell had stolen from the Town of Stoughton by seeing Sandra while he was being paid to patrol. In September 2022 the Norfolk DA's office said its witness was dead and there was no prosecutable case.Sandra's family hired Michael Baden. The FBI reopened the state's own file. The medical examiner changed the death certificate to undetermined in April 2026. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and faces mandatory life if convicted. A federal judge has admitted Sandra's journals and texts, and jury selection starts October 5, 2026.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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #NorfolkDA #StatePolice #FarwellTrial #MichaelMorrissey #Massachusetts #JusticeForSandra
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A killer survived her own execution. An FBI agent was targeted by extortionists. A father was blamed for murders because of a legal filing. Christa Pike received two lethal injections on September 30, 2026, and survived both — witnesses reported breathing, snoring, and complaints her arm felt like it was about to burst. Governor Bill Lee halted all Tennessee executions. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer received a ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie at a private personnel address using a middle name she doesn't publicly go by. And after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Kevin Reddington's Rule 25(b) motion was misread by the internet as an accusation against Patrick Clancy — a father already dealing with unimaginable loss, now defending himself against strangers.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.#ChristaPike #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #RansomNote #Defense #MissingPerson #Justice
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The Caleb Flynn murder trial has produced evidence, testimony, and more than 107,000 text messages. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski not to relitigate the evidence but to read the psychology — a three-part interview that traces the arc from church volunteer to murder defendant through the relationship that allegedly drove it.Part one starts where the relationship started: CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Flynn was 36, married, embedded in worship leadership. Botner was 21 and interning. Scott maps the power imbalance — the age gap, the spiritual “halo effect,” the “roommate” narrative — and explains why each detail is a clinical finding, not just a biographical footnote. The AI-generated love songs and matching Harry Potter tattoos that sound absurd in a courtroom are the gestures Scott calls most significant.Part two follows the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and his mistress — simultaneously and permanently. Botner set a January deadline for him to leave Ashley. He ignored it. She left. On Valentine's Day, he returned. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that kept Botner locked in despite receiving nothing she'd been promised.Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and their escalation. Botner testified under oath that she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. The public debate over her complicity has split hard. Scott reads both sides, then turns the lens: if Flynn had chosen to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying all of his darkest admissions? Scott says the danger ran in both directions — and identifies when this stopped being a relationship and became something lethal.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
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Bryan Kohberger's defense attorney Anne Taylor told Judge Hippler in a sealed filing that her client couldn't rationally understand the Idaho murder case against him. She described Kohberger as struggling to comprehend adverse rulings and unable to make consequential decisions about his own defense. The judge denied her request for more time on June 26, 2025.Six days later, Kohberger pleaded guilty to all four counts of first-degree murder — the November 2022 killings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. At the plea hearing, Hippler asked Taylor whether she'd had enough time to discuss the case with her client, and she said yes.That sealed filing is now public. Kohberger has filed a post-conviction petition arguing the plea should be thrown out. He claims his attorneys hid critical evidence, including hair evidence he says would have pointed to an unidentified attacker.His own defense expert, Ruth Ballard, analyzed that hair and concluded it physically matched Ethan Chapin's own hair. Her report was completed a month before the plea deal was signed.Taylor's defense team never determined Kohberger was incompetent. They explicitly denied reaching that conclusion and said they needed more time. Forensic criminologist Brent Turvey, a former member of the defense team, has said Taylor and her co-counsel will have to answer “very difficult questions.”The court hears arguments October 15 on whether Hippler should step aside. An amended petition follows in November. The evidentiary hearing, if it proceeds in June 2027, puts Anne Taylor on the stand.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 #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #KohbergerCase #GuiltyPlea #TrueCrime #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConviction #TrueCrimePodcast
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Caleb Flynn texted Alleigha Botner at 4 AM about ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. Botner read every message across a year and a half — over 107,000 texts — and stayed in the affair. She showed up at the family's home the morning after Ashley was shot. She initially lied to the FBI. On the stand, she admitted she once texted that she wanted Ashley dead too. Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. Could civil court force the mistress to answer for everything she knew and everything she ignored? A wrongful death suit doesn't need proof beyond reasonable doubt. It needs a preponderance. 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
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Kevin Reddington spent an entire trial arguing Lindsay Clancy killed her three children but wasn't criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis. He previously offered to stipulate the act in writing. Then he stood before Judge William Sullivan and said there is no evidence she did it. The Rule 25 motion asks the court to find that prosecutors failed to prove their case — and to enter a not-guilty finding without a retrial. Prosecutors told the judge they'd never heard this argument from the defense before. The judge delayed his ruling until November 2. This segment unpacks the legal mechanics, what the shift means for Patrick Clancy, and whether any judge would actually grant this. 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
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The Lindsay Clancy jury split 11-1 for acquittal. Kevin Reddington didn't accept the mistrial quietly. He demanded the court investigate the lone holdout — accused him of misconduct, of lying during jury selection, of refusing to follow the judge's instructions. He publicly identified the juror's gender during a press conference, making it simple for anyone to figure out who the man was. Media reported his name. His personal life was dragged into public scrutiny. The holdout now has his own lawyer. A hearing on Reddington's investigation motion is set for November 2. This segment asks what it means for jury duty in America when a defense attorney can publicly target a citizen for voting the wrong way. 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 #HoldoutJuror #JuryDuty #Mistrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthCourt #Duxbury #JurorRights
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A text claiming Nancy Guthrie is alive and being held in Mexico landed on September 28. The sender wanted Bitcoin. The Pima County Sheriff's Department called it “not credible” within a day, and a retired FBI agent publicly identified it as a recycled con she'd been targeted by herself months earlier.Nancy Guthrie, 84 years old and the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson on the night of January 31. Blood on the front porch. Doorbell camera dark by 1:47 AM. Pacemaker disconnected from her phone by 2:28 AM. Her medication-dependent body separated from everything keeping her alive.The FBI recovered Google server footage of a masked, armed figure at her front door. No identification. No enhanced image released. The investigation's best physical evidence is DNA collected at the scene in February that doesn't match anyone connected to Nancy — but sources describe it as “low-level,” meaning it may not produce a genetic profile even after seven months of lab work.The investigation's early days drew fire from the FBI director, who says the bureau was locked out for four days, and the deputies' own union president, who called the first week a disaster. The crime scene was returned to the family before the FBI processed it. Evidence with an expiration date — the doorbell camera's local cache — may have lost footage while jurisdictional arguments played out.Two ransom notes carrying details only someone inside the home would know demanded four million dollars. A second note claimed Nancy had died and was “buried in nature.”Over $1.2 million in combined rewards and thousands of tips have produced no arrest. The answer may rest on whether that DNA sample can give investigators a name.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.#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ChrisNanos #KashPatel #FBI #PimaCounty #Tucson #TrueCrime #MissingPerson
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
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
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
AI-generated love songs. Matching hidden Harry Potter tattoos. A 36-year-old worship team volunteer and a 21-year-old church intern. Those details from the Caleb Flynn murder trial sound like they belong in different stories. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says they belong in exactly the same one — and she joins Tony Brueski to explain why.Flynn was a former American Idol contestant volunteering on the worship team at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Botner was an intern at the same church, fifteen years younger, single, and navigating her first experience with this kind of power gap. Scott starts with the neurological reality: at 21, Botner's prefrontal cortex was still developing. The part of the brain that evaluates risk, reads manipulation, and weighs long-term consequences wasn't finished yet. Flynn's was.The church setting did something specific. Scott explains how spiritual environments create a cognitive shortcut called the “halo effect” — where a man's role in worship translates directly into personal trust. When Flynn told Botner his wife was “just a roommate,” that line didn't register as a tactic. It registered as vulnerability. Scott says it activated what she calls a fixing instinct — the pull to help a man trapped in a loveless marriage rather than recognizing the narrative as a recruitment tool.The theatrical gestures — the AI songs, the tattoos — sound absurd from a witness stand. Scott says they're a blueprint. Each one constructed a private world shared by only two people. Combined with the secrecy the affair required, Botner was systematically separated from every person who might've intervened. Scott maps the relationship to clinical patterns she's treated in her practice, connecting what looked like romance to what it was.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
One hundred and seven thousand text messages. An escalation from marriage complaints to “I want her dead.” A mistress who testified she texted “I want to kill her” about her boyfriend's wife. And a question the public can't stop arguing about. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to answer it — and to ask one the complicity debate has missed.Scott traces the normalization that turned the text thread between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner into a space where discussing Ashley Flynn's death felt ordinary. The pattern is specific: each message escalated only slightly past the previous one. Over eighteen months and 107,000 exchanges, the cumulative shift was enormous. From inside the conversation, it was invisible. Scott explains how repeated exposure desensitizes both participants until language that would've been unthinkable in month one feels like nothing in month fifteen.The complicity question lands next. Botner says she was pushing for divorce, not death. Flynn's alleged actions suggest he heard something different. Scott reads both psychologies: Botner's escalating frustration with a man who wouldn't leave, and Flynn's specific profile — a man for whom divorce threatened his public image more than murder threatened his conscience. When those two met, Scott says the outcome became a function of Flynn's priorities, not Botner's words.Then the turn. If Flynn had changed his mind and recommitted to Ashley, where did that leave Botner? She carried eighteen months of texts documenting his most dangerous thoughts. She was the only person alive who knew what he'd written. Scott explains why the person holding the secrets is in a specific kind of danger — and why this affair had passed the point where safety existed for either woman in Flynn's life.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 #Mu
Kevin Reddington spent two months telling a jury Lindsay Clancy killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan in the family's Duxbury basement on January 24, 2023. He conceded the acts because that's how an insanity defense works — admit what happened, argue the person wasn't responsible. Lindsay herself stipulated to the physical evidence.At the September 29 hearing at Plymouth Superior Court, Reddington told Judge William Sullivan the prosecution never proved Lindsay killed her children. He filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion asking the judge to enter a finding of not guilty — arguing the evidence was legally insufficient. That motion, if granted, ends the case permanently.He called the DNA evidence on the exercise bands "woefully deficient." He said Lindsay woke up in the hospital with no memory and was told by police what happened. He accused Duxbury police of assuming guilt from the moment they entered the house.Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable" and pointed to the defense's own stipulations.The defense also wants holdout juror Michael Desronvil investigated. Eleven jurors were ready to acquit on insanity grounds. Desronvil held out alone through seven days of deliberations. Other jurors accused him of using his phone and acting out one of the killings with resistance bands. Appellate attorney Martin Weinberg filed a 34-page double jeopardy motion arguing the mistrial should never have been declared without a juror inquiry.Prosecutors filed a gag order motion. DA Tim Cruz told reporters he hasn't decided whether to retry the case. Sullivan pushed everything to November 2 and told both sides to come with a trial date. Neither side would commit.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 #TrueCrimeToday #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #DuxburyMom #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MartinWeinberg #HoldoutJuror
For thirteen months before his trial, Richard Allen lived in a solitary cell at Westville Correctional Facility, and on September 21, 2026, the State of Indiana defended that cell at the Indiana Court of Appeals. How the state's lawyer characterized it is the thread through this complete breakdown with defense attorney Bob Motta.Allen is serving 130 years for the 2017 Delphi murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. His appeal, argued by Mark Leeman, rests on three claims.First, that the confessions he made in that cell came from a mind the state broke. Second, that the jury was blocked from hearing about another suspect and the sketch an eyewitness helped draw. Third, that the search warrant for his home rested on a false account of what witnesses said.The state's answers came from Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender. Restrictive housing is ordinary custody, she argued, and Allen was there for his own safety; only five of his confessions fall inside his psychosis. Brad Holder, investigated in 2017 and never charged, was clocked in at a landfill 25 miles away. And Allen's own 2017 statement placing himself on the trail supplied probable cause and remains the most powerful evidence against him, she said.Bob and I go through the clips in order: the psychiatrist's April 14 finding and the forced medication, then the hand tattoo and the posts the jury never saw. After that come the unfired cartridge, the astrology comparison, and the sketch Judge Frances Gull kept out. Along the way Bob explains the burden of proof on a confession, the direct-connection rule, and harmless error.The judges took the case under advisement and will issue a written decision. The losing side can petition the Indiana Supreme Court.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 #TrueCrimeToday #DelphiAppeal #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
The man in the Philly House of Horrors videos died before anyone found the footage. Raymond “R.C.” Horsch was eighty-two. Lung disease. Never charged with a violent crime in his life. His son Eugene is the one in federal custody—on gun and credential charges from a parking-violation traffic stop that cracked the whole case open.That June 2026 stop at Independence Mall led investigators to 417 West Chew Avenue in Olney. Inside: a 55-gallon drum connected to water lines, containers of chemicals, and more than a million digital files on fifty hard drives. Seven missing women are linked to the house. Five are believed dead based on the footage. No bodies have been recovered.R.C. Horsch was a National Merit Scholar, convicted counterfeiter, meth cook, and fugitive who spent decades recruiting women struggling with addiction from Kensington. A 1985 federal psych eval diagnosed paranoid personality disorder and called him “consumed by anger.” His ex-wife Amy McHale vanished from the house in 2016. Her family told police. Nothing happened.Eugene faces federal charges for the guns and fake DEA credentials found in his car. He has not been charged in connection with any of the missing women. The videos police have described show his father, not him.The FBI has reviewed thirty percent of the evidence. The suspect who cannot answer for the rest is already dead.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.#PhillyHouseOfHorrors #OlneyHouseOfHorrors #HiddenKillers #EugeneHorsch #PhiladelphiaCrime #TrueCrime #MissingWomen #Kensington #RCHorsch #NicoleFusaro
He blew past January. He showed up on Valentine's Day. She took him back. That three-sentence summary of Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner's relationship tells psychotherapist Shavaun Scott more than most of the trial testimony combined.Scott joins Tony Brueski to unpack the behavioral mechanics behind the eighteen-month holding pattern at the heart of the Caleb Flynn murder trial. The January deadline was supposed to be the end. Botner told Flynn to leave his wife Ashley or she was done. Flynn ignored it without explanation. They separated. Six weeks later, on Valentine's Day, he returned — and Botner took him back.Scott says that's not weakness. It's intermittent reinforcement — the same behavioral loop that keeps a gambler feeding the machine. The brain doesn't process six weeks of silence as evidence that the relationship is over. It processes the Valentine's Day return as a jackpot. The longer the drought, the more powerful the reconnection feels. It's a chemical response, and it overrides the logic that told her to set the deadline in the first place.Flynn, meanwhile, believed he could keep all of it — his marriage to Ashley, his children, his reputation at CLC church, and Botner waiting in the wings. Scott identifies a specific psychological profile: a man whose compartmentalization is so complete that he doesn't experience his double life as contradictory. He experiences it as managed.The sunk-cost fallacy sealed Botner in. Eighteen months of secrecy, missed holidays, and emotional investment made walking away feel like admitting she'd wasted a year and a half of her life. Scott explains why that math keeps people locked in — and what the research says about the only approach that actually reaches someone trapped in this kind of 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 #ToxicRelationship
Sandra Birchmore was 12 years old when she applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers in March 2010. Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton officer charged with killing her, was an instructor there. Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story is what the department's own records, the FBI, and the state's police-standards commission say happened inside that program, and how it ended on the night of February 1, 2021.The Explorers post was run by Robert Devine, who rose to deputy chief, was demoted after an internal probe found he'd lied, and stayed on the force. The department's 2022 report found Devine, Matthew Farwell, and his twin William all had inappropriate relationships with Sandra. It dated Matthew's to the spring of 2013, when she was 15. A fourth town employee, the animal control officer, admitted an encounter of his own. The state has charged none of them.Prosecutors cite texts in which Farwell told Sandra to clear out their messages in 2019 and confirmed he'd be on the clock when he came by in November 2020. In December she told him she was pregnant. Friends told the FBI about a headlock, a shove over a sonogram, and a wish that she would die. She scheduled her OB appointment for February 10 and planned a Valentine's Day announcement.On January 20, 2021, a friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report Farwell; the FBI says the call reached him within the department. On February 1, the night before his wife gave birth, building video shows him walking into Sandra's building hooded and masked and walking out less than half an hour later. Prosecutors allege strangulation and a staged hanging. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and says she died by suicide. His federal trial opens October 5, 2026.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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPolice #FarwellTrial #Massachusetts #PoliceExplorers #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Lindsay Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan at the September 29 hearing that the prosecution's case is built on nothing — no confession, deficient DNA, and an investigation he called "horrific" and "ridiculous" before correcting himself: there was no investigation.This is the same attorney who spent two months at trial conceding Lindsay killed her three children. The insanity defense required him to concede the acts so he could argue she wasn't responsible. His client stipulated to the physical evidence. His experts testified she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis.Reddington filed a Rule 25(b)(2) motion — asking the judge to enter a finding of not guilty based on insufficient evidence. If granted, the case ends with an acquittal. No retrial. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable" and reminded the judge that Lindsay confirmed the stipulations herself.Appellate attorney Martin Weinberg filed a 34-page double jeopardy motion on top of that. His argument: the judge should have investigated holdout juror Michael Desronvil before declaring the mistrial. Fellow jurors accused Desronvil of scrolling his phone during deliberations and using resistance bands to act out one of the killings.Two sealed jury notes from deliberations are at the center of the double jeopardy fight. The defense wants them unsealed. Prosecutors argued releasing them would chill every future juror's willingness to communicate with a judge.The prosecution filed a gag order motion to prevent public statements that could contaminate a retrial jury pool. DA Tim Cruz wouldn't confirm his office is retrying the case. Sullivan pushed everything to November 2 and told both sides to come with a trial date. Neither would give him one.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 #HiddenKillers #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #DuxburyMom #InsanityDefense #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MartinWeinberg #HoldoutJuror
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Thirteen months in a cell at Westville, lights on around the clock, a camera watching, and a guard outside the door writing down everything Richard Allen said. On September 21, 2026, the State of Indiana defended every day of it to the Indiana Court of Appeals, and what its lawyer called those conditions is the thread running through this full breakdown with defense attorney Bob Motta.The Delphi murders conviction stands on statements Allen made inside that unit in April and May 2023, 61 of them by the state's count, to his wife, his mother, guards, a warden, and the psychologist treating him. Appeal lawyer Mark Leeman argued they came from a man the prison's own psychiatrist had found on the floor covered in filth and declared gravely disabled. The state argued Allen was in restrictive housing because a county jail could not keep him safe, that the conditions were ordinary custody, and that the confessions that matter came when he was lucid.From there the hearing went to the man the jury never heard about. Brad Holder, investigated in 2017 and never charged, has a hand tattoo Leeman says matches the sticks laid on Abby Williams, and social media posts the defense wanted jurors to see. The state's answer was a landfill time card placing him 25 miles away.Then the bullet and the face. A single unfired cartridge was matched to Allen's pistol by a method the defense calls junk science. The sketch Betsy Blair helped draw of the man she saw on the bridge never reached the jury, because Judge Frances Gull kept it out.Bob and I go through every clip and every rule underneath it, from the burden of proof on a confession to what harmless error would mean for a man serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German.The panel has the case under advisement.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 #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Westville #TrueCrimeCommunity
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
The man police believe is in the Philly House of Horrors footage died in his bed in May 2025—a full year before a park ranger's traffic stop blew the case open. He was eighty-two. He was never charged with a violent crime. And he can never be prosecuted.His name was Raymond “R.C.” Horsch—father of Eugene Horsch, the man sitting in federal custody on gun and credential charges after the June 2026 stop at Independence Mall. The search of their shared home at 417 West Chew Avenue in Olney uncovered a 55-gallon drum connected to water lines, containers of chemicals, and more than a million files across fifty hard drives.Seven women are linked to the house. Five are believed dead. No bodies have been found. The figure in the videos is R.C., not Eugene. Eugene has not been charged with harming anyone.R.C. Horsch had an IQ of 140, a criminal record stretching back to 1973, and decades of recruiting women from Kensington. A 1985 federal psych eval called him “consumed by anger.” His ex-wife vanished from the house in 2016. A missing woman's photo sat on his website for years. None of that opened the front door. A parking violation did.The FBI has reviewed thirty percent of the evidence. The rest is waiting. And the man at the center of it is already in the ground.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.#PhillyHouseOfHorrors #OlneyHouseOfHorrors #HiddenKillers #EugeneHorsch #PhiladelphiaCrime #TrueCrime #MissingWomen #Kensington #RCHorsch #NicoleFusaro
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map what happened between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner long before any murder charges — and why the church where they met matters as much as the 107,000 texts that followed.Flynn was a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Botner was a 21-year-old intern. He was married with children. She'd never been in a relationship with that kind of power gap. Scott says the age difference alone creates conditions where manipulation goes undetected — at 21, the part of the brain that evaluates risk and spots long-term consequences is still developing. Flynn had fifteen years on her and a marriage he was hiding behind.The church setting amplified everything. Scott explains how spiritual authority generates a specific cognitive shortcut — what clinicians call a “halo effect.” A man embedded in worship leadership doesn't trip the same alarms a stranger would. When Flynn told Botner his wife was “just a roommate,” Scott says that narrative did something precise to a 21-year-old in that environment: it activated a desire to help instead of a desire to leave.The details that sound strangest in a courtroom — AI-generated love songs, matching hidden Harry Potter tattoos — are the ones Scott calls most clinically significant. She says they're tools for building a sealed-off world where only two people have access. Paired with the secrecy the affair required, Botner lost contact with every person who could've seen what was happening. Scott traces each element to its psychological function and explains what the pattern tells us about the eighteen months that came after.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
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Eighteen months. That's how long Alleigha Botner waited for Caleb Flynn to leave his wife Ashley — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott tells Tony Brueski that the length of the wait is itself a clinical finding.Scott joins the conversation to map the psychology of the holding pattern at the center of the Caleb Flynn murder trial. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and Botner. He wasn't choosing. He was collecting. Scott says the profile isn't just narcissistic — it's a specific form of entitlement where a man genuinely can't conceive that his double life has an expiration date.Botner's psychology is the other half. She gave Flynn a firm deadline in January: leave Ashley or this is done. He blew past it without acknowledgment. They broke up. On Valentine's Day, he reappeared, and she took him back. Scott explains the pattern: intermittent reinforcement, the same behavioral loop that keeps a gambler at the table. Long stretches of nothing punctuated by sudden attention create a bond that's chemically harder to break than consistent affection. The brain doesn't process the deprivation as a warning. It processes the return as a reward.Meanwhile, Botner spent holidays alone while Flynn played the family man at his own table. Scott walks through the sunk-cost fallacy that kept her anchored — eighteen months of secrecy, emotional investment, and social isolation made leaving feel like failure rather than survival.Scott addresses the question every friend in this situation is already asking: if you're watching someone disappear into this kind of relationship, what actually reaches them? The answer isn't what most people try first. Scott explains what the research says works — and why the instinct to shake someone out of it usually drives them deeper in.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
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
One hundred and seven thousand texts. That's the volume of communication between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner over eighteen months — and somewhere inside that thread, wishing Ashley Flynn dead became routine. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to trace how that happened, what Botner's role actually was, and the part of this case most people aren't examining.Scott starts with the normalization. An escalation that dramatic doesn't happen in one jump. It happens in thousands of small ones. Each text pushes the boundary slightly past where it was, and because the shift is gradual, neither person inside the conversation registers the distance they've traveled. Scott explains the clinical process — how repeated exposure to language desensitizes both the person saying it and the person hearing it, until “I want her dead” carries the emotional weight of a complaint about traffic.Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. She said she didn't mean it. The public is debating whether she was complicit in murder or simply venting about a situation she wanted resolved through divorce. Scott gives that question a clinical frame. She says the distinction depends on whose psychology you're reading — and that Flynn's specific profile, where his public image mattered more than any person in his life, made murder the option that preserved what he valued most.Then Scott turns the lens. If Flynn had decided to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying eighteen months of texts that documented his most dangerous thoughts? Botner was the one person who could destroy him. Scott explains why the person with the secrets is always in a specific kind of jeopardy — and why this affair had crossed a threshold where both women were at risk.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
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Nine years after it happened, the Stoughton Police Department wrote it down: an inappropriate relationship between one of its officers, Matthew Farwell, and a girl in its youth program, beginning in the spring of 2013 when she was 15. That finding is the floor of Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story. It follows a 12-year-old who idolized cops into a program the department ran, and out the other side into a Canton apartment where a Stoughton officer held a copy of her key.Robert Devine built the Stoughton Explorers into a junior police academy and rose to deputy chief while running it. The department demoted him once for lying and kept him on the force. He brought back two former Explorers, the Farwell twins, as instructors; the department's own report called them his understudies. A prior chief had rejected William Farwell's application in 2011, citing behavior he called incompatible with police work. Stoughton hired him in 2017.Matthew Farwell was seven months on the job when, according to the FBI, he sent Sandra a Facebook friend request and met her at the public library under the guise of tutoring. She later typed the date it became physical into a text: April 10, 2013. By 2019, prosecutors say, he was tracking her location and ordering her to clear out their texts.When she told him she was pregnant in December 2020, prosecutors say his first reply was that he had nothing to say. Within weeks, friends told the FBI, he'd put her in a headlock and said he wished she would die. Four days after a friend reported him to his own department, prosecutors say, he asked Sandra for a spare key. He's charged with killing her and has pleaded not guilty. Part 2 takes on what the state did next.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.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #StoughtonPD #PoliceExplorers #TrueCrime #Massachusetts #RobertDevine #WilliamFarwell #JusticeForSandra
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
Caleb Flynn allegedly told Alleigha Botner he was up until 4 a.m. trying to figure out how to do it and not go to jail. That was August 2025. His wife Ashley was shot in her sleep six months later. Botner never called anyone.Flynn is charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence in the February 16, 2026, death of his wife Ashley Flynn in Tipp City, Ohio. Ashley was a middle school volleyball coach and mother of two daughters. Flynn has pleaded not guilty.Botner testified for seven hours in Miami County court, bringing thirty-four binders of evidence and the record of more than a hundred and seven thousand text messages between her and Flynn. The relationship started in 2022 at Christian Life Center in Butler Township, where he led the music ministry and she was an intern. It turned physical by May 2024, when she was twenty-two.Prosecutors allege the messages show Flynn discussing wanting his wife gone as early as mid-2025. Botner matched his language about Ashley. They got matching tattoos. She gave him an ultimatum in January 2026. She searched for information about unsolved cases. Two devices with their message history vanished during a Florida trip.The night before Ashley was found, Botner allegedly sent Flynn screenshots from ChatGPT with instructions on how to erase the conversation. His alleged final message promised action the next day.After Ashley was found, Botner testified Flynn said something to her that made her heart race. She went home. She erased messages. She lied to the FBI four days later.No charges against Botner. No immunity. No search of her apartment or DNA. Seven hours of testimony and one question prosecutors didn't have to ask out loud. 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/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 #AlleighaBotner #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynn #MurderTrial #TippCity #TrueCrime #MiamiCountyOhio #AmericanIdol #JusticeForAshley
Caleb Flynn's own body was the crime scene his devices mapped. His Apple Watch logged roughly 200 steps in the hour before his 911 call — movement while he claimed to be sleeping in his daughters' bedroom. A spike of 346 steps around 2:30 a.m. His Oura ring contradicted his sleep claims. His AirPods connection and disconnection times tracked him through the house. He forgot that every device on his body was a witness.A Miami County jury convicted Flynn on all nine counts — aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence — in roughly two hours. Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the back of the head while she slept, their two daughters in the next room. The prosecution had seven days of testimony and forty witnesses. The defense had nothing — zero witnesses called.Flynn sent more than 107,000 texts to Alleigha Botner, a 21-year-old worship intern he met at his own church. Prosecutors printed them into 34 books. He called Ashley “douche” and “spawn of Satan.” He texted about wanting her dead. The night before the murder: “I choose you. I'm free. Actions will come tomorrow, February 16, a day I'll never forget.” Hours later: “It's happening.”He tried to erase the trail. Deleted messaging apps, scrubbed social media, wiped the AI app he used to write love songs for Botner days before the murder. Investigators pulled a full phone extraction and recovered every message, every timestamp, every location ping. His intruder story — that someone broke in through a window, shot Ashley, and fled with his gun — fell apart under neighborhood cameras that showed no one arriving, no one leaving. His side of the bed was undisturbed. The gun was never found. Flynn faces life without parole, with sentencing set for October 5.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 #TrueCrimeToday #GuiltyVerdict #TrueCrime #AppleWatch #AlleighaBotner #DigitalEvidence #MiamiCounty #LifeWithoutParole
The State of Indiana stood in front of three appeals judges on September 21, 2026, and said the Delphi murders conviction of Richard Allen survives even if every confession is thrown out. This segment is about what the state means by that, and what the defense says is actually left.Richard Allen is serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German in February 2017. His appeal lawyer, Mark Leeman, told the Indiana Court of Appeals that no witness identified Allen as the man on the bridge and no DNA connects him to the girls. The physical evidence is an unfired .40-caliber cartridge found between them, which a state police examiner matched to the Sig Sauer taken from Allen's home. Leeman called that match astrology, and reminded the judges that Judge Frances Gull kept the defense's metallurgist, William Tobin, from telling the jury why the method is disputed.The eyewitness is Betsy Blair, who saw a man on the bridge's first platform from about 50 feet and helped police make a sketch. Gull ruled the sketch inadmissible hearsay. Leeman held it up in rebuttal and told the judges that if Blair didn't see his client, nothing else matters.Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender's response is that the case stands without the confessions. Allen told a conservation officer in 2017 that he was on the trail that afternoon, and she argued that statement alone gave police probable cause to search his house and remains the state's strongest evidence. The defense says the search warrant affidavit twisted witness descriptions to fit Allen; the state says take out every disputed line and the warrant still stands on his own words.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I go through the bullet, the face, and the fallback, and what it would take for three judges to call any of it harmless.No ruling yet.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 #TrueCrimeToday #DelphiAppeal #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #BobMotta #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime
The prosecution convicted Alex Murdaugh of double murder in March 2023 without ever producing the weapons used to kill his wife Maggie and son Paul at the family's Moselle estate on June 7, 2021. The shotgun that killed Paul and the rifle that killed Maggie have never been recovered.FITSNews reported on September 25, 2026, that SLED investigators and statewide grand jury prosecutors are now investigating allegations that Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander helped dispose of those weapons. Locals in Hampton County have called Alexander the Murdaugh family's fixer for years.Witnesses have allegedly testified before the grand jury that they saw the murder weapons in Alexander's hands in the immediate aftermath of the killings. The Post and Courier reported that a second, unnamed Yemassee officer is also under investigation. The accusation: both officers allegedly transported weapons and bloody clothing into the Yemassee police department the morning after the murders.Alexander's attorney admits his client was at the Moselle property that night. Yemassee doesn't have jurisdiction over the estate.About a month after the killings, Alex Murdaugh wrote Alexander a $5,000 check. Alexander told FITSNews it was a loan for his parents and he was just a pass-through. He declined to say whether the money was repaid. Murdaugh family members and allies gave $5,500 to Alexander's campaign for Hampton County sheriff.Alexander's history with the Murdaugh power structure goes back further. In 2012, he was indicted for stealing nearly $11,000 in seizure money from motorists. He was tried in Hampton County with the Murdaugh family's backing, acquitted, and returned to the force.If the grand jury witnesses are credible, the retrial implications are significant. The prosecution's case has always rested on Alex acting alone. A police chief allegedly holding the murder weapons changes that narrative before a second jury hears the case in April 2027.Alexander has not been charged. His attorney calls the allegations absurd. Alex Murdaugh maintains his innocence.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/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://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.#AlexMurdaugh #GregAlexander #HiddenKillers #MurdaughMurderWeapons #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #MurdaughRetrial #GrandJury #SouthCarolina
Richard Allen's appeal of his Delphi murders conviction was argued on September 21, 2026, and one stretch of it was about a hand. Not Allen's. The hand belongs to Brad Holder, a man Indiana State Police investigated in 2017 who has never been charged, and what he drew on it is something the jury that convicted Allen never saw.Mark Leeman, arguing for Allen, laid it out for Judges Vaidik, Brown, and Altice. Holder was flagged by two tips in March 2017. Police cleared him on a time card from the landfill where he worked.After that, Leeman said, state police received a rune Holder had drawn on his hand and shared, and Leeman argued its shape lines up with the sticks placed on Abby Williams. He described social media posts of girls lying as if dead with sticks on them, and an officer who asked to reopen Holder's file and was told the department had already cleared him.Judge Frances Gull ruled all of it inadmissible before trial. Indiana requires a direct connection between a third party and the crime, and the state told the appeals panel that the evidence showed the opposite. Holder, by the state's account, was 25 miles away at work in Buffalo, Indiana, at every moment that mattered, and a landfill clerk said his absence would have been noticed. The state's expert saw no runes in the sticks, and the defense's own ritual expert could name no symbol.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I walk through what Leeman said the crime scene took, moved bodies, changed clothes, balanced sticks, and why he told the judges that doesn't describe a pharmacy tech on a walk. Then we take the state's answer seriously and ask whether a time card can carry that much weight.Allen is serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German. The appeal is under advisement.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 #TrueCrimeToday #DelphiAppeal #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #BobMotta #Odinism #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime
Richard Allen's Delphi murders conviction is under review at the Indiana Court of Appeals, and the appeal hearing on September 21, 2026, opened with a psychiatrist, a cell floor, and a date: April 14, 2023.Allen, convicted in November 2024 of killing Abby Williams and Libby German on the Monon High Bridge trail, was held before trial in a segregation unit at Westville Correctional Facility for thirteen months. His appeal lawyer, Mark Leeman, told the panel that on April 14 the prison's own psychiatrist found Allen incommunicado on the floor, covered in feces, and declared him gravely disabled. That order started a course of Haldol injections he did not consent to, and it recorded that his symptoms had started on April 4.Leeman's point was about what the state did with that information. Allen's trial lawyers had filed an emergency motion nine days earlier asking to move him. Leeman says the state answered by calling the filing colorful and dramatic, and the trial judge denied it without the hearing he says the law required. That, he argued, is coercion without an interrogation: the state saw a man breaking and worked to keep him in the room where it was happening.Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender argued there was no coercive state action at all. Allen was in restrictive housing because he could not be safely housed with other inmates, she said, and the conditions were ordinary. He had out-of-cell recreation, showers, commissary, medical checks, medication, and a tablet the prison replaced for free when he broke it.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I work through the three clips that frame this fight, including the state's position that only five of Allen's confessions fall inside his psychosis and the rest stand on their own.The panel has the case under advisement. The decision, whenever it comes, can be appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court.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 #TrueCrimeToday #DelphiAppeal #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski
The full interrogation breakdown of Caleb Flynn's two police interviews on February 16, 2026, with retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke. Nine clips. Three segments. Every dimension of how Caleb Flynn presented himself in that room — and where the presentation fell apart.Segment one covers what Caleb brought: a clean phone, a spotless marriage, two strangers as suspects, and a church reference that prosecutors allege hid an affair with a twenty-year-old worship singer. Segment two covers what Detective Morgan did with the evidence: the door forced from inside, the shooter placed at the exact spot Caleb described standing, the neighbor Morgan already had on record before Caleb dared him to check. Segment three covers the breaks: an accusation that nobody made, a timeline that collapsed from two to five minutes down to five seconds, and a missing handgun known only to two children and a dead woman.Robin Dreeke reads the behavioral tells across every clip. Three days after these interviews, Caleb Flynn was arrested.He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and all related charges. He is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.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
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Mark Leeman had thirty minutes at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, and he spent part of it on a man who is not Richard Allen. That argument could send the Delphi murders case back for a new trial, and it starts with a tattoo.Richard Allen was convicted in November 2024 of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German and is serving 130 years. His trial lawyers wanted the jury to hear about Brad Holder, a man Indiana State Police investigated in 2017 and never charged. Judge Frances Gull said no. The reason is Indiana's rule on third-party suspects: the defense has to show a direct connection to the crime, and the state argued there wasn't one.Leeman told the panel what that rule kept out: two tips in March 2017 naming Holder as a match for Bridge Guy, and a work alibi that rested on a landfill time card. Then came a rune Holder drew on his hand and posted online, which Leeman says has the same shape as the sticks laid on Abby, alongside photos of girls posed as if dead under branches. By Leeman's account, an officer took that to his superior and asked to reopen, and was told they'd already cleared him.The state's response was a location and a clerk. Holder was at a landfill in Buffalo, Indiana, about 25 miles away, when the girls were confronted and when Libby's phone stopped moving, and a landfill employee testified that a missing driver would have been noticed. The FBI's analyst, the state added, did not see clear runes in the sticks at all.Defense attorney Bob Motta and I take the three clips apart and ask whether a time card should ever be the thing that keeps a name away from a jury.Three judges are deciding. The losing side can take it to the Indiana Supreme Court.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 #HiddenKillers #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrime #Odinism #TrueCrimeCommunity
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This is the complete interrogation breakdown — nine clips across three segments, dissected by Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke. Two police interviews from February 16, 2026, hours after prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn shot his wife Ashley while she slept in their Tipp City home.Segment one covers the performance: the clean phone, the perfect-marriage lie, the alternative suspects, the church-going family image — all built before the detective asked a question. Segment two covers the detective's game: the staged door, the shooter placed at the foot of the bed using Caleb's own words, the neighbor Morgan already had on record. Segment three covers the breaks: the accusation Caleb made before anyone accused him, the timeline that collapsed from minutes to seconds, and the missing gun known only to two sleeping children and a dead woman.Robin reads the behavioral tells, the interrogation technique, and the moments the mask slipped. Three days after these interviews, Caleb Flynn was arrested.He 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 #CalebFlynnInterrogation #CalebFlynnTrial #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCityOhio #RobinDreeke #MiamiCountyOhio #TrueCrime