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The second full week of testimony is underway in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. The former American Idol alum is accused of murdering his wife of 15 years, Ashely Flynn. On Friday, Flynn sobbed once again in court as a detective played both of his interrogation videos, recorded on the day of his wife’s murder. Detectives also testified to what they found in Ashely’s phone, saying there was no evidence Ashley was having an affair like Caleb claimed, but there was evidence she knew of Caleb’s affair, at one point texting him, “you can be honest, was it her?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The second full week of testimony is underway in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. The former American Idol alum is accused of murdering his wife of 15 years, Ashely Flynn. On Friday, Flynn sobbed once again in court as a detective played both of his interrogation videos, recorded on the day of his wife’s murder. Detectives also testified to what they found in Ashely’s phone, saying there was no evidence Ashley was having an affair like Caleb claimed, but there was evidence she knew of Caleb’s affair, at one point texting him, “you can be honest, was it her?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Day 7 of the Caleb Flynn trial featured testimony from Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan and BCI criminal intelligence analyst Samantha Reed. Jurors heard more about Caleb Flynn's February 19 interrogation, conducted three days after Ashley's death. Investigators walked Caleb through his timeline from the night of the shooting, including where he said he slept, what he heard, his movements through the home, the garage door, the family's firearms, and his call to 911.BCI analyst Samantha Reed then testified about the massive amount of digital evidence reviewed in the case, including cell-phone extractions, social-media accounts, emails, financial records, Instagram activity and GroupMe communications. She described more than 100,000 GroupMe messages and testified about communications involving Caleb and Alyah, discussions about Caleb's marriage, deleting data, and messages in which Caleb allegedly spoke about wanting Ashley dead or gone.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/pretty-lies-and-alibis--4447192/support.ALL MERCH 10% off with code Sherlock10 at checkout - NEW STYLES Donate: (Thank you for your support! Couldn't do what I love without all y'all) PayPal - paypal.com/paypalme/prettyliesandalibisVenmo - @prettyliesalibisBuy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prettyliesrCash App- PrettyliesandalibisAll links: https://linktr.ee/prettyliesandalibisMerch: prettyliesandalibis.myshopify.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/PrettyLiesAndAlibis(Weekly lives and private message board)
The second full week of testimony is underway in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. The former American Idol alum is accused of murdering his wife of 15 years, Ashely Flynn. On Friday, Flynn sobbed once again in court as a detective played both of his interrogation videos, recorded on the day of his wife’s murder. Detectives also testified to what they found in Ashely’s phone, saying there was no evidence Ashley was having an affair like Caleb claimed, but there was evidence she knew of Caleb’s affair, at one point texting him, “you can be honest, was it her?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The second full week of testimony is underway in the Caleb Flynn murder trial. The former American Idol alum is accused of murdering his wife of 15 years, Ashely Flynn. On Friday, Flynn sobbed once again in court as a detective played both of his interrogation videos, recorded on the day of his wife’s murder. Detectives also testified to what they found in Ashely’s phone, saying there was no evidence Ashley was having an affair like Caleb claimed, but there was evidence she knew of Caleb’s affair, at one point texting him, “you can be honest, was it her?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kevin "Fresh" Townsend grew up in Brooklyn with his father in prison and his mother raising him on her own. He took to the streets at a young age, dropped out of high school, became involved with gangs, and started dealing drugs. Then, at just 19 years old, he landed on America's Most Wanted for a murder he says he did not commit. After two trials, Kevin was convicted and sentenced to 20 years to life in New York state prison. Over the next two decades, he ran with the Bloods, navigated Rikers Island, and survived some of New York's toughest maximum-security prisons. After serving 20 years, Kevin finally walked free — just two weeks before sitting down to record this episode. _____________________________________________ Become an EXCLUSIVE Locked In: After Hours Member & recieve a FREE merch box: https://lockedin.supportingcast.fm/ _____________________________________________ Connect with Kevin "Fresh" Townsend: Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPSW499L?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/townsendrealm/ _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Kevin 00:50 Growing Up in Brooklyn 02:10 The Impact of Having a Father in Prison 03:03 Street Lessons and Gang Life 03:57 Gambling and the Addiction to Money 06:10 The Routine of Gang Life 08:12 Staying Away from Selling Drugs 10:14 Family Love and His Father's Advice 12:56 Reading Books and Dreaming of a Better Life 14:27 A History of Violence and Fear 17:35 Charged with Murder 25:53 Arrest and Interrogation 27:31 Lack of Evidence and False Testimony 30:19 First Day at Rikers and the Start of Prison Life 34:00 First Trial and Mistrial 37:12 Convicted at the Second Trial 40:01 Sentencing and a 20-Year Prison Sentence 44:37 Failed Appeals and Losing Hope 48:53 Sent Upstate to Prison 51:18 Five Points and Adjusting to a New Life 54:00 Prison Rules and Survival Tactics 57:19 Solitary Confinement and Mental Struggles 59:49 Transfers Between Prisons and Different Experiences 01:04:18 Relationships with Other Inmates and Unexpected Events 01:07:57 Back in Solitary and Working on Himself 01:12:54 Released from Prison and Reuniting with Family 01:15:19 Adjusting to Life on the Outside 01:18:50 New Goals and Hope for the Future 01:23:22 Marriage and Relationship Struggles 01:26:29 Lessons from Prison and Advice for Young People _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka
Certains y voient un nouveau revirement de ligne, d'autres pas du tout. Le RN, accusé d'être pro-russe par ses adversaires depuis longtemps, s'est distingué ces derniers jours en publiant un communiqué d'une inhabituelle fermeté à l'égard de Moscou. Il est signé de Marine Le Pen et Jordan Bardella. C'est un communiqué publié samedi 19 septembre, au lendemain d'une réunion à l'Élysée où les chefs de partis avaient été conviés par Emmanuel Macron pour évoquer, entre autres, la menace hybride russe. Les deux têtes du Rassemblement national ne mâchent pas leurs mots : « Nous ne tolérerons jamais que la Russie espère dicter la politique de notre pays par l'intimidation, la menace, la déstabilisation ou la pression psychologique. » Une rupture affichée avec le passé Cette prise de distance sonne comme une rupture pour un parti ayant emprunté à une banque russe dans un passé pas si lointain, et dont la candidate avait été reçue il y a dix ans par Vladimir Poutine. Cette réputation fâcheuse doit être effacée à l'heure où les portes de l'Élysée s'ouvrent en grand pour l'extrême droite française. « Au seuil d'une présidentielle, il faut être ferme », assume un très proche de Marine Le Pen, se félicitant des effets du communiqué. Notamment une réaction négative venue de Dmitri Medvedev, ancien président russe. Dans un tweet, celui-ci qualifie le parti de Le Pen de « parti européen ordinaire », l'accusant de « russophobie et de soutien aux nazis ukrainiens ». « C'est pas trop tôt », en vient même à se dire un membre du parti à la flamme. « Ça nous rend évidemment service », ajoute un autre. À lire aussiFrance : dans une volte-face singulière, le RN durcit le ton face à la Russie, qui nie toute «menace» Ambiguïtés, critiques et doutes Toutefois, cela ne convainc pas vraiment les opposants au RN. Beaucoup, surtout chez les macronistes, dénoncent un double langage et une ambiguïté. Ils s'appuient notamment sur le point presse de Jordan Bardella et Éric Ciotti à la sortie de la réunion à l'Élysée, au cours duquel ils ont très peu évoqué la menace russe, voire dénoncé une dramatisation de la part d'Emmanuel Macron. Les adversaires du RN pointent aussi un faux soutien à l'Ukraine, notamment parce que Marine Le Pen dit ne plus vouloir soutenir financièrement Kiev, tout en proposant de l'aide matérielle et en plaidant pour une grande conférence pour la paix. Une formulation, il est vrai, pas franchement claire. En interne aussi, le parti s'interroge sur cette stratégie. Un élu assure ne pas « comprendre la manœuvre incompréhensible », qui ferait selon lui du RN un parti « mainstream ». Interrogation à froid également à l'extérieur du parti. Un ancien ministre, dubitatif, résume : « À la fois les pro-ukrainiens ne les croiront pas, et les pro-russes vous qualifieront de traîtres. » Mais ce positionnement flou ne serait-il au final pas le but recherché ? Une sorte de clair-obscur… comme un refuge. À écouter aussiFrance : Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, sous l'œil de Moscou et Washington
A neighbor of the pastor shoes the videos of his mistress coming and going - we've seen theseThe pastor at CLC testifiesWe end the day with interrogation videos of Caleb from the day of the homicideBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/pretty-lies-and-alibis--4447192/support.ALL MERCH 10% off with code Sherlock10 at checkout - NEW STYLES Donate: (Thank you for your support! Couldn't do what I love without all y'all) PayPal - paypal.com/paypalme/prettyliesandalibisVenmo - @prettyliesalibisBuy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prettyliesrCash App- PrettyliesandalibisAll links: https://linktr.ee/prettyliesandalibisMerch: prettyliesandalibis.myshopify.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/PrettyLiesAndAlibis(Weekly lives and private message board)
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It's a new explosive Davey Mac Sports Program where no one is safe! The NFL is back and unfortunately so was Netflix's lame coverage! Elle Duncan's weird gloves, stupid football player fashion shows, and dumb eating segments are vomited all over the TV! Mike Francesa deservedly hates football pregame shows and he's not wrong! The DorkCenter guys Gary Striewski and Randy Scott are in the crosshairs as they prove that Dave is close to being Nostradamus! As the people say...Dave wins again! And the SportsCenter douches lose! Special guest Bronx Johnny zooms in and is put under Interrogation! We discuss the insane Steve Sarkisian Vs. Holly Rowe incident and the insane A.I. videos that emerge! And a Social Distortion classic is played! Experience this epic 448th episode of the award-winning Davey Mac Sports Program today! BOOM!
This episode is brought to you by Urban Platter. To know more, checkout: https://bit.ly/urban-platter-figuring-outGet your hand-picked playbook here: https://www.figuringout.co/pdf/fo-563Guest Suggestion Form: https://forms.gle/bnaeY3FpoFU9ZjA47Disclaimer: This video is intended solely for educational purposes and opinions shared by the guest are her personal views. We do not intent to defame or harm any person/ brand/ product/ country/ profession mentioned in the video. Our goal is to provide information to help audience make informed choices. The media used in this video are solely for informational purposes and belongs to their respective owners.(00:00) - Intro(03:25) - From NYPD Cop to Protecting the President: Her Untold Story(09:17) - The Brutal Secret Service Exam Almost Nobody Passes(20:34) - The Hate She Faced as a Young Cop on the Street(26:46) - The Psychology Trick That Gets Even Criminals to Talk(33:46) - Inside Presidential Security: Snipers, Clean Zones & Hidden Threats(45:22) - The Diplomatic Nightmare of Guarding a Leader on Foreign Soil(49:43) - Why Even "Friendly" Governments Resist US Security Demands(56:22) - Bulletproof Vests & the Science of Catching a Lie(1:07:56) - Going Undercover: A Russian Sting & a Passport-Trafficking Bust(1:13:11) - How She'd Interrogate Jeffrey Epstein and Ted Bundy(1:29:21) - Signs of Psychopathy(1:32:44) - What Would She Ask Osama Bin Laden in an Interrogation?(1:40:16) - What's One Mistake Investigators Can Make to Blow Up the Interrogation?(1:42:56) - Why Is It the Worst Time to Be a World Leader?(1:48:34) - When Has She Felt the Most Powerless in Her Life?(1:51:30) - What's the Cost of Being Successful at What She Does?(1:56:06) - BTS(1:57:25) - OutroIn today's episode, we sit down with Evy Poumpouras, a former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent who spent over a decade protecting several American Presidents and served on the Presidential Protective Division for Barack and Michelle Obama, before becoming a trained interrogator, polygraph examiner, and behavioral expert.Follow Evy Poumpouras here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evypoumpouras/X: https://x.com/EvyPoumpourasLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evypoumpouras/About Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More, Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamani https://www.instagram.com/rajshamani/Twitter @RajShamani https://twitter.com/rajshamaniFacebook @ShamaniRaj https://www.facebook.com/shamanirajLinkedIn - Raj Shamani https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajshamani/About Figuring OutFiguring Out Podcast is a Candid Conversations University where Raj Shamani brings raw conversations with the Top 1% in India.
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On today’s China Compass podcast, we work our way through three inter-related articles that flow together, starting with China’s relatively open borders, its banning of many VPN services, and its long-time blockade of Tibet, both physically and virtually. Last, we look at all the Pray for China cities of the week. Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new Chinese city prayer profiles every single day, including amazing pics and links to more China resources.You can also also email me (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else at PrayGiveGo.us! Help Us Equip and Encourage China’s Persecuted Church Sponsor a Chinese Pastor/Evangelist for $1000! Contact me (bfwesten AT gmail dot com) Or donate directly at: MCI3.org Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China Unbeaten.vip China’s Visa Free Boom https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/chinas-visa-free-boom-is-rewriting-inbound-tourism/ China Cracks Down on VPN Usage https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/its-becoming-more-difficult-finding-stable-vpns-china-increases-crackdown-on-vpn-usage China’s Tibet Censorship Explained https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/china-nepal-tibet-censorship-explained/eo8qkzx0i Pray for China Weekly (Sep 7-13): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-sep-7-13-2026 Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!
On today’s China Compass podcast, we work our way through three inter-related articles that flow together, starting with China’s relatively open borders, its banning of many VPN services, and its long-time blockade of Tibet, both physically and virtually. Last, we look at all the Pray for China cities of the week. Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new Chinese city prayer profiles every single day, including amazing pics and links to more China resources.You can also also email me (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else at PrayGiveGo.us! Help Us Equip and Encourage China’s Persecuted Church Sponsor a Chinese Pastor/Evangelist for $1000! Contact me (bfwesten AT gmail dot com) Or donate directly at: MCI3.org Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China Unbeaten.vip China’s Visa Free Boom https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/chinas-visa-free-boom-is-rewriting-inbound-tourism/ China Cracks Down on VPN Usage https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/its-becoming-more-difficult-finding-stable-vpns-china-increases-crackdown-on-vpn-usage China’s Tibet Censorship Explained https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/china-nepal-tibet-censorship-explained/eo8qkzx0i Pray for China Weekly (Sep 7-13): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-sep-7-13-2026 Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!
At a CIA black site, FBI agent Ali Soufan is questioning the first high-value terrorist captured by the US since 9/11. But with the detainee's wounds going septic and the CIA's patience fading, the window for uncovering al-Qaeda's next plot is closing fast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What happens when the justice system gets it catastrophically wrong? Neil Mercer has spent over five decades as a journalist unafraid of the hard stories, as evidenced in his latest book Falsely Convicted. In this episode, Neil joins Gary to unpack two of Australia's most shocking miscarriages of justice. First, the wrongful conviction of schoolteacher Josephine Greensill, whose life was torn apart by allegations from two former students dredged up from three decades earlier. Then, the case of Andrew Mallard, who was wrongfully convicted for the 1994 murder of Perth shopkeeper Pamela Lawrence. Gary also shares a confronting personal account from his early career as a detective, illustrating how difficult it can be to halt the "machinery of the justice system" once it's in motion, even when doubts about guilt begin to surface. Neil Mercer is the author of Falsely Convicted: True Stories of Injustice in Australia. Want to hear more from Neil Mercer? Listen to his other interviews with Gary on I Catch Killers here and here. You can watch I Catch Killers on Youtube here. Follow I Catch Killers:Instagram: @icatchkillersTiktok: @icatchkillerspodcastFacebook: @icatchkillers Email the show at icatchkillers@news.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's a fired up and new Davey Mac Sports Program as we've got multiple people in the crosshairs and we're taking dead aim! The Lakers are sold (again) for billions of dollars! What does this mean for the franchise and Jay Mohr?! The WNBA continues to embarrass itself with moronic controversy after controversy...Dijonai Carrington exposes the league for being insane, delusional, and corrupt! Stephanie White makes a fool of herself and shows she's the most inept coach in sports! Controversy continues to swirl around Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark...while the commissioner does nothing! Also, a soccer player jumps to his doom, a White Sox manager makes an idiotic mistake, Interrogation, Robert's Rants, The Doors, and more! It's an amazing 444th episode of the award-winning* Davey Mac Sports Program that you need to hear! BOOM! * Best Independent Sports Podcast - iTunes Editorial Team
Cole, CIT's Power Platform Developer, to recap a recent Prompting 101 webinar focused on CRIT prompting—Context, Role, Interrogation, and Task—and why being specific in each area leads to better AI outputs. Cole explains each CRIT component, highlights common prompting mistakes like over-instructing the AI on how to reach an answer, and discusses how to address bias by explicitly naming it in prompts so the AI can avoid reinforcing it. He also answers how much context is too much, noting that while you can't give too much in a single prompt, long multi-phase threads can introduce irrelevant context due to model limits. Looking ahead, Cole expects prompting to remain important while evolving toward reusable AI “skills” for consistent outputs such as CIT's readiness assessment reports.00:00 Webinar Recap Intro00:24 CRIT Prompting Framework02:28 Common Prompting Mistakes03:37 Bias and Output Steering05:12 How Much Context Is Too Much06:21 Future of Prompting Skills07:40 From Prompts to Skills11:23 Wrap Up and Next Steps11:40 OutroCheck out the full webinar here: https://www.citsolutions.net/events/webinars/ai-starter-series/
EMOTIONALLY DRUNK ON YOU A Deeper Investigation Into Whether Insecure Attachment and Codependence Turn Love Into an Emotional Substance We Use to Escape Ourselves With Special Guest Dr. Allen Berger SYNOPSIS A lover can enter your bloodstream without ever touching your body. One text settles the panic. One unanswered call restarts it. A warm tone restores your worth. A distant look sends your identity into free fall. No chemical entered the system, yet the entire internal climate changed. What, then, have you been consuming? Human beings rarely describe romantic attachment as intoxication. Culture gives it prettier names. Passion. Loyalty. Devotion. Chemistry. Ride-or-die love. Yet beneath some of these celebrated experiences lives a dangerous emotional arrangement: another person has become responsible for producing the inner condition you cannot yet produce, tolerate, or sustain for yourself. Their attention becomes medicine. Their approval becomes evidence that you matter. Their availability becomes protection against abandonment. Their need for you becomes proof that you deserve to exist. Their obedience becomes peace. Once love carries this burden, relationship stops functioning as an encounter between two free human beings. It becomes a private emotional economy in which one person must keep paying so the other person does not collapse. Attachment theory helps explain how early bonds can shape the adult nervous system's expectations of closeness, separation, safety, and loss. Codependence adds another layer. A person may manage, rescue, fix, please, monitor, sacrifice, or overfunction in order to maintain access to emotional security. The behavior can look loving from the outside while fear quietly writes the contract. The anxious partner may call control “connection.” The avoidant partner may call emotional disappearance “freedom.” The rescuer may call indispensability “service.” The self-erasing partner may call surrender “commitment.” Every strategy attempts to solve the same unbearable problem: how can I keep another person from awakening feelings I do not know how to live with? Dr. Allen Berger's concept of emotional sobriety attacks this arrangement at its foundation. His work challenges the hidden belief that personal peace depends upon people, places, and circumstances behaving according to our private rules. “I am okay if you call.” “I am okay if you stay.” “I am okay if you understand.” “I am okay if you choose me.” These conditions turn another person's freedom into a threat. Could emotional sobriety begin when “I am okay if” finally loses authority? This does not require emotional coldness, radical isolation, or the fantasy that mature adults need nobody. Human beings require connection. The deeper question concerns governance. Who governs your inner life when someone disappoints you? Who controls your identity when affection gets withdrawn? Who becomes responsible for calming the fear that existed before the relationship began? Clinical maturity may involve learning to experience jealousy without surveillance, loneliness without self-erasure, uncertainty without interrogation, disappointment without retaliation, and grief without turning loss into proof of personal worthlessness. Philosophically, emotional sobriety confronts our understanding of love itself. Can love remain love when it demands psychological captivity? Can intimacy survive without control? Can commitment retain meaning when fear serves as the lock? A partner who cannot leave has not necessarily chosen you. A partner who must constantly regulate you has little room left to meet you. Culturally, many communities teach people to endure emotional dependence as evidence of loyalty. Men may learn to hide dependency behind authority, possession, silence, or rage. Women may receive praise for transforming self-neglect into service. Family systems can reward the person who carries everyone while quietly punishing the same person for developing a self. Under these conditions, codependence can wear the clothing of morality. Metaphysically, the topic reaches even further. What happens when consciousness seeks completion through possession? Can another person ever provide permanent shelter from an interior world you refuse to inhabit? Perhaps every attempt to make someone else the source of your emotional stability places sacred responsibility in human hands that cannot carry it. Tonight's investigation enters the space between love and dependency, support and self-abandonment, care and control, attachment and intoxication. Are you loving your partner? Or are you drinking them? And when the emotional supply runs low, who do you become?
This week’s episode of the Prison Pulpit begins with a deep dive into an article written by a Chinese pastor about his experiences answering two Chinese objections to Christianity: is it all about money? And is Christianity a foreign religion? He eventually boils down his response to one final thought: it's not whether Christ is Chinese, but that China belongs to Christ! Then we talk about praying for China, and I share a related story from my first visit (23 years ago) to Yanchi (Salt Lake) in north central China. I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to pray for every single day. Feel free to email anytime: chinacompass @ privacyport.com. Check out PrayGiveGo.us for everything else, incl. Patreon, Substack & books… The Memoirs of William Milne (PrayGiveGo.us) The Autobiography of John G. Paton (JohnGPaton.com) Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip) Why the Prison Pulpit? The goal is to remind people to pray for persecuted believers as Hebrews 13:3 teaches: “Remember those who are in prison, as bound with them.” We’ve looked at Wang Yi and Early Rain Church’s writings in the aftermath of their arrest and attack in 2018, but I’ve also regularly turned to other persecuted ministers who have gone before, such as Richard Wurmbrand, to give us a voice literally from prison. (Here you’ll find some free PDF books by Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.org/) Is Your Christianity Chinese? https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2025/12/is-your-christianity-chinese/ Pray for China Cities of the Week (July 27-Aug 2): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-july-27-aug-2-2026 Story Time: I had a memorable visit to Yanchi (Salt Lake) way back during my first few months in China in the early summer of 2003, which included roaming the arid alleyways in pitch black darkness (literally couldn’t see my own feet), leaving small packets/portions of God’s Word on hundreds of doorsteps and in many a bicycle basket all over the little town. Equipping and Encouraging the Persecuted Chinese Church Strategic project to equip China's underground church. Sponsor a Chinese Pastor/Evangelist for $1000! Contact me (bfwesten AT gmail dot com) Or donate directly at: MCI3.org Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe & leave a review on your preferred podcast platform! And don’t forget to visit PrayGiveGo.us for books + Heb. 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!
It's a fantastic, new Davey Mac Sports Program as we welcome DMSP O.G. Flutesy to the show! We play some music and put Flutesy under Interrogation! Plus, we ask her why the WNBA sucks so bad and are women just jealous in nature? We talk about Monica McNutt's ridiculous ask of Caitlin Clark and a lunatic lady writer for USA Today who brought up Emmett Till when discussing Clark! We look at the lowlights from the WNBA All Star Game and why does this league even exist? Also, we talk about Ryan Clark crying on a podcast after getting booted by ESPN, J.J. Watt calling out Pat McAfee, LeBron James going to the Sixers, and much, much more! It's a big and fun 442nd episode of the award-winning* Davey Mac Sports Program that you need to hear today! BOOM!
This week’s episode of the Prison Pulpit begins with a deep dive into an article written by a Chinese pastor about his experiences answering two Chinese objections to Christianity: is it all about money? And is Christianity a foreign religion? He eventually boils down his response to one final thought: it's not whether Christ is Chinese, but that China belongs to Christ! Then we talk about praying for China, and I share a related story from my first visit (23 years ago) to Yanchi (Salt Lake) in north central China. I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to pray for every single day. Feel free to email anytime: chinacompass @ privacyport.com. Check out PrayGiveGo.us for everything else, incl. Patreon, Substack & books… The Memoirs of William Milne (PrayGiveGo.us) The Autobiography of John G. Paton (JohnGPaton.com) Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip) Why the Prison Pulpit? The goal is to remind people to pray for persecuted believers as Hebrews 13:3 teaches: “Remember those who are in prison, as bound with them.” We’ve looked at Wang Yi and Early Rain Church’s writings in the aftermath of their arrest and attack in 2018, but I’ve also regularly turned to other persecuted ministers who have gone before, such as Richard Wurmbrand, to give us a voice literally from prison. (Here you’ll find some free PDF books by Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.org/) Is Your Christianity Chinese? https://chinapartnership.org/blog/2025/12/is-your-christianity-chinese/ Pray for China Cities of the Week (July 27-Aug 2): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-july-27-aug-2-2026 Story Time: I had a memorable visit to Yanchi (Salt Lake) way back during my first few months in China in the early summer of 2003, which included roaming the arid alleyways in pitch black darkness (literally couldn’t see my own feet), leaving small packets/portions of God’s Word on hundreds of doorsteps and in many a bicycle basket all over the little town. Equipping and Encouraging the Persecuted Chinese Church Strategic project to equip China's underground church. Sponsor a Chinese Pastor/Evangelist for $1000! Contact me (bfwesten AT gmail dot com) Or donate directly at: MCI3.org Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe & leave a review on your preferred podcast platform! And don’t forget to visit PrayGiveGo.us for books + Heb. 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!
In this episode of The Biollywood Podcast, the Director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense at the Atlantic Council, Dr. Asha M. George, Associate Director for Research, J.T. O'Brien, and Associate Director for Government Relations and Policy, Robert Bradley, discuss S02E10 of NCIS: Origins, Lean on Me. We are joined by special guest, Patrick Cady, who directed the episode. Patrick is an Emmy-nominated cinematographer-turned-director known for his visual storytelling on acclaimed series like Bosch and Insecure. He began his career working with legendary filmmaker John Sayles on films like Passion Fish and Sunshine State, and his cinematography credits include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Girlfight. As a director, he has helmed pivotal episodes of Rectify, Interrogation, and the series finale of Bosch. Premise: A Marine captain, Brian Polanco, stumbles into the NIS office at Camp Pendleton exhibiting symptoms that initially appear to be intoxication. When Gibbs attempts to place him in the drunk tank, Polanco begins seizing violently. Paramedics arrive and suspect the Lenkah virus—a fictional pathogen with a 95% mortality rate that last appeared in 1924—triggering a full office quarantine and lockdown. With Mike Franks sidelined by a thrown-out back and most of the team trapped at a bar offsite, Gibbs finds himself as the senior agent in charge during what appears to be a bioterrorism event. The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense is within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at Atlantic Council. Learn more about the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense here. Follow us on X (@Biodefensecomm), LinkedIn, and Facebook for more updates. Email us with recommendations on what to review next: biollywood@biodefensecommission.org
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If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsCondensed Bibliography for Part FourJohn F. Kihlstrom. Writings on hypnosis, memory, hypnotic hypermnesia, and confidence.Elizabeth F. Loftus. Eyewitness Testimony.Elizabeth F. Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. The Myth of Repressed Memory.Daniel L. Schacter. The Seven Sins of Memory.Richard J. McNally. Remembering Trauma.Nicholas P. Spanos. Multiple Identities and False Memories.Frederick Crews. The Memory Wars.Ian Hacking. Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, and Judith W. Rhue. Research on hypnosis, suggestion, and memory.Martin T. Orne. Writings on forensic hypnosis, demand characteristics, and memory.Bernard L. Diamond. Writings on hypnosis and witness testimony.U.S. Department of Justice materials on hypnotically refreshed testimony.U.S. Senate. Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, 1977 joint hearing.U.S. Senate Church Committee materials on intelligence activities and behavioral research.National Security Archive. CIA behavior-control experiments, BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA document collections.Central Intelligence Agency declassified MKULTRA, ARTICHOKE, and BLUEBIRD materials.John Marks. The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control.Alfred W. McCoy. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.Stephen Kinzer. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.H. P. Albarelli Jr. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.Shane O'Mara. Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.Darius Rejali. Torture and Democracy.Robert Jay Lifton. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.Edgar H. Schein. Coercive Persuasion.Alexandra Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing.Stanley Milgram. Obedience to Authority.Jacques Ellul. Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.Robert Cialdini. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.Dion Fortune. Psychic Self-Defense.Dion Fortune. The Machinery of the Mind.William Walker Atkinson. Mind-Power: The Secret of Mental Magic.Émile Coué. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
This week’s episode of the Prison Pulpit begins with a look at what has been going on with Iranian Christians for many years, followed by a look at the remaining five Chinese (and Tibetan) places to pray for this week. Finally, I talk about a strategic opportunity to “adopt” a Chinese pastor/missionary. I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to pray for every single day. Feel free to email anytime: chinacompass @ privacyport.com. Check out PrayGiveGo.us for everything else, incl. Patreon, Substack & books… The Memoirs of William Milne (PrayGiveGo.us) The Autobiography of John G. Paton (JohnGPaton.com) Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary (BordenofYale.com) Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip) Why the Prison Pulpit? The goal is to remind people to pray for persecuted believers as Hebrews 13:3 teaches: “Remember those who are in prison, as bound with them.” We’ve looked at Wang Yi and Early Rain Church’s writings in the aftermath of their arrest and attack in 2018, but I’ve also regularly turned to other persecuted ministers who have gone before, such as Richard Wurmbrand, to give us a voice literally from prison. (Here you’ll find some free PDF books by Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.org/) Iran Testimony https://notthebee.com/article/iran-jails-five-christians-for-distributing-bibles-baptizing-new-believers Pray for China Profiles (July 20-26), including TIBET on July 22 https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-july-20-26-2026 China Gathering Strategic project in 2026 to equip China's underground church. Adopt/Sponsor a Chinese Pastor/Evangelist for $1000! How to Give? Contact me or donate at: MCI3.org Follow China Compass Thank you for listening! Subscribe & leave a review on your preferred podcast platform! And don’t forget to visit PrayGiveGo.us for books + Heb. 13:3: Remember those who are in prison, “as bound with them”!
In this episode of Zone 7, Sheryl McCollum is joined by retired Secret Service agent and polygraph examiner Brad Beeler to discuss what 25 years of talking with suspects, witnesses, victims, and some of the worst offenders taught him about getting people to open up and tell the truth. Brad covers why trust has to come before truth, the damage one accusatory word can do to a conversation, and how respect gets people to open up faster than pressure ever will. He also shares practical signs that may indicate deception, why sometimes the best thing you can do is stop talking and listen, and how the same principles he relied on in high-stakes investigations can help anyone become a better communicator. Highlights: (0:00) Sheryl McCollum introduces retired Secret Service agent Brad Beeler and the moment she saw his commitment to a cold case firsthand (5:30) Why making people feel heard, respected, and genuinely listened to can change a conversation (8:00) The worst thing you can call someone when you are trying to get the truth (10:00) Why Brad aims to listen 80% of the time and what investigators can learn when they stop talking (15:45) “Create a space where truth feels safe enough to emerge” (17:45) Why even the worst offenders have to be treated with respect if investigators want answers (21:30) How Brad evaluates possible deception without relying on a single supposed ‘tell’ (23:15) Turning a story into a yes-or-no question to test whether someone will stand behind what they said (24:30) Delayed answers, vocal inflection, overly specific responses, and qualifying words that may signal deception (27:15) Why respect matters more than rapport when you have little in common with someone (28:30) What protecting foreign dignitaries taught Brad about professional respect across cultural and political divides Enjoying Zone 7? Leave a rating and review where you listen to podcasts. Your feedback helps others find the show and supports the mission to educate, engage, and inspire. --- Brad Beeler is a retired U.S. Secret Service agent and polygraph examiner with 25 years of experience conducting high-stakes interviews and investigations. Named Secret Service Special Agent of the Year, he is also a recipient of the Director’s Service Award and Forensic Hero Award and a former instructor at the National Center for Credibility Assessment. He is the author of Tell me Everything: A Secret Service Agent’s Proven Strategies for Earning Trust, Revealing Truth, and Communicating with Anyone.| Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an active crime scene investigator for a metro Atlanta police department and the director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, which partners with colleges and universities nationwide. With more than four decades of experience, she has worked on thousands of cold cases using her investigative system, The Last 24/361, which integrates evidence, media, and advanced forensic testing. Her work on high-profile cases, including The Boston Strangler, Natalie Holloway, Tupac Shakur and the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching, led to her Emmy Award for CSI: Atlanta and induction into the National Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2023. Social Links: Email: coldcase2004@gmail.com X: @ColdCaseTips Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum Instagram: @officialzone7podcast TikTok: @Sheryl.McCollum Sheryl’s new book, Swans Don’t Swim in a Sewer: Solving the Cold Case of the Flint River Killer’s Daughter, is available now wherever books are sold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it's enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty. Except for identical twins. It's not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters. The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare. Except for Ohio. A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins. Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent? And which twin is guilty? Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The Taylor Parker police interrogation offers a chilling look into one of the most disturbing murder cases featured in recent true crime news. In this episode of the STS podcast, we analyze the Taylor Parker police interrogation, breaking down her statements, investigator questioning, and the behavioral clues that have drawn intense public attention. The Taylor Parker police interrogation provides a revealing window into a case that shocked the nation and continues to spark discussion among legal and criminal psychology experts. Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman and the #BestGuests in true crime as they examine the interrogation footage, the evidence presented by investigators, and the psychological dynamics at play during questioning. Our panel discusses how detectives approach high-profile homicide investigations, what interrogation techniques were used, and how the statements made during the interview fit into the broader case. We also explore the legal significance of the interrogation and why it remains a key part of understanding this tragic crime. If you're following this case or interested in criminal psychology, this episode delivers a direct, conversational, and concise breakdown of the interrogation and the investigation behind it. Stay informed with expert legal analysis, compelling real crime stories, powerful survivor stories, the latest true crime news, discussions of notable cold cases, and trusted reporting from the STS podcast.Key Points from the Episode: Analysis of the Taylor Parker police interrogation Behavioral and psychological insights from the interview Detective interrogation techniques explained Key evidence discussed during the investigation Legal significance of the interrogation Expert analysis from the #BestGuests What the interrogation reveals about the overall case Netflix's Taylor Parker: Maternal Instincts tells the shocking true story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy before murdering a pregnant woman and abducting her unborn baby. In this episode, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman and the #BestGuests break down Taylor Parker's chilling police interrogation as investigators uncover the lies and reveal what really happened. If you're following the Taylor Parker case, Netflix's Maternal Instincts, police interrogations, and true crime, don't miss this in-depth STS analysis. Subscribe, Like & Set Alerts to "ALL" for show times & breaking news. https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingThe... Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-yr... Support the show & be a part of #STSNation: Donate to STS' Trial Travel: Https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/GJ... VENMO: @STSPodcast or Https://www.venmo.com/stspodcast Check out STS Merch: Https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/ Joel's Book: Https://amzn.to/48GwbLx Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingTheSurvivor Email: SurvivingTheSurvivor@gmail.com Surviving The Survivor is a leading destination for true crime analysis, breaking crime news, murder trial coverage, criminal investigations, courtroom breakdowns, and live case discussions. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman and his mother Karm, a child Holocaust survivor, STS brings together top FBI profilers, homicide detectives, criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, forensic experts, journalists, victims' advocates, and survivors to analyze the biggest true crime stories. From high-profile murder cases and missing persons investigations to serial killers, criminal psychology, police procedures, and major court trials, STS delivers fact-based reporting and expert insight from those who have worked some of the nation's most notorious cases. Known for having the best guest in true crime, STS gives viewers direct access to the experts behind the headlines. Join #STSNation for live shows, breaking updates, audience Q&As, and in-depth case analysis. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
It's a Davey Mac Sports Program reunion of the OG's as Chris "Pepper" Stanley (Bennington, High Society Radio) drops by and, along with drummer Sean O. Barry and DMSP musical director Roy Harter, the Core Four is back! Join the boys for a spirited discussion of friendship, back-stabbing, Ron & Fez, music, the World Cup, why ESPN truly sucks and is evil these days, the Yankees, MLB All Star Weekend, the NFL, Pepper under Interrogation, the Ramones, and much, much more! It's an instant classic that you need to hear today! BOOM!
You're mid-conversation and suddenly—silence. If social anxiety creeps in when talk stalls, conversation threading fixes that. This is the practical technique for asking connected questions that keep conversation flowing naturally, without forcing it. You'll learn how to listen actively, respond with genuine interest, and build emotional connection with anyone. By the end, you'll have the conversation skills to deepen rapport and never feel stuck again. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:15 Interrogation vs Asking Questions 5:43 Using Questions for Rapport Building 9:31 Self-Revelation in Conversations 13:13 Avoiding Inappropriate Topics 17:23 Maintaining Conversation Energy 21:04 Simple Communication Strategies 25:12 Enhancing Conversational Skills 28:52 Redirecting the Conversation 32:27 Personal History and Experience In this channel, Patrick King shares his expertise on social skills and communication, helping you master conversation starters, small talk, and even how to keep conversations flowing naturally with anyone. From building rapport through active listening and reflective listening to creating emotional connections and managing social anxiety, learn how to never run out of things to say and maintain that engaging conversation energy throughout your interactions. Join us as we dive into the psychology behind effective communication with insights from Patrick King Consulting and Russell Newton. Conversation Skills Training https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CQDGKQ8V/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWU-BK-ACX0-380016&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_380016_pd_us https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPHL9PC The Power of E.Q. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C5RY88DL/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWU-BK-ACX0-353304&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_353304_pd_us https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3CC2RM3
Sit with the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct from beginning to end and the question changes on you. It stops being what happened and becomes what kind of person could do this in the first place.That's the question this part of the series is built around. Not the evidence, not the timeline — the person at the center. A woman who faked a pregnancy for the better part of a year. Who took a baby from a young woman who was killed for it. Who could then sit in a hospital surrounded by police and stay composed. Each fact is hard to hold alone. Together, in one person, they force you to ask how.Tony watches the entire interrogation as a window into that question. He breaks down the psychology of who Parker seems to be — what the composure tells us, what the lying tells us, what the missing reactions tell us — while staying clear about the limits of what anyone can really know. Is she broken in a way with a clinical name? Someone who learned to perform humanity without feeling it? The tape doesn't close the case on that, but it gives you a long, honest look at the person.It's the question that made this case the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct — people kept asking how someone could possibly arrive here. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, far more than the film aired, and that unbroken stretch gives you a rare, unedited look at the person to weigh for yourself.This part isn't about a single line. It's the whole interrogation, read as a study of a woman now on Texas death row. The crime tells you what she did. The interrogation is the closest you'll get to who she really is.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
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Watch the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct all the way through and you end up somewhere uncomfortable. The question is no longer what happened. It's what kind of person is capable of doing it.That's the question this part of the series refuses to look away from. Set aside the evidence and the timeline and look at the person. A woman who faked a pregnancy for the better part of a year. Who took a baby from a young woman who was killed for it. Who could then sit in a hospital full of police and keep her composure. Any one of those facts is staggering. Stacked in a single person, they demand some kind of explanation.Tony watches the whole interrogation as a way into that question. He walks through the psychology of who Parker appears to be — what the calm implies, what the deception implies, what the absent reactions imply — and is honest about where understanding ends and guesswork begins. Is this someone broken in a way that has a name? Someone who learned to mimic feeling without having it? The tape doesn't resolve it, but it offers a rare, extended look at the person behind the case.The question has trailed this case since it broke. The killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and the taking of her baby became the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct largely because people couldn't stop asking how a person arrives at this. The full interrogation runs close to two hours — far beyond what aired — and that unbroken length is what makes it such a rare look at who she is.There's no single gotcha here. The story is the whole interrogation, read as a portrait of a woman now on Texas death row. The crime tells you what she did. This is as close as anyone gets to who she is.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #HiddenKillers #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #BehavioralAnalysis
The Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is usually picked apart for what she says and does. This part of the series goes the other way — it watches for the one thing she never does, not once, in the entire recording.Take in the moment. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is in a hospital being questioned by police, the center of the whole case. A situation like that should pull a response out of anyone — some grief, some horror, some sign of how monstrous the day has been. Watch the full interrogation for that response, and you may never see it surface.In this installment, Tony watches the footage for its absence. He breaks down the psychology of missing emotion: what it signals when the reaction you'd expect from any human being in this position simply doesn't appear, what experts read into that kind of flatness, and why what's gone can be more revealing than anything that's present.Keep the case in front of you while you watch. A young woman, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, was killed in New Boston, Texas, and her baby was taken — the story that became the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, with the person responsible now on Texas death row. A loss that size should register on a person somewhere, even faintly, even just once. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, far more than the documentary had room to air, which gives that reaction every opportunity to surface. It never does. The documentary could only hint at the emptiness; the unbroken footage lets you feel the full size of it.This part isn't built around a single line. It's about a void that runs the entire length of the tape. Watch Taylor Parker through this lens, and the thing that's missing becomes the thing you can't stop thinking about.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
At bottom, the Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is a contest of wills. On one side, people trained to extract the truth. On the other, Taylor Parker — a woman who had spent the better part of a year proving she could keep the truth from everyone in her life.This part of the series watches that contest unfold. Tony treats the interrogation as the back-and-forth it really is: the questions, the pressure, the openings investigators try to make, and the way Parker responds to all of it. He walks through the psychology of how a committed liar handles trained questioning — the deflecting, the reframing, the way a person shifts gears when the room clearly isn't buying it.It's tense to watch, because both sides are working in plain sight. The investigators know more than they show. Parker gives up less than they want. And the space between the two is where the entire interrogation lives. Beneath every calm word is the reason they're all there: a young pregnant woman is dead, and her baby was taken.The fight is weightier than it appears. The investigators are armed with the facts of a horrifying case — a young woman, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, killed in New Boston, Texas, her baby taken — the case that became the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. Across the table is a person who had spent the better part of a year defeating the truth as a matter of habit. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, far more than the film aired, and the long runtime is where the contest is actually decided.The point isn't a single answer. It's the whole dynamic of the room — a practiced liar against the people trying to crack her. Tony breaks down how each round goes, and what Parker's handling of the pressure reveals about the person across the table.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
The Taylor Parker interrogation in Maternal Instinct is usually discussed in terms of what she said. This part of the series flips that. It asks you to watch the behavior instead — the way Taylor Parker carries herself from start to finish.Set the scene. A young pregnant woman is dead. A baby is gone. Parker is sitting in a hospital, surrounded by police, at the center of all of it. That is the kind of moment that should leave a person shaking, hollowed out, unable to function. And the way Parker holds herself through it is strikingly out of step with the gravity of the situation.In this installment, Tony watches the interrogation as a study in demeanor. He breaks down the psychology of composure where there should be none — the posture, the steadiness, the rhythm of her responses — and explains what trained interviewers read into behavior like this. He makes the case that the calm isn't a footnote. In a moment like this, it may be the single most important thing on the tape.It helps to keep the case in view as you watch. A young woman, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, was killed in New Boston, Texas, and her baby was taken — the story that became the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, with the person responsible now on Texas death row. The documentary could only show fragments of the questioning. The full interrogation runs close to two hours, and the demeanor barely moves across all of it. That kind of endurance is hard to fake and hard to explain, which is why the behavior, not the words, is the subject here.This part isn't built around any one exchange. It's about the whole bearing of the person on camera. Watch Taylor Parker the way this part teaches you to, and her composure stops being a detail and starts being the story.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
To make sense of the Taylor Parker hospital interrogation in Maternal Instinct, you have to rewind. Before the hospital, before the police, Taylor Parker had spent the better part of a year telling everyone she knew that she was expecting. Her boyfriend believed it. Her family believed it. And there was no pregnancy behind any of it.That kind of lie doesn't survive on its own. It has to be fed, protected, and performed, day after day, in front of the people closest to you. Parker managed it for months. So the woman who ends up sitting in front of investigators isn't a deer in headlights. She's someone who had already mastered holding a lie together under pressure — and what she did to get the baby she was claiming makes that mastery genuinely frightening.In this part of the series, Tony watches the interrogation through the deception that set it up. He walks through the psychology of the long con — how someone maintains a fabrication this big, what it reveals about them, and why the unnerving calm on the tape is the natural product of a year spent pretending. The crime underneath it never leaves the frame: a young pregnant woman was killed, and her baby was taken.This is the case behind the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, and the full interrogation runs close to two hours — far more than the film could show. The added length is the reason this lens works. You're not reacting to one edited clip; you're watching a person who had spent the better part of a year rehearsing, do it under the brightest possible light.This part isn't built around one moment. It's about the whole pattern. Once you see the interrogation as the endpoint of a year-long lie, the composure stops being a mystery and becomes the most telling thing in the room.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
Few pieces of true crime footage are as hard to look away from as the Taylor Parker hospital video, and the full version in Maternal Instinct goes places the documentary didn't have time for. This is the start of it — Parker walking into an emergency room with a newborn in her arms, telling the staff she'd just delivered the baby herself. She'd called 911 making the same claim, told a trooper she was racing to meet her husband, and let paramedics wheel her in still cradling the child.The problem is that nothing about her supports it. The medical team can see, almost right away, that this is not a woman who just gave birth. The physical signs that should be present are missing. So they ask to examine her — and what Parker does next, while still holding the baby, becomes one of the most telling moments in the entire recording.There's a second moment that lands even harder. A doctor asks Parker a basic question, the kind anyone answers without thinking twice. Her reply comes out automatically — and it quietly undercuts the story she'd been maintaining for the better part of a year.Tony breaks down the psychology of this opening stretch: how someone sustains a fabrication this large, what the calm really signals, and how the truth started leaking out in small, involuntary ways long before Parker admitted anything. This isn't a woman falling apart. It's a woman still performing, even as the room turns against her.For anyone trying to understand how a person does something this unthinkable and then sits calmly in its aftermath, the answer starts in these first minutes. This is only the opening. What comes next is harder to believe.Links Block:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#TaylorParker #MaternalInstinct #TrueCrimeToday #ReaganSimmonsHancock #Interrogation #BodyCam #NetflixDocumentary #TexasTrueCrime #DeathRow #CrimePsychology
If you haven't yet heard Episode 206, stop here, go back, and start there first — because everything you're about to hear will land very differently once you know the full story of Jennifer Pan. But if you're caught up, welcome to this bones episode. I have painstakingly remastered this interrogation for the best possible viewing and listening experience. The original interrogation videos, which you can find elsewhere, are hard to hear due to poor recording quality, room noise, and Jennifer Pan's quiet voice.In our remastered version, you can hear everything. Everything down to every emotion, explanation, and bit of detail. It's 2:44 in the morning on November 9th, 2010. A young woman sits in a small interview room at a York Regional Police station, a Bible somewhere nearby, a digital recorder running as a fail-safe.Hours earlier, armed men had walked into her family's quiet Markham home. When they walked out, her mother was gone, and her father was fighting for his life. Now, a homicide detective slides a form across the table. He tells her she has nothing to apologize for. He tells her he's there to help. And then he asks her to do one simple thing: start at the beginning, and tell him about her day.What follows is more than ninety minutes of a story — a story about a gas leak in the morning, a normal family dinner, a friend over for movie night, and then footsteps that didn't belong. Three men. A gun behind her head. String around her wrists. Her mother's voice calling out from the dark.It is a harrowing account. It is detailed. It is, at times, almost too composed. And that's what we want you to listen for. Because this is the first of three interrogations — and we're releasing all three together for a reason. In this episode, you'll hear Jennifer's very first version of events, told under oath, in her own words, while detectives gently, patiently, take her back through the night again and again. Pay attention to the timeline. Pay attention to what she remembers in vivid detail — and what she says she just can't recall. Notice when the detective says, "Take your time."The cracks don't announce themselves. They appear quietly, in the spaces between her answers. And by the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly why investigators couldn't let it go. So settle in, and stay with us all the way through. This is the 911 Calls Podcast. This is Interrogation One.FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/groups/911callsX https://x.com/911CallsPodcastINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/911callspodcastYOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@911CallsPodcastTIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@911callspodcastPATREON https://patreon.com/1159media
If you're just finding us now, go back before you press play on this one — start with Episode 206, then the first interrogation — because what happens in this room only lands if you've heard how the story began.I have painstakingly remastered this interrogation for the best possible viewing and listening experience. The original, which you can find elsewhere, is hard to hear due to poor recording quality, room noise, and Jennifer Pan's quiet voice.In our remastered version, you can hear everything. Everything down to every emotion, explanation, and bit of detail. It's been two days since her first interrogation. Thursday morning, November 11th, 2010. The same young woman. The same small room. The same detective. But the lights feel a little different now.This time it's official. A camera. A commissioner. A Bible. A hand raised to swear an oath — the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Detective Randy Slade tells Jennifer Pan to set aside everything she said before, to start fresh, as if they'd never spoken. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Walk me through your day.But pay close attention to what happens when the detective gently sets the home invasion aside and starts asking about her life. About a boyfriend, her parents forbade. About the years she spent pretending to be someone she wasn't. And listen — really listen — for the moment Jennifer admits, out loud, that some of the things she once swore were real never happened at all. That's where this interrogation turns.Because once the detective hears those words, his voice changes. The questions get sharper. And he says something to her that we want you to brace for — a single sentence about what it would mean if she were lying to him right now.Stay with us all the way to the end. The cracks you've been waiting for don't arrive all at once. They surface slowly, quietly, in the spaces between "I don't remember" and "I can't lie." And by the final minutes of this tape, you'll hear Jennifer say something herself — about an idea in her head she's afraid to say out loud — that you will not be able to forget. This is the 911 Calls Podcast. This is Interrogation Two.FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/groups/911callsX https://x.com/911CallsPodcastINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/911callspodcastYOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@911CallsPodcastTIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@911callspodcastPATREON https://patreon.com/1159media
If you've landed here first, do yourself a favor and go back — start with Episode 206, then the first two interrogations — because this is the room where everything finally breaks, and you'll want to know exactly how Jennifer Pan got here. It's the afternoon of November 22nd, 2010. Two weeks since the home invasion. Two weeks since her mother was killed and her father, against every odd, survived. And for the third time, Jennifer Pan walks into a York Regional Police station and sits down across from a detective.But this man is different. He introduces himself as Bill. He's calm, almost fatherly. He tells her he's not a homicide detective — he's an expert in something else entirely. Truth verification. And for the first hour, he barely mentions the crime at all. He asks about piano. About figure skating. About a boyfriend her parents forbade, and the years she spent living a double life so elaborate it included a fake diploma and a phone she kept hidden from her own family. It feels like a conversation. It is not. It's a trap being built one gentle question at a time. Because somewhere in this room, Bill stops asking about her childhood and starts telling her what he knows. He tells her that her father lived. That her father had a front-row seat. That the story she's told three times now doesn't match — and never could. And then he says the thing that changes everything: I know you were involved.What follows is one of the most extraordinary interrogations you will ever hear — hours of denial, half-truths, and a story that keeps shifting under its own weight. Listen for the moment, Jennifer offers a version of events so startling you'll have to rewind it. Listen for a two-word text message that proves the night was planned. And listen, near the very end, for the exact instant the truth finally arrives — because once it does, there is no taking it back.Stay with us all the way through. Do not stop early. Everything in this episode has been building to the final minutes, when Bill stops being the man on her side and becomes something else entirely. You will not want to miss what he says to her, or what she says back. This is the 911 Calls Podcast. This is the third and final interrogation of Jennifer Pan.FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/groups/911callsX https://x.com/911CallsPodcastINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/911callspodcastYOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@911CallsPodcastTIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@911callspodcastPATREON https://patreon.com/1159media
Today I'm sharing a lightly edited version of a conversation I first had with my two daughters exactly one year ago this week, on Father's Day. I personally enjoyed listening to it again, and even learned a few things that I had forgotten (lol), even though I am one of the actors in the story. Thank you for listening and please join our family in praying for China! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China. X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and send a DM. You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com The China Compass Podcast is brought to you by Pray for China (PrayforChina.us): Sat, June 20 - Pray for Mangshi City in western Yunnan’s picturesque and peak-filled Dehong Prefecture, along the Myanmar border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangshi Home to myriad mountains and minorities, Yunnan is paired with Arkansas and Louisiana for prayer. For more info: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/yunnan/ *Remember that today in China, thousands of pastors will be detained/harassed/persecuted for faithfully leading their flocks. (Heb. 13:3)* Sun, June 21 - Pray for Changxing County in northern Zhejiang’s Huzhou Prefecture, on the south shore of Lake Tai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changxing_County Zhejiang Province is aptly paired with North Carolina for prayer. Learn more about both Zhejiang and Hudson Taylor here: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/zhejiang/ Mon, June 22 - Pray for Tingri County in Tibet’s most populous prefecture, Shigatse, in central Tibet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingri_County Tibet is paired for prayer with the mountain states of MT, ID, WY, (northern) UT & (northern) CO. Visits by Westerners are mostly forbidden and the vast majority have never heard the Gospel: https://prayforchina.us/index.php/tibet/ If you want to join us all this week, here are all the Chinese cities to pray for from now til June 28... https://open.substack.com/pub/chinacall/p/pray-for-china-june-22-28-2026 Who is Missionary Ben? I haven’t done this in a long time, but every now and then I am reminded I should probably give a little bit more of my background (and my China bonafides). Now I can’t divulge very much, for security reasons, but here are the basics: moved to China at the age of 19, in the early 2000s, taught myself to speak (and read) Chinese. Lived there w/ my family til I was deported in 2018. Unbeaten: The Story of My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip) Over those nearly 15 years, I set foot in every province, and visited hundreds of cities, towns, and villages. Alongside our evangelistic work, I helped manage a leather factory in a Muslim town, opened a yak burger/pizza restaurant on the Tibetan Plateau, served as a guide and Tibetan taxi driver, and taught English to elementary kids, high schoolers, and young adults. How I Taught Myself Mandarin (And How You Can Learn Too, But Won’t) https://chinacall.substack.com/p/how-i-taught-myself-mandarin Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!
By the time detectives sat down across from Taylor Parker, they already knew something she didn't: her story was falling apart. The baby she claimed was hers wasn't hers at all. Faced with mounting evidence, Taylor offered explanation after explanation, each more unbelievable than the last. In Part Two, dive into the interrogation that exposed her lies, the trial that revealed even darker details, and the sentencing hearing that uncovered shocking behavior no one saw coming. Just when you think you've heard the worst part of this case, another bombshell drops….If you're new here, don't forget to follow the show for weekly deep dives into the darkest true crime cases! To watch the video version of this episode, head over to youtube.com/@annieelise. .